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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 0900 - Integrated Reading & Writing I
Credits: 4 The course facilitates students’ confidence and competence in reading and writing. It prepares students for reading and writing tasks in college level courses, in the workplace, and in the community. Students read, write and think about social, cultural, or political issues, participate in collaborative literacy learning activities, and develop metacognitive practices that enable life-long learning.
Prerequisite:ESL 1010 and ESL 1020 , both w/C grades of better; or appropriate placement test score Semester: All
Credits: 3 Through numerous activities students will develop increased fluency in reading and writing in academic contexts. The course will create opportunities for students to become active participants in their own learning through methods designed to enhance students’ abilities to both read and write more effectively and strategically.
Prerequisite:ENGL 0900 w/C grade or better, or appropriate placement score Semester: All
Credits: 3 This course engages with rhetorical concepts, and gives practice with close, critical reading and writing. Students develop analytical and rhetorical habits of mind necessary for successful reading and writing in academic, civic, and personal contexts in and beyond college. Student learn to think about texts as purpose-driven, audience-centered, and socially, culturally, and historically situated.
Prerequisite:ENGL 0990 w/C grade or better, or appropriate SLCC placement Semester: All
Credits: 3 Course examines theoretical principles, practical applications and ethical approaches of public and professional writing and places these concepts in experience-specific settings and contexts with the focus on writing as human interaction.
ENGL 1050 - Introduction to Reading Diverse Culture (HU, DV)
Credits: 3 Study of written and visual genres about diverse U.S. culture in order to explore the structures that serve to the advantage of certain social groups and to the disadvantage of others.
ENGL 1100 - Diversity in Popular US Literature (HU, DV)
Credits: 3 Course examines popular American genres as sites of cultural struggle. Students study how popular American writing preserves cultural values and reinforces imbalances of power along lines of race, class, gender, and sexual orientation.
Credits: 3 Designed to provide an understanding of Standard English grammar. We will cover basic terms, principles, and functions; however, the goal of the course is to prepare students, ultimately, to create and edit their own prose with greater confidence, variety, and clarity.
Credits: 3 Introduces students to the study of language. Students explore the sound, structure and social role of language in immediate and distant cultures. Natural language events will be observed, collected, interpreted and analyzed.
Credits: 3 Introduces students to the theory, practice, and pedagogy of writing centers and provides practical experience through Service 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 Extends principles of rhetorical awareness and knowledge making introduced in English 1010 and increases the ideological engagement within the classroom. Interrogates socioeconomic and political issues. Course may be taught with a Service Learning component.
Prerequisite:ENGL 1010 w/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 Service Learning component.
Credits: 3 Intro to various practices and genres of imaginative writing. The course invites writers to explore the rich resources of language at play in all kinds of writing. Students prepare a portfolio of their revised work.
Credits: 3 Introduction to forms and meta-forms of poetry. The course invites student writers to take up historic and modern forms and to engage with poetry’s history. Students prepare a portfolio of their revised work.
Credits: 3 Fiction will be examined as to its originations, conventions and effects on audience. Investigation of where distinctions of fiction, autobiography and other prose writing become ambiguous. Cultural assumptions and influences discussed.
Credits: 3 Intro to the conventions the creative nonfiction genre. Students read, analyze, and practice various forms of the essay. Creative non-fiction invites writers to make connections between personal experiences and the larger world.
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 Course interrogates historical, political and cultural ideas suggested and sustained within representative American texts, some classic, others newly emerging. Materials include both traditional and popular readings.
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 outlines, and challenges, the central orthodoxies of cultural criticism in the 20th century. Includes linguistics, Marxism, feminism, and various post-structuralisms. Includes film and pop-cultural texts. .
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 numerous academic and hands-on methods.
Credits: 3 Examines texts (literature, film, theory) to understand social constructs in the US. Studies the power of language to preserve cultural values & reinforce imbalances of power based on gender as well as race, class, & sexual orientation, etc. Investigates the power of language to construct gender and the interrelation of race, class, sexual orientation, and age. Also explores how those classifications influence gender identity and gender-linked behavior. Issues addressed include effects of current gender assignments and strategies for possible restructuring of self and society.
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.
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.