• ENGL 110L: Comp I: Close Rdg/Analy Lab

  1.00 Credits

  Tusculum University

  
  This course is designed to provide students with extra reading and writing strategies crucial to the practice of college-level academic writing. Major components of the course include reading comprehension, sentence and paragraph development, vocabulary building, grammar, punctuation, and usage skills. The course offers students valuable practice to improve skills for ENGL 110: Close Reading and Analysis which they will take simultaneously. This course is offered on a pass/fail basis. Students who wish to take Accuplacer to determine their English placement may do so; students with no national test scores must take Accuplacer. Students who score below a 4 on WritePlacer will be required to take English 110 with a lab component. Any student who does not take Accuplacer (except for those bringing in high standardized test scores) will automatically be placed into English 110 with a lab.
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• ENGL 111: Composition II: Research & Rhetoric

  3.00 Credits

  Tusculum University

  
  This course introduces students to college-level research and argumentation. Students learn source analysis, argumentation strategies, research techniques, and documentation. This is a theme-based course, and students will research current topics of interest with an emphasis on community, society, and citizenship. Prerequisite: ENGL 110. Accuplacer. Students with an ACT English sub-score of 26* or higher or an SAT Verbal sub-score of 600+ will be placed in English 111 and will not need to take English 110. Students who wish to take Accuplacer to determine their English placement may do so; students with no national test scores must take Accuplacer. Students who score a 6 on WritePlacer will take English 111.
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• ENGL 114: Journal Production

  1.00 Credits

  Tusculum University

  
  An activity course offering a practicum in literary journals publication (The Tusculum Review). Students enrolled evaluate submitted manuscripts; participate in bimonthly staff meetings; learn marketing, author correspondence, layout, editing, book criticism, and publication skills; are promoted to staff positions of increased responsibility; and determine the shape and content of an international literary journal. Students receive a letter grade according to their completion of work as contracted with the journal editor. May be taken for up to 8 credits.
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• ENGL 118: Introduction to Public Relations

  3.00 Credits

  Tusculum University

  
  Introduction to Public Relations is based upon identifying, defining, assessing and creating effective communication strategies accompanied by proper execution and distribution methods. The course will focus on evaluation methods, responsiveness, timeliness, interpretation, planning, content creation, control factors and distribution methods.
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• ENGL 120: Introduction to Creative Writing

  3.00 Credits

  Tusculum University

  
  This workshop-based course is designed for students with an interest in creative writing and completes an early requirement for those pursuing an English major. Students participate in a hands-on introduction to the craft of writing poetry and fiction, and they gain experience in close analytical reading of both genres. Other genres, such as creative nonfiction and drama, may be explored. Learning Outcomes: Self-Knowledge, Writing and Public Speaking.
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• ENGL 200: Advanced Comp, Resrch and Rhet

  4.00 Credits

  Tusculum University

  
  No course description available.
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• ENGL 201: Literature of Sexuality

  3.00 Credits

  Tusculum University

  
  This course explores the connections between gender, sexuality, and literature. Through a study of literature by women, gay men, lesbians, and other writers for whom sexuality or sexual identity has been a source of interrogation, students will explore the idea that gender is culturally constructed and investigate the way that our definitions of gender and sexual identity interact with other social constructs of the self. They will also interrogate the way that the body has become a site for the exertion of power, both social and political. Prerequisite: ENGL 110. Learning Outcome: Public Speaking.
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• ENGL 204: Introduction to Poetry

  3.00 Credits

  Tusculum University

  
  An introduction to the reading of poetry, this course concentrates on the analysis and study of poetry and its forms. Significant poets and poetic movements will be explored. Prerequisite: ENGL 110. Learning outcome: Writing.
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• ENGL 205: Introduction to Short Fiction

  3.00 Credits

  Tusculum University

  
  This course introduces students to the elements of short fiction and to the history of short stories as a discrete literary genre. Students will gain an understanding and appreciation of technique and style in stories of various genres, time periods, and cultures. Prerequisite: ENGL 110. Learning Outcome: Writing.
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• ENGL 206: Folklore and the Fairytale

  3.00 Credits

  Tusculum University

  
  Students will consider the political, historical and social concerns that lie beneath the surface of often-familiar narratives through an investigation of a variety of cultural tales, including German, British, and non-Western. Students will have the opportunity to study the interconnections between literature, fairytale, and folklore, and how they influence each other in various ways and have been readapted in modern texts.
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