Course Descriptions: ENGLISH, LITERATURE AND READING
A Cañada College English Placement Test or ESL Placement Test is required for enrollment in most English and English for non-native speakers (ESL) courses. The placement tests may be waived if a student has completed an English course with a grade of “C” or better at another accredited college in the United States and can provide transcripts indicating course completion. (See section on Assessment and Placement.)
English
ENGL 100 READING AND COMPOSITION (CAN ENGL 2) (CAN ENGL SEQ A = ENGL 100 + 110)
Units 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture/16 by arrangement lab hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): ENGL 836 or ESL 400 OR eligibility for ENGL 100 on approved college English Placement Test and other measures as necessary AND READ 836 with Credit or a grade of “C” or better OR eligibility for 400-level Reading courses on approved college Reading Placement Test and other measures as necessary. Description: An intensive reading and writing course based on the study of primarily non-fiction materials of culturally diverse writers. Course writing emphasizes the expository and the argumentative forms. Emphasis is placed on writing coherent, compelling essays demonstrating critical thinking skills and the basic elements of building a convincing argument. Transfer: CSU: A2, UC. (IGETC: 1A)
ENGL 110 COMPOSITION, LITERATURE AND CRITICAL THINKING (CAN ENGL 4) (CAN ENGL SEQ A = ENGL 100 + 110)
Units 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture/16 by arrangement lab hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): ENGL 100. Description: In this course students read and analyze works of fiction, poetry, and drama and write critical expository essays which demonstrate skills in analysis and critical thinking. Transfer: CSU: A3, C2, UC. (IGETC: 1B)
ENGL 161 CREATIVE WRITING I
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): ENGL 100. Description: The craft of writing fiction. Designed to help beginning writers to find a way to begin and to encourage journeyman writers to continue. Emphasis falls upon writing technique and critical ability. Transfer: CSU: C2, UC.
ENGL 162 CREATIVE WRITING II
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): ENGL 100. Description: The craft of writing poetry. Designed to help beginning writers to find a way to begin and to encourage journeyman writers to continue. Emphasis falls upon writing technique and critical ability. Transfer: CSU, UC.
ENGL 164 CREATIVE NON-FICTION
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): ENGL 100. Description: The craft of writing the non-fiction genres, such as memoir, travel literature, biography, autobiography, and journal. Discussion and critiques of works by established authors. Workshop of students’ own writing. Guidelines for submission for publication. Transfer: CSU: C2.
ENGL 165 ADVANCED COMPOSITION
Units 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture/16 by arrangement lab hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): ENGL 100. Description: This is an advanced course in non-fiction writing. Students are taught to read and think critically and to write nuanced arguments. Transfer: CSU: A3, UC. (IGETC: 1B)
ENGL 200 INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS: A SURVEY OF LANGUAGE
Units 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture/16 by arrangement lab hours/semester; Recommended: Eligibility for READ 836, and ENGL 836 or ESL 400; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: The origin and development of spoken and written languages, language acquisition, and the evolution of language are studied in this course. The basics of linguistics including systems of phonetics and phonology, semantics, morphology and syntax are also studied. There is also a strong focus on the grammar and sentence structure of standard written English. Transfer: CSU: DSI, UC. (IGETC 4)
ENGL 400 COMPOSITION FOR NON-NATIVE SPEAKERS (Replaced by ESL 400)
ENGL 804 READING AND WRITING
Units 1-4; Class Hours: Minimum of 8-32 lecture/24-96 lab hours/semester; Basic Skills Level: Open Curriculum; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: This course is designed to increase reading and writing skills through the reading of non-fiction and short fiction, development of vocabulary, and writing of paragraphs, presented in a variable unit, self-paced instructional mode. Units do not apply toward AA/AS degree. May be repeated for credit up to 4 units.
ENGL 826 BASIC READING/COMPOSITION
Units 4; Class Hours: Minimum of 64 lecture/16 by arrangement lab hours/semester; Basic Skills Level: Open Curriculum; Prerequisite(s): None; Corequisite(s): Concurrent enrollment in READ 826. Description: This course improves reading and writing skills through reading non-fiction and short fiction, developing vocabulary, and writing paragraphs. Units do not apply toward AA/AS degree.
ENGL 836 WRITING DEVELOPMENT
Units 4; Class Hours: Minimum of 64 lecture/16 by arrangement lab hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of ENGL 826 and READ 826, or Eligibility for READ 836, and ENGL 836 or ESL 400 based on scores on approved Cañada College assessment instruments (placement tests with multiple measures assessment), or *successful completion of coursework at other colleges/universities equivalent to ENGL 826 and READ 826. Description: Learn to plan, organize, compose and revise a college-level essay. Write text-based essays, and develop the ability to express ideas logically with detailed support. Review mechanics, grammar, and MLA documentation style. Develop the composition skills necessary to meet standards for entrance to English 100. Successful completion of BOTH English 836 and Reading 836 is required for entrance into English 100.
*Use the Office of Matriculation to approve course work completed at other colleges/universities to meet the prerequisite.
ENGL 875 GRAMMAR REVIEW
Units 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Basic Skills Level: Open Curriculum; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: While primarily intended as a semester-length “brush-up” course, English 875 also serves the remedial needs of students whose English Placement Test indicates a need for stringent review. Grammar, punctuation, vocabulary, and diction are included in the course. Units do not apply toward AA/AS degree.
ENGL 890 CONTENT-BASED PROGRAM: STUDY SKILLS
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Basic Skills Level: Open Curriculum; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: This course, part of the Content-Based Program, focuses on developing study skills and applying them in mainstream content courses. It is designed for native and non-native English-speaking students. Completion of ESL or E.I. 824 with a grade of “C” or better or placement by College ESL Placement Test or a score of 8.0 or better on College Reading Test is recommended. Units do not apply toward AA/AS degree.
LITERATURE
LIT. 101 MODERN LITERATURE
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Recommended: Eligibility for ENGL 110; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: Study of selected fiction, poetry, and drama of the 20th Century. Lectures, discussions, related reading, writing of critical papers. Transfer: CSU: C2, UC. (IGETC: 3B)
LIT. 111 THE SHORT STORY
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): ENGL 110. Description: Designed to help the student understand short stories, perhaps the most popular form of prose fiction today. Careful analysis of short stories as a means of developing in the student a critical method for the evaluation of the short story form. Transfer: CSU: C2, UC. (IGETC: 3B)
LIT. 142 GREAT PLAYS: CLASSICAL AND RENAISSANCE (Also DRAM 142)
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): ENGL 100. Description: Study of the greatest plays and playwrights from classical Greece through the Elizabethan era in England. Principles underlying dramatic literature in each period are related to dominant social, intellectual, and artistic forces, measuring the student’s own beliefs and values against those of characters of other times and places. Play attendance may be required. Transfer: CSU: C1, C2, UC. (IGETC: 3B)
LIT. 143 GREAT PLAYS: MODERN ERA (Also DRAM 143)
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): ENGL 100. Description: Study of the great plays and playwrights from the 17th century to the present. Principles underlying dramatic literature in each period are related to dominant social, intellectual and artistic forces, measuring the student’s own beliefs and values against those of characters of other times and places. Play attendance may be required. Transfer: CSU: C1, C2, UC. (IGETC: 3B)
LIT. 151 INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE I (Also DRAM 151)
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): ENGL 100. Description: Study of representative plays of Shakespeare. A chronological sequence of plays, from each of the phases of Shakespeare’s creativity, is covered. Some discussion of Shakespeare’s life and times and some discussion of his poetry are included, although the plays are the main focus of the course. Transfer: CSU: C2, UC. (IGETC: 3B)
LIT. 152 INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE II (Also DRAM 152)
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): ENGL 100. Description: Study of selected plays of Shakespeare. Some discussion of Shakespeare’s life and times and some discussion of his poetry is included, although his plays are the main focus of the course. Plays covered are different than those in LIT. 151 and are not selected on a chronological basis. Transfer: CSU: C2, UC. (IGETC: 3B)
LIT. 200 MAJOR FIGURES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): ENGL 100. Description: Study of the writings of some of the major figures in American literature. Intensive reading, lectures, discussion, papers. Transfer: CSU: C2, UC. (IGETC: 3B)
LIT. 205 NEW VOICES IN WORLD LITERATURE
Units 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture/16 by arrangement lab hours/semester; Recommended: Eligibility for READ 836, and ENGL 836 or ESL 400; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: Students read, discuss, and write about contemporary work from many world cultures. Work includes fiction, poetry, drama, film, and performance arts from Native American, Asian, Pacific Islander, African American, Latino, Middle Eastern and other world cultures. Transfer: CSU: C2, UC. (IGETC: 3B)
LIT. 231 SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE I (CAN ENGL 8)
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): ENGL 110. Description: Study of the typical works of major English writers from Chaucer to the end of the 18th Century. Discussions, lectures, writing of critical essays. Transfer: CSU: C2, UC. (IGETC: 3B)
LIT. 232 SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE II (CAN ENGL 10)
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): ENGL 110. Description: Study of the typical works of major English writers from the Restoration to the Victorian period. Discussions, lectures, writing of critical essays. Transfer: CSU: C2, UC. (IGETC: 3B)
LIT. 233 SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE III
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): ENGL 110. Description: Study of major English writers of the 20th century, including Woolf, Eliot, Yeats, and Huxley. Discussions, lectures, writing of critical essays. Transfer: CSU: C2, UC. (IGETC: 3B)
LIT. 251 WOMEN IN LITERATURE
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Recommended: Eligibility for ENGL 110; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: This course explores women writers’ views of women and men in short stories, novels, poetry, drama, and film. The class discusses literature beginning with the ancient Greeks up to contemporary feminist writers, comparing men and women writers on similar themes. Transfer: CSU: C2, UC. (IGETC: 3B)
LIT. 252 WOMEN WRITERS: MULTICULTURAL PERSPECTIVES
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): ENGL 100. Description: This course presents an overview of the literary history of women writers, selecting from, in different semesters, African American, Native American, Asian American, and Hispanic groups, and then concentrates in depth on selected writers and works. The focus is both on the written contributions as well as the social and political situations of American ethnic women writers. (Fulfills Associate degree Ethnic Studies requirement.) Transfer: CSU: C2, UC. (IGETC: 3B)
LIT. 266 BLACK LITERATURE
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture/16 by arrangement lab hours/semester; Recommended: Eligibility for READ 836, and ENGL 836 or ESL 400; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: A survey of the influence of African Americans on American history through an examination of fiction and non-fiction. The literature sampled spans the history of African-Americans in America since 1619; explores the development of this ethnic group; analyzes the significance of African-Americans to the formation of this nation; and includes: autobiographical works, poetry, short stories, folk tales, novellas, films, music, and art. (Fulfills Associate degree Ethnic Studies requirement.) Transfer: CSU: C2, UC. (IGETC: 3B)
LIT. 301 MASTERPIECES OF CLASSICAL AND EUROPEAN LITERATURE I
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Recommended: Eligibility for READ 420 and ENGL 100; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: Selections from the literature of ancient Greece through Renaissance Europe are read, analyzed, discussed and enjoyed. Group work, oral reports, papers. Transfer: CSU: C2, UC. (IGETC: 3B)
LIT. 370 READINGS IN LITERATURE OF THE LATINO IN THE UNITED STATES
Units 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): ENGL 100. Description: A survey in English of literary contributions of Latino writers in the United States, this course studies the historical, sociopolitical, and cultural concerns of Latinos in the United States as these appear in novels, short stories, and poetry. These works provide a glimpse into the struggle for self-identity and self-determination and into the forces that interact in the course of this struggle and give the reader a glance into the magical world of different perspectives of reality. LIT. 370 requires writing of essays dealing with the materials covered. (Fulfills Associate degree Ethnic Studies requirement.) Transfer: CSU: C2, UC. (IGETC: 3B)
LIT. 371 MEXICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Recommended: Eligibility for READ 836, and ENGL 836 or ESL 400; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: Study of literature written in English by Mexican-Americans. Emphasis is placed upon contemporary stories, poems, and essays. (Fulfills Associate degree Ethnic Studies requirement.) Transfer: CSU: C2, UC. (IGETC: 3B)
LIT. 372 MYTH AND FOLKLORE OF LA RAZA
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Recommended: Eligibility for READ 836, and ENGL 836 or ESL 400; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: Study of the folk literature of Mexican and Mexican-American peoples, with special emphasis on their effect on contemporary values. (Fulfills Associate degree Ethnic Studies requirement.) Transfer: CSU: C2, UC. (IGETC: 3B)
LIT. 373 LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION
Units 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): ENGL 100. Description: Innovative and influential, Latin American literature vividly portrays life and mores of our neighboring countries to the south. This course samples greater and lesser-known works, revealing the literary trends and characteristics that have earned world recognition. The literature provides the background for an understanding of the cultural experiences and concerns of the Latino in this country. Material in a variety of genres is presented. (Fulfills Associate degree Ethnic Studies requirement.) Transfer: CSU: C2, UC. (IGETC: 3B)
LIT. 375 NATIVE-AMERICAN LITERATURE
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): ENGL 100. Description: A study of the great epics and myths, the lyrical and narrative poetry, the oratory, and the contemporary works in prose and poetry of the American Indian from pre-Conquest times to the present. (Fulfills Associate degree Ethnic Studies requirement.) Transfer: CSU: C2, UC. (IGETC: 3B)
LIT. 441 FILM STUDY AND APPRECIATION I
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Recommended: Eligibility for READ 836, and ENGL 836 or ESL 400; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: Study of significant motion pictures from the early 1900s to the 1940s as an art form with emphasis on structure of film and the technique of film making. Screening of films followed by discussion and/or written analysis relating to appreciation and understanding of film as a communicative medium. Transfer: CSU: C1, C2, UC. (IGETC: 3A)
LIT. 442 FILM STUDY AND APPRECIATION II
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Recommended: Eligibility for READ 836, and ENGL 836 or ESL 400; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: Study of selected representative films (1940s to the present) from all over the world. Emphasis is on the rhetoric of cinema directors’ styles, and history of film. Objective: to understand film as an art and as a communicative medium. Transfer: CSU: C1, C2, UC. (IGETC: 3A)
LIT. 445 INTRODUCTION TO FILM STUDIES
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): ENGL 100. Description: Introduction to Film Studies acquaints students with the major techniques and genres employed by national and international filmmakers. The language of film is studied and applied to a variety of classic narrative films. Transfer: CSU: C2.
READING
READ 420 CRITICAL AND EFFECTIVE READING
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture hours/semester; Basic Skills Level: Open Curriculum; Prerequisite(s): READ 836 or eligibility for 400-level reading courses as indicated by the reading placement test or other measures. Description: Students are led to increase competence in analytical and critical reading skills with difficult college texts, to increase their reading rate flexibility, to employ college study techniques, and to read for research. Transfer: CSU.
READ 425 SPEED READING
Units (Grade Option) 1.5; Class Hours: Minimum of 24 lecture/16 lab hours/semester; Basic Skills Level: Open Curriculum; Prerequisite(s): READ 836 or eligibility for 400-level reading courses as indicated by the reading placement test or other measures. Description: Designed to increase reading speed and comprehension of college-level materials. Emphasis on learning rapid reading techniques, gaining flexibility in adjusting reading speed to suit purpose, overcoming regression, recognizing and using basic writing structures and literary elements, and mastering speed study techniques. Transfer: CSU.
READ 826 READING IMPROVEMENT
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 80 lecture/16 by arrangement lab hours/semester; Basic Skills Level: Open Curriculum; Prerequisite(s): None. Description: By means of lecture, this course teaches efficient reading strategies and study techniques to improve word analysis, vocabulary, reading comprehension and study skills. Recommendation via College Placement Test. May be repeated once for credit. Units do not apply toward AA/AS degree.
READ 836 ACADEMIC READING STRATEGIES
Units (Grade Option) 3; Class Hours: Minimum of 48 lecture/16 by arrangement lab hours/semester; Prerequisite(s): READ 826 or ESL 864, or eligibility for READ 836 on approved college Reading Placement Test and other measures as necessary. Description: Learn efficient reading strategies to improve vocabulary, comprehension, reader reaction and study-techniques to prepare for college courses across the disciplines. Reading rate flexibility is introduced as well. The natural reading and writing connection is emphasized in assignments. Successful completion of BOTH READ 836 and ENGL 836 or ESL 400 is required for entrance into ENGL 100.
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7/8/08
