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Summer 2025 English (ENGL) Course Descriptions
ENGL 1020 - Core Composition I (3 Credits)
Provides opportunities to write for different purposes and audiences, with an emphasis on learning how to respond to various rhetorical situations; improving critical thinking, reading, and writing abilities; understanding various writing processes; and gaining a deeper knowledge of language conventions. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Max hours: 3 Credits. GT: Course is approved by the Colorado Dept of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer, GT-C01.
ENGL 2030 - Core Composition II (3 Credits)
Focuses on academic and other types of research-based writing and builds on the work completed in ENGL 1020. Focuses on critical thinking, reading and writing as well as working with primary and secondary source material to produce a variety of research-based essays. Emphasis on using both print-based and electronic-based information. Prereq: ENGL 1020 with a C- or higher. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Max hours: 3 Credits. GT: Course is approved by the Colorado Dept of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer, GT-C02.
Beginning workshop for defining and developing narrative craft, focusing on writing process and specialized topics. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Max hours: 3 Credits.
Offers students opportunities to examine and compose texts where language is integrated with other media, such as video, still images, music, etc. Includes basic instruction in digital multimedia composition and design tools. ENGL 2070 recommended. Prereq: Junior standing or higher. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Max hours: 3 Credits.
Focuses on the strategies and techniques of business writing, with emphasis on reader, message and form. ENGL 2070 recommended. Prereq: Sophomore standing. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Max hours: 3 Credits.
An intensive, practical course in writing non-fiction with an emphasis on journalistic approaches for daily, weekly, and monthly publications. Prereq or Coreq: ENGL 2030. Term offered: spring, summer. Max hours: 3 Credits.
Prereq: Sophomore standing. Department consent required. Term offered: fall, spring. Repeatable. Max hours: 6 Credits.
Employment situations designed and supervised by members of the faculty; concepts and skills developed in the classroom are used in business and public service contexts. Prereq: Junior standing or higher. Before enrolling, students should contact the Career Center. Note: Up to six hours may be counted toward the major. Note: students must work with the Experiential Learning Center advising to complete a course contract and gain approval. Term offered: fall, spring. Repeatable. Max hours: 9 Credits.
Explores the history of logic and its role in argumentation, studies various types of logical structures, and analyzes current uses of argumentation, with attention to writing arguments on current public issues. ENGL 3084 recommended. Prereq: Students must have junior standing/60 units
Department consent required. Term offered: fall, spring. Repeatable. Max hours: 12 Credits.
Students will engage in original research projects supervised and mentored by faculty. Students must work with faculty prior to registration to develop a proposal for their project and receive permission to take this course. Term offered: fall, spring. Repeatable. Max hours: 6 Credits.
English (ENGL) Course Descriptions
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Summer 2024 English (ENGL) Course Descriptions
ENGL 1020 - Core Composition I (3 Credits)
Provides opportunities to write for different purposes and audiences, with an emphasis on learning how to respond to various rhetorical situations; improving critical thinking, reading, and writing abilities; understanding various writing processes; and gaining a deeper knowledge of language conventions. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Max hours: 3 Credits. GT: Course is approved by the Colorado Dept of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer, GT-C01.
ENGL 2030 - Core Composition II (3 Credits)
Focuses on academic and other types of research-based writing and builds on the work completed in ENGL 1020. Focuses on critical thinking, reading and writing as well as working with primary and secondary source material to produce a variety of research-based essays. Emphasis on using both print-based and electronic-based information. Prereq: ENGL 1020 with a C- or higher. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Max hours: 3 Credits. GT: Course is approved by the Colorado Dept of Higher Education for statewide guaranteed transfer, GT-C02.
ENGL 3050 - Fiction Workshop (3 Credits)
Beginning workshop for defining and developing narrative craft, focusing on writing process and specialized topics. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Max hours: 3 Credits.
ENGL 3084 - Digital Writing and Storytelling (3 Credits)
Offers students opportunities to examine and compose texts where language is integrated with other media, such as video, still images, music, etc. Includes basic instruction in digital multimedia composition and design tools. ENGL 2070 recommended. Prereq: Junior standing or higher. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Max hours: 3 Credits.
ENGL 3170 - Business Writing (3 Credits)
Focuses on the strategies and techniques of business writing, with emphasis on reader, message and form. ENGL 2070 recommended. Prereq: Sophomore standing. Term offered: fall, spring, summer. Max hours: 3 Credits.
ENGL 3331 - Topics in Literature: Am Lit (1-15 Credits)
May look at specific genres, aesthetic approaches to literature, ideological or socio-political agendas, or other special topics in literature and/or works of major authors. Prereq: Sophomore standing or higher. Repeatable. Term offered: fall, spring. Max hours: 15 Credits.
ENGL 3416 - Magazine Writing (3 Credits)
An intensive, practical course in writing non-fiction with an emphasis on journalistic approaches for daily, weekly, and monthly publications. Prereq or Coreq: ENGL 2030. Term offered: spring, summer. Max hours: 3 Credits.
ENGL 3840 - Independent Study: ENGL (1-3 Credits)
Prereq: Sophomore standing. Department consent required. Term offered: fall, spring. Repeatable. Max hours: 6 Credits.
ENGL 3939 - Internship (1-6 Credits)
Employment situations designed and supervised by members of the faculty; concepts and skills developed in the classroom are used in business and public service contexts. Prereq: Junior standing or higher. Before enrolling, students should contact the Career Center. Note: Up to six hours may be counted toward the major. Note: students must work with the Experiential Learning Center advising to complete a course contract and gain approval. Term offered: fall, spring. Repeatable. Max hours: 9 Credits.
ENGL 4180 - Argumentation and Logic (3 Credits)
Explores the history of logic and its role in argumentation, studies various types of logical structures, and analyzes current uses of argumentation, with attention to writing arguments on current public issues. ENGL 3084 recommended. Prereq: Students must have junior standing/60 units
ENGL 4230 - The American Novel (3 Credits)
Surveys major developments in the American novel from the 18th century to the 21st century. Prereq: Sophomore standing. Cross-listed with ENGL 5230. Term offered: spring, summer. Max hours: 3 Credits.
ENGL 4840 - Independent Study: ENGL (1-3 Credits)
Department consent required. Term offered: fall, spring. Repeatable. Max hours: 12 Credits.
ENGL 4880 - Directed Research (1-6 Credits)
Students will engage in original research projects supervised and mentored by faculty. Students must work with faculty prior to registration to develop a proposal for their project and receive permission to take this course. Term offered: fall, spring. Repeatable. Max hours: 6 Credits.