Academic Catalog

English (ENGL)

ENGL 0980    Writing Basics  
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
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 and are introduced to the writing process. The course prepares students to succeed in ENGL 1010. It is recommended for students scoring lower than 17 on the English section of the ACT (and required for those scoring below 11).
ENGL 0991    Beginning Writing  
Typically Offered: Fall  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 4  
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 470 on the SAT. 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 and are introduced to the writing process. The course prepares students to succeed in ENGL 1010.
ENGL 1005    Introduction to Academic Writing (Extended) E1  
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 4  
General Ed Requirement: Expository Composition  
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.
Prerequisites: ENGL 0980 or ACT English Score with a score of 11 or SAT Evidence-Based Read/Write with a score of 360 or English Placement Survey with a score of 05 or Accuplacer Writing with a score of 250 or TOEFL PBT with a score of 500 or TOEFL iBT with a score of 63 or (TOEFL iBT Reading with a score of 15 and TOEFL iBT Listening with a score of 15 and TOEFL iBT Speaking with a score of 15 and TOEFL iBT Writing with a score of 15) or TOEFL iBT (2026) with a score of 04 or Duolingo with a score of 95 or Pearson PTE with a score of 46 or IELTS with a score of 6 or ESL 1161 with a minimum grade of B  
ENGL 1010    Introduction to Academic Writing E1  
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Expository Composition  
This writing-intensive course emphasizes rhetorical knowledge and skills applied through critical analysis and writing in multiple genres and modalities. It introduces students to academic composition, including effective processes, awareness of context and purpose, collaboration, and inquiry.
Prerequisites: ENGL 0980 or ACT English Score with a score of 11 or SAT Evidence-Based Read/Write with a score of 360 or English Placement Survey with a score of 09 or Accuplacer Writing with a score of 250 or TOEFL PBT with a score of 500 or TOEFL iBT with a score of 63 or (TOEFL iBT Reading with a score of 15 and TOEFL iBT Listening with a score of 15 and TOEFL iBT Speaking with a score of 15 and TOEFL iBT Writing with a score of 15) or TOEFL iBT (2026) with a score of 04 or Duolingo with a score of 100 or Pearson PTE with a score of 46 or IELTS with a score of 6 or ESL 1161 with a minimum grade of B  
ENGL 2010    Intermediate Research Writing E2  
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Intermediate Composition  
This writing-intensive course builds on ENGL 1010 with a focus on research and writing purposeful arguments. It advances student skills and knowledge related to effective processes, awareness of context and purpose, collaboration, and inquiry.
Prerequisites: ENGL 1010 with a minimum grade of D- or ENGL 1005 with a minimum grade of D-  
ENGL 2040    Introduction to Writing Studies: Arts of Persuasion  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
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.
Prerequisites: ENGL 1010 (may be taken concurrently) or ENGL 1005 (may be taken concurrently)  
ENGL 2100    Intermediate Technical Writing E2  
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Intermediate Composition  
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.
Prerequisites: ENGL 1010 or ENGL 1005  
ENGL 2130    Science Fiction Literature HU  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Humanities  
This course is designed to introduce students to science fiction and examines the contemporary history of the genre using several representative texts. The course will focus on relevant literary conventions and terms, historical influences, textual analysis, interpretative methodologies, synthesis, critical thinking, and writing.
ENGL 2200    Introduction to Literature HU  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Humanities  
This course is an introduction to literary genres, to close reading of literature, and to the terminology of literature. The emphasis is on fiction, poetry, and drama. The course covers a variety of literary traditions, historical time periods, and authors. It focuses on careful reading, literary analysis, and thoughtful interpretation.
ENGL 2210    Folklore and Literature HU  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Humanities  
This course surveys folkloric literary texts that draw on oral traditions in their plots, characters, or language. The emphasis is on a range of canonical and multicultural literature, and the course also asks students to examine artistic aspects of oral storytelling and to learn foundational principles of the discipline of folklore.
ENGL 2220    Introduction to Fiction HU  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Humanities  
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.
ENGL 2230    Introduction to Mythology HU  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Humanities  
This course explores myths from cultures around the world, including Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia, the Pacific Islands and other areas. The course focuses on application of the myths to literature, culture, and history.
ENGL 2240    Introduction to Poetry HU  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Humanities  
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.
ENGL 2250    Introduction to Creative Writing HU  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Humanities  
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.
ENGL 2260    Fiction Writing FA  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Fine Arts  
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 before taking ENGL 2260.
ENGL 2270    Writing Poetry FA  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Fine Arts  
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 before taking ENGL 2270.
ENGL 2280    Creative Nonfiction Writing  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
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 before taking ENGL 2280.
ENGL 2290    Methods and Practice of Professional Editing and Publishing  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
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.
Prerequisites: ENGL 1010 (may be taken concurrently) or ENGL 1005 (may be taken concurrently)  
ENGL 2300    Introduction to Shakespeare HU  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Humanities  
Shakespeare remains one of the most popular playwrights in the English Language. This course introduces who he is, why he is considered so important, what meaning his works had in his own time, and how they are applicable to today's culture. This course will examine a sampling of Shakespeare's plays and poetry from a variety of critical perspectives.
ENGL 2330    Children's Literature HU  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Humanities  
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.
ENGL 2360    Contemporary World Literature HU  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Humanities  
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.
ENGL 2410    Literature of the American West HU  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Humanities  
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.
ENGL 2420    Literature of The Outdoors HU  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Humanities  
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.
ENGL 2430    Gothic and Supernatural Literature HU  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Humanities  
This course explores Gothic and supernatural literature, with an emphasis on horror fiction, from the 18th century to the present. Representative Gothic texts encompass a variety of time periods, locations, and perspectives, possibly including Victorian England, twentieth-century Latin America, and works by contemporary American writers from a variety of cultural backgrounds. Important Gothic themes might include the sublime, the unknown, sexual identity, societal fears, the nature of good and evil, science, and superstition.
ENGL 2450    Introduction to Gender Studies HU  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Humanities  
Introduction to Gender Studies investigates the ways in which gender and gender identity are understood, expressed, and experienced, reflecting on the role that gender plays in both personal and societal contexts. Students may engage with texts from a variety of academic fields, such as literature, social science, film/TV, popular culture, and more. Students will learn the key concepts, theories, and movements that have shaped contemporary discussions of gender.
ENGL 2460    African-American Literature HU  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Humanities  
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.
ENGL 2510    American Literature I HU  
Typically Offered: Fall  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Humanities  
This course focuses on the development of ideas, movements, and genres in American literature spanning periods including exploration and settlement through to Romanticism and Transcendentalism, as illustrated through representative texts.
ENGL 2520    American Literature II HU  
Typically Offered: Spring  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Humanities  
This course focuses on the development of ideas, movements, and genres in American literature from Realism to the present as illustrated through representative texts. The course will focus on close reading, literary conventions, historical influences, contextual and textual analysis, interpretation, synthesis, critical thinking, and writing.
ENGL 2610    British Literature I HU  
Typically Offered: Fall  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Humanities  
The course focuses on the development of ideas, movements, and genres in British Literature from its beginnings through the eighteenth century as illustrated through representative texts.
ENGL 2620    British Literature II HU  
Typically Offered: Spring  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
General Ed Requirement: Humanities  
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.
ENGL 2700    Introduction to Critical Theory HU  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
This course offers an introduction to literary genres, literary criticism, critical interpretation, and research.
Prerequisites: ENGL 2010 (may be taken concurrently)  
ENGL 2940    Writing Portfolio  
Credits: 1  
Lecture hours: 1  
This course is the capstone course for the Writing and Rhetoric Certificate. It will cover the revision of previous writing and completion of an ePortfolio to showcase writing in a professional setting.
Prerequisites: ENGL 2040  
ENGL 2950    Methods and Practice in Tutoring Writers  
Typically Offered: Fall  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
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.
Prerequisites: ENGL 1010 or ENGL 1005  
ENGL 2980    Special Topics in English  
Credits: 1-3  
Lecture hours: 1 to 3  
This course provides an in-depth study of a particular topic in English. The topic changes each semester and can vary between sections. These courses are designed for students wanting additional study beyond the standard lower-division courses in the discipline. These courses have variable credits, from one to three, and are repeatable.
ENGL 3260    Technical Communication  
Credits: 3  
Lecture hours: 3  
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.
Prerequisites: ENGL 2010 or ENGL 2100