It offers directions in a literary highway of violence, sex, drugs, and corruption from films, videos, and television. It is a smart guide to detect superficiality, manipulation, sentimentality, and triteness. Students will read the text of fiction and drama, and will analyze the director's vision in its screen adaptation. Not to be taken if ENGL 105 credit has already been awarded. A course which combines the major works of British authors from Anglo-Saxon to contemporary times.
Lectures provide the historical and cultural milieu that shaped British writers.
ENGL 204 Grammar for Effective Writing Review of basic grammar designed to refine the writing skills of students in any field of study. Intensive vocabulary study. Suggested application to all college work. 205 Persuasive Academic Writing A writing course to help students become familiar with the process approach to writing, which stresses techniques helpful in developing strong persuasive writing skills for academic purposes. A course which is designed to respond to the growing awareness of integrating classroom experience with a paid professional work experience.