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This course focuses on the development and improvement of reading comprehension, language competency, and writing skills. The emphasis is on discovering self as a reader and writer. Through multiple opportunities to read various texts, to write collaboratively and individually, and to share writing with others, students will experience all phases of the reading and writing processes. This course is reading-intensive and writing-intensive and designed to help develop college-level literacy skills. Credits in this course will not satisfy any certificate or degree requirement. (4 contact hours) [Catalog Entry]

Prerequisite: placement test. This course focuses on the writing process and on the composition of expository writing assignments, including personal, informational, and critical essays. Students will read and analyze expository and imaginative texts (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama). Because of duplication in course content, students who have taken ENGL 1111 English Composition I (B) should not take this course. (3 contact hours) (OT36) [Catalog Entry]

Prerequisite: a grade of "SC" or better in ENGL 0111 or placement test. This course focuses on the writing process and on the composition of expository writing assignments, including personal, informational, and critical essays. Students will read and analyze expository and imaginative texts (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or drama). In addition, the course reviews the principles of writing effective sentences and paragraphs. Fulfilling all requirements of the first course in the composition sequence, this course provides an additional credit hour designed to address the developmental needs of underprepared student writers, reviewing basic grammar and principles of writing effective sentences and paragraphs. Because of duplication in course content, students who have taken ENGL 1110 English Composition I A should not take this course. (4 contact hours) (OT36) [Catalog Entry]

Prerequisite: ENGL 1110 or ENGL 1111. This course analyzes argumentative strategies, models, and texts. Students will focus on the research process: identifying sources through electronic and print-based research strategies, evaluating research materials, and integrating and synthesizing research material. The course culminates in the production of a fully documented argumentative paper. Because of duplication in course content, students cannot receive credit for both ENGL 1120 English Composition II and ENGL 1121 English Composition II – Technical Focus. (3 contact hours) (OT36) [Catalog Entry]

Prerequisite: ENGL 1110 or ENGL 1111. This course analyzes argumentative strategies, models, and texts using technical format and materials. Students will focus on the research process: identifying sources through electronic and print-based research strategies, evaluating research materials, and integrating and synthesizing research material. The course culminates in the production of a fully documented argumentative research report or proposal/feasibility report. Because of duplication in course content, students cannot receive credit for both ENGL 1120 English Composition II and ENGL 1121 English Composition II – Technical Focus. (3 contact hours) (OT36) [Catalog Entry]

This course introduces the theory and practice of creative writing. The course examines a variety of genres such as poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, or drama. Students will read and critique their own and professional writings. (3 contact hours) [Catalog Entry]

This course teaches the principles of how fiction writers understand, write, respond, and interpret the genres of flash and short fiction. Students will read creative work from both genres and from craft theory and will then apply their learning by completing writing assignments that are both creative and reflective in nature. This course is reading-intensive, writing-intensive, and is designed to enable students to produce a quality set of flash fiction pieces, a single, sustained short fiction piece, or both. (3 contact hours) [Catalog Entry]

Prerequisite: ENGL 1110 or ENGL 1111. This course explores fiction as an art form through analysis of the techniques and characteristics of its various genres, including short stories, novellas, and novels. Students will study fiction elements and strategies, including point of view, plot, setting, character, theme, and literary devices. (3 contact hours) (OT36) [Catalog Entry]

Prerequisite: ENGL 1110 or ENGL 1111. This course examines poetry through form and content, exploring poetic devices and conventions that contribute to a poem’s structure and meaning. (3 contact hours) (OT36) [Catalog Entry]

Prerequisite: ENGL 1110 or ENGL 1111. This course surveys the genre of science fiction. It emphasizes science fiction's literary development, changing treatment of basic themes, and relation to social and technological trends. (3 contact hours) (OT36) [Catalog Entry]

Prerequisite: ENGL 1110 or ENGL 1111 or permission of instructor. This introductory course in film studies is a survey of the American film industry as an art form, as an industry, and as a system of representation and communication. The course explores how Hollywood films work technically, aesthetically, and culturally to reinforce and challenge America's national self-image. The content of the course is organized into four broad sections: economic foundations of the American film industry, Hollywood genres, recent trends in Hollywood films, and supplementary units on thinking and writing about films. (3 contact hours) (OT36) [Catalog Entry]