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3.00 Credits
A developmental course concerned with the improvement of written communication skills. Students review grammar and mechanics, syntax, vocabulary, paragraph and essay organization, and reading skills. Students are required to pass an exit exam, and a pass/repeat grade is awarded for the course. This course is not applicable toward an Associate degree. (3,0) 3 ncu (non-credit units) Fall, Sping, Sumnmer
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3.00 Credits
A course in expository writing with emphasis on the use of acceptable patterns of English and the application of rhetorical principles and research. Students will gain experience in the writing process, including revision. A research paper is required with assignments in library research, note taking, outlining, and incorporating sources into a final draft. Prerequisite: Placement Examination (3,0) 3 credits Fall, Spring, Summer
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4.00 Credits
A course in expository writing emphasizing the writing process, including critical thinking, brainstorming, organizing through rhetorical patterns, and revision. Students will write and revise several short essays. They will learn research techniques, both traditional and Internet based, and note taking and outlining, in order to produce a final research paper that incorporates sources responsibly, summarizing, paraphrasing, and quoting them as needed. This version of 101, enhanced with a 50 minute lab period for extra writing and vocabulary work, is designed for those students whose placement tests indicate that they can benefit from extra practice and instruction. The course carries four credits toward the degree rather than three. Each student will make an oral presentation based on his/her research and/or essays. Prerequisite(s): Placement examination (4,0) 4 credits Fall
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3.00 Credits
An interdisciplinary approach to reading and writing in such fields as philosophy, history, ethics, and science, emphasizing their interrelationships. Students explore issues in depth via term papers, presentations by guest speakers, and visits to museums, corporations, libraries, and theaters. Prerequisite(s): Permission of English/Humanities Department Chair (3,0) 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
A survey of representative comedies, tragedies, romances, and histories showing Shakespeare's dramatic variety. Acting styles are emphasized with the use of recordings, tapes and, when possible, live performances. Prerequisite(s): EGL 102 (3,0) 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
A historical survey of English literature from the beginnings to neoclassicism. Consideration is given to Anglo-Saxon and medieval writers, Chaucer, Elizabethan and Jacobean writers, Shakespeare, Milton, and the writers of the Age of Reason. English history, religion, and philosophy are studied as they relate to literature. Prerequisite(s): EGL 102 (3,0) 3 credits
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3.00 Credits
A historical survey of the Romantics, including Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats; the Victorians, including Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold; and twentieth century writers, including Yeats, Joyce, and Eliot. Emphasis is placed on the development and continuity of literary traditions. Prerequisite(s): EGL 102 (3,0) 3 credits Spring
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3.00 Credits
An examination of major historical and new canonical American authors; genres, and periods of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and part of the nineteenth centuries up to the Civil War. An analysis of the works of writers of the New Republic, the Revolutionary and Federalist periods of the eighteenth century, as well as the emerging national literatures of indigenous and colonizing groups; the ages of Transcendentalism, American Gothic, early Realism as well as the works of Native American, Feminist, African-American, Abolitionist, Frontier and Civil War writers will be considered. Prerequisite(s): EGL 102 (3,0) 3 credits Fall
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3.00 Credits
An examination of major historical and new canonical American authors, genres and periods of the era from the Civil War through the twentieth century. An analysis of such trends as Realism, Naturalism, immigrant literature, the regional and local color movements, as well as the rise of bibliographical genres, and the influence of psychology and technology on literature will be made. Modernism, the renaissance in American poetry, the Harlem Renaissance, and the literature of social critique will also be examined. Prerequisite(s): EGL 102 (3,0) 3 credits Spring
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3.00 Credits
An introduction to Western and non-:Western literature from earliest times through the seventeenth century. Included are works from ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval and Renaissance Europe, the Middle East, Africa, China, and India. Prerequisite(s): EGL 102 (3,0) 3 credits Fall
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