Intermediate Fiction Writing
In this intermediate fiction workshop, students expand their skills writing, reading, and critiquing short stories, as well as develop their skills in peer workshops.
ENGL
Intro to Writing Fiction
In this introduction to the fundamentals of short story writing, students develop story writing skills by studying elements of fiction in published works, engaging in writing exercises, and learning to participate in a workshop.
Literature and the Environment
As we face what is increasingly known as the climate crisis, reevaluating our relationship with nature is paramount. Our survival depends on it. This course focuses on literature as a medium for exploring humanity�s relationship with nature and the environment, from indigenous perspectives, to nineteenth-century Romanticism, to Environmentalism, to contemporary Cli-fi, to early 21st-century youth-led climate justice movements.
Sentence Structure and Grammar
This course teaches techniques for writing detail-rich, focused sentences with clear, logical relationships between ideas. It also teaches strategies for not only identifying and fixing common sentence structure errors but also developing your own sentence style. These lessons can be applied to writing tasks in any college course, and thus facilitate college success.
Support for English C1000
This supplemental course, taken in conjunction with English 1A, provides additional support for students in English 1A in academic essay writing and analytical reading. Emphasis is on writing process and the skills involved in reading multiple academic texts and developing and revising text-based, thesis-driven essays at the collegiate level.
Critical Thinking and Writing
In this course, students receive instruction in critical thinking for purposes of constructing, evaluating, and composing arguments in a variety of rhetorical forms, using primarily non-fiction texts, refining writing skills and research strategies developed in ENGL C1000, Academic Reading and Writing (or C-ID ENGL 100) or similar first-year college writing course.
Academic Reading and Writing
In this course, students receive instruction in academic reading and writing, including writing processes, effective use of language, analytical thinking, and the foundations of academic research.
Literature and the Environment
As we face what is increasingly known as the climate crisis, reevaluating our relationship with nature is paramount. Our survival depends on it. This course focuses on literature as a medium for exploring humanity�s relationship with nature and the environment, from indigenous perspectives, to nineteenth-century Romanticism, to Environmentalism, to contemporary Cli-fi, to early 21st-century youth-led climate justice movements.
The Bible As Literature
An introduction to the Bible in English--one of Western culture's most influential books and an important source for literature--through a study of its literary aspects, interpretative methods, and historical context.
American Lit, 1865-present
A survey of American literature from the Civil War to the present featuring significant fiction, poetry, and drama of the time, previously marginalized groups and authors, and the literary voices of the changing American nation.