2010 Catalog - Delaware County Community College

114 COURSE DESCRIPTIONS
• Identify dominant themes/concerns in the established
and emerging literatures.
• Recognize the identifying characteristics of the literature
of each culture as well as the universals evident in
all literatures.
• Demonstrate an awareness of the struggle of writers of
the emerging literatures to find a voice, an audience
and a hearing.
• Articulate their responses to the cultures and writers
encountered in the form of analytical/argumentative,
researched and documented essays.
Prereq. ENG 112
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
ENG 242
Bible As Literature
To survey the development and content of the Bible,
this course of study includes the historical context and
literary style.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Identify and describe the literary style of the Books of
the Bible.
• Distinguish the various themes in the Bible.
• Describe the historical and social context of the material.
• Describe the development of the canon.
• Answer comprehensive questions on biblical context.
• Write a paper using the historical critical method.
Prereq. ENG 100
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
ENG 243
Topics in Contemporary
Literature
Selected topics and themes from the literature of recent
decades, including recent developments in the drama,
current movements in modern poetry and the fiction
of today.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Identify various motifs found in modern literature such as
wasteland image, fantasy, myth and alienation.
• Discuss such concepts as existentialism, idealism and
expressionism as found in modern literature.
• Identify socio-economic and historical influences on
the writers.
• Interpret the works according to the writer's intellectual
and emotional response to them.
• Analyze literature in one or more critical research papers.
Prereq. ENG 112
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
ENG 245
Black American Literature
This course is a comprehensive survey of the writings
of African Americans beginning with the 18th century
through the present. By way of reading, lecture and
discussion, students analyze the various genres, topics,
mores and traditions identified with African Americans,
their historical and cultural significance.
Upon successful completion of this course, students
should be able to:
• Discuss the roles of African Americans in the larger
culture as reflected in selected literature.
• Trace historical developments among Blacks in America
from their African roots through slavery, the Civil War
and the industrialized 20th century.
• Analyze literary elements of the works studied.
• Discuss the origins of racial stereotypes, discrimination
and segregation as they appear in selected works.
• Write an essay discussing the aforementioned topics.
Prereq. ENG 100
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
ENG 250
Children's Literature
This course is a critical and analytical study of a variety
of texts that represent the many genres of children's
literature. It will emphasize how children are influenced by
literature and how children's literature reflects the values of
the particular culture that produces it. Upon successful
completion of this course, students should be able to:
• Recognize the characteristics of the different genres of
children's literature.
• Determine and apply criteria for what may be considered
as quality children's literature.
• Analyze literary elements such as theme, character,
and setting.
• Evaluate the contributions that illustrations can make
to a text.
• Identify literature as a product of a particular
cultural climate.
• Discuss critically issues of gender, ethnicity, culture,
and the individual that are present in the texts.
• Design and research a written project that relates to a
student's particular interest in children's literature.
Prereq. ENG 112
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
(ESL) Eng as a Second Language
ESL 023
Elementary Grammar
This is a high beginning multi-skills course to practice
and learn grammar in listening, speaking, reading and
writing for everyday life and in college. Students must take
this course with other ESL skills courses in writing (ESL
024), reading (ESL 025) and listening/speaking (ESL 026).
Upon successful completion of the course, students
should be able to:
• Use the simple present, past and future tenses of regular
and irregular verbs.
• Use with some accuracy the present and past continuous,
and the present perfect tenses.
• Understand and use yes/no and wh- questions.
• Produce and use sentences with if, when, after, before,
because and while with correct verb tenses.
• Use models of ability, request and necessity.
• Use with some accuracy prepositions of time, place,
pronouns and count/non-count nouns.
• Use with some accuracy comparisons and superlatives.
• Learn and use language confidently and appropriately.
Prereq. Placement Test
3 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
ESL 024
Elementary Writing
This course is for advanced beginners who can write
basic sentences and have some knowledge of English
sentence structure. The course covers basic grammatical
structures and introduces students to simple paragraph
writing as well as other types of writing needed in
everyday life.
Upon successful completion of the course, students
should be able to:
• Write simple, clear sentences with correct capitalization
and punctuation.
• Write simpler forms of compound and complex sentences
with appropriate linking words.
• Write unified paragraphs of 8 to 10 sentences about
people, places and events.
• Collect and organize information for use in sentence writing.
• Recognize and identify the basic parts of speech in
writing using the correct dictionary abbreviations.
• Use the basic verb tenses to indicate present, past and
future time.
• Use the common models and prepositions of time and
location correctly.
• Develop some skill in recognizing and correcting
common writing errors.
• Show improved ability to use correct word endings
and articles.
Prereq. Placement Test
4 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
2 Weekly Laboratory Hours
ESL 025
Elementary Reading
This advanced-beginner course is designed to develop
students' ability to use reading strategies and to expand
vocabulary in order to understand simplified texts.
Students will normally take this course with Elementary
Writing (ESL 024) and Elementary Speaking/Listening (ESL
026). Two hours per week of tutoring are required. In the
course, students should be able to:
• Read text appropriate for this level.
• Respond to questions and organize information from
readings into simple outlines and grids.
• Find main ideas, topic sentences and details.
• Predict content by asking questions before reading.
• Use strategies to infer the meaning of vocabulary,
decode difficult sentences, and interpret punctuation
and connectors.
• Skim and scan for information.
• Expand vocabulary.
• Use an English-English dictionary for ESL learners
Prereq. Placement Test
4 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
2 Weekly Laboratory Hours
ESL 026
Elementary Listening/Speaking
This is a course for advanced beginners who have some
basic knowledge of English and some functional communicative
ability (e.g., simple questions and answers on topics
of everyday interest). Class time is devoted to speaking for
everyday needs, grammar practice, pronunciation, intensive
listening to short, simplified narratives and listening for
specific information in extended narratives and conversations.
Students normally take this course along with Elementary
Writing (ESL 024) and Elementary Reading (ESL 025). The
course also has two hours of lab time, which will provide
students with additional listening practice.
Upon successful completion of the course, students
should be able to:
• Ask and answer questions about their own life situations.
Use courtesy in various everyday situations.
• Describe or narrate an event using two or more
sentences.
• Learn the sound system of English, and practice
pronunciation and intonation.
• Develop listening strategies to understand information
necessary for everyday life (e.g., weather forecasts).
• Understand simplified, extended narratives (e.g., lectures
and dialogues).
Prereq. Placement Test
4 Credits 3 Weekly Lecture Hours
2 Weekly Laboratory Hours
ESL 033
Intermediate Grammar I
This course is a continuation of Elementary Grammar
(ESL 023). Students practice grammatical structures through
reading, writing, speaking and listening tasks in a classroom
setting. This course is helpful for students who are fluent
in English, but who need to develop the accuracy that is
necessary for success in college. The course is also
recommended for new international students who may
have memorized grammar rules, but cannot apply them
in conversational or academic situations.
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