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• ENG 115: General Literature

  3.00 Credits

  Community College of Allegheny County

  
  This survey course invites students to examineselect poetry, dramaand fiction across various cultures, historical contexts, stylesand genres, emphasizing strategies for interpreting literature. Prerequisite:    ENG 101   
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• ENG 117: Children's Literature

  3.00 Credits

  Community College of Allegheny County

  
  This course introduces and surveys children's literature, including poetry, picture books, fables, folktales, myths, realistic and fantastic fiction and nonfiction. A reading knowledge of representative, noteworthy children's texts and their evaluative review isemphasized. Critical issues in children's literature areexamined and debated. Prerequisite:    ENG 101   
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• ENG 118: Women As Writers

  3.00 Credits

  Community College of Allegheny County

  
  This is a course in the study of women writers' works: essays, diaries and autobiographies, as well as novels, plays and poetry. Prerequisite:    ENG 101   
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• ENG 120: The Art of Film

  3.00 Credits

  Community College of Allegheny County

  
  This course introduces film as a source of visual literacy, intellectual and artistic enlightenment. It offers a historical perspective while analyzing film as an art form. Films are selected for study of cinematic innovation, genreand directional artistry. This course includes films from around the world to investigate different cultural approaches to filmmaking and storytelling. Students become familiar with some of the major theoretical trends in film studies and develop their own critical reading and writing skills. Prerequisite:    ENG 101   
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• ENG 200: Dramatic Literature

  3.00 Credits

  Community College of Allegheny County

  
  This survey course invites students to examinedramaacross various cultures, historical contexts, stylesand genres, emphasizing strategies for interpreting it as literature. Prerequisite:    ENG 102   
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• ENG 201: Poetry

  3.00 Credits

  Community College of Allegheny County

  
  This survey course invites students to explore the magic, mysteryand musicality of poetry across various cultures, historical contexts, styles, and genres, emphasizing strategies for interpretation as well as the writing of original poems. Prerequisite:    ENG 102   
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• ENG 202: Fiction

  3.00 Credits

  Community College of Allegheny County

  
  This is a course in the comparative study of the short story and novel. Emphasis is on the American and European literary forms. Prerequisite:    ENG 102   
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• ENG 205: American Literature to the Civil War

  3.00 Credits

  Community College of Allegheny County

  
  This is a survey course of American literature from the Colonial Period to the Civil War. Included are such major writers as Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman and Melville. Also studied are historical, political and philosophical trends important to an understanding of the literature. Prerequisite:    ENG 102   
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• ENG 206: American Literature From the Civil War to the Present

  3.00 Credits

  Community College of Allegheny County

  
  This is a survey course of American literature from the Civil War to the modern period. Included are such major writers as Dickinson, Twain, James, Crane, Frost, Hemingway, Faulkner and Steinbeck. Also studied are historical, political and philosophical trends important to an understanding of the literature. Prerequisite:    ENG 102   
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• ENG 207: African-American Literature

  3.00 Credits

  Community College of Allegheny County

  
  This is a survey of literature by African Americans from the vernacular to the days of slavery, through Reconstruction, the Harlem Renaissance, Realism, Modernism, the Black Arts Movement and Neorealism to current contemporary authors. Students view African-American literature critically, theoretically, historically and politically. In addition, the course creates an understanding of how diversity and inclusion apply to literature in the context of the United States of America and the world. Prerequisite:    ENG 102   
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