English/Philosophy Department ENG/PHL 100 Level Course Descriptions and Learning Outcomes

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ENG 101 College A course emphasizing college-level, • Summarize sophisticated texts. Composition source- based writing (summary, analysis, • Analyze and critique persuasive texts. synthesis, research), with special attention to critical reading and thinking skills. • Support a well-articulated thesis statement by Students will draft, revise, and edit multiple integrating information from source material. thesis-driven essays. They will also study • Locate and evaluate a variety of sources as and practice argument and persuasion. potential support material in a written essay. (ENG 101 or ENG 200 satisfy the composition requirement for graduation.) • Use standard documentation style for source- Three class hours. (SUNY-BC) 3 Credits. based writing. Prerequisites: Waiver of Accuplacer • Exhibit proficiency in practices of standard written reading and sentence level tests; score of English (such as grammar, mechanics, and style). 71 or higher on reading test and 82 or • higher on sentence level test; or completion Identify areas of weakness in their own written of TRS 200 with a C or better; or completion work, and revise for improvement. of TRS 105 with a C or higher; or • Demonstrate basic oral communication skills completion of ESL 201 with a C or higher. Course Course Name Course Description Course Learning Outcome

ENG Introduction to An introduction to reading and analyzing • Write thesis-driven, evidence-based literary 105 Literature these primary genres of literature: fiction, arguments, using literature as a primary source poetry, and drama. The course may also and relying on textual support. include creative nonfiction. Students will • Analyze various genres of literature, including but respond critically to readings of different not limited to poetry, fiction, or drama. historical and cultural contexts through class discussion and written work. These • Analyze works by authors who represent diverse contexts may include different world views, world cultures, including non-western politics, classes, ethnicity, races, genders, perspectives and values. and sexual orientations. • Discuss the connections between literature and its historical, cultural, ethical, or political content. • Critique literature using key literary terminology. • Apply appropriate formal conventions when writing about literature.

ENG Literary Focus An introduction to reading and analyzing • Analyze various genres of literature. 106 literature of special interest. The offerings • Define key literary concepts related to genres. vary each semester, but all focus on important themes and sub-genres in • Critique literature using key literary concepts. literature. Students will respond critically to • Discuss the connections between literature and fiction, poetry, and drama of different life experiences. contexts through class discussion and written work. These contexts may include • Write a thesis-driven essay using literature as a different world views, politics, classes, primary source. ethnicity, races, genders, and sexual • Apply appropriate formal conventions when orientations. Please see the Department’s writing about literature. webpage for current offerings.

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ENG Literature of the A study of the Holocaust through a variety • Examine the implications of the Holocaust as a 108 Holocaust of genres, including poetry, novels, short significant event in world history. stories, plays, memoirs, and children’s • Discuss Holocaust related themes. literature, in order to gain a better understanding of the ideas presented by the • Interpret events/trends in the contemporary world Holocaust as a significant event in world through the lens of the Holocaust. history. Students will study the origins and • Explain historical aspects of the Holocaust. development of the Holocaust and its political, cultural, economic, and social • Evaluate ideas from diverse literary genres that implications through the lens of a variety of discuss the Holocaust. writers. • Write a thesis-driven essay using literature as a primary source. • Apply appropriate formal conventions when writing about literature.

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ENG Detective Fiction A study of classic and contemporary short • Describe the origins and development of the 109 stories and novels in sub-genres including genre. classic, hard-boiled, and police procedural • Identify common sub-genres of crime fiction. by such authors as Christie, Chandler, Conan Doyle, Xialong, Sigurdardottir, and • Describe common conventions of the genre. Nakamura. Students will study the origins • Analyze crime fiction in written assignments. and development of genre as a vehicle to examine historical, social, political, • Analyze crime fiction in discussion. intellectual, and cultural contexts. 3 Credits • Explain crime fiction's relationship to culture. Prerequisite(s): ENG 101; or equivalent; or • instructor permission (ENG 101 can be Write a thesis-driven essay using literature as a taken as a co-requisite) primary source. • Learning Attributes: WR Apply appropriate formal conventions when writing about literature. SUNY General Education: SUNY-H - Humanities (SHUM) MCC General Education: MCC-AH - Arts and Humanities (MAH)

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ENG Introduction to An introductory, skill-building workshop to • Research and describe with a writer’s precision 113 Creative Writing help students develop techniques that will and insight small details from the real world. prepare them to write the short fiction, • Construct coherent fictional details that have their poetry, creative nonfiction, and/or drama roots in observed and/or researched details. expected in ENG 213 Creative Writing. Emphasis is on developing observation • Construct a variety of literary devices including skills, imaginative leaps, and formal but not limited to imagery, metaphor, symbol, techniques such as image, metaphor, character, conflict, dialogue, the poetic line, and symbol, character, conflict, dialogue, the setting/staging. poetic line, and setting/stage directions. • Generate ideas that can be used towards the future construction of short fiction, poetry, and drama. • Participate constructively in a workshop environment. • Create the equivalent of a writer’s journal that can record ideas as opposed to finished products.

ENG/PHL 100 Level Course Descriptions & Learning Outcomes Page 5 of 13 ENG 114 The Young Adult The course will use various critical literary • Demonstrate an understanding of the historical Novel approaches to explore novels from the first development of Young Adult Novels Golden Age of children’s literature to its • Demonstrate an understanding of the literary contemporary incarnation in the 21st genres within Young Adult Novels such as century as a way to consider the Realistic/Historical Fiction, Fantastic/Speculative transformation from child to adult and the Fiction, Mystery/Detective, Romance and global socio-cultural concept of the young Creative Non-fiction adult. A variety of subgenres such as Realistic/Historical Fiction, • Demonstrate an ability to write, think, and speak Fantastic/Speculative Fiction, about Young Adult Novels with clarity and Mystery/Detective, Romance and Creative precision Nonfiction will be covered with attention • Demonstrate an understanding of the global given to motifs, archetypes, and themes in socio-cultural concept of adolescence as such literature. While the course will paralleled in Young Adult Novels emphasize the traditional novel, the dominant genre in YA literature, additional genres such as the graphic novel, poetry, drama, and non-fiction will also be explored to properly contextualize the novel within Young Adult Literature as a whole. This course will center on written texts but may also include occasional references to films and other media. (SUNY-H). 3 Credits. Prerequisite(s): Waiver of Accuplacer Reading and sentence level tests; score of 71 or higher on reading test and 82 or higher on sentence level test; or completion of TRS 200 with a C or better; or completion of TRS 105 with a C or higher; or completion of ESL 201 with a C or higher; or ENG 101 with a C or higher.

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ENG Fantasy Literature An exploration of classic, modern and • Demonstrate an ability to recognize and explain 115 contemporary Fantasy Literature including the differences among the various genres of reading, discussion and written analysis. literature. Various subgenres such as High Fantasy, • Demonstrate the development of critical insight Magical Realism, Urban Fantasy and and an aesthetic sensibility towards literature. Mythic Fantasy will be explored by applying • critical, social and historical context and Demonstrate an ability to write, think, and speak analysis. about literature with clarity and precision. Attention will be given to motifs, archetypes, • Demonstrate an understanding of the connections themes and key figures/authors. This between literature and life experiences through course will center on written text with various written assignments and/or exams and occasional references to Fantasy in films class discussions and other media. (SUNY-H). 3 Credits. • Demonstrate the ability to use critical thinking Prerequisite(s): Waiver of Accuplacer skills to analyze various works of literature. Reading and sentence level tests; score of 71 or higher on reading test and 82 or higher on sentence level test; or completion of TRS 200 with a C or better; or completion of TRS 105 with a C or higher; or completion of ESL 201 with a C or higher; or ENG 101 with a C or higher.

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ENG Personal Writing A writing workshop for students who want to • Shape personal experiences into compelling 122 learn the building blocks of the personal narratives using such structures as the flash form, narrative. The creative process will the journal, the lyrical essay, the collage, the emphasize methods for shaping personal profile, or other experimental non-fiction forms. experiences into prose such as establishing • Develop voice, tone, style, conflict, character, a narrative arc, developing strong dialogue, or setting through written assignments. characters, creating vivid descriptions, and building and connecting scenes. Most • Use a variety of literary devices in the importantly, students will learn how to development of personal narrative. connect their experiences to the larger • Exhibit proficiency in revision practices world. Writing assignments may include journal, flash, poetic or lyrical writing, and/or other non-fictional narrative structures.

PHL 101 Introduction to An introduction to the fundamental • Analyze a philosophical argument. Philosophy questions of philosophy, including such • Create and defend a philosophical argument. issues as determinism, freedom, and responsibility; the relationship of mind to • Demonstrate mastery of basic distinctions in body; the grounds and limits of human academic philosophy. knowledge; and the existence and nature of • Summarize a variety of complex reading God. Three class hours. (SUNY- H) assignments in philosophy. • Analyze influential philosophical questions and problems.

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PHL 102 Introduction to A study of the inductive and deductive • Analyze an argument for common problems Logic processes of reasoning in the light of associated with poor reasoning and inference. classical and contemporary thought, • Demonstrate mastery of basic concepts in the including the analysis of ordinary language study of logic. and its pitfalls, and the relation of logic to scientific inquiry and method. Three class • Demonstrate mastery of reading assignments in hours. (SUNY-H) philosophy and logic. • Apply basic rules and techniques of formal, informal, and symbolic logic through informal homework sets.

PHL 103 Introduction to An introduction to basic problems in ethics, • Analyze a philosophical argument on a Ethics emphasizing theories of the good life, the specifically moral or ethical problem. morally good person, and morally right • Create and defend a philosophical argument on a action, and their application to the most specifically moral or ethical problem. significant ethical questions in contemporary society, such as abortion, • Demonstrate mastery of basic distinctions in euthanasia, human sexuality, social and moral philosophy. economic justice, violence, and use of the • Summarize a variety of complex reading environment. Three class hours. (SUNY-H) assignments in philosophical ethics. • Analyze influential questions and problems in moral philosophy.

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PHL 105 Technology and New Course Description (working its way • Analyze an argument on a specifically Values through the curriculum committee) philosophical issue related to technology. A study of the ways that the advance of • Create and defend a philosophical argument on technology relates to the development of an issue related to technology. values. The course will investigate how we • evaluate and respond to technology, and Demonstrate mastery of basic distinctions in will examine technology's impact upon such ethics and the philosophy of technology. values as freedom, individuality, growth, • Summarize a variety of complex reading work, and the political process. The course assignments in ethics and philosophy of includes topics that computer science and technology. engineering technology students need to • understand, such as: the unique ethical Analyze influential questions and problems in problems in information technology; ethical ethics and philosophy of technology. practices to minimize computer misuse; ACM/IEEE Software Engineering Codes of Ethics and Professional Practice; the morality of software piracy; hacking and viruses as well as questions raised by globalization. Fall and Spring Semesters. Three Class Hours (SUNY-H)

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PHL 106 Topics in This course is designed to cover • Articulate significant philosophical questions and Philosophy philosophical topics of special interest. problems and the influential arguments Offerings will vary each semester, but each supporting these positions. course will focus on an important historical • Critically examine these arguments for implicit or contemporary theme, problem, or issue problematic assumptions, fallacious inferences, in philosophy. Examples of possible and other problems associated with poor offerings include Genocide, Ethics and reasoning. Reconciliation, Plato's Metaphysics and Epistemology, Philosophy in Popular • Express complex and abstract ideas clearly in Culture, Equality and Social Justice. Three writing and in discussion. class hours. Offered both Fall and Spring • Develop facility thinking about philosophical Semesters. problems and positions by identifying, clarifying, and evaluating appropriate objections.

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PHL 108 World Religions: An introduction to the academic study of • Explain the basic characteristics of any religious Western religion through the exploration of some of tradition. Traditions the major Western religious traditions of the • Analyze the basic differences in the Western world. This course examines the historical religious traditions. development, the fundamental doctrines and beliefs, practices, institutions, and • Demonstrate mastery of basic distinctions in cultural expressions of Western religious Western religious thought and tradition. traditions. • Analyze a theological argument. This course also addresses some of the essential differences and similarities that exist among Western religious traditions, and points to the uniqueness of each of them. The course includes the examination of ancient religious culture, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. This course fulfills the MCC requirement for a humanities or social science elective. Three class hours. (SUNY-WC/H) 3 Credits

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PHL 109 World Religions: An introduction to the academic study of • Explain the basic characteristics of any religious Eastern religion through the exploration of some of tradition. Traditions the major Eastern religious traditions of the • Analyze the basic differences in the Eastern world. This course examines the historical religious traditions. development, the fundamental doctrines and beliefs, practices, institutions, and • Demonstrate mastery of basic distinctions in cultural expressions of Eastern religious Eastern religious thought and tradition. traditions. This course also addresses some • Analyze a theological argument. of the essential differences and similarities that exist among Eastern religious traditions, and points to the uniqueness of each of them. The course includes an examination of the differences in Eastern and Western thought, Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, and Shinto. This course fulfills the MCC requirement for a humanities or social science elective. Three class hours. (SUNY-H/OWC) 3 Credits.

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