| Course | Credit Hours |
| ENGL 093. DEVELOPMENTAL ENGLISH This course is designed to improve basic writing skills and concepts through an integrated reading and writing approach |
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| ENGL 111. ENGLISH COMPOSITION I This course is designed to improve basic writing skills and concepts through an integrated reading and writing approach. Emphasis is placed on introducing students to the basic rhetorical modes, an intensive review of grammar and writing of short compositions. |
3 |
| ENG 111(H). ENGLISH COMPOSITION I: HONORS This course is an accelerated course in English composition designed for freshman students who participate in the SUNO Honors Program. The main thrust of the course is to provide instruction and practice on how to become more active and accurate readers, and how to effectively integrate information, ideas, and rhetorical strategies from readings in the students’ own written communications. Enrollment is limited to 20 students. (Prerequisite: ACT score: 20 or SAT equivalent. GPA: B or better.) |
3 |
| ENG 112(H). ENGLISH COMPOSITION II: HONORS This course builds on the foundation of English Composition I: Honors. Emphasis is on analytic reading, critical thinking, expository/argumentative writing and incisive research – both primary and secondary. Enrollment is limited to 20 students. (Prerequisite: English Composition I: Honors with a B or above). |
3 |
| ENGL 112. ENGLISH COMPOSITION II This course is designed to develop skills in written and oral communication. These skills are developed through a cycle of reading, discussion, writing, a review of grammar and a short research paper. (Prerequisite: English 111) |
3 |
| ENGL 203. INTRODUCTION to LITERATURE This course is designed to introduce the student to literary genres (the short story, poetry, and drama). It also aims to teach students how to write responsive, reflective and analytical essays about literature. Students will be introduced to the various elements of fiction, poetry, and drama. Structural patterns will be introduced that will help students develop the basics of literary analysis |
3 |
| ENGL 231 SURVEY of BRITISH LITERATURE I This course is an historical study of major works of British literature from its beginnings in the Middle Ages through the Restoration and the 18th Century. Readings in the course range from “Beowulf,” and “The Canterbury Tales,” through works by Sir Thomas Malory, Sir Thomas More, Edmund Spencer, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Scott, John Donne and Andrew Marvell. (Prerequisite: ENGL 203) |
3 |
| ENGL 232. SURVEY of BRITISH LITERATURE II This course is a continuation of English 231 with readings of major works of British Literature from 1789 to the present, including texts by Blake, Byron, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelly, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Carlyle, Hardy, Conrad, Yeats, Woolfe, Joyce and Eliot. (Prerequisite: ENGL 203) |
3 |
| ENGL 240. INTRODUCTION to CREATIVE WRITING This course emphasizes the basic craft of writing poetry, short stories and drama. It also introduces students to workshop procedures. Course work includes writing exercises in the different genres and the completion of a final portfolio, as well as analysis of the students’ and published work. (Prerequisite: ENGL 203) |
3 |
| ENGL 242. INTRODUCTION to JOURNALISM This course is an introduction to the practice of journalism, including the skills and methods essential to accurate and informed news reporting and writing. It is intended to acquaint students with the history and practice of journalism, with particular attention paid to the methods of writing news stories. (Prerequisite: ENGL 112) |
3 |
| ENGL 250. DIVERSE AMERICAN VOICES This course will focus on literary works drawn from multi-ethnic American writers. The student will be introduced to the mosaic of American literature in order to develop an appreciation of multicultural American writers. (Prerequisites: ENGL 111 & 112) |
3 |
| ENGL 255. AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE I This course is a thematic and cultural study of the literature of the African-American experience from the Colonial period to the Harlem Renaissance. Among the authors examined are Olandah Equiano, Phillis Weatley, David Walker, William Wells Brown, Fredrick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Dubois, Ida Wells-Barnett, James Weldon Johnson and Paul Lawrence Dunbar. (Prerequisite: ENGL 203) |
3 |
| ENGL 256. AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE II This course is a thematic and cultural study of the literature dealing with the African-American experience from the end of the Harlem Renaissance to the present. The works covered in this course in clued those of Claude McKay, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Melvin B. Tolson, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Maya Angelou, Ishmael Reed, Toni Cade Bambara and Toni Morrison. (Prerequisite: ENGL 203) |
3 |
| ENGL 260. PROFESSIONAL and TECHNICAL WRITING This is a practicum in general technical and professional writing. Students will write memoranda, reports, resumes, letters of application, grant proposals, etc., and will be introduced to applicable computer research techniques. (Prerequisite: ENGL 112) |
3 |
| ENGL 270. GLOBAL LITERATURE Utilizing film, this course explores literature from various regions of the globe. Included in the rotating course of study, changing from term to term according to student/professor interests, will be the works of Latin American, Asian, African and Eastern European authors. |
3 |
| ENGL 351. AMERICAN LITERATURE I This course emphasizes a study of major works and backgrounds of American literature from the Colonial period to the Civil War. Readings in the course include texts by William Bradford, John Winthrop, Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor, William Byrd, Jonathan Edwards, Jean de Crèvacoer. Thomas Jefferson, Phillis Weatley and Washington Irving. (Prerequisite: ENGL 203) |
3 |
| ENGL 352. AMERICAN LITERATURE II This course is a continuation of American Literature I, and it highlights major works and backgrounds of American literature from the Civil War to the present. Readings in the course include texts b James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allen Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Frederick Douglass, Mark Twain and Theodore Deriser. (Prerequisite: English 203) |
3 |
| ENGL 360. FEATURE WRITING This course provides for the study and writing of various types of human interest feature and news-feature stories, including magazine articles and newspaper features. It acquaints students with that area of journalistic writing that does not strive for objectivity but which blends information, description, subjective material, advocacy and storytelling technique to gain impact. (Prerequisite: ENGL 242) |
3 |
| ENGL 362. THE PRACTICE OF POETRY This course introduces the student to the fundamentals of poetry writing, including meter, figurative language, tone, and structure. Course work will include the reading and discussion of contemporary poetry, participation in writing workshops, and the completion of a portfolio of revised writing. (Prerequisite: ENGL 112 and ENGL 240) |
3 |
| ENGL 363. THE CRAFT and ART of FICTION This course introduces the student to principles and practices of writing short fiction. Course work includes the reading and discussion of published fiction, exercises on character, conflict, point of view, tone, plot, setting, scene, and narration, all culminating in a complete short story, participation in writing workshops, and critiques of student and published fiction. (Prerequisite: ENGL 112 and ENGL 240) |
3 |
| ENGL 364. THE ELEMENTS of DRAMATIC WRITING This course examines the film medium through the prism of its major theories and defining it in the context of its two tendencies and as language, as well as historical, psychological, ideological, philosophical, feminist, and genre schools of criticism through the screen of exemplary films. (Prerequisite: ENGL 112 and ENGL 240) |
3 |
| ENGL 365. INTRODUCTION to LITERARY THEORY This course introduces students to the various schools of contemporary literary theory. The students will be exposed to selections from a number of primary texts associated with the literary theories examined. (Prerequisite: ENGL 203) |
3 |
| ENGL 370. CARIBBEAN LITERATURE This is a mixed genre course examining the works of several Caribbean authors and exploring the historical and socio-political context so as to foster an aesthetic appreciation for their poetics. The texts of the following authors may be considered: Michael Anthony, Erna Brodber, Wilson Harris, Hubert Harrison, C. L. R. James, Jamaica Kincaid, George Lamming, Earl Lovelace, Shani Mootoo, V. S. Naipaul, Lakshmi Persaud, Caryl Phillips, Jean Rhys, Leone Ross, Samuel Selvon, Derek Walcott, Edwidge Danticat, Junot Diaz. (Prerequisite: ENGL 203) |
3 |
| ENGL 372. NEW ORLEANS in LITERATURE This course will explore the body of literature written by New Orleans writers and literature about New Orleans culture and folklore. Texts and authors will vary from semester to semester, according to the preference of the instructor, but can include the stories of George Washington Cable, Kate Chopin, the Voodoo section of Zora Neale Hurston’s Mules and Men, Walker Percy, John Kennedy O’Toole’s Confederacy of Dunces, Michael Ondaatje’s Coming Through Slaughter as well as the work in French and in translation of Creole writers, such as Langston Hughes’ translation of New Orleans Creole poets’ work. The course will be supplemented with visits to the locales described in the texts studied. (Prerequisite: ENGL 203) |
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| ENGL 374. ADVANCED EXPOSITORY WRITING This advanced writing course is interdisciplinary and designed to enable students in the social sciences, business, the natural sciences and education to prepare for academic and professional writing in their specific areas of study. The students will closely examine professional journals in their career areas and strive to write similar articles for submission. Students will focus on rhetorical objectives, writing style, and source citation appropriate to their particular fields of study. (Prerequisite: ENGL 112) |
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| ENGL 375. PRISON LITERATURE The prison literature course will serve students interested in criminal justice, prison reform, psychology and counseling, or adult education. Students will consider works of fiction, poetry, and memoir written by authors from around the world who are, or have been at one time, incarcerated. Readings will include the writings of John Henry Abbot, George Jackson, Assata Shakur, Peri Thomas, Etheridge Knight, Eldridge Cleaver, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Leonard Peltier, Nawal el Saadaw and Philip Berrigan. (Prerequisite: ENGL 203) |
3 |
| ENGL 401. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE This course emphasizes the representative works of Dryden, Swift, Addison, Steele, Pope, Gray, and Thompson. (Prerequisite: ENGL 203) |
3 |
| ENGL 411. ENGLISH ROMANTICISM This course is designed to introduce the student to the poetry and prose of Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. (Prerequisite: English 203) |
3 |
| ENGL 420. THE BRITISH NOVE This course is designed to acquaint the student with the British novel of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Students will be introduced to the works of various authors including Sir Walter Scott, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, and Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Evelyn Waugh, Elizabeth Bowen, E. M. Forster, and D. M. Thomas (Prerequisite: English 203) |
3 |
| ENGL 425. WOMEN in LITERATURE This course introduces students to writing by and about women. It describes and critically examines the tradition of women’s writing, deconstructs the pervasive images of women in literature, and analyzes the way in which women define their experiences in terms of literature. Readings in the course include texts by Linda Pastan, Alice Cary, Linda Benson, Christine Rossetti, Mary Daly, Jane Augustine, Tillie Olsen, Ntozake Shange and Maya Angelou. (Prerequisite: ENGL 203) |
3 |
| ENGL 430. THE AMERICAN NOVEL This course is a study of the major influences on the American novel through selected American novelists of the 19th century and early 20th century such writers as James Fenimore Cooper, Henry James, John Steinbeck, William Faulkner and Toni Morrison. (Prerequisite: English 203). |
3 |
| ENGL 440. MODERN DRAMA The course introduces students to the major representative dramatists of the modern theatre, from Georg Bücher to the present. Emphasis will be placed on an analysis of the plays in both their literary and theatrical contexts, as well as the social and historical forces that influenced their creation. (Prerequisite: ENGL 203) |
3 |
| ENGL 445. FILM THEORY and ANALYSIS This course examines the film medium through the prism of its major theories and defines it in the context of its two tendencies, as well as through the lenses of historical, psychological, ideological, philosophical, feminist, and genre criticism. (Prerequisite: English 203) |
3 |
| ENGL 450. PRIMARY DOCUMENT RESEARCH This course will coordinate with research centers in New Orleans to engage students in the study of primary source texts and the production of original research projects. Research texts will be studied as literature and written about as literature. (Prerequisite: ENGL 203) |
3 |
| ENGL 462. INTRODUCTION TO MODERN LINGUISTICS This course is an introduction to modern linguistics, including a descriptive approach to the study of modern English grammar. Students will explore various sub-areas of linguistics, such as phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and language acquisition. |
3 |
| ENGL 470. SHAKESPEARE The course is an intensive reading and analysis of selected texts of William Shakespeare’s histories, comedies, tragedies and romances. Emphasis will be placed on an examination of the plays in both their literary and theatrical contexts, as well as the culture and backgrounds of Elizabethan England. (Prerequisite: ENGL 203) |
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| ENGL 480. SPECIAL TOPICS This course consists of readings, discussions, research and reports under the direction of a member of the English faculty. The topic l vary from semester to semester. (Prerequisite: consent of the department) |
3 |
| ENGL 492. MEDIEVAL LITERATURE This is a course in the study of representative works of Old English and Medieval writers, exclusive of Chaucer. Special emphasis will be given to the works of Langland, Gower and selected French writers in translation. ( Prerequisite: ENGL 231) |
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COMMUNICATION STUDIES COURSE DESCRIPTIONS |
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| COMM 110. INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN COMMUNICATION This course is an introduction to the study of human communication as a social and cultural construct through an examination of practices and theories. This is a broad-based overview to the field of Communication through communication theory, public speaking, rhetoric, organizational communication, interpersonal communication, small group, intercultural and media studies. This course is a required pre-requisite for all other Communication courses except COMM 210 and COMM 220. |
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| COMM 210. FUNDAMENTALS OF PUBLIC SPEAKING This course is a study and application of the basic principles of effective extemporaneous speaking, methods of informing, interesting and motivating an audience with emphasis upon selection, organization, and development of ideas. Students deliver, listen to and criticize expository and persuasive speeches. This course substitutes for Education 211. This course is a required pre-requisite for all other Communication courses except COMM 110. |
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| COMM220. ADVANCED PUBLIC SPEAKING This course adds to the fundamental skills in public speaking taught in COMM 210, exploring elements of persuasion while building on the foundational skills of organization and research. It explores elements of persuasion in oral communication while emphasizing the ethical nature of persuasion. Students will continue building their extemporaneous presentation skills through assigned course presentations. Advanced study in the art of public speaking and refinement of skills taught in the basic public speaking course. Required pre-requisite: COMM 210. |
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| COMM230. INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION This course focuses on understanding interpersonal communication as a dynamic and complex system of interactions and crafting skills of interpersonal speaking. It introduces students to various aspects of the communication process occurring in one-to-one relationships. The course stresses the importance of understanding and applying communication theory in everyday communication situations. Introduces students to the approaches, variables, and topics that influence social interaction and emphasizes enhancing personal and professional relationships. Content includes: listening behavior, dyadic interaction, conflict management, nonverbal communication, intercultural communication, and their impacts on our relationships. Required pre-requisites: COMM 110 and COMM 210. |
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| COMM240. COMMUNICATION AND GENDER This course explores gendered patterns of socialization, interaction, and language. Goes beyond essentializing female and male modes of communicating to consider ways in which masculinity, femininity, ethnicity, class, age, sexuality, and disability intersect in interpersonal, family, organizational, and public communication, as well as in feminist and men’s movements. Required pre-requisites: COMM 110 and COMM 210. |
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| COMM310. DEBATE AND ARGUMENTATION This is an interactive course exploring persuasive and logical communication with an emphasis on argumentation and debate, handling questions and answers, and critically analyzing policy and current events. Advanced study in the art of public speaking and refinement of skills taught in the basic and advanced public speaking courses. Required pre-requisites: COMM 110 and COMM 210. Students are encouraged to complete COMM 220. |
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| COMM320. PERSUASION AND SOCIAL ACTIVISM This cours explores current theories and research related to the issues of persuasion, social influence, and social activism in our society today. This course specifically examines theories and variables affecting how persuasion occurs, persuasion strategies, and foundational principles of persuasion. This course is designed to help students become critical consumers of knowledge and more effective persuasive speakers/writers. Required pre-requisites: COMM 110 and COMM 210. |
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| COMM330. COMMUNICATION, SOCIAL MEDIA, & POPULAR CULTURE This is a hybrid course which explores digital communication, social media and popular culture. It examines modes of persuasion which are reflected in a variety of dimensions of popular culture. The focus of the course is on persuasive appeals employed in forms of social media, popular culture, and methods of evaluating potential persuasion and impact. It stresses the importance of communication theory application in everyday transactions. HYBRID COURSE. Required pre-requisites: COMM 110 and COMM 210. |
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| COMM340. ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION Organizational Communication will offer a detailed exploration of human communication within corporations, governments, non-profit organizations, religious groups, social movements, and other organizational contexts. The course emphasizes key approaches in communication in organizational setting: classical, human relations, human resources, systems, cultural, and critical approaches. Concepts of socialization, decision-making, conflict, stress, burnout, and cultural diversity will also be a core focus of this course. Required pre-requisites: COMM 110 and COMM 210. |