English 210: Advanced Composition (3 credits)
Course Format: Traditonal Lecture Course, Independent and Distance Learning Course, and Web-Based Independent and Distance Learning Course
This course can transfer as an English elective. This class is designed to help 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. Prerequisite: English 112 or divisional approval.
English 247: Survey of Popular Culture (3 credits)
Course Format: Traditonal 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 251-35: Survey Of World Literature I (3 credits)
Course Format: Web-Based Independent and Distance Learning Course
English 251 can transfer to meet general education requirements in English, humanities, and other areas, depending on the curriculum. A survey course, English 251 concentrates on major literary works from the ancient world up to the Renaissance. Its content includes literature from Africa, Asia, Middle East, and Europe. Course activities involve critical reading and writing. Prerequisite: English 112 or divisional approval.

 

English 252-35: Survey Of World Literature II (3 credits)
Course Format: Web-Based Independent and Distance Learning Course
English 252 can transfer to meet general education requirements in English, humanities, and other areas, depending on the curriculum. A survey course, English 252 concentrates on selected modern literary works from different regions of the world, including the United States, Europe, Africa, Asia, Middle East, and South America. The survey gives the student a comparative overview of how different cultures and generations deal with similar human conditions. Course activities involve critical reading and writing. Prerequisite: English 112 or divisional approval.

English 273-274: Women in Literature I-II (3 credits) (3 credits)
Course Format: Traditonal 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.