COURSE INDEX - LaGuardia Community College

English Department
Prerequisite: Exemption/Pass on ACT, First semester students with
an exemption or a pass on the CUNY ACT reading test, and the
highest failing grade on the new CUNY developmental writing
exam (CAAW)
ENG099 Basic Writing I
0 credit; 5 hours (4 lectures, 1 lab)
(Equivalent to Quick Start USW099)
Basic Writing is designed to introduce and develop college level
writing proficiency through careful attention to the writing
process. Emphasizing both the writing process and skills needed
for timed and high stakes essays, such as the CUNY Aligned
assessment of Writing (CAAW), this course will prepare students
for college level writing. Students will learn text based writing in
the short essay form to clearly express ideas in edited U.S. English
that integrate analysis of a written text.
Prerequisite: ESL/ESR099, Students must demonstrate readiness
for learning college-level writing proficiency as indicated by their
score on the CUNY Aligned Assessment of Writing (CAAW) Exam.
ENG101 Composition I: An Introduction to Expository
Writing
3 credits; 4 hours
In this course students focus on writing as a process to create correct
and effective expository essays in response to culturally
diverse sources. Emphasis is placed on using various methods of
organization appropriate to the writer’s specific writing context.
Students use a variety of rhetorical strategies, research methods
and documentation procedures in their essays. Admission to this
course is based on college placement test scores.
Prerequisite: CSE095/099 if required; ENA/ENG/ESA099/
ENC101 if required; exemption or Pass on the ACT Writing and
Reading Tests.
ENG102 Composition II: Writing Through Literature
3 credits; 3 hours
This course extends and intensifies the work of Composition I,
including research methods and documentation procedures. Students
are introduced to close-reading techniques to develop critical
thinking and writing skills through the study of culturally
diverse works in poetry and at least two other literary genres.
Writing assignments include a critical research paper applying
tools of literary analysis. Admission to the course requires completion
of Composition I.
Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101
ENG103 The Research Paper
2 credits; 2 hours
This course gives students intensive instruction and practice in
library research and writing a staged, formal essay. Students will
learn how to choose an appropriate research topic, pose a research
question and outline, organize and integrate source material into
their essays without plagiarizing. They will find and evaluate both
print and online sources and practice taking notes, summarizing,
paraphrasing, quoting, using in-text citations and creating a
Works Cited.
Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101
ENG106 Critical Writing: Analysis and Argumentation
3 credits; 3 hours
This course is designed to reinforce and add to the skills developed
in Composition I. Emphasis will be placed on those skills central
to planning, composing and revising essays of argumentation and
critical analysis. Students will also work on developing greater
variety and brevity of style and will write a series of essays, including
precis, analyses and critiques, based on related readings. A
final term paper will contain an independent evaluation of
secondary sources.
Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101
ENG/ELL110 English Grammar Syntax
3 credits; 3 hours
This is a grammar and syntax course. The course focuses on the
grammatical structures necessary in academic discourse. The
course begins with a review of the English verb system and covers
preposition use, English word order, adverb, adjective and noun
clauses, reported speech, article usage, complex conditionals and
passive voice. Additional topics may be selected in response to
particular needs and interests of the students in the class.
Pre- or Corequisite: CSE095, ESL/ESR099
ENG/HUC238 Screenwriting
3 credits; 3 hours
This is a course in the art and craft of writing a fictional narrative
for the screen. Screenwriting genres and applications vary widely,
yet every one reaches its audience through storytelling. Students
examine the ways cinematic narratives show, rather than tell. Students
then create their own 10-minute movie script. They explore
scene and act structure, character development, dialogue, description,
etc. Students learn professional standards for writing for the
screen and how to use screenplay software.
Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101
ENN198 Creative Writing Workshop
3 credits; 3 hours
This course introduces students to the elements of creative writing
by using New York as a writer’s laboratory. Field trips to city
places such as schools, streets, parks will lead to writing that uses
these places and the people in them as themes. Students will write
a variety of creative pieces — sketches, brief narratives, poems,
dramatic dialogues dealing with this glimpsed New York life.
Reading of and visits with New York writers writing on New York
themes will complement these activities.
Prerequisite: ENC/ENG101
This is a Writing Intensive course.
ENZ099 Basic Writing II: ACT Preparation Workshop
0 credit; 4 hours
Basic Writing II is designed to reinforce writing skills acquired in
ENA/G099 for students who have passed Basic Writing I but
who have not yet passed the writing portion of the CUNY ACT
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