ENG – English

Introduces students to different strategies to improve critical thinking, reading, and writing skills. Students will engage with and write critically about a variety of texts for a variety of purposes. Students will work individually and as part of a collaborative process to produce writing that is unified, effective, and rhetorically appropriate.

Fundamentals of rhetoric and writing academic essays: standard expository writing utilizing narrative, descriptive, evaluative, and persuasive strategies, taught in a computer-lab setting or online, emphasizing revising and rewriting.

Fundamentals of rhetoric and writing academic essays: standard expository writing utilizing narrative, descriptive, evaluative, and persuasive strategies, taught in a computer-lab setting, emphasizing revising and rewriting.

Exploration of a detailed research process, including the writing of two short essays, culminating in production of a substantive documented research paper. Students use multiple sources, including electronic, through OhioLink and Internet-based research.

This course offers an in-depth exploration of modern poetry from the late 19th century to the present day, examining its evolution, themes, forms, and cultural impact. Students will engage with a diverse array of poets and poetic movements, understanding how historical, social, and personal contexts influence poetic expression.

Continuation of ENG 1110, further developing the students’ abilities to write standard and organized essays. The focus of the course is analysis of a range of global literary works. Students will think critically about literature, writing a variety of assignments informed by and responding to fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and literary criticism. The writing will include critical research.

A practical approach to thematic interpretation. Students will give written expression to the meaning of thematic elements and their relations outside the works of literature. Students write both individually and within a collaborative process, learning to develop ideas in relation to literature and in relation to the ideas of other people. They gain experience in both accepting and challenging ideas available in literature and in the responses of others. Readings are selected from some of the following genres in American and world literatures: short story, novel, film, drama, poetry, and essay. The course is taught within a selected thematic framework

This course will examine the various and complex relationships between literature and film. The language of film, the ways film has and does borrow from literature and the criteria for artistic merit of a film will be studied, specifically the skill and art of the camera and the sound contributions. Course may require participation in outside classroom activities/events that relate to the course outcome.

This course is an examination of short fiction from significant writers. The student will become familiar with the authors and literary works that are part of the cultural canon of literature in the United States as well as from around the world. In addition, the student will gain the ability to identify and articulate impressions about the characteristic elements of the short story genre, explore and appreciate the deeper understanding of human nature and the human condition, and exercise the skill to think and respond analytically and critically about literary works. Critical reading and writing will be required. This course may require participation in activities and events outside the classroom that relate to the course outcomes.

Introduction to reading and enjoying literature and articulating responses successfully. The course introduces students to the fundamental methods and accomplishments of several literary genres and orients them to useful procedures of critical reading and writing. Students perform textual analysis, applying in discussion and writing their growing knowledge of how literature works to achieve its objectives. Selections are short literary works of contemporary interest drawn from American and world literatures.

Survey of British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through eighteenth century. The course explores such genres as epic, romance, drama, poetry, essay, and novel, familiarizing students with the range of traditions that constitute our British heritage and contribute to American cultural identity. Students analyze literary works within their critical, historical, and cultural contexts, developing an understanding of ideas basic to the humanities.

Survey of British literature from the early-Romantic period and the onset of industrialism to the present. The course explores such genres as romance, drama, poetry, essay, and novel, familiarizing students with the range of traditions that constitute our British heritage and contribute to American cultural identity. Students analyze literary works within their critical, historical, and cultural contexts, developing an understanding of ideas basic to the humanities.

Survey of American literature from the Pre-Colonial period through 1865. The course explores such genres as fiction, poetry, essay, speech, and autobiography, familiarizing students with the diversity of traditions that constitute the American experience and shape individual identity. Students analyze literary works within their critical, historical, and cultural contexts, developing an understanding of ideas basic to the humanities.

Survey of American literature from 1865 through the present. The course explores such genres as fiction, poetry, drama, essay, speech, and autobiography, familiarizing students with the diversity of traditions that constitute the American experience and shape individual identity. Students analyze literary works within their critical, historical, and cultural contexts, developing an understanding of ideas basic to the humanities.

Introduction to major works of the literature of the Western world in translation. The course develops students’ awareness of the broad cultural traditions that human beings share and familiarizes students with the characteristics and social priorities of several literary genres throughout their histories. By encouraging recognition of theme as relevant and contemporary, the course provides a focused orientation to fundamental concerns of the humanities and a foundation for further courses in the humanities. Selections are drawn from the European traditions of Antiquity, Middle Ages, and Renaissance.

Introduction to major works of the literature of the Western world in translation. The course develops students’ awareness of the broad cultural traditions that human beings share and familiarizes students with the characteristics and social priorities of several literary genres throughout their modern histories. By encouraging recognition of theme as relevant and contemporary, the course provides a focused orientation to fundamental concerns of the humanities and a foundation for further courses in the humanities. Selections are drawn from the European tradition, Enlightenment through the twentieth century.

Introduction to a variety of literary fictional worlds representing the tradition of fantasy in world literature. Students will discover how different fictional realities are created and what to expect while visiting those fictional worlds. They will learn how their reaction to fictional reality is governed by particular literary methods. Genres studied are selected from among science fiction, magical realism, fairy tale, gothic romance, ghost story, fantastic tale, realistic fantasy, and legend.

Study of modern fiction as record of human experience. Through personal interaction with selected novels, students will identify differing narrative methods and their impact on reader response and the development of the novel as genre. Students will write both individually and within a collaborative process, developing, testing, and challenging insights in relation to theme, social context, and the experiences of others.

Exploration of twentieth-century novels and stories of global world literature, including non-Western and third-world traditions. The course is focused on the social dilemmas presented in the narratives. Students will reflect on social injustice by exploring diverse cultures through literature and will develop new understanding of the continuity of human problems across cultures.