EGL - English

High beginning course in reading and study skills for students whose first or primary language is not English. Course focuses on preparing second language students to take courses for college credit. EGL 071 is a mandatory course.

Intermediate course in reading and study skills for students whose first or primary language is not English. Course focuses on preparing second language students to take courses for college credit. EGL 072 is a mandatory course.

High intermediate course in reading and study skills for students whose first or primary language is not English. Course focuses on preparing second language students to take courses for college credit. EGL 073 is a mandatory course.

Introductory academic grammar and composition course for the non native speaker preparing to take courses for college credit. Introduces the student to the foundations of English sentence structure and paragraph types required in higher level writing courses. EGL 074 is a mandatory course.

Intermediate academic grammar and composition course for the non native speaker preparing to take courses for college credit. Introduces the student to intermediate sentence structures and the short essay. EGL 075 is a mandatory course.

High-intermediate academic grammar and composition course for the non native speaker preparing to take courses for college credit. Introduces the student to intermediate and advanced sentence structures and a variety of short essay types. EGL 076 is a mandatory course.

Course teaches speaking and listening skills for non-native speakers of English. Content includes giving opinions, listening for main ideas and details, pronunciation, extemporaneous speaking, and planning and giving short speeches.

Course teaches pronunciation of standard American English. Content includes vowel and consonant production, stress and intonation, and allophonic and morphophonemic rules.

Course teaches speaking and listening skills for non-native speakers of English at EGL 078 proficiency level. Content includes expressing and understanding complex ideas, discussing academic topics, speech patterns, and listening to academic lectures.

Course provides intensive practice in basic and low-intermediate grammar skills for non-native speakers of English. Content includes correct use of basic verb tenses, possessives, modals, compound sentence structures, adverbials, adjectives, articles, and prepositions.

Course provides intensive practice in intermediate and advanced grammar skills for non-native speakers of English. Content includes correct use of the perfect tenses, perfect modals, subordinate clauses, phrasal verbs, and passive voice.

Course allows students who place into ESL writing to take both ESL writing and EGL 101 for non-native speakers at the same time. Content supplements instruction in EGL 101 for non-native speakers, providing more individualized instruction and support in college readiness, critical reading, college-level writing, and analysis.

Advanced course in reading for students whose first or primary language is not English. Course focuses on preparing second language students to take courses for college credit. Course develops successful academic reading and study strategies for non-native speakers. Content includes vocabulary building, identifying lexical and textbook structures, and applying critical reading skills to college-level material. EGL 089 is a mandatory course.

Advanced academic grammar and composition course for the non native speaker taking courses for college credit. Introduces the student to advanced sentence structures and a variety of academic writing. Content includes organization, coherence, unity, argumentation, complex sentence structures, and advanced grammar.

High intermediate to advanced course on learning, remembering, and using English vocabulary. Students will learn multiple strategies to identify, memorize, and use academic vocabulary to increase reading comprehension and improve writing.

Course introduces student-success strategies, helps students develop reading proficiency with comprehension/vocabulary, and helps students become more active, reflective, and strategic readers. Emphasis is on approaches to reading that apply to courses across the disciplines.

Course helps students further develop reading proficiency with comprehension, vocabulary, and critical reading, and become more active, reflective, and strategic readers. Emphasis is on approaches to reading that apply to college-level courses across the disciplines.

Course introduces students to college-level and near college-level reading and writing, and develops proficiency with comprehension and vocabulary. Content includes structure of multi-paragraph texts, conventions of written English, and processes of reading/writing. Emphasis is on approaches to literacy that apply to college-level courses across the disciplines.

Course prepares students for college writing. Content includes the writing process, sentence structure, paragraph organization, basic essay structure, grammar and mechanics.

Course prepares students for college writing. Content includes the writing process, the structure of multi-paragraph essays, and review of sentence structure, paragraph organization, grammar, and mechanics.

Course prepares students for college-level reading and writing, and develops proficiency with comprehension, vocabulary, and critical approaches to analyzing texts. Content includes structure of multi-paragraph texts, conventions of written English, and processes of reading/writing. Emphasis is on approaches to literacy that apply to college-level courses across the disciplines.

Course allows students who place into developmental writing to take both developmental writing and EGL 101 at the same time. Content supplements instruction in EGL 101, providing more individualized instruction and support in college readiness, critical reading, college-level writing, and analysis.

Course introduces strategies for planning, writing, and revising expository essays based on experience and reading. Content includes purpose, context, genre, and the rhetorical situation as elements in the writing process, as well as critical reading and analysis as the basis for essay writing. The first course in a two-course sequence with EGL 102.

Course introduces strategies for planning, writing, and revising advanced expository and argumentative essays and the college research paper. Content includes critical reading and analysis, the structure of argument, and the proper use of sources to avoid plagiarism.

Course helps students further develop reading proficiency to an advanced college-level with comprehension, vocabulary, and critical reading, and helps students become more active, reflective, and strategic readers. Emphasis is on approaches to reading that apply to college-level courses across the disciplines.

Course concentrates on development of competence in producing various types of business documents. Content includes memoranda, letters, reports, and procedural documents. Focus is on writing for an audience with identified purpose, using college-owned computer hardware and software.

Course introduces students to dramatic literature and its cultural, social, and historical influences. Content includes terminology and methods for analyzing and evaluating drama including form, thematic development, and style.

Course introduces students to study of the novel and short story in cultural, social, and historical context. Content includes terminology and methods for analyzing and evaluating fiction including form, thematic development, and style.

Course introduces students to the study of poetry and its cultural, social and historical context. Content includes terminology and methods for analyzing and evaluating poetry including form, theme and poetic technique.

Course introduces students to the study of literature through critical reading and analysis in multiple literary genres. Content includes terminology and methods for literary analysis and evaluation as well as discussion of social, intellectual, and historical influences on literary works.

Course introduces students to literature in English by writers from countries, cultures or regions outside of the United States and Britain, such as Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle-East and/or Latin America. Content includes social, historical, and cultural contexts of literary works; relationship of these writers to literary traditions; terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.

Course explores the literary expressions of at least three minority ethnic, racial, religious or national groups of the United States, such as Chicano, Italian-American, Jewish-American, Muslim-American, Irish-American, Asian-American, Native American and/or African-American. Content includes study of social, historical and literary context, and terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.

Course introduces students to poetry, fiction, drama, film, and non-fiction by LGBTQ+ writers. Content includes theory of gender and sexual identity; influence of gender and sexuality on literary expression; social, cultural, historical, political, and literary contexts; and terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.

Course introduces fiction, poetry, and drama by diverse women writers from around the world. Content includes social, cultural, literary and historical contexts; terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.

Course introduces fiction, poetry, and drama by African-American writers. Content includes social, cultural, historical, and literary contexts; comparable themes in popular culture; terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.

Course introduces fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama by Native American writers from eighteenth through twentieth centuries. Content includes social, cultural, historical, political, and literary contexts, as well as terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.

Course introduces fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama by Latino/a/x writers in the U.S. Content includes social, cultural, historical, political, and literary contexts, as well as terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.

Course introduces fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama by Asian American writers, and may also include film, comics, and other visual media from (but not limited to) the following ethnicities/nations of origin, of which at least three are represented: Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Indian, Korean, Pakistani, Cambodian, and Vietnamese. Content includes social, cultural, historical, political, and literary contexts, as well as terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.

Course introduces the study of culturally diverse works of science fiction and fantasy (hereafter referred to as SFF) dealing with scenarios and settings, primarily manifested in the genres of SFF. Content includes social, cultural, historical, and literary contexts; comparable themes in popular culture; terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation, with a particular focus on how the imaginative content of SFF can be used as a tool for social exploration. In addition, the course may explore different genres or modalities of SFF texts including but not limited to novel, short story, video game, film and television, or comic/graphic novel.

Course introduces students to the distinctive characteristics and conventions of culturally diverse works of literature written for children and young adults by focusing on genre, literary technique, and social, political, and historical contexts and applying methods of literary analysis and evaluation.

Course develops basic journalistic skills in reporting and writing, including the following: the history of journalism, form and organization of news stories,leads, reporting of speeches and meetings, interviews, and news gathering. Students will learn use of the Internet, word processing, Power Point and other reporting resource technologies.

Course offers exposure to and practice in writing two or more forms of literary discourse including poetry, fiction, essay, creative non-fiction, and drama. Content includes the basic elements of writing in the selected genres.

Course offers students the opportunity to develop an individual style as fiction writers. Content includes basic elements of fiction writing: structure, character, point of view, setting, and dialog.

Course offers students the opportunity to develop an individual style as poets. Content includes basic elements and techniques of writing poetry: line, meter, free verse, imagery, and metaphor.

Course covers basic techniques of screenwriting. Content includes elements and techniques of screenwriting such as format, structure, character, dialogue, and dramatization of scene. Emphasis will be on writing and revising a feature-length screenplay of the student's own creation.

Course offers students the opportunity to develop an individual style as playwrights. Content includes basic elements and techniques of playwriting: format, character development, dialogue, narrative structure, tone, plot and scene development. Emphasis will be on writing and revising dramas of the student’s own creation. Course may be repeated up to three times.

Course offers students the opportunity to develop an individual style as creative nonfiction writers. Students will learn how to translate personal experience and research into effective pieces of creative nonfiction. Course offers exposure to and practice in writing one or more subgenres of creative nonfiction such as personal essay, storytelling, travel writing, memoir, historical narrative, and narrative journalism. Content includes basic elements of creative nonfiction writing such as truth-telling, theme, structure, narrative voice, diction, characters, plot development, research, rhythm, setting, point of view, and description. The primary goal of this course is to provide students with a supportive workshop experience to experiment with different genres within creative nonfiction and build a portfolio of work, at least two pieces of which should be ready for submission to literary journals. Course may be repeated up to three times.

Course explores the specialized writing techniques and editing skills necessary to produce effective communications for digital formats. Content includes: composing social media posts for individual and corporate clients; writing and editing scripts for audio podcasts and online videos; composing instructions for online users; and, writing newsletters for corporate and non-profit organizations. Experience using word processing software, social media applications, and the Internet necessary.

Course develops competencies in producing technical and scientific documents. Content includes manuals, proposals, status reports and formal reports requiring research and data analysis. Focus is on writing and designing reader-centered documents illustrating principles and procedures typical of technical and scientific fields; and instruction in design and integration of necessary visual elements such as tables, charts, and graphs

Course explores mass media’s roles in society. Content includes mass media historical development, contemporary characteristics, functions, responsibilities, and inter-relationships among media. Course explores mass communications as a consumer and a producer.

Course focuses on the culturally diverse literatures of early America up to the end of the Civil War. Course will cover such works as oral stories by Native Americans, writings by early European explorers and colonists, narratives and poetry by enslaved Africans, abolitionists, and free Black Americans, novels and poetry by women as well as the literatures of the American Renaissance broadly understood. Content includes social, cultural, historical, and literary influences, as well as terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.

(offered spring semester only, every other year) Course traces the development of American literature by focusing on major writers from 1865 through 20th century. Content includes social, cultural, historical, and literary influences, as well as terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.

(offered fall semester only) Course focuses on American literature of recent past. Content includes fiction, poetry, and drama, as well as influential television and film texts in their cultural, social, and historical contexts, as well as terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.

Course introduces students to literature in translation from any nation or region. Content includes social, historical, and cultural contexts of literary works; relationship of individual writers to national or regional literary traditions; and terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.

(offered fall semester only, every other year) Course traces the development of British Literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to 1800. Content includes major writers, literary genres, and cultural attitudes of the Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, Elizabethan, Restoration, and Augustan periods, as well as terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.

(offered spring semester only, every other year) Course traces the development of British Literature from 1800 through 20th century. Content includes major writers, literary genres and cultural attitudes during Romantic, Victorian, Edwardian and Modern Periods, as well as terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.

(Offered fall semester only) Course introduces the study of Shakespeare through focus on six to eight plays, selected from among comedies, tragedies and histories. Content includes social, cultural, literary, and historical context of the plays; changing interpretations; individual examples of performance taken from films, recordings, and attendance at local theatres (when possible); terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.

(offered fall semester only, every other year) Course introduces various masterpieces of Western Literature from Ancient times through the Renaissance (1650). Content includes important currents of western thought during the period; comparative study of selected works; terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.

(offered spring semester only, every other year) Course introduces various masterpieces of Western literature from 1650 to the present. Content includes important currents of western thought during the period; comparative study of selected works; terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.

Course introduces the study of language. Content includes fundamental concepts of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, and neurolinguistics.

Course explores selected topics in literature, writing, or journalism. Content will vary, with possible focus on single author, group of authors, period of literature or literary theme; or on specific writing format, medium, purpose or audience. Course may be taken for credit up to four times on different topics.