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English Department Prerequisite: Exemption/Pass on ACT, First semester students with an exemption or a pass on the CUNY ACT reading test, and the highest failing grade on the new CUNY developmental writing exam (CAAW) ENG099 Basic Writing I 0 credit; 5 hours (4 lectures, 1 lab) (Equivalent to Quick Start USW099) Basic Writing is designed to introduce and develop college level writing proficiency through careful attention to the writing process. Emphasizing both the writing process and skills needed for timed and high stakes essays, such as the CUNY Aligned assessment of Writing (CAAW), this course will prepare students for college level writing. Students will learn text based writing in the short essay form to clearly express ideas in edited U.S. English that integrate analysis of a written text. Prerequisite: ESL/ESR099, Students must demonstrate readiness for learning college-level writing proficiency as indicated by their score on the CUNY Aligned Assessment of Writing (CAAW) Exam. ENG101 Composition I: An Introduction to Expository Writing 3 credits; 4 hours In this course students focus on writing as a process to create correct and effective expository essays in response to culturally diverse sources. Emphasis is placed on using various methods of organization appropriate to the writer’s specific writing context. Students use a variety of rhetorical strategies, research methods and documentation procedures in their essays. Admission to this course is based on college placement test scores. Prerequisite: CSE095/099 if required; ENA/ENG/ESA099/ ENC101 if required; exemption or Pass on the ACT Writing and Reading Tests. ENG102 Composition II: Writing Through Literature 3 credits; 3 hours This course extends and intensifies the work of Composition I, including research methods and documentation procedures. Students are introduced to close-reading techniques to develop critical thinking and writing skills through the study of culturally diverse works in poetry and at least two other literary genres. Writing assignments include a critical research paper applying tools of literary analysis. Admission to the course requires completion of Composition I. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG103 The Research Paper 2 credits; 2 hours This course gives students intensive instruction and practice in library research and writing a staged, formal essay. Students will learn how to choose an appropriate research topic, pose a research question and outline, organize and integrate source material into their essays without plagiarizing. They will find and evaluate both print and online sources and practice taking notes, summarizing, paraphrasing, quoting, using in-text citations and creating a Works Cited. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG106 Critical Writing: Analysis and Argumentation 3 credits; 3 hours This course is designed to reinforce and add to the skills developed in Composition I. Emphasis will be placed on those skills central to planning, composing and revising essays of argumentation and critical analysis. Students will also work on developing greater variety and brevity of style and will write a series of essays, including precis, analyses and critiques, based on related readings. A final term paper will contain an independent evaluation of secondary sources. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG/ELL110 English Grammar Syntax 3 credits; 3 hours This is a grammar and syntax course. The course focuses on the grammatical structures necessary in academic discourse. The course begins with a review of the English verb system and covers preposition use, English word order, adverb, adjective and noun clauses, reported speech, article usage, complex conditionals and passive voice. Additional topics may be selected in response to particular needs and interests of the students in the class. Pre- or Corequisite: CSE095, ESL/ESR099 ENG/HUC238 Screenwriting 3 credits; 3 hours This is a course in the art and craft of writing a fictional narrative for the screen. Screenwriting genres and applications vary widely, yet every one reaches its audience through storytelling. Students examine the ways cinematic narratives show, rather than tell. Students then create their own 10-minute movie script. They explore scene and act structure, character development, dialogue, description, etc. Students learn professional standards for writing for the screen and how to use screenplay software. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENN198 Creative Writing Workshop 3 credits; 3 hours This course introduces students to the elements of creative writing by using New York as a writer’s laboratory. Field trips to city places such as schools, streets, parks will lead to writing that uses these places and the people in them as themes. Students will write a variety of creative pieces — sketches, brief narratives, poems, dramatic dialogues dealing with this glimpsed New York life. Reading of and visits with New York writers writing on New York themes will complement these activities. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 This is a Writing Intensive course. ENZ099 Basic Writing II: ACT Preparation Workshop 0 credit; 4 hours Basic Writing II is designed to reinforce writing skills acquired in ENA/G099 for students who have passed Basic Writing I but who have not yet passed the writing portion of the CUNY ACT 121
English Department Writing Test. The course provides concentrated test-taking strategies and practice necessary for writing argument essays under time constraints. The course also acts, by reinforcement and enhancement of essay writing, as additional preparation for ENG 101: Composition I. Prerequisite: ENA/ENG/ESA/099/ENC101 Journalism ENG210 Journalism: Its Scope and Use 3 credits; 3 hours This course provides an overview of journalism with an emphasis on print and related areas, such as in-house publications and public relations writing. Also to be covered are the history and impact of journalism, particularly the changing role of women and minorities in the press. News reporting, editing, production, newsroom organization and management will be explored through writing assignments, demonstrations and visits to LaGuardia’s newspaper as well as professional news publications. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG211 Journalism: The Craft of Gathering and Reporting the News 3 credits; 3 hours This course emphasizes writing various types of hard news stories for mainstream and community newspapers. Students also learn how to use different interview styles to cover a variety of newsbeats. Students will be involved in writing for the College newspaper. Field trips to newsrooms will enable students to write reports on potential careers in news writing. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG212 Feature Writing for Newspapers and Popular Magazines 3 credits; 3 hours This course introduces students to writing various types of feature stories, such as the human interest story, the lifestyle column, opinion and reviews (films, theater, books). To gather material for these features, students will learn how to vary their interview techniques. Press law which applies to writing reviews and opinion will be covered. Each student will also have an opportunity to write a feature profiling cultural diversity at LaGuardia. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG213 Broadcast Journalism: Writing for Radio 3 credits; 3 hours This course introduces student to the essentials of radio news writing. Students learn how to prepare for radio news interviews, how to outline, write and edit radio news spots of various styles, how to proofread stories to avoid violating FCC regulations. This course also focuses on writing for community-based radio stations. Students will visit a community radio station and will write about careers in radio journalism. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG220 Seminar in Teaching Writing 4 credits; 4 hours The Seminar in Teaching Writing combines three hours of class discussion of theory and practice of teaching writing with one hour of actual classroom experience as a participant observer and as a tutor. In class, students will discuss readings on writing theory and practice teaching and tutoring methodologies. Students will work with students in a composition or basic writing class. They will observe the class during the first half of the term and during the second half they will tutor under supervision. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 Literature ENG204 Asian American Literature 3 credits; 3 hours This course examines the achievements of Asian American writers, exploring ways in which these writers represent community, class, nation, race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality and culture, and analyzing recurrent themes such as identity, generation conflict and assimilation. Literary works written in English by Khaled Hosseini, Henry David Hwang, Maxine Hong Kingston, Jhumpa Lahiri, Chang-rae Lee, Bharati Mukherjee, John Okada and Wakako Yamauchi, among others, might be studied. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG205 The Bible as Literature 3 credits; 3 hours This course is designed to analyze the Bible critically as a literary compilation with particular consideration to the following forms: myth, epic narrative, drama, poetry, prophecy and parable. Questions of literary history, canonicity, authorship and source materials are considered. Various translations (e.g., King James, Coverdale, Jerusalem) may be examined comparatively for their use of language. Selections for study are chosen for their impact on subsequent literature, as well as for their artistic merit. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG225 Afro-American Literature 3 credits; 3 hours This course is a survey of African-American literature from its beginning to the present day, including the slavery era, the era of accommodation and protest, the Harlem Renaissance, the integrationist movement, the era of black aestheticism and the post- 1960s decades. Writers to be studied might include Wheatley, Douglass, DuBois, Hughes, McKay, Brown, Wright, Brooks, Walker, Ellison, Baldwin, Hansberry, Baraka, Morrison, Naylor and Wilson, among others. Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101 ENG235 Cultural Identity in American Literature 3 credits; 3 hours This course will explore the diverse voices of writers in the United States through a consideration of cultural context. Literature to 122
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