Semester Hours: 0 Lecture Hours: 0 Laboratory Hours: 0 A combined lecture/computer based course focusing on focusing on grammar, punctuation, sentence construction, and paragraph development to prepare students for writing intensive courses. This is an Adult Education course and cannot be used to fulfill degree requirements.
Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0 Intensive study of and practice in writing processes, from invention and researching to drafting, revising, and editing, both individually and collaboratively. Emphasis on effective rhetorical choices, including audience, purpose, arrangement, and style. Focus on writing the academic essay as a vehicle for learning, communicating, and critical analysis. Required Prerequisite(s): TSI compliant in writing and reading
Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0 Intensive study of and practice in the strategies and techniques for developing research-based expository and persuasive texts. Emphasis on effective and ethical rhetorical inquiry, including primary and secondary research methods; critical reading of verbal, visual, and multimedia texts; systematic evaluation, synthesis, and documentation of information sources; and critical thinking about evidence and conclusions. Required Prerequisite(s):ENGL 1301
Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0 Practical experience in the techniques of imaginative writing. May include fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenwriting, or drama. Includes lectures on recognition and use of literary devices. Required Prerequisite(s):ENGL 1301
Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0 Intensive study of and practice in professional settings. Focus on the types of documents necessary to make decisions and take action on the job, such as proposals, reports, instructions, policies and procedures, email messages, letters, and descriptions of products and services. Practice individual and collaborative processes involved in the creation of ethical and efficient documents. Required Prerequisite(s):ENGL 1301
Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0 A survey of the development of British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the Eighteenth Century. Students will study works of prose, poetry, drama, and fiction in relation to their historical, linguistic, and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from a diverse group of authors and traditions. Required Prerequisite(s):ENGL 1301 and ENGL 1302
Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0 A survey of the development of British literature from the Romantic period to the present. Students will study works of prose, poetry, drama, and fiction in relation to their historical and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from a diverse group of authors and traditions. Required Prerequisite(s):ENGL 1301 and ENGL 1302
Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0 A survey of American literature from the period of exploration and settlement through the Civil War. Students will study works of prose, poetry, drama, and fiction in relation to their historical and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from among a diverse group of authors for what they reflect and reveal about the evolving American experience and character. Required Prerequisite(s):ENGL 1301 and ENGL 1302
Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0 A survey of American literature from the Civil War to the present. Students will study works of prose, poetry, drama, and fiction in relation to their historical and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from among a diverse group of authors for what they reflect and reveal about the evolving American experience and character. Required Prerequisite(s):ENGL 1301 and ENGL 1302
Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0 A survey of world literature from the ancient world through the sixteenth century. Students will study works of prose, poetry, drama, and fiction in relation to their historical and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from a diverse group of authors and traditions. Required Prerequisite(s):ENGL 1301ENGL 1302
Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0 A survey of world literature from the seventeenth century to the present. Students will study works of prose, poetry, drama, and fiction in relation to their historical and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from a diverse group of authors and traditions. Required Prerequisite(s):ENGL 1301 and ENGL 1302
Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0 The study of one or more literary genres including, but not limited to, poetry, fiction, drama and film. Required Prerequisite(s):ENGL 1301 and ENGL 1302
Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 3 Laboratory Hours: 0 A survey of Mexican American/Chicanx literature from Mesoamerica to the present. Students will study literary works of fiction, poetry, drama, essays, and memoirs in relation to their historical, linguistic, political, regional, gendered, and cultural contexts. Texts will be selected from a diverse group of authors, literary movements, and media forms. Topics and themes may include the literary performance of identity and culture, aesthetic mediation of racialization, struggle and protest, and artistic activism. Required Prerequisite(s):ENGL 1301 and ENGL 1302
Semester Hours: 3 Lecture Hours: 2 Laboratory Hours: 4 An instructional program designed to integrate on-campus study with practical hands-on work experience. In conjunction with class seminars, the individual student will set specific goals and objectives in the study of English language and literature. Required Prerequisite(s):ENGL 1301 and TSI-compliant in reading