ENGL-100. First-Year Composition (4)
Expository writing workshop, with attention to all the stages of the writing process from generating ideas to refining drafts.  Students will write frequent short papers.  The course will also introduce students to the proper use of outside sources.
NOTE:  This course is designed to prepare students for academic writing in all disciplines.  Skills taught include thesis formation, use of topic sentences, various kinds of paragraph development, and transitions.  Although all modes of exposition will be used, essays of comparison/contrast and argumentation will be emphasized.
Prerequisite:  Writing Sample and prescriptive writing workshop if need is identified. 

ENGL-106e,  Introduction to Creative Writing(4)
A mixed-genre introduction to writing fiction, poetry, and a least one other genre (such as memoir or playwriting), in a workshop environment. Three hours per week. Four semester hours. 

ENGL-110e,  Reading, Writing and Research (4)
Students will practice critical reading and thinking skills and expository writing skills based on readings in various disciplines.  Exercises in summarizing, paraphrasing, using quotations, analysis, and synthesis will prepare them to write short thesis driven papers of analysis and argument, using sources.  The course emphasizes the research process and culminates with an MLA documented research paper based on student inquiry. 
Prerequisite:  ENGL - 100.

ENGL-202,  British Literature Since 1800 (4)
Survey of British literature from Romanticism and Victorianism through Modernism and Postmodernism. Covers Wordsworth, Keats, Tennyson, Yeats, Joyce, Woolf and others, presented in historical context. Four hours per week. Four semester hours . 
Prerequisite:  ENGL - 201.

ENGL-205 Fiction Writing (4)
A beginning course in the writing of fiction, with special attention to the short story. The student will study technical aspects of the craft and masterpieces of the genre. The student will write short stories, receive critical responses, and make extensive revisions. Enrollment limited to 12 students. Three hours per week. Four semester hours
Prerequisite: ENGL-100.

ENGL-208. Advanced Expository Writing (4)
Practice, on an advanced level, in the writing and critical evaluation of non-fictional prose. Enrollment is limited to 12 students per section.
Prerequisite: ENGL-100 or 102.

ENGL-209 Special Topics in Creative Writing (4)
A workshop course in an area of creative writing not normally covered in ENGL-205 and ENGL-206.  Topics will vary. 
Prerequisite:  ENGL-100. 

ENGL-230 Epics of the World (4)
Read in English translation, a specimen of Western epic, such as Homer's Iliad and Odyssey or Vergil's Aeneid, is compared with a specimen of non-Western epic, such as the Indian Mahabharata or the Persian Book of Kings.  Three hours per week.  Four semester hours. 

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