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ENGL
2132 American Literature II
(3-0-3)
ENGL 2132 is a study of modern American literature from the mid-nineteenth century to
the present day. Prose authors of this period include Mark Twain, William Dean
Howells, Henry James, Stephen Crane, Theodore Dreiser, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott
Fitzgerald, William Faulkner and Ralph Ellison. Poets of this period include Robert
Frost, T.S. Eliot and Gwendolyn Brooks.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 with a grade of C or better.
ENGL
2141 African-American Literature I
(3-0-3)
ENGL 2141 is a study of African-American literature from the beginnings of the
colonization of North American in the seventeenth century to the Harlem Renaissance
(1920). Major authors of this period include: Olaudah Equiano, Phillis Wheatley,
Sojurner Truth, Harriet Jacobs, William Wells Brown, Frederick Douglass, Charlotte
Forten Grimke, Charles W. Chestnut, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois, James
Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, William Stanley Braithwaite and others.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 with a grade of C or better.
ENGL 2142 African-American Literature II
(3-0-3)
ENGL 2142 is a study of African-American literature from the end of the Harlem
Renaissance (1940) to the present day. Major authors of this period include: Richard
Wright, Robert Hayden, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Audre Lorde, Amiri Baraka,
Sonia Sanchez, Lucille Clifton, Larry Neal, Maya Angelou, August Wilson, Toni
Morrison, Yusef Komunyakaa, Rita Dove, and others.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 with a grade of C or better.
ENGL
2210 Creative Writing
(3-0-3)
ENGL 2210 (fiction and poetry) is a sophomore-level course taught in a workshop
format. Students write short stories, poetry, or both. Students study each other's work, as
well as that of professional writers, to learn the fundamentals and techniques of literary
writing.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 with a grade of C or better.
Offered: Spring.
ENGL
2220 Writing Non-Fiction
(3-0-3)
ENGL 2220 takes a somewhat more sophisticated look at composition than is possible in
English Composition II. The course focuses on writing essays in clear, direct, graceful
language that draws on grammar's potential for variety and interest. The course addresses
the value of an enhanced vocabulary for creating these results. The course supplements
its exercises in writing essays and articles with reading and analyzing works by prose
masters from antiquity to our own period.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 with a grade of C or better.
Offered: Fall.
ENGL
2230 Professional & Technical Writing
(3-0-3)
ENGL 2230 is an intermediate composition course that develops professional workplace
communication skills. It emphasizes strategies, forms, and techniques of writing that
aims to inform, persuade, or instruct. The course provides hands-on experience in
writing and presenting business and technical documents produced by a variety of
methods. It focuses on strategies used in marketing communication, public relations, and
human resources and also includes experience with group collaboration.
Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 1102 with a grade of C or better.