Recommended for students scoring lower than 17 on the English section of the ACT (and required for those scoring below 11), this course provides a first experience with academic writing and/or a review of the basic components of writing, including grammar, usage, and punctuation. Students learn simple sentence construction and coordination leading to basic paragraph construction. Students learn to respond to written texts and prompts. The course prepares students to succeed in ENGL1010.

This course is for students who qualify for Student Support Services only and is recommended for students scoring lower than 17 on the English section of the ACT or below 810 on the SAT. The course emphasizes sentence and paragraph construction and reviews grammar, usage, and punctuation. Students respond to written texts and prompts in preparation for ENGL 1010.

This course emphasizes critical reading, writing, and thinking skills through writing-intensive workshops. It explores writing situations as a complex process focusing specifically on idea generation relative to audience and purpose, working through multiple drafts, peer collaboration, and revision, and it includes rhetorical analysis. ENGL 1005 differs from ENGL 1010 by adding extra support for students during a fourth class session per week. This course is recommended for students with ACT scores in English of 11-14, and/or students who have failed ENGL 1010.

This course emphasizes critical reading, writing, and thinking skills through writing-intensive workshops. It explores writing situations as a complex process focusing specifically on idea generation relative to audience and purpose, working through multiple drafts, peer collaboration, and revision, and it includes rhetorical analysis. See prerequisites.

Students will build on the skills learned in ENGL 1010 in this intermediate writing course. It is designed to improve students' reading, writing, research, and critical thinking skills. The course will include expository, persuasive, and/or argumentative writing emphases. The course will require several research-oriented writing assignments.

This course offers an introduction to the study and practice of persuasion. Students will examine writing both as an activity and object of study as they consider the historical, social, linguistic, and rhetorical aspects of written communication. This course serves as a foundational requirement for the Certificate of Proficiency in Writing and Rhetoric.

This writing-intensive course builds on ENGL 1010 with a focus on research and writing purposeful arguments in technical and professional contexts. It advances student skills and knowledge related to effective processes, awareness of context and purpose, collaboration, and inquiry. ENGL 2100 serves as an equivalent to ENGL 2010 (E2) with an emphasis on technical and professional writing, but it is not, by itself, designed to prepare students for a career as technical writers.

This course is designed to give students an appreciation of science fiction, a literary genre that is often overlooked by the literary establishment. The course examines the contemporary history of the genre using several representative texts.

This course is an introduction to literary forms, to close reading of literature, and to the terminology of literature. The emphasis is on fiction, poetry, and drama. The course will emphasize a variety of literary traditions, historical time periods, various authors, careful reading, literary analysis, and thoughtful interpretation.

This course surveys literary texts that draw on oral traditions in their plots, characters, or language. The emphasis is on canonical and multicultural American literature, and the course also asks students to examine artistic aspects of oral storytelling and to learn foundational principles of the discipline of folklore.

This course is an introduction to literary forms, to close reading of literature, and to the terminology of literature. The emphasis is on fiction, poetry, and drama. The course will emphasize a variety of literary traditions, historical time periods, various authors, careful reading, literary analysis, and thoughtful interpretation.

This course explores the myths from cultures around the world. Greek and Norse mythology are central to the class, but students will also encounter narratives from the Americas, Africa, Asia, the Pacific Islands and other areas. The course focuses on application of the myths to literature, culture, and history.

This course provides a critical approach to poetry's forms and developments, including historical trends and modern movements. Emphasis is on recognizing poetic devices and understanding, and responding to poetry in all its forms.

Introduction to Creative Writing focuses on at least three different genres (i.e. fiction, poetry, nonfiction, graphic novels, or others) and guides students through the creative process, creative writing theory, and genre-specific writing techniques. Additionally, students will participate in peer workshopping of their own writing projects. Because reading literature is so closely tied to writing literature, the class also includes analysis of literature, allowing students to read like a writer. ENGL 2250 is recommended as a preparatory class for genre-specific creative writing classes at Snow College.

This course is an introduction to the writing of fiction. Students read and discuss exemplary models and compose a variety of projects of their own. Emphasis is placed on plot, character, dialogue, and description, and other techniques associated with fiction writing. It is recommended that students take ENGL 2250, Introduction to Creative Writing, before taking ENGL 2260.

This course is an introduction to the writing of poetry. Students read and discuss exemplary models and compose a variety of projects of their own. Students study a range of poetic techniques such as imagery, metaphor, form, lines, and other techniques associated with poetry. It is recommended that students take ENGL 2250, Introduction to Creative Writing, before taking ENGL 2270.

This course is an introduction to the writing of creative nonfiction. Students read and discuss example texts and compose various projects of their own. Emphasis is placed on description, plot, character, dialogue, curiosity-driven research, lyricism, and other techniques associated with creative nonfiction writing—particularly those associated with turning experiences and evidence into creative works. It is recommended that students take ENGL 2250, Introduction to Creative Writing, before taking ENGL 2280.

This course teaches the editing, design, and publishing skills necessary to take a literary journal or other publication from acquisition to editing to press and distribution. Offers students the opportunity to work as an editing team to plan, edit, proofread, design, typeset, and prepare a publication for press according to industry standards. Also teaches students how to use design software such as Adobe Creative Suite. Recommended for students involved with student publications, such as Weeds: The Literary Journal of Snow College, those who are completing the Writing and Rhetoric certificate, and students who may want to pursue careers in editing or publishing. This course is repeatable for credit.

Shakespeare remains one of the most popular playwrights in the English Language. Who is he? Why is he considered so important? What meaning did his works have in his own time? Are they applicable to today's culture? This course will examine a selection of these questions by examining a sampling of Shakespeare's plays and poetry from a variety of critical perspectives.

This course provides an introduction to poetry, fiction and non-fiction written for children. Emphasis is on selection, critical analysis, and approaches for use, for both text and illustration within these works.

This course is an introduction to world literature of the 20th and 21st centuries, emphasizing literary texts from outside the Anglo-American traditional canon and that circulate worldwide. Special emphasis is placed on non-Western texts. The course will emphasize literary traditions, contemporary ideas and events, various authors, careful reading, literary analysis, and thoughtful interpretation.

This course is designed to introduce unique literary topics on a semester-to-semester basis. The course allows students to explore a variety of cultural, political, religious, social, and philosophical viewpoints that are sometimes left out of a typical course of study. The specific subject for any given semester will be shown in the class schedule.

This course is a regional study of literature of the American West. Areas of emphasis include Native Americans, mountain men, settlers, the cowboy myth hero, and the American frontier. Manifest Destiny and the multicultural nature of westward expansion are emphasized in the course.

This course is a survey of literature addressing the experiences of people and their relationship with the natural (more-than-human) environment. How non-human nature is understood, used, and represented in human cultures—as material resource, spiritual and aesthetic inspiration, scientific laboratory, site for recreation, etc.—in many ways defines these cultures and individuals. This course is designed to help students become more aware of the complexities of our relationship with the outdoors by surveying a variety of literatures that deal with these themes.

This course explores Gothic and supernatural literature, with an emphasis on horror fiction, from 1764 to the present day. Sample works include Frankenstein, Carmilla, works by Edgar Allen Poe and H. P. Lovecraft, and short stories by Stephen King. Themes that have been discussed include the sublime, sexual identity, and the nature of evil.

Introduction to Gender Studies investigates gender and gender identity, reflecting on how gender is identified and defined; how gender norms are established, maintained, and disrupted; and the role gender plays in both personal and social contexts. Students will be familiarized with gender theory as well as introduced to the historical context surrounding gender studies, including key terms, movements, and thinkers within the field.

This course focuses on the contributions of African-American writers to the development of a multi-racial culture in America, and to the expression of the black experience through literature.

This course focuses on the development of ideas, movements, and genres in American literature from exploration and settlement to Romanticism as illustrated through representative texts.

This course focuses on the development of ideas, movements, and genres in American literature from Realism to the present as illustrated through representative texts.

This course surveys significant cultural ideas and currents of British literature from its beginnings through the eighteenth century as illustrated through representative texts.

The course focuses on the development of ideas, movement, and genres in British Literature from the Romantic era to the present as illustrated through traditionally representative and underrepresented texts.

This course offers an introduction to literary genres, literary criticism, critical interpretation, and research.

This course is the capstone course for the Certificate of Proficiency in Writing and Rhetoric. It will cover the revision of previous writing and completion of an ePortfolio to showcase writing in a professional setting.

This course is designed for students who wish to be writing tutors, English instructors, or educators. Course work will include essay writing, grammar assignments, and extensive discussion of tutoring theory and techniques. Students working as writing tutors elsewhere on campus are encouraged to take ENGL 2950.

This course focuses on professional, scientific, governmental, and technical discourse, including memos, letters, process descriptions, instructions, reports, and others in both print and digital media. Students will develop skills in audience awareness and rhetorical analysis, clarity and precision of expression, and document/visual design.