English (ENG)

Exploration and practice of expository writing with an emphasis on grammar and mechanics, essay organization, and idea development. Students will be expected to think critically and analytically about their ideas and the ideas of others, and to write about the impact or influence of others' ideas on their own views. Activities and assignments will provide opportunities for original and analytical writing, as well as engaging the writing students are doing in other classes.

Students will continue to develop their research, thinking, and writing skills through wide-ranging readings, class discussion, vocabulary work, and a number of intermediate-length papers requiring formal documentation.

Students explore the nature of essay writing and practice it through critical thinking and writing exercises, discussion of significant ideas, the testing of style and voice, and the development of a research-based essay.

Students become familiar with the tradition and practice of non-fiction writing in a variety of forms, including creative, autobiographical, and research-based. Work includes analysis of readings, discussion of prominent ideas, testing of style and voice boundaries, and writing to interact with an audience through an organic approach to form.

This course is a critical study of selected classics of Western spirituality, this course focuses on the works of St. Augustine, Medieval women mystics, Pascal, and John Bunyan. Additional titles will be provided for special projects, depending on individual interest.

Students learn to gather, produce and evaluate hard news, sports, editorials, commentary, and special features for print and electronic media.

A survey of 500+ years of primarily British and American poetry, essays, dramas, and novels.

Fundamental literary and visual elements of children's literature are applied to selected works as tools for evaluation and analysis. Students will become familiar with evaluation criteria for children's literature and be able to demonstrate their understanding through presentations and projects. The course is designed for students preparing to teach grades K-8, with some attention to pre-K.

The course covers a diverse selection of adolescent literature. Students will practice literary analysis, will apply evaluation criteria to each work to assess if and how the text might be used in the classroom, and will investigate critical issues such as censorship. The course is designed for students preparing to teach in middle and/or high school.

This course examines a set of well-known works drawn from the principal literary genres. Students will read each work closely with an instructed understanding of the basic principles of literary engagement. A weekly sequence of online and in-class discussions followed by response essays helps the student gain progressive confidence in the tasteful study of literature, inspiring a habit of ongoing reading.

A survey of the history of the English language from the Anglo-Saxons to the present, as well as grammatical analysis from traditional, structuralist and transformational-generative perspectives.

Writing in a variety of literary forms with an emphasis on the craft of writing.

A survey of literature from around the world since the beginning of recorded history up to the present.

Through class discussion, reading, research, and writing, students will explore a range of literature that reflects the lives, times, and imaginations of the authors. Students will be expected to examine core conversations through literature and use texts to build a critical awareness of their own lives and times, applying that self-discovery to how they might shape their lives to shape the world. Fulfills: Gen Ed Upper Division English