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English EGL071 - Academic Reading and Study Skills for The Non-Native Speaker I
Course introduces advanced beginning academic reading and study skills for non-native speakers of English. Content includes determining the main idea, discovering meaning from context, identifying details, and study skills. Tandem with EGL 074. Prerequisite: Placement test.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL072 - Academic Reading and Study Skills for The Non-Native Speaker II
Course presents intermediate academic reading and study skills for non-native speakers of English. Content includes making inferences, increasing reading speed, skimming and scanning, and reading academic materials. Tandem with EGL 075. Prerequisite: Placement test.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL073 - Academic Reading and Study Skills for The Non-Native Speaker III
Course develops high-intermediate academic reading and study skills for non-native speakers of English. Content includes developing critical reading skills, prefixes, suffixes, and roots to find meaning, and increasing reading speed. Tandem with EGL 076. Prerequisite: Placement test.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL074 - Academic Writing for The Non-Native Speaker I
Course focuses on an advanced-beginning composition and grammar skills for non-native speakers of English. Content includes paragraph organization and development, basic verb tenses, simple and compound sentences, and rules for nouns and adjectives. Tandem with EGL 071. Prerequisite: Placement test.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL075 - Academic Writing for The Non-Native Speaker II
Course develops intermediate academic grammar and composition skills for non-native speakers of English. Content includes development of the short essay, subordination, coordination, verb tenses, and intermediate sentence structure. Tandem with EGL 072. Prerequisite: Placement test.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL076 - Academic Writing for The Non-Native Speaker III
Course focuses on high-intermediate academic grammar and composition skills for non-native speakers of English. Content includes the expository essay, sentence combining, and perfect tenses. Tandem with EGL 073. Prerequisite: Placement test.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL078 - Speaking and Listening for The Non-Native Speaker I
Course teaches speaking and listening skills for non-native speakers of English. Content includes giving opinions, listening for main ideas and details, pronunciation, extemporaneous speaking, and planning and giving short speeches. Prerequisite: Placement into Oakton ESL reading/writing courses or consent of instructor or ESL coordinator.
1-3 Credit Hours (lecture: 1-3; lab: 0) EGL079 - Pronunciation for the Non-Native Speaker
Course teaches pronunciation of standard American English. Content includes vowel and consonant production, stress and intonation, and allophonic and morphophonemic rules. Prerequisite: Placement in Oaktons college ESL courses or consent of instructor or ESL coordinator.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL081 - Speaking and Listening for The Non-Native Speaker II
Course teaches speaking and listening skills for non-native speakers of English at EGL 078 proficiency level. Content includes expressing and understanding complex ideas, discussing academic topics, speech patterns, and listening to academic lectures. Prerequisite: EGL 078 or consent of instructor or ESL coordinator.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL082 - Basic Grammar for The Non-Native Speaker
Course provides intensive practice in basic and low-intermediate grammar skills for non-native speakers of English. Content includes correct use of basic verb tenses, possessives, modals, compound sentence structures, adverbials, adjectives, articles, and prepositions. Prerequisite: Placement in EGL 074 or higher.
4 Credit Hours (lecture: 4; lab: 0) EGL083 - Intermediate Grammar for the Non-Native Speaker
Course provides intensive practice in intermediate and advanced grammar skills for non-native speakers of English. Content includes correct use of the perfect tenses, perfect modals, subordinate clauses, phrasal verbs, and passive voice. Prerequisite: Placement in EGL 076 or higher. (Students receiving an EGL 076 placement after completing EGL 076 should enroll in EGL 082.)
4 Credit Hours (lecture: 4; lab: 0) EGL088 - How to Study
Course offers practical guide to methods of studying. Content includes organizing time, note-taking, preparing for examinations, mastering use of textbook and various other skill areas needed to increase efficiency as a learner. 3 hours Course provides practice in general college-level reading and writing skills. Content includes methods of studying taught in the one-credit course. Focus is on increasing self-confidence.
1-3 Credit Hours (lecture: 1-3; lab: 0) EGL089 - Academic Reading and Study Skills for The Non-Native Speaker IV
Course develops successful academic reading and study strategies for non-native speakers. Content includes vocabulary building, identifying lexical and textbook structures, and applying critical reading skills to college level material. Prerequisite: Placement test in reading and writing placement of EGL 090 or EGL 101NN.
4 Credit Hours (lecture: 4; lab: 0) EGL090 - Composition for The Non-Native Speaker IV
Course focuses on advanced ESL writing skills in preparation for college level writing. Content includes organization, coherence, unity, and argumentation, complex sentence structures, and advanced grammar. Prerequisite: Placement test.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 1) EGL091 - Vocabulary Improvement
Course offers practical approach to improving academic vocabulary skills. Focus is on strategies to build and retain a discipline-specific college-level vocabulary. Content includes structural analysis, contextual clues, dictionary applications, mnemonic devices, keywords, and word etymologies. Prerequisite: Appropriate score on reading placement test.
1 Credit Hours (lecture: 1; lab: 0) EGL092 - Reading and Academic Skills Development
Course provides individual diagnosis and remediation of reading problems. Content focus is on improvement of comprehension skills. Methods include group discussion and computer assisted instruction. Prerequisite: Appropriate score on placement test.
4 Credit Hours (lecture: 4; lab: 0) EGL093 - Reading Strategies for College
Course provides intensive individual practice in reading, in small class setting. Focus is on remediation of reading difficulties. Prerequisite: Completion of EGL 089 or EGL 092, and referral by a faculty member.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL094 - Reading Improvement
Course teaches strategies to improve reading comprehension and efficiency necessary for handling college level reading material. Focus is on developing effective reading skills. Content includes lectures, discussions, collaborative learning. Methods include Great Books approach and computer assisted instruction. Prerequisite: Appropriate score on placement test.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL095 - Business English for Non-native Speakers
Course is designed for non-native English speakers who wish to improve their English vocabulary, writing and speaking skills for the world of work. Focus is on writing business-related documents and speaking in business-related situations using correct grammar and precise language. Also covered are English word forms and American writing style that pose difficulty for ESL students.
4 Credit Hours (lecture: 4; lab: 0)
Fee: $30 EGL096 - Developmental Composition I
Course prepares students for college writing. Content includes the writing process, sentence structure, paragraph organization, basic essay structure, grammar and mechanics. Prerequisite: Placement test.
1-3 Credit Hours (lecture: 1-3; lab: 0) EGL097 - Developmental Composition II
Course prepares students for college writing. Content includes the writing process, the structure of multi-paragraph essays, and review of sentence structure, paragraph organization, grammar, and mechanics. Prerequisite: Placement test.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL098 - Fundamentals of English Grammar
Course provides instruction and practice in grammar and mechanics of standard written English. Content includes sentence structure, punctuation, subject-verb agreement, pronoun usage, parallelism, and other elements of grammar affecting writing structure and style. Prerequisite: Placement into EGL 090, EGL 097 or higher.
1 Credit Hours (lecture: 1; lab: 0) EGL099 - Skills in Written English
Course provides intensive practice in writing skills in small group setting. Content includes individual instruction in grammar and sentence structure and review of structure and development of the essay. Prerequisite: Previous enrollment in EGL 090 or 097 and consent of instructor.
1-3 Credit Hours (lecture: 1-3; lab: 0) EGL101 - Composition I
Course introduces strategies for planning, writing, and revising expository essays based on experience and reading. Content includes purpose, context, genre, and the rhetorical situation as elements in the writing process, as well as critical reading and analysis as the basis for essay writing. The first course in a two-course sequence with EGL 102. Prerequisite: Placement test. IAI C1 900
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
IAI Code: C1 900 EGL102 - Composition II
Course introduces strategies for planning, writing, and revising advanced expository essays and the college research paper. Content includes critical reading and analysis, the structure of argument, and the use of sources. Prerequisite: EGL 101 with minimum grade of C. IAI C1 901R
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
IAI Code: C1 901R EGL110 - Effective College Reading
This course covers reading skills and strategies for students to improve reading rate and comprehension for efficient college reading. Activities include lectures, computer assisted instruction and exercises. The classroom and the Academic Assistance Center are used for instruction. Prerequisite: Appropriate score on assessment test.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL111 - Introduction to Business and Technical Writing
Course concentrates on development of competence in producing various types of business documents. Content includes memoranda, letters, reports, and procedural documents. Focus is on writing for an audience with identified purpose, using college-owned computer hardware and software. Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement into EGL 101.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL113 - Introduction to Drama
Course introduces students to dramatic literature and its cultural, social, and historical influences. Content includes terminology and methods for analyzing and evaluating drama including form, thematic development, and style. IAI H3 902
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
IAI Code: H3 902 EGL115 - Introduction to Fiction
Course introduces students to study of the novel and short story in cultural, social, and historical context. Content includes terminology and methods for analyzing and evaluating fiction including form, thematic development, and style. IAI H3 901
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
IAI Code: H3 901 EGL117 - Introduction to Poetry
Course introduces students to the study poetry and its cultural, social, and historical contexts. Content includes terminology and methods for analyzing and evaluating poetry including form, thematic development, and style. IAI H3 903
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
IAI Code: H3 903 EGL129 - Introduction to Literature
Course introduces students to the study of literature through readings in fiction, drama, and poetry. Content includes terminology and methods for literary analysis and evaluation as well as discussion of social, intellectual, and historical influences on these literary forms. IAI H3 900
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
IAI Code: H3 900 EGL150 - Introduction to Journalism
Course introduces students to news writing and history and continuing role of the newspaper. Content includes theory and practice in writing stories, leads, editorials, features and reviews; copy-reading and make-up; particular problems and requirements of local journalism; introduction to principle of newspaper design and current technology.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 1) EGL201 - Introduction to Creative Writing
Course offers exposure to and practice in writing one or more forms of literary discourse including poetry, fiction, essay, and drama. Content includes the basic elements of writing in the selected genres. Prerequisite: EGL 101 or consent of instructor or department chair.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL202 - Writing Fiction
Course offers students the opportunity to develop an individual style as fiction writers. Content includes basic elements of fiction writing: structure, character, point of view, setting, and dialog. Prerequisite: EGL 101 or consent of instructor or department chair.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL203 - Writing Poetry
Course offers students the opportunity to develop an individual style as poets. Content includes basic elements and techniques of writing poetry: line, meter, free verse, imagery, and metaphor. Prerequisite: EGL 101 or consent of instructor or department chair.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL204 - Introduction to Screenwriting
Exposure to and practice of the techniques of screenwriting. Contents includes elements and techniques of screenwriting such as format, structure, character, dialogue, and dramatization of scene. Emphasis will be on writing and revising a feature-length screenplay of the students own creation.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL210 - Intermediate Expository Writing
This course develops student competence in preparation of compositions of extended length and emphasizes attention to stylistic techniques. It is recommended for the student whose education or career plans will require writing with clarity, precision and elegance. Prerequisite: Successful completion of EGL 101.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL211 - Writing for the Web
Course explores specialized writing techniques and skills necessary to produce effective communications for digital formats. Focus is on online hypertext documents for internet and intranet systems. Experience using word processing software and World Wide Web necessary. Content includes organizing and writing company Web pages, product and service descriptions; and on-line training materials, easily navigated by various audiences. Instruction in HTML coding not part of course. Recommended: Successful completion of one college-level English course.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL212 - Technical Writing Applications
Course develops competencies in producing technical and scientific documents. Content includes manuals, proposals, status reports and formal reports requiring research and data analysis. Focus is on writing and designing reader-centered documents illustrating principles and procedures typical of technical and scientific fields; and instruction in design and integration of necessary visual elements such as tables, charts, and graphs Recommended: Successful completion of one college-level English course.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL221 - American Literature I (from The Colonial Period Through The Civil War)
(offered fall semester only, every other year)Course traces the development of American literature by studying major writers from 1600-1865. Content includes social, cultural, historical, and literary influences, as well as terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation. Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement in EGL 101. IAI H3 914
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
IAI Code: H3 914 EGL222 - American Literature II (from The Civil War to The Present)
(offered spring semester only, every other year)Course traces the development of American literature by focusing on major writers from 1865 through 20th century. Content includes social, cultural, historical, and literary influences, as well as terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation. Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement in EGL 101. IAI H3 915
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
IAI Code: H3 915 EGL223 - Contemporary American Literature
(offered fall semester only)Course focuses on American literature of recent past. Content includes fiction, poetry, and drama, as well as influential television and film texts in their cultural, social, and historical contexts, as well as terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation. Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement in EGL 101.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL224 - American Ethnic Literature
Course explores influence of racial and ethnic identities on literary expression of at least two of the following groups: Chicano, Italian-American, Jewish-American, Irish-American, Chinese-American, Indian-American, Native American and African-American. Content includes theories of race and ethnicity; influence of experience, history, and culture on minority writers; terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation. Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement in EGL 101. IAI H3 910D
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
IAI Code: H3 910D EGL225 - Women and Literature
Course introduces fiction, poetry, and drama by women writers of any nationality or geographical region, and may include literature in translation by women. Content includes influence of experience, cultural attitudes, and literary influences; social, cultural, and historical contexts; terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.Prerequisite: EGL101 or placement in EGL101
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
IAI Code: H3 911D EGL226 - African-American Literature
(offered spring semester only)Course introduces fiction, poetry, and drama by African-American writers from eighteenth through twentieth centuries. Content includes social, cultural, historical, and literary contexts; comparable themes in popular culture; terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation. Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement in EGL 101. IAI H3 910D
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
IAI Code: H3 910D EGL227 - Introduction of Native American Literature
(offered fall semester only)Course introduces fiction, poetry, and drama by Native American writers from eighteenth through twentieth centuries. Content includes social, cultural, historical, and literary contexts, as well as terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation. Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement in EGL 101. IAI H3 910D
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
IAI Code: H3 910D EGL228 - Gender, Identity and Literature
(offered spring semester only)Course introduces students to representations of gender and sexuality in literary works, including poetry, fiction, drama, and film. Content includes theory of gender and sexual identity; influence of gender and sexual identities on literary expression, and influence of literature on gender and sexual identities; terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement in EGL 101. IAI H3 911D
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
IAI Code: H3 911D EGL229 - [National/Regional] Literature
Course introduces students to literature in translation from any national or regional literature not written in English. Content includes primary periods or themes of national or regional literature; social, historical, and cultural contexts of literary works; relationship of individual writers to national or regional literary traditions; and terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation.Prerequisite: English 101 or placement in English 101
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL230 - Non-Western Literature in English
(offered spring semester only)Course introduces students to literature in English by writers from non-Western cultures such as Asian, South Asian, African, Caribbean, Middle-Eastern or Latin American. Content includes social, historical, and cultural contexts of literary works; relationship of these writers to literary traditions; terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation. Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement in EGL 101. IAI H3 908N
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
IAI Code: H3 908N EGL231 - British Literature I (from Anglo-Saxons to 1800)
(offered fall semester only, every other year)Course traces the development of British Literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to 1800. Content includes major writers, literary genres, and cultural attitudes of the Anglo-Saxon, Medieval, Elizabethan, Restoration, and Augustan periods, as well as terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation. Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement in EGL 101. IAI H3 912
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
IAI Code: H3 912 EGL232 - British Literature II (from 1800 to The Present)
(offered spring semester only, every other year)Course traces the development of British Literature from 1800 through 20th century. Content includes major writers, literary genres and cultural attitudes during Romantic, Victorian, Edwardian and Modern Periods, as well as terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation. Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement in EGL 101. IAI H3 913
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
IAI Code: H3 913 EGL234 - Introduction to Shakespeare
(offered fall semester only)Course introduces the study of Shakespeare through focus on six to eight plays, selected from among comedies, tragedies and histories. Content includes social, cultural, literary, and historical context of the plays; changing interpretations; individual examples of performance taken from films, recordings, and attendance at local theatres (when possible); terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation. Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement in EGL 101. IAI H3 905
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
IAI Code: H3 905 EGL235 - Studies in Shakespeare
(offered spring semester only)Course examines specific theme in Shakespeares works through study of six to eight plays exclusive of those studied in EGL 234. Content includes social, cultural, literary, and historical context of the plays; changing interpretations; individual examples of performance taken from films, recordings, and attendance at local theatres (when possible); terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation. Prerequisite: One literature course or consent of instructor.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL241 - Masterpieces of Western Literature I
(offered fall semester only, every other year)Course introduces various masterpieces of Western Literature from Ancient times through the Renaissance (1650). Content includes important currents of western thought during the period; comparative study of selected works; terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation. Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement in EGL 101. IAI H3 906
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
IAI Code: H3 906 EGL242 - Masterpieces of Western Literature II
(offered spring semester only, every other year)Course introduces various masterpieces of Western literature from 1650 to the present. Content includes important currents of western thought during the period; comparative study of selected works; terminology and methods of literary analysis and evaluation. Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement in EGL 101. IAI H3 907
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0)
IAI Code: H3 907 EGL260 - Introduction to Linguistics
Course introduces the study of language. Content includes fundamental concepts of phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, and neurolinguistics. Prerequisite: EGL 101, as well as placement in EGL 110 or higher, or consent of instructor.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL261 - Theories in Teaching English as a Second Language
Course introduces the basic theories of language acquisition and teaching English as a second language(TESOL). Content focuses on the relationship between theory and practice in the field of ESL. This course gives the linguistic background necessary to become an effective ESL teacher. Prerequisite: EGL 101 or consent of instructor.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL262 - Methods of Teaching English as a Second Language
Course introduces methods of teaching English as a second language (TESOL). Content includes study of listening, speaking, reading, and writing; observation of ESL teaching and limited hands-on experience with ESL students. Prerequisite: EGL 101, as well as placement in EGL 110 or higher, or consent of instructor.
3 Credit Hours (lecture: 3; lab: 0) EGL290 - Topics in English
Course explores selected topics in literature, writing, or journalism. Content will vary, with possible focus on single author, group of authors, period of literature or literary theme; or on specific writing format, medium, purpose or audience. EGL 290 may be repeated up to three times on different topics for a maximum of twelve credit hours. Prerequisite: EGL 101 or placement into EGL 101.
1-4 Credit Hours (lecture: 1-4; lab: 0)
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