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Course Numbering Information:
Courses at SLCC are identified by an alphabetic prefix (two to four letters) followed by a four-digit number. Numbers beginning with a “1” generally indicate a course designed primarily for freshmen (such as ENGL 1010); numbers beginning with a “2” generally indicate courses designed primarily for sophomores (such as MATH 2010); numbers beginning with a “0” generally indicate preparatory courses that are non-transferable (such as MATH 0950).
English
ENGL 1700 - Integrated Studies in Literature (HU)
Credits: 3 Examines literature about subjects relevant to non-humanities students. Fosters appreciation for the intersections between literature, writing, and real-world issues. Through encounters with a variety of literary genres and methodologies, students discuss and write about issues relevant to their subjects of interest. Topic varies by section.
Credits: 3 Introduces students to the theory, practice, and pedagogy of writing centers and provides practical experience through Community-Engaged Learning opportunities at SLCC’s Student Writing Center (SWC) and Community Writing Center (CWC).
Credits: 3 Introduces students to the theory and practice of production, circulation, and distribution of printed and digital writing. Provides experience with publication software and equipment. Students will assist peers with production.
Credits: 3 In this course students will learn about the theory and practice of producing literary arts magazines. Students with gather submissions from the student body, select pieces for publication, and edit and layout the magazine and website to produce SLCC’s own magazine Folio. Students with gain experience with publication software and equipment.
Prerequisite:ENGL 1010 w/C or better Semester: Fall & Spring
Credits: 1-3 Students propose a possible writing project for example, genre-based-fiction or poetry-or technical writing, then meet with the instructor a number of times throughout the semester to create and revise the project.
Credits: 2-4 Supervised work experience in a business, industrial or government environment related to the program. Credit for successful completion of specific learning objectives that provide new learning related to the job and the program.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing, minimum 2. 0 GPA and study-related employment.
Credits: 3 This course builds on ENGL 1010 and the previous writing you’ve done. We’ll keep working with writing as a process, critical reading, academic writing practices, and revision, and add an emphasis on genre, medium, and mode as tools for writing; writing using research and sources, writing in multiple mediums and modes; and writing for public or civic contexts, with an emphasis on local issues.
Prerequisite:ENGL 1010 with a C- grade or better Semester: All
Credits: 3 Through a critical study of language use in U.S. society, this course interrogates the social and political contexts in which language circulates. Students systematically investigate structural relationships of power and language use across a range of U.S. identities and communities.
Credits: 3 In Intro to Writing Studies, you will explore what it means to enter an emerging discipline, Writing Studies, as a knowledge-maker yourself. In other words, in this class, we will approach writing as an activity, something you do, but also an object of study. Writing Studies represents a multi-disciplinary approach to writing, one that considers writing as a social, linguistic, and rhetorical practice. Broadly conceived, it studies theories and practices of writing, and how writing functions in the world. This course explores multiple approaches to the study of writing, and will require you, ultimately, to articulate your own working definition of Writing Studies.
Credits: 3 Professional writing in technical fields, contextualizing assignments in real-life work situations. Adaptation of writing strategies to cultural, social, and political contexts. Composing of diverse workplace documents. Course may be taught with a Community-Engaged Learning component.
Credits: 3 Study of the importance of ordinary people and their constructions of cultural meanings. Popular creation of material goods, oral traditions, customs, and meaning-making are examined through academic and hands-on methods.
Credits: 3 This course will review elements of imaginative writing, and examine the origins, conventions, and cultural meanings of imaginative writing. Cross-cultural readings will demonstrate how imaginative writing is culturally situated. The course stresses critical reading and thinking, creative and reflective practice, workshop, and revision.
Credits: 3 This course will review the elements, origins, conventions, and cultural meanings of poetry. Readings across a wide spectrum of cultural and aesthetic backgrounds will cover fixed and open forms, as well as the theories that drive concepts such as imagery, figurative language, the poetic line, form, and the cultural place of poetry. Course stresses critical reading, workshop, and revision.
Credits: 3 This course will review the elements of fiction, and examine the origins, conventions, and cultural meanings of fiction. Readings will cover literary fiction, flash fiction, and multiple genres. Course stresses critical reading, workshop, and revision. We will focus on the details of well-crafted fiction, including plot, character, and style.
ENGL 2280 - Introduction to Creative Nonfiction (HU)
Credits: 3 This course promotes understanding creative nonfiction genres and writing processes in their cultural/historical contexts. Students develop the skills to analyze, critique, and contextualize creative nonfiction theories and texts from across cultural traditions. Students apply concepts of genre and craft through various creative nonfiction projects, such as memoirs, a variety of essays, and literary journalism.
Credits: 3 Introduction to the history and conventions of the novel. Students will read, analyze, and practice various genres. Course invites writers to explore various structures.
Credits: 3 Interpretive strategies for reading Shakespeare. Approach from traditional critical positions, moving to current social cultural and political reinterpretations. Students examine contemporary retellings of the plays.
Credits: 3 This course considers the “public” and “organizational” work of digital writing. Specifically, the course emphasizes the principles and practices of producing, distributing, and circulating various forms of writing within textual networks. It emphasizes collaborative writing and audience-driven revision
Prerequisite:ENGL 1010 w/C grade or better Semester: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3 A study of prose style through the lens of grammar, focusing on shaping sentences, paragraphs, and longer discourses for rhetorical effect, elegance, clarity, readability, and coherence. Students will gain practical abilities to edit their own and others prose.
ENGL 2610 - Diversity in American Literature (HU, DV)
Credits: 3 The course is grounded in the critical study of diverse literary and cultural texts by examining how U.S. writers have responded to racism, sexism, heteronormativity, ableism, and cultural imperialism in order to define unique identities as well as negotiate power, privilege, and injustice.
Prerequisite:ENGL 1010 w/C grade or better Semester: All
Credits: 3 This course surveys literature from all parts of the world—including Asia, Africa, the Americas, Europe, and the Middle East, and with a focus on postcolonial literature. The goal of the course is to promote an understanding of the literary works in their cultural/historical contexts and of the enduring human values that unite the different literary traditions. The course’s pedagogy gives special attention to critical thinking and writing within a framework of cultural diversity as well as comparative and interdisciplinary analysis. While a course in Contemporary World Literature can never hope to cover the world in all contexts (cultural/historical/political/socio-economic), these texts represent a variety of compelling works from distinctive traditions that have influenced cultural identity and literary discourse.
Credits: 3 Examine how writing can activate a reader’s moral imagination & can function as an act of social justice. Using narrative theory, explore the ways in which multiple genres address social justice through reading & writing. Discuss theories & conceptual frameworks of social justice as well as multiple issues: racism, sexism, classism & able-ism.
Credits: 3 This course introduces students to major theoretical movements in literary history including Marxism, psychoanalysis, structuralism, postcolonialism, feminism, race, gender, and queer theories with an emphasis on discussion and critical reading.
ENGL 2702 - Introduction to Literary History, Post-1800
Credits: 3 Introduces students to a representative sampling of literature from 1800-present in relation to intellectual and historical developments. Exposes students to influential literary texts as well as literature that has lived on the margins.
Recommended Prerequisite: ENGL 2600 Semester: Spring
Credits: 3 Examines multimodal texts to explore how intersectional social constructions of gender are formed through discourse. It focuses on the ways in which textuality shapes and is shaped by intersections of gender with race and class, and how humans have understood and made meaning of gender through imaginative works. We explore ways to interrupt cycles oppression and bring about social change.
Credits: 3 Course examines the range of U.S. women’s voices and explores how racism, sexism, and cultural imperialism affect identity formation and relations between the powered and the disempowered.
Recommended Prerequisite:ENGL 1010 Semester: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3 Intro to postmodern and queer theories (challenging the idea of “normal”), societal gender construction as seen in literature & film, beginning with the history of heterosexism and questioning modern US. society’s treatment of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, & Transgendered people. ENROLLMENT IN THIS COURSE IMPLIES NOTHING ABOUT THE STUDENT’S SEXUAL ORIENTATION.
Credits: 5 This course develops academic listening and speaking skills for advanced level students who are interested in pursuing an academic degree. Learners work on general academic vocabulary development, listening skills development, development of effective note-taking, and discussion and presentation skills. Students are introduced to authentic academic content-based lectures and texts.
Prerequisite: Appropriate SLCC placement or successful completion of KESL 0315 Intermediate II Speaking and Listening. Semester: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 5 This course develops academic reading, writing, and research skills of advanced level students who are interested in pursuing an academic degree. Learners work on general academic vocabulary development, reading skills development, development of effective writing skills, and academic research skills. Successful completion of this course satisfies ESL placement requirements for ESL 1020.
Credits: 3 This course aims to improve students’ conversation and communication skills. Students will recognize and produce common idioms and expressions. Students will increase their ability to understand conversations through structured and communicative activities. This course helps students develop their idiomatic vocabulary and cultural fluency for communicative success in a variety of situations.
Prerequisite: Appropriate SLCC placement or successful completion of KESL 0336 Intermediate II Conversation. Semester: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3 In this course, students develop, refine, and practice the form, meaning, and use components of discourse-level English grammar. Students will use corpus-based materials to help them improve their written and oral grammar skills. Sample course activities include oral presentations and written paragraphs and essays.
Prerequisite: Appropriate SLCC placement or successful completion of KESL 0345 Intermediate II Grammar. Semester: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3 This course develops learners’ academic and career technical vocabulary at the advanced level. Corpus-based approaches will be used to facilitate learner’s vocabulary knowledge. Students will be expected to work on unknown words in the General Service List and the Academic Vocabulary list.
Prerequisite: Appropriate SLCC placement or successful completion of KESL 0355 Intermediate II Vocabulary. Semester: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3 This course develops learners’ advanced level pronunciation skills. This will include attention to both segmental and suprasegmental pronunciation needs with a primary focus on issues of that interfere with learner intelligibility.
Prerequisite: Appropriate SLCC placement or successful completion of KESL 0365 Intermediate II Pronunciation. Semester: Fall, Spring, Summer
Clock Hours: 60 This course develops basic listening, speaking, pronunciation, and vocabulary skills in English. This course is for students with little basic English skills. Students will develop communication skills for academic and work life situations. Students will practice fluency and accuracy in speaking, and they will develop strategies for comprehending short spoken passages on familiar topics.
Clock Hours: 90 This course develops basic reading, writing, vocabulary, and grammar skills. This course is for students who have little basic English skills. Students will read a variety of informational texts, use literal comprehension reading skills, and connect reading across contents and experiences. Students will practice and apply the basic structures of English to perform simple writing tasks.
Clock Hours: 45 This class is designed for students with beginning English skills who wish to learn the basics of English conversation.This course will focus on naturally spoken English, listening comprehension, vocabulary expansion, slang expressions, conversation practice and pronunciation.
Clock Hours: 45 In this course, students will focus on understanding and using basic English grammar correctly in both written and spoken communication. This course is to support students who have very basic English skills. The students will develop control of fundamental structures including basic tenses, parts of speech, and simple sentences.
Clock Hours: 45 This course is a fundamental vocabulary course that focuses on helping students improve and understand English vocabulary words by learning and practicing common English words that students will use for work and academic situations. This course is for students who have very basic English skills. Students will study and apply the usage of these words in writing, reading, speaking, and listening.
Clock Hours: 45 The focus of this course will be on comprehensibility of spoken English. Improvement will be measured by the consistency of accurate pronunciation of English used in academic and work situations. Emphasis will be on articulation, intonation, stress, and connected speech.
Clock Hours: 60 This course develops English listening, speaking, pronunciation and vocabulary for use in instructional and social situations. The course is intended for beginning level students. Learner outcomes include improved ability to communicate with English speakers. Students will practice listening and speaking tasks which will help develop the students’ communicative competence.
Prerequisite: Appropriate SLCC placement or successful completion of KESL 0015 Beginning I Speaking & Listening. Semester: All
Clock Hours: 90 This course develops reading, writing, vocabulary and grammar skills. It is intended for beginning level students with some basic ability in reading and writing. Learner outcomes include improved ability to read and understand high frequency vocabulary and increasingly complex sentences and to write extended discourse with increasing accuracy.
Prerequisite: Appropriate SLCC placement or succcessful completion of KESL 0025 Beginning I Reading & Writing. Semester: All
Clock Hours: 45 The main goal of this course is to improve students’ ability to communicate and interact in English. The class focuses on teaching students’ conversational techniques and strategies, improving students’ listening abilities, and strengthening students’ grasp of English grammar and vocabulary.
Prerequisite: Appropriate SLCC placement or successful completion of KESL 0036 Beginning I Conversation. Semester: All
Clock Hours: 45 In this course, students develop, refine, and practice the form, meaning, and use components of discourse-level English grammar at the beginning levels. Students will use real world language materials to help them improve their written and oral grammar skills. Sample course activities include oral presentations and written discourse appropriate to beginning levels of instruction.
Prerequisite: Appropriate SLCC placement or successful completion of KESL 0045 Beginning I Grammar. Semester: All
Clock Hours: 45 This course develops general language vocabulary and introduces learners to academic and career/technical vocabulary at the beginning level. Corpus-based approaches will be used to facilitate learners’ vocabulary knowledge development. Students will be expected to learn previously unknown words in the General Service List and the most frequent Academic Word list words.
Prerequisite: Appropriate SLCC placement or successful completion of Beginning I Vocabulary. Semester: All
Clock Hours: 60 This course develops learners’ pronunciation skills at the beginning level. This will include attention to both segmental and suprasegmental pronunciation needs with a primary focus on issues which interfere with learner intelligibility.
Clock Hours: 120 Introduction and practice of basic structures and usage: present, past, and future tenses; nouns and pronouns; basic modals; present and past perfect; count and non-count nouns and articles.
Clock Hours: 60 Introduction and practice of basic structures and usage: present, past and future tenses; nouns and pronouns; basic modals; present and past perfect; count and non-count nouns and articles.
Clock Hours: 90 Practice with basic verb forms and parts of speech. Introduction to perfect tenses. Short paragraph writing with correct grammar, sentence word order, capitalization and punctuation.
Clock Hours: 60 This course develops English listening, speaking, pronunciation and vocabulary for use in instructional and social situations. The course is intended for intermediate level students. Learner outcomes include improved ability to communicate with English speakers. Students will practice listening and speaking tasks which will help develop the students’ communicative competence.
Prerequisite: Appropriate SLCC placement or successful completion of KESL 0115 Semester: All
Clock Hours: 90 This course develops reading, writing, vocabulary and grammar skills. It is for intermediate level students with some ability in reading and writing but with some limitations in vocabulary expression and language structure. Learner outcomes include improved ability to read and understand high frequency vocabulary and complex sentences and to write extended discourse with increasing accuracy.
Prerequisite: Appropriate SLCC placement or successful completion of KESL 0125 Semester: All
Clock Hours: 45 This course is designed to develop students’ oral skills to have direct conversation and communication with others. The course focuses on improving listening comprehension, participating in class discussions, understanding conversational strategies, giving group presentations, asking and answering questions, interacting effectively with others, and improving through self-evaluation of speech.
Prerequisite: Appropriate SLCC placement or successful completion of KESL 0136 Semester: All
Clock Hours: 45 In this course, students develop, refine, and practice the form, meaning, and use components of discourse-level English grammar. Students will use corpus-based materials to help them improve their written and oral grammar skills. Sample course activities include oral presentations and sentence and paragraph level writing.
Prerequisite: Appropriate SLCC placement or successful completion of KESL 0145 Semester: All
Clock Hours: 60 Introduce and develop listening strategies, note-taking and organizational skills, vocabulary building, and speaking abilities in various contexts.
Clock Hours: 45 This course develops learners’ academic and career technical vocabulary. Corpus-based approaches will be used to facilitate learner’s vocabulary knowledge and the Intermediate I level. Students will be expected to work on unknown words in the General Service List and the Academic Vocabulary list.
Prerequisite: Appropriate SLCC placement or successful completion of KESL 0155 Semester: All
Clock Hours: 45 This course develops learners’ pronunciation skills at the Intermediate I level. This will include attention to both segmental and suprasegmental pronunciation needs with a primary focus on issues of that interfere with learner intelligibility.
Prerequisite: Appropriate SLCC placement or successful completion of KESL 0165 Semester: All
Clock Hours: 60 This course develops learners’ pronunciation skills at the Intermediate I level. This will include attention to both segmental and suprasegmental pronunciation needs with a primary focus on issues of that interfere with learner intelligibility.
Prerequisite: Appropriate placement score Semester: All
Clock Hours: 90 Extensive practice with all verb tenses. Introduction and practice with modals. Paragraph writing with correct grammar, sentence word order, capitalization and punctuation.
Clock Hours: 60 This course develops English listening, speaking, pronunciation and vocabulary for use in classroom and social situations. The course is intended for high intermediate level students. Learner outcomes include improved ability to communicate with English speakers. Students will practice listening and speaking tasks which will help develop the students’ communicative competence.
Prerequisite: Appropriate SLCC placement or successful completion of KESL 0215 Semester: All
Clock Hours: 90 This course improves the general English skills of high intermediate students. Learner outcomes include improved reading comprehension, writing skills at the paragraph and essay level, general vocabulary, and understanding of grammar and its use. Activities include intensive and extensive reading, vocabulary development, written and oral grammar exercises, and paragraph and essay writing.
Prerequisite: Appropriate SLCC placement or successful completion of KESL 0225 Semester: All
Clock Hours: 60 Advanced writing skills, including journal writing, writing portfolio, using rubric as assessment tool, and understanding of correct sentence structure.
Clock Hours: 45 This course is designed to further develop students’ conversational and communication skills. The purpose of the course is to teach students conversational techniques and strategies, to improve students’ listening and note‐taking abilities, to strengthen students’ grasp of English grammar and vocabulary, and to raise students’ awareness of the need to monitor their own pronunciation.
Prerequisite: Appropriate SLCC placement or successful completion of KESL 0236 Semester: All
Clock Hours: 45 In this course, students develop, refine, and practice the form, meaning, and use components of discourse-level English grammar. Students will use corpus-based materials to help them improve their written and oral grammar skills. Sample course activities include oral presentations and written paragraphs and essays.
Prerequisite: Appropriate SLCC placement or successful completion of KESL 0245 Semester: All
Clock Hours: 45 This course develops learners’ academic and career technical vocabulary. Corpus-based approaches will be used to facilitate learner’s vocabulary knowledge. Students will be expected to work on unknown words in the General Service List and the Academic Vocabulary list.
Prerequisite: Appropriate SLCC placement or successful completion of KESL 0255 Semester: All
Clock Hours: 45 This course develops learners’ pronunciation skills. This will include attention to both segmental and suprasegmental pronunciation needs with a primary focus on issues of that interfere with learner intelligibility.
Prerequisite: Appropriate SLCC placement or successful completion of KESL 0265 Semester: All
KESL 0472 - Developing Vocabulary and Dictionary Skills
Clock Hours: 45 Develop and build essential vocabulary for work, school, and specific content areas. Learn and develop useful dictionary skills. ESL level must be at least Level 3.
KESL 0480 - Effective Communication Skills for Work & Study
Clock Hours: 60 Develop effective skills as needed for work and study for both oral and written communication. Develop an understanding of emotional intelligence and its impact.
KESL 0482 - Effective Communication Skills for Work & Study
Clock Hours: 45 Develop effective skills as needed for work and study for both oral and written communication. Develop an understanding of emotional intelligence and its impact. ESL level must be at least Level 3.