ENG 0100 Basic Writing
This noncredit course is reserved for students demonstrating deficiency in writing skills. Grading is Pass/Fail.
ENG 1013 Introduction to Writing Process
This course is designed to improve the student's writing abilities through study and practice of the entire writing process from topic selection through editing.
ENG 1023 Argumentative and Analytical Writing
This course continues the study and practice of the writing process. The focuses this semester are research skills and argumentative and analytical writing. Prerequisite: ENG 1013.
ENG 1033 Advanced Composition
This course offers advanced study and practice in personal narrative and argumentative and analytical writing focusing on documented research, research skills, and responding to literature. Placement by proficiency exam only.
ENG 2003 Literature Appreciation
An introduction to the study of fiction, poetry and drama. Students will explore a variety of methods for reading, interpreting, and writing about literature. This course fulfills the general education requirement. Prerequisites: ENG 1013 and ENG 1023 or ENG 3033 (Even Fall)
ENG 2013 British Literature I
A survey of British poetry, drama, and nonfiction from the Anglo-Saxon period through the eighteenth century. Prerequisites: ENG 1013 and ENG 1023 or ENG 3033 (Even Fall)
ENG 2023 British Literature II
A survey of British poetry, drama, and nonfiction from Romanticism to the present. Prerequisites: ENG 1013 and ENG 1023 or ENG 3033 (Odd Spring)
ENG 2033 American Literature I
A survey of American poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction from the Colonial period through the Civil War. Prerequisites: ENG 1013 and ENG 1023 or ENG 3033 (Even Fall)
ENG 2043 American Literature II
A survey of American poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction from the Civil War to the present. Prerequisites: ENG 1013 and ENG 1023 or ENG 3033 (Spring Odd)
ENG 2053 World Literature I
A survey of Western and Nonwestern poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction from the Ancient period through the Renaissance. Prerequisites: ENG 1013 and ENG 1023 or ENG 3033 (Spring Odd)
ENG 2063 World Literature II
A survey of Western and Nonwestern poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction from the Eighteenth Century to the present. Prerequisites: ENG 1013 and ENG 1023 or ENG 3033 (Odd Fall) ENG 3011, 3012, 3013 Academic
Internship
The purpose of this internship is to provide students with hands-on experience in higher education by tutoring literature students, by assisting professors with class presentations, and by teaching several classes. Students are invited to apply by the English faculty.
ENG 3023 Advanced Grammar
An intensive study of the terminology and syntax of the English language. (Odd Spring)
ENG 3033 History of the English Language
A study of the major historical, linguistic and grammatical developments of the English language. (Even Spring)
ENG 3043 Introduction to Creative Writing
A workshop in the development of skills in writing fiction and/or poetry. Creative writing is supplemented by readings. (Odd Fall)
ENG 3053 Literature of Children and Adolescents
This course is designed as a survey of children’s and adolescent literature including biographies, fables, myths, non-western literature, traditional and modern fanciful tales and poetry. Students will be introduced to multi-cultural literature in addition to literature designed to help with learning, family, and social needs of children and adolescents. Drama, storytelling, and other responses to literature will be explored. Activities are designed to help students use children’s literature to broaden reading skills, including vocabulary and comprehension. Integration of children’s and adolescent literature into all curricula areas will be a part of all activities. Teaching methods and materials are based on requirements found in the Virginia Standards of Learning for Reading and Language Arts.
ENG 3063 Technical Writing
An introduction to the principles and procedures of effective technical writing such as description of a device, instructions, interpretation of data, and the formal report. Insofar as possible, students write on subjects pertinent to their chosen careers. (Odd Fall)
ENG 3073 Regional and Ethnic Literature
An introductory survey of literature of American minorities focusing on fiction, poetry, drama, and nonfiction written by African-, Asian-, Native-American, Chicano(a), Jewish, and Appalachian authors. (Odd Spring)
ENG 3111, 3112, 3113 English Internship
This internship provides the opportunity for juniors and seniors to participate in a career-related professional experience. See Criteria for internships. The two primary internships are: 1) Tutoring Writing-the study and practice of tutoring peers through the writing process. In addition to classroom work, students will serve as peer tutors in the Writing Center. 2) Editing a literary magazine-students will select material for, edit, and layout the Bluefield College literary magazine, The Bluestone Review.
ENG 3503 Directed Study in English
This course offers the student the opportunity to explore topics of interest under the direction of a faculty member. Prerequisite: JR standing.
ENG 4043 Advanced Creative Writing
A continuation of the writing workshop begun in ENG 3043. Students will focus on one genre: fiction, poetry, or playwriting. (Even Spring)
ENG 4063 Creative Nonfiction
An advanced writing course focusing on creative nonfiction and the personal essay. (Even Fall)
ENG 4073 Studies in Rhetoric
An introduction to the study of classical and modern rhetoric, including special attention to invention, audience, organization, logic and style in persuasive prose. (Even Spring)
ENG 4083 Literature and Composition: Theory and Practice
Designed for prospective teachers of English at the secondary level, this methods course includes intensive study of current writing and literary theories. Students will prepare lesson plans and do teaching activities. A practicum is included. Students will have experience using various methods of instructional technology for research and teaching based on the Virginia Standards of Learning. Prerequisites: EDU 2043, ENG 2003 and formal admittance to TEP. (On Demand)
ENG 4213 Medieval Literature
A study of major English and European writings from the 12th to the 16th centuries, including Chaucer. (Even Fall)
ENG 4223 Renaissance British Literature
A study of selected authors, themes, and genres in 16th-century England, exclusive of Shakespeare. (Even Fall) ENG 4233 Shakespeare
A study of selected major works of Shakespeare, the milieu of the English Renaissance, and issues of Elizabethan stagecraft. (Every Spring)
ENG 4243 Eighteenth-Century British Literature
A study of fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and drama by such authors as Dryden, Swift, Congreve, Pope, Boswell, and Johnson. (Odd Fall)
ENG 4253 Nineteenth-Century British Literature
A study of Romanticism and the Victorian Age, including poets and prose writers, and novelists. (Odd Spring)
ENG 4263 Nineteenth-Century American Literature
A study of major writers of America's Romantic period, including Dickinson, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, Hawthorne, and others. (Odd Fall)
ENG 4283 Twentieth-Century Literature
A study of the emergence and flowering of Modernism worldwide in the 20th century. (Even Fall)
ENG 4403 English Seminar
A small-group investigation of authors neglected in students' previous coursework, of different methods of literary criticism, of techniques for writing a scholarly critical essay, and of professional issues. (Even Spring)
ENG 4503 Special Topics in Literature
An intensive study of specific topics in order to gain in-depth knowledge and understanding. Prerequisite: JR/SR standing. (Odd Spring)
