2010-11 Course Catalog - Century College

7 Course DescriptionsCreative Writing: Poetry & FictionENGL 2023 3 CreditsMnTC: Goal 06This creative writing course focuses on thewriting and reading of poetry and fiction.Students will engage in critical analysis, formaesthetic judgments, and write and revisepoems and short stories. This course does notfulfill the Literature requirement for the A.A.or MnTC.Prerequisite: Assessment score placement inENGL 1021 or completion of ENGL 0090 witha grade of “C” or higher. Assessment scoreplacement in RDNG 1000 or completion ofRDNG 0090 with a grade of “C” or higher.Creative Writing: NonfictionENGL 2025 3 CreditsMnTC: Goal 09This course offers study and practice ofvarious forms of nonfiction writing includingthe personal narrative/memoir, personalityprofile, event story, and opinion pieces. Writingsuitable for publication in popular newspapers,magazines, and journals is emphasized. Thistype of writing is fundamental to the freeexchange of ideas in society, a necessarymechanism of understanding for a variety ofviewpoints required by well-informed citizens.Prerequisite: Assessment score placement inENGL 1021 or completion of ENGL 0090 witha grade of “C” or higher. Assessment scoreplacement in RDNG 1000 or completion ofRDNG 0090 with a grade of “C” or higher.Newspaper PracticumENGL 2027 1 - 2 CreditsThis course offers academic credit for workinvolved as a staff member of the campusstudent newspaper, The Century Times. Twooptions are available. One Credit Contributor:Staff member will attend staff meetings,contribute story ideas, and collaborate withother staff members to produce issues. Staffmember will contribute to each issue bywriting an article and/or taking photographs,editing stories, designing and laying out pages,managing advertisements, and other dutiesas assigned. Two Credit Major Contributor:In addition to the duties of the One CreditContributor, staff member will make a majorcontribution to each issue by serving aleadership role. Duties will include: assigningstories, photos, editing, and other tasks to staffmembers; making editorial decisions on finalcontent and layout of all issues; organizingstaff meetings and workshops; and promotingthe newspaper at campus activity fairs andevents.NOTE: This course may be taken in multiplesemesters up to a maximum of 8 credits.Recommendation: Concurrent enrollment in orcompletion of ENGL 2025.British Literature: Medieval to RomanticENGL 2031 3 CreditsMnTC: Goals 06 & 08This college literature course intended for allstudents will analyze early British Literature.Typical authors may include Chaucer,Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, and Pope.Prerequisite: Assessment score placementin RDNG 1000 or above, or completion ofRDNG 0090 with a grade of “C” or higher.Recommendation: Completion of ENGL 1021with a grade of “C” or higher.British Literature: Romantic to PresentENGL 2032 3 CreditsMnTC: Goals 06 & 08This college literature course intended forall students will analyze and explore BritishLiterature from 1800 to the present. Typicalauthors may include works by Mary Shelley,Austen, Dickens, Woolf, Shaw, and Eliot.Prerequisite: Assessment score placementin RDNG 1000 or above, or completion ofRDNG 0090 with a grade of “C” or higher.Recommendation: Completion of ENGL 1021with a grade of “C” or higher.ShakespeareENGL 2035 3 CreditsMnTC: Goals 06 & 08This college literature course intended forall students will analyze a representativeselection of works by William Shakespeare.The course will consider what the plays revealabout Elizabethan societies as well as whatthey suggest about the human condition ingeneral.Prerequisite: Assessment score placementin RDNG 1000 or above, or completion ofRDNG 0090 with a grade of “C” or higher.Recommendation: Completion of ENGL 1021with a grade of “C” or higher.Literature and FilmENGL 2043 3 CreditsMnTC: Goal 06This college literature course intended for allstudents will analyze and explore Literatureand Film. Students will explore written andvisual texts in order to understand the scopeand variety of the human experience. Studentswill read, discuss, and analyze narrative textsas expressions of the human experience. Someattention will be given to film terminology andtechniques.Prerequisite: Assessment score placement inRDNG 1000 or above, or completion of RDNG0090 with a grade of “C” or higher.Modern World LiteratureENGL 2051 3 CreditsMnTC: Goals 06 & 08This college literature course intended for allstudents will introduce and explore ModernWorld Literature from the first half of the 20thcentury. Course offerings may include poetry,fiction, and/or drama with a global perspective.Prerequisite: Assessment score placementin RDNG 1000 or above, or completion ofRDNG 0090 with a grade of “C” or higher.Recommendation: Completion of ENGL 1021with a grade of “C” or higher.Contemporary World LiteratureENGL 2052 3 CreditsMnTC: Goals 06 & 08This college literature course intendedfor all students will analyze and exploreContemporary World Literature from 1945to the present. Course offerings may includepoetry, fiction, and/or drama with a globalperspective.Prerequisite: Assessment score placementin RDNG 1000 or above, or completion ofRDNG 0090 with a grade of “C” or higher.Recommendation: Completion of ENGL 1021with a grade of “C” or higher.MythologyENGL 2055 3 CreditsMnTC: Goals 06 & 08This college literature course intended for allstudents will analyze and explore several majorworks of classical and world mythology andrelate the works and ideas to modern thoughtand world literature.Prerequisite: Assessment score placement144 Century College 2010-2011