Taking up where English 103/104/105/195 leaves off, this sophomore-level writing course extends students' abilities to read, analyze, research, and develop argument. Students analyze arguments and create their own original essays. Satisfies both WCII and Information Literacy requirements. Prerequisite: 104 or 105 or 195. WCII, IL.
Students in this practicum experience support paid staff members in creating Viterbo's student newspaper, Lumen. Students working on the Lumen gain skills writing and editing hard news, features, sports reports, arts and culture reviews, and more. In addition, they grow their professional communication, collaboration, and community outreach abilities. May be repeated for credit.
Students in this practicum experience support paid staff members in creating Viterbo's 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
Major comedies, histories, and tragedies studied as poetry and as drama; selections from the sonnets. This course exists as both a 200-level course 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 UD credit. Prerequisite: 104 or C or higher in 105 or C or higher in 195. LA
In this introduction to college writing, students learn to read closely to summarize, analyze, and respond to literary texts and relevant scholarship. Students also practice the basic conventions of college essay writing, including crafting a thesis, organizing evidence, and achieving sentence-level effectiveness. By semester's end, students write a thesis-driven literary analysis supported by library research. Placement into this course requires an ACT English score of 18-22. Grade of C required to pass the course. Prerequisite to ENGL 104. WCI, IL
The second of two required first-year composition courses in the core curriculum, ENGL 104 builds on the skills established in ENGL 103. Students focus on reading a variety of texts, writing arguments, and incorporating research. They are also introduced to the fundamentals of multimodal composition, which culminates in a final project of their choosing. Prerequisite to all other English classes. Grade of C required to pass the course. Prerequisite: Grade of C or higher in 103 or transfer placement. WCI, IL
This accelerated first-year writing course develops students' skills in college-level analysis and argument. In addition to critically reading literary and expository texts, students work in small group workshops to write literary analyses, researched arguments, and multimodal compositions. Grade of C required to pass. Placement into this course requires an ACT English score of 23 or higher. WCI, IL
Students in this practicum experience work collaboratively to create Viterbo's journal of first-year writing, Backspace. Through working on this project, students build skills in professional communication, editing, and document and magazine design. Required for first-year English majors but open to English minors as well. May not be repeated for credit.
Designed specifically for students enrolled in the Honors Program, this first-year writing seminar facilitates students' development into skilled practitioners of college-level argument through practice, guidance, and collaborative learning. In addition to reading complex texts critically, writing frequently, and completing several major assignments of increasing complexity, students will work with a similar group in a lab setting on the processes of writing.