Category: English

Introduces the basic elements and forms of poetry, as well as major poets, with an emphasis on contemporary works.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: Take DEN-102

The Special Project class is offered on an occasional basis, with course content specific to the area being explored.

FALL 2024

SCREENPLAY ANALYSIS

Students gain insights into the craft of screenwriting and the development process through the close study of several feature film screenplays, the final cut of each film, and a variety of the tools used by the renowned screenwriters and directors who developed each story and script.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN-102

This course looks at some of the sexual, social, and cultural dilemmas facing women as writers, artists and individuals, based upon the literature written both by and about them. Readings include novels and a series of short fiction, essays, poetry, etc.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN 102

This course explores the myriad and changing roles of the automobile in American culture. Through numerous examples of car culture in literature and film, this course interrogates, celebrates and ponders both the past and future of one of modern technology’s most remarkable and influential inventions. A survey of literary and cinematic case studies are used in the course to establish an ongoing, theoretically geared discussion of the Wondrous Machine.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN 239

We orient ourselves, we define ourselves, in emotional, temporal, physical space. This course explores important American texts which convey a strong sense of place, or, in other words, emotional, political and/or cultural environments, from the early urbanism and social realism of Sister Carrie, to the rise of modernism, urban anonymity, and apocalyptic fantasies in The Day of the Locust, and ultimately, to post modern experiments, including the graphic novel, which test the boundaries of our accepted notions of time and space and identity.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN 239

This course introduces students to major African American authors of the 20th and 21st centuries, including Morrison, Ellison, Wright, Hurston, Mosley, and Gaines. The course surveys an extensive collection of social and cultural viewpoints present in American authors of African descent.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN 239

The Special Project class is offered on an occasional basis, with course content specific to the area being explored.
FALL 2023

CREATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS:TELE-STORIES PROJECT, The course will be offered in partnership with Timeslips, a nonprofit organization that connects students with elder populations to foster connection creativity through conversation / engagement. The goal of Timeslips is to change the way we understand and experience aging by bringing young people into positive relationships with seniors, who will be invited to express themselves creatively. Students will be trained in questioning, listening, and collecting responses that will be translated into assignments that will culminate in a capstone project to be gifted to their senior partners. Benefits for seniors are human connection and interest, memory share opportunities, and a rekindled interest in creativity. Benefits for students are an altered attitude toward aging, increased confidence, and novel prompts for art making and connection. Benefits for the college include enhancing our reputation as an institution engaged in social activism and committed to both experiential learning and DEI initiatives that generate both local and global impact.

ICELANDIC SAGAS
The saga is a distinct genre of prose narrative recorded in medieval Iceland which fictionalized events that took place during the time of the Vikings from the settlement of Iceland about 870 AD to just after the conversion to Christianity in the year 1000. Sometimes called “family sagas” because they document generations of activity within single family lineage, sagas are the crowning achievement of medieval narrative art in Scandinavia and the later Norse world, and have their own set of characteristics and audience expectations. Depicting strong individuals within a new immigrant society that was primarily self-governed, sagas are regarded as forerunners of the modern historical novel.

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Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN-102

Independent Study is available to students who are at Junior or Senior level standing with a cumulative grade point average of 3.00 or above. The student may receive approval to work in an area or on a project that is not otherwise offered or addressed in the regular curriculum. An Independent Study should include opportunities for individual student voice and provide a space for diverse perspectives. Students may receive credit toward graduation for no more than 6 credit hours. The student must submit to the chairperson of the department in which they wish to study, an Independent Study Proposal of 150 words (no less) of the student’s plan for study and her/his reason for choosing to study independently. Once the department chairperson provides approval and the instructor for the Independent Study is determined, the faculty member must write an Independent Study Syllabus with education goals, learning outcomes, meeting dates, course expectations, timelines, and due dates. Art Education candidates must pass DAE 490 with a grade of ‘C’ (2.00) or higher to qualify for certification.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN 239

In DEN 101 Composition I, an introductory composition course, students practice the fundamentals of college writing, reading, and reflecting. In this course, students analyze a variety of written and visual texts and respond in college-level, thesis driven writing and creative projects. DEN 101 stresses important academic skills, including reading strategies, essay planning and organization, citation, revision, proofreading, and presenting before a group. This class satisfies the General Education requirement.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites:

In DEN 102, the second composition course in a series, students practice the necessary writing skills to discover the pleasures and challenges of research, rhetoric, and reflection. In this course students investigate and analyze a variety of written and visual texts and respond in critical and creative work utilizing primary and secondary sources. DEN 102 stresses important academic skills, including research strategies, the writing process, formatting, revision, editing, and presenting before a group. This course satisfies the General Education requirement.

Credits: 3

Prerequisites: DEN-101