CATALOG 2010-11 - Cascadia Community College

DESIGNATION KEYDistribution areas: CKR = Cultural Knowledge, E = Elective, GS = Global Studies, H=Humanities, HP = Humanities Performance, NS = Natural Science, Q=Quantitative Reasoning, RE=Restricted Elective , SS = Social ScienceCourse DescriptionsENGL 0905 creditsCollege Culture and ThoughtStudents in this class will learn how areas ofknowledge are organized in college and howthe thinking and language in each is unique.Learners improve their abilities to read, write,ask questions, gather and evaluate information,and think and solve problems at a college level.As a result of taking this course, students will beable to use an understanding of their learningstrengths and interests to make good decisionsin their college career. NOTE: This classmay be offered in combination with COLL 100.Prerequisite(s): Completion of ENGL 080 witha grade of 2.0 or higher or placement by testinginto ENGL 090.ENGL 1005 creditsCollege Reading and WritingRE- This course prepares students for success incollege reading and writing assignments andactivities. In the course, students will learn toread, comprehend, and analyze many types ofmaterial. Students will develop a personalizedwriting process and apply it to essays and otherassignments that reflect academic standards oforganization, correctness, and sophistication.In addition, they will learn to find, interpret,and analyze information to use in their writing.Prerequisite(s): Completion of ENGL 090 witha grade of 2.0 or higher or placement by testingin ENGL 100.ENGL& 1015 creditsEnglish Composition IThis course helps students learn how to makejudgments and decisions about their own andothers’ communication, especially in collegewriting. They will practice reading a wide arrayof texts, developing strategies for interpreting,responding to, and making use of these textsin their own writing. They will develop anduse a personalized process to write essays andother products and performances that achieveidentified purposes for identified audiences; acentral focus of this practice is the productionof original texts that are substantive and clearlyorganized and that achieve appropriate levelsof correctness. This class is organized around atheme chosen by the instructor. Prerequisite(s):Completion of ENGL 100 with a grade of 2.0 orhigher or placement by testing into ENGL& 101.ENGL& 101T5 creditsEnglish Composition for TechnicalWritersEquivalent to ENGL& 101, this course helpsstudents with an interest in technical fields learnhow to make judgments and decisions abouttheir own and others’ communication. They willpractice reading texts produced in their field ofinterest, developing strategies for interpreting,responding to, and making use of these textsin specific writing situations. They will developand use a personalized process to producecorrespondence, reports, reviews, documentationand other specified genres that achieveidentified purposes for identified audiences; acentral focus of this practice is the productionof original texts that are substantive and clearlyorganized and that achieve appropriate levelsof correctness. This class is organized around aset of work-based scenarios established by theinstructor. Prerequisite(s): Completion of ENGL100 with a grade of 2.0 or higher or placementby testing into ENGL& 101.ENGL& 1025 creditsComposition IIStudents learn how to develop ideas to guideresearch, to gather information from the library,internet, experts and other sources, and tojudge the quality of the information. They learnto use ideas from sources as evidence in essaysand longer research projects, developing a moresophisticated approach to using sources toachieve identified purposes for identified audiences.Students continue ENGL& 101’s emphasison developing well-organized, thoughtfulessays. This class is organized around a themechosen by the instructor. Prerequisite(s):Completion of ENGL& 101 with a grade of 2.0or higher.ENGL& 1115 creditsIntroduction to LiteratureH- This introductory literature course grows outof our assumption that fiction, poetry, drama,non-fiction, and film help give voice to thehuman experience while giving poetic shapeand meaning to our lives. Students will learn andpractice skills for exploring and appreciatingthe meaning and effects of literature while atthe same time encountering and interpretingtexts’ relationships to their historical and culturalcontexts. Class discussions and written essayswill help students discover, express, and publishtheir own thoughts and learning about literature.Prerequisite(s): Completion of ENGL& 101with a grade of 2.0.ENGL& 1145 creditsIntroduction to DramaH- Students learn about world drama (witha focus on Western dramatic traditions)throughout history by reading plays fromancient to contemporary times. Students willbe able to analyze works of drama using thehistorical, political, cultural, and social context aswell as the elements of dramatic literature andpresentation. Prerequisite(s): Co-enrollment orcompletion of ENGL 100 with a grade of 2.0 orhigher or placement by testing into ENGL& 101.ENGL 2215 creditsWorld Literature and CinemaCKR, GS, H- Students learn about literature andcinema by reading fiction and dramas andanalyzing cinematic adaptations. Studentsstudy the basic approach to literary and cinemaanalysis, and scrutinize how writers and directorsemploy individual narrative techniques anddevices to achieve artistic ends. Students readnovels, short stories and plays, view cinematicadaptations, debate the similarities and differencesbetween narratives in different genres,and write formal and informal essays in responseto the readings and cinematic adaptations.Prerequisite(s): Completion of ENGL& 101 witha grade of 2.0 or higher.ENGL& 2355 creditsTechnical WritingH- In this course, students develop the abilityto compose and format clearly for a varietyof professional and technical audiences. Theylearn how to research, organize, design, andrevise proposals, reports, user guides, andother written products for a business/ technicalenvironment. Prerequisite(s): Completion ofENGL& 101 with a grade of 2.0 or higher.ENGL& 2445 creditsU.S. Literature IH- Students explore the stories, images, andmeanings in literary works from a range of U.S.cultures and historical periods. Students willdiscover both universal and vastly differentaspects of the human experience across timeand place. They also learn to analyze fiction,poetry, drama, non-fiction and/or film usingliterary elements and cultural-historical context.Prerequisite(s): Completion of ENGL& 101 witha grade of 2.0 or higher.ENGL& 2455 creditsU.S. Literature IIH- In this course, students explore literaturefrom around the United States and across itshistory as it relates to a special theme or topic.Through fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction, and/or film related to the course’s theme, studentslearn to read and analyze literature based onits elements and cultural-historical context.The thematic focus is chosen by the instructor;course syllabus for each quarter will list themes.Prerequisite(s): Completion of ENGL& 101 witha grade of 2.0 or higher.86 Catalog 2010-11 Cascadia Community College