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ENG-104 Resources for Composition

3 credits—This course provides a college-credit composition environment that reinforces the skills necessary for negotiating college writing. It emphasizes reading to comprehend and write about texts. The course addresses audience and textual analysis; citing sources; writing as a recursive process; thesis statement development and support; sentence, paragraph, and essay structure; and editing.

Lecture Hours: 48

Prerequisite(s): Equivalent placement score.

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $702.00

ENG-105 Composition I

3 credits—Composition I emphasizes fluency, thesis-driven organization, the use of supporting details, and research techniques. Writing is approached as a recursive process that includes prewriting strategies, drafting, revising, and editing. The course helps students shape writing to serve readers' needs and define a sense of purpose in their writing. It also gives students strategies for reading college-level material.

Lecture Hours: 48

Prerequisite(s): Appropriate placement score or equivalent.

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $702.00

ENG-106 Composition II

3 credits—Composition II aims to review and extend writing principles learned in Composition I to analytical, argumentative, and research-based writing. This course emphasizes critical reading, evaluation, and precise and responsible source citation.

Lecture Hours: 48

Prerequisite(s): Minimum grade of D- in ENG-105.

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $702.00

ENG-108 Composition II: Technical Writing

3 credits—This course provides advanced study of writing by extending principles learned to include technical and professional writing contexts. Students will use critical thinking skills to analyze writing situations, conduct research, and apply principles of style, formatting, and documentation. It is designed to help students acquire the rhetorical skills needed to respond to a variety of communication situations.

Lecture Hours: 48

Prerequisite(s): Minimum grade of D- ENG-105

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $702.00

ENG-221 Creative Writing

3 credits—Creative Writing is a beginning course for students interested in writing poetry, short stories, and creative non-fiction. The course will focus on introducing and developing some of the technical skills of the craft, with an emphasis on methods for generating topics and content.

Lecture Hours: 48

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $702.00

ENG-230 Creative Writing: Fiction

3 credits—This course will focus on the study and practice of fiction. The content emphasis is on writing the short story with practice and study of the proper elements of writing. These elements are also applicable to the writing of the novel.

Lecture Hours: 48

Pre/Co-requisite(s): A minimum grade of D- in ENG-221.

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $702.00

ENG-235 Playwriting and Screenwriting

3 credits—Playwriting and Screenwriting is a writing workshop that offers students practical experience in the creative process of producing stage-worthy plays and marketable screen plays. Through the study and discussion of published and produced plays, students will learn appropriate techniques for the dramatic form and will use the writing process to apply the techniques to develop and present their own work.

Lecture Hours: 48

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $702.00

ENG-924 Honors Project

1 credits—This course involves in-depth independent research on an approved topic under supervision of a faculty member. Upon project's completion, results will be shared with community of peers and faculty. This course can be repeated with different content for credit. This course may be taken for 1–3 credits.

Lecture Hours: 16

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $234.00

ENG-928 Independent Study

1 credits—This course provides students with an opportunity to pursue or investigate a topic of interest that does not fit within the framework of regular course offerings. An independent study self-directed learning agreement must be discussed with and submitted to a faculty advisor prior to registration. This course may be repeated for credit with different content. Course can be taken for 1–3 credits.

Lecture Hours: 16

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $234.00

ENG-949 Special Topics

1 credits—Special Topics expands the curriculum by allowing students to enroll for up to three credits in a specific course or program area. Subject matter may be an in-depth extension of the particular area and is developed by the teaching faculty to meet unique interests and needs of the students. This course may not duplicate another one already in the catalog. This course may be repeated for credit with different content. This course can be taken for 1–3.

Lecture Hours: 16

Course Type: General Education / Transfer

2025–2026 Course Cost: $234.00