Literature and the Environment

As we face what is increasingly known as the climate crisis, reevaluating our relationship with nature is paramount. Our survival depends on it. This course focuses on literature as a medium for exploring humanity�s relationship with nature and the environment, from indigenous perspectives, to nineteenth-century Romanticism, to Environmentalism, to contemporary Cli-fi, to early 21st-century youth-led climate justice movements.

Sentence Structure and Grammar

This course teaches techniques for writing detail-rich, focused sentences with clear, logical relationships between ideas. It also teaches strategies for not only identifying and fixing common sentence structure errors but also developing your own sentence style. These lessons can be applied to writing tasks in any college course, and thus facilitate college success.

Support for English C1000

This supplemental course, taken in conjunction with English 1A, provides additional support for students in English 1A in academic essay writing and analytical reading. Emphasis is on writing process and the skills involved in reading multiple academic texts and developing and revising text-based, thesis-driven essays at the collegiate level.

Critical Thinking and Writing

In this course, students receive instruction in critical thinking for purposes of constructing, evaluating, and composing arguments in a variety of rhetorical forms, using primarily non-fiction texts, refining writing skills and research strategies developed in ENGL C1000, Academic Reading and Writing (or C-ID ENGL 100) or similar first-year college writing course.

Basic Life Support CPR Recertification

An update of the scientific evidence and performance of procedural skills in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) for adult, child, and infant patients, with an emphasis on improving cardiac arrest outcomes in all communities. Students must have a valid AHA BLS provider card. An updated American Heart Association Basic Life Support certification card will be issued to those who qualify.

Introduction to Public Speaking

In this course, students learn and apply foundational rhetorical theories and techniques of public speaking in a multicultural democratic society. Students discover, develop, and critically analyze ideas in public discourse through research, reasoning, organization, composition, delivery to a live audience and evaluation of various types of speeches, including informative and persuasive speeches.