Course Offerings

Any student wishing to earn an A.A. degree must complete ENGL C1000 with a grade of ‘C’ or better.
Multiple Measures will indicate whether the student is eligible for: ENGL C1000E; ENGL C1000; or ENGL C1001 or 203.

For more information about recommended placement in English Composition courses, please contact the Assessment Center, (760) 744-1150, ext. 2476.

ESL Placement

Students whose first language is not English may want to register for ESL instruction prior to taking English C1000 or English C1000E.
The ESL placement process will determine which ESL classes are appropriate.
Nonresident international students may be required to take one or more of these English as a Second Language courses.
Please contact the ESL Department at (760) 744-1150, ext. 2280.

Course Descriptions

ENGL C1000E Academic Reading and Writing Enhanced (4.00)

Formerly ENG 100 + 49 and ENG 100E

Format: 3.50 hours lecture – 1.50 hours lab
Prerequisite: Placement as determined by the college’s multiple measures assessment process.
Transfer acceptability: UC/CSU
Grading: Graded Only
C-ID: ENGL 100
In this course, students receive instruction in academic reading and writing, including writing processes, effective use of language, analytical thinking, and the foundations of academic research. This course includes embedded support. Practice in expository and argumentative writing based on analytical reading and critical thinking is emphasized, as are topics such as methods of invention, organization and development, and the elements of style. This enhanced version of ENGL C1000 offers extra instruction, practice, and support to help students develop college-level composition skills. Students who receive credit for ENGL C1000E may not also receive credit for ENGL C1000.

ENGL C1000 Academic Reading and Writing (4)

Formerly ENG 100

Format: 4 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English C1000, as determined through the English placement process..
Note: May not be taken for Pass/No Pass grading
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
Practice in expository and argumentative writing based on analytical reading and critical thinking. Topics include methods of invention, organization and development, principles of basic research, and the elements of style.

ENG 135 Introduction to Creative Writing (4)

Format: 4 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English C1000 or C1000E or ESL 110, as determined through the English or the English as a Second Language (ESL) placement process.
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
C-ID: ENGL 200
Provides practice, instruction, and analytical research in writing fiction and poetry. Students submit both creative and analytical writing which will be presented for workshop discussion and critique. Lectures present a variety of prose and verse forms.

ENG 136 Intermediate Creative Writing (4)

Format: 4 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English C1000 or C1000E or ESL 110, as determined through the English or the English as a Second Language (ESL) placement process.
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
Provides practice, instruction, and analytical research in writing fiction and poetry. Students submit both creative and analytical writing which will be presented for workshop discussion and critique. Lectures present a variety of prose and verse forms.

ENG 137 The Literary Magazine: History and Production (4)

Format: 2 hours lecture – 6 hours laboratory
Recommended preparation: Eligibility for English C1000 or C1000E or ESL 110, as determined through the English or the English as a Second Language (ESL) placement process.
Transfer acceptability: CSU
Availability: Offered every Spring Semester
Historical examination of the genre of the literary magazine from the 18th century to the present, with an emphasis on the late 20th century. Also, after selecting and editing material for Palomar College’s literary journal, Bravura, students will structure, format, produce, and distribute the magazine.

ENG 150 Introduction to Linguistics (3)

Format: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English C1000 or C1000E or ESL 110, as determined through the English or the English as a Second Language (ESL) placement process.
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
Availability: Offered every Fall Semester
An introduction to the principles and practices of modern language study. Examines the origins and development of language, its social uses and implications, and its structure.

ENGL C1001 Critical Thinking and Writing (4) (formerly ENG 202)

Format: 4 hours lecture
Prerequisite: A minimum grade of ‘C’ in ENG C1000 or ENG C1000E
Note: May not be taken for Pass/No Pass grading
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
C-ID: ENGL 105
Provides instruction and practice in methods of critical thinking and formal composition, emphasizing the following: awareness of language and its implications through rhetorical and semiotic analysis based on systematic consideration of language in context; awareness of principles of classical argument in light of the traditions of rational thought. Students will be required to engage in both traditional and current methods of research through the use of information technology.

ENG C1003 Critical Thinking and Writing through Literature (4) (formerly ENG 203)

Format: 4 hours lecture
Prerequisite: A minimum grade of ‘C’ in ENG C1000 or ENG C1000E
Note: May not be taken for Pass/No Pass grading
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
C-ID: ENGL 110
Practice in writing essays about literature with emphasis on critical thinking, reading, and writing skills; principles of inductive and deductive reasoning; the relationship of language to logic; analysis, criticism, and advocation of ideas; methods of research; advanced elements of style and organization.

ENG C1002 Introduction to Literature (3) (formerly ENG 205)

Format: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: A minimum grade of ‘C’ in ENGL C1000 or ENGL C1000E
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
C-ID: ENGL 120
Availability: Offered every semester
An introduction to fiction, poetry, drama, and other genres in literary form. Students will read and discuss assigned selections from various literary genres and examine themes, language, forms, techniques, and other strategies that influence the production and reception of literature.

ENG 210 Survey of British Literature I (3)

Format: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English C1000 or C1000E or ESL 110, as determined through the English or the English as a Second Language (ESL) placement process.
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
C-ID: ENGL 160
Availability: Offered every Fall Semester
A study of the significant texts in British literature from the Middle Ages to the Eighteenth Century; considers a variety of authors, literary genres and trends, as well the historical and cultural contexts of the literary texts.

ENG 211 Survey of British Literature II (3)

Format: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English C1000 or C1000E or ESL 110, as determined through the English or the English as a Second Language (ESL) placement process.
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
C-ID: ENGL 165
Availability: Offered every Spring Semester
A study of significant texts in British literature from the Romantic period to the present. Considers a variety of authors, literary genres and trends, as well as the historical and cultural contexts of the literary texts.

ENG 215 Introduction to the British Novel (3)

Note: This course is currently deactivated and not being offered
Format: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English C1000 or C1000E or ESL 110, as determined through the English or the English as a Second Language (ESL) placement process.
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
A study of the British novel through reading such writers as Aphra Behn, Daniel Defoe, Laurence Sterne, Samuel Richardson, Fanny Burney, Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Wilkie Collins, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Jean Rhys, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie.

ENG 220 Survey of World Literature I (3)

Format: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English C1000 or C1000E or ESL 110, as determined through the English or the English as a Second Language (ESL) placement process.
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
C-ID: ENGL 140
Availability: Offered every Fall Semester
A survey of the major literature of Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe from ancient times to about 1600. A comparative study of literary themes and expression will be pursued.

ENG 221 Survey of World Literature II (3)

Format: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English C1000 or C1000E or ESL 110, as determined through the English or the English as a Second Language (ESL) placement process.
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
C-ID: ENGL 145
Availability: Offered every Spring Semester
A survey of the major literatures of Europe, Asia, the Americas, Africa, and Australia from about 1600 to the present. A comparative study of literary themes and influences will be pursued.

ENG 225 Literature of the United States I (3)

Format: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English C1000 or C1000E or ESL 110, as determined through the English or the English as a Second Language (ESL) placement process.
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
C-ID: ENGL 130
Availability: Offered every Fall Semester
Significant texts written in the territories that would become the United States, from the pre-colonial period to the Civil War; considers a variety of literary genres and trends, with focus on such issues as the interaction of texts and history, the expansion and politics of the literary canon, and the influence of the cultural contexts in which the literature of the United States is written and interpreted.

ENG 226 Literature of the United States II (3)

Format: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English C1000 or C1000E or ESL 110, as determined through the English or the English as a Second Language (ESL) placement process.
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
C-ID: ENGL 135
Availability: Offered every Spring Semester
Significant texts written in the United States from the Civil War to the present; considers a variety of literary genres and trends, with a focus on such issues as the interaction of texts and history, the expansion and politics of the literary canon, and the influence of the cultural contexts in which the literature of the United States is written and interpreted.

ENG 230 Introduction to the American Novel (3)

Format: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English C1000 or C1000E or ESL 110, as determined through the English or the English as a Second Language (ESL) placement process.
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
A study of the development of the American novel through reading such writers as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Henry James, Elizabeth Stewart Phelps, Kate Chopin, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Nella Larsen, Bernard Malamud, Zora Neale Hurston, Willa Cather, Ralph Ellison, Thomas Pynchon, Toni Morrison, Maxine Hong Kingston, Louise Erdrich, and James Baldwin.

ENG 240 Introduction to Classical Mythology (3)

Note: This course is currently deactivated and not being offered
Format: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English C1000 or C1000E or ESL 110, as determined through the English or the English as a Second Language (ESL) placement process.
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
A study of the meaning and function of myth in the classical literature of Ancient Greece and Rome. Read translations of representative epic, poetic, and dramatic literature of Hesiod, Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Vergil, and Ovid. An examination of the cultures which helped shape the literature and values with us today.

ENG 245 Survey of Biblical Literature (3)

Note: This course is currently deactivated and not being offered
Format: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English C1000 or C1000E or ESL 110, as determined through the English or the English as a Second Language (ESL) placement process.
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
An introduction to the study of the Bible in English as an anthology of literary types and genres: stories, poetry, proverbs, gospels, parables, epistles, satire, and visionary literature.

ENG 250 Introduction to Shakespeare (3)

Format: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English C1000 or C1000E or ESL 110, as determined through the English or the English as a Second Language (ESL) placement process.
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
Availability: Offered every Spring Semester
Introduction to the life, times, background, poems, and plays of William Shakespeare.

ENG 255 Literature and Ideas (3)

Format: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English C1000 or C1000E or ESL 110, as determined through the English or the English as a Second Language (ESL) placement process.
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
An introduction to selected major philosophical ideas, questions, and attitudes in significant literature of the world, from the ancient world to the present. The course will trace treatment of a thematic idea through literature of particular times and cultures. Recommended for English and Philosophy majors, and for those interested in broadening their background in the humanities.

ENG 260 Literature Through Film (3)

Format: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English C1000 or C1000E or ESL 110, as determined through the English or the English as a Second Language (ESL) placement process.
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
Analysis of the expectations and conventions used in literature — novels, short stories, dramas — and how those expectations and conventions are affected when they are translated into film. Critical analysis of the various works and comparison/contrast of the different interpretations of these ideas will be stressed.

ENG 265 Science Fiction (3)

Note: This course is currently deactivated and not being offered
Format: 3 hour lecture
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English C1000 or C1000E or ESL 110, as determined through the English or the English as a Second Language (ESL) placement process.
Note: Graded only
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
An introduction to science fiction – its major authors and stories, themes, trends, and cultural impact.

ENG 270 Popular Literature (3)

Format: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English C1000 or C1000E or ESL 110, as determined through the English or the English as a Second Language (ESL) placement process.
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
An introduction to one genre of popular literature such as science fiction, fantasy, detective fiction, war fiction, humor, or western literature using short stories and novels, and how these works are affected by the expectations, and conventions of the genre in which the author is writing.

ENG 280 Women and Literature (3)

Format: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English C1000 or C1000E or ESL 110, as determined through the English or the English as a Second Language (ESL) placement process.
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
Availability: Offered every Fall Semester of Even Years
Examines from a multicultural perspective women’s relationship to literature. Examines what it means to be a woman writer, exploring historical and cultural conditions that have shaped women’s relationship to literature. Explores gender stereotypes in literature by and about women and analyzes the ways in which women writers engage with, resist, and/or subvert dominant ideas about gender in literature.

ENG 290 Comic Books as Literature (3)

Format: 3 hours lecture
Prerequisite: Eligibility for English C1000 or C1000E or ESL 110, as determined through the English or the English as a Second Language (ESL) placement process.
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
An analysis of the comic book in terms of its unique poetics (the complicated interplay of word and image); the themes that are suggested in various works; the history and development of the form and its subgenres; and the expectations of comic book readers. Examines the influence of history, culture, and economics on comic book artists and writers. Explores definitions of literature, how these definitions apply to comic books, and the tensions that arise from such applications.

HUM 100 Introduction to Humanities I (3)

Format: 3 hours lecture
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
Availability: Offered every Fall Semester
Examines significant movements and developments in literature and other arts in Western culture from classical times to the late Middle Ages. Emphasis is on ideas and their realization in works of art.

HUM 101 Introduction to Humanities II (3)

Format: 3 hours lecture
Transfer acceptability: CSU; UC
Availability: Offered every Spring Semester
A general survey of the fine arts in the Western world. Arranged chronologically rather than thematically, the course material includes consideration of the major achievements of Western culture from the Renaissance until the present.

Department of English, Humanities, and Reading