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2.00 Credits
2 Credits College English (ENG 1000) is the foundational course that will prepare entering students for college-level skills in writing, reading comprehension, and critical thinking. All entering students will be enrolled in ENG 1000, unless they are exempted on the basis of SAT scores. The course will meet for four class hours a week. Students will receive two credits toward graduation, but no credit toward English department requirements. It is the first of two first-year courses in the English department. Upon passing this course, students should enroll in English 1001 the following semester.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits An introduction to the basics of effective writing: clarity of purpose, use of pertinent supporting details, standardized grammar and usage appropriate to the context, and well-balanced paragraph structures. Techniques for conducting research and documenting sources are introduced as part of formal writing procedures, leading to the required research paper. This course is a prerequisite for all 200+ English courses.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits Required of all English majors, and recommended as the first English course taken after completion of ENG1001. An introduction to critical analysis and interpretation, the primary focus and function of this course is on learning how to think and write critically, with a particular focus on understanding critical discourses. Students will have opportunities to express themselves through presentations, class discussion, homework questions, and papers, while reading and interpreting several very different texts.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits Prerequisite: ESL 2000 Offered spring and fall semesters Fulfills the Global Citizenship Core requirement Students explore contemporary American culture through readings focusing on the values reflected in the Declaration of Independence. This course is designed to give international students opportunities for continued development in English proficiency and practice in conducting and documenting research.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits This course offers a survey of classis world literature from its earliest forms, such as The Epic of Gilgamesh and Homer's Odyssey, up to the time of Shakespeare. This class is designed for students who are not majors in English.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits This course offers a survey of classic world literature from Shakespeare, generally considered to be the greatest author of all time, up to the present day. This class is designed for students who are not majors in English.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits The goal of this course is to develop a manifold increase in the student's recognition vocabulary and to acquire the skills to continue indefinitely doing so. The technique used is the study of the non-English roots of many English words, particularly those of Greek and Latin origin.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits This writing course offers an opportunity to practice advanced forms of prose. It is open to students from all fields. Individuals select the types of writing they personally wish to pursue. Essays, articles, academic papers, reports, and speeches are among the forms that may be explored. Argumentation, humor, satire, autobiography, the feature, and the editorial are among the modes.
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4.00 Credits
4 Credits Prerequisite (or co-requisite): ENG 1005 This survey course studies the writing of major literary figures from the colonial period to the present in order to determine the uniqueness of American institutions and the fundamental properties of the American character. The pervasiveness of the Puritan ethic is evaluated from historical, sociological and philosophical perspectives.
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2.00 Credits
2 Credits Creative prose covers a wide spectrum of creative writing, including fiction, memoir, travel and nature writing, and the personal essay. ENG2016 can be repeated as ENG3016 and 4016.
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