EN095 - Intermediate Reading *
This course is a reading comprehension and critical reasoning course that covers essential reading comprehension skills. These skills include: understanding literal and figurative meaning, identifying the main idea, recognizing supporting details and transitions and identifying quotes and paraphrases. Topics include: fact and opinion, purpose and tone, patterns of organization, critical thinking, inferences and argument.
Placement into this course will be based on prior academic experience in English.
Minimum passing grade of “C”.
*Institutional credit only
Credits: 3
EN099 - Basics of Composition *
This course emphasizes sentence structure, paragraph development and the basic elements of composition.
Placement into this course will be based on prior academic experience in English.
Minimum passing grade of “C”. Must be taken concurrently with EN101
*Institutional credit only
Credits: 3
ENEL - Literature Elective
EN101 - English Composition
The course seeks to aid the communication process by developing the ability to write clear, concise, expository prose, with emphasis on pre-writing and revision. It assists the student in finding a voice and an audience. A research paper is required, thus techniques of writing a formal research paper are reviewed.
Credits: 3
EN102 - Introduction to Literature
A study of the basic elements of short fiction, poetry, and drama. By exploring form and design in the arts, this course provides opportunities for students to discover inter-relatedness of theme and type, to develop critical analysis skills, and to make connections with elements in other disciplines. Critical reading and analysis papers are required.
Credits: 3
EN200 - Advanced Composition
Prerequisite: EN101
The course develops critical thinking, reading, and writing skills as they apply to the analysis of primary and secondary non-fiction books, articles, and essays from a range of academic and cultural contexts. The course emphasizes the techniques and principles of effective research-based writing.
Credits: 3
EN201 - Readings in World Literature
Prerequisite: EN102
A survey course focusing on selected classics of literature from Eastern, Western, and African cultures. Selections include works from ancient, medieval, and modern societies. The goal of this course is to enable student to understand the similarities that surround the human condition and to appreciate the differences evidenced in each culture’s response to the complexities of human life.
Credits: 3
EN205 - Communication & Professional Skills (formerly Communication Arts)
This course provides an opportunity for students to develop their communication and interpersonal skills necessary to excel in their workplace environment. Through a combination of theory and practical exercises with a focus on real-world applications, students will learn the elements of effective communication and tactical skills needed to engage diverse audiences. The curriculum enables students learn and apply communicative and rhetorical strategies, and essential leadership skills of professionalism and cultural competency.
Credits: 3
EN209 - American Literature
Prerequisite: EN101
The study and exploration of writings that have contributed significantly to the unique quality of American Literature. Well known poems, stories, and other selections as well as lesser known works will be examined.
Credits: 3
EN211 - Explorations in Poetry
Prerequisite: EN101
The study and appreciation of poetry through a consideration of poetry as an art form. This course examines poetic techniques, themes, and symbolic language through a study of selected works.
Credits: 3
EN213 - Short Story
Prerequisite: EN101
An examination of a cross-section of short fiction by both American and inter-continental authors. Cultural connections, themes, and principles basic to the structure of short story will be explored.
Credits: 3
EN225 - Film as Literature
Prerequisite: EN101
An investigation and focus on elements of film literature such as theme, character development, plot structure, narration, point of view, and purpose.
Credits: 3
EN240 - Creative Writing
Prerequisite: EN101
An opportunity for the student to experience the process of imaging and creating various forms of prose and poetry with emphasis on original works.
Credits: 3
EN299 - Independent Study
Study of a more advanced nature based on previous English course work, developed and applied by individual students on a tutorial basis. Plans must be approved by the Director of Liberal Arts.
Credits: 3
EN300 - Public Relations Writing
Prerequisite: EN101
This course surveys various elements of public relations and public relations writing. It involves exploring the foundations and meaning of public relations, the ethical and legal issues involved in public relations writing, the principles of public relations writing, writing persuasively, writing for specific publics, writing for mass media and writing for speeches and presentations. Additionally, the course requires concentrated practice in writing for a variety of public relations circumstances: news releases, video news releases, public service announcements, advertising copy, broadcast media, print media, e-mails, memos, letters, reports, proposal, and speeches.
Credits: 3
EN304 - Race, Gender, and Literature
Prerequisite: EN101 or permission from Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs
This course will seek to explore the ways in which literature addresses the issues of Race and Gender in the postmodern / postcolonial context. Breaking free from the traditional understanding of literature as an imaginative work of art, the selected readings will showcase the nexus between the literary and the political. The course will deal with the categories of ‘race’ and ‘gender’’ as sociological constructs propagated within the political framework of ‘othering’. The lectures and readings will examine the varied representations and negations of the general understanding of these concepts, and how literary writers articulate their specific concerns to challenge the ideological tropes of our mainstream society. To explore the issues of race and gender, students will be introduced to works by the twentieth century African, Caribbean, African American writers, Black feminists, Queer theory, and Gay and Lesbian writing.
Credits: 3