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LTCC CATALOG 2010-2011 147 ENGLISHENG 200 MASTERPIECES OF THE ANCIENT ANDMEDIEVAL WORLDSLecture 4, Lab 0, Units 4This course examines the masterpieces of literature from the ancientGreeks to the beginning of the Renaissance. Such writers as Homer,Sophocles, Confucious, Ovid, Virgil, Kâlidâsa, Po, Dante, Shikibu,and Chaucer will be read to cultivate intellect, imagination, sensibility,and sensitivity.Transfers to CSU, UNR, UCPREREQUISITE: ENG 152 with a grade of “C” or better or appropriate skills asdemonstrated through the English assessment process.ADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.ENG 201 MASTERPIECES OF THE RENAISSANCEAND MODERN WORLDLecture 4, Lab 0, Units 4The course examines the masterpieces of literature from theRenaissance to the middle of the nineteenth century. Such authorsas Petrarch, Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Popul Vuh, Xueqin,Racine, Swift, Bashô, Goethe, Wordsworth, and Dickinson will beread to cultivate intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity.Transfers to CSU, UNR, UCPREREQUISITE: ENG 152 with a grade of “C” or better or appropriate skills asdemonstrated through the English assessment process.ADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.ENG 202 MASTERPIECES OF THE MODERNWORLDLecture 4, Lab 0, Units 4This course examines the masterpieces of literature from the middleof the nineteenth century to the present. Such authors as Flaubert,Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Yeats, Xun, Woolf, Kafka, Eliot, Rilke,Borges, Mahfouz, Nobuo, Brecht, and Achebe will be read to cultivateintellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity.Transfers CSU, UNR, UCPREREQUISITE: ENG 152 with a grade of “C” or better or appropriate skills asdemonstrated through the English assessment process.ADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.ENG 205 INTRODUCTION TO POETRYLecture 4, Lab 0, Units 4This course introduces the study of poetry with an emphasis onreading, understanding, analyzing, and appreciating the genre.Transfers to CSU, UNR, UCPREREQUISITE: ENG 152 with a grade of “C” or better or appropriate skills asdemonstrated through the assessment process.ADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.ENG 206 THE SHORT STORYLecture 4, Lab 0, Units 4This course will focus on the development of critical reading,investigation, and analysis of the best of modern and classic shortstories by both American and international writers such as Hemingway,Welty, Nabokov, O'Connor, and Munro. Students will have theopportunity to discover and study both famous and little knownwriters through the basic features which characterize the short fictiongenre. Students will examine such themes as love, betrayal, death,conformity, and rebellion.Transfers to CSU, UNR, UCADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.ENG 207 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVEWRITINGLecture 4, Lab 0, Units 4This is a course designed for creative writing students who wish toexplore poetry and fiction. The course includes a survey of methodsand techniques practiced in the creation of poetry and fiction.Transfers CSU, UNRADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.ENG 208A CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP:INTRODUCTION TO THE ART OF FICTIONLecture 4, Lab 0, Units 4This is a course designed for creative writing students who wish toconcentrate their efforts in the writing of fiction. The course includes asurvey of methods and techniques practiced in the creation of fiction.Transfers CSU, UNRADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.ENG 209 CREATIVE WRITING: POETRYLecture 4, Lab 0, Units 4This course is designed for the student who wishes to concentrate onthe writing of poetry. Emphasis will be on the study and analysis ofselected poems coupled with assignments designed to help studentsexperiment with the various techniques of the genre.Transfers to CSU, UNRADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.ENG 211 CREATIVE NONFICTIONLecture 4, Lab 0, Units 4This course offers advanced instruction in composition with specialemphasis on style, form, content, and examination of moderntechniques of writing non-fiction prose, especially expository andargumentative writing.Transfers to CSU, UNR, UCPREREQUISITE: ENG 101 with a grade of “C” or better or equivalent.ENG 212 ENGLISH LITERATURE I: FROMBEOWULF'S MONSTERS TO MILTON'S PARADISELecture 4, Lab 0, Units 4This course examines early English monsters and magic, from thelegends of King Arthur to Milton's Paradise Lost, and other literarymasterpieces. It covers selected works of major British writers to1640, examining the history of literary conventions and backgroundsin religious thought, intellectual and social history, and related artforms by writers such as Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, andMilton.Transfers to CSU, UNR, UCPREREQUISITE: ENG 152 with a grade of “C” or better or appropriate skillsdemonstrated through the English assessment process.ADVISORY: ENG 101 or equivalent.English