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Description Guide.
ENGL 001 UNDERSTANDING LIT
Explores how major fiction, drama, and poetry, past and present, primarily English and American, clarify enduring human values and issues.
ENGL 004 BASIC WRITING
Intensive practice in writing sentences and paragraphs and instruction in grammar, usage, and punctuation. Designed for students with deficient preparation. This course may not be used to satisfy the basic minimum requirements for graduation in any baccalaureate degree program.
ENGL 005 WRITING TUTORIAL
Tutorial instruction in composition and rhetoric for students currently enrolled in Engl. 4 or 15. This course may not be used to satisfy the basic minimum requirements for graduation in any baccalaureate degree program.
ENGL 015 RHETORIC & COMP
Instruction and practice in writing expository prose that shows sensitivity to audience and purpose. Prerequisite: ENGL 004 or satisfactory performance on the English proficiency examination.
ENGL 050 INTR CREATIVE WRIT
Practice and criticism in the reading, analysis and composition of fiction, nonfiction and poetry writing.
ENGL 129 SHAKESPEARE
A selection of the major plays studied to determine the sources of their permanent appeal. Intended for nonmajors.
ENGL 202A WRITING/SOC SCI
Instruction in writing persuasive arguments about significant issues in the social sciences. (A student may take only one course for credit from ENGL 202A, 202B, 202C, and 202D.) Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030 ; fourth-semester standing.
ENGL 202C TECHNICAL WRITING
Writing for students in scientific and technical disciplines. (A student may take only one course for credit from ENGL 202A, 202B, 202C, and 202D.) Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030 ; fourth-semester standing.
ENGL 202D BUSINESS WRITING
Writing reports and other common forms of business communication. (A student may take only one course for credit from ENGL 202A, 202B, 202C, and 202D.) Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030 ; fourth-semester standing.
ENGL 232W AMER LIT FROM 1865
Introduction to literary history and analysis. Writers such as Mark Twain, James, Cather, Frost, O'Neill, Faulkner, Hemingway, Hughes, and Morrison. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030.
ENGL 263 READING POETRY
Elements of poetry including meter, rhyme, image, diction, and poetic forms in British, American, and other English-language traditions. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 OR ENGL 030.
ENGL 419 ADV BUS WRITING
Preparing and editing reports and presentations common to business, industry, and government. Prerequisite: ENGL 202A , ENGL 202B , ENGL 202C , or ENGL 202D.
ENGL 439 AM NONFICT PROSE
Major prose writers such as Franklin, Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Henry Adams, Mailer, Baldwin, McCarthy, Dillard, Didion, Angelou, and others. Prerequisite: ENGL 015 or ENGL 030.
ENGL 496 INDEP STUDIES
Independent studies; instructors approval.
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