English

Principles of modern grammar and usage. Designed for students seeking certification in secondary English.

Workshops in language, literature, and composition. May be repeated up to two times.

Designed for the secondary level pre-service education student and/or the actual practicing educator (at either the secondary or post-secondary levels). Its primary aim is to provide a theoretical and practical base for connecting effective reading strategies to the teacher's specific content area of instruction. These strategies will be specifically targeted to the secondary/ post-secondary levels of instruction. Students will be engaged in the effective design and implementation of reading into the delivery of their own content area. Topics to be explored include reading comprehension of expository and narrative texts (especially fiction and literature), developing life-long habits across the realm of reading, integrating reading across all of the language arts (speaking, listening, and writing) as well as across one's content area of instruction.

An examination of some of Shakespeare's major tragedies and histories.

Major authors and works in British literature from the beginning through the eighteenth century. The course includes reading and analysis of works of prose, poetry, and drama. This course fulfills the British literature requirement for secondary education majors.

Reading and discussion of major British authors from the Romantic Movement to the present. This course fulfills the British literature requirement for secondary education certification in English.

Major figures and movements from the beginnings of the Civil War. Fulfills the American literature requirement for secondary education certification in English.

Major figures and movements from the Civil War to the present. Fulfills the American literature requirement for secondary certification in English.

Reading and analysis of works of fiction, non-fiction, and drama by Asian American, Latin American, Native American, and/or African American writers. This course fulfills the multi-cultural literature requirement for secondary education certification in English.

The analysis of essays and nonfiction prose.

Students will design and produce an independent project in the field of English under the supervision of a member of the English Faculty. Serves as the capstone course for The Bachelor of Arts in English.

A workshop based creative writing course in which students pursue independent projects in fiction and poetry. May be repeated up to nine credits.

Designed to develop writing skills. Focuses on the review of grammatical relationships, sentence patterns, punctuation, and usage, with concentration on writing expository paragraphs and essays. Students will have additional Academic Success Center requirements. Upon successful completion of the course, the student may move directly into ENG 101.

Allows students to fulfill their first semester of English while completing the remediation process. Designed for students who did not place into ENG 101 on the placement test/writing sample, but did not score so low that they need ENG 95. Allows a student to refine specific skill deficiencies while completing the first semester of freshman composition (ENG 100 is equivalent to ENG 101). Students will have additional Academic Success Center requirements. Although it is a five-credit course, it does not replace ENG 102. After successful completion of ENG 100, a student must take ENG 102 to complete the general education requirement.

Critical reading and writing of the expository essay. Emphasizes pre-writing, strategies for organization, and revision.

Continuation of English 101. Emphasizes writing from sources, argument, the investigative paper, and research techniques.

Emphasizes the essentials of sentence structure, paragraph development, grammar, and punctuation. Class writing assignments apply these essentials to a variety of on-the-job related documents such as memos, letters, and reports. Course is recommended for students seeking certificates of achievement and meets the requirement for a 100-level English course. Upon successful completion of ENG 103, students may move directly into ENG 107 or ENG 101.

Basic skills necessary for successful on-the-job communications including improved letter and report writing, persuasion, interviewing, process, mechanism description, and business and technical grammar.

Advanced letter and report writing techniques including proper word choice, tone, and structure. Business letters, memorandums, formal and informal reports, process, and mechanism descriptions.

Introduction to the elements of fiction, poetry, and drama used in the analysis of literature.

A creative writing course designed to introduce students to the production of fiction and poetry.

The writing of fiction in a workshop setting. Students are required to produce several works of short fiction.

Themes and ideas significant in literature.

Development of tools to find, evaluate, compare, use, and comprehend digital resources, as well as to create compositions building on these resources in a multimedia manner.

Study of outstanding children's books to promote ways in which the books can be used to enhance the lives and skills of children, teachers, and parents.

A tour to one of the summer festivals to view and study Shakespearean theatre in performance.

A critical, survey-based introduction to the genres of Speculative (Science) Fiction and Fantasy Literature.

Study of a variety of poets and their techniques.

Study of variety of important women authors. In some semesters, offered as a study of important female characters taken from plays and novels, both of European and American Background.

Consideration of special topics and issues in English. Selection will depend upon current interests and needs. Unlimited repeatability. No prerequisite.

The examination and production of everyday texts such as digital communication, visual media, music, architecture, style, and landscape in terms of their theoretical, historical, cultural, and technological contexts. Students should expect to compose everyday texts of their own as well as write about texts examined in the course.

The examination of the role of identity in rhetoric/composition and communication and how the multiple identities we each inhabit are reflected in the multiple identity possibilities within texts.

Designed for students who are familiar with basic elements of literature and who have some experience with literary interpretation. Students will examine the major critical approaches to literature and learn to apply these approaches. Students will read and analyze works of fiction, poetry, and drama; write several essays; and one longer paper.

A practicum in writing, this course provides instruction in all of the stylistic choices a writer makes to communicate, not only information, but the voice behind the information. Experimentation with sentence patterns, sentence length, word choice, word placement, and punctuation.

A consideration of language history, function, and use. Topics include the historical development of languages, language acquisition, descriptive grammar, language controversies, etc.

A course in applied rhetoric for students to develop the writing and communication skills they will need as professionals. The goal is to make strong writers with flexible analysis, writing, and oral communication skills.