2012-2013 Catalog (all pages) - Ohlone College

9 ANNOUNCEMENT OF COURSES 183
ENGL-108 Writing Short Fiction
54.00 hrs lecture
Units: 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL-101A
Accepted For Credit: CSU & UC
This course will review the fundamentals of fiction writing,
provide an in-depth study of intermediate short fiction writing
techniques, and offer exercises designed to stimulate creativity.
(GR)
ENGL-109 The Graphic Novel
54.00 hrs lecture
Units: 3.00
Advisory: Eligible for ENGL-101A
Accepted For Credit: CSU & UC
This course presents graphic novels and related literature
genres by and about characters from various ethnic, cultural,
socio-economic, historical, and geo-political backgrounds.
These graphic novels will be analyzed with a focus on
language, art, design, ideology, substance, and content in
order to explore the genre of the graphic novel as an art form
and literature form as well as to recognize the undercurrent of
themes running through this form of literature. Studying the
artists’ works and examining the historical, social,
psychological, and cultural forces shaping the literary and
artistic form of the graphic novel will allow students to become
aware of this genre of literature as a unique contribution to the
study of literature and art. (GC)
ENGL-111A Beginning Creative Writing
54.00 hrs lecture
Units: 3.00
Advisory: ENGL-101A
Accepted For Credit: CSU & UC
This course includes experimentation with creative principles
such as fiction, non-fiction, drama, and poetry, and a critical
analysis of the student’s work. (GC)
ENGL-111B Intermediate Creative Writing
54.00 hrs lecture
Units: 3.00
Prerequisite: ENGL-111A
Advisory: ENGL-101A
Accepted For Credit: CSU & UC
This course provides students the opportunity to experiment
with creative principles such as fiction, non-fiction, drama, and
poetry, and a critical analysis of student’s work. (GC)
ENGL-112 Modern Fiction
54.00 hrs lecture
Units: 3.00
Advisory: Eligible for ENGL-101A
Accepted For Credit: CSU & UC
The themes of love and sexuality, family conflict, coming of
age, and the individual in society are explored in the fiction of
modern writers such as Toni Morrison, Amy Tan, John Updike,
Franz Kafka, and others. (GC)
ENGL-113 Poetry
54.00 hrs lecture
Units: 3.00
Advisory: Eligible for ENGL-101A
Accepted For Credit: CSU & UC
This course examines traditional and contemporary poetry and
poets. It includes discussion of sound, symbol, and spirit in
poems by major poets like Shakespeare, Sylvia Plath,
Wordsworth, Frost, Emily Dickinson, and others. (GR)
ENGL-114 World Mythology
54.00 hrs lecture
Units: 3.00
Advisory: ENGL-101A
Accepted For Credit: CSU & UC
This course is a study of significant myths and legends with
emphasis on Greek/Roman, Nordic (Norse), and another Indo-
European mythological system. Students also study other
mythological systems of various cultures through independent
research. Focus is on literature. (GC)
ENGL-115 Women in Literature
54.00 hrs lecture
Units: 3.00
Cross-referenced Course: WS-115
Advisory: Eligible for ENGL-101A
Accepted For Credit: CSU & UC
Students will read, discuss, and write about short stories,
novels, poetry, drama, and essays of British and American
women writers past and present. (GC)
ENGL-117 Science Fiction and Fantasy
54.00 hrs lecture
Units: 3.00
Advisory: Eligible for ENGL-101A
Accepted For Credit: CSU & UC
A sampling of science fiction and fantasy from traditional space
voyages, sword and sorcery to more sophisticated, modern
forms are studied in this course. (GC)
ENGL-118 Introduction to Shakespeare
54.00 hrs lecture
Units: 3.00
Advisory: Eligible for ENGL-101A
Accepted For Credit: CSU & UC
This course introduces the students to the Elizabethan era, to
drama as a literary form, and to the plays and poems of
William Shakespeare. (GC)
ENGL-119 The Gothic Novel
54.00 hrs lecture
Units: 3.00
Advisory: Eligible for ENGL-101A
Accepted For Credit: CSU & UC
This course examines selected gothic novels in English and
American Literature in order to analyze and discuss their
importance in the development of fiction. Course focus is on
the gothic impulse in nineteenth century literature. Classics like
Frankenstein, Dracula, Jane Eyre, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
will be studied in connection with the preoccupations of the
Romantic and Victorian eras. Vintage films will be shown. (GC)
ENGL-120A Survey of American Literature: Beginning to 1865
54.00 hrs lecture
Units: 3.00
Advisory: ENGL-101A
Accepted For Credit: CSU & UC
This course focuses on the literary productions of America
from its beginning to 1865. Students will read and discuss
American oral traditions, short stories, poetry, drama, and
novels and will become familiar with great American writers.
(GC)
ENGL-120B Survey of American Literature: 1865 to Present
54.00 hrs lecture
Units: 3.00
Advisory: ENGL-101A
Accepted For Credit: CSU & UC
This course focuses on American literature from 1865 to the
present: Transcendentalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism.
Students will read and discuss classic American short stories,
poetry, drama, and novels and will become familiar with great
American writers. (GR)
2012-2013 OHLONE COLLEGE CATALOG