College English Courses
Eng 253 Section 166 Survey of American Literature
Instructor: Dennis Grunes
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4 credits $472
A study of American literature from Puritan beginnings to the middle of the nineteenth century, including Melville, Hawthorne, Emerson, and Thoreau.
Dual Credit Available.
Eng 364 Section 167 American Fiction
Instructor: Dennis Grunes
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4 credits $472
A study of representative American novelists of the twentieth century (including Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner, Steinbeck), including types of novels, and movements. Students read and discuss, as literature, eight titles chosen from the course guide.
Eng 384 Section 168 Contemporary Literature I
Instructor: Dennis Grunes
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4 credits $472
A study of twentieth-century fiction, primarily British and continental, emphasizing its relation to intellectual and cultural backgrounds and its responses to the great events of the century. Major figures, such as Mann, Camus and Hesse, and major trends or movements are included. Students read and discuss, as literature, six titles chosen from the course guide.
Eng 385 Section 169 Contemporary Literature II
Instructor: Dennis Grunes
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4 credits $472
A study the works of "modern," mostly twentieth-century dramatists including Ibsen, Shaw, Pirandello, and Brecht. Students read and discuss, as literature, eight plays described in the course guide.
Wr 115 Section 231 Introduction to College Writing
Instructor: Matthew Hein
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4 credits $472
Course is designed to help students increase fluency and confidence in writing and learn conventions of writing for college. Will also help students deal with college-level reading. Recommended as a companion to Freshman Inquiry for those who need or want intensive work on reading and/or writing.
Dual Credit Available.
Wr 121 Section 239 College Writing
Instructor: Matthew Hein
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4 credits $472
A writing course for lower-division students in which they develop critical thinking abilities by reading and writing. Increase their rhetorical strategies, practice writing processes, and learn textual conventions. Includes formal and informal writing, responding to a variety of readings, and revising individual pieces for a final portfolio of work. This course is recommended for any student wishing additional writing experience.
Dual Credit Available.
Wr 121B Section 200 College Writing - Credit by Exam
Instructor: Independent Study
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4 credits $269
A credit-by-exam option for Wr 121. Students should have a thorough understanding of the topics covered in the non-CBE section of this course. This challenge course cannot be taken by a student who has failed the Challenge Exam offered by the PSU English Department.
Wr 222 Section 173 The Research Paper
Instructor: Tobias Peterson
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4 credits $472
An elective course. The techniques for compiling and writing research papers. Attention to available reference materials, use of library, taking notes, critical evaluation of evidence, and conventions for documenting academic papers. Practice in organizing and writing a long expository essay based on use of library resources. May not be used by PSU students to fulfill English major requirements, nonmajor distribution requirements, or the English composition requirement.
Prerequisite: Wr 121 or PSU Freshman Inquiry.
Dual Credit Available.
Wr 323 Section 232 Writing as Critical Inquiry
Instructor: Tobias Peterson
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4 credits $472
A writing course for upper-division students that offers sophisticated approaches to writing and reading. Students enhance critical thinking abilities by reading and writing challenging material, refine their rhetorical strategies, practice writing processes with special attention to revision and style, and write and read in a variety of genres. Includes formal and informal writing and preparing a final portfolio of work.
Prerequisite: Wr 121 or PSU Freshman Inquiry.
Wr 323B Section 201 Writing as Critical Inquiry - Credit by Exam
Instructor: Independent Study
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4 credits $269
A credit-by-exam option for Wr 323. Students should have a thorough understanding of the topics covered in the non-CBE section of this course. This challenge course cannot be taken by a student who has failed the Challenge Exam offered by the PSU English Department.