ENG English (ENG)

This course is a writing-intensive course which emphasizes the composition process through individualized and group instruction in a workshop setting. It engages students in the writing habits, strategies, and skills needed to become confident, successful college writers.

This course provides supplementary instruction for students who are co-enrolled in College Composition (ENG124). This course is designed to enhance student success, providing intensive individualized instruction and practice in major components of drafting, such as process writing, audience awareness, and critical thinking.

This course provides additional instructional support for students who are co-enrolled in ENG124. The course is designed to assist students in developing academic writing and reading strategies and skills needed to successfully complete ENG124 assignments and curriculum. Course work includes practice and application of the major components of composition, such as process writing, audience awareness, critical thinking, and textual analysis through individualized and group instruction.

This course emphasizes writing based on reading response with review of essay development, grammar, and punctuation. Emphasis is on the process of drafting, revising, and editing to achieve clarity. A research project requires APA or MLA documentation. TMEC Approved effective Autumn 2008. OT36-TME001, effective summer 2023

This course will introduce students to the editing process and teach students the basic of design layout. Students will practice both hardcopy and electronic editing and proofreading, as well as study and discuss a variety of editorial approaches.

This course provides an intense review of modern English grammar, style, and punctuation, and examines how these subjects pertain to current technical writing.

This course stresses clarity, logic and appropriate organization in informal and formal technical reports. An oral presentation/proposal may be required. TMEC Approved effective Autumn 2008. Ohio Transfer Module Approved Spring 2012 TME002.

This course covers writing for the following media: web, broadcast, and scriptwriting. Students examine basic issues of design and are introduced to stylistic and content requirements involved with creating media-specific text.

Writing for the Web is designed to introduce students to the unique writing style, issues, and audience associated with writing for the web and digital media. Students will come to understand how users read on the web, the dual nature of language and aesthetics in web writing, flow and construction of information on the web, language appropriateness and usage, and the relationship between audience, message, and language.

Students will study the general and varied requirements of grant writing in a diversity of public and private areas. Hands-on practice will result in a completed grant or simulated grant of some complexity by the end of the semester.

This course provides a realistic sampling of varied forms of communication. During the course of the semester, students will write memos, letters, description, and instructions; conduct research; practice conducting simulated business meetings featuring reports and graphic aids; and develop skills in interviewing and resume creation. The importance of working with others is stressed throughout the class. TMEC Approved effective Autumn 2008. OTM approved for TME002 effective Fall 2011.TAG approved Spring 2012 OBU005.

This course will build on the skills and knowledge obtained in College Composition including research and inquiry. Students will develop an understanding of rhetoric, argument, and language as they explore and write about complex topics in formal papers. TMEC Approved effective Spring 2010. OT36-TME002, effective summer 2023.

This course will focus on the creation of scripts for corporate marketing, training and educational videos. Narrative structure and dramatic storytelling will be employed in the creation of the scripts.

This course covers British literature from the Middle Ages to the early modern period. Students will read, discuss, and write about works by British authors in their historical and cultural contexts. Emphasis will be placed on the critical reading of the works and techniques used to analyze them. Course is TAG approved OAH055 effective Spring 2010. OT36-TMAH, effective summer 2023.

This course covers British literature from the Romantic to contemporary periods. Students will read, discuss, and write about works by British authors in their historical and cultural contexts. Emphasis will be placed on critical reading of the works and techniques used to analyze them. TAG approved OAH056 effective Summer 2010. OT36-TMAH, effective summer 2023.

This course is a study of representative plays and poetry of William Shakespeare. Students will read, discuss, and write about the works in their historical and cultural contexts. Emphasis will be placed on the critical reading of the works and techniques used to analyze them. TMAH Approved effective Spring 2016.

This course covers American Literature from the time of Native Americans to the Civil War. Students will read, discuss, and write about works by American authors in their historical and cultural contexts. Emphasis will be placed on critical reading of the works and techniques used to analyze them. TAG OAH053 approved Spring 2012. OT36-TMAH, effective summer 2023.

This course surveys American Literature from the mid- to late-nineteenth century to the present. Students will read, discuss, analyze, and write about works by American authors in their historical and cultural contexts. Emphasis will be placed on critical reading of the works and techniques used to analyze them. TAG approved Summer 2012 OAH054. OT36-TMAH, effective summer 2023.

Students will study and practice creative writing by critically analyzing creative writing strategies and experiencing a writing workshop to create their own texts.

Film Appreciation will introduce students to the way films are put together and how they transmit story and ideas to an audience. Students will learn about narrative form, film style, genre, etc., as well as film criticism and theory. OTM approved TMAH, effective summer 2020.

This course explores representative works by women of diverse eras, cultures, historical, social and literary perspectives. Emphasis will be placed on critical reading of the works and techniques used to analyze them, especially in terms of race, ethnicity, class, sexual orientation, and cultural context. Through this analysis, students will gain knowledge and understanding of women's role in the literary tradition and how their roles and views of themselves change and are reflected in their writing. OTM approved TMAH, effective summer 2020

This course explores the writing of major American and British authors of the twentieth century and after. Students will read, discuss, and write about works by these authors in their historical and cultural contexts. Emphasis will be placed on critical reading of the works; techniques used to analyze them; and their social, historical, and literary significance in relation to the twentieth century and after.TMAH Approved effective Spring 2016.

Through the use of selected texts, students will become familiar with both western and non-western authors from a variety of global cultures from ancient times to the present. Students will read, discuss, analyze, and write about works by multicultural authors in their historical and cultural contexts. Emphasis will be placed on critical reading of the works and techniques used to analyze them.

Students will work with the student newspaper advisors and staff during a specified period of time with a member of the English Department at Stark State College serving in an advisory capacity. This is a non-paid internship. Successful completion of the internship will require confirmation by the representative of the student organization and the student’s advisor that obligations and objectives have been met. Can only be completed in the student’s final semester at Stark State College.

Writing and revising process, academic and argumentative essays; literary examples of descriptive, narrative, expository, and persuasive modes; language issues and library skills. Writing intensive. Primary focus on formal, written work, composed for a variety of audiences.

Preparing and analyzing business documents using fundamental business communication principles and standards, technology, critical thinking skills, and research techniques in preparation for the workplace. Substantial focus on customs and traditions of a nonEnglish-speaking country and the impact of those customs and traditions on expanding American business to that country. Development of oral communication skills using appropriate technology, strategy, and methods. Use of digital recording and PowerPoint slide projection equipment in online sections.