For ESL students at the advanced-1 level. This course will focus on effective written communication, reading comprehension, and grammar. Samples of contemporary writing are used as practical models of sentence and paragraph style.
- Professeur: Meghan McCarther
For ESL students at the intermediate-2 level. This course introduces fundamentals of English grammar. Weekly writing assignments and workshop activities are required. May be combined with ANLS 1423.
Préalable : ANLS 1423 ou le test de classement
- Professeur: Meghan McCarther
For ESL students beginner-2 level. This course includes a study of phonetics, stress and pitch patterns, exercises in verb tenses and spoken vocabulary. May be combined with other ESL courses.
- Professeur: Meghan McCarther
For ESL students at the beginner-1 level. This course emphasizes the acquisition of speech rhythms and development of vocabulary. May be combined with ANLS 1413.
- Professeur: Andrea Meuse
A survey of the “romantic” approach to human experience. This course focuses on authors who made the expression of emotion and ecstasy synonymous with literature.
- Professeur: Brian Gibson
An introduction to the writing and editing of creative nonfiction. Student writing and course investigations could include sub-genres such as the personal essay, travel writing, research narratives, writing of place, memoir, biography, and/or creative writing about other arts. In addition to writing their own creative nonfiction, students will routinely practice peer critique in a workshop environment.
- Professeur: Darryl Whetter
A survey of crucial American literature from the mid-1800s to the present day, with a consideration of those issues that have long clouded the American dream: slavery, racial ten sions, poverty, economic disparity, and corruption. Major authors include Mark Twain, John Steinbeck, Flannery O’Connor, and William Faulkner.
- Professeur: Brian Gibson
Works of literature in English, including a Shakespeare play, are studied along with their historical and cultural contexts. Students review the principles of good essay writing and practice English composition, communication, and critical analysis.
- Professeur: Brian Gibson