Course Descriptions
ENGL 1301: Composition and Rhetoric I
A multi-paragraph composition course, including language study and the the mechanics of writing, with examples from selected readings. Students may be required to achieve a departmentally approved score on a proficiency test before credit for the course may be awarded.
Prerequisite: Placement by testing or completion of ENGL 0307 or 0326, and ENGL 0305 or 0313.
Credit: 3 (3 hours lecture)
English 1302: Composition and Rhetoric II
A continuation of English 1301, with an emphasis on critical papers, culminating in a term paper or papers. Readings in prose, poetry, and drama.
Prerequisite: English 1301
Credit: 3 (3 hours lecture)
ENGL 2307: Creative Writing I
This course offers a brief study of creative genres such as poetry, essay, and short fiction with practice in original composition. It is designed as a humanities elective course for students interested in imaginative writing. Both ENGL 2307 and ENGL 2308 may apply toward graduation.
Prerequisites: Six hours of English or departmental approval.
Credit: 3 (3 hours lecture)
English 2308: Creative Writing II
This course includes practical experience in the techniques of imaginative writing and its publication. The course may include fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry, drama, and /or essay. Both ENGL 2307 and ENGL 2308 may apply toward graduation.
Prerequisites: Six hours of English or departmental approval.
Credit: 3 (3 hours lecture)
ENGL 2311: Technical Communications
This course emphasises the writing of technical papers, reports, proposals, progress reports and descriptions. It also covers oral reporting, resumés and graphics.
Prerequisites: English 1301 and second year standing, or departmental approval.
Credit: 3 (3 hours lecture)
ENGL 2322: Survey of British Literature I
A survey of the literature of Great Britain from Anglo-Saxon times to the mid-eighteenth century.
Prerequisites: English 1301 and English 1302
Credit: 3 (3 hours lecture)
ENGL 2323: Survey of British Literature II
A survey of the literature of Great Britain from the mid-eighteenth century to the present.
Prerequisites: English 1301 and English 1302
Credit: 3 (3 hours lecture)
ENGL 2327: Survey of American Literature I
This course is a survey of major American authors from the colonial period to the Civil War. Figures covered include Edwards, Franklin, Irving, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman.
Prerequisites: English 1301 and English 1302
Credit: 3 (3 hours lecture)
ENGL 2328: Survey of American Literature II
This course is a survey of major American authors from the Civil War to the present. Movements covered include realism, the jazz age, and modernism. Figures covered include Twain, Howells, James, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and Eliot.
Prerequisites: English 1301 and English 1302
Credit: 3 (3 hours lecture)
ENGL 2332: Survey of World Literature I
This course is a survey of world literature from ancient times to the mid-seventeenth century.
Prerequisites: English 1301 and English 1302
Credit: 3 (3 hours lecture)
ENGL 2333: Survey of World Literature II
This course is a survey of world literature from the mid-seventeenth century to the present.
Prerequisites: Englsih 1301 and Englsih 1302
Credit: 3 (3 hours lecture)
ENGL 2341: Forms of Literature
This course emphasizes the study of one or more literary genres including but not limited to poetry, fiction, drama and film. Other forms might include mythic and religious writing, autobiographies and memoirs, and polemics. Readings vary. Instructors are free to choose their own emphasis. Only 6 credit hours can be taken from ENGL 2341, 2342, and 2343.
Prerequisites: Englsih 1301 and Englsih 1302
Credit: 3 (3 hours lecture)
ENGL 2342: Forms of Literature I
This course is one semester of a two semester course on literary forms. This course examins a genre, or a combination of genres, in greater depth than does the one semester course, ENGL 2341. Instructors are free to choose their own emphasis. The literary genre or genres taught in this course emphasize the multicultural competencies.
Prerequisites: Englsih 1301 and Englsih 1302
Credit: 3 (3 hours lecture)
ENGL 2343: Forms of Literature II
This course is one semester of a two semester course on literary forms. This course may expand treatment of a genre or genres studied in ENGL 2342 and/or may include a genre or genres not studied in ENGL 2342. Instructors are free to choose their own emphasis. The literary genre or genres taught in this course emphasize the multicultural competencies.
Prerequisites: Englsih 1301 and Englsih 1302
Credit: 3 (3 hours lecture)
English 2351: Mexican-American Literature
A survey of Mexican-American literature from its origins to the present covering the major literary genres: the essay, epic poetry, the short story, the novel, drama, and folk literature.
Prerequisites: ENGL 1301 and 1302
Credit: 3 (3 hours lecture)
ENGL 2389: Academic Cooperative in Composition
This course is a training program and internship for peer writing tutors who work with student writers in the writing center in the college learning center.
Prerequisites: ENGL 1301
Credit: 3 (1 hour lecture; 4 hrs. ext.)