Helps students discover and develop writing processes needed to bring their proficiency to the level necessary for entrance into their respective curricula. Guides students through the process of starting, composing, revising, and editing. Lecture 5 hours per week.

Helps students to improve spelling and develop vocabulary. Reviews common spelling patterns. Familiarizes the student with basic prefixes, suffixes, root words, and other word formations. Teaches effective use of the dictionary and thesaurus. Stresses recognizing words in reading context and using them effectively in writing. Lecture 3 hours per week.

Helps students improve their reading processes to increase their understanding of reading materials. Includes word forms and meanings, comprehension techniques, and ways to control reading pace. Lecture 5 hours per week.

Helps students read critically and increase appreciation of reading. Guides students in making inferences, drawing conclusions, detecting relationships between generalizations and supporting details. Includes interpreting graphic aids and basic library skills. Prerequisite: placement recommendation or completion of ENG 4. Lecture 3 hours per week.

Emphasizes strategies within the writing and critical reading processes to help students with specific writing and reading assignments. Encourages an appreciation for clear writing and practical reading applications.

Focuses on individual writing needs as determined by student and instructor. Provides support for students simultaneously enrolled in other courses or who want additional writing instruction in a tutorial setting. Prerequisite: departmental recommendation. Co-requisite: ENG 111.  Lecture 1 hour per week.

Helps students refine their reading processes.  Emphasizes applying and synthesizing ideas. Includes ways to detect organizations, make inferences, draw conclusions, evaluate generalizations, recognize differences between facts and opinions, and other advanced comprehension strategies. May include comprehensive library skills. Prerequisite: placement recommendation or completion of ENG 5. Lecture 3 hours per week.

ENG 111 College Composition I (3 cr.)

Introduces students to critical thinking and the fundamentals of academic writing. Through the writing process, students refine topics: develop and support ideas; investigate, evaluate, and incorporate appropriate resources; edit for effective style and usage; and determine appropriate approaches for a variety of contexts, audiences, and purposes.  Writing activities will include exposition and analysis with at least one researched essay. Prerequisite:  writing placement recommendation for ENG 111.  Prerequisite or corequisite:  ENG 4 if required by reading placement recommendation.  ENG 111 is a prerequisite for ENG 112.  Lecture 3 hours per week.

ENG 112 College Composition II (3 cr.)

Develops ability in technical writing through extensive practice in composing technical reports and other documents. Guides students in achieving voice, tone, style, and content appropriate to a specific audience and purpose. Includes instruction in formatting, editing, and graphics. Introduces students to technical discourse through selected reading. Provides instruction and practice in basic principles of oral presentation. Prerequisite: ENG 111 or approval by the English program head, and ENG 4 if recommended by placement test. Lecture 3 hours per week.

Covers content, form, and procedures for research writings, which may include reports, articles, summaries, essays and correspondence. Stresses editing, proofreading skills, sentence structure, and paragraph development. Offers instruction and practice in oral communication skills. May use reading selections for discussions and writing assignments. Prerequisite:  Departmental placement recommendation.  ENG 4 is a prerequisite or a corequisite if recommended by placement test.  Lecture 3 hours per week.

Provides students the opportunity to gain direct business and industry experience while maintaining one hour of contact time with the supervising instructor. Laboratory 3 hours per week. 

Helps students refine skills in writing non-fiction prose. Guides development of individual voice and style. Introduces procedures for publication. Prerequisite: ENG 112 or approval by the English program head. Lecture 3 hours per week.

Introduces, in a workshop setting, the fundamentals and techniques of writing short and long fiction. Prerequisite: ENG 111 or approval by the English program head. Lecture 3 hours per week.

Introduces, in a workshop setting, the fundamentals and techniques of writing poetry. Prerequisite: ENG 111 or approval by the English program head. Lecture 3 hours per week.

Examines American literary works from pre-colonial times to about 1865, emphasizing the ideas and characteristics of our national literature. Involves critical reading and writing. Prerequisite: ENG 112 or approval by the English program head. ENG 241 and 242 may be taken out of order. Lecture 3 hours per week.

ENG 242 Survey of American Literature II (3 cr.)

Examines American literary works from colonial times to the present, emphasizes the ideas and characteristics of our national literature.  Involves critical reading and writing. Prerequisite: ENG 111 and ENG 112 or approval by the English program head. ENG 241 and 242 may be taken out of order. Lecture 3 hours per week.

Examines major British texts from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 18th century. The course emphasizes the critical ideas and traditions of the British literary tradition, and examines the literary texts within their social and historical context. Prerequisite: ENG 112 or approval by the English program head. ENG 243 and 244 may be taken out of order. Lecture 3 hours per week.

ENG 244 Survey of British Literature II

Examines major British texts from the Romantics to the contemporary period.  The course emphasizes the critical ideas and traditions of the British literary tradition, and examines the literary texts within their social and historical context. Prerequisite: ENG 112 or approval by the English program head. ENG 243 and 244 may be taken out of order. Lecture 3 hours per week.

Examines major works of world literature from the ancient period to the early 17th century. Teh course emphasizes both the global development of literary forms and their unique expressions within individual cultural contexts. The course also examines the social and historical influences on literary texts. Prerequisite: ENG 111 or approval by the English program head. ENG 251 and 252 may be taken out of order. Lecture 3 hours per week.

Examines major works of world literature from the 17th century to the present era.  The course emphasizes both the global development of literary forms and their unique expressions within individual cultural contexts. The course also examines the social and historical influences on literary texts. Prerequisite: ENG 111 or approval by the English program head. ENG 251 and 252 may be taken out of order. Lecture 3 hours per week.

Survey of African American Literature I introduces students to the rich and varied heritage of the African American literary culture as it emerges form the 18th century, with an emphasis on the vernacular tradition, through the philosophical ideology of he New Negro movement in the 20th century.  The course examines the significant contributions of African American literature and its place within the historical and literary context of America's literatures. ENG 253 and 254 may be taken out of order. Lecture 3 hours per week.

ENG 254 Survey of African American Literature II (3 cr.)

Survey of African American II introduces students to the rich an varied heritage of the African American literary culture as it emerges from Reconstruction to the contemporary period.  The course examines the significant contributions of African American literature and its place within the historical and literary context of American literature. Prerequisite: ENG 112 or approval by the English program head. Lecture 3 hours per week.

ENG Business Communications—see AST 205

Examines literature by and about women prior to 1900 from a variety of countries and cultures. Involves critical reading and writing. Prerequisite: ENG 112 or approval by the English program head. Lecture 3 hours per week.

ENG 274 Women in Literature II (3 cr.)

Examines literature by and about women from 1900 to the present from a variety of countries and cultures. ENG 112 or approval by English program head.

ENG 295 Topics in English: The Bible as Literature I (3 cr.)

Introduces students to the Hebrew Bible (or Tanakh) as a literary text, and incorporates literary critical techniques to the student's reading.  Involves the analytical/critical study of selected books of the Hebrew Bible with an emphasis on its component genres, literary conventions, and, languages.  Introduces students to the literary types found in the Hebrew Bible: folklore, myth and legend, poetry and narrative, metaphor, irony, and allegory. Prerequisite: ENG 112. Lecture 3 hours per week.

Introduces students to the New Testament as a literary text and includes the reading of selected narratives, with particular emphasis on the four gospels. Prerequisite: ENG 112. Lecture 3 hours per week.

See General Usage Courses.  ENG 111 is a prerequisite for ENG 195; ENG 112 is a prerequisite for ENG 295.  All reading recommendations must be fulfilled.