ENG 091 Intermediate Reading Skills -
This course helps students to read independently in college level courses. Students acquire strategies for improving vocabulary and reading comprehension as well as critical thinking skills while emphasizing both academic reading and reading for studying. The minimum passing grade for developmental courses is a "C". Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENG 090 with a grade of "C" or higher or appropriate placement score Semester Offered: F/S/SU Note: This developmental course cannot be used to satisfy degree or certificate requirements

ENG 092 College Reading Strategies -
This course helps students to gain, practice, and perfect college level reading and comprehension skills using adaptive, self-paced reading technology. Students develop critical thinking abilities, improve vocabulary, language use, reading comprehension, and textbook command. The minimum passing grade for college readiness courses is a "C". Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Appropriate placement score Semester Offered: F/S/SU Note: This college readiness course cannot be used to satisfy degree or certificate requirements

ENG 093 College Writing Strategies -
This course helps students develop writing competence using adaptive, self-paced writing technology. Students will practice writing sentences, paragraphs, and essays, while learning how to recognize and use basic sentence patterns and write clear paragraphs containing a topic sentence, idea development, and a supportive conclusion. As students progress, they will write unified, supported, essays using grammatically sound sentences. Assignments are individually paced to prepare for college level writing courses. The minimum passing grade for college readiness courses is a "C". Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Appropriate placement score Semester Offered: F/S/SU Note: This college readiness course cannot be used to satisfy degree or certificate requirements

ENG 095 Basic Writing Skills -
This course helps students develop competence in written communication by practicing writing clear sentences and paragraphs. Students learn how to recognize and use basic sentence patterns and to write coherent paragraphs containing a topic sentence, idea development, and a strong conclusion. Students complete a variety of writing assignments and develop the skills needed for ENG 096. Taking the departmental final examination is a requirement of the course. The minimum passing grade for developmental courses is a "C". Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Appropriate placement score Semester Offered: F/S/SU Note: This developmental course cannot be used to satisfy degree or certificate requirements

ENG 096 Intermediate Writing Skills -
This course helps students develop writing competence by practicing writing paragraphs and essays. Students learn to write unified, supported, coherent essays using grammatically sound sentences. Assignments focus on writing a variety of paragraphs and essays in order to prepare for college level writing courses. Taking the departmental final examination is a requirement of the course. The minimum passing grade for developmental courses is a "C". Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENG 095 with a grade of "C" or higher or appropriate placement score Semester Offered: F/S/SU Note: This developmental course cannot be used to satisfy degree or certificate requirements

ENG 097 The Reading-Writing Connection -
This course analyzes college level essay writing by emphasizing the reading-writing connection. Students examine writing through reading and analyzing essay models and also refine their critical reading and writing skills by focusing on the writing process and effective reading strategies. Students develop a familiarity with library resources. Taking the Departmental Exam for writing is a requirement of this course. A minimum passing grade of "C" is required. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Appropriate placement score Semester Offered: F/S Note: This developmental course cannot be used to satisfy degree or certificate requirements

ENG 099 College Reading & Writing Strategies -
This course is an integrated reading and writing course that builds college reading comprehension and composition competence. Students develop critical reading, writing, and thinking abilities, and improve vocabulary and language use, while focusing on the reading and writing connection and process. Technology tools are used in this course. The minimum passing grade for college readiness courses is a "C". Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Appropriate placement; any student testing into or self-placing into developmental English may enroll in this course Semester Offered: F/S/SU Note: This college readiness course cannot be used to satisfy degree or certificate requirements

ENG 101 Composition I -
The course focuses on theme-based argument. Students practice and develop critical reading, thinking, and writing skills necessary for college. Students read, analyze, and summarize college level analytic arguments from various genres (popular, academic, etc.) and compose research-based analytic arguments based on the course's theme. Students become aware of writing decisions made for different audiences, purposes, and genres, with a focus on academic writing conventions. Students also learn beginning research skills, including appropriate quotation, summary, paraphrase, and documentation skills. At the end of the semester, students compile a portfolio of 15-25 pages, to include their summary, synthesis, and analysis projects. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: Placement into college level English Semester Offered: F/S/SU

ENG 102 Composition II -
This theme-based course, the second in the composition sequence, develops and refines skills learned in ENG 101, with a specific focus on independent research. Students sharpen rhetorical, critical thinking, and academic writing skills and practice locating, evaluating, summarizing, synthesizing, and citing primary and secondary sources. Students will manage a sustained independent inquiry project(s) to include a research question or problem analysis, an annotated bibliography, and a research project. By the end of the semester, students will compile a portfolio of 15-25 pages that includes a self-reflection assignment and displays a writing and research process to include pre-writing, drafting, feedback, revision, and appropriate citation. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENG 101 Semester Offered: F/S/SU

ENG 105 Technical Writing -
This course focuses on writing letters, memos, resumes, lab reports, instructions/processes and technical descriptions, and design visual aids. Instructional emphasis is placed on clarity, correctness, conciseness, audience, precision, accuracy, organization, and document design in writing technical documents. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENG 101 Semester Offered: F/S

ENG 200 Children's Literature -
This course introduces students to the nature, variety, and artistry of children's stories. Students examine various modes of the genre and investigate why stories are necessary and popular teaching vehicles for the intellectual growth and development of children. Students discuss and explore numerous tales, fables, myths, and literary archetypes. Special emphasis is placed on selected visually orientated stories and their context in today's society. Students write individual reports and interact in panel discussions, commentary, and discussions of the merits of contemporary works. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENG 102 Semester Offered: F/S/SU

ENG 202 Creative Writing -
This course centers on weekly student writing of poems, short stories, plays or personal essays. Specific Projects will be determined by individual and group interests. Group discussion of works-in-process will aid the student to achieve a significant creative writing project for the semester. Examples of creative excellence will be read and discussed, with some attention to critical and aesthetic theory. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENG 102 Semester Offered: F/S

ENG 203 Writing Poetry -
This course focuses on writing fixed and free verse forms. Students learn the technical vocabulary of poetry and apply it to the work of classic and contemporary poets, as well as their own work and the work of their peers. Students present their poems in a group setting, and receive and provide both oral and written critiques. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENG 102 Semester Offered: F

ENG 204 Writing Fiction -
This course focuses on writing short story and/or novel prose. Students learn the technical vocabulary of the craft and apply it to the work of classic and contemporary fiction writers, as well as their own work and the work of their peers. Students present their writing in a group setting, and receive and provide both oral and written critiques. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENG 102 Semester Offered: S

ENG 205 Technical and Workplace Writing -
This course covers the theory and practice of writing appropriate to the workplace. While the course is designed for students interested in technical applications, it is useful for anyone who intends to enter an occupation that requires writing assignments such as resumes, reports, or proposals, instructions, web pages, abstracts, technical descriptions, and letters and memos in either traditional or electronic format. Other technically-oriented assignments may be included as well. Students explore concepts such as critical thinking, empathy, style, tone, persuasion, precision, simplicity, readability, ethics, etiquette, graphics, electronic and hard copy elements of design, and collaborative writing. Students develop a portfolio to show prospective employers. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENG 102, Computer Literacy Semester Offered: F/S/SU

ENG 209 Creative Nonfiction -
This course covers topics based in reality using the tools of fiction - structure, characterization, plot, scene, dialogue, style, etc. - to animate storytelling and discover truth. Students examine readings from this genre both as scholars and writers, and cover core components of crafting memoir, personal essays, and literary journalism. Students also examine topics that include the role of memory, perception, subjectivity and ethical questions inherent in this genre as students produce original work of creative nonfiction. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENG 102 Semester Offered: F/S

ENG 210 Introduction to Literary Theory -
This course covers seminal extracts from the work of major literary/cultural theorists especially those whose work initiated particular schools of literary/cultural criticism. Students examine the work of these theorists in the order in which they appeared on the historical scene. Students also explore how the work of each theorist built upon, extended, challenged, or problematized, that of predecessors. Students apply these taught theories to several major works of literature. The class runs as a seminar and culminates with a final essay. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENG 101 Semester Offered: F/S

ENG 231 World Literature I: Ancient World to 18th Century -
This course examines the history and growth of great books and ideas and their relevance to modern times. Students read literary selections from the ancient world to the 18th century to help them understand the sense and perspectives of major world writers. Students learn to demonstrate an understanding of both Eastern and Western literary traditions through class discussions and written assignments. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENG 102 Semester Offered: F

ENG 232 World Literature II: 18th Century to Present -
This course complements ENG 231 by examining the history, growth, and cross influences of ideas and their impact on views of the modern world. Students study major writings and writers of both Eastern and Western literature from the 18th century to the present. Students learn how to understand the universal themes of great literature and the relevance of those themes in the modern world. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENG 102 Semester Offered: S

ENG 241 British Literature I: Beginning to 1750 -
This course explores British literature from its beginnings to 1750. Students examine major representative authors of the Anglo-Saxon, medieval, Renaissance, metaphysical, and Restoration periods. Students study the major developments in English literature and develop an understanding of the relevancy of key themes of early British literature to present works. The course also explores the evolution of the English language from its beginnings in Old English to its modern-day form. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENG 102 Semester Offered: F

ENG 242 British Literature II: 1750 to Present -
This course explores British literature from 1750 to the present. Students explore key literary and cultural movements that occurred during the Romantic, Victorian, 20th century, and contemporary periods. Selected works cover several literary genres including poetry, drama, the essay, the short story, and the novel. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENG 102 Semester Offered: S

ENG 251 American Literature I: 1600 to 1870 -
This course examines American literature from approximately 1600-1870, covering poetry, fiction, essays, and autobiography. Students explore literary movements and major authors of major American time periods including the Puritan, colonial, Revolutionary, Romantic, Transcendentalist, and abolitionist eras. Students examine how writers influenced both their own times and subsequent generations. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENG 102 Semester Offered: F

ENG 252 American Literature II: 1870 to Present -
This course examines American literature from the mid-1800s to the present, including poetry, fiction, essays, and autobiography. Students explore literary movements, major authors, and trends of the various time periods. Topics include American regional writing; American Realism; literature during and between the two world wars; the literatures of American minorities; and the contemporary literature of disillusionment. Students explore texts both as literary works and as products of historical forces. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENG 102 Semester Offered: S

ENG 256 The Short Story -
This course focuses on reading and analyzing short stories by renowned writers from various cultures. Students participate in class discussions and write papers to demonstrate close reading skills, to express individual interpretation, and to understand the common themes and unique literary characteristics of the genre. Students also examine cultural and historical contexts that influenced the authors. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENG 102 Semester Offered: F/SU

ENG 260 Special Topics in English -
Special Topics in English provides an opportunity for specialized literary study of various topics from year to year. Special Topics may feature a particular literary theme, an historical era, a genre, a single author or group of authors, specific regional or national literature, or other topics defined by the teaching professor. Research papers or projects may constitute a significant portion of the course requirements. This course will vary in any number of ways according to the discretion of the instructor and the instructor's choice of text(s). Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENG 102 Semester Offered: F/S

ENG 261 African American Literature I -
This course examines African American literature and vernacular culture from 1746 to 1940. Students explore the major authors, genres, aesthetics, political movements, and intersectional tropes of the period. The course focuses on the slave narrative, the Abolitionist movement, minstrelsy, the Civil War, racial uplift politics, Reconstruction, plantation literature, Post-Reconstruction, the New Negro movement, the Great Migration, the New Deal, Popular Front radicalism, and social realism. Students also explore representations of the law and technology in the primary texts. The course emphasizes African American resistance, agency, transculturation, intertextuality, and cultural continuity. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENG 102 Semester Offered: F

ENG 262 African American Literature II -
This course examines African American literature and vernacular culture from 1940 to 2017. Students explore the major authors, genres, aesthetics, political movements, and intersectional tropes of the period. The course focuses on the Great Migration, Popular Front radicalism, social realism, the Civil Rights/Black Power movements, the Black Arts movement, and the post-Civil Rights ethos. Students also explore representations of the law and technology in the primary texts. The course emphasizes African American resistance, agency, transculturation, intertextuality, and cultural continuity. Credits: 3
Prerequisites: ENG 102 Semester Offered: S

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