ENGLISH 100      Introduction to Reading and Writing
The study and practice of rhetorical principles and strategies of academic reading and writing. Frequent reading and writing exercises develop critical engagement with texts, with an emphasis on thesis, organization and grammar. This optional course prepares students to take English 110.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 101      Academic Speaking & Listening For Non-Native Speakers I
The study and practice of speaking and listening for basic social functions in English. Exercises include the practice of basic descriptions and the development of oral/aural skills for beginning ESL students. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.
Credits: hours
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ENGLISH 102      Academic Speaking & Listening For Non-Native Speakers II
The study and practice of speech in environments such as the classroom, work, and simple social occasions. Exercises focus on student's ability to distinguish sounds and to produce them correctly in the context of a sentence and to listen for specific information. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.
Credits: hours
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ENGLISH 103      Academic Speaking & Listening For Non-Native Speakers III
The study and practice of listening for and producing speech in the past, present and future tenses. Exercises introduce note-taking techniques and focus on the ability to hear and express abstract ideas. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.
Credits: hours
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ENGLISH 104      Academic Speaking & Listening For Non-Native Speakers IV
The study and practice of standard English, particularly in the college classroom. Exercises include training in academic lecture comprehension and note-taking as well as formal (classroom presentation) and informal (conversation) English speaking. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Applied Lang. Inst. approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.
Credits: hours
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ENGLISH 105      Advanced Academic English (Multiskills) For Non-Native Speakers V
The comprehensive study and practice of standard English skills for advanced students of English as a second language. level readings focusing on current issues serve as the basis for frequent writing exercises and for classroom discussions and presentations. This course carries no credit toward graduation in the College of Arts and Sciences. Prerequisites: Applied Language Inst. approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.
Credits: hours
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ENGLISH 110      English I: Introduction To Academic Prose
This course introduces students to college-level reading, writing, and discourse analysis: it engages students in the analysis and creation of texts that reveal multiple perspectives about specific rhetorical situations and cultural issues. In addition to learning how to revise by analyzing their own writing, students will learn to edit their own work and use proper academic documentation. Offered: Every Semester
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 200      Introduction To Undergraduate Study In English
An investigation of reading, writing, and research practices associated with studies in English. Students will learn about multiple forms, genres, and critical approaches, as well as encounter texts from various historical periods and places. Required of all English majors before enrolling in 400-level English courses.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 204      Writing About Literature
This course is designed to be taken either prior to or concurrent with a student's first literature course. It introduces students to literary criticism in its broadest, most generic sense, as a stylized response to reading. Students in the course will be introduced to different approaches to writing about literature, to methods of generating ideas, and focusing and developing a topic. Prerequisite: ENGLISH 110 or its equivalent.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 205      Popular Literature
The course focuses on writing in English by a range of popular authors from a variety of periods and places, historic and contemporary. The course may include popular stories, songs and ballads, the scripts of blockbuster plays and films, best-selling novels, and widely distributed nonfictional prose.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 207      World Literature in English
This course introduces students to World Literature using texts originally written in English and translated into English from other languages. Course texts include a variety of genres and engage students with a wide range of global experiences and cultures outside the Western tradition.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 213      Introduction To Drama
Beginning with an intensive study of a few plays analyzed to elicit general principles, the course moves on to consider several representative examples of each of the major periods and types of Western drama, from the Greeks to the present. The two-hour version of this course will be offered only off-campus.
Credits: 2-3 hours
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ENGLISH 214      Introduction To Fiction
Emphasis in this course is on critical reading of short stories and the novel selected from all periods of English, American, and European literatures. The course will introduce the systematic study of fiction as a literary genre and will equip students for more advanced work in literature or creative writing. Writing assignments are designed to aid in the understanding of the structure and content of the material covered. Every semester
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 215      Introduction To Poetry
An introduction to the study of poetry for students desiring a basic course either to develop a greater appreciation of poetry or to prepare for more advanced courses in literature or creative writing. Class discussions will focus on close readings of poems and analysis of poetic techniques. Writing assignments will complement reading and class discussion and will enable students to develop their own critical and creative skills.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 225      English II: Intermediate Academic Prose
This course extends the work of English 110 with an additional emphasis on research. Each section of ENGLISH 225 uses a combination of book-length and shorter texts on focus on specific historical and/or cultural issues. As they learn to participate in scholarly conversations, students will find and evaluate library and internet sources. As with English 110, this course emphasizes revision, editing, and proper academic documentation. Satisfactory completion of ENGLISH 110 and sophomore standing are prerequisites for ENGLISH 225. Every semester. Note: ENGLISH 225 or its equivalent is a prerequisite for all 300- and 400-level English courses.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 241      Women And Literary Culture: Introduction
The course offers an introduction to women as producers and consumers of literature. Students will become acquainted with women writers, explore women's reading practices, and interrogate the issues that have surrounded women's participation in cultural arenas.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 245      Advanced English Pronunciation for Non-Native Speakers
This course will help students recognize, understand, and produce features of the American English sound system that result in comprehensible and meaningful communication. Course attendees will reconsider what they understand about the language, expand their awareness of what they hear and what they say, and explore how certain sounds in certain environments appear, disappear, combine, or modify to create predictable patterns in American English. Prerequisite: Applied Language Institute Approval. Offered: All Semesters.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 250      Introduction To Language Acquisition And Diversity
Investigation of the basic principles of first and second language acquisition. Topics addressed include language competency, socio-cultural factors in language, dialects, acquisitional principles, and language diversity. Students will take part in monitored classroom observations in public schools, and will critically analyze how the topics addressed in class apply to real life and to teaching situations. A service learning component is included.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 270      Writing Tutor Training Seminar
This course covers the basics of serving as a tutor for writers. Students acquire hands-on experience in consulting with writers at all stages of the writing process, including invention work, drafting, revising, documenting, and editing. Students will also become conversant in theories of peer tutoring and research on Writing Centers.Prerequisites: Satisfactory completion of English 110 or instructor approval.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 299      Form And Structure Of Writing
This course is required for students who have twice failed the Written English Proficiency Test (WEPT) and is open only to students who have failed the test at least once. The class will cover the basic conventions of successful expository and academic writing. Emphasis will be placed on methods of development and on strategies for organization. This course satisfies neither the college humanities requirement nor the junior-level writing requirement. Completion of the course with a grade of C or better does fulfill the WEPT requirement for graduation, however, and renders students eligible to enroll in courses designated Writing Intensive (WI). Does not count toward graduation.
Credits: 3 hours
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