English Courses
Undergraduate
ENG 090 College Preparatory Writing
- Format: Print
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $495
Emphasizes critical thinking as students explore writing for specific purposes and audiences. Enables the student to develop skills required for college-level writing while reviewing sentence and paragraph structure and focusing on essay development.
ENG 101 Communication Arts I
- Format: Print
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $495
A course designed to provide students with the reading, writing and critical thinking skills necessary to produce effective college-level expository writing.
ENG 101 Communication Arts I
- Format: Online
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $597
A course designed to provide students with the reading, writing and critical thinking skills necessary to produce effective college-level expository writing. Call for syllabus.
ENG 101 Communication Arts I
- Format: Online
- Credit Hours: 3
- Semester
- Tuition: $806.40
A course designed to provide students with the reading, writing and critical thinking skills necessary to produce effective college-level expository writing.
ENG 102 Communication Arts II
- Format: Print
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $495
To prepare students for effective college-level, source-based argumentative writing, reading and thinking. This course assumes you are a proficient writer; sentence level grammar issues needing improvement will require extra time and effort on your part. Skills practiced include summary, analysis, argumentation, persuasion, determining audience, purpose, and tone, research strategies, weighing evidence, appraise sources, critical reading and taking notes, organizing, documentation, and writing with a strong voice.
ENG 102 Communication Arts II
- Format: Online
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $597
Emphasis is on source-based writing designed to develop critical reading, thinking, and writing. A series of written assignments, including a fully documented paper, and an oral presentation are required. Call for syllabus.
ENG 102 Communication Arts II
- Format: Online
- Credit Hours: 3
- Semester
- Tuition: $806.40
Emphasis is on source-based writing designed to develop critical reading, thinking, and writing. A series of written assignments, including a fully documented paper, and an oral presentation are required.
ENG 203 Major Themes in Literature
- Format: Print
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $495
This course is designed to expose students to a variety of literatures and to develop critical and effective thinking, reading, and writing skills. In this course, students will read literature from three major genres: poetry, short stories, and drama. The students will learn basic literary terms and different approaches to literature. Students will come to understand that major human concerns are depicted by literature across time and cultures. There will be units on the following themes: family, men and women, fear and loss, freedom and responsibility, and quest.
ENG 203 Major Themes in Literature
- Format: Online
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $597
This course is designed to expose students to a variety of literatures and to develop critical and effective thinking, reading, and writing skills. In this course, students will read literature from three major genres: poetry, short stories, and drama. The students will learn basic literary terms and different approaches to literature. Students will come to understand that major human concerns are depicted by literature across time and cultures. There will be units on the following themes: family, men and women, fear and loss, freedom and responsibility, and quest.
ENG 210 The Study of Literature
- Format: Print
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $495
This course covers fundamental literary terms and concepts. Focus on close analysis of texts: tone, symbolism, figurative language, speaker, diction, and syntax. Introduction to literary theories. Mechanics of incorporating primary and secondary sources using MLA style. Development of analytical reading and writing skills.
ENG 210 The Study of Literature
- Format: Online
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $597
This course covers fundamental literary terms and concepts. There will be a focus on close analysis of texts: tone, symbolism, figurative language, speaker, diction, and syntax, among others. The student will be introduced to literary theories. The student will learn the mechanics of incorporating primary and secondary sources using MLA style and develop analytical reading and writing skills.
ENG 259 Development of Vocabulary
- Format: Print
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $495
This course is designed to increase the student's vocabulary through a systematic word-building approach. The emphasis is on learning word families through the study of basis, prefixes, and suffixes derived from the Greek and Latin languages. During this course, the students will study bases, prefixes, and suffixes derived from the Latin and Greek languages. A thorough grasp of the units from which complex words are formed is crucial if we want to be able to understand and use sophisticated discourse. This course is especially valuable for students who plan to take graduate school entrance exams.
ENG 259 Development of Vocabulary
- Format: Online
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $597
This course is designed to increase the student’s vocabulary through a systematic word-building approach. The emphasis is on learning word families through the study of bases, prefixes, and suffixes derived from the Greek and Latin languages.
ENG 309 English Literature I
- Format: Print
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $495
This course is designed to give students an overview of English Literature from Beowulf to the transition writers.
ENG 309 English Literature I
- Format: Online
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $597
This course is designed to give students an overview of English Literature from Beowulf to the transition writers.
ENG 311 World Literature I
- Format: Print
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $495
This course will focus on selected works of Literature from the ancient authors to 1700.
ENG 311 World Literature I
- Format: Online
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $597
This course will focus on selected works of Literature from the ancient authors to 1700.
ENG 315 Children’s Literature
- Format: Online
- Credit Hours: 3
- Semester
- Tuition: $806.40
Survey of literature for children ages 0-14 from ancient times to the present. Evaluation and use of books and other resources in the home, in public libraries, and in school media centers.
ENG 327 Introduction to Creative Writing
- Format: Print
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $495
In this course, students will learn to write poetry, fiction, and other creative prose forms, to develop aesthetic standards, and to evaluate their writing according to their standards. The writing process, including strategies for invention and revision, will be emphasized, and ideas for the teaching of creative writing will be presented.
ENG 355 The Novel
- Format: Print
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $495
This course will focus on a great many works from the eighteenth century to the present, and it is intended to familiarize the student with the various authors who represent (in part) the canon of the novel. This course will show the student how literature records and embodies human thought, action, and emotion, stressing various theories of the novel. The student will be encouraged to observe, measure, and judge the people and properties of the novel. Prerequisite: ENG 210: The Study of Literature.
ENG 359 Mythology
- Format: Print
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $495
An in-depth study of classical mythology to familiarize students with the principal classical allusions encountered in Western imaginative literature.
ENG 359 Mythology
- Format: Online
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $597
This course will focus on selected works of Literature from the ancient authors to 1700. Students will read selected works from the literary canon of World literature from ancient authors to the period around 1700 CE. Since literature and history mirror and reinforce each other, I strongly encourage that students familiarize themselves with the historical context of each period and author by reading the introductions to each work studied.
ENG 365 Ethnic and Minority Literature
- Format: Print
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $495
This course is a study of the literature of Native American, African-American, Chicano, and other American ethnic and minority groups. Prerequisite: ENG 210 The Study of Literature.
ENG 385 Women and Literature
- Format: Print
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $495
This course is designed as a survey of literature written by women beginning with Old English, ending with current female writers. The course focuses on the western tradition, and introduces students to feminist literary criticism. Students will use the independent reading, writing, and critical thinking skills necessary to produce effective, analytical, college-level, expository writing about Women's Literature. Fortunately, the independent study provides individualized, one-on-one instruction for your unique set of interests and skills.
ENG 394 American Literature I
- Format: Print
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $495
Pre-Columbian to 1865 survey of American literature from its native and colonial beginnings through the mid-nineteenth century.
ENG 395 American Literature II
- Format: Print
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $495
Survey of American literature from 1865 to the present. Thematic emphases include the development of African American, Native American, and feminist literary traditions; industrialization, urbanization, and the closing of the frontier; realism, naturalism, and modernism; the Lost Generation; and the 60s and postmodernism.
ENG 403 Shakespeare
- Format: Print
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $495
An advanced study of selected plays of William Shakespeare. The course will include an offering of the comedies, tragedies, and one history. Additionally, the course will focus on Shakespeare’s progression as a playwright, regarding the development of language, structure, and themes. Emphasis will be placed on analysis, literary interpretation, Elizabethan/Jacobean world-view, and close reading. We will study the following plays: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest.
ENG 403 Shakespeare
- Format: Online
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $597
An advanced study of selected plays of William Shakespeare. The course will include an offering of the comedies, tragedies, and one history. Additionally, the course will focus on Shakespeare’s progression as a playwright, regarding the development of language, structure, and themes. Emphasis will be placed on analysis, literary interpretation, Elizabethan/Jacobean world-view, and close reading. We will study the following plays: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Henry V, Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, The Winter’s Tale, and The Tempest.
ENG 407 Chaucer
- Format: Print
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $495
This course concentrates mainly on the Canterbury Tales, but covers other major works as time permits. The course will start with a short overview of the history, social structure, and religious concerns of Chaucer’s time. The student will read the “General Prologue,” the “Knight’s Tale,” the “Miller’s Tale,” the “Reeve’s Tale,” the “Man of law’s Tale,” the “Franklyn’s Tale,” the “Merchant’s Tale,” the “Second Nun’s Tale,” the “Clerk’s Tale,” the “Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale,” the “Prioresses’ Tale,” the “Friar’s Tale,” the “Summoner’s Tale,” the “Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale,” the Nun’s Priest’s Tale,” the prologue to the “Parson’s Tale,” and Chaucer’s “Retractions.”
ENG 407 Chaucer
- Format: Online
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $597
This course concentrates mainly on the Canterbury Tales, but covers other major works as time permits. The course will start with a short overview of the history, social structure, and religious concerns of Chaucer’s time. The student will read the “General Prologue,” the “Knight’s Tale,” the “Miller’s Tale,” the “Reeve’s Tale,” the “Man of law’s Tale,” the “Franklyn’s Tale,” the “Merchant’s Tale,” the “Second Nun’s Tale,” the “Clerk’s Tale,” the “Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale,” the “Prioresses’ Tale,” the “Friar’s Tale,” the “Summoner’s Tale,” the “Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale,” the Nun’s Priest’s Tale,” the prologue to the “Parson’s Tale,” and Chaucer’s “Retractions.”
ENG 480 Contemporary Literary Theory
- Format: Print
- Credit Hours: 3
- Open Enrollment
- Tuition: $495
This course studies the development of literary critical theory and practice from the beginning of the 20th century to the present, with some emphasis on important earlier theories as they relate to contemporary developments. Prerequisite: ENG 210 with a minimum grade of C or instructor's permission.
