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Prerequisites: Permission of the department and placement on Basic Skills Inventory test. May not be audited. This intensive course in expository writing emphasizes the fundamentals of grammar, sentence structure and paragraph construction. Learning involves three methods of instruction: classroom discussion, a writing laboratory, and tutorial conferences.

Prerequisites: Permission of the department and placement on Basic Skills Inventory test. May not be audited. This intensive course in expository writing emphasizes the fundamentals of grammar, sentence structure and paragraph construction. Learning involves three methods of instruction: classroom discussion, a writing laboratory, and tutorial conferences.

Prerequisite: Placement on the Basic Skills Inventory test. Open to freshmen and sophomores. May be repeated once as ENGL 102. Credit by exam. An expository writing course that emphasizes frequent writing and rewriting. Students have individual conferences with their instructors to plan or critique essays. May not be audited or taken without satisfactory performance on the Basic Writing Skills Inventory.

Prerequisite: Level II, III, or IV placement on the Basic Skills Inventory test. Open to transfer students who have completed the Composition requirement. This one-credit course provides students with a sound knowledge of the terminology and conventions of grammar, punctuation, and syntax. It is intended for students who seek certification to teach English in primary and secondary classrooms; but any student interested in the way the English language works is encouraged to take this course.

Prerequisite: Placement on the Basic Skills Inventory test. Open to freshmen and sophomores. May be repeated once with a different topic with the permission of the English Department Chair. Credit by exam. An expository writing course that emphasizes reading to become a better writer. Classes will focus on close reading, and students will respond to the texts in short analytical essays. Various topics offered each semester. May not be audited or taken without satisfactory performance on the Basic Writing Skills Inventory.

Prerequisite: Placement on the Basic Skills Inventory test. Open to freshmen and sophomores. Credit by exam. A look at the literature of comedy and humor; consideration of such issues as comic characters, situations, and language. Authors may include Chaucer, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Austen, Wilde and Flannery O'Connor.

Prerequisite: Placement on the Basic Skills Inventory test. Open to freshmen and sophomores. Credit by exam. Twentieth-century literature isi rich in characters who are carried by the wind, having lost any sort of rudder. Texts may include short stores by Cheever and Updike, and novels such as Tender is the Night, The Catcher in the Rye, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Cat's Cradle, and The Word According to Garp.

Prerequisite: Placement on the Basic Skills Inventory test. Open to freshmen and sophomores. Credit by exam. An exploration of the relationship between human beings and the natural worlds they inhabit. An effort will be made to discuss a variety of natural settings. Readings will be selected from the prose and poetry of writers such as Mary Oliver, Willa Cather, Neil Gunn, Scott Momaday, and Norman MacLean.

Prerequisite: Placement on the Basic Skills Inventory test. Open to freshmen and sophomores. Credit by exam. Amorous entanglements as expressed in the storytelling traditions of the American midwest. The course will include Willa Cather's My Antonia; Sherwood Anderson's Winesburg, Ohio, and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine, as well as shorter selections from Sinclair Lewis, Mark Twain and Ring Lardner.

Prerequisite: Placement on the Basic Skills Inventory test. Open to freshmen and sophomores. Credit by exam. A look at selected southern writers. Authors may include Eudora Welty, Flannery O'Connor, Ernest Gaines, Alice Walker, and Carson McCullers.

Prerequisite: Placement on the Basic Skills Inventory test. Open to freshmen and sophomores. Credit by exam. An expository writing course that also explores the psychological and moral horror of the Gothic novel. Course wil consist of class discussion of assigned reading, lecture on the six central modes of discourse, and writing. Texts include Wuthering Heights, The Castle of Otranto, Christabel, Jamaica Inn, and Frankenstein.

Prerequisite: Placement on the Basic Skills Inventory test. Open to freshmen and sophomores. Credit by exam. An examination of what Wallace Stegner has called the western writer's sense of vastness, and how the particular qualities of the western landscape - space, wilderness, solitude - affect the people who live there. Readings may include Terry Tempest Williams' Refuge, Wallace Stegner's Angle of Repose, Rick Bass' The Book of Yaak, Normal McLean's A River Runs Through It, and Barbara Kingsolver's Pigs in Heaven.

Prerequisite: Placement on the Basic Skills Inventory test. Open to freshmen and sophomores. Credit by exam. What is our human worth? Are we moral subjects to be respected, or objects fit for manipulation? How do various writers view this bedrock ethical issue? This course will have a look. Works will include Hemingway's Hills Like White Elephants, Faulkner's A Rose for Emily, O'Connor's Guests of the Nation, and Erdrich's The Red Convertible.

Prerequisite: Placement on the Basic Skills Inventory test. Open to freshmen and sophomores. Credit by exam. An exploration of the coming of age story, or Bildungsroman. Students will read and analyze works by authors such as Mark Twain, James Joyce, Richard Wright, Sherwood Anderson, Toni Morrison, and Arhundati Roy. In addition to critical analyses of the texts, students will respond to the topic through personal essays and/or fictional narratives

Prerequisite: Placement on the Basic Skills Inventory test. Open to freshmen and sophomores. Credit by exam. Many British and American writers have dramatized the crucial and sometimes harrowing passage into adulthood. We'll consider how some of them have viewed this transition. Hawthorne, Frank O'Connor, Faulkner, and Louise Erdrich will be among them.