DCB catalog 2020-22

Course Descriptions 135 ENGLISH (ENGL) ENGL 110 College Composition I (3CR) Fall and Spring; Pre: Appropriate English placement test score or ASC 87 with a grade of C or higher Guided practice in college-level reading, writing and critical thinking. ENGL 120 College Composition II (3CR) Fall and Spring; Pre: ENGL 110 Advanced practice in college-level writing from sources and in applying rhetorical strategies. ENGL 125 Introduction to Professional Writing (3CR) Fall, Spring; Pre: ENGL 110 Introduction to the process and techniques for creating workplace writing. Letters, memos, formal and informal reports, and instructions. Introduction to the rhetoric of workplace writing. ENGL 211 Introduction to Creative Writing (3CR) Fall, Spring; Pre: ENGL 110 Guided practice of writing skills related to the imaginative uses of language. ENGL 220 Introduction to Literature (3CR) Fall, Spring; Pre: None This is a course which includes reading and discussion of representative examples of poetry, drama, and fiction, with emphasis on the use of common literary terminology. ENGL 221 Introduction to Drama (3CR) Fall; Pre: None Reading and discussion of representative dramatic works from ancient Greek times to the present. ENGL 225 Introduction to Film (3CR) Fall; Pre: None A general introduction to film studies, including analysis of narrative and stylistic elements of films. ENGL 236 Women and Literature (3CR) Fall, Spring; Pre: None The study of literary texts by and about women including gender roles as a literary theme. ENGL 238 Children’s Literature (3CR) Fall, Spring; Pre: None The study of texts suitable for reading by elementary-aged school children with emphasis on the analysis of literary characteristics which determine age-appropriateness. ENGL 242 World Literature II (3CR) Spring; Pre: None Continuing survey of the western European tradition, including representative text from the Renaissance through the modern world. ENGL 261 American Literature I (3CR) Fall; Pre: None A survey of major works and writers in American Literature from the British Colonial Period through the Civil War. ENGL 262 American Literature II (3CR) Fall; Pre: None A survey of major works and writers in American Literature from the Civil War to the present. ENGL 278 Alternative Literature (3CR) Fall, Spring; Pre: None This course examines literary works in genres frequently judged “outside” the literary canon, such as science fiction, detective stories, ethnic, and beat literature and focuses on the literary qualities they with “high” literature.