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• ENGL 0250 - Compensatory Writing Skills
• ENGL 0305 - Basic ESL Reading
• ENGL 0500 - Basics of Composition
• ENGL 1005 - College Writing
• ENGL 1010 - Composition I
• ENGL 1020 - 19th Century American Literature
• ENGL 1030 - British Literature I
• ENGL 1040 - World Literature to the 16th Century
• ENGL 1070 - English as a Second Language I
• ENGL 1075 - ESL College Speaking and Listening
• ENGL 1080 - English as a Second Language II
• ENGL 1090 - Paragraph Writing in ESL
• ENGL 1200 - Introduction to Literature
• ENGL 1210 - Film as Literature
• ENGL 1220 - Poetry
• ENGL 1230 - Modern Literature
• ENGL 1240 - Readings in the Novel
• ENGL 1250 - Readings in the Short Story
• ENGL 1260 - Readings in Shakespeare
• ENGL 1300 - Composition for ESL
• ENGL 1410 - Business Writing
• ENGL 1430 - Creative Writing
• ENGL 2010 - Composition II
• ENGL 2015 - Composition II for Liberal Arts
• ENGL 2020 - 20th Century American Literature
• ENGL 2030 - British Literature II
• ENGL 2040 - World Literature from the 16th Century
• ENGL 2100 - Technical Writing
• ENGL 2200 - Children's Literature

ENGL 0250

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Demonstrate paragraph unity, support, and coherence
2. Use transitions for clarity of thought and readability
3. Construct all sentence types
4. Recognize and correct major grammatical errors
5. Edit their writing assignments
6. Give constructive peer feedback
7. Use the computer for assignment submissions

top ENGL 0305

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Demonstrate automaticity in the areas of phonemic awareness, word analysis and high frequency word recognition.
2. Demonstrate improved print vocabulary (words used in reading and writing) for quick automatic, accurate comprehension of written word.
3. Demonstrate improved oral fluency.
4. Implement Before-During-After reading strategies that build comprehension.
5. Discuss materials and organizational features of various texts.
6. Use writing to demonstrate comprehension of content and vocabulary as well as make connections to the broader world.

top ENGL 0500

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Write clear and varied sentences including coordination and subordination
2. Use commas and periods correctly
3. Vary word choices
4. Write effective topic sentences
5. Provide concrete support within paragraphs
6. Use appropriate transitions
7. Identify main ideas in brief readings
8. Write two basic essays
9. Write brief paraphrases

top ENGL 1005

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Apply writing-process principles to various assignments
2. Write essays in a confident voice
3. Analyze and evaluate their own and others’ writing
4. Research a topic using valid resources
5. Write a three- to four-page research paper or other papers incorporating research elements with properly integrated information and MLA documentation

top ENGL 1010

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills

1. Apply writing process and principles to a variety of assignments
2. Differentiate among inadequate, adequate, and superior presentation of ideas
3. Produce essays indicative of careful consideration of the topic
4. Write confident and flowing prose
5. Incorporate stylistic elements to aid and enhance communication
6. Synthesize material
7. Analyze and respond to several types of information
8. Evaluate peer writing and determine revision possibilities
9. Research a topic using valid resources, research methods, and principles
10. Produce a six- to eight-page research paper
11. Use information technology in research and writing
12. Integrate researched or quoted material with the student’s thoughts in essays or research papers
13. Use MLA documentation and format

top ENGL 1020

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Ability to understand the distinct literary genres of novel, novella, short story, essay, and poetry
2. Ability to evaluate and write critically about the various genres, following an acceptable format and using appropriate terminology
3. Ability to read, analyze, and evaluate each genre for its structure and mode of expression, using appropriate, effective literary methodology
4. Ability to understand and discuss critically the scope and impact of literature in the cultural contexts of 19^th century America
5. Ability to use correct, effective research techniques and MLA documentation format to produce college-level literary analysis papers
6. Ability to participate confidently and effectively in class discussions
7. Ability to work effectively in groups

top ENGL 1030

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Knowledge of the characteristics of the various distinct literary genres
2. Ability to use appropriate literary terminology and effective methodology to analyze and evaluate literature
3. Ability to read, understand, examine, and discuss early British literature critically in changing historical and cultural contexts
4. Awareness and understanding of and appreciation for the British literary tradition and its influence on American life and literature
5. Ability to use correct, effective research techniques and MLA documentation format to produce college-level literary analysis papers
6. Improved oral communication skills and participation in class discussion
7. Improved ability to collaborate in group activities

top ENGL 1040

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Ability to recognize the characteristics which create the distinct literary genres
2. Ability to use appropriate literary terminology and effective methodology to analyze and evaluate literature
3. Ability to understand, examine, and discuss critically literature of the world to the sixteenth century
4. Ability to use correct, effective research techniques and MLA documentation format to produce college-level literary analysis papers
5. Oral communication skills and confident participation in class discussion
6. Improved ability to collaborate in group activities

top ENGL 1070

As the result of applied listening strategies, on successful completion of the course, the student will:

1. Recognize and distinguish among present, past, and future verb forms.
2. Recognize question words and question format.
3. Differentiate among parts of speech such as adverbs, adjectives, articles, and prepositions.
4. Identify count and non-count nouns, singular and plural, including quantifiers such as “some and any”.
5. Perceive the forms and meanings of possessives (nouns, pronouns, adjectives).
6. Distinguish the formations of there is/are.
7. Identify the roles of demonstrative adjectives and demonstrative pronouns.
8. Understand the contextualized meaning of imperatives.
9. Recognize complete sentence structure.

As the result of applied speaking strategies, on successful completion of the course, the student will:

1. Produce and distinguish among present, past, and future verb forms.
2. Utilize question words and question format.
3. Differentiate among parts of speech such as adverbs, adjectives, articles, and prepositions.
4. Navigate count and non-count nouns, singular and plural, including quantifiers such as “some and any”.
5. Process the forms and meanings of possessives (nouns, pronouns, adjectives).
6. Distinguish the formations of there is/are.
7. Integrate the roles of demonstrative adjectives and demonstrative pronouns.
8. Understand the contextualized meaning of imperatives.
9. Practice complete sentence structure in oral communication.

As the result of applied reading strategies, on successful completion of the course, the student will:

1. Recognize and distinguish among present, past, and future verb forms.
2. Recognize question words and question format.
3. Differentiate among parts of speech such as adverbs, adjectives, articles, and prepositions.
4. Identify count and non-count nouns, singular and plural, including quantifiers such as “some and any”.
5. Interpret the forms and meanings of possessives (nouns, pronouns, adjectives).
6. Distinguish the formations of there is/are.
7. Identify the roles of demonstrative adjectives and demonstrative pronouns.
8. Process the contextualized meaning of imperatives.
9. Recognize complete sentence structure.

As the result of applied writing strategies, on successful completion of the course, the student will:

1. Construct present, past, and future verb forms.
2. Apply question words and question format.
3. Differentiate among parts of speech such as adverbs, adjectives, articles, and prepositions.
4. Develop count and non-count nouns, singular and plural, including quantifiers such as “some and any”.
5. Integrate the forms and meanings of possessives (nouns, pronouns, adjectives).
6. Write the formations of there is/ there are.
7. Exhibit the roles of demonstrative adjectives and demonstrative pronouns.
8. Vary the contextualized meaning of imperatives.
9. Utilize complete sentence structure in written communication.

top ENGL 1075

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Demonstrate a significant expansion of academic vocabulary.
2. Use an ESL dictionary efficiently.
3. Understand questions and directions appropriate to the level.
4. Understand the major and minor details of a short lecture.
5. Draw conclusions, make simple predictions, and relate the content of a short lecture to personal experience.
6. Take simple dictation of connected discourse as the basis for developing skill at note-taking during lectures and discussions.
7. Demonstrate the ability to ask and answer questions, and ask for clarification.
8. Participate and be sufficiently understood in role-playing, simulating simple academic situations
9. Participate in classroom discussions with emphasis on narrating and describing situations to develop oral communication skills including fluency, idea sequencing, accuracy, vocabulary, and pronunciation.

top ENGL 1080

As the result of applied listening strategies, on successful completion of the course, the student will:

1. Recognize and distinguish among simple present, present progressive, and present perfect verb forms.
2. Recognize and distinguish among simple past, past progressive, and past perfect verb forms.
3. Recognize and distinguish between the use of “will’ and “be going to”.
4. Recognize question formations.
5. Understand the contextualized meaning of phrasal verbs, modals, and modal expressions.
6. Process time clauses.
7. Distinguish between comparatives and superlatives.
8. Identify measure words and quantifiers.
9. Interpret the combining of sentences.
10. Perceive a group of sentences focusing on one topic.

As the result of applied speaking strategies, on successful completion of the course, the student will:

1. Produce and distinguish among simple present, present progressive, and present perfect verb forms.
2. Produce and distinguish among simple past, past progressive, and past perfect.
3. Produce and distinguish between the use of “will” and “be going to”.
4. Utilize question formations.
5. Engage in the appropriate contextualized meaning of phrasal verbs, modals, and modal expressions.
6. Process time clauses.
7. Distinguish between comparatives and superlatives.
8. Integrate measure words and quantifiers.
9. Construct sentence combinations.
10. Vocalize (recite) a group of sentences focusing on one topic.

As the result of applied reading strategies, on successful completion of the course, the student will:

1. Recognize and distinguish among simple present, present progressive, and present perfect verb forms.
2. Recognize and distinguish among simple past, past progressive, and past perfect verb forms.
3. Recognize and distinguish between the use of “will” and “be going to”.
4. Recognize question formations.
5. Process the contextualized meaning of phrasal verbs, modals, and modal expressions.
6. Process time clauses.
7. Distinguish between comparatives and superlatives.
8. Identify measure words and quantifiers.
9. Interpret the combining of sentences.
10. Comprehend a group of sentences focusing on one topic as a short paragraph.

As the result of applied writing strategies, on successful completion of the course, the student will:

1. Construct simple present, present progressive, and present perfect verb forms.
2. Construct simple past, past progressive, and past perfect verb forms.
3. Construct sentences with “will” and “be going to”.
4. Apply question formations.
5. Employ the contextualized meaning of phrasal verbs, modals, and modal expressions.
6. Integrate time clauses.
7. Make use of comparatives and superlatives.
8. Vary measure words and quantifiers.
9. Write sentence combinations.
10. Write short paragraphs focusing on one topic.

top ENGL 1090

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Generate ideas through the use of any prewriting technique.
2. Develop focus into topic sentence or thesis statement.
3. Create outlines that maintain and support the focus.
4. Produce multiple drafts, each one exhibiting meaningful progression toward completion.
5. Revise and edit support and mechanics.
6. Determine one controlling idea for the paragraph or the essay.
7. Provide adequate details for complete and clear development of the controlling idea.
8. Write in order to satisfy the reader’s understanding.
9. Express in ideas that are clearly linked through cohesive paragraphs and appropriate transitions.
10. Utilize standard grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
11. Understand that different purposes of writing require specific applications of form and content.
12. Match the topic sentence to a particular paragraph development.
13. Match the thesis statement to a particular essay development.
14. Follow a rhetorical format.
15. Interpret the mode of writing as appropriate to its purpose, focus, clarity, and completeness.
16. Respond to writing’s content and sentence skills for adherence to the basic principles of writing.
17. Share and edit peer written work to develop critical skills for one’s own writing.
18. Proceed methodically through the writing process.
19. Have a grasp of the principles of paragraph and essay formats.
20. Practice careful thought in developing ideas.
21. convey confidence and authority through sentence variety, diction, choice of punctuation, and standard grammar and spelling.
22. Employ to their advantage knowledge of their own strengths and weaknesses in bring the writing task to completion.
23. Apply writing skills to assignments in other courses.
24. Use the computer to produce professional-looking college level papers.
25. Use the technological resources available at the LRC.

top ENGL 1200

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Familiarity with the genres of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama by writers from various countries and historical eras
2. Familiarity with appropriate literary terms and methodologies associated with each genre and ability to apply them
3. Familiarity with numerous literary approaches
4. Improved reading comprehension, vocabulary, and literary interpretation skills
5. Improved ability to write correctly and effectively about literatures of different genres
6. Improved oral communication skills and participation in class discussion
7. Improved ability to collaborate in group activities

top ENGL 1210

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Discuss a wide range of film techniques, offering descriptive examples from films viewed during the semester
2. Write essays organized around interpretive ideas and supported by abundant specifics about single films seen and discussed in class, as well as about new films not discussed in class
3. Write essays linking several films through discussions of shared techniques, thematic materials, genre or directors, supported by abundant specifics

top ENGL 1220

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Students will have demonstrated their understanding of poetry as a literary genre and be able to critically examine individual poems, both orally and in writing, utilizing correct terminology and literary analysis techniques
2. These poem-based analyses will demonstrate college-level critical reading, thinking, writing, and speaking skills, as well as correct research techniques and documentation formats where applicable

top ENGL 1230

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Familiarity with a variety of international fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama pieces by writers of the 20^th century
2. Familiarity with and ability to apply appropriate literary terms associated with each genre
3. Familiarity with and ability to apply numerous literary approaches and methodologies for reading, analyzing, and evaluating texts
4. Improved reading comprehension, vocabulary, and literary interpretation skills
5. Familiarity with different ways of writing about literature
6. Improved ability to use correct, effective research techniques and documentation formats to produce college-level literary analysis papers
7. Improved oral communication skills and participation in class discussion
8. Improved ability to collaborate in group activities

top ENGL 1240

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Ability to demonstrate an understanding of the novel as a distinct literary genre and be able to critically examine individual works, both orally and in writing
2. Ability to utilize correct terminology and literary analysis techniques
3. Ability to demonstrate college-level critical reading, thinking and writing skills as well as correct research techniques and documentation formats where applicable

top ENGL 1250

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Familiarity with a variety of short stories by writers from various cultures and historical eras
2. Familiarity with appropriate literary terms and methodologies associated with the genre and ability to apply them
3. Familiarity with numerous literary approaches
4. Improved reading comprehension, vocabulary, and literary interpretation skills
5. Improved ability to write correctly and effectively about short stories
6. Improved oral communication skills and participation in class discussion
7. Improved ability to collaborate in group activities

top ENGL 1260

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Have an analytical grasp of the plays’ central concerns as demonstrated through written exams and papers
2. Have greater reading fluency of Elizabethan English
3. Demonstrable understanding of critical approaches to Shakespearean literature
4. Familiarity with many of the varied interpretations, analyses, and dramatizations of these works since the 16th century
5. Have a working knowledge of dramatic and poetic structures and the critical vocabulary with which to discuss them
6. Have a working knowledge of the differences among Shakespeare's tragedies, histories, and comedies and the critical vocabulary with which to discuss them
7. Demonstrable higher order thinking, writing, speaking, and analyzing skills

top ENGL 1300

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed writing skills:

1. Generate ideas through the use of any prewriting technique.
2. Develop focus into topic sentence or thesis statement.
3. Create outlines that maintain and support the focus.
4. Produce multiple drafts, each one exhibiting meaningful progression toward completion.
5. Revise and edit mechanics and support.
6. Determine one controlling idea for the essay.
7. Provide adequate details for complete and clear development of the controlling idea.
8. Write in order to satisfy the reader’s understanding.
9. Express ideas that are clearly linked through cohesive essays and appropriate transitions.
10. Utilize standard grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
11. Understand that different purposes of composition require specific applications of form and content.
12. Match the thesis to a particular essay development.
13. Follow a specific rhetorical format.
14. Evaluate the modality of a composition as appropriate to its purpose.
15. Evaluate compositions for adherence to the basic principles of writing.
16. Evaluate content to determine focus, clarity, and completeness.
17. Evaluate punctuation as best suited to tone and content.
18. Evaluate tone and diction as best suited to content and audience.
19. Share and edit peer written work to develop critical skills for one’s own writing.
20. Proceed methodically through the writing process.
21. Have a grasp of principles of paragraph and essay formats.
22. Practice careful thought in developing ideas.
23. Convey confidence and authority through sentence variety, diction, choice of punctuation, and standard grammar and spelling.
24. Employ to their advantage knowledge of their own strengths and weaknesses in bringing the writing task to completion.
25. Apply writing skills to assignments in other courses.
26. Understand the basic principles of research within an LRC including academic honesty.
27. Understand research is a specific process.
28. Choose meaningful references.
29. Produce research documents exhibiting competent use of quotation, synthesis, summary, and paraphrase.
30. Use MLA or APA documentation.
31. Access information from print, electronic, and other sources.
32. Apply the principles of writing to the research document.
33. Use the computer for research.
34. Use the computer to produce professional-looking college level papers.
35. Use all technological resources available at the LRC.

top ENGL 1370

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. View fantasy from literary, psychological, and cultural perspectives
2. Compare fantasy to science fiction and realistic fiction
3. Analyze and evaluate the aesthetic effect of fantasy using appropriate literary terminology and effective methodology, both orally and in writing
4. Read, understand, examine, and discuss critically works of fantasy
5. Create an original work of fantasy which demonstrates understanding of the genre and embodies its characteristics/principles
6. Participate in class discussion and collaborate in group activities

ENGL 1410

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Apply techniques which establish writer/reader rapport using business philosophy and psychology
2. Use proper format for all types of written business communication
3. Write complete, concise, concrete, correct, clear, and courteous letters and memoranda
4. Write an informal reports
5. Research and write a formal report

top ENGL 1430

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Produce disciplined pieces of personal exposition, description, and narration, as well as several poems and short dramatic dialogue
2. Use some of the strategies available to the practitioners of each genre, that is, personal essays, articles, fiction, poetry, and drama
3. Apply the writing process or pre-writing, writing, and revising to all assignments
4. Revise, edit, and develop work into final form

top ENGL 2010

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Apply sound principles of writing to compositions
2. Recognize inadequate, adequate, and superior presentation of ideas
3. Understand the depth of thought necessary for effective writing
4. Apply appropriate methods to different types of assignments
5. Analyze and transfer elements in professional models to students’ own compositions
6. Respond thoughtfully to issues raised in professional models
7. Evaluate peer writing and determine revision possibilities
8. Consider the audience’s point of view
9. Write confidently in one’s own voice
10. Proceed through the various stages of the writing process to attain clarity and completeness
11. Use punctuation to the best purpose
12. Write with minimal errors in usage
13. Research a topic using valid sources
14. Use information technology skillfully in researching and producing essays
15. Integrate source material into research papers smoothly
16. Use MLA format accurately
17. Understand basics of APA style

top ENGL 2015

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. To see research as a systematic undertaking
2. To plan and schedule the process of research
3. To distinguish between worthwhile and superficial research undertakings
4. To evaluate source material
5. To navigate the Internet
6. To use the computer to prepare the research project for submission
7. To synthesize multiple pieces of information
8. To paraphrase accurately
9. To quote and cite accurately
10. To follow MLA and APA formats for appropriate disciplines
11. To sustain sound writing principles throughout essays
12. To incorporate a variety of meaningful sources into a cohesive unit

top ENGL 2020

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Ability to understand the distinct literary genres of novel, novella, short story, essay, and poetry
2. Ability to evaluate and write critically about the various genres, following an acceptable format, and using appropriate terminology
3. Ability to read, analyze, and evaluate each genre for its structure and mode of expression, using appropriate, effective literary methodology
4. Ability to understand and discuss critically the scope and impact of literature in the cultural contexts of 20^th century America
5. Ability to use correct, effective research techniques and MLA documentation format to produce college-level literary analysis papers
6. Ability to participate confidently and effectively in class discussions
7. Ability to work effectively in groups

top ENGL 2030

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Knowledge of the characteristics of the various distinct literary genres
2. Ability to use appropriate literary terminology and effective methodology to analyze and evaluate literature
3. Ability to read, understand, examine, and discuss British literature critically in changing historical and cultural contexts
4. Awareness and understanding of and appreciation for the British literary tradition and its influence on American life and literature
5. Ability to use correct, effective research techniques and MLA documentation format to produce college-level literary analysis papers
6. Improved oral communication skills and participation in class discussion
7. Improved ability to collaborate in group activities

top ENGL 2040

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Ability to recognize the characteristics which create the distinct literary genres
2. Ability to use appropriate literary terminology and effective methodology to analyze and evaluate literature
3. Ability to understand, examine, and discuss critically literature of the world from the sixteenth century
4. Ability to use correct, effective research techniques and MLA documentation format to produce college-level literary analysis papers
5. Oral communication skills and confident participation in class discussion
6. Improved ability to collaborate in group activities

top ENGL 2100

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Maintain a company image in a document's content, execution, and appearance
2. Use standard grammar, punctuation, and spelling in documents
3. Consider audience in writing documents as important to the success of the document
4. Determine and maintain the proper tone throughout a document
5. Maintain objectivity in writing documents
6. Demonstrate focus and logic in outlining
7. Be clear and concise in formal technical writing
8. Produce various types and formats of reports, memos, emails, resumes, letters, surveys and questionnaires, abstracts, newsletters, definitions to meet particular needs or purposes
9. Conduct and use primary and secondary research and document sources properly
10. Produce professional quality documents using word processing, Excel and other computer applications
11. Understand that the ability to work as a team member is an integral activity in the workplace
12. Appreciate that keeping current with professional standards and practices is expected for optimum effectiveness in the workplace

top ENGL 2200

On successful completion of the course, the student will acquire the listed skills:

1. Improved ability to read, understand, analyze and discuss classic and contemporary children’s literature
2. Familiarity with the genres and characteristics of fiction, nonfiction, folklore, and poetry in children’s literature
3. Increased awareness and understanding of the historical influences on current children’s literature and ability to examine current issues in this field
4. Improved ability to use appropriate literary terms and methodologies to analyze and evaluate children’s literature
5. Familiarity with techniques in illustration and format of children’s books and awareness of  their impact on the texts and themes
6. Improved ability to examine the role of literature in gaining a perspective on the human condition
7. Improved oral communication skills and participation in class discussions
8. Improved ability to participate and collaborate in group activities

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