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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
3 Equivalent Credits (3,0) This course is designed to prepare students to read and write at the college level through a greater understanding of the thought processes used in composition and critical thinking. Students will be able to improve their writing skills by analyzing texts and learning to write for a specific audience as well as through implementation of their strengthened cognitive skills. Course may not be taken concurrently with EN 111. Student must pass the course with a "C" or better. NOTE: This course is a three-hour course that does not count toward graduation credit.
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0.50 Credits
0.5 Credit (0,1.4) This course is designed as a co-requisite for selected sections of EN 111 -English I to encourage participation in volunteer activities. Students will choose a volunteer site that is appropriate to their curriculum and, with oversight by the Service Learning Site Supervisor in cooperation with the English I instructor, will perform 20 hours of volunteer work each semester. The volunteer workmight include readingtoyoungchildrenortutoring school-age children, visiting patients in a nursing home or other health care facility, assisting in an office of a not-for-profit agency, etc. Students will then use that experience as the basis for journal and essay writing in EN 111 - English I. Co-requisite - EN 111.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits (3,0) This course is designed as an intensive writing course that covers the following stages of writing: preliminary thought and discussion, research, organization, writing, revising and editing. Students produce at least ten pages of formal prose intended for a critical reader as well as at least 15 pages of informal work such as a personal journal. Students work in traditional rhetorical forms and write a research paper.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits (3,0) This course is designed as a survey of literature written for children. Emphasis is on the selection, analysis, and comprehensive knowledge of books for children from toddler through junior high school ages.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits (3,0) This course is designed to introduce students to selected masterworks of English literature. Literature will be presented through a historical perspective with emphasis on selected works of the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the 19th century and the modern age. Through lecture, discussion and student writing, students will explore the interpretation of literature while gaining an appreciation for each piece of literature's place in the historical period in which it was written.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits (3,0) This course introduces students to selected works of American poets, playwrights, fiction and non-fiction writers.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits (3,0) This course is designed to familiarize students with classical Creek and Roman myths. Discussion of Sumerian and biblical myths is included. The material will be covered in a variety of ways, and the reading list may vary from semester to semester. Mythological works are typically chosen from the following list: Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Theogony, Metamorphoses, The Voyage of Argo, The Aeneid, and a dozen or so Greek Tragedies.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits (3,0) This course is designed to introduce students to the major elements of a story through the use of the body and voice in telling stories. Application of the theory through intensive practice of storytelling in class and at off-campus sites is included.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits (3,0) This course is designed to introduce students to the universal themes of Western literature from the earliest times to the present.
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3.00 Credits
3 Credits (3,0) This course is designed to introduce students to the basic elements of news and news writing based on the major types of news stories that appear in American dailies. Prerequisite: C or better in EN 111 or permission of the instructor.
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