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This survey course explores the experiences of various cultural and ethnic groups reflected in American literature. Students read, discuss, and gain exposure to a variety of authors and literary styles.

This course is a chronological survey of representative prose and verse from the Colonial Period to the Twentieth Century. Authors include Cooper, Emerson, Twain, Dickinson, Poe, among others.

This course develops students’ ability to construct effective college-level essays in a variety of commonly used rhetorical modes through a process of multiple revisions. Students increase overall competency in deconstructing texts while also expanding their vocabularies to include advanced academic language and terminology. Assigned readings develop students’ ability to comprehend more complex, college-level texts on a deeper level with a focus on determining author’s purpose, understanding literary terms, and analyzing essay structure.

This course introduces students to a wide variety of literature written by women of different backgrounds and cultures. Students read and discuss material representative of different groups.

This course provides students with an opportunity to explore and develop their skills as writers of journals, short fiction, poetry, and drama. The course immerses students in the processes of discovery, expression, and revision; engages them with questions of form, structure, and symbolism; and offers practice in sharing, constructive criticism, and revision. This course provides students with an excellent foundation from which they can continue to grow as writers.

This course is an overview of the basics of poetry writing. It covers purpose, tone, denotative and connotative meanings, rhythm, meter, imagery, symbolism, and figures of speech. Students survey masters of the genre with special emphasis on American poetry. Various forms of poetry writing are analyzed. A brief history of jazz, rap, hip-hop poetry are studied. Students memorize and recite poems, research one poet and his/her works in detail, and structure their own experiences in verse form.

This course breaks down the research process into a series of steps to give students the writing and research skills necessary for success in any discipline and for graduate study. The research process is taught step-by-step, showing students how to: choose an appropriate topic; develop a strong thesis statement; formulate research questions; find, select, and evaluate viable, scholarly sources; and implement APA style for citations and bibliographies. Students will complete various written assignments and classroom activities, culminating in research papers that students will orally present and defend.