|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
Representative writers and major types of American literature since the Civil War are featured. Meets the general studies core requirement in Language and Literature.
-
3.00 Credits
This course acquaints students with the writing conventions of the professional and technical communities. It helps students understand writing as an essential analytical and communication tool in the professional world and gives them experience in developing materials and solving problems encountered in that world. Prerequisite: ENGL 110
-
3.00 Credits
This course provides training in writing and marketing various types of nonfiction articles in professional magazines. Students gain experience in writing such articles as book reviews, personal experience articles, personal profiles, how-to articles, devotional articles, and human interest features.
-
3.00 Credits
Depending on the section and emphasis, students read selections by African American, Asian American, Jewish, Latino/Latina, Native American, and possibly Euro-American writers. Topics may include canon formation, the American Dream, gender, equality, ethnicity, globalization, hybridity, immigration, multiculturalism, pluralism, race, and religion.
-
3.00 Credits
This course examines African American literature from its beginnings in oral tradition to the present. Selected readings vary. Topics to be addressed may include race, class, ethnicity, gender, language, slavery, equality, freedom, folklore, miscegenation, passing, pluralism, religion, segregation, syncretism, canon formation, and more.
-
3.00 Credits
Students undertake a representative study of Shakespeare's finest narrative poetry, sonnets, dramas, comedies, histories, tragedies, and romances. Meets the general studies upper-division writing intensive requirement.
-
3.00 Credits
This course provides an introductory survey of the nature and use of language: basic speech sounds, syllable structure, word formation, grammar systems, language acquisition and variation, historical aspects of language change, and their relevance to language teachers.
-
4.00 Credits
Designed to be a parallel course to the traditional undergraduate offering, this course integrates themes from the major and is open only to students in the adult degree completion program in human development. This course introduces the student to the overall nature of language. In addition, it helps students to be aware of, identify, analyze, and develop strategies for dealing with the linguistic complexities found in a diverse society. The course includes an examination of language acquisition, development, and change as well as an analysis of the technical aspects and societal impact of language use. Students study word formation (morphology), the basic sound systems (phonetics), and the grammar systems of prescriptive English in order to make learning English not only easier, but interesting, to the student in the classroom. A variety of approaches are used to explore and assess language production skills (i.e., writing, speaking, etc.).
-
3.00 Credits
Traditional and modern analyses of grammar are covered, providing a grounding in the traditional 8 parts of speech and a grounding in the modern 14 lexical categories and their subcategories; a study of phrase, clause, and sentence types; and an overview of transformational and other modern perspectives on grammar and grammar teaching. Prerequisite: ENGL 402
-
3.00 Credits
A study of the origins and development of the English language within the Indo-European language family, and the growth of American English as a unique and dynamic variety among the several major offshoots of British English, is the focus of this course. Prerequisites: ENGL 402 and ENGL 404
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|