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Highland Community College offers an emphasis in English for students who plan to complete an associate in arts at HCC and then transfer to another institution to pursue a bachelor’s degree.
HCC's English courses provide substantial training in critical and analytical thinking,
research, and written communication skills. Employment opportunities areas with an
emphasis in English include positions in education, government, journalism, or business,
such as teacher, editor, proofreader, copywriter, technical writer, or researcher.
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English Courses
>> This course is approved by the Kansas Board of Regents for System Wide Transfer (SWT) among all Kansas public postsecondary institutions offering an equivalent course. Additional courses may also be eligible for transfer. Please visit the Highland Registrar to learn more.
GE This course is approved by the Kansas Board of Regents for the General Education Transfer among all Kansas public postsecondary institutions offering an equivalent course.
1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
An English Second Language course which focuses on orientation into the American culture, academic success, and foundation of basic writing skills which includes introducing the writing process, strengthening vocabulary skills, basic reading skills, and speaking skills. This is a pass/fail graded course.
2 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Assessment
This course is constructed to develop student proficiency in college reading. In this course students will apply analytical and critical reading skills to a variety of texts. Students should also improve critical thinking, enlarge working vocabulary, improve reading skills, and increase reading speed.
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Assessment
This course is designed to develop student proficiency in college reading and writing. In this course students will apply critical thinking skills, critical reading skills, and writing skills to narrative and expository texts. In addition, students will develop skills in document design, researching, and documentation. Upon completion, students will be able to demonstrate effective skills in reading comprehension, analysis, and evaluation of college texts, as well as effective writing skills necessary to succeed in ENG 101 College English I and in the workforce.
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Assessment
This course is designed as intensive instruction and practice in Personal Development Skills, Analytical Thinking Skills, Communication Skills, and Technological Skills through the writing of coherent paragraphs and essays for specific audiences that demonstrate grammatical, organizational, and analytical competence for enrollment in English Composition I. This course includes the drafting, revision, and editing processes, as well as the application of critical thinking skills, critical reading skills, and writing skills. In addition, students will develop skills in document design, researching, and documentation. Upon completion, students will be able to demonstrate effective skills in reading comprehension, analysis, and evaluation of college level texts and scholarly sources, as well as effective writing skills.
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
An English Second Language course which focuses on the foundation of grammar structures, sentence patterns, further development of vocabulary, basic reading and writing skills, and notetaking. This is a pass/fail graded course.
Courses marked with > > are courses approved by the Kansas Board of Regents for System Wide Transfer (SWT) among all Kansas public postsecondary institutions offering an equivalent course. Additional courses may also be eligible for transfer. Please visit the Highland Registrar to learn more.
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Assessment
This course provides instruction and practice in the principles of written composition. The major emphasis is on improving the ability to organize and express thoughts clearly and effectively. Students will be expected to write coherent essays that declare and support a thesis, as well as use and document research material. A reading text is used for criticism and discussion. This course is required for all degree programs.
0 Credit Hours
This course is designed to develop proficiency in college-level composition. The major emphasis is on improving critical thinking skills that facilitate organization and clear, effective expression of thoughts and ideas. Upon completion, students will be expected to write coherent essays that declare and support a thesis and use and document research material. A reading text is used for criticism and discussion. This course is required for all degree programs.
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ENG101
This is the second of a two-course sequence in college English composition. The course will continue to emphasize improving the ability to organize and express thoughts in clear, effective writing. The course will use literature study as a basis for improving and extending research, critical analysis, and writing skills. The forms, elements, and techniques of literature will be examined in terms of how literature affects readers.
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ENG101
This is the second of a two-course sequence in college English composition. The course will continue to emphasize improving the ability to organize and express thoughts in clear, effective writing. The course will also place emphasis on writing practices/processes (pre-writing, drafting, revision) as well as reinforcement of rhetoric as the art of persuasion. Critical thinking skills are developed in many areas (identifying and understanding scholarly or credible sources, integrating others’ perspectives into one’s own argument, analyzing audience).
3 Credit Hours
This course will enable the student to discuss and interpret representative English-language literary works in a variety of genres. The student will identify the use of literary elements; recognize relationships between writers, works, and socio-cultural contexts; and arrive at informed personal and critical interpretations. Various thematic approaches may be offered.
3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ENG096 or Assessment
Offers intensive drill in using rhetorical writing methods applied to technical fields. Students will practice organizing technical subject matter and arranging and supporting writing with facts. Analysis and explanation, advocacy and argument, and academic and professional discourse will be explored. The course stresses understanding key communication principles and then applying those principles to the most common types of professional documents.
3 Credit Hours
The purpose of this course is to provide a survey study of significant writers, works, and developments in American literature from its beginnings to 1865.
3 Credit Hours
This course provides a survey of the Old Testament as a literary work. The course will emphasize literary characteristics and the cultural and historical contexts of various books of the Old Testament and Apocrypha.
3 Credit Hours
The purpose of this course is to provide a study of the literary genre of the short story, with emphasis on critical analysis and appreciation. The basic elements of short fiction, such as point of view, plot, character, and theme will be discussed and analyzed in terms of how they are applied in individual stories by major writers from various periods and countries. The purpose of such analysis will be to help students understand, appreciate, and enjoy more fully the reading of short fiction.
3 Credit Hours
This course provides a survey of the significant writers, works, and developments in American literature from roughly 1865 to the present.
3 Credit Hours
This course focuses on the scope of world literature with selections generally regarded as masterpieces. The time range represented by the selections is wide, roughly from 2000 BCE to 1650 CE.
3 Credit Hours
This course focuses on the scope of world literature with selections generally regarded as masterpieces. The time range represented by the selections is wide, roughly from 1650 CE to the present.
3 Credit Hours
This course provides a survey of the significant writers, works, and developments in English literature from the Middle Ages through the Eighteenth Century.
3 Credit Hours
This course provides a survey of the significant writers, works, and developments in English literature from the Nineteenth Century Romantic writers through the Twentieth Century.
3 Credit Hours
This course explores significant topics, themes, and genres over a range of historical periods through the various lenses of literary criticism. Particular emphasis will be placed on literature created by and/or about traditionally marginalized populations who have encountered discrimination and exclusion in social, cultural, political, and economic spheres.
3 Credit Hours
This course is designed to give students an opportunity to write and develop skills in various genres of creative writing, such as fiction, poetry, and drama. Students may do some work in each area but will be able to focus on the genre of their choice. Basic elements of creative writing will be discussed, and students will work on several creative projects in a workshop format. In addition to the instructor providing evaluation and guidance, students themselves will be an audience for the writing done in the class and will give feedback, interaction, and critiques of other students’ work.