Medaille College Undergraduate Academic Catalog 2009-2010 ENG 215 INTRODUCTION TO WORLD LITERATURE This survey course is designed to introduce students to representative works (short stories, poems and plays) of world literature. Three credit hours (3). Prerequisite: None. Offered Spring semester. ENG 260 BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL WRITING This course explores the different types of business and professional writing, helping students to recognize the variety of career options for and responsibilities of professional and business writers and the most important resources in the field. Students review and learn how most effectively to implement the basic grammar and usage rules they have studied in other courses, as well as how to incorporate graphs, pictures, and other visual information effectively into their written texts. Students also investigate the necessary relationship between audience and style, and the ethical implications of business and professional forms of communication, while learning how to apply persuasive writing strategies to different professional contexts. Students produce a portfolio in both print and web-based media that will include a resume, letters, memoranda, brochures, instructions, and short reports. Three credit hours (3). Prerequisite: ENG 200. Offered Spring semester. ENG 270 ARGUMENTATION AND PERSUASION This course offers a detailed study of the principles employed in effective written arguments and persuasive pieces. The course will familiarize students with the tools and techniques of persuasion, and place special emphasis on the nature of argument. Practical application of the art of persuasion in the professional world will be included. The course will provide extensive writing practice. Three credit hours (3). Prerequisites: ENG 200 and PHI 200. Offered as needed. ENG 298 SPECIAL TOPICS IN ENGLISH Topic specified each semester course offered. Three credit hours (3). Prerequisites: ENG 200 or higher. Offered as needed. ENG 300 FICTION WORKSHOP This course helps the student to focus his/her creative ideas and thoughts and write short pieces of fiction with a view toward entering contests, freelancing his/her work and other areas of publication. The student through actual writing of short stories will come to a better awareness and appreciation of the short story as an art form. Three credit hours (3). Prerequisite: ENG 200. Offered Fall semester. ENG 305 BRITISH LITERATURE: MIDDLE AGES TO THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY This course surveys selected major authors from the Middle Ages through the Restoration and early 18th century. Emphasis of the course is on major authors, the historical contexts of literary production and reception, and the historical development of the English language. Three credit hours (3). Prerequisite: Any 200-level literature courses. Offered Fall semester.
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