English (ENG)

To be determined by the individual instructor. A Course Description will be developed for each course and documented within the course syllabus. Refer to the SFCC Style Guide for Course Description, Required Course Learning Outcome, and Topical Outline guidelines.

Integrates and contextualizes college-level reading and writing.

Integrates and contextualizes reading and writing strategies tailored to co-requisite ENG 1021 coursework.

Focuses on the written and oral communication needs of students in vocational and technical fields. Enables the student to practice written, oral, reading, reasoning, and interpersonal communication skills in order to become successful (or to remain successful) in the workplace.

Focuses on grammar, usage, style issues facing the individual who writes on the job, either as a technical writer or a technical professional whose job involves a substantial writing component. Emphasizes knowledge and skills needed for clear, direct, competent communication. Introduces grammatical theory and practice and conventions of usage in English. Covers matters of style, particularly as they relate to clarity for a target audience.

Focuses on developing technical documents that are delivered to users on line, such as online manuals and online help information. Emphasizes content, organization, presentation, and style of online documentation. Introduces hypertext and web publishing concepts, as well as project cycle management, working as part of a documentation team, and collaboration with technical experts.

Emphasizes the planning, writing, and revising of compositions, including the development of critical and logical thinking skills. This course includes a wide variety of compositions that stress analytical, evaluative, and persuasive/argumentative writing. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-CO1 category.

Expands and refines the objectives of English Composition I. Emphasizes critical/logical thinking and reading, problem definition, research strategies, and writing analytical, evaluative, and/or argumentative compositions. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-CO2 category.

Develops skills one can apply to a variety of technical documents. Focuses on principles for organizing, writing, and revising clear, readable documents for industry, business, and government. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-CO1 category.

Expands and refines the objectives of ENG 131, emphasizing formal presentations, both written and oral.

Provides the skills necessary to enter into higher-level undergraduate academic discourse or professional workplace writing. This course extends rhetorical knowledge and develops critical reading, thinking, and writing strategies in multiple specialized areas of discourse beyond what is encountered in previous composition courses. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-CO3 category.

Focuses on editing technical documents of varying lengths and types, from memos to product manuals. Emphasizes consistency, readability, and conformity to an organization¿s style manual. Introduces conventions governing content, organization, presentation, and style of technical documents. Covers how to develop a style manual. Introduces concepts of project cycle management, working as part of a documentation team, and collaboration with technical experts.

Examines techniques for creative writing by exploring imaginative uses of language through creative genres (fiction, poetry, and other types of creative production such as drama, screenplays, graphic narrative, or creative nonfiction) with emphasis on the student's own unique style, subject matter and needs. This is a statewide Guaranteed Transfer course in the GT-AH1 category.

Provides continued development of written expression in the creative genres (fiction, poetry, and other types of creative production such as drama, screenplays, graphic narrative, or creative nonfiction) with emphasis on the student's own unique style, subject matter and needs. This course is a creative writing workshop centered around producing and critiquing creative work.

Provides techniques for analyzing and writing fiction, including the study of form and technique with an emphasis on the writing process.

Provides strategies for analyzing and writing poetry, including the study of form and craft with an emphasis on the revision process. Sample texts will cover a diverse range of works from various cultures and perspectives.

Introduces creative nonfiction and the writing of essays by using creative techniques, such as the personal essay, memoir, and literary journalism. This course provides techniques for analyzing and writing creative nonfiction, including the study of form and technique, and the creative writing process.

Covers the production of a literary magazine through skill building and collaboration. This course introduces the editorial process involved in preparing a literary magazine for publication, including soliciting submissions; selecting material for publication (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, visual art, and other genres, such as drama); preparing a manuscript for publication, including design, layout, and pre-press production; and marketing the final product.

Examines classical and modern theories of rhetoric, understood as effective, ethical means of persuasion, and the ways in which propaganda departs from these means. Enables the student to apply theories of rhetoric and propaganda to examples of presidential rhetoric, Nazi and Soviet propaganda, and other examples of persuasive writing. Includes the study of visual rhetoric with students constructing criteria for identifying visual propaganda, and studying the complex relationship, historically and in the present, between propaganda, democracy, advertising, and mass media.

To be determined by the individual instructor. A Course Description will be developed for each course and documented within the course syllabus. Refer to the SFCC Style Guide for Course Description, Required Course Learning Outcome, and Topical Outline guidelines.