English Courses

ENGLI 2250 Introduction to Creative Writing

Students discover and develop their writing talent in several genres, including fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and dramatic writing. Emphasis is on the workshop model in which students provide and receive input on works written for class. This course emphasizes the craft of writing with attention to brainstorming, drafting, and revising as important stages of the writing process. Through analysis of published works, and the production of their own original works, students learn to use language creatively to achieve desired effects. They further consider how intention and audience guide creative choices. Students will explore how creative writing allows for the expression of many multicultural perspectives and how creative works help writers and readers to learn about themselves and the world around them. (3 lecture hours)

• Online (2nd 8 week), Professor Trina Sotirakopulos

ENGLI 2251 Fiction Writing

Students discover and develop their fiction writing talent. Emphasis is on the workshop model in which students provide and receive input on fiction written for class. This course emphasizes the craft of fiction writing with attention to brainstorming, drafting, and revising as important stages of the writing process. Through analysis of published works of fiction, and the production of their own original works of fiction, students learn to use language creatively to achieve desired effects. They further consider how intention and audience guide creative choices. Students will explore how fiction writing allows for the expression of many multicultural perspectives and how creative works help writers and readers to learn about themselves and the world around them. (3 lecture hours)

• Online (2nd 8 week), Professor Trina Sotirakopulos

ENGLI 1135 Introduction to Film Art (IAI F2 908)

Introduces the basic elements of film as an art form, including cinematography, mise-en-scene, movement, editing, and sound. Social and media contexts of film will also be considered. Through screening, discussion, and critical evaluation of selected films, students develop an ability to interpret cinema through close examination of the relationship between its form and content. Credit cannot be earned for both ENGLI 1135 and MPTV 1135. Pre-Enrollment Criteria: Reading Placement Category 1. (3 lecture hours)

• Tuesday, Thursday 1 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. (2nd 8 week),  Professor Dylan Simons
• Online (2nd 8 week), Professor Brian Brems

ENGLI 1145 Film History (IAI F2 909

Explores the history of film through articulating the evolution of cinema from its inception to the modern era, with emphasis placed on social, historical, and economic contexts that shape changes in film. Through examining a variety of American and international films representing many eras, genres, and filmmakers, students will gain insight into the historical narratives that have shaped film as a mass medium. Credit cannot be earned for both ENGLI 1145 and MPTV 1145. Pre-Enrollment Criteria: Reading Placement Category 1. (3 lecture hours)

• Tuesday, Thursday 9 a.m. to 11:50 a.m. (1st 8 week) | Professor John Rangel
• Monday, Wednesday 9 a.m. to 11:50 a.m.  (2nd 8 week) | Professor Dylan Simons
• Online (2nd 8 week) | Professor Brian Brems

ENGLI 1154 Film As Literature (IAI HF 908)

Explores the process of film adaptation from a variety of sources. Includes examination of films adapted directly and indirectly from prior media, as well as an overview of theoretical approaches to studying film adaptation. Through close study of selected films, students will develop a nuanced, open approach to considering the process of adaptation on screen. Credit cannot be earned for both ENGLI 1154 and MPTV 1154. Pre-Enrollment Criteria: Reading Placement Category 1. (3 lecture hours)

• Monday, Wednesday 1 p.m. to 3:50 p.m. (2nd 8 week), Professor Dylan Simons
• Online (1st 5 week), Professor Brian Brems
• Online (2nd 8 week), Professor Michelle Moore

ENGLI 1130 Introduction to Literature (IAI H3 900)

Introduces students to the artistic complexity, depth, and nuance of literature and develops the important skills of critical thinking and effective communication. Students analyze literary works from diverse historical, cultural, and literary contexts to build cultural awareness and capacity for ethical and socially responsible reasoning. Through close reading, students practice literary analysis and argumentation. Students examine literature with reference to how publication and reception influence literary works at the time of publication and beyond. Students explore how literature can reflect, but also challenge, cultural, social, and literary norms.

• Tuesday, Thursday 1 to 3:50 p.m.  (2nd 8 week), Professor Elizabeth Kempton
• Online (1st 5 week), Professor Melina Martin
• Online (1st 5 week), Professor Jason Snart
• Online (1st 8 week), Professor Tim Henningsen

ENGLI 1150 Short Fiction (IAI H3 901)

Introduces students to short fiction's artistic complexity, unique formal elements, depth, and nuance and develops the important skills of critical thinking and effective communication. Students study short fiction from diverse historical, cultural, and literary contexts to build cultural awareness and capacity for ethical and socially responsible reasoning. Through close reading, students practice literary analysis and argumentation. Students examine short fiction with reference to how publication and reception influence literary works at the time of publication and beyond. Students explore how individual works of short fiction can reflect, but also challenge, cultural, social, and literary norms.

• Online (1st 5 week), Professor Jackie McGrat
• Online (2nd 5 week), Professor Bonnie McLean

ENGLI 1152 Poetry (IAI H3 903)

Introduces students to the artistic complexity, unique formal elements, depth, and nuance of poetry and develops the important skills of critical thinking and effective communication. Students analyze poetry from diverse historical, cultural, and literary contexts to build cultural awareness and capacity for ethical and socially responsible reasoning. Through close reading, students practice analysis and argumentation. Students examine poetry with reference to how publication and reception influence poetic works at the time of publication and beyond. Students explore how poetry can reflect but also challenge cultural, social, and literary norms. (3 lecture hours)

• Online (1st 5 week), Professor Jason Snart
• Online (2nd 5 week), Professor Jason Snart

ENGLI 1157 Children's Literature (IAI H3 918)

Introduces students to the artistic qualities of literature for children and adolescents to develop students' critical thinking and effective communication skills. Students study children's literature and adolescent literature from diverse historical, cultural, and literary contexts, in order to build cultural awareness and capacity for ethical and socially responsible reasoning. Through close reading, students practice literary analysis of works from many genres of children's literature and adolescent literature and they consider the relationship between literacy and literature. Students examine literature both for children and adolescents with reference to how creation, publication, and reception influence those works at the time of creation and beyond. Students also explore how children's literature and adolescent literature can reflect, but also challenge, social norms, especially how children's literature and adolescent literature reflects and shapes any culture's understanding of children and childhood.

• Online (1st 5 week), Professor Latrice Ferguson
• Online (2nd 5 week), Professor Latrice Ferguson

ENGLI 2226 World Literature (IAI H3 907)

A survey of world literature. Individual works are analyzed for artistic complexity, depth, and nuance as students refine critical thinking and effective communication skills. Diverse literary works from various literary traditions will be studied to build students' cultural awareness and capacity for ethical and socially responsible reasoning. Through close reading, students practice literary analysis and argumentation. Students examine texts from cultures around the world and different time periods with reference to how publication and reception influence literary works at the time of publication and beyond and for how literary traditions and/or movements are formed and change. Students explore how texts of world literature reflect but also challenge cultural, social, and literary norms. (3 lecture hours)

• Online (1st 5 week), Professor Melina Martin

ENGLI 1105 Workplace Writing

Course focuses on the processes and strategies for creating various modes of communication within a workplace setting. Students will gain skills in assessing and addressing various audiences, observing stylistic conventions, and using appropriate elements of document design to communicate effectively. The course emphasizes the preparation of a variety of documents, such as resumes, letters of application, internal and external correspondence, descriptions, proposals, summaries, and reports. It also introduces strategies for conducting research and observing copyright. (3 lecture hours) Prerequisite: ENGLI 0492 with a grade of C or better, or equivalent or ELS 0553 with a grade of C or better, or equivalent, or appropriate writing placement category. Course requires Reading Placement Category One.

• Online (1st 5-week), Professor Steven Accardi
• Online (2nd 5-week), Professor Jessica Nastal
• Online (2nd 8-week), Professor Jim Allen
• Online (2nd 8-week), Professor Kimberley Groves

ENGLI 1110 Technical Writing

An introduction to technical writing with an overview of key issues such as usability, audience analysis, designing pages and digital screens, effective collaboration with peers, researching, interpreting and ethically presenting data, and writing clearly and persuasively. Also includes instruction in writing, revising, and presenting common technical writing genres, which could include emails, instructions, tutorials, manuals, reports, product/process descriptions, proposals, and presentations using visual aids. (3 lecture hours) Prerequisite: ENGLI 0492 with a grade of C or better, or equivalent or ELS 0553 with a grade of C or better, or equivalent or appropriate score on the Writing Placement Test(s). Course requires Reading Placement Test Score-Category One.

• Online (1st 5-week), Professor Steven Accardi