MEDAILLE COLLEGE | Undergraduate Catalog | 2010–2011
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NOTE: All new students entering the College are required to take ENG 100, ENG 110, and ENG 200 within their first 45 credits at Medaille College. Transfer students with more than 45 credits already completed should complete these courses as soon as possible. ENG 100 COLLEGE WRITING I This course introduces students to the process of writing they will need for success in College. It increases students’ abilities to communicate confidently with others, to think clearly, and to organize ideas. Pre-writing, drafting, revising, and editing are emphasized. Students will produce a portfolio of their writings including a self assessment. Three credit hours. This course is required for and limited to all students who place within the specified range on the placement test. Offered Fall and Spring semesters. ENG 110 COLLEGE WRITING II This course develops students’ abilities to write effectively in College. It assists students to make judgments regarding content within their own writing, particularly when utilizing researched sources. It also emphasizes organization, structure, revision, and mechanics. Students will produce a portfolio of their written work, including a self assessment. Three credit hours. Prerequisites: ENG 100, ENG 110, or suitable score on the writing assessment. Offered Fall and Spring semesters. ENG 200 ANALYTICAL WRITING This course is designed to follow ENG 110. It develops students’ skills in critical thinking and in writing analyses, using subject matter from across the curriculum. Each writing assignment requires research and writing from sources. Students will produce a portfolio of their written work, including a self assessment. Three credit hours. Prerequisites: ENG 110, ENG 111, or its equivalent in transfer credits. Offered Fall and Spring semesters. ENG 205 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE This course introduces students to the basic literary forms, techniques and processes used in poetry, drama and the short story, as well as to some of their classical origins. In addition to selections from European and American literature, students will read selected classical and religious texts that have contributed to the development of Western Literature. Three credit hours. Prerequisites: none. Offered Fall and Spring semesters. ENG 210 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING This course introduces students to the tools and techniques needed to compose different types of creative writing, including fiction, poetry, drama and, at the discretion of the instructor, perhaps one other genre such as creative nonfiction or the personal essay. This course also is designed to help students learn how to express idea, emotion, and other experiences in language through traditional, contemporary, and experimental forms of stories, poems, plays, and essays. This course also will help build students’ confidence in the oral performance of their creative writing and provide them knowledge about how to publish their own work. Three credit hours. Prerequisites: GEN 110. Offered Spring semester. 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. Prerequisites: none. Offered Spring semester.
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