Designed for students who need remediation in speaking and writing standard English, this course integrates work in grammar, organization, spelling, and vocabulary enrichment with specific spoken and written assignments ranging from sentence construction to paragraph development and the creation of essays of substantial length.
Emphasis is on mechanical correctness and rhetorical development.
Classroom work is supplemented and individual problems addressed by laboratory assignment using computer software. After a rapid survey of the modes of expository writing, this course will emphasize analytical and argumentative composition with topics drawn from selected major works of American and English literature, as well as world literature in translation. In a seminar setting, the assignments will all emphasize discussion, research and writing of high quality. A study of works of foreign literature in translation. Examples include The German Novel, German Short Fiction, The Russian Novel, The Contemporary Novel, The Vampire in Literature and Film, and The Double in Literature.