Spring 2017 Class Schedule (SCC)
Schedule: Full Term, Jan 14-May 17
Schedule: Full Term, Jan 14-May 17
Schedule: Full Term, Jan 14-May 17
Schedule: Full Term, Jan 14-May 17
Schedule: Full Term, Jan 14-May 17
Schedule: Full Term, Jan 14-May 17
Schedule: Full Term, Jan 14-May 17
Schedule: Full Term, Jan 14-May 17
Schedule: Full Term, Jan 14-May 17
Schedule: Full Term, Jan 14-May 17
Updated: July 10, 2017
Prerequisite: ENGWR 101 with a grade of "C" or better, or placement through the assessment process.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C2; IGETC Area 3B
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
Description: Designed to introduce students to the art of poetry, ENGLT 304 includes analysis and appreciation of poems by a wide variety of traditional and contemporary poets. This course focuses on how to respond as a reader and how to help give poetry meaning in the light of one's accumulated feelings, interests, and ideas. Work in the course includes writing at least four analytical essays, including in-class exams and out-of-class assignments.
TTh 10:30AM-11:50AM LEC S.Cirrone SCC MAIN STS 215 17611 Textbook
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On-Campus
Prerequisite: ENGWR 101 with a grade of "C" or better, or placement through the assessment process.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C2; IGETC Area 3B
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
Description: This course surveys significant works in the English language from Beowulf through the works of Alexander Pope. This course requires critical reading of poetry, novels, essays, and plays, as well as written analysis and significant research about these texts or authors. Students will also examine the historical and cultural environments in which the literature was created. Other works and writers include Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Geoffrey Chaucer, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, John Milton, John Donne, Renaissance lyric poets, Aphra Behn, and Jonathan Swift. (C-ID ENGL 160)
MW 09:00AM-10:20AM LEC M.Selva SCC MAIN STS 215 17993 Textbook
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On-Campus
Prerequisite: ENGWR 101 with a grade of "C" or better or placement through the assessment process.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C2; IGETC Area 3B
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
Description: This course surveys significant works in the English language from Romanticism in the 18th Century to post colonialism in the 20th century. Students will read poetry, novels, plays, and nonfiction prose by a variety of authors, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Blake, the Brownings, Tennyson, Dickens, Yeats, Joyce, Woolf, Ezekiel, and Walcott. (C-ID ENGL 165)
TTh 01:00PM-02:20PM LEC S.Jackson SCC MAIN STS 215 17609 Textbook
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OnCampus
Prerequisite: ENGWR 101 or ESLW 320 and ESLR 320 with a grade of "C" or better; or placement through the assessment process
General Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C2; IGETC Area 3B
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
Description: This course introduces students to some of the literary forms found in the Bible: the poems, proverbs, short stories, wisdom literature, drama, epics, and epistles that are the bases of some of the most enduring symbols and allusions in the literature of the Western world. At the same time, it introduces them to the major Bible characters on whose lives these poems, short stories, wisdom literature, drama, epistles, and epics are centered. Additionally, the course traces the influence of the Bible on the works of selected authors. It is not a study of Jewish or Christian doctrine, nor is it a Bible study course.
TBA TBA LEC J.Thomas-Val SCC MAIN Online 19167 Textbook
Online Class. Mandatory Orientation: Wednesday, January 18, 2017, 3:00 pm - 4:50 pm, RHS 311. Students must bring documentation showing they have met the prerequisite for the course (e.g. a transcript showing a "C" or better in ENGWR 101 or Course Substitution Petition).
Prerequisite: ENGWR 101 with a "C" or better or placement through the assessment process.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C2; IGETC Area 3B
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
Description: This course surveys representative works in American literature from approximately 1492-1865. Readings and discussion will highlight the multicultural nature of American literature and society. Texts include Native American myths, writing of the colonial period and the American Revolution, slave narratives, Romantic fiction, and poetry from the seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century. Students will read a variety of stories, novels, autobiographical narratives, and poetry by such authors as Edgar Allan Poe, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fredrick Douglass, Anne Bradstreet, Washington Irving, Harriet Jacobs, Herman Melville and Phillis Wheatley. (C-ID ENGL 130)
MW 10:30AM-11:50AM LEC M.Dana SCC MAIN STS 215 18003 Textbook
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On-Campus
Prerequisite: ENGWR 300 with a grade of "C" or better
Advisory: ENGWR 301 or 303
General Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C2; IGETC Area 3B
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
Description: This course surveys representative American literature from the post-Civil War period until the present, with consideration of important aspects of American literary history. Readings--from a variety of stories, novels, plays, and poetry--and discussion highlight the multicultural nature of American literature and society. (C-ID ENGL 135)
TTh 02:30PM-03:50PM LEC J.Angel SCC MAIN STS 215 17610 Textbook
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On-Campus
Prerequisite: ENGWR 101 with a grade of "C" or better, or placement through the assessment process.
Advisory: LIBR 318 with a grade of "C" or better
General Education: AA/AS Area I; AA/AS Area VI; CSU Area C2; IGETC Area 3B
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
Description: ENGLT 332 is a study of major African-American authors and their literature from 1930 to the present. This course includes critical reading of essays, novels, plays, short stories, poetry, and folklore. The course also examines the cultural, historical, and political contexts for the literature. Some of the writers studied include Richard Wright, Ann Petry, Gwendolyn Brooks, Amiri Baraka, Owen Dodson, August Wilson, Rita Dove, J. California Cooper, Bebe Moore Campbell, Mari Evans, Ralph Ellison, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker and many others. One field trip may be required.
TBA TBA LEC C.Marks SCC MAIN Online 18821 Textbook
Online Class. Mandatory Orientation: Tuesday, January 17, 2017, 7:00 pm - 8:50 pm, RHS 326. Students must bring documentation showing they have met the prerequisite for the course (e.g. a transcript showing a "C" or better in ENGWR 101 or Course Substitution Petition).
Same As: TAFILM 300
Prerequisite: ENGWR 51 and ENGRD 11 or ESLR 310 and ESLW 310 with grades of "C" or better or placement through the assessment process.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C1; IGETC Area 3A
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
Description: This course explores the artistic, business, and social elements of modern film. It examines the elements that go into making films: acting, directing, cinematography, writing, and editing. It investigates the techniques used to manipulate the audience into fear, laughter, and sadness and compares the commercial box office hit and "movie star" to enduring artistic films and actors. This class will view and analyze films to evaluate filmmaking techniques and the impact of films and the movie business on society. This course is cross-listed with TAFILM 300. It may be taken only once for credit as TAFILM 300 or as ENGLT 400, but not both.
TTh 12:30PM-01:50PM LEC N.Schemel SCC MAIN PAC 202 19977 Textbook
MW 04:30PM-05:50PM LEC N.Schemel SCC MAIN PAC 202 17777 Textbook
On-Campus
T 06:00PM-09:05PM LEC A.Lewis SCC MAIN RHS 208 17386 Textbook
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On-Campus
Prerequisite: ENGWR 101 with a grade of "C" or better, or placement through the assessment process.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; CSU Area C2; IGETC Area 3B
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
Description: From its earliest days, Hollywood has played an important role in shaping and reflecting cultural assumptions, myths, and fears. This course examines the underlying messages about race and gender in Hollywood's portrayal of women. The course also compares and contrasts representation of different groups of women, including minority and marginalized, in independent and experimental films. In addition to viewing a variety of film genres, the reading assignments include works of fiction, poetry, and essays from sociology, psychology, and critical theory.
TBA TBA LEC A.Doersch SCC MAIN Online 19177 Textbook
Online Class. Mandatory Orientation: Tuesday, January 17, 2017, 3:15 pm - 5:05 pm, RHS 311. Students must bring documentation showing they have met the prerequisite for the course (e.g. a transcript showing a "C" or better in ENGWR 101, or Course Substitution Petition). Once registered, students should visit the class website at http://sites.google.com/a/apps.losrios.edu/ann-doersch for further information.
Prerequisite: ENGWR 101 with a grade of "C" or better, or placement through the assessment process.
General Education: AA/AS Area I; AA/AS Area VI; CSU Area C2; IGETC Area 3B
Enrollment Limitation: Eligibility for the Honors Program.
Course Transferable to UC/CSU
Hours: 54 hours LEC
Description: This course is a comparative study of works that have made important contributions to world literature. Students learn to recognize and explain developmental stages and important themes in representative works written from the seventeenth-century to the present and to analyze literary expressions of values, ideas, and multicultural issues typical of major world cultures. An important purpose of the course is to examine significant aspects of culture, social experiences, and contributions of non-western cultures. The class is conducted as a seminar in which students give at least one oral presentation and write a minimum of 6,000 words, including at least two textual analyses and one research paper. (C-ID ENGL 145)
MW 12:00PM-01:20PM LEC T.Myers SCC MAIN STS 215 18105 Textbook
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On-Campus