ENGLISH 104C      Advanced Academic English Reading For Non-Native Speakers IV
This course focuses on preparing students to deal effectively with sophisticated academic reading materials by guiding them in the development of a conscious and reflective approach toward reading. It emphasizes advanced reading skills of interpretation, inference, critical analysis, evaluation and application. There will be frequent exercises addressing the acquisition and practice of study skills and collaborative academic work. Prerequisites: Completion of ENGLISH 103C with a grade of B or better or Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.
Credits: 1-3 hours
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ENGLISH 104D      Academic Writing For Non-Native Speakers IV
The study and practice of rhetorical principles in standard English prose. Frequent writing exercises emphasize critical thinking and research skills as well as fluency and accuracy in academic writing. 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: 1-3 hours
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ENGLISH 104G      Advanced Academic English Grammar For Non-Native Speakers IV
This course focuses on the analytical understanding and application of English grammar. Students will be expected to observe usage patterns of the English language in a combination of both normative and prescriptive grammars appropriate for academic English application. There will be frequent exercises emphasizing mastery of complex grammar structures including all verb tenses, dependent clauses, modals, and unreal conditionals, and of the relationship between ideas and the construction of sentences in academic discourse. Prerequisites: Completion of ENGLISH 103G with a grade of B or better or Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer Letter grade assigned.
Credits: 1-3 hours
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ENGLISH 105A      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: 1-3 hours
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ENGLISH 105B      Advance Speaking and Listening Topics for Non-Native Speakers
This course focuses on developing high-level fluency in English listening and speaking through critical awareness of social language use. Students will work toward greater speaking and listening fluency and adaptability through the practice of skills involving purpose, audience, speech norms and context. Prerequisite: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer
Credits: 1-3 hours
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ENGLISH 105C      Advanced Reading Topics for Non-Native Speakers
In this course, advanced ESL readers will develop the core critical reading skills required for success in academics by examining and applying those skills in the context of authentic college-level readings representing a wide variety of genres and modes. Readings will include extensive college textbook passages, newspaper articles, opinion sections, academic essays and interpretive reading of literature. Prerequisite: Applied Language Institute Approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer.
Credits: 1-3 hours
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ENGLISH 105D      Advanced Writing Topics for Non-Native Speakers
This course engages advanced ESL and EFL writers to develop greater dexterity of expression in composition. In addition to reinforcing core rhetorical skills, grammar and writing mechanics, students will explore new rhetorical styles such as personal responses, autobiographical essays, and writing about literature. Extensive reading complements the writing discussion and practice with pieces including personal and academic essays, narrative, magazine journalism and fiction. Prerequisite: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer.
Credits: 1-3 hours
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ENGLISH 105G      Advanced Grammar Topics for Non-Native Speakers
In this course, students will pursue an in-depth comprehension of English grammar, with a strong focus on increasing fluency in the English language through a critical analysis of connotation and pragmatics and their role in language fluency. Contextual readings, film and native conversation passages will complement the grammar discussions and practice, engaging students to move beyond a literal understanding based on syntax and semantics to a more contextual awareness of English form and function. Prerequisite: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer.
Credits: 1-3 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 110A      Freshman English I For Non-Native Speakers
The study and practice of analytical and critical reading. The study of basic rhetorical principles and the practice of those principles in frequent short papers; close reading of prose. Prerequisites: Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer.
Credits: 3 hours
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ENGLISH 124      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.
Credits: 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 225A      English II For Non-Native Speakers
The study and practice of expository writing and analytical and critical reading geared to the needs of students for whom English is not the first language. The course emphasizes the development and integration of all areas of language comprehension and production. The writing focus is on kinds of organization, diction, style, etc. used in academic writing in the United States. Frequent research papers. Prerequisite: Satisfactory completion of ENGLISH 110 or ENGLISH 110A and sophomore standing. Applied Language Institute approval. Offered: Fall/Winter/Summer.
Credits: 3 hours
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