The study of English offers students an opportunity to develop critical thinking and writing skills necessary for success in both the academic and professional worlds. It also nurtures an appreciation of the literary arts. Reading, thinking, and writing about the human experience provide a vital foundation for further education and professional success.
Since English composition courses are designed to help students write the kinds of papers commonly required in college courses, students should take English as early as possible.
Career Opportunities
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Faculty
Adell, Tim
Campbell, Bryce
Fisher, Jamie
Francev, Peter
Franklin, Nathan
Glebe, Andrea
Golder, Patricia
Morgan, Brittany
Mott, Justin
Pendleton, Joseph
Solis, Judy
Wagenhoffer, Joshua
Transfer
- California State University, San Bernardino: English major
- University of California, Riverside: English major
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English, AA-T (33082)
Students completing an Associate in Arts in English for Transfer degree will be prepared to transfer into the CSU system to complete a baccalaureate degree in English or similar major. Upon completion of this degree, students will be able to read critically and analyze a variety of college level texts (such as non-fiction, fiction, drama, and poetry) within the conventions of language, genre, and rhetoric; analyze, evaluate, synthesize and document a variety of sources to support written arguments; draft, revise, and submit an effective essay, project, or oral presentation with attention to purpose, coherence, voice, language, and mechanical conventions.
To earn this degree complete the major coursework listed here with “C” grades or better and the following graduation requirements: 60 CSU transferable units; either the CSU General Education or IGETC pattern; the Basic/Golden 4 requirements; and a 2.0 minimum overall CSU GPA. Courses used in the major may also be counted in the general education areas. Courses used for this major may also be used to earn other degrees at VVC.
| Code | Title | Units |
|---|---|---|
| Required Courses | ||
| ENGL 102.0/102H | Composition and Literature | 3.0 |
| ENGL 104/104H | Critical Thinking & Composition | 3.0 |
| List A | ||
| Select two of the following courses: | 6.0 | |
| Survey of American Literature 1600-1865 | ||
| Survey of American Literature 1865 to Present | ||
| World Literature Ancient-Early Renaissance | ||
| World Literature Renaissance-Modern | ||
| Survey of British Literature Early Medieval-Neoclassics | ||
| Survey of British Literature Romantic Period to 20th Century | ||
| List B | ||
| Select one of the following courses: | 3.0 | |
| Modern Fiction | ||
| Poetry | ||
| Chicanox and Latino/A Literature | ||
| African American Literature | ||
| Native American Literature | ||
| Children's Literature | ||
| Shakespeare | ||
| List C | ||
| Select one of the following courses: | 3.0-5.0 | |
| Fiction Writing I | ||
| Fiction Writing II | ||
| Poetry Writing I | ||
| Poetry Writing I I | ||
| American Sign Language I | ||
| American Sign Language II | ||
| American Sign Language III | ||
| American Sign Language IV | ||
| Elementary French | ||
| Elementary French | ||
| Elementary Spanish | ||
| Fundamentals of Spanish 101A | ||
| Fundamentals of Spanish 101B | ||
| Elementary Spanish | ||
| Intermediate Spanish | ||
| Intermediate Spanish | ||
| Total Units | 18-20 | |
English Courses
This is a basic writing and reading course designed to build proficiency in the basics of writing expository prose and to build reading comprehension at both literal and inferential levels. This course will not apply to the Associate Degree.
Lecture Hours: 90.00
Transfer: Not transferable
This lab in the Writing Center is recommended for students taking any writing-intensive course at VVC. Emphasis is on the one-to-one tutorial approach, computer-assisted instruction, and word composing/processing. Students receive a credit/no-credit grade mark only. This course will not apply to the Associate degree.
Lab Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Not transferable
(Formerly English 50) A practical writing course emphasizing expository writing, including planning, organizing, composing short essays, editing for punctuation, diction, usage and sentence structure, and analyzing a variety of college preparatory texts.
Lecture Hours: 72.00
Transfer: Not transferable
This is an interactive course that analyzes the techniques of tutoring writing. Students will examine the role of writing tutors in one-on-one conferences, discuss tutoring theory, and observe tutors in the Writing Center and/or composition instructors in the classroom. Credit/No Credit
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.0 ENGL H101 Minimum grade C;
Lecture Hours: 18.00
Transfer: Not transferable
This co-requisite course is designed to assist students in successful completion of English 101. Assignments focus on developing vocabulary, study skills, reading comprehension and critical thinking skills with college level reading materials. Emphasis is placed on active reading and study skills including study methods, vocabulary development, reading comprehension and critical thinking. The strategies apply contextually to materials being presented in the associated co-requisite English 101 course.
Co-requisite(s): ENGL 101.0
Lecture Hours: 36.00
Transfer: Not transferable
The course covers the principles and methods of research and expository writing with a variety of materials from different academic disciplines. Students read and analyze college level materials and compose expository essays that demonstrate critical thinking skills and an understanding of rhetorical strategies.
Lecture Hours: 72.00
Transfer: Transfers to both UC/CSU
Principles and methods of expository writing. Analytical reading of source materials and writing of expository essays. Honors seminar will require more advanced resources and more complex assignments than ENGL 101.0.
Lecture Hours: 72.00
Transfer: Transfers to both UC/CSU
An introduction to the genres of literature including short story, poetry, drama and novel. Further training in writing, especially about literature.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.0 or ENGL 101H; Minimum grade C;
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to both UC/CSU
Further training in writing, critical theories and research, and an introduction to the short story, novel, drama and poetry. This course takes the methods of English 102 and promotes more comprehensive analysis, research, discussion and writing assignments. (UC credit limitation).
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.0; Minimum grade C;
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to both UC/CSU
This course is designed to develop the students' critical thinking, reading and writing skills beyond the level achieved in ENGL 101.0 or ENGL 101H. It will focus primarily on the analysis and evaluation of expository and argumentative discourse, and on writing analytical and argumentative essays.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.0 or ENGL 101H
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to both UC/CSU
This course is designed to develop the students' critical thinking, reading and writing skills beyond the level achieved in English 101 or Engl H101. It will focus primarily on the analysis and evaluation of expository and argumentative essays. Honors seminar will deepen students'insights.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.0 or ENGL 101H Minimum grade C
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to both UC/CSU
Principles of creative expression. Topics may cover fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and/or drama. Grade Option.
Recommended Preparation: ENGL 101.0
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to CSU only
A survey of playwrights from the Greeks to the present. The selected plays are read, discussed, and analyzed. Crosslisted with TA 116.
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to both UC/CSU
A study of selected texts from various special topics. Each section of 128 will focus on a special topic such as The Byronic Hero, Victorian Women Writers, Crime and Detective Fictions, Science Fictions, Film as Literature, Millennial Voices, etc. Designed to provide an understanding of structures, motifs, themes, and cultural resonance within the special topic area.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.0 or ENGL 101H Minimum grade C
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to CSU only
This course is designed for students who are cross-training at their current worksite for upward mobility or possible career changes, as well as those looking for entry-level occupational training through work-based learning experiences. Students must have a co-op approved worksite to enroll in this class and establish new learning objectives.
Transfer: Transfers to CSU only
Beginnig principles of writing fiction, focusing on the short story and the novel.
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to CSU only
This workshop-style course addresses intermediate principles of writing fiction, focusing on the short story and the novel. Grade option.
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to CSU only
A workshop-style course which includes a review of poetic forms, techniques, and revision strategies. Grade option.
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to CSU only
This workshop-style course addresses intermediate principles of writing poetry, focusing on poetic forms, techniques, and revision strategies. Grade option.
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to CSU only
Twentieth century literature, chiefly of England and the United States, emphasizing novels and short stories.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.0 or ENGL 101H; Minimum grade C;
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to both UC/CSU
British and American poetry with consideration of versification, structure, imagery, diction, themes, and genres.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.0 or ENGL 101H; Minimum grade C
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to both UC/CSU
A survey of exemplary items in the origin and development of American thought and culture from 1600 to 1865. Designed to provide an understanding and appreciation of American literary achievements through the study of the works of representative writers including Bradford, Bradstreet, Edwards, Wheatley, Franklin, Irving, Poe, Stowe and Emerson. Also includes a study of Native-American folk tales and slave narratives. .
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.0 or ENGL 101H; Minimum grade C;
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to both UC/CSU
A survey of exemplary items in the origin and development of American thought and culture from 1865 to the present. Designed to provide an understanding and appreciation of American literary achievements through study of the works of great writers including Whitman, Dickinson, Twain, Frost, Welty, Thurber, Tan and others.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.0 or ENGL 101H; Minimum grade C
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to both UC/CSU
Introduction to the Mexican-American/Latinx cultural experience through literary analysis of fiction, poetry, drama, and the essay. Studies literature in the context of literary-historical-political growth of Mexican-American/Latinx identity and of current theories of analyzing multicultural writings.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.0 or ENGL 101H
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to both UC/CSU
An introductory survey course of African-American oral and written literary traditions.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.0 or ENGL 101H; Minimum grade C
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to both UC/CSU
An introduction to Native American Literature from the oral tradition to contemporary writing. Study of myths and legends, traditional oral narratives and songs, transitional forms such as oration and autobiography, and written genres (poem, short story, novel). (UC credit pending).
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.0 or ENGL 101H; Minimum grade C
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to both UC/CSU
A survey of children's literature, emphasizing folktales, narrative fiction, poetry and some non-fiction works. Also includes the history and development of literature and illustration for children, the selection of materials for various age groups, and literature and the media.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.0 or ENGL 101H; Minimum grade C
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to CSU only
Masterpieces of world literature and their cultural contexts from ancient times through the early Renaissance.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.0 or ENGL 101H; Minimum grade C;
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to both UC/CSU
Masterpieces of world literature and their cultural contexts from the Renaissance until the present.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.0 or ENGL 101H; Minimum grade C
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to both UC/CSU
Mythology explores Greek and Roman myths using the works of Hesiod, Homer, Virgil and Ovid. We cover the history and cultures of the classical world through the stories on the origins and actions of gods and heroes.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.0
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Not transferable
A survey of major British writers from the Middle Ages through the Eighteen Century, including a study of literary and historic contexts. Special consideration of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton and Pope.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.0 or ENGL 101H; Minimum grade C
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to both UC/CSU
A survey of major British writers from the Romantics and their contemporaries through the 20th century, including a study of literary and historic contexts. Special consideration of Wordsworth, Eliot and Auden, for example.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.0 or ENGL 101H; Minimum grade C
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to both UC/CSU
An introduction to Shakespeare's work through a study of his principal plays and the sonnets.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.0; Minimum grade C;
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to both UC/CSU
This course covers the theoretical concepts and practical issues involved in tutoring various levels of writing. Students develop an understanding of the issues and practices relevant to the role of tutoring writing through observing, reading, and discussing the relationship between the writer, his/her writing, the tutor, the classroom teacher, and the classroom environment.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.0 or ENGL 101H; Minimum Grade C
Lecture Hours: 54.00
Transfer: Transfers to CSU only
This is an interactive course that analyzes the techniques of tutoring writing. Students will examine the role of writing tutors in one-on-one conferences, discuss tutoring theory, and observe tutors in the Writing Center and/or composition instructors in the classroom. Credit/No Credit.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101.0
Lecture Hours: 36.00
Transfer: Transfers to CSU only