English

Course Descriptions

The English Department offers many practical, student-oriented courses. Below is a partial list with brief descriptions. To check course availability, please check the College Class Schedule.

ENGL 0950
BASIC ENGLISH I
This beginning writing course helps students create complete and interesting paragraphs with topic sentences, supporting details, correct grammar, punctuation, and usage. Students will also study grammar and sentence skills.
Prerequisite: English Placement Test Score of 38 or lower

ENGL 0955
BASIC ENGLISH II
This course prepares students for writing in college-level courses. The course emphasizes the writing of clearly organized, well-developed five-paragraph essays with as few grammar, spelling, or punctuation errors as possible.
Prerequisites: English Placement Test Score of 39-74 or ENGL 0950 (C or better)

ENGL 1010
ENGLISH COMPOSITION I
This freshman English course is designed to develop writing skills. The course has two objectives: (1) for students to understand the various stages of the writing process, such as prewriting, revising, and proofreading and (2) for students to write clear, well-ordered essays.
Prerequisites: English Placement Exam or English ACT score of 23 or higher.

ENGL 1020
ENGLISH COMPOSITION II
A continuation of English Composition I, this course emphasizes writing, research, and analytical reading.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1010

ENGL 1111
ADVANCED COMPOSITION
A course intended to increase the student’s skill in expository writing through practice in writing and analysis of examples of successful writing. Particular emphasis is placed on organization and on clarity and persuasiveness.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1010

ENGL 2010
TECHNICAL WRITING
This course emphasizes professional writing and research that students can expect to use in science, business, industry and/or government. Examples include memos, letters, instructions, proposals, resumes, and reports. Students will learn how to write clearly and concisely, how to shape a message for a particular audience, how to design a document and how to create visuals.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1010

ENGL 2040
CREATIVE WRITING:
This course is intended for writers who want to learn to write and improve their journaling, performance poetry, short fiction, creative non-fiction genres of creative writing, or other genres of creative writing. The specific topic will vary each semester. The course has two main objectives: 1) To assist writers in drafting work of artistic intention and merit, and 2) To further develop each author’s abilities as a reader, audience member, and critic of serious contemporary creative work. This course may be taken three times for credit.
Prerequisite: None

ENGL 2050
CREATIVE WRITING: PROSE I
An introductory course in creative prose writing. An analysis of the forms of fiction and the practice of creative writing at the introductory level.
Prerequisite: None

ENGL 2060
CREATIVE WRITING: PROSE II
Further study in introductory prose fiction, including round table discussion of the elements of the genre, the sharing of students’ works and submission of finished works. Prerequisite: None

ENGL 2064
CREATIVE WRITING: JOURNALING
This English course is designed to develop journal writing skills. The course has two overall objectives: (1) for students to understand and write various styles of journals, and (2) for students to submit a portfolio with a reflective paper and completed individual journals consisting of one or more styles of journals.
Prerequisite: None

ENGL 2065
CREATIVE WRITING: MEMOIR WRITING
In this course, participants will write stories based on their own experiences and observations. We will practice the process of writing, from idea-gathering exercises designed to give participants strategies to begin writing their own stories, to drafting and presenting these rough drafts to the other class members for feedback and revision. Prerequisite: None

ENGL 2080
CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY I 
An introductory course in creative poetry writing. An analysis of the forms of poetry and the practice of creative writing at an introductory level.
Prerequisite: None

ENGL 2090
CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY II
Further study in introductory poetry writing, including round table discussion of the elements of the genre, the sharing of students’ works and submission of finished works.
Prerequisite: None

ENGL 2091
CREATIVE WRITING: PUBLISHING YOUR WORK
This course will provide students with tools and techniques for pursuing publication of their creative work. Students will learn how to conduct market research using online resources, prepare manuscripts for publication, write query letters and cover letters, establish a recordkeeping system, and submit their work for publication to journals and magazines (both online and print) and to book publishers.
Prerequisite: None

ENGL 2140
WORLD LITERATURE I
Ancient through Medieval: Reading and study of major works that are representative of significant periods or literary forms in the history of literature from Homer through the medieval period.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1010

ENGL 2150
WORLD LITERATURE II
Renaissance through 19th Century: Continuation of ENGL 2140.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1010; offered on a demand basis

ENGL 2250
WOMEN IN LITERATURE I
A literature course which explores the images of women in the Western traditions, from early writings of the Greeks to the 19th Century. Students will read both male and female authors’ works, but particularly the wealth of great literature written by women in those times.
Prerequisite: None

ENGL 2310
AMERICAN LITERATURE I
A study of the literature of the early American settlers, of wilderness travelers, of the witchcraft trials, of the Indian wars, and secret diaries. The course also covers the American Age of Reason and the Revolutionary War including Thomas Paine, Benjamin Franklin, and Thomas Jefferson. It concludes with the American Romantic Era with Thoreau’s Walden Pond, the philosophical essays of Emerson, the stories of Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe, and the poetry of Whitman and Dickinson.
Prerequisite: None

ENGL 2320
America n LITERATURE II
Beginning with the works of Mark Twain, the literature of this course covers the influence of Darwinism, America’s shifting from a nation of farmers to a nation of factory workers, the disillusionment after WWI, the frantic values of the Roaring Twenties, the intellectual struggles of the Great Depression, and the efforts to define a modern literature.
Prerequisite: None

ENGL 2340
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
A study of the literatures of American Indian peoples, including legends from the oral traditions, songs, poetry, stories, and novels. A selection of literature from various times will be read, ranging from early legends to modern novels written by such Native American writers as Momaday, Silko, Welch and Erdrich.
Prerequisite: None

ENGL 2370
WESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE          
This course introduces the best of Western literature. The works chosen for study depict the western experiences from a variety of perspectives. Students will consider each work’s literary merit, historical reliability and Western themes. Students will discuss the role Western literature has played in creating stereotypes about the West and how those stereotypes have affected the development of American literature and culture.
Prerequisite: None

ENGL 2390
LITERATURE OF WYOMING   
This course proceeds from the premise that examining texts about and from a place, in this case the state of Wyoming, can yield valuable insights to learners and forms a compelling basis for literary study. This course examines literary texts and films that feature Wyoming as subject, and/or texts written by writers from or living in Wyoming. The course seeks to examine ways in which the following themes or ideas are presented: the myth and the mythic, common traits, boom and bust cycles, new and old west, archetypes, regionalism, and revisionism in books and movies.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1010

ENGL 2420
LITERARY GENRES
This course offers a study of recognized texts of specific literary genres in order to acquaint students with salient authors, themes and historical characteristics of the genre. This course includes reading and discussion of texts, as well as the writing of analytical, critical, researchbased and/or modeled essays.
Prerequisites: ENGL 1010 or concurrently enrolled or Instructor Permission

ENGL 2470
FILM APPRECIATION                  
A study of the literature of film, its narrative, visual, and technical components, with particular attention to selected feature length films of recognized directors.
Prerequisite: None

ENGL 2495
WORKSHOPS IN ENGLISH:
This course is a beginning creative writing workshop designed to generate writing both win and outside of class. Visiting writers will present to the class.
Prerequisite: None