ENGL
0900
Preparation for College Writing I
Credits
3
Goal Areas
n/a
Course Outline 0900
This composition course introduces the process and strategies of writing clear, focused paragraphs. Students learn and practice the basic skills of standard American written English, including grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure. Prerequisite: College required assessment for placement
ENGL
0950
Preparation for College Writing II
Credits
4
Goal Areas
n/a
Course Outline 0950
This composition course is for students who need a more intensive review of standard American written English (grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure)than English 1201 provides. The course also introduces the processes and strategies of essay writing from first thoughts through revision to the final, edited, 2-3 page essay. Prerequisite: College required assessment for placement
ENGL
0990
Gateway Composition
Credits
2
Goal Areas
n/a
Course Outline 0990
This composition course is for students who need a more intensive review of standard American written English (grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure) than English 1201 alone provides. The course also introduces the processes and strategies of essay writing from first thoughts through revision to the final, edited college-level essay.Prerequisite: College required assessment for placement OR prior successful completion of English 0900
ENGL
1140
Professional Writing
Credits
3
Goal Areas
n/a
Course Outline 1140
This course offers students the opportunity to improve their writing skills and adapt them for professional communication. Students will focus on assessing purpose, audience, credibility, style, clarity/correctness, and format to determine appropriate approaches to a range of written and electronic communication, including memos, letters, employment documents, and proposals/reports.
ENGL
1200
Gateway College Writing
Credits
4
Goal Areas
01
Course Outline 1200
This class provides extended practice in critical reading, writing, and thinking skills. Students will develop an effective writing process and work to achieve college-level competence in reading and responding to texts, visuals, events, and ideas in a variety of written formats, with an emphasis on the academic essay. Audience awareness, interpretation and analysis, logical reasoning, and persuasive and argumentative skills will be developed. MLA style documentation of primary sources will be included.
ENGL
1201
College Writing I
Credits
4
Goal Areas
01
Course Outline 1201
This class provides extended practice in critical reading, writing, and thinking skills. Students will develop an effective writing process and work to achieve college-level competence in reading and responding to texts, visuals, events, and ideas in a variety of written formats, with an emphasis on the academic essay. Audience awareness, interpretation and analysis, logical reasoning, and persuasive and argumentative skills will be developed. MLA style documentation of primary sources will be included.
ENGL
1202
College Writing II
Credits
2
Goal Areas
01
Course Outline 1202
This class focuses on the research process, textual analysis of primary and secondary sources, rhetorical strategies for argument and persuasion, and successful integration of sources into a longer academic paper utilizing MLA (or other, as appropriate) documentation format. The class may be disciplinary, interdisciplinary, or topical in content, as noted on the class registration site.
ENGL
1250
Magazine Workshop
Credits
2
Goal Areas
06
Course Outline 1250
This workshop offers students the opportunity to gain practical editorial experience by working on the college literary/arts magazine. As members of the editorial staff, students will solicit, select, and edit stories, essays and poems for publication. May be repeated for credit.
ENGL
1260
Newspaper Writing
Credits
2
Goal Areas
n/a
Course Outline 1260
Students will meet at least one hour each week in a laboratory format to edit and publish the student newspaper. Working in collaboration with student contributors and considering local, national and global issues, students will decide what is appropriate and relevant content for the campus newspaper.
ENGL
1800
Introduction to Journalism
Credits
3
Goal Areas
01,09
Course Outline 1800
This course provides an introduction to writing in standard journalism modes, which may include news, features, editorials, sports, reviews, and blogs. Contemporary practices, issues, and ethics of the profession are also covered.
ENGL
1900
Introduction to Creative Writing
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06
Course Outline 1900
This class is designed for students who want to try creative writing, perhaps for the first time, and learn more about the creative process. No previous creative writing experience is necessary. Coursework will include reading, writing, and discussion of both student and professional work in at least three of the following genres: fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction (or memoir), and drama. The focus of the class, students' creative work, will be presented and critiqued in a workshop environment.
ENGL
1940
Technical Writing
Credits
3
Goal Areas
n/a
Course Outline 1940
This course further develops writing skills as applied to technical subjects for a specialized or lay audience. Credit does not apply to the 40 MnTC (Minnesota Transfer Curriculum) credits required in the A.A. (Associate of Arts).
ENGL
1950
Graphic Novels
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06
Course Outline 1950
This course will introduce students to the diverse body of literature known as graphic novels. While emphasis will be placed on works that are specifically considered graphic novels, it may also include the study of other comics-strips and books that have significantly contributed to the development of the form. Students can expect to be exposed not only to a wide range of graphic novel types, such as autobiography, journalism, history, humor, dramatic fiction, manga, and superheroes, but also to a deeper understanding of the methods of telling stories that are unique to comics.
ENGL
1960
Writing Workshop
Credits
1
Goal Areas
n/a
Course Outline 1960
This course is designed for people interested in more intensive work with creative writing projects. The emphasis could range from poetry to story or nonfiction writing.
ENGL
1990
English Special Topics
Credits
1-4
Goal Areas
n/a
Course Outline 1990
This course will provide flexibility in offering an in-depth review of topics of immediate importance and topical interest. These topics will go beyond the introductory courses in examining specific aspects of the subject matter.
ENGL
2010
Writing Creative Non-Fiction and Memoir
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06
Course Outline 2010
This course offers beginning instruction in the art of writing creative non-fiction, which includes the personal essay, literary journalism, and other hybrid forms, as well as memoir writing. Students will read and analyze the work of professional writers, explore a variety of techniques for discovering material and topics, and experience workshop peer review of their work.
ENGL
2020
Writing Stories
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06
Course Outline 2020
This course offers beginning instruction in the art of writing fiction. Exploring techniques for generating material, engaging in writing exercises, and critically examining contemporary short fiction are important aspects of this course. Students will develop a portfolio of their writing and will critique others' work in a writing workshop environment.
ENGL
2030
Writing Poetry
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06
Course Outline 2030
Beginning instruction in the art of poetry. Exploring techniques for generating material, engaging in writing exercises both in and out of class, and discussing examples of contemporary poetry are important aspects of this class. Students will draft a collection of poems and critique others' work in a writing workshop environment.
ENGL
2150
Introduction to Literary Studies
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06
Course Outline 2150
This course is designed to introduce students to a variety of literatures and to means to credibly examine that literature. It thus includes literary terms, critical approaches and their application to literature.
ENGL
2250
Japanese Literature
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06,08
Course Outline 2250
This course introduces students to Japanese literature in translation. The reading may be organized either by historic periods or topically. The selected texts may come from various time periods. The reading may include oral traditions, mythology, spiritual texts, historical documents, poetry, song lyrics, theatrical plays, novels, short stories, or manga. This course may address issues of historical context, gender, class, and race as a way of understanding Japanese literature.
ENGL
2270
Modern American Literature
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06
Course Outline 2270
This course will introduce students to selected American writers of the twentieth and/or twenty-first centuries and their works. The course may be organized either by historic periods or topically.
ENGL
2300
Children's Literature
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06,07
Course Outline 2300
In this course, students will have the pleasure of reading, discussing and evaluating children's literature ranging from the picture book to the young adult novel. Students will explore the history of children's literature, critical responses to it and its specific role for children and adults. Students will examine works from the genre that might include picture books, chapter books, folktales, fantasy, realistic fiction, historical fiction, poetry and nonfiction with an emphasis on how the genre and its themes have evolved over time, paying particular attention to how those themes address the role of children in society. This course will appeal to students, parents and educators.
ENGL
2320
Writing: From Structure to Style
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06,07
Course Outline 2320
This course focuses on the structure of language as well how its rules and applications affect written communication and authorial choices in professional and academic settings. The course further intends to create confidence in written and oral expression, to support students in business, graphic arts, paralegal, and other programs.
ENGL
2330
Hmong American Literature
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06,07
Course Outline 2330
Hmong American Literature explores the works of Hmong writers as represented in the novel, nonfiction, short stories, poetry, drama/film, and Paj Ntaub (stories recorded in tapestry). To a more limited extent, characterizations of Hmong in works by non-Hmong authors may be considered, as well as relevant works by Laotian American and Asian American writers.
ENGL
2340
Nature in Literature
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06,10
Course Outline 2340
This course surveys literature that examines the relation between human beings and the natural world. The primary consideration of this course is how a literary idea of nature has been affected and effected by variations in culture, namely, changes in politics, economics, and technology that in diverse historical contexts have created conflicts between ecological and human interests. Ultimately, this study leads to considering how the green language created by the writers under study has contributed to an eco-critical ethic that allows examination of current ecological sensibilities and the language that represents them.
ENGL
2350
Women and Literature
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06,07
Course Outline 2350
This course explores women as characters in and writers of literature, including fiction, non-fiction, drama and poetry. The course may also address issues of historical context, gender, class and race as a way of understanding women in literature.
ENGL
2360
Global Literary Perspectives
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06,07
Course Outline 2360
Students will interpret world literature and film (either in translation or originally written in English) that present culturally diverse voices and viewpoints. Special attention will be given to colonial and postcolonial literatures that reflect the immigrant communities of Twin Cities college campuses, such as Egyptian, Finnish, Ethiopian, Hmong, Icelandic, Iranian, Korean, Liberian, Mexican, Norwegian, Russian, Somali, Swedish, and Vietnamese.
ENGL
2370
African American Literature
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06,07
Course Outline 2370
This course introduces the student to the writings of African-Americans from the colonial period to the present and explores the contributions of these writers to American culture, letters, and life. The course may be organized either by historic periods or topically.
ENGL
2380
American Indian Literature
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06,07
Course Outline 2380
This course introduces the students to North American Native American Literature. Readings may include fiction, non-fiction, poetry, songs, mythology, and film from traditional and contemporary authors. Special attention may be given to Native American authors with Minnesota connections, such as Louise Erdrich, David Treuer, and Susan Power.
ENGL
2390
Work in American Literature
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06,09
Course Outline 2390
This course examines American texts by and about workers and those concerned with workers. It focuses on how these texts portray work and the ways that work structures personal and social life, as well as on how these texts address and are formed by historical and political events that shape working conditions. The course may be organized historically or topically.
ENGL
2400
Utopian/Dystopian Literature
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06,08
Course Outline 2400
This course introduces students to the literature of utopias and dystopias, literary works about imaginary places, whose intention is to explore alternative models of political, cultural, and societal structures. Utopian/dystopian literatures seek to challenge existing ideas about governments, social communities, and constructions of human identity, but they also offer new, sometimes radical and transformative ideas regarding the reformation of existing human societies.
ENGL
2410
US Latinx and Latin American Literature
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06,07
Course Outline 2410
This course will introduce students to the genres, traditions, and themes that characterize Latinx literatures. Emphasis will be placed on the distinctions and similarities that have shaped the experiences and the cultural imagination among different Latinx communities in the U.S. and throughout Latin America. Genres include, but are not limited to, poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and film.
ENGL
2450
Survey of American Literature I
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06,07
Course Outline 2450
This course will provide students with a chronological overview of American literature, including major writers, literary developments (e.g. sentimentalism, gothic fiction, romanticism, transcendentalism) and key historical and social contexts, from the pre-colonial period to 1860.
ENGL
2460
Survey of American Literature II
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06,07
Course Outline 2460
This course will provide students with a chronological overview of American literature, including major writers, literary movements (e.g. local color, realism, naturalism, modernism, and post-modernism) and social and historical contexts, from 1860 to the present.
ENGL
2500
Playwriting
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06
Course Outline 2500
Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of writing theatrical plays. They will be expected to work on several creative projects throughout the semester and to participate in workshops in which they will discuss and critique one another's work. Students may also be asked to complete other writing exercises and to analyze a selection of plays to gain a better understanding of the art of playwriting.
ENGL
2540
Introduction to Literary Studies: Reading Poetry
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06
Course Outline 2540
This course is a study of poetry: the reading and analysis of poetic works from a variety of time periods and cultures. Important figures, poetic traditions and movements, formal techniques, and other methods of evoking mood and meaning will be explored through discussion and in both written and oral projects throughout the semester.
ENGL
2550
Survey of British Literature I
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06,08
Course Outline 2550
This course covers the literature of Great Britain with its historical background from its beginnings to 1785. Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Donne, and Swift, among others, are studied in this course.
ENGL
2560
Survey of British Literature II
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06,08
Course Outline 2560
This course covers the literature of Great Britain with its historical background from 1785 through the 20th century. The literature of the Romantic, Victorian, and Modern periods are studied in this course.
ENGL
2570
Introduction to Literary Studies: Reading Plays
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06,07
Course Outline 2570
This course is a survey of drama as literature; plays will be read as literary texts, not as the grounds for specific performances or performance practices. Through their engagements with the dramatic literature in this course, students will be introduced to a diversity of dramatic styles and themes. Attention will also be devoted to the social and cultural contexts in which the plays were written and in which they are read. Course materials may be organized either historically or topically.
ENGL
2580
Shakespeare's Plays
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06,08
Course Outline 2580
This course studies some of the major plays of William Shakespeare (which may include histories, comedies, tragedies, and romances), analyzing the plays from the standpoint of literary interpretation, focusing on poetic style and literary techniques.
ENGL
2590
Introduction to Literary Studies: American Short Story
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06
Course Outline 2590
The short story is a form that was created and refined by American writers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Students will study American short story writers, their stories, and their views of American life.
ENGL
2900
Fantasy Literature
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06,07
Course Outline 2900
This course will introduce students to fantasy as a literary genre. It will expose students to various types of fantasy stories (such as high fantasy, sword and sorcery, urban fantasy, and/or fantasy horror). It will also address how fantasy literature can reflect or comment on issues in the real world, including how various forms of bigotry can be challenged or normalized by fantasy texts.
ENGL
2950
Mystery and Detective Fiction
Credits
3
Goal Areas
06,09
Course Outline 2950
This course will introduce students to mystery and detective fiction as a literary genre and as popular literature, examining the conventions of suspense writing, possibly including hook, twist, red herring, back story, sub-plot, procedural, clues, and the ethical concerns of investigative methods and civic life. Discussion of various sub-genre styles will engage students in critical thinking applied to historical era, culturally diverse contexts, and gender roles in mystery writing.
ENGL
2960
Creative Writing Capstone Project
Credits
1
Goal Areas
n/a
Course Outline 2960
This course is intended for students who are in the Creative Writing AFA program and within a semester of completion. This capstone experience will focus on the writing and revision of a demonstrative portfolio of writing within a single genre, multiple genres, or blended genres (poetry, fiction, scriptwriting, and/or creative nonfiction). Students will work individually with faculty to develop and polish their writing for publication submission and movement toward further study and/or career options.Prerequisite: Engl 1900 Introduction to Creative Writing