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Independent Study in Education
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This course introduces students to the process of writing they will need for success in college. It increases students' abilities to communicate confidently with others, to think clearly, and to organize ideas. Prewriting, drafting, revising, and editing are emphasized. Students will produce a portfolio of their writings including a self assessment. Three credit hours (3). This course is required for and limited to all students who place within the specified range on the placement test. Offered every semester.
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This course develops students' abilities to write effectively in college. It assists students to make judgments regarding content within their own writing, particularly when utilizing researched sources. It also emphasizes organization, structure, revision, and mechanics. Students will produce a portfolio of their written work, including a self assessment. Three credit hours (3). Prerequisite: ENG 100 or suitable score on the writing assessment. Offered every semester.
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This course is designed to follow ENG 110. It develops students' skills in critical thinking and in writing analyses, using subject matter from across the curriculum. Each writing assignment requires research and writing from sources. Students will produce a portfolio of their written work, including a self assessment. Three credit hours (3). Prerequisite: ENG 110 or its equivalent in transfer credits. Offered every semester.
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This course introduces students to the basic literary forms, techniques and processes used in poetry, drama and the short story, as well as to some of their classical origins. In addition to selections from European and American literature, students will read selected classical and religious texts that have contributed to the development of Western Literature. Three credit hours (3). Prerequisite: None. Offered every semester.
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This course introduces students to the tools and techniques needed to compose different types of creative writing, including fiction, poetry, drama and, at the discretion of the instructor, perhaps one other genre such as creative non-fiction or the personal essay. This course also is designed to helpstudents learn how to express idea, emotion, and other experiences in language through traditional, contemporary, and experimental forms of stories, poems, plays, and essays. This course also will help build students' confidence in the oral performance of their creative writing and provide them knowledge about how to publish their own work. Three credit hours (3). Prerequisite: GEN 110. Offered Spring semester.
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This survey course is designed to introduce students to representative works (short stories, poems and plays) of world literature. Three credit hours (3). Prerequisite: None. Offered Spring semester.
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This course explores the different types of business and professional writing, helping students to recognize the variety of career options for and responsibilities of professional and business writers and the most important resources in the field. Students review and learn how most effectively to implement the basic grammar and usage rules they have studied in other courses, as well as how to incorporate graphs, pictures, and other visual information effectively into their written texts. Students also investigate the necessary relationship between audience and style, and the ethical implications of business and professional forms of communication, while learning how to apply persuasive writing strategies to different professional contexts. Students produce a portfolio in both print and web-based media that will include a resume, letters, memoranda, brochures, instructions, and short reports. Three credit hours (3). Prerequisite: ENG 200. Offered Spring semester.
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This course offers a detailed study of the principles employed in effective written arguments and persuasive pieces. The course will familiarize students with the tools and techniques of persuasion, and place special emphasis on the nature of argument. Practical application of the art of persuasion in the professional world will be included. The course will provide extensive writing practice. Three credit hours (3). Prerequisites: ENG 200 and PHI 200. Offered as needed. ENG 298 Special Topics in English Topic specified each semester course offered. Three credit hours (3). Prerequisites: ENG 200 or higher. Offered as needed.
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This course helps the student to focus his/her creative ideas and thoughts and write short pieces of fiction with a view toward entering contests, freelancing his/her work and other areas of publication. The student through actual writing of short stories will come to a better awareness and appreciation of the short story as an art form. Three credit hours (3). Prerequisite: ENG 200. Offered Fall semester.
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