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LOS ANGELES CITY COLLEGE 80TH ANNIVERSARY CATALOG 2008-2009
ENGLISH 69
Writing and Revising on the Computer
1 UNIT – (RPT 3) NDC
Individual help in using computers to improve their writing skills including
organizing, spelling, punctuation, and mechanics.
ENGLISH 78
Writing Memoir
3 UNITS – (RPT 2) (A)
This course focuses on writing personal memoirs. Students will read fulllength
memoirs by published writers, and outline and compose their own
memoirs. During the semester, students will learn to recognize and explore
memories and experiences, decide what to include and exclude, and in the
writing process, discover new meanings from their pasts which gives perspectives
to the present. At the end of the course, students will have produced
an outline and a minimum of two sample chapters from their own
memoir.
ENGLISH 94
Intensive Grammar Review
3 UNITS – NDC
Advisory: Eligibility for English 21.
An intensive review of grammar and sentence structure for students who
want extra help before taking English 28 or 101.
UNIVERSITY TRANSFER COURSES
ENGLISH 101
College Reading and Composition I
3 UNITS - (UC:CSU)
Prerequisite: English 28 /31 or appropriate placement score.
Advisory: English 67 or 68.
English 101 is a transfer course that develops proficiency in college-level
reading and writing through the practice of critical thinking and well-developed
logical expository writing.
ENGLISH 102
College Reading and Composition II
3 UNITS - (UC:CSU)
Prerequisite: of English 101 or equivalent.
Development of critical thinking, reading, and writing skills beyond the level
achieved in English 101 and emphasizes logical reasoning, analysis, and
strategies of argumentation using literature and literary criticism as subject
matter.
ENGLISH 103
Composition and Critical Thinking
3 UNITS - (UC:CSU)
Prerequisite: English 101 or equivalent.
Development of logical, argumentative, and analytical thinking through examination
of written and other types of cultural texts.
ENGLISH 124
Short Story Writing I
3 UNITS - (UC:CSU)
Prerequisite: English 101 or equivalent.
This is a course in the writing of short fiction. The focus will be on character,
narrative development, voice, style, and revision. We will read and analyze
narrative structures of twentieth century writers, and students will experiment
with various ways to structure the short story. Students will share their
writing in class, and critique each others’ work, using the theory and techniques
studied.
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ENGLISH 127
Creative Writing
3 UNITS – (RPT 2) (UC:CSU)
Prerequisite: English 101 or equivalent.
This course offers blocks of intensive training in writing poetry, prose fiction,
and/or playwriting. Discussion of each participant’s writing is the central
mode of instruction, supplemented by examples of published writers and
theoretical essays on the creative process.
ENGLISH 137
Library Research and Bibliography
1 UNITS - (UC:CSU)
Prerequisite: English 28 or equivalent.
Students learn how to use Internet resources to evaluate online information
to publish original multimedia research projects.
ENGLISH 203
World Literature I (beginnings to 1600)
3 UNITS - (UC:CSU)
Prerequisite: English 101 or equivalent.
A reading of key literary works and ideas of the Western world, the Middle
East, Africa, and Asia from antiquity to the seventeenth century. The course
will require students to recognize and compare readings from different cultures
and poetic forms and literary themes significant to the cultures in reasoned
analysis.
ENGLISH 204
World Literature II (1600 to the present)
3 UNITS - (UC:CSU)
Prerequisite: English 101 or equivalent.
Study of selected major works of World literature, covering Western Europe,
the Middle East, Africa, and Asia, from the 17 th century to the present. The
course will require students to recognize and compare readings from different
cultures and analyze poetic forms and literary themes significant to the
cultures in reasoned analyses.
ENGLISH 205
English Literature I (Beginnings to 1800)
3 UNITS - (UC:CSU)
Prerequisite: English 102 or equivalent.
Reading, discussion and analysis of major works of English literature from
the beginnings of the nineteenth century, to develop student’s understanding
and appreciation of the poetry, fiction, and drama of these literary periods,
and to express that appreciation in reasoned analyses.
ENGLISH 206
English Literature II: Nineteenth Century to the
Present
3 UNITS - (UC:CSU)
Prerequisite: English 102 or equivalent.
Reading, discussion, and analysis of major works of English literature from
the nineteenth century to the present. Designed to develop the student’s
ability to understand and appreciate the poetry, fiction, and drama of these
literary periods and to express that appreciation in reasoned analyses.
ENGLISH 208
American Literature II: Nineteenth Century to the
Present
3 UNITS - (UC:CSU)
Prerequisite: English 101 or equivalent.
The course covers American writers from the Civil War period to the present.
Writers include Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens,
Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, Zora Neal Hurston, Leslie Marmon Silko,
Tomas Rivera, Bharati, Mukerjee, and Allen Ginsberg and others.