Course Descriptions

Engineering (EGR)

ENG 01 PREPARING FOR COLLEGE WRITING I (1-6 cr.)   Helps students discover and develop writing processes needed to bring their proficiency to the level necessary for entrance into their respective curricula. Guides students through the process of starting, composing, revising, and editing.  Variable hours per week.

 

ENG 03 PREPARING FOR COLLEGE WRITING II (1-6 cr.)   Emphasizes strategies within the writing process to help students with specific writing situations. Develops techniques to improve clarity of writing and raise proficiency to the level necessary for entrance into particular curricula. Variable hours per week.

 

ENG 04 READING IMPROVEMENT I (1-6 cr.)   Helps students improve their reading processes to increase their understanding of reading materials. Includes word forms and meanings, comprehension techniques, and ways to control reading pace. Variable hours per week.

 

ENG 05 READING IMPROVEMENT II (1-6 cr.)   Helps students read critically and increase appreciation of reading. Guides students in making inferences, drawing conclusions, detecting relationships between generalizations and supporting details. Includes interpreting graphic aids and basic library skills. Variable hours per week.

 

ENG 100 BASIC OCCUPATIONAL COMMUNICATION (3 cr.)   Develops ability to communicate in occupational situations. Involves writing, reading, speaking, and listening. Builds practical skills such as handling customer complaints, writing various types of letters, and preparing for a job interview. (Intended for certificate and diploma students.) Lecture 3 hours per week.

 

ENG 101-102 PRACTICAL WRITING I-II (3 cr.)  Develops writing ability for study, work, and other areas of life with emphasis on occupational correspondence and reports. Guides students in learning writing as a process: understanding audience and purpose, exploring ideas and information, composing, revising, and editing. Supports writing by integrating experiences in thinking, reading, listening, and speaking. Prerequisite ENG 101 prior to ENG 102. Lecture 3 hours per week.

 
ENG 111 College Composition I ( 3 CR)  Introduces students to critical thinking and the fundamentals of academic writing. Through the writing process, students refine topics: develop and support ideas; investigate, evaluate, and incorporate appropriate resources; edit for effective style and usage; and determine appropriate approaches for a variety of contexts, audiences, and purposes. Writing activities will include exposition and argumentation with at least one researched essay. Lecture 3 hours per week.
 

ENG 112 College Composition II ( 3 CR)

Continues to develop college writing with increased emphasis on critical essays, argumentation, and research, developing these competencies through the examination of a range of texts about the human experience. Requires students to locate, evaluate, integrate, and document sources and effectively edit for style and usage. Prerequisite: Students must successfully complete ENG 111 or its equivalent, and must be able to use word processing software.

Lecture 3 hours per week.

 

ENG 115 TECHNICAL WRITING (3 cr.)   Develops ability in technical writing through extensive practice in composing technical reports and other documents.  Guides students in achieving voice, tone, style, and content in formatting, editing, and graphics.  Introduces students to technical discourse through selected reading.  Prerequisite ENG 111 or divisional approval.  Lecture 3 hours per week.

 

ENG 120 SURVEY OF MASS MEDIA (3 cr.)   Examines radio, television, newspapers, magazines, books and motion pictures.  Emphasizes the nature of change in, and the social implications of, communications media today.  Lecture 3 hours per week.

 

ENG 121-122 INTRODUCTION TO JOURNALISM I-II (3 cr.) (3 cr.)   Introduces students to all news media, especially news gathering and preparation for print. Prerequisite ENG 111 or 112 or divisional approval. Lecture 3 hours per week.

 

ENG 210 ADVANCED COMPOSITION (3 cr.)   Helps students refine skills in writing non-fiction prose.  Guides development of individual voice and style.  Introduces procedures for publication.  Prerequisite ENG 112 or divisional approval.  Lecture 3 hours per week.

 

ENG 211-212 CREATIVE WRITING I-II (3 cr.) (3 cr.)   Introduces the student to the fundamentals of writing imaginatively.  Students write in forms to be selected from poetry, fiction, drama, and essays.  Prerequisite ENG 112 or divisional approval.  Lecture 3 hours per week.

 

ENG 241-242 SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE I-II (3 cr.) (3 cr.)   Examine American literary works from colonial times to the present, emphasizing the ideas and characteristics of our national literature. Involves critical reading and writing. Prerequisite ENG 112 or divisional approval. Lecture 3 hours per week.

 

ENG 243-244 SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE I-II (3 cr.) (3 cr.)   Studies major English works from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present, emphasizing ideas and characteristics of the British literary tradition. Involves critical reading and writing. Prerequisite ENG 112 or divisional approval. Lecture 3 hours per week.

 

ENG 251-252 SURVEY OF WORLD LITERATURE I-II (3 cr.) (3 cr.)   Examines major works of world literature.  Involves critical reading and writing.  Prerequisite ENG 112 or divisional approval.  Lecture 3 hours per week.

 

ENG 268 THE MODERN DRAMA (3 cr.)   Studies the modern drama.  Emphasizes the understanding and enjoyment of dramatic literature.  Requires critical reading and writing.  Prerequisite ENG 112 or divisional approval.  Lecture 3 hours per week.

 

ENG 278 APPALACHIAN LITERATURE (3 cr.)   Examines selected works of outstanding authors of the Appalachian region.  Involves critical reading and writing.  Prerequisite ENG 112 or divisional approval.  Lecture 3 hours per week.

 
ENG 279 FILM AND LITERATURE (3 cr.)   Examines the translation of literature into film viewing and writing.  Prerequisite ENG 112 or divisional approval. Lecture 3 hours per week.