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LTCC CATALOG 2010-2011 65 MAJORSThe English program is dedicated to helping students become life-longlearners and to fostering the values of rigorous investigation, openmindedness,collaboration, self-understanding, and respect for knowledge.The A.A. in English develops critical thinking skills through the study ofpersuasive argumentation, creative writing, and critical analysis of literature.Courses offer a varied perspective on the world, guiding students in literaryand rhetorical investigation from a number of critical approaches, includingsociological, historical, and psychological, among others. In addition tobuilding a passion for literature, the degree will provide students with higherskills in written communication. By mastering the methods of writtenresponses to literature, students will enter a wide variety of careers (includingteaching, writing, editing, public relations, marketing, and law) better able tocommunicate and persuade.Student Learning Outcomes for this major are:• Recognize, understand, and apply the rhetorical strategies ofargumentation.• Identify and implement the artistic principles of fiction, poetry, andcreative non-fiction.• Interpret literature in its historical and cultural context.• Recognize the basic principles, varied approaches, and history ofliterary criticism.• Analyze and evaluate creative and argumentative writing through theapplication of the principles of complex critical analysis.•••A. GENERAL EDUCATION REQUIREMENT(See page 45 for details)B. REQUIRED COURSES38 units distributed as follows:1. 10 units from:ENG 101 Reading and CompositionENG 103 Critical Reasoning: Writing the Research Paper2. 4 units from:ENG 102 Introduction to LiteratureENG 205 Introduction to PoetryENG 206 The Short StoryEnglish3. 4 units from:ENG 107 Cross-Cultural LiteratureENG 108 Women in LiteratureENG 218 Literature into FilmENG 219A Topics in Literature: Living PoetsENG 219B Topics in Literature: The Bible as/in LiteratureENG 219C Topics in Literature: The World of RobinsonJeffersENG 219D Topics in Literature: Ernest Hemingway, Lifeinto ArtENG 219E Topics in Literature: Literature of CarnivalENG 219F Topics in Literature: Virginia Woolf andDangerous WordsENG 219G Topics in Literature: English Romantic Poets:Passion, Nature, Poetry, and the SelfENG 219H Topics in Literature: Paris in the Early 1900s,Writers in ExileENG 219J Topics in Literature: Edgar Allen PoeENG 219K Topics in Literature: The Literary MemoirENG 219L Topics in Literature: Travel WritingENG 221 Literature of Nature4. 12 units from:ENG 113 Introduction to ShakespeareENG 212 English Literature I: From Beowulf’s Monstersto Milton’s ParadiseENG 213 English Literature II: From Swift’s Satire to thePassions of the RomanticsENG 214 English Literature III: Victorian Values andModern Masterpieces5. 4 units from:ENG 207 Introduction to Creative WritingENG 208A Creative Writing Workshop: Introduction to theArt of FictionENG 209 Creative Writing: PoetryENG 211 Creative Nonfiction6. 4 units from:a. ENG 200 Masterpieces of the Ancient and Medieval WorldsENG 201 Masterpieces of the Renaissance andModern WorldENG 202 Masterpieces of the Modern Worldb. ENG 215 Survey of American Literature IENG 216 Survey of American Literature IIENG 217 Survey of American Literature IIIC. ELECTIVE UNITS to bring the total to 90.