ENGL-ENGLISH (ENGL)
ENGL 1105M. Introduction to Academic Writing for Multilingual Students
3 Credits (3)
This course is offered to international and domestic multilingual students. The purpose of this course is to provide students with review and practice opportunities to develop writing fluency and coherence, grammar awareness, and academic vocabulary necessary to be successful in ENGL 1110M and/or ENGL 471M.
Prerequisite: Placement in ENGL 1105M through NMSU's English Language Placement Test (ELPT), or an ACT score of 13-15, or placement with an academic advisor using the English Self-Placement Canvas Course, or consent of instructor.
Learning Outcomes
- Create well-organized, coherent paragraphs alone or in essay format.
- Integrate a variety of sentence structures in connected discourse.
- Portray, with general mastery, basic grammatical forms with very few errors.
- Summarize or paraphrase information from source readings correctly.
- Analyze readings for meaning and main ideas through annotation.
- Integrate APA style format for in-text citations and references into their writing.
ENGL 1110G. Composition I
4 Credits (4)
In this course, students will read, write, and think about a variety of issues and texts.They will develop reading and writing skills that will help with the writing required in their fields of study and other personal and professional contexts. Students will learn to analyze rhetorical situations in terms of audience, contexts, purpose, mediums, and technologies and apply this knowledge to their reading and writing. They will also gain an understanding of how writing and other modes of communication work together for rhetorical purposes. Students will learn to analyze the rhetorical context of any writing task and compose with purpose, audience, and genre in mind. Students will reflect on their own writing processes, learn to workshop drafts with other writers,and practice techniques for writing, revising, and editing. May be repeated up to 4 credits.
Prerequisite: ACT standard score in English of 16 or higher, or an Accuplacer score 250 or higher, or an SAT score of 400 or higher or a C- or higher in either CCDE 110N or CCDS 119N.
Learning Outcomes
- Analyze communication through reading and writing skills.
- Employ writing processes such as planning, organizing, composing, and revising.
- Express a primary purpose and organize supporting points logically.
- Use and document research evidence appropriate for college-level writing.
- Employ academic writing styles appropriate for different genres and audiences.
- Identify and correct grammatical and mechanical errors in their writing.
ENGL 1110H. Composition I Honors
4 Credits (4)
In this course, students will read, write, and think about a variety of issues and texts.They will develop reading and writing skills that will help with the writing required in their fields of study and other personal and professional contexts. Students will learn to analyze rhetorical situations in terms of audience, contexts, purpose, mediums, and technologies and apply this knowledge to their reading and writing. They will also gain an understanding of how writing and other modes of communication work together for rhetorical purposes. Students will learn to analyze the rhetorical context of any writing task and compose with purpose, audience, and genre in mind. Students will reflect on their own writing processes, learn to workshop drafts with other writers,and practice techniques for writing, revising, and editing. May be repeated up to 4 credits.
Prerequisite: ACT standard score in English of 16 or higher, or an Accuplacer score 250 or higher, or an SAT score of 400 or higher or CCDE 1110 N.
Learning Outcomes
- Analyze communication through reading and writing skills.
- Employ writing processes such as planning, organizing, composing, and revising.
- Express a primary purpose and organize supporting points logically.
- Use and document research evidence appropriate for college-level writing.
- Employ academic writing styles appropriate for different genres and audiences.
- Identify and correct grammatical and mechanical errors in their writing.
ENGL 1110M. Composition I Multilingual
4 Credits (4)
In this course, students will read, write, and think about a variety of issues and texts.They will develop reading and writing skills that will help with the writing required in their fields of study and other personal and professional contexts. Students will learn to analyze rhetorical situations in terms of audience, contexts, purpose, mediums, and technologies and apply this knowledge to their reading and writing. They will also gain an understanding of how writing and other modes of communication work together for rhetorical purposes. Students will learn to analyze the rhetorical context of any writing task and compose with purpose, audience, and genre in mind. Students will reflect on their own writing processes, learn to workshop drafts with other writers,and practice techniques for writing, revising, and editing. May be repeated up to 4 credits.
Prerequisite: ACT standard score in English of 16 or higher, or an Accuplacer score 250 or higher, or an SAT score of 400 or higher or CCDE 1110 N.
Learning Outcomes
- Analyze communication through reading and writing skills.
- Employ writing processes such as planning, organizing, composing, and revising.
- Express a primary purpose and organize supporting points logically.
- Use and document research evidence appropriate for college-level writing.
- Employ academic writing styles appropriate for different genres and audiences.
- Identify and correct grammatical and mechanical errors in their writing.
ENGL 1120. Composition II
2 Credits (2)
In this course, students will explore argument in multiple genres. Research and writing practices emphasize summary, analysis, evaluation, and integration of secondary sources. Students will analyze rhetorical situations in terms of audience, contexts, purpose, mediums, and technologies and apply this knowledge to their reading, writing, and research. Students will sharpen their understanding of how writing and other modes of communication work together for rhetorical purposes. The emphasis of this course will be on research methods.
Prerequisite: successful completion of ENGL 1110G or ENGL 1110H or ENGL 1110M.
Learning Outcomes
- Analyze the rhetorical situation for purpose, main ideas, support, audience, and organizational strategies in a variety of genres.
- Employ writing processes such as planning, organizing, composing, and revising.
- Use a variety of research methods to gather appropriate, credible information.
- Evaluate sources, claims, and evidence for their relevance, credibility, and purpose.
- Quote, paraphrase, and summarize sources ethically, citing and documenting them appropriately.
- Integrate information from sources to effectively support claims as well as other purposes (to provide background information, evidence/examples, illustrate an alternative view, etc.).
- Use an appropriate voice (including syntax and word choice).
ENGL 1410G. Introduction to Literature
3 Credits (3)
In this course, students will examine a variety of literary genres, including fiction, poetry, and drama. Students will identify common literary elements in each genre, understanding how specific elements influence meaning.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify, define, and understand basic literary conventions and themes in fiction, poetry and drama.
- Write reasonable, well-supported analyses of literature that ethically integrate evidence from texts
ENGL 2130G. Advanced Composition
3 Credits (3)
This course is for students who are striving for fluency, maturity, clarity and significance in their writing. It is an intermediate writing course that builds on and refines writing skills acquired in previous courses. It focuses on non-fiction writing for the professions, business, science, technical fields, academe and/or the popular press. Short works of master writers are studied for ideas, styleand structure.
Learning Outcomes
- Students will examine and apply different writing styles and modes used by masters of personal essay and keep a reading response journal of assigned readings as demonstrated by scoring a 70% in faculty designed assignments.
- Students will develop a sense of audience by discussing their papers with each other in small groups during class or by reading each other’s papers and participating in positive, helpful peer reviews as demonstrated by scoring a 70% in faculty designed assignments.
ENGL 2210G. Professional & Technical Communication
3 Credits (3)
Professional and Technical Communication will introduce students to the different types of documents and correspondence that they will create in their professional careers. This course emphasizes the importance of audience, document design, and the use of technology in designing, developing, and delivering documents.This course will provide students with experience in professional correspondence and communicating technical information to a non-technical audience.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or better in ENGL 1110G or ENGL 1110H or ENGL 1110M.
Learning Outcomes
- Choose professional communication appropriate for audiences and situations.
- Write in different genres of professional communication.
- Identify the purpose of a work-related communication and assess the audiences' informational needs and organizational constraints.
- Employ appropriate design/visuals to support and enhance various texts.
- Demonstrate effective collaboration and presentation skills.
- Integrate research and information from credible sources into professional communication
ENGL 2210H. Professional and Technical Communication Honors
3 Credits (3)
Professional and Technical Communication writing for Crimson Scholars/Honors students will introduce students to the different types of documents and correspondence that they will create in their professional careers. This course emphasizes the importance of audience, document design, and the use of technology in designing, developing, and delivering documents. This course will provide students with experience in professional correspondence and communicating technical information to a non-technical audience. 3.5 GPA is also required. Restricted to Las Cruces campus only.
Prerequisite(s): grade of C- or better in ENGL 1110G or the equivalent; approval of the honors college.
Learning Outcomes
- Choose professional communication appropriate for audiences and situations.
- Write in different genres of professional communication.
- Identify the purpose of a work-related communication and assess the audiences' informational needs and organizational constraints.
- Employ appropriate design/visuals to support and enhance various texts.
- Demonstrate effective collaboration and presentation skills.
- Integrate research and information from credible sources into professional communication.
ENGL 2210M. Professional and Technical Communication for Multilingual Students
3 Credits (3)
Professional and Technical Communication will introduce students to the different types of documents and correspondence that they will create in their professional careers. This course emphasizes the importance of audience, document design, and the use of technology in designing, developing, and delivering documents. This course will provide students with experience in professional correspondence and communicating technical information to a non-technical audience. NMSU specific description: In this course, students will explore the unique advantages and challenges of being multilingual writers. This course is designed for international and domestic multilingual students.
Prerequisite: Grade of C- or better in ENGL 1110G or ENGL 1110H or ENGL 1110M.
Learning Outcomes
- Choose professional communication appropriate for audiences and situations.
- Write in different genres of professional communication.
- Identify the purpose of a work-related communication and assess the audiences' informational needs and organizational constraints.
- Employ appropriate design/visuals to support and enhance various texts.
- Demonstrate effective collaboration and presentation skills.
- Integrate research and information from credible sources into professional communication.
ENGL 2215G. Advanced Technical and Professional Communication
3 Credits (3)
Theory and practice of writing in technical and professional fields, individualized to each student s field. Emphasizes efficient writing processes and effective written products. May be repeated up to 3 credits. Restricted to Las Cruces campus only.
Prerequisite(s): Junior or above standing, or consent of instructor.
Learning Outcomes
- To complicate the definition of "technical and scientific communication" and its relationship(s) to studying and practicing "rhetoric."
- To complicate our relationship to concepts like "science", "knowledge, "objectivity," neutrality, "clarity," etc.
- To use a community-based approach to study and practice technical and scientific documents within various discourse communities.
- To study and practice different genres (i.e. memos, letters, e-mails, reports, proposals, and instruction sets) attending to issues of audience and purpose within discourse communities.
- To practice some mindful reading strategies that allow you to attend to the use of language and its material and discursive effects in different situations.
- To examine the material effects of producing, circulating, and consuming technical and scientific texts on the bodies of people within different contexts.
- To complicate our understanding of "ethics," "responsibility," and "accountability" toward ourselves and others.
- To work collaboratively and individually to research, to analyze, and to write about public debates regarding the conduct of science and technology.
- To understand and use basic principles of document design attending to issues of usability and accessibility. 1
- To articulate the relationship between technical and scientific communication and issues of inclusion and social justice in the world.
ENGL 2221G. Writing in the Humanities and Social Science
3 Credits (3)
Theory and practice in interpreting texts from various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. Strategies for researching, evaluating, constructing, and writing researched arguments. Course subtitled in the Schedule of Classes. May be repeated up to 3 credits.
Prerequisite(s): Grade of C- or better in ENGL 1110G or ENGL 1110H, or ENGL 1110M.
Learning Outcomes
- Develop the ability to interpret and respond to humanities and social sciences texts
- Analyze and evaluate cultural artifacts such as texts, images, and practices as a means of academic inquiry
- Critique arguments offered in the readings to determine the underlying methodology as well as underlying values
- Construct a rhetorical argument with evidence appropriate for an explicit audience and purpose
- Use written, visual, or oral strategies to persuade, inform, or engage, considering situation, audience, purpose, aesthetics, and diverse points of view
- Practice effective research strategies, and integrate research correctly and ethically from credible sources
- Understand and apply components of the writing process such as planning, collaborating, organizing, composing, revising, and editing
ENGL 2280. History of Argument
3 Credits (3)
Investigates the major figures and movements in rhetoric from the classical period to modern rhetorical theory, examining relations between rhetorical teaching and practice, culture, epistemology, and ideology. Main campus only. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1110G, or ENGL 1110GH, or ENGL 1110M
Learning Outcomes
- Understand how rhetoric, argument, and persuasion work. Become familiar with the key terms and various contexts in which rhetoric, argument, and persuasion function and the contingencies that influence their use and effectiveness;
- be familiar with the broad history and major figures of western rhetoric;
- apply a number of approaches used to analyze and construct/deconstruct rhetorical arguments, including (but not limited to) Aristotelian appeals and commonplaces, stasis theory, toulmin analysis, pentadic/dramatistic analysis, fallacy analysis, and rogerian analysis;
- complete an analysis as well as design and present a project regarding a contemporary issue or concern about which you feel deep passion and commitment; and
- Improve general critical thinking and communication skills, both oral and written.
ENGL 2310G. Introduction to Creative Writing
3 Credits (3)
This course will introduce students to the basic elements of creative writing, including short fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. Students will read and study published works as models, but the focus of this "workshop" course is on students revising and reflecting on their own writing. Throughout this course, students will be expected to read poetry, fiction, and nonfiction closely, and analyze the craft features employed. They will be expected to write frequently in each of these genres.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1110G or ENGL 1110H or ENGL 1110M.
Learning Outcomes
- Participate in a constructive conversation and community about creative writing.
- Read and critically engage with a variety of texts.
- Compose creative works in various genres of creative writing.
- Provide respectful, honest, and critical feedback to peers about their work.
- Revise creative work based on peer feedback and critique.
- Develop thoughtful workshop reflection on students' own writing and writing process.
- Evaluate and engage with publication process.
ENGL 2381. Script Development and Storyboarding
3 Credits (3)
Examines effective writing principles for creating storyboards that communicate the overall picture of a project, timing, scene complexity, emotion and resource requirements. Crosslisted with: FDMA 2381.
Learning Outcomes
- develop a story idea into a complete storyboard
- describe and visualize the creative aspects of a media project from conception to completion
- write a scene in the professional script format
- deliver a professional verbal and visual presentation of a story idea to an audience
- the ability to conceive, illustrate and plan a visual project
- proficiency in oral, written, and visual communication via storyboarding, script writing and verbal presentations
ENGL 2382. Narrative: Principles of Story Across the Media
3 Credits (3)
Examines the various strategies of written and visual storytelling, narrative structure and its principal components (plot, theme, character, imagery, symbolism, point of view) with an attempt to connect them to elements of contemporary forms of media expression, including screenwriting, playwriting, writing for documentaries and animation, etc. Crosslisted with: FDMA 2382
Learning Outcomes
- Identify use the building blocks of storytelling: plot, theme, character, imagery,
- Symbolism and point of view
- Develop these building blocks into a cohesive narrative within a written document
- Effectively communicate in different written formats
- Create design documents for varied genres of media: narrative short, documentary, 6 Animation, commercial/industrial video, computer game
- Describe how a written narrative can be translated into a visual medium
ENGL 2520G. Film as Literature
3 Credits (3+3P)
The purpose of this course is to teach students how to analyze film as a visual text. Students will learn to analyze films, film techniques, eras, and genres. Students will also identify significant trends and developments in film-making, examining the ways in which film reflects and creates cultural trends and values.
Learning Outcomes
- Develop an understanding of the cultural, historical, and technical contexts for various films.
- Identify, define, and analyze basic film techniques used in different genres and time periods.
- Analyze how film uses literature by studying different sources of adaptation.
- Demonstrate an understanding of film in its various aspects by writing film analysis, reviews, and/or other projects.
ENGL 2521. The Bible as Literature
3 Credits (3)
Develops informed readings of Hebrew and Christian scriptures. Emphasizes understanding Biblical literary forms, techniques, themes; historical, cultural contexts for interpretation; authorship, composition, audience for individual books; development of Biblical canon.
Learning Outcomes
- Develop and articulate historically informed and textually supported arguments regarding the form and meaning of biblical texts
- Express arguments and explication in clear, organized,
- Understand the Jewish and Christian scriptures as cultural artifacts, using some fundamental techniques of literary analysis and interpretation, especially: thematic interpretation, stylistic analysis, narrative analysis, poetics, and the rhetorical analysis of figurative language.
- Use socio-historically informed interpretive methods focused on these fundamental contextual questions : 1) who probably wrote and edited these texts, 2) why and how they most likely did so, 3) how their earliest audiences probably responded to them, and 4) why and how they were later combined to form the canonical Jewish and Christian bibles read today.
- Know in detail substantial selections of representative, influential, and historically informative biblical texts
- Distinguish literary critical and historical analysis of the Bible from those based on faith, tradition, authority, and theology
- Recognize, understand, and analyze the forms, genres, and techniques used by biblical authors
- Become familiar with and be able to use essential knowledge of the historical, cultural, and geographical contexts of Biblical writing
- Learn how evaluate texts as historical documents, as well as how doing so relates to and differs from literary critical analysis and interpretation 1
- Become familiar with common and influential scholarly, critical, and aesthetic ways of reading Biblical texts from a contemporary perspective 1
- Understand the cultural influence of the Bible and its relevance for other areas of scholarly and artistic work
ENGL 2610. American Literature I
3 Credits (3)
This course surveys American literature from the colonial period to the mid-nineteenth century. This course provides students with the contexts and documents necessary to understand the origins of American Literature and the aesthetic, cultural, and ideological debates central to early American culture.
Learning Outcomes
- Recognize the traditions of American literature and their connection to issues of culture, race, class, and gender.
- Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of major works by American authors.
- Explore the various influences and sources of American literature.
- Apply effective analytic and interpretive strategies to American literary works using academic conventions of citation and style.
ENGL 2620. American Literature II
3 Credits (3)
This course surveys American literature from the mid-nineteenth-century to the contemporary period. This course provides students with the contexts and documents necessary to understand American literature and the aesthetic, cultural, and ideological debates central to American culture.
Learning Outcomes
- Recognize the traditions of American literature and their connection to issues of culture, race, class, and gender.
- Demonstrate familiarity with a variety of major works by American authors.
- Explore the various influences and sources of American literature.
- Apply effective analytic and interpretive strategies to American literary works using academic conventions of citation and style.
ENGL 2630. British Literature I
3 Credits (3)
This course offers a study of British literature from its origins in Old English to the 18th century. This survey covers specific literary works--essays, short stories, novels, poems, and plays--as well as the social, cultural, and intellectual currents that influenced the literature.
Learning Outcomes
- Read and discuss representative works of British writers from its origins in Old English to the 18th century to understand cultural and historical movements which influenced those writers and their works.
- Identify the characteristics of various British literary genres, such as the essay, novel, short story, poetry, and dramatic literature.
- Apply effective analytic and interpretive strategies to British literary works using academic conventions of citation and style.
ENGL 2640. British Literature II
3 Credits (3)
This course offers a study of British literature from the 18th century to the present. This survey covers specific literary works--essays, short stories, novels, poems, and plays--as well as the social, cultural, and intellectual currents that influenced the literature.
Learning Outcomes
- Read and discuss representative works of British writers from the 18th century to the present to understand cultural and historical movements, which influenced those writers,and their works.
- Identify the characteristics of various British literary genres, such as the essay, novel, short story, poetry, and dramatic literature.
- Apply effective analytic and interpretive strategies to British literary works using academic conventions of citation and style.
ENGL 2650G. World Literature I
3 Credits (3)
In this course, students will read representative world masterpieces from ancient, medieval and Renaissance literature. Students will broaden their understanding of literature and their knowledge of other cultures through exploration of how literature represents individuals, ideas and customs of the world cultures. The course focuses strongly on examining the ways literature and culture intersect and define each other.
Learning Outcomes
- Identify and comprehend key authors and literary works from ancient periods to the Enlightenment.
- Understand each text's historical and cultural context.
- Identify and analyze a variety of literary forms, including poetry, plays, and philosophical and religious texts.
- Compare works from different cultures and historical periods examining genre, style, and content or theme.
- Analyze how literary works reflect historical, national, cultural, and ethnic differences.
ENGL 2675. Transatlantic Literatures
3 Credits (3)
This course tracks the production, circulation, and reception of literary works in transatlantic contexts over at least 150 years. Students examine a variety of documents to map transformations in form, genre, and medium across historical and geographic contexts. Students consider how colonization, exile, displacement, and migration have track the production, circulation, and reception of literary works in transatlantic contexts over at least 150 years reinforced or contested national literary traditions.
Learning Outcomes
- Track the production, circulation, and reception of literary works in transatlantic contexts over at least 150 years
- Identify and analyze a variety of documents to map transformations in form, genre, and medium across historical and geographic contexts
- Explain how colonization, exile, displacement, and migration have reinforced or contested national literary traditions.
ENGL 2996. Special Topics
1-3 Credits
Emphasis on a literary and/or writing subject chosen for the semester. Repeatable for a unlimited credit under different subtitles.
Learning Outcomes
- Varies