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ENGLISH COURSES

General Course Descriptions

ENC 1101 English Composition I

ENC 1101 introduces you to the process of writing. The course provides instruction in:

	selecting and refining a topic;
	gathering and organizing information as support evidence;
	identifying an audience, developing a purpose, and formulating a thesis statement;
	composing logical sentences and paragraphs;
	controlling grammar, mechanics, and usage.

FIL 2100 Introduction to Scriptwriting

This course introduces you to the basics of scriptwriting.

You will study characterization, dialogue, visualization, scene development, and formatting.

Writing exercises will include studies of current movies and TV shows as well as development of character, dialogue, and plot in scenes that you will create as parts of your own scripts.

ENC 1102 English Composition II

ENC 1102 introduces you to critical analysis and to analytic writing. In addition, this course emphasizes reading in the genres of prose fiction, drama, and poetry.

In this course, you will write critical essays analyzing literature and at least one research paper on a novel.

FIL 2109 Film and TV Scriptwriting

FIL 2133 Film and TV Scriptwriting II

FIL 2109 and FIL 2133 are continuations of FIL 2100. However, FIL 2100 is not a prerequisite for FIL 2109 or for FIL 2133.

In FIL 2109, you will study characterization, dialogue, visualization, scene development, television and movie script formats, and the art of adaptation.

FIL 2133 presents advanced techniques of scriptwriting. Students submit a portfolio of work.

AML 2010 American Literature to 1865

AML 2010 is a survey of American Literature from the pre-colonial times to 1865. The course will introduce you to the patterns and the themes of American Literature through an analysis of fiction, prose, poetry, and drama.

AML 2020 American Literature after 1865

AML 2020 is a survey of American Literature from 1865 to the present.

The course will introduce you to the patterns and the themes of American Literature through an analysis of fiction, prose, poetry, and drama.

HUM 1541 Humanities Literature

HUM 1233 Humanities Literature

These courses introduce you to the aesthetic, social, and philosophical relationships of people to one another and to the world in which they lived.

In HUM 1541, students are introduced to Greek and Roman mythology, to representative philosophical, historical, social, literary, and aesthetic movements, and to classic works of literature from ancient times through the Renaissance.

HUM 1233 covers representative movements and works of literature from the Baroque era through the present.