Undergraduate Catalog - Lake Erie College

EN 305 Composition Theory (4 SH)
Semester Offered: Spring
Pre-Requisite(s): EN 101, EN 140
This course provides an introduction to the theories and
issues that inform the discipline commonly known as
rhetoric and composition, including writing-across-thecurriculum
and professional communication. The course is
intended to be a survey of movements and topics important
to the discipline of composition. Many – but not all – of
these relate to writing instruction. Course topics include
history of rhetoric and composition; writers, writing and
revisions; reading; genre theory; writing-across-thecurriculum;
matters of identity and language. This course is
appropriate for anyone who expects to teach writing and/
or who is interested in the study of writing.
EN 306 Linguistics (4 SH)
Semester Offered: Fall odd years
The aim of this course is to provide background of several
core areas of the study of human language: Phonetics and
phonology (sound structure and patterns), morphology
(word structure), syntax (sentence structure) and semantics
(the meaning of words and expressions). Additional topics
include child language acquisition, dialects, social aspects
of language and language change.
EN 310 Journalistic Essay (4 SH)
Semester Offered: Spring even years
Pre-Requisite(s): EN 101
A composition course with emphasis on news and feature
writing and on the essay as a journalistic form. Identification
of suitable subject matter, techniques of research and
appropriate literary style are central to the course.
EN 315 Creative Writing: Fiction (4 SH)
Semester Offered: Spring even years
Pre-Requisite(s): EN 101
An introduction to the elements of fiction with particular
attention to problems of literary point-of-view, character
development and narrative form. Weekly assignments will
focus on the specific application of critical elements as they
relate to the writing of short fiction.
EN 316 Creative Writing: Dramatic Forms (4 SH)
Semester Offered: Spring even years
Pre-Requisite(s): EN 101
Study of the major elements of dramatic literature including
plot, characterization and dialogue. Students will apply
those elements in a series of weekly assignments directed
chiefly towards the reader’s theater.
EN 317 Creative Writing: Poetry (4 SH)
Semester Offered: Spring even years
A consideration of narrative and lyric forms with emphasis
on experimentation with language and imagery. A series
of short assignments will stress imagination, revision and
the conventions of the genre. Assigned readings in British
and/or American poetry will encourage mastery of critical
skills and literary analysis.
EN 327 The Neoclassical Age (4 SH)
Semester Offered: Fall odd 4th year
Pre-Requisite(s): EN 101, EN 140
The Neoclassical Age (1660-1798) includes the Restoration
(1660-1700), in which Milton, Bunyan and Dryden were
the dominant influences; the Augustan Age (1700-1750),
in which Pope was the central poetic figure, while Defoe,
Richardson, Fielding and Smollett were presiding over
the sophistication of the novel; and the Age of Johnson
(1750-1798).
EN 328 The Romantic Age (4 SH)
Semester Offered: Spring even 4th years
Pre-Requisite(s): EN 101, EN 140
A study of the Romantic period of British literature (1798-
1830) in poetry, essays, novels and critical works by a
number of influential writers. Political, economic, social,
intellectual and religious issues and events that shaped
and were shaped by Romantic literature will be considered.
EN 329 The Victorian Age (4 SH)
Semester Offered: Fall even years
Pre-Requisite(s): EN 101, EN 140
A study of the Victorian period of British literature (1837-
1901) in prose, poetry and fiction, specifically on the novel,
as it rapidly developed into a significant literary genre.
The course also considers the political, economic, social,
intellectual and religious issues and events that shaped and
were shaped by this literature, including the roles or race,
ethnicity, gender and class, as well as the issues of colonial
expansion of the British Empire prior to and throughout
Victoria’s reign.
EN 336 Nineteenth-Century American Literature (4 SH)
Semester Offered: Fall even years
Pre-Requisite(s): EN 101, EN 140
A study of American literary history with emphasis on
well-known American literary figures. The class will explore
how certain American writers addressed a variety of social
and cultural issues to forge a specifically American cultural
identity. This course also studies dominant narratives
related to the Civil War and its aftermath, with attention
to their persistence in the present.
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