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 (12-099) BASIC ENGLISH I Credit 3 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 strategies for expanding paragraphs to writing essays. Prerequisite: English Placement Test Score of 38 or lower Corequisite: DVST 0630 or BAS 0630 Lecture ENGL 0955 BASIC ENGLISH II Credit 3 This course prepares students for writing in college-level courses.  The course emphasizes the writing of clearly organized, well-well developed five-paragraph essays with as few grammar, spelling, and/or punctuation errors as possible. Prerequisite: English Placement Test Score of 39-74 or ENGL 0950 (C or better) Corequisite: DVST 0630 or BAS 0630 (If student did not take ENGL 0950) Lecture ENGL 1010 (12-101) ENGLISH COMPOSITION I Credit 3 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 pre-writing, revising, and proofreading and (2) for students to write clear, well-ordered essays. Prerequisite: English Placement Exam or English ACT score of 23 or higher. Lecture ENGL 1020 (12-102) ENGLISH COMPOSITION II Credit 3 A continuation of English Composition I, this course emphasizes writing, research, and analytical reading. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 Lecture ENGL 1111 (12-226) ADVANCED COMPOSITION Credit 3 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 Lecture COMM 1370, 1375, 2370, 2375 (JOUR 1010-1013) (16-100-101-102-103) Publications Production I-IV (Topic will vary) This course provides practical journalistic experience for students interested in producing the college newspaper. Areas for participation include newswriting, editing, photography, advertising sales and design, and layout. The goals are 1) to provide the student with hands-on training and instruction in the various areas of production, and 2) to produce a quality college newspaper. Prerequisite: None Lecture/Workshop/Discussion ENGL 2010 (12-120) TECHNICAL WRITING Credit 3 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 audiences, how to design a document and how to create visuals. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 Lecture ENGL 2050 CREATIVE WRITING: PROSE I Credit 3 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 Lecture ENGL 2060 CREATIVE WRITING: PROSE II Credit 3 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 Lecture ENGL 2065 CREATIVE WRITING: MEMOIR WRITING Credit 3 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 Lecture ENGL 2080 CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY I Credit 3 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 Lecture ENGL 2090 CREATIVE WRITING: POETRY II Credit 3 Further study in introductory poetry, writing, including round table discussion of the elements of the genre, the sharing of students' work and submission of finished works. Prerequisite: None Lecture ENGL 2140 (12-250) WORLD LITERATURE I Credit 3 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 Lecture ENGL 2150 (12-251) WORLD LITERATURE II Credit 3 Renaissance through 19th Century: Continuation of ENGL 2140. Offered on a demand basis . Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 Lecture ENGL 2210, 2220 (12-201-202) ENGLISH LITERATURE I & II Credit 3 A study of major British writers concentrating on their contributions to the world of literature. ENGL 2210 covers the period up to about 1800 and ENGL 2220 covers the period since about 1800. Prerequisite: None Lecture ENGL 2250, 2260 (12-129-130) WOMEN IN LITERATURE I & II Credit 3 A literature course which explores the images of women int he Western traditions.  The writers examined will be women. ENGL 2250 covers the period up to the 19th Century and ENGL 2260 covers the period from the beginning of the 19th Century to modern times. Prerequisite: None Lecture ENGL 2310 (12-211) AMERICAN LITERATURE I Credit 3 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 Lecture ENGL 2320 AMERICAN LITERATURE II Credit 3 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. Prerequisites: None Lecture ENGL 2340 NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE Credit 3 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 Lecture ENGL 2370 (12-125) WESTERN AMERICAN LITERATURE Credit 3 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 Lecture ENGL 2390 LITERATURE OF WYOMING Credit 3 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 Lecture ENGL 2400 INTRODUCTION TO FOLKLORE Credit 3 An introductory course to the forms of folklore and their relation to cultural setting. The course includes the study of folk groups and folklore genres, such as myths, folktales, legends, ballads, proverbs, riddles, etc. from various cultures. Methods of analyzing, of interpreting, and of collecting folklore will be part of the course. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 Lecture/Discussion/Field work ENGL 2420 LITERARY GENRES Credit 3 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, research-based and/or modeled essays. Prerequisites: ENGL 1010, or concurrently enrolled, or Instructor Permission Lecture ENGL 2470 (12-150) FILM APPRECIATION Credit 3 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 Lecture ENGL 2490 STUDIES IN ENGLISH Credit Variable ENGL 2495 WORKSHOPS IN ENGLISH Credit .5-2   WWCC English Home WWCC Home