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EGL - English 1
EGL 089 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0) EGL 096 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
Academic Reading and Study Skills for the Non-Native Speaker IV Developmental Composition I
Advanced course in reading for students whose first or primary language Course prepares students for college writing. Content includes the
is not English. Course focuses on preparing second language students writing process, sentence structure, paragraph organization, basic essay
to take courses for college credit. Course develops successful academic structure, grammar and mechanics.
reading and study strategies for non-native speakers. Content includes Prerequisite: Placement test.
vocabulary building, identifying lexical and textbook structures, and Delivery mode: Face-to-Face
applying critical reading skills to college-level material. EGL 089 is a EGL 097 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
mandatory course. Developmental Composition II
Prerequisite: College placement test or successful completion (grade of Course prepares students for college writing. Content includes the writing
“P”) of EGL 073. process, the structure of multi-paragraph essays, and review of sentence
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Hybrid | Online structure, paragraph organization, grammar, and mechanics.
EGL 090 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 1) Prerequisite: Placement into EGL 097 or EGL 099 or successful
Academic Writing Skills for the Non-Native Speaker IV completion of EGL 096 (with grade of P)
Advanced academic grammar and composition course for the non native Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Hybrid
speaker taking courses for college credit. Introduces the student to EGL 098 4 credit hours (lecture: 4 | lab: 0)
advanced sentence structures and a variety of academic writing. Content Reading/Writing Improvement II
includes organization, coherence, unity, argumentation, complex sentence Course prepares students for college-level reading and writing, and
structures, and advanced grammar. develops proficiency with comprehension, vocabulary, and critical
Prerequisite: College placement test or successful completion (grade of approaches to analyzing texts. Content includes structure of multi-
"P") in EGL 076. paragraph texts, conventions of written English, and processes of reading/
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Hybrid | Online writing. Emphasis is on approaches to literacy that apply to college-level
EGL 091 1 credit hours (lecture: 1 | lab: 0) courses across the disciplines.
Vocabulary Improvement for ESL Students Prerequisite: English Placement of EGL 098 Or Successful Completion
High intermediate to advanced course on learning, remembering, and (Grade of P) of both EGL 092 and EGL 096 Or Successful Completion
using English vocabulary. Students will learn multiple strategies to (Grade of P) of EGL 095 Or Writing Placement of EGL 096 and Reading
identify, memorize, and use academic vocabulary to increase reading Placement of EGL110 or higher Or Writing Placement of EGL 097 and
comprehension and improve writing. Reading Placement of EGL 092 Or Writing Placement of EGL 097 and
Prerequisite: Minimum placement of EGL 073 in reading or EGL 076 in Reading Placement of EGL 094 Or Writing Placement of EGL 099 and
writing. Reading Placement of EGL 092 Or Writing Placement of EGL 101 and
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Online Reading Placement of EGL 092.
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Hybrid | Online
EGL 092 4 credit hours (lecture: 4 | lab: 0)
Reading And Academic Skills Development EGL 099 2 credit hours (lecture: 2 | lab: 0)
Course introduces student-success strategies, helps students develop Composition Tutorial
reading proficiency with comprehension/vocabulary, and helps students Course allows students who place into developmental writing to take
become more active, reflective, and strategic readers. Emphasis is on both developmental writing and EGL 101 at the same time. Content
approaches to reading that apply to courses across the disciplines. supplements instruction in EGL 101, providing more individualized
Prerequisite: Appropriate score on placement test. instruction and support in college readiness, critical reading, college-level
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Hybrid writing, and analysis.
Prerequisite: Co-enrollment in EGL 101, and any one of the following:
EGL 094 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
English Placement of EGL 099 Or Writing Placement of EGL 097 and
Reading Improvement
Reading Placement of EGL 110 or higher Or Writing Placement of
Course helps students further develop reading proficiency with
EGL 099 and Reading Placement of EGL 094 Or Writing Placement of
comprehension, vocabulary, and critical reading, and become more active,
EGL 099 and Reading Placement of EGL 110 or higher.
reflective, and strategic readers. Emphasis is on approaches to reading
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Online
that apply to college-level courses across the disciplines.
Prerequisite: Placement test or successful completion (grade of “P”) of EGL 101 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
EGL 092. Composition I
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Hybrid | Online Course introduces strategies for planning, writing, and revising expository
essays based on experience and reading. Content includes purpose,
EGL 095 5 credit hours (lecture: 5 | lab: 0)
context, genre, and the rhetorical situation as elements in the writing
Reading/Writing Improvement I
process, as well as critical reading and analysis as the basis for essay
Course introduces students to college-level and near college-level reading
writing. The first course in a two-course sequence with EGL 102.
and writing, and develops proficiency with comprehension and vocabulary.
Prerequisite: Placement in EGL 101 or successful completion of EGL 090
Content includes structure of multi-paragraph texts, conventions of written
or EGL 097 or EGL 098 (grade of P).
English, and processes of reading/writing. Emphasis is on approaches to
IAI General Education: C1 900
literacy that apply to college-level courses across the disciplines.
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Hybrid | Online
Prerequisite: : English Placement of EGL 095 Or Reading Placement of
EGL 092 and Writing Placement of EGL 096 Or Reading Placement of
EGL 094 and Writing Placement of EGL 096.
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Hybrid | Online
2 EGL - English
EGL 102 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0) EGL 129 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
Composition II Introduction to Literature
Course introduces strategies for planning, writing, and revising advanced Course introduces students to the study of literature through critical
expository essays and the college research paper. Content includes reading and analysis in multiple literary genres. Content includes
critical reading and analysis, the structure of argument, and the use of terminology and methods for literary analysis and evaluation as well as
sources. discussion of social, intellectual, and historical influences on literary works.
Prerequisite: EGL 101 with minimum grade of C. IAI General Education: H3 900
IAI General Education: C1 901R Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Online
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Hybrid | Online EGL 130 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
EGL 110 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0) Introduction to Global Literature
Effective College Reading Course introduces students to literature in English by writers from
Course helps students further develop reading proficiency to an advanced countries, cultures or regions outside of the United States and Britain,
college-level with comprehension, vocabulary, and critical reading, and such as Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle-East and/or Latin America.
helps students become more active, reflective, and strategic readers. Content includes social, historical, and cultural contexts of literary works;
Emphasis is on approaches to reading that apply to college-level courses relationship of these writers to literary traditions; terminology and methods
across the disciplines. of literary analysis and evaluation.
Prerequisite: Reading Placement of EGL 110 or English Placement of Prerequisite: None
EGL 101 (native only) or successful completion (grade of P) of EGL 094 IAI General Education: H3 908N
or EGL 098 or EGL 089, or completion of EGL 101 with minimum grade of Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Hybrid | Online
C. EGL 131 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Hybrid | Online Multicultural Literature in the U.S.
EGL 111 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0) Course explores the literary expressions of at least three minority ethnic,
Introduction to Business and Technical Writing racial, religious or national groups of the United States, such as Chicano,
Course concentrates on development of competence in producing various Italian-American, Jewish-American, Muslim-American, Irish-American,
types of business documents. Content includes memoranda, letters, Asian-American, Native American and/or African-American. Content
reports, and procedural documents. Focus is on writing for an audience includes study of social, historical and literary context, and terminology
with identified purpose, using college-owned computer hardware and and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.
software. Prerequisite: None
Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement in EGL 101. IAI General Education: H3 910D
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Hybrid | Online Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Hybrid | Online
EGL 113 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0) EGL 132 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
Introduction to Drama LGBTQ+ Literature
Course introduces students to dramatic literature and its cultural, social, Course introduces students to poetry, fiction, drama, film, and non-fiction
and historical influences. Content includes terminology and methods for by LGBTQ+ writers. Content includes theory of gender and sexual identity;
analyzing and evaluating drama including form, thematic development, influence of gender and sexuality on literary expression; social, cultural,
and style. historical, political, and literary contexts; and terminology and methods of
IAI General Education: H3 902 literary analysis and evaluation.
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Online IAI General Education: H3 911D
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Hybrid | Online
EGL 115 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
Introduction to Fiction EGL 133 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
Course introduces students to study of the novel and short story in Women and Literature
cultural, social, and historical context. Content includes terminology and Course introduces fiction, poetry, and drama by diverse women writers
methods for analyzing and evaluating fiction including form, thematic from around the world. Content includes social, cultural, literary and
development, and style. historical contexts; terminology and methods of literary analysis and
IAI General Education: H3 901 evaluation.
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Hybrid | Online Prerequisite: None
IAI General Education: H3 911D
EGL 117 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Hybrid | Online
Introduction to Poetry
Course introduces students to the study of poetry and its cultural, social EGL 134 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
and historical context. Content includes terminology and methods Introduction to African-American Literature
for analyzing and evaluating poetry including form, theme and poetic Course introduces fiction, poetry, and drama by African-American
technique. writers. Content includes social, cultural, historical, and literary contexts;
IAI General Education: H3 903 comparable themes in popular culture; terminology and methods of literary
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Online analysis and evaluation.
Prerequisite: None
IAI General Education: H3 910D
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Hybrid | Online
EGL - English 3
EGL 135 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0) EGL 201 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
Introduction to Native American Literature Introduction to Creative Writing
Course introduces fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama by Native Course offers exposure to and practice in writing two or more forms of
American writers from eighteenth through twentieth centuries. Content literary discourse including poetry, fiction, essay, creative non-fiction, and
includes social, cultural, historical, political, and literary contexts, as well drama. Content includes the basic elements of writing in the selected
as terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation. genres.
Prerequisite: None Prerequisite: EGL 101 or consent of instructor or department chair.
IAI General Education: H3 910D Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Online
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Hybrid | Online EGL 202 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
EGL 136 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0) Writing Fiction
Introduction to U.S. Latino/a/x/Literature Course offers students the opportunity to develop an individual style as
Course introduces fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama by Latino/a/x fiction writers. Content includes basic elements of fiction writing: structure,
writers in the U.S. Content includes social, cultural, historical, political, and character, point of view, setting, and dialog.
literary contexts, as well as terminology and methods of literary analysis Prerequisite: EGL 101 or consent of instructor or department chair.
and evaluation. Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Online
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Online EGL 203 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
EGL 137 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0) Writing Poetry
Introduction to Asian American Literature Course offers students the opportunity to develop an individual style as
Course introduces fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama by Asian poets. Content includes basic elements and techniques of writing poetry:
American writers, and may also include film, comics, and other visual line, meter, free verse, imagery, and metaphor.
media from (but not limited to) the following ethnicities/nations of origin, of Prerequisite: EGL 101 or consent of instructor or department chair.
which at least three are represented: Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Indian, Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Online
Korean, Pakistani, Cambodian, and Vietnamese. Content includes social, EGL 204 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
cultural, historical, political, and literary contexts, as well as terminology Introduction to Screenwriting
and methods of literary analysis and evaluation. Course covers basic techniques of screenwriting. Content includes
IAI General Education: H3 910D elements and techniques of screenwriting such as format, structure,
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Hybrid | Online character, dialogue, and dramatization of scene. Emphasis will be on
EGL 140 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0) writing and revising a feature-length screenplay of the student's own
Introduction to Science Fiction and Fantasy creation.
Course introduces the study of culturally diverse works of science fiction Prerequisite: EGL 101 or consent of instructor.
and fantasy (hereafter referred to as SFF) dealing with scenarios and Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Online
settings, primarily manifested in the genres of SFF. Content includes EGL 211 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
social, cultural, historical, and literary contexts; comparable themes Writing Digital Content
in popular culture; terminology and methods of literary analysis and Writing Digital Content is designed to give students the necessary
evaluation, with a particular focus on how the imaginative content of SFF tools to competently write and present descriptive, explanatory, and
can be used as a tool for social exploration. In addition, the course may instructional information for internet and intranet systems. The course
explore different genres or modalities of SFF texts including but not limited explores specialized writing techniques and skills necessary to produce
to novel, short story, video game, film and television, or comic/graphic effective communications for digital formats. Focus is on online hypertext
novel. documents for internet and intranet systems. Content includes writing and
Note: Effective Spring 2023. Pending ICCB approval. editing scripts for podcasts and online videos; organizing and writing Web
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Hybrid | Online pages; product and service descriptions; and on-line training materials,
EGL 141 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0) easily navigated by various audiences. Experience using word processing
Introduction to Children’s Literature software, social media applications, and the Internet necessary.
Course introduces students to the distinctive characteristics and Prerequisite: Successful completion of one college-level English course
conventions of culturally diverse works of literature written for children of 101 or higher.
and young adults by focusing on genre, literary technique, and social, Note: This is not a course in HTML coding.
political, and historical contexts and applying methods of literary analysis IAI Major: MC 922
and evaluation. Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Online
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Hybrid | Online EGL 212 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
EGL 150 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0) Technical Writing Applications
Introduction to Journalism Course develops competencies in producing technical and scientific
Course develops basic journalistic skills in reporting and writing, including documents. Content includes manuals, proposals, status reports and
the following: the history of journalism, form and organization of news formal reports requiring research and data analysis. Focus is on writing
stories,leads, reporting of speeches and meetings, interviews, and news and designing reader-centered documents illustrating principles and
gathering. Students will learn use of the Internet, word processing, Power procedures typical of technical and scientific fields; and instruction in
Point and other reporting resource technologies. design and integration of necessary visual elements such as tables,
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Online charts, and graphs
Recommended: Successful completion of one college-level English
course.
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Online
4 EGL - English
EGL 220 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0) EGL 232 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
Introduction to Mass Communications British Literature II (from 1800 To The Present)
Course explores mass media’s roles in society. Content includes mass (offered spring semester only, every other year) Course traces the
media historical development, contemporary characteristics, functions, development of British Literature from 1800 through 20th century.
responsibilities, and inter-relationships among media. Course explores Content includes major writers, literary genres and cultural attitudes
mass communications as a consumer and a producer. during Romantic, Victorian, Edwardian and Modern Periods, as well as
IAI Major: MC 911 terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Online Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement in EGL 101.
IAI General Education: H3 913
EGL 221 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Online
American Literature I: Beginnings to 1865
Course focuses on the culturally diverse literatures of early America up EGL 234 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
to the end of the Civil War. Course will cover such works as oral stories Introduction to Shakespeare
by Native Americans, writings by early European explorers and colonists, (Offered fall semester only) Course introduces the study of Shakespeare
narratives and poetry by enslaved Africans, abolitionists, and free Black through focus on six to eight plays, selected from among comedies,
Americans, novels and poetry by women as well as the literatures of the tragedies and histories. Content includes social, cultural, literary, and
American Renaissance broadly understood. Content includes social, historical context of the plays; changing interpretations; individual
cultural, historical, and literary influences, as well as terminology and examples of performance taken from films, recordings, and attendance
methods of literary analysis and evaluation. at local theatres (when possible); terminology and methods of literary
Prerequisite: Placement into EGL 101 analysis and evaluation.
IAI General Education: H3 914 Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement in EGL 101.
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Online IAI General Education: H3 905
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Online
EGL 222 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
American Literature II (from The Civil War To The Present) EGL 241 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
(offered spring semester only, every other year) Course traces the Masterpieces Of Western Literature I
development of American literature by focusing on major writers from 1865 (offered fall semester only, every other year) Course introduces various
through 20th century. Content includes social, cultural, historical, and masterpieces of Western Literature from Ancient times through the
literary influences, as well as terminology and methods of literary analysis Renaissance (1650). Content includes important currents of western
and evaluation. thought during the period; comparative study of selected works;
Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement in EGL 101. terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.
IAI General Education: H3 915 Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement in EGL 101.
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face IAI General Education: H3 906
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Online
EGL 223 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
Contemporary American Literature EGL 242 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
(offered fall semester only) Course focuses on American literature of Masterpieces Of Western Literature II
recent past. Content includes fiction, poetry, and drama, as well as (offered spring semester only, every other year) Course introduces
influential television and film texts in their cultural, social, and historical various masterpieces of Western literature from 1650 to the present.
contexts, as well as terminology and methods of literary analysis and Content includes important currents of western thought during the period;
evaluation. comparative study of selected works; terminology and methods of literary
Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement in EGL 101. analysis and evaluation.
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement in EGL 101.
IAI General Education: H3 907
EGL 229 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face
[National/Regional] Literature
Course introduces students to literature in translation from any national or EGL 260 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
regional literature not written in English. Content includes primary periods Introduction to Linguistics
or themes of national or regional literature; social, historical, and cultural Course introduces the study of language. Content includes fundamental
contexts of literary works; relationship of individual writers to national concepts of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics,
or regional literary traditions; and terminology and methods of literary sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, and
analysis and evaluation. neurolinguistics.
Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement in EGL 101. Prerequisite: Completion of EGL 101 with a minimum grade of C or
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Online consent of instructor.
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face
EGL 231 3 credit hours (lecture: 3 | lab: 0)
British Literature I (from Anglo-Saxons To 1800) EGL 290 1-4 credit hours (lecture: 1-4 | lab: 0)
(offered fall semester only, every other year) Course traces the Topics in English
development of British Literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to 1800. Course explores selected topics in literature, writing, or journalism.
Content includes major writers, literary genres, and cultural attitudes of the Content will vary, with possible focus on single author, group of authors,
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, Elizabethan, Restoration, and Augustan periods, period of literature or literary theme; or on specific writing format, medium,
as well as terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation. purpose or audience. EGL 290 may be repeated up to three times on
Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement in EGL 101. different topics for a maximum of twelve credit hours. Fee Varies.
IAI General Education: H3 912 Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement into EGL 101.
Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Online Delivery mode: Face-to-Face | Online
EGL - English 5