2023-2024 Catalog
Course Descriptions
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The course numbering system has two parts that identify both the discipline and the level of difficulty of the course.
For example: XXX – 000
XXX are the letters of the course specialty such as CAP for office Computer Applications, MED for medical science, BUS for business, etc. 000 are the numbers of the course. Courses beginning with the digit “0” are developmental courses. These are 0-credit courses and do not count towards the credit requirement for a degree. Courses beginning with the digit “1” are credit courses at the introductory level, and courses beginning with the digit “2”, “3”, and “4” are advanced-level courses.
The symbols F, Sp, and Su (Fall, Spring and Summer) indicate which semester courses will be offered.
The * indicates the course is offered every odd year. The ** indicates the course is offered every even year.
Courses are offered in three modalities. Almost all are offered as traditional on-ground courses. Many are also offered online or in a hybrid or blended format. Hybrid courses usually meet a few times on campus during the semester. The remainder of the course work is done in an online format. Course offerings for each semester are published approximately fifteen weeks prior to the beginning of the semester and are listed online in the Student Information System.
Please note: Students placing into developmental English courses will need permission from their advisor to register for any college-level course work.
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ENG 090 - Introduction to Academic Language
Credit(s): 0
How words, terms, or phrases are used in speech and text is important and situational. In this course, students are guided to think critically about how language is used in academic settings. Students practice critical reading, writing, and thinking while considering language choice in different situations. Varied assignments are used to build students’ knowledge and skill in using academic language. NOTE: This course is offered only in a face-face modality (on-ground, synchronous online, or hybrid). Students must earn a P to advance to ENG 101 .
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ENG 095 - English Composition Support
Credit(s): 0
ENG 095 is an optional co-requisite to ENG 101 and is not offered as a stand-alone course. This course supplements the skills and competencies taught in ENG 101 . Students meet with their ENG 101 instructor for individualized instruction in a small group setting. Students receive additional help with the ENG 101 course and complete reading, writing, and reflective activities that help build students use of academic language. NOTE: Students must earn a P in ENG 095 and C or above in ENG 101 to receive college credit.
Corequisite(s): ENG 101 is required to be taken at the same time.
Offered: F, Sp, Su
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ENG 101 - English Composition
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed to develop effective collegiate writing competencies. Students develop deeper understanding of the stages of the writing process, including generating, revising, proofreading, and editing essays. Using a collaborative approach, students will produce essays in various genres with emphasis on rhetorical effectiveness, focusing on organization, thesis, purpose, and audience awareness. The course emphasizes academic inquiry through focused research, including retrieving, interpreting, and synthesizing sources effectively and ethically.
Offered: F, Sp, Su
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ENG 102 - Composition and Literature
Credit(s): 3
This course provides additional composition skill-building. Students are required to write extensively on topics related to various genres of serious literature and are expected to explain and support their ideas in writing. Focus is on learning how to read, interpret and critically analyze literary selections.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 101
Offered: F, Sp, Su
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ENG 103 - Writing a Life: Biographies and Personal Narratives
Credit(s): 3
Biographies, autobiographies, diaries, and personal narratives are all ways of telling the narrative of a life. In this course, students will examine how authors take a life lived and turn it into a story. In addition to reading biographies, autobiographies, and biographical narratives, students will have the opportunity to learn memoir writing techniques and write their own memoirs.
Offered: F, Sp, Su
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ENG 106 - Composition and Medical Literature
Credit(s): 3
This course focuses on the development of writing skills for the healthcare professional, emphasizing writing as an academic skill necessary to prepare students for entering the healthcare field. The course contains a particular focus on cultivating empathy and developing cross-cultural sensitivity in healthcare environments. In order to prepare students for successful written communication in their chosen field, students will learn to write in a way that targets specific audience members, such as the patient, family members of the patient and fellow healthcare professionals. The course also emphasizes questions and responses that stimulate thought, examine ethics, relate the material to broader universal issues, and necessitate critical interpretation. Students will be required to compile, organize, and logically present scientific and health information in research paper format, using citation and references. In addition, students will be expected to read literature related to healthcare issues and respond in journal and essay format.
Offered: F, Sp, Su
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ENG 212 - Grant Writing
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed to provide students with a general introduction to the field of grant writing. Instruction provides information on types of grants, common requirements of grant applications, and elements of a grant application. Students will learn to convey grant needs, assess resources, design a management plan, develop a budget, and conduct evaluations. The course includes common grant applications, letters of inquiry, introductory letters, written contracts, formal reports and common correspondence.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 101
Cross-Listed As: BUS 212
Offered: F, Sp, Su
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ENG 225 - Creative Writing
Credit(s): 3
This course explores writing as a creative art. Students will practice techniques for stimulating creativity and expressing ideas in innovative, original, and personalized ways. The course incorporates peer review and self-assessment strategies and encourages students to apply creative thinking to a wide range of communication situations. Students will read, discuss, and write poetry, fiction, essays, and plays.
Offered: F, Sp, Su
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ENG 227 - Writing for Social Media
Credit(s): 3
Social media play an increasingly important role in the way communities, businesses, and individuals share information. This course introduces students to the fundamentals of how to compose context for a variety of media platforms. Students will maintain and add content to a website of their own design, updating it with periodic blog entries, PowerPoint presentations, white papers and e-books, podcasts, videos, and other media. Students will study both the technical skills they will need to produce this media as well as strategies for writing effectively and professionally in electronic formats.
Offered: F, Sp, Su
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ENG 240 - The American Short Story
Credit(s): 3
This course focuses on the American short story through a historical perspective. Students will evaluate short stories considering social themes that reflect cultural shifts, national movements, and the changing identity of the American nation. Students will also learn the elements of short story development, author strategies for building suspense and action, and literary devices that make this writing form profound. Finally, students will compose essays and discussion responses that draw on theoretical models of close reading. Selected authors may include: Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, Ellison, Hughes, Jackson, Welty, Oates, and Diaz.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 101
Offered: F, Sp, Su
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ENG 245 - Contemporary American Poetry
Credit(s): 3
This course provides an introduction to contemporary poetic voices and reviews the predecessors and progresses to our modern poets: Lowell, Plath, Wilbur, Ginsberg, Bishop, and Brooks. The course culminates in an in-depth survey of some of the newest voices of the exploding Multicultural Renaissance, including Komunyakaa, Ai, Marilyn Nelson, and Lucille Clifton. Students will have discussions on the emergence of poetic movements such as the Beats, Language and Confessional Poetry, Feminism, Multiculturalism and Urban Poetry.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 101 and 3 Additional Credits in Composition
Offered: F, Sp
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ENG 300 - Advanced Composition
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed to provide students with opportunities to develop their writing skills across a range of styles of professional and academic writing. Using a process approach to writing, students will develop, draft, and revise a variety of written assignments, including a personal narrative, an article review, an annotated bibliography, and a research report. The class will also incorporate a focus on writing as a tool for developing critical inquiry, personal reflection, and intellectual engagement. Students will cultivate an understanding of the ways writing can enrich their personal, academic, and professional lives.
Pre/Corequisite(s): ENG 101
Offered: F, Sp, Su
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ENG 303 - Film & Literary Adaptation
Credit(s): 3
This advanced English course provides students with a foundation in film studies through an intensive examination of the process of cinematic adaptation using films based on literature. These film and literary narratives will demonstrate a variety of genres and techniques. In addition to further developing reading strategies and academic writing skills, students will engage in scholarship associated with both narrative cinema and cultural studies. This includes an in-depth analysis of narrative, cinematography, composition, and audience as well as the application of critical theories. The class makes use of film screenings and academic research as the basis for critical essays that will allow students to become active readers, spectators, and critics.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 101 and 3 Additional Credits in Composition
Offered: F, Sp, Su
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ENG 305 - The Modern Novel
Credit(s): 3
For hundreds of years, novels have played an important role in representing the diversity and complexity of modern civilization in our dynamic and global contemporary world, the power of the novel to bring together different voices is more important than ever. In this course, students will read, analyze, and discuss representative novels from the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Pre/Corequisite(s): ENG 101
Offered: F, Sp
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ENG 320 - Advanced Writing for Health Professionals
Credit(s): 3
This intensive writing course focuses on the development of writing skills for the healthcare professional, emphasizing writing as a communication skill necessary in the healthcare field. This advanced writing course centers on writing based on reading, interpretation, and discussion of academic and literary texts from personal, literary, scientific, and technological sources. The course also emphasizes questions and responses that stimulate thought, relates the material to broader universal issues, and necessitates critical interpretation. As an advanced writing course, it demonstrates how reading and writing in standardized English assists in enriching one’s life and includes vigorous review of grammar, mechanics, paraphrasing, essay structure and development of stylistic strategies and techniques often using group and collegial critiques. The course also includes compiling, organizing, and logically presenting scientific and health information in research paper format, using citation and references. In addition, students will be expected to read literature related to healthcare issues and respond in journal and essay format.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 101 and 3 Additional Credits in ENG
Offered: F, Sp, Su
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ENG 325 - Advanced Writing for the Business Professional
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed to improve the writing competence of the business student for management level communications. It will utilize rhetorical principles and strategies to help students shape their business writing and oral presentations ethically, for multiple audiences, in a variety of professional situations. There is an emphasis on applying these rhetorical tools to on-the-job communications and to the development and editing of documents appropriate to business. Students will examine major forms of business and industrial writing, including correspondence, memoranda, and reports, such as executive briefs and annual reports.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 101
Offered: F, Sp
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ENG 420 - Presentation and Publication
Credit(s): 3
The focus of this course is writing for professional presentation and publication. Students engage in researching, drafting, and revising professional-grade scholarships and disseminating their ideas in submissions to professional conferences and publications. Students critique their own work and the work of others in writing workshops and peer-review sessions as they gain experience in the process of developing content for a professional audience1.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 101 and 3 Additional Credits in ENG
Offered: F, Sp
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