[PORTALNAME]

Course Criteria

Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.

  • EL 110: Introduction to Creative Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Vincent College

    This beginning-level course introduces the fundamentals of creative writing and the creative process in a minimum of three genres, usually poetry, fiction, and another genre, such as creative nonfiction, screenwriting, or playwriting. Students learn the fundamentals of literary analysis in the genres studied and the rudiments of analyzing their own creative works and those of their peers in a workshop environment, which comprises part of the course, and to public presentation of their work via in-class readings. Students will read extensively in the best literature available in poetry, fiction, and a third genre. Students are also required to produce finished written work in the three genres the course covers, for example a sheaf of poems, at least one short story, and at least one essay or one-act play or a short screen play; these materials can then be used to gain admittance to more advanced courses. This course may not be taken after students have taken more advanced courses in Creative Writing. Three credits.
    ShareEL 110 - Introduction to Creative Writing
    Favorite
    Show comparable courses

  • EL 111: Green Writing:Literature and the Environment

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Vincent College

    This introductory course surveys different types of writing about individual and social relationships with the environment. Topics for reading and discussion include nature imagery, travel writing, nature writing, and environmental writing by authors like Thoreau, Carson, Muir, Beston, and Hunter- Austin, as well as others who write essays, drama, poetry, and/or fiction. In the course, students develop their awareness of the various approaches writers take and the different opinions they hold, as well as significant areas of literary production with respect to the environment both historically and among contemporary writers. Course requirements include two shorter essays, class participation, a midterm, and a final examination. Three credits.
    ShareEL 111 - Green Writing:Literature and the Environment
    Favorite
    Show comparable courses

  • EL 200: Literary Criticism I:Ancient to Modern

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Vincent College

    The basic framework for this course is historical, as students read and discuss critical statements from the ancient to the modern periods, beginning with Plato and ending with early twentieth-century critics such as T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf. Major influences and ideas that reach across authors and across cultural periods— mimesis, pragmatism, organicism and modernism—provide bases for schools of criticism as well as individual critics. Also, students learn how to do criticism—to write analytically about literature and to begin to develop a working understanding of the way the discipline is written. This intermediate level course requires three essays, a midterm, and a final exam. This course is required of all English majors. Three credits.
    ShareEL 200 - Literary Criticism I:Ancient to Modern
    Favorite
    Show comparable courses

  • EL 201: Literary Criticism II:Contemporary Theories

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Vincent College

    This intermediate-level course for English majors and minors continues the historical survey begun in Literary Criticism I. Beginning with a review of early twentieth century criticism by writers like T.S. Eliot and Cleanth Brooks, students concentrate on critical theories of the contemporary period. Students also explore major ideas that reach across periods-mimesis, pragmatism, organicism, structuralism, post-structuralism, cultural criticism, and literary theory. Thus, they learn to write about literature and to develop a critical vocabulary. Course requirements include three shorter essays, two tests, class participation, and a final examination. This course is required of all English majors. This course does not fulfill requirements for the Core. Three credits.
    ShareEL 201 - Literary Criticism II:Contemporary Theories
    Favorite

  • EL 203: Poetry Workshop

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Vincent College

    An intermediate study of basic technical problems and formal concepts of the literary essay. Students read and write essays on various topics, including travel, personal experience, landscape, natural science and politics. Weekly written exercises guide students to longer pieces which are discussed in a workshop setting. Students generate three literary essays over the course of the semester and turn in a final portfolio for evaluation. Prerequisite: English 110 or permission of instructor.
    ShareEL 203 - Poetry Workshop
    Favorite

  • EL 204: Fiction Workshop

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Vincent College

    An intermediate study of technical problems and formal concepts of literary short fiction. Students read short stories as models of craft and form, and generate their own prose fiction. Students also discuss student-produced manuscripts in a workshop setting. Emphasis is on writing improvement through increasing awareness of the technical dynamics of the genre and through cultivating an understanding of contemporary idioms and the uses of the imagination. Students generate three literary essays over the course of the semester and turn in a final portfolio for evaluation. Prerequisite: English 110 or permission of instructor.
    ShareEL 204 - Fiction Workshop
    Favorite

  • EL 205: Creative Nonfiction Workshop

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Vincent College

    An extension and intensification of the study of poetry introduced in English 110. The class meets regularly in a workshop setting to critique student poems and assigned readings, to experiment with collaborative projects and to discuss issues of contemporary poetic theory. All students are required to complete a formal manuscript of finished poems. Prerequisite: English 110 or permission of the instructor.
    ShareEL 205 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop
    Favorite
    Show comparable courses

  • EL 206: History of the English Language

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Vincent College

    This intermediate-level course examines the history of English from a technical standpoint and also from a political, social, and even religious perspective. Students begin with an overview of linguistic theory. Then, concentrating on such linguistic phenomena as Grimm's Law and the Great Vowel Shift, they examine how Anglo-Saxon (Old English) became middle English, and how that in turn evolved into modern English. They also analyze how historical, psychological, and social forces have shaped modern English and what forces may shape it in the future. Student progress is measured by periodic quizzes and in-class exercises, two hourly exams and a comprehensive final exam, and a journal. Students have the option of substituting an oral presentation or a major paper for the second hourly exam. This course will also satisfy the interdisciplinary requirement for English majors; it is required of all English majors seeking secondary certification to teach English. Three credits.
    ShareEL 206 - History of the English Language
    Favorite

  • EL 207: Critical Thinking and Creative Thinking

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Vincent College

    This intermediate-level course considers the relationship between thought and discovery, between idea and project, between problem solving and inspiration. Guided readings in philosophy, poetry, fiction, and critical theory, viewings of art work and films, and lessons in logic, types of statements, illusions, and rhetorical systems are complemented by writing assignments that encourage students to create, resolve, and synthesize a variety of "texts."The role of linear and non-linear thought, rational and irrational thinking, opinion formulation, and perceptual process are topics for oral presentations made by students, who will engage practical, political, and ethical dilemmas. Grading is based on quizzes, a journal, a presentation, and a final exam. Three credits.
    ShareEL 207 - Critical Thinking and Creative Thinking
    Favorite

  • EL 208: Pedagogy of Composition

    3.00 Credits
    Saint Vincent College

    This upper-level composition course focuses on pre-professional training and practice in all rhetorical modes, especially in exposition and argumentation. A process methodology adheres to the Six Principles of Good Writing while emphasizing invention, development, citation, revision, grammar, and logic. The ultimate goal of the course is for each student to produce an essay magazine consisting of three polished essays - the outcome of three cycles, which contain a variety of focused writing projects. Five quizzes assess mastery of specific skills. This course has no pass-fail option, and has two prerequisites - completion of EL 102 and at least sophomore standing. Three credits.
    ShareEL 208 - Pedagogy of Composition
    Favorite
To find college, community college and university courses by keyword, enter some or all of the following, then select the Search button.
(Type the name of a College, University, Exam, or Corporation)
(For example: Accounting, Psychology)
(For example: ACCT 101, where Course Prefix is ACCT, and Course Number is 101)
(For example: Introduction To Accounting)
(For example: Sine waves, Hemingway, or Impressionism)
Distance:
of
(For example: Find all institutions within 5 miles of the selected Zip Code)