Students in this practicum experience support paid staff members in creating Viterbos literary and arts journal, Touchstone. Students gain skills in reviewing submissions, editing, professional communication, collaboration, and community outreach. Prerequisite: 104 or C or higher in 105 or C or higher in 195. May be repeated for credit.

This course focuses on a single literary genre, its conventions, and challenges to those conventions. Course may emphasize fiction, non-fiction, drama, adaptations, specific forms of poetry, or other literary genres. This course exists as both a 200-level for Core Curriculum students and as a more challenging 300-level course required for English majors and minors and open to other interested students and to those who need upper division credit. Prerequisite: 104 or C or higher in 105 or C or higher in 195. May be repeated once for credit. LA

In this introduction to college writing, students work collaboratively, learning to read closely in order to summarize, analyze, and respond to a variety of texts. Students gain instruction in research methods and strategies of argumentation, as well as essentials of argumentative writing such as thesis, evidence, organization, and sentence-level effectiveness. By semesters end, students will write a short thesis-driven argument supported by library research. Grade of C required to pass the course. Placement into this course requires an ACT verbal score of 18-22. Prerequisite to ENGL 104.