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Computer-assisted course for students who want to increase reading speed while enhancing reading comprehension and vocabulary. Also useful to increase fluency in understanding text books for undergraduate and anticipated graduate work. Includes an online reading program as well as classroom instruction. Not available to students who have taken ENG-101, Critical Reading and Study Skills.

Studies in global literatures within the context of culture or geographic region or by focusing across cultures on a distinct literary theme or period. The course emphasizes how modern global issues - such as ethnicity, religion, gender, economics, history, politics, colonialism, nationalism, race, class, or social justice - participate in the formation of world literature. This course may draw its texts from various genres: novels, short stories, poetry, film, drama, oral tradition, etc. Topics may investigate literatures from the Caribbean, China, or West Africa; themes such as migration, missiology, apartheid, or Westernization; or transnational movements such as The Arab Spring, global terrorism, post-colonialism, or Anglophone literature. Texts are studied in English translation. Prerequisites: Must have completed writing competency (ENG-120) or have advanced standing in English; or permission of the division.

A foundation for the critical analysis of literature, with emphasis on informed reading and written response to selections from poetry, fiction, and drama, while incorporating basic literary terms and basic theories of criticism. Prerequisite: Major in English, English Education, Writing, or permission of the Division.

A chronological study of the development of American literature, including literature of authors of color, from Thomas Hariot and other Colonial and Revolutionary authors through the American Renaissance to the present day. Provides an extensive factual overview with in-depth study of selected works to develop both wide and critical reading.

Focused study of one American literary period or one American literary region covered only briefly by other courses offered. Possibilities include New England Transcendentalism, American Realism, The Harlem Renaissance, Ex-patriot Literature, The Beat Movement, Literature of the South or Midwest, Literature of Borders (Canadian, Mexican, Puerto Rican, etc.). May be repeated once under a different topic.

Focus on the novels/novellas of the British Gothic/Romantic Period: 1764 to 1850. Study will center on how themes and questions of power, terror, gender, ethics, and religion are combined into the artistry of the works. Might include selections from Shelley, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, Charlotte Bronte, or Walter Scott.

Intensive study of one British literary period or one British literary region covered only briefly by other courses offered: The Eighteenth Century British Novel, World War I British Literature, British Lake District Literature, Scottish Literature, and Irish Literature, for examples. May be repeated once under a different topic.

A careful reading of one Twentieth Century British writer who inspirationally presents the Christian message through works in several genres: fantasy, autobiography, satire, argument, fiction, letters, exposition, and literary criticism.

Careful reading and study of selected nineteenth-century British novelists and poets, perhaps including Walter Scott, the Brontes, Robert Burns, and William Wordsworth. Considerable attention is given to the following: a chronological survey of British history; the imagery, figurative language, philosophy, and artistry of the poetry and prose; and contrasts between British and American cultures.

A chronological study of the development of British literature. Beginning with Chaucer and working toward the present, this course focuses on selected authors as well as on the historical/philosophical milieu from which their literatures grow.

Analysis of the forms, functions, and arrangements of words that signal meaning in our system of language. Topics include (but are not limited to) sentence patterns and types, modification principles and applications, concord, complementation, logic of structure, mechanical accuracy, and punctuation precision. Course objective is operational command of the syntax of English.

Traces the impact of a particular literary focus or theme that recurs through British and /or American literature. Examples would include war literature, literature of protest, men and women in conflict, cinema and the novel, family dynamics, etc. May not be repeated.

A chronological study of the development of the British novel. Selections begin with Daniel Defoe and move toward the present. Selections will show emphasis on major authors and on forms of the novel, including epistolary, autobiographical, picaresque, historical, and psychological. A variety of modes will be included, including romanticism, realism, and naturalism.

A chronological study of the American novel from its beginnings in the Nineteenth Century to the present. Emphasis will be on works representative of major authors (i.e., Twain), important types (i.e. , novel of manners), and significant American themes (i.e., slavery, racism).

A study focused on the Nineteenth Century novel in continental Europe, from its romantic origins to its realistic and naturalistic development. Authors will include Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola, as well as supplementary readings to place novels in their historical, social, and philosophical milieus.

This course utilizes the elements involved in the writing process to develop skills in research and writing. Students will evaluate and synthesize various sources and ideas including Biblical texts to develop a research presentation.

This course enhances the student's ability to utilize the elements involved in the writing process to further develop skills in research and writing. Students will evaluate and synthesize various sources and ideas including Biblical texts to develop a research presentation.