English

Introduction to Freshman Composition is designed to prepare students for the rigors of Freshman Composition (EN 101). This course integrates the critical reading skills students need to interact with college-level texts, along with the writing skills they will need to compose college-level writing. A student required to take English 100 must enroll in the course his/her first semester on campus and be continuously enrolled until proficiency level is reached. After successful completion of this course, a student must immediately enroll in English 101.

An introduction to college composition, this course emphasizes the skills necessary for writing well-organized and effective essays in support of a thesis. Students will write and revise a variety of essays that demonstrate critical reading skills and competence in standard English usage. A special section of this course with computer-aided instruction may be offered periodically. A student required to take English 101 must enroll in the course during his/her first semester on campus and must be continuously enrolled until the proficiency level is reached. After successful completion with a grade of at least a “C,” a student must immediately take English 102.

The course will emphasize methods of developing the argumentative essay through selected readings and intensive writing. Attention will be given to oral communication skills, extended analysis and argument, techniques of library research, and its organization and presentation in one or two long papers. A grade of “C” or better is required in this course, or it must be repeated continuously until a grade of “C” is earned.

In this course, students will build the writing skills they will need throughout their college careers as Honors Program Students. Students will engage in collaborative writing workshops, peer review activities, class discussions, and informal presentations of their own work and ideas. Students will approach writing as a process and write texts in various forms, including informative, argumentative, and multi-modal. Students will engage in research inside and outside the classroom, employ library resources, and explore digital media. A grade of “C” or better is required in this course, or it must be repeated continuously until a grade of “C” is earned. Open only to students in the Honors Program.

A public speaking course which emphasizes research, organization, delivery, and presentation of various types of speeches. A grade of “C” or better is required in this course to satisfy Limestone’s Verbal Skills requirement. The course must be repeated until a grade of “C” or better is earned.

Public speaking skills are essential for most careers and social situations. This course is designed to introduce you to the basic principles of effective public speaking. Emphasis is placed on preparation, organization, and presentation of various types of speeches. Through the development of four speeches, you will develop your oral communication skills so that you may relate your ideas to audiences more clearly.

A study of selected works of poetry, drama, and fiction from different periods and cultures with the objective of enhancing the student’s appreciation of literature. This course meets the General Education literature requirement.

A survey of the most important literary movements, figures, and genres from Beowulf through the early eighteenth century. (Offered alternate years.) This course meets the General Education literature requirement.

A survey of the most important literary movements, figures, and genres from the late eighteenth century into the twentieth. This course meets the General Education literature requirement. (Offered alternate years.)

Extensive readings in major American authors through Emily Dickinson. This course meets the General Education literature requirement. (Offered alternate years.)

Extensive readings in major American authors from Mark Twain through the present. This course meets the General Education literature requirement. (Offered alternate years.)

Extensive readings in masterpieces of Western literature from Homer through Cervantes (excepting the British). This course meets the General Education literature requirement.

This course introduces students to a variety of texts (slave narrative, autobiography, short fiction, poetry, drama) written by African Americans, with a focus on cultural/historical context and the development of African American literary culture. 

A general survey course designed to stimulate awareness and appreciation of dramatic art. Areas of exploration include theatre history, dramatic literature (modern and classic), and elements of production.

Performance Studies is an interdisciplinary course that explores post-modern theatre styles. This beginner course focuses on how our everyday lives and experiences can be looked at as performances. In this non-traditional theatre class, students will develop their creative impulses and bring their imaginations to life on stage through three major subject areas: 1) Songs and Poetry as Performance, 2) Oral History (Story Telling) as Performance, and 3) Performance Art.

A study of communication theory and its practical applications in the business world. The course provides practice in both written and oral communication. Writing topics covered include style, memos, letters, e-mail, resumes, and research. Oral communication topics include presentations and interviews.

This course studies fiction written by American women of various backgrounds-Native American, Asian American, African American, and European American. This course meets the General Education literature requirement. (Offered alternate years.)

A seminar-style course that engages selected works of literature from different periods with the objective of enhancing the student's appreciation of literature and a broader understanding of its cultural significance. 

Sport Literature and Communications is an introductory study of the portrayal of sports, as well as leisure games, and their description through written and photographic essays in works of both prose and poetry. The principal objective of the course is to examine the nature and development of sport through a variety of sources, written and oral. A secondary objective is to develop critical thinking skills about the role and significance of sport in society and culture. Literature and communications are a reflection of humanity, its joys and sorrows, and its dreams. Sport has been defined as a microcosm of life. Thus, sport literature and communications are a reflection of life in both writing and storytelling.

Note: This course is a requirement for majors in Sport Management and may be taken as an elective for all other students. It will not fulfill the General Education literature requirement.

This course will enable students to engage in the practice of writing instruction as peer tutors. This course will be informed by current Composition theory and practice and will work toward the development of a writing center praxis. Course participants will learn to evaluate and critique student writing in the setting of one-on-one peer tutorials. Students will learn the fundamentals of composition pedagogy as it is situated in writing center work and engage in an ongoing conversation about their practice as writing tutors. This course must be taken by all students working as tutors in the Writing Center. Students may repeat English 224 for credit up to four times. Students must enroll in English 224 as a credit course for at least two consecutive semesters; after two consecutive semesters, students may repeat English 224 as a non-credit course

This course will enable students to engage in the practice of writing instruction as peer tutors. This course will be informed by current Composition theory and practice and will work toward the development of a writing center praxis. Course participants will learn to evaluate and critique student writing in the setting of one-on-one peer tutorials. Students will learn the fundamentals of composition pedagogy as it is situated in writing center work and engage in an ongoing conversation about their practice as writing tutors. This course must be taken by all students working as tutors in the Writing Center. Students may repeat English 224 for credit up to four times. Students must enroll in English 224 as a credit course for at least two consecutive semesters; after two consecutive semesters, students may repeat English 224 as a non-credit course

Provides a setting for beginning writers as well as those who have begun to develop a sense of craft. Students will experiment with form, technique, imagery, and ideas, learn about particular aspects of the craft, gather feedback from other writers, and obtain information on submitting work to contests and publishers. The course will emphasize and encourage each student’s development of personal style and voice.

A continuation of English 230.

A continuation of English 230 and English 230A.

A continuation of English 230, English 230A, and English 230B.

This course emphasizes the techniques of communicating specific information to a specified audience so that the reader’s understanding matches the writer’s intentions. Students will demonstrate a clear understanding of the purpose and the audience for each document, and prepare a variety of documents that are accurate, clear, complete, concise, well organized, and correct.

This course provides a setting for beginning writers as well as those who are advancing in the development of the craft. Working through the creative process, writers will focus on prose genres (primarily fiction and creative nonfiction) and explore current graphic, photographic, and hybrid forms, including those emerging through social media. In a workshop setting, writers will engage in the craft, experimenting with genre, form, and mode. Writers will also employ literary elements, technique, research, and language. Writers will study works from various genres and forms, engage in peer critique, collect feedback from other writers, and obtain information on submitting work to literary journals in print online and through social media outlets. The course will emphasize and encourage each writer's development of personal style, voice, and form.

A general survey course designed to encourage awareness and appreciation of film as an art form. Areas of emphasis include, but are not limited to film history, genre study, major movements, and schools, Hollywood, and adaptation. (Offered alternate years.)

An intensive study of the principal plays as well as the sonnets of Shakespeare. This course meets the General Education literature requirement.

Introduction to the British Novel is a course designed to acquaint the student with the social, political, and economic factors which gave rise to the novel. The student will also trace the novel’s evolution from other forms as well as note the changes within the genre itself. The student will critically evaluate the novel using various critical theories. Finally, the student will see the influence of 18th and 19th-century forms on current novels. (Offered alternate years.) This course meets the General Education literature requirement.

A study of the social, intellectual, and literary movements of the Victorian era, with an intensive study of selected works. (Offered as needed.) This course meets the General Education literature requirement.

This course is designed to introduce students to the work of distinguished authors from many parts of the contemporary Non-Western world. Students will read, discuss and write about literature from Asia, Africa, and Latin America, using Post-Colonial literary theory as a lens through which to examine the intimate connections among politics, history, gender, race, class, and literature. Through many kinds of analysis, students will gain a better understanding of Non-Western authors, their works, and many cultural and historical contexts. This course meets the General Education literature requirements.

A study of imaginative literature written by Southerners, concentrating on the twentieth century, but also dealing with earlier background material. This course does not meet the General Education literature requirement. (Offered as needed)

Students in EN/CM 315 will function as working literary editors of the Candelabra, which will be published during this course. This course is a professional introduction to literary magazine publishing in the form of real-life hands-on work in editing and publishing the magazine. The semester will begin with the study of literary magazine aesthetics and editing training, continue with reading submissions and selecting work for publication, and conclude with the publication of the magazine itself. Student editors are expected to collaborate with each other, with the instructor, and with the faculty editor from the Art Department.

An introduction to the various techniques of literary analysis, with emphasis on the methods employed since the 1950’s. Students will apply various theoretical approaches--cultural/new historicist, deconstructionist, feminist, formalist, psychoanalytic, and reader response to poetry, fiction, and drama. (Offered as needed.)

A study of the creative process that includes all the choices a writer makes: selecting and interpreting facts, evidence, or details; creating a structure and shaping it to fit the teller’s purposes; using language and rhetorical or stylistic devices to reinforce the mood or point. Course components include the study of major essayists, frequent writing exercises, and the creation of a portfolio of revised work. (Offered as needed.)

A study of the internal history and structure of our language, presented in a chronological treatment of its phonological, morphological, syntactic, and semantic development to the present, including traditional and modern grammars. (Offered as needed.)

This course introduces prospective junior and senior high school English teachers to the junior novel and to adult literature (both including representative selections from minority literature) appropriate to the adolescent-age interest group, studies the basic needs of the adolescent in relation to adolescent literature, develops criteria to evaluate the literary merit of adolescent literature, and surveys the role of the teacher in reading guidance and developing thematic literature units of study around topics relevant to adolescents and their needs and interests. This course does not meet the General Education literature requirement.

This course will familiarize the student with the most recent and most admirable writing occurring in contemporary theatre. The theatre is an immediate art form, and the student must not only understand its heritage and history but also be familiar with the works of the most contemporary theatre artists. Students will learn to put these works into a critical and historical context as well as forecast where theatre might be headed and why. This course does not meet the General Education literature requirement.

A course that focuses on a specific aspect of film, designed to enhance students’ continuing appreciation of film as an art form. Particular focuses may include but are not limited to, genre theory, auteur theory, adaptation, great directors, specific schools of film and their relationship to other arts. (Offered in even years in the spring semester)

This course studies selected literature written by African Americans and focuses on the development of African-American literary culture from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. 

A study of the English and American poetry of the twentieth century, with emphasis upon noted poets and poetical movements. This course does not meet the General Education literature requirement. (Offered alternate years.)

A consideration, employing various approaches, of twentieth-century British, American and continental fiction from about 1900 to the present. This course does not meet the General Education literature requirement. (Offered as needed.)

The purpose of this course is to help prospective teachers develop a knowledge base from which they can confidently teach the language arts in grades nine through twelve. (Offered as needed.)

This 60-day course of study in the public schools allows English education students to combine theory and practice in the classroom under the guidance of the classroom teacher. The student teaching experience will be evaluated by the NCATE program standards as outlined by the National Council of the Teachers of English and by the South Carolina state teaching guidelines outlined by the ADEPT process. Grading is on a Pass/Fail basis.

The student is placed in a local private or public enterprise to gain work-related experience consistent with his/her field of study. The student will have a faculty sponsor as well as a supervisor at the enterprise to direct and supervise the student’s activities. A student is expected to complete 125 hours of work.

A coordinated study which serves as the culmination of an English major’s undergraduate study. There are two options: literary criticism or creative writing. For either option, the student will demonstrate wide reading, critical thinking, knowledge, and application of research techniques, and skill in writing. For the critical option, the student produces a final critical paper/project on a literary subject chosen in consultation with a faculty supervisor. For the creative writing option, the student produces a critical preface and a portfolio of original work in consultation with a faculty supervisor.