2012 Catalog PDF - Feather River College

Course Listings
ENGL 172 CREATIVE WRITING II 3 UNITS
HOURS: 3 LEC
CSU
Students undertake intensive work in creative writing, choosing to work in fiction, prose, or poetry. Special attention
is paid to enhancing specific writing skills and to work on well-defined and large projects. A portion of the students’
class time will be to mentor students in English 170, Creative Writing as a way to teach themselves more about their
own writing and skills.
ENGL 180 NATURE LITERATURE IN AMERICA 3 UNITS
HOURS: 3 LEC
CSU (c2), UC, IGETC (3b)
A survey of American literature that will investigate how our emotions, aesthetics, personal and social consciousness,
and even our very orientation in the world, have always been inseparably tied to our experience of nature. Students
will discover how the best American writers have portrayed the natural world as nurturing or antagonistic, as robust or
endangered, and especially as a symbolic means of expressing those elements of the inner life that seem impossible
to articulate in normal, discursive language.
ENGL 228 NOVEL AND FILM 3 UNITS
HOURS: 3 LEC
CSU (c2), UC
A study in literary and cinematic technique focusing on narrative genres and theme. Selected novels compared to
transposed versions on film. Novel types covered: Bildungsroman, Gothic, Detective, Post-modern, Contemporary.
Examples of theme: love and revolution, coming of age, ethnic assimilation, colonialism and consciousness. Lecture,
discussion, film viewing. Cross-listed with HUMN228.
ENGL 245 CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE 3 UNITS
HOURS: 3 LEC
CSU (c2), UC, IGETC (3b)
An intensive examination of literature from the English-speaking world, 1945 to present. Students will consider
different national perspectives and cultures, as well as the major trends of contemporary literature. Issues covered
will include modernism and post-modernism, the nuclear age, technology, society and culture, and the end of
colonial rule. In addition, we will also examine the underlying political and philosophical issues which are necessary
for an understanding of contemporary literature.
ENGL 246 WOMEN’s LITERATURE 3 UNITS
HOURS: 3 LEC
CSU (c2), UC
A survey of literature by women writing in English in all genres that will examine both canonical texts and overlooked,
neglected or forgotten works which have fallen outside the traditional canon. Students will investigate how these
works engage and/or circumvent the traditional canon.
ENGL 252 AMERICAN LITERATURE i 3 UNITS
HOURS: 3 LEC
CSU (c2), UC
An intensive examination of American literature from its beginnings to 1877. Students will examine writings that
reflect cultural encounters from 1492 to 1750, practical and political ideas of revolutionary thinkers, romantic spirit of
individualism, and realistic challenges of the civil war, reconstruction and frontier life to 1877. Students will explore
America’s cultural diversity, as well as our unity, in an examination of what it means to be an American.
ENGL 254 AMERICAN LITERATURE II 3 UNITS
HOURS: 3 LEC
CSU (c2), UC
An intensive examination of American literature from 1877 to the present. Students will read selected literature,
discuss the material in-depth, and write reflectively to discover what it is about these texts that make them distinctly
“American”. Students will consider the major historical, cultural, intellectual and political events that influenced the
American authors whose writings are examined.
ENGL 256 SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE i 3 UNITS
HOURS: 3 LEC
CSU (c2), UC, IGETC (3b)
Survey of literary culture and civilization of England. Covers development of literary forms and the history of critical
taste in political, cultural and philosophical context. Emphasis on the great writers and central works from Beowulf
to Pope (Medieval period through 18th century).
160
ENGL 257 SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE II 3 UNITS
HOURS: 3 LEC
CSU (C2), UC, IGETC (3B)
Survey of literary culture and civilization of England. Covers development of literary forms and the history of critical
taste in political, cultural and philosophical context. Emphasis on the great writers and central works from Blake to
T.S. Eliot (19th through 20th century).