2012-13 Undergraduate Catalog - Missouri Valley College

the Teacher Education Handbook for other major
assessment requirements.
EN 130. Rhetoric and Composition - 3 hours. An introduction to
college writing and the basic forms of the essay. EN 130 teaches
students to read and think critically, to write logical, welldeveloped
academic essays, and to write in a variety of rhetorical
situations. Students draft and revise essays that are collected in
a portfolio. EN 130 students also compose a researched
argumentative essay according to MLA guidelines. C or higher
required. Fall. Spring.
EN 160. Literature and Composition - 3 hours. A continued
emphasis upon the principles of expository writing and research
established in EN 130. Students will utilize the process method to
draft and revise well-developed essays that are collected in a
portfolio. Students will develop skills for synthesizing primary and
secondary texts in research papers written according to MLA
standards. In doing so, students will examine the basic elements
of the genres of short story, poetry, and drama. Selected works
are used as the basis for discussions, lectures, and student
writing. C or higher required. Prerequisite: C or better in EN 130.
Fall. Spring.
ALL COURSES 200 0R ABOVE REQUIRE EN 160 AS A
PREREQUISITE. Two literature survey courses are not to be
taken in the same semester.
EN 200. World Literature I - 3 hours. An investigation of the
literature of diverse cultures from antiquity to the Renaissance.
Fall. Spring.
EN 201. World Literature II - 3 hours. An investigation of the
literature of diverse cultures from the Renaissance to the present
day. Fall. Spring.
EN 220. American Literature I - 3 hours. Principal writers and
movements in the literature of North America from the colonial
period through the Civil War. Fall even years.
EN 225. American Literature II - 3 hours. Principal writers and
movements in the literature of the United States from the
Reconstruction to the present day. Spring even years.
EN 230. British Literature I - 3 hours. Principal writers and
movements in British literature from the Anglo-Saxons to the
Neoclassicists. Fall odd years.
EN 235. British Literature II - 3 hours. Principal writers and
movements in British literature from Romanticism to the present
day. Spring odd years.
EN 310. Film Criticism and American Culture - 3 hours.
Exploration of the cinematic components and the cultural
background of landmark American films. Spring odd years.
EN 315. Young Adult Literature – 3 hours. Reading intensive
study of Young Adult Literature with major emphasis on current
trends, significant authors, and major themes. This course will
include workshops on current trends in motivating and preparing
young and reluctant young readers to explore the world of
literature created specifically for them. Fall even years.
EN 326. Advanced Techniques of Composition - 3 hours.
Intensive training in generating correct, clear, and forceful prose
with an awareness of a specific audience. Must be taken during
the sophomore or junior year. WI Fall.
EN 327. Technical and Professional Writing - 3 hours.
Intensive instruction and practice in effective writing strategies for
career searches, government agencies, business, and industry.
Emphasis will be placed upon information gathering and the
writing of clear, correct, and properly formatted documents
including, but not limited to, persuasive letters and memoranda,
summaries, oral and written reports, visuals and descriptions,
instructions, PowerPoint, proposals and feasibility studies. Spring
even years.
EN 345. Literary Criticism. 3 hours. This course is a survey of
the major methods of literary criticism of the twentieth and early
twenty-first centuries, beginning with Formalism and most likely
including (but not restricted to) psycho-analytical criticism, Marxist
criticism, deconstruction, reader-response criticism, feminist and
gender criticism, new historicism, and post-colonial criticism. It
focuses on how these methodologies can be used to open up
literary works in new and creative ways, but rather than
encouraging students to pick one or another approach, it enables
them to arrive at their own way of approaching literature. Spring
even years.
EN 350. Modern Grammar - 3 hours. Introduction to modern
grammars with special emphasis on structural and
transformational grammar. Spring even years.
EN 360. Linguistics - 3 hours. Overview of the history of the
English language from its beginnings to the present day, including
grammatical changes, usage, semantics, lexicography, dialect
geography, and word origins. Fall odd years.
EN 371 Nineteenth-Century British Literature—3 hours This
course offers a broad examination of British literature from the
beginnings of Romanticism through Victoria’s reign to the
emergence of Aestheticism. Fall odd years.
EN 372. Medieval and Renaissance Literature – 3 hours. This
course offers a broad examination of British medieval and
Renaissance literature. It will cover the major genres and major
authors, such as the Pearl Poet, Scottish Chaucerians, Sir
Thomas Malory, Christopher Marlowe, Edmund Spenser, John
Donne, George Herbert, and Ben Johnson. Spring even years.
EN 380. Ethnic American Literature – 3 hours. Investigation of
the ethnic diversity of American literature in its cultural context,
with a focus on texts of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In
studying a variety of ethnic American voices, students become
aware of social and political issues as well as commonalities of
the American experience. Texts and authors will vary with the
instructor but may include Hispanic, African-American, Asian-
American, Jewish-American, and Native-American literature,
among others. Spring odd years.
EN 381 Milton and the Age of Reason – 3 hours. Investigation
of major literary developments from the Protectorate to the end of
the eighteenth century, including such writers as John Milton,
John Dryden, Aphra Behn, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope,
Frances Burney, William Blake, Mary Wollstonecraft, and Jane
Austen. Fall even years.
EN 383. American Romantic Literature – 3 hours.
Investigation of prose and poetry of the Romantic Period in
American Literature, 1830-1865, including such writers as
Cooper, Fuller, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau,
Stowe, Douglass, Whitman, and Dickinson. Fall even years.
EN 385. American Realism and Naturalism – 3 hours.
Investigation of prose and poetry of American Realism and
Naturalism, about 1865-1914, including such writers as Twain,
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