ENGLISH & WORLD LANGUAGES EXPLORATION EVENTThe classes listed below are available for you to visit. Select a date and class offering to register. COURSE: EARLY BRITISH LITERATURE (ENGL 233)Survey of British literature from Anglo-Saxon times to 1800. Texts studied span early tales like Beowulf and King Arthur legends through Shakespeare's plays up to the rise of the novel. Texts studied in context, including social problems and big questions about the nature of faith and heroism, love and life, the monstrous and magical. Readings selected to include works by women writers, writers of color, and writers speaking from the margins of British society. COURSE: READING OUR WORLD:DISABILITY LIT (ENGL 242)Applies critical lenses from fields of English Studies to a selection of texts on a particular theme. Engages students in interpreting current themes across cultures and/or time periods. Students will explore the topic from different perspectives by learning methods for critiquing texts, including new media. Themes/topics determined by instructor.OFFERED: Monday, Wednesday, Friday COURSE: SHAKESPEARE (ENGL 405)A study of several of Shakespeares plays and some of his non-dramatic poetry, set in the historical, cultural, social, and literary context of the Renaissance, with special attention to the enduring, abiding concerns of human nature.OFFERED: Tuesday COURSE: INTRODUCTION TO COLLEGE WRITING (ENGL 110)Required course in Cornerstone stage of general education. Provides students with strategies for effective writing and composing processes to write successfully in academic contexts. Students will learn several modes of writing, including expository and argumentative, become familiar with ethical writing and research practices, engage in conventions of academic writing, and become more reflective about their own writing processes. A grade of C- or higher is required to denote student readiness to achieve success in writing in college settings.OFFERED: Monday, Wednesday, Friday COURSE: ENGLISH COMPOSITION LAB (ENGL 111)Assists students through workshop/lab format with assignments in accompanying English Composition course. Co-requisite ENGL 110.OFFERED: Monday COURSE: MODERN AMERICAN DRAMA (ENGL 426)American drama from World War I to the present, with emphasis on significant developments in styles and techniques explored by such dramatists as O'Neill, Hellman, Williams, Miller, Albee and others.OFFERED: Tuesday, Thursday COURSE: EDITING FOR PUBLICATION (WRIT 317)Focuses on the role of the editor in publishing. Developing skills to improve copy for publication, designing content for websites and blogs as well as creating photographic, audio and video material for use on the web. OFFERED: Tuesday, ThursdayCOURSE: THE CRAFT OF WRITING (WRIT 274)Explores writing as a varied set of deliberate, artful choices in regard to designing and stylizing diverse persuasive texts, all crafted for specific audiences-emphasizing a mindful focus upon language for students at all levels of preparation. The course invites students to experience, in texts of all kinds, the interplay of argumentative structure and style that impacts readers: both rhetorical awareness and stylistic agility. As a topics course, ENGL 274 will permit instructors to select various genres of writing and styles to challenge students' practice. OFFERED: Tuesday, ThursdayCOURSE: HONORS: INTRODUCTION TO COLLEGE WRITING (ENGL 110H)A required course for all majors, Introduction to College Writing provides students with strategies for effective writing and composing processes so they will write successfully in academic contexts. Students will learn several modes of writing, including expository and argumentative, become familiar with ethical writing and research practices, engage in conventions of academic writing, and become more reflective about their own writing processes. A grade of C- or higher is required to denote student readiness to achieve success in writing in college settings. OFFERED: Monday, Wednesday, FridayCOURSE: AMERICAN LITERARY TRADITION I (ENGL 235)This survey-style course looks to the literary foundations of America from Native American oral literatures to early Americans various writings through the 1860s and explores issues, conflicts, preoccupations, and themes during this period. OFFERED: Monday, Wednesday, FridayCOURSE: READNG OUR WORLD: GEN SEX STUDIES (ENGL 242)Applies critical lenses from fields of English Studies to a selection of texts on a particular theme. Engages students in interpreting current themes across cultures and/or time periods. Students will explore the topic from different perspectives by learning methods for critiquing texts, including new media. Themes/topics determined by instructor. OFFERED: Monday, Wednesday, FridayCOURSE: TECHNICAL WRITING (WRIT 312)Writing of scientific and technical reports, manuals, technical articles and correspondence. Emphasis on data collection and analysis. OFFERED: Monday, Wednesday, FridayCOURSE: INTRODUCTION TO LANGUAGE STUDY (ENGL 220)Study of the historical development and present characteristics of the English language, the process of language learning, social and geographical dialects and semantics. An overview of linguistic investigation. OFFERED: Tuesday, Thursday |