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  • ENG 255: Introduction To Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    Introducing students to literary analysis, the content of this course varies, but relies most heavily on short stories and emphasizes both critical analyses of the works presented as well as the social/historical contexts in which they were written. Students are encouraged to develop their own ideas as they become familiar with various critical approaches to the texts. Students are asked to identify that which constitutes literary value in a text and are encouraged to broaden their definitions of literary culture.
    ShareENG 255 - Introduction To Literature

  • ENG 256: 20th Century Literary Themes

    3.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    This introductory course is a multi-genre, multicultural approach to some of the major themes of 20th century literature. Social change is shown through texts that represent a broad spectrum of voices. Students are encouraged to question the effects of literary culture on a heterogeneous society as well as the effects of society on literary expression.
    ShareENG 256 - 20th Century Literary Themes

  • ENG 258: Survey Of World Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    Covers western and non-western literary classics and their relevant modern counterparts. The types of literature covered include the epic, the tale, the novel, drama, the essay, and poetry. A comparative approach is used in dealing with such themes as war, adventure, love, social customs, and death and the afterlife.
    ShareENG 258 - Survey Of World Literature

  • ENG 260: American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    This is an introductory survey course. Students will examine American literature as an expression of the cultures which produced it. Students will be encouraged to use the literary experience as a means of understanding our individual and collective identity as Americans.
    ShareENG 260 - American Literature

  • ENG 270: English Literature Survey I

    3.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    This course examines the masterpieces of English literature from its earliest inception - with the epic poem "Beowulf" to the end of the Renaissance. Students will explore the history, psychology, and theology of the people and their literature from earliest Anglo-Saxon times, through the Middle Ages, with emphasis on Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Canterbury Tales." The course also includes the Renaissance, with an emphasis on the life and works of its greatest contributor, William Shakespeare. Through the use of multimedia techniques, students will read, see, and hear what many scholars consider the greatest of Shakespeare's history plays, "Henry V."
    ShareENG 270 - English Literature Survey I

  • ENG 271: English Literature Survey II

    3.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    This course begins with an examination of the 17th century poetry and prose of such classic writers as John Milton, then progresses to the 18th century satire of Jonathan Swift and the poetry of William Blake, before immersing the students in the Romantic Age, with concentration on the poets Shelley, Keats, Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Byron. It may concentrate as well on the Gothic novel as represented by Mary Shelley's classic "Frankenstein" or a variety of other works. English Literature Survey I is not a prerequisite for this course.
    ShareENG 271 - English Literature Survey II

  • ENG 275: World Mythologies

    3.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    A survey course designed to introduce students to definitions of and theories about myth; to discuss and analyze myths of various cultures around the world and throughout time. The relevance of myth to everyday, modern life will also be stressed. Themes covered will be the creation of the cosmos, the natural environment and humans; ideas about divinity and heroism; concepts about death and the afterlife.
    ShareENG 275 - World Mythologies

  • ENG 276: African American Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    This course will examine the literary contributions of African American writers beginning with works from the oral tradition, with an emphasis on writers' African roots, proceeding chronologically to the contemporary writers of the Neo-realistic (1970-present) movement. The course will also explore historical and cultural issues, as well as societal problems encountered by African American authors from the Colonial through the Antebellum period and into the Harlem Renaissance. The course will introduce students to traditional literary forms including poetry, narrative, and drama, but may also include speeches, letters, sermons, and/or nonfiction essays.
    ShareENG 276 - African American Literature

  • ENG 279: Women's Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    This course will familiarize students with the main issues surrounding the texts of women writers, their audiences, and the mythological representations that work for and against their literary activism. It will concentrate on the diversity of women's writing as it pertains to genre; to the cultural, economic and political identities of women; and to the transformative power of their voices within their cultures. Students will develop an understanding of women's creative writing through feminist critical theory and new historical criticism.
    ShareENG 279 - Women's Literature

  • EPS 150: Astronomy

    4.00 Credits
    Westmoreland County Community College

    Astronomy (EPS 150) is an introductory course for non-science majors. It provides a broad introduction to Astronomy including basic observing skills and scientific reasoning; the historical development of the subject; basic physics of motion, gravity, light, and atoms; telescopes and other instrumentation; planets, moons, and other objects in our solar system; extrasolar planets; the Sun and other stars; the evolution of stars; the Milky Way galaxy and other galaxies; distant quasars and other active galaxies; the expanding universe; cosmology based on the Big Bang theory; and life in the universe. The goal of this course is to cover most of the area of modern astronomy at a level which requires only basic algebra and mathematics. Prerequisite:    MTH 052, MTH 052A, or Placement Test
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