ENGL- English

Pathways

Courses

ENGL& 101: English Composition I

Credits 5

This course helps students learn to identify choices and make decisions about their own and others' communication, especially in college writing. They will develop and practice various reading strategies for interpreting, responding to, and making use of a wide array of texts in their own writing. As they experiment with strategies, they will build confidence and a personalized process to compose texts that demonstrate an understanding of writing as craft, make intentional organizational choices, and are designed to align specific purposes and audiences. This class is organized around a theme chosen by the instructor

ENGL& 102: Composition II

Credits 5

Students learn how to distinguish between public and academic discourse; practice reading academic scholarship; develop a research process that includes narrowing topics, creating research questions, searching for and evaluating a variety of sources including peer-reviewed scholarship; write annotated bibliographies; and manage, synthesize, and use multiple sources to produce research projects..

ENGL& 111: Introduction to Literature

Credits 5

EDP, GS, H- This introductory English course grows out of our understanding that literature helps give voice, shape and meaning to the medley of human experience. Students will explore a breadth of literary genres, texts, and critical approaches. They will learn and apply skills for exploring the meanings and effects of literature as they practice connecting text and author relationships to their historical, cultural, and global contexts and constraints. Class discussion and both analytical and imaginative response will help students discover and express their own learning about literature. This class may be organized around a theme chosen by the instructor.

ENGL& 112: Introduction to Fiction

Credits 5

EDP, H- In this literature course, students explore a range of texts representing the genre of fiction across space and time, including novels, short stories, microfiction, autofiction, scripted narrative, and related critical materials. The course is based on a rotating theme; examples include 21st Century Abolitionist Literature, Narratives of the Sea, Crime Fiction, Queer Literature, AI in fiction, Representations of Disability in Literature, and Climate Grief Literature. Students practice in-depth analysis of texts, considering genre conventions, historical contexts, themes, and cultural implications for the reading audience of the place and time period, and are also introduced to literary theory. Students reflect upon their own process of creating meaning through an active reading practice and analytical, collaborative, and creative projects.(formerly ENGL 211)

ENGL& 114: Introduction to Drama

Credits 5

EDP, H, IL- Students learn about world drama (with a focus on Western dramatic traditions) throughout history by reading plays from ancient to contemporary times. Students will be able to analyze works of drama using the historical, political, cultural, and social context as well as the elements of dramatic literature and presentation. (formerly 221)

ENGL& 235: Technical Writing

Credits 5

H- In this English course, students will compose texts for a variety of professional and technical audiences, across several genres and adapted to different industry, company, or brand voices, developing a toolkit for writing, revising, and technical editing based on clear and concise, audience-appropriate syntax. Students will learn how to research, organize, design and revise a proposal, a usability report, and a manual or handbook, and will practice composing graphics, emails, and other written products for a business/technical environment. In weekly reflections, students will identify personal areas for improvement in task management, genre conventions, sentence construction, research synthesis, and document design, and will craft a personal statement about their own practices, contexts, and ethics for transparent use of analytical or generative AI. In two, multi-week team projects students will collaborate in team meetings that may take place in person or in required remote synchronous online meetings.

ENGL& 236: Creative Writing I

Credits 5

EDP, H, IL- This English course introduces students to the craft of creative writing in a generative workshop setting. Each week students will write short informal pieces that explore character, voice, point of view, image, and form across genres. Students will also read a wide variety of short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction to discover how different writers employ specific techniques and to examine the role of creative writing in different cultures and their own lives. Weekly writing in response to prompts and significant class time spent workshopping drafts and experimenting with different lenses for revision will be required. Students will also be required to attend at least one event such as a public reading or gallery visit outside of class.

ENGL& 237: Creative Writing II

Credits 5

EDP, H- This creative writing course introduces student to poetic practices. Students learn how to make choices and decisions about their own and others' poetry. They read a wide variety of poetry and critical texts to gain an understanding of poetic perspectives and the role of poetry in different cultures and their own lives. Students learn about sound, rhythm, images, tone, and other concepts of poetry writing. Students will workshop their poems to provide regular feedback on their classmates' work . Courses in the Creative Writing series, ENGL& 236, ENGL& 237, and ENGL& 238 may be taken independently and in any order.. (formerly ENGL 274)

ENGL& 238: Creative Writing III

Credits 5

EDP, H- This creative writing course introduces students to craft fiction writing. Students learn to make decisions about their own and others¿ fiction, especially as it develops individual writing practices. Students explore a variety of literary elements and develop a narrative from start to finish. Students read a wide range of fiction to understand more clearly how different writers employ specific techniques, and to understand the role of fiction in different cultures and their own lives. Students will workshop their fiction to provide regular feedback on their classmates¿ work. Courses in the Creative Writing series, ENGL& 236, ENGL& 237, and ENGL& 238 may be taken independently and in any order.(formerly ENGL 277)

ENGL& 244: U.S. Literature I

Credits 5

EDP, H- Students explore a survey of United States English literature between from earliest written expression through the 19th Century. Through fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction, and/or film, students practice in-depth analysis of texts based on their literary elements and devices, cultural-historical contexts, and reflection of the complex human experience. Authors and texts may vary but typically illuminate aspects of Colonization, Slavery, Civil War, Enlightenment, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Regionalism, Realism, and Naturalism. Within this survey the course may also focus on a theme chosen by the instructor.

ENGL& 245: U.S. Literature II

Credits 5

EDP, H- Students explore a survey of United States English literature between the late 19th Century and the present. Through fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction, and/or film, students practice in-depth analysis of texts based on their literary elements and devices and their cultural-historical contexts, and reflection of the complex human experience. Authors and texts may vary, but typically illuminate aspects of Naturalism, Modernism, Harlem Renaissance, experimental drama, emerging immigrant, feminist and queer voices, and post-modernism. Within this survey the course may also focus on a theme chosen by the instructor.

ENGL 095: College Reading and Writing

Credits 5

This reading course prepares students for success with college literacies, and supports specific success in reading-heavy classes across the curriculum using targeted practices. Students will experiment with and strengthen their reading and writing strategies to increase comprehension of academic materials. Time will be dedicated for individual conferences and writing tutor consultations. Students will develop a collection of personalized reading and writing processes for academic assignments that reflect intentional organization, appropriate conventions, and polish. They will learn to find and interpret information to use in reading-grounded class discussions. This course is intended to be taken either as a) the first five credits in a sequence of consecutive quarters with ENGL&101, extending the pace and scaffolding of reading activities and assignments, or b) as a co-requisite in the same quarter as ENGL&101, in which the pace of supporting activities and assignments will be more compressed. This course is graded as Pass/No pass.