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English 01: Preparing for College Writing I (5 credits)
Course Format: Traditional Lecture Course
Helps students discover and develop writing processes needed to bring their proficiency to the level necessary for entrance into their respective curricula. Guides students through the process of starting, composing, revising, and editing. Variable hours per week.
  English 03: Preparing For College Writing II (5 credits)
Course Format:Traditional Lecture Course and Independent and Distance Learning Course
Emphasizes strategies within the writing process to help students with specific writing situations. Develops techniques to improve clarity of writing and raise proficiency to the level necessary for entrance into particular curricula. Variable hours per week.

English 04: Reading Improvement I (5 credits)
Course Format: Traditional Lecture Course
Helps students improve their reading processes to increase their understanding of reading materials. Includes word forms and meanings, comprehension techniques, and ways to control reading pace. Variable hours per week.
English 05: Reading Improvement II (5 credits)
Course Format: Traditional Lecture Course
Helps students read critically and increase appreciation of reading. Guides students in making inferences, drawing conclusions, detecting relationships between generalizations and supporting details. Includes interpreting graphic aids and basic library skills. Variable hours per week.
English 100: Basic Occupational Communication (3 credits)
Course Format: Traditional Lecture Course
Develops ability to communicate in occupational situations. Involves writing, reading, speaking and listening. Builds practical skills such as handling customer complaints, writing various types of letters, and preparing for a job interview. (Intended for certificate and diploma students.) Prerequisite: satisfactory score on appropriate English placement examination. Lecture 3 hours per week.
English 111-112: College Composition I-II (3 credits)
Course Format: Traditional Lecture Course and Independent and Distance Learning Course Develops writing ability for study, work, and other areas of writing based on experience, observation, research, and reading of selected literature. Guides students in learning writing as a process: understanding audience and purpose, exploring ideas and information, composing, revising, and editing. Supports writing by integrating, composing, revising, and editing, as well as by integrating experiences in thinking, reading, listening, and speaking. Prerequisite for English 111 is a satisfactory score on appropriate English placement examination and 4 units of high school English 111 is a prerequisite for English 112. Lecture 3 hours per week
English 115: Technical Writing (3 credits)
Course Format: Traditional Lecture Course
Develops ability in technical writing through extensive practice in composing technical reports and other documents. Guides students in achieving voice, tone, style, and content in formatting, editing, and graphics. Introduces students to technical discourse through selected reading. Prerequisite: satisfactory score on appropriate English placement examination and 4 units of high school English. Lecture 3 hours per week.
English 116: Writing For Business (3 credits)
Course Format: Traditional Lecture Course
Develops ability in business writing through extensive practice in composing business correspondence and other documents. Guides students in achieving voice, tone, style, and content appropriate to a specific audience and purpose. Includes instruction in formatting and editing. Introduces students to business discourse through selected readings. Prerequisite: satisfactory score on appropriate English placement test and 4 units of high school English. Lecture 3 hours per week.
English 150: Children's Literature (3 credits)
 Course Format: Independent and Distance Learning Course
Surveys the history of children's literature, considers learning theory and developmental factors influencing reading interests, and uses bibliographic tools in selecting books and materials for recreational interests and educational needs of children.
English 210: Advanced Composition (3 credits)
Course Format: Traditional Lecture Course, Independent and Distance Learning Course, and Web-Based Independent and Distance Learning Course
Helps students improve skills in writing sophisticated non-fiction prose using advanced style and structures, on a variety of topics, and to manage and develop those topics with facility. Argumentative discourse is the primary focus of this course. This course can transfer as an English elective. Prerequisite: English 112 or divisional approval.
English 211 & 212: Creative Writing I-II (3 credits)
Course Format: Traditional Lecture Course
Introduces the student to the fundamentals of writing imaginatively. Students write in forms to be selected from poetry, fiction, drama, and essays. Prerequisite: English 112 or divisional approval. Lecture 3 hours per week.
English 241 & 242: Survey Of American Literature I-II (3 credits)
Course Format: Traditional Lecture Course and Independent and Distance Learning Course Examines American literary works from colonial times to the present, emphasizing the ideas and characteristics of our national literature. Involves critical reading and writing. Prerequisite: English 112 or divisional approval. Lecture 3 hours per week.
English 243 & 244: Survey of British Literature I-II (3 credits) (3 credits)
Course Format: Traditional Lecture Course
Studies major English works from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present, emphasizing ideas and characteristics of the British literary tradition. Involves critical reading and writing. Prerequisite: English 112 or divisional approval. Lecture 3 hours per week.
English 247: Survey of Popular Culture (3 credits)
Course Format: Traditional Lecture Course, Independent and Distance Learning Course, and Web-Based Independent and Distance Learning Course
This course will transfer as a general/humanities elective. The course is designed as an exploration of familiar aspects of popular culture, including but not limited to television and radio, restaurants and holidays, tattoos and graffiti, cyberspace and toys, advertising and fashion, literature and commercials. In plain language, the subject encompasses everything from soap operas to grocery shopping to voting. Within this course, students will also write letters to their partners from the former Soviet Union and thereby reach a higher level of their cultural self-awareness and understanding of the trends and currents in popular culture in the U.S. and the former Soviet Union. Prerequisite: English 112 or divisional approval.

English 251-252: Survey Of World Literature I-II (3 credits) (3 credits)
Course Format: Traditional Lecture Course, Independent and Distance Learning Course, and Web-Based Independent and Distance Learning Course
Examines major works of world literature. Involves critical reading and writing. Prerequisite: English 112 or divisional approval. Lecture 3 hours per week.
English 273-274: Women in Literature I-II (3 credits) (3 credits)
Course Format: Traditional Lecture Course, Independent and Distance Learning Course, and Web-Based Independent and Distance Learning Course
These two courses in "Women in Literature" can transfer as English electives. The courses are intended to familiarize students with the history and the vast richness of literature by women, focusing primarily on women's writing until the end of the nineteenth century. Students will examine images and stereotypes of women in literature, different attitudes about women in different time periods, legal, cultural, social and psychological influences on the portrayals of women in different time periods, the changing lives of women writers through time, and the attitudes of women toward their lives and roles in society. Prerequisite: English 112 or divisional approval.