2003 / 2004 - Bellevue College

Course Descriptions
ENGL 210
Introduction to
European Literature • 5 CR
Examines selected fiction, drama, or poetry from
European cultures. Content varies. Recommended:
ENGL 101 placement or higher.
ENGL 215
Folklore:
Myth, Folktale, & Legend • 5 CR
Examines traditional stories from different cultures.
Students discuss common motifs and styles,
relationships between cultural perspectives, and
theories concerning origins and significance. Recommended:
ENGL 101, 201, or a literature course
in the 100 series.
ENGL 221
Popular Literature • 5 CR
Investigates the themes, conventions, and cultural
assumptions of genre-based popular literature.
Specific topics vary and are announced in the class
schedule. Recommended: ENGL 101, 201, or a literature
course in the 100 series.
ENGL 223
Children’s Literature • 5 CR
Examines literature written for children. Students
discuss its moral, psychological, and political implications
and its place in the larger literary heritage.
Recommended: ENGL 101, 201, or a literature
course in the 100 series.
ENGL 231
Introduction to Shakespeare I • 5 CR
Surveys the development of Shakespeare’s dramatic
and literary art. Students read and analyze
representative comedies, tragedies, romances, and
histories. Lecture/discussion format. Recommended:
ENGL 101, 201, or a literature course in
the 100 series.
ENGL 232
Introduction to Shakespeare II • 5 CR
Continues ENGL 231, examining additional comedies,
tragedies, and histories. Recommended: ENGL
101, 201, or a literature course in the 100 series.
ENGL 241
The Bible as Literature • 5 CR
Explores the oral and written literary traditions of
the Old and New Testaments. Students focus on the
cultural, historical, and literary aspects of scripture.
Lecture/discussion format. Recommended: ENGL
101, 201, or a literature course in the 100 series.
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ENGL 263
British Literature:
Middles Ages & Renaissance • 5 CR
Explores the relationships among language, literature,
and cultural and intellectual context. Students
examine representative works such as “Beowulf,”
Chaucer’s “Canterbury Tales,” and the poems and
plays of Shakespeare. Recommended: ENGL 101,
201, or a literature course in the 100 series.
ENGL 264
The Age of Reason & Revolution • 5 CR
Surveys literary figures, styles, and themes of the
17th and 18th centuries. Authors and works vary,
but typically include Donne, Milton, Pope, Goldsmith,
Jonson, Swift, and Johnson. Students also
discuss early periodicals and novels. Recommended:
ENGL 101, 201, or a literature course in
the 100 series.
ENGL 265
English Literature:
Blake Through Hardy • 5 CR
Surveys the major Romantic and Victorian writers
in their literary and cultural context. Authors and
works vary, but typically include Blake,
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, The Shelleys, Keats,
Tennyson, the Brownings, G. Eliot, Hardy, and
Arnold. Recommended: ENGL 101, 201, or a literature
course in the 100 series.
ENGL 266
English Literature:
20th-Century Writers • 5 CR
Surveys the major figures and movements of modern
British literature. Authors and works vary, but
typically include T.S. Eliot, Yeats, Conrad, Joyce,
Lawrence, Auden, Thomas, Woolf, and Forster. Recommended:
ENGL 101, 201, or a literature course
in the 100 series.
ENGL 267
American Literature:
Beginnings Through Civil War • 5 CR
Surveys the early American literary scene. Authors
and works vary, but typically include Edwards,
Franklin, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Melville. Recommended:
ENGL 101, 201, or a literature course
in the 100 series.
ENGL 268
American Literature:
Civil War to End of World War I • 5 CR
Surveys American literature of the Realistic period.
Authors and works vary, but typically include
Dickinson, James, Adams, Howells, Crane, Dreiser,
and Twain. Recommended: ENGL 101, 201, or a literature
course in the 100 series.
ENGL 269
American Literature:
End of World War I to Present • 5 CR
Surveys 20th-century American literature, emphasizing
the expatriates and the experimental. Authors
and works vary, but typically include
Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Steinbeck, Faulkner,
O’Connor, Stevens, Eliot, Roethke, Lowell, Plath,
Barth, and Pyncheon. Recommended: ENGL 101,
201, or a literature course in the 100 series.
ENGL 270
Professional Report Writing • 5 CR
Incorporates organization, development and expression
of ideas with practical problems in writing. Technical
periodicals and reference work with proper bibliographical
usage are emphasized. Computer use is
required. Fulfills a written communication course requirement
at BCC. Prerequisite: COMM 141 or ENGL
101 with a C- or better; or entry code.
ENGL 271
Expository Writing I • 5 CR
Builds on the writing skills learned in ENGL 101 or
201. Students work on personal essays, information
and opinion papers, reviews, profiles, articles
based upon interviews, or other projects. Fulfills a
written communication course requirement at
BCC. Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or COMM 141 with a
C- or better; or entry code.
ENGL 272
Expository Writing II • 5 CR
Continues ENGL 271, developing more advanced
writing skills. Fulfills a written communication
course requirement at BCC. Prerequisite: ENGL 271
with a C- or better.
ENGL 273
Verse & Short Story Series
(Creative Writing) • 5 CR
Focuses on the creative process in general. This is
the first in a 3-course series; students may take any
or all courses in the 273/274/275 sequence.