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Advanced instruction and practice in a variety of expository and other writing tasks. Special emphasis on writing with style, clarity, and effectiveness for various audiences. Prerequisite: LAE102 or equivalent. 2-5 quarter hours Counts in the Written Communication Area of General Education Requirements.

Basic techniques of fiction and poetry. Individual instructor may stress one or the other. ( Students can inquire ahead.) Wide reading expected as a stimulus to creative expression. Prerequisites: LAE102 or equivalent. 5 quarter hours

Students learn to distinguish between various forms of fiction and nonfiction writing by analyzing exemplary writing in both areas and by developing papers on the same general subject approached in various ways. Journalism, feature writing, memoir, and writing with a marketing perspective are some forms sampled in the area of nonfiction. Short stories, plays, screenplays are discussed and tried in the fiction realm. Prerequisite(s): ENG101 and ENG102 or equivalent 5 quarter hours

Students will study important British authors from the beginnings with Beowulf to 1750, focusing on selected major figures in both poetry and prose. Writers from the Early and Later Middle Ages might include the Beowulf Poet, Chaucer and Malory, among others. Renaissance writers might include Sidney, More, Hoby, Donne and Milton, among others. Restoration and later writers might include Dryden, Pope, Swift and Johnson, among others. Counts in the Humanities or Literature area of General Education Requirements. Prerequisite(s): LAE101 and LAE102, or equivalent 5 quarter hours

Students will study important British authors from 1750-1900, focusing on selected major figures in either poetry or the novel. Possible writers might include the Romantic poets, such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats, Shelley and Byron, among others. Novelists might include Austen, the Bronte sisters, Dickens, Hardy, Conrad, among others. Counts in the Humanities or Literature area of General Education Requirements. Prerequisite(s): LAE101 and LAE102 or equivalent 5 quarter hours

A general overview recommended for students entering the teaching profession. Survey of best of the old and new in prose and verse form the nursery level through elementary grades. Techniques of presentation are discussed. Major emphasis on content and quality of literature. Prerequisite: LAE102 or equivalent. 5 quarter hours Counts in the Humanities or Literature Area of General Education Requirements.

Masterpieces of world literature from the earliest times to the present, in translation. Syllabus includes primarily western literature-Greek, Italian, Spanish, German, French, Russian- but some attention also given to non-western literature. Prerequisite: LAE102 or equivalent. 5 quarter hours Counts in the Humanities or Literature area of General Education Requirements.

A study of important literacy works by representatives of minority groups. Specific focus is determined by the individual instructor and can be limited to a particular group, time period, and/or literary type. Students examine how literature functions as protest and in the search for identity. Prerequisite: LAE102 or equivalent. 5 quarter hours Counts in the Humanities or Literature area of General Education Requirements.

Examination of poetry as a literary genre through critical analysis. Prerequisite: LAE102 or equivalent. 5 quarter hours Counts in the Humanities or Literature area of General Education Requirements.

A study of examples of mythology from two or more cultural traditions, possibly including ancient and modern western and non-western traditions. The mythology will be studied as literature and from the perspective of several major twentieth-century theories of myth. Prerequisites: LAE102 or equivalent 5 quarter hours Counts in the Humanities or Literature area of General Education Requirements.

An introduction to the study of language, with emphasis on historical study and on the English language. Covers characteristics, origins and development of language; origins and historical development of the English language in Great Britain and America; descriptive and prescriptive grammar; varieties of American English. 5 quarter hours Prerequisite(s): LAE102 or equivalent Counts in the Humanities or Written Communication Area of General Education.

An introduction to film theory and film technique, with some reference to the history of film. Emphasis will be placed on the tools used to tell stories in film, e.g., cinematography, editing and sound. Both American and foreign film will be screened and discussed; Intolerance, Metropolis, Citizen Kane, My Darling Clementine, Shoot the Piano Player, The Seventh Seal and 8 1/2 are typical of the films covered. Students will also view movies outside of class and write papers analyzing various aspects of filmmaking. Prerequisite: AE102 or equivalent. 5 quarter hours Counts in the Humanities Area of General Education Requirements.

Students attack the practical skills that an editor needs to clearly, confidently, and correctly edit another person's copy. Editing assignments focus on finding and fixing errors. Students sharpen grammar and style, learn to gracefully shorten someone else's writing, and learn conventional editing symbols. They report on editing "bloopers" that they find published on paper or on the Internet. Prerequisite(s): English 101 and 102 or equivalent. 5 quarter hours

Students read, discuss and write papers on selections of literature commonly taught in Illinois high schools. They learn to lead discussions on the assigned literature with special attention to the interests and potential of high school students. Materials are clustered around a theme with special relevance or curricular usefulness for this group, such as "Coming of Age" , "Young Americans During the Great Depression", or "Families in Transition". 5 quarter hours Counts in the Humanities or Literature area of General Education Requirements.