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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]

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]

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 critical study of selected dramatic masterpieces, selected from ancient Greek to present works, clarifies the nature and major achievements of dramatic art. Students will also examine the changes in theater structures, staging techniques, and costuming from within their historical context. (3 contact hours) (OT36) [Catalog Entry]

Prerequisite: ENGL 1110 or ENGL 1111 or permission of instructor. This course explores the complexities of texts within the genre of children’s literature from a literary perspective. Student will focus on understanding how to approach and engage with children’s literature to better understand and appreciate its complexities and nuances, from defining the genre and its rich and complicated history to its dual audiences of adults and children and its dual purposes of teaching and entertaining. This class explores how to best read children’s literature, the pedagogical implications of working with children’s literature, and children’s literature as an academic genre worthy of literary study. (3 contact hours) (OT36) [Catalog Entry]