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ENGL 33 Support for Academic Reading and Writing

• Units:2
• Hours:36 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:None.
• Corequisite:ENGL C1000
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course provides further instruction in the critical thinking and writing skills for successful completion in college composition. Writing assignments are all connected to the students' assignments in ENGL C1000. The course includes the drafting, revision and editing process, as well as instruction in research and MLA citation. This course was formally know as ENGWR 33.

ENGL 39 Basic Writing Skill Development

• Units:2
• Hours:36 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:None.
• Corequisite:A student taking this course must also be enrolled in ENGL C1000 or another course that requires a significant amount of writing.
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course provides instruction in reading and writing skills to support students with their transfer level ENGWR courses. Topics will include using critical reading strategies, analyzing and evaluating writing, creating thesis statements and claims, practicing rhetorical skills, applying MLA citation and formatting.

The class is taught in an individualized, modular format and is graded on a Pass/No Pass basis. Students may enroll up through the third week of the semester. This course was formally known as ENGWR 39.

ENGL 46 Individualized Writing Skills

• Units:1.5
• Hours:27 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:None.
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This class offers personalized writing instruction programs at a wide range of skill levels designed to help the student acquire or improve writing skills in specific areas. Programs assigned will vary according to the student's needs, goals, and ability level. Specific skill areas could include: grammar, punctuation and mechanics, sentence coordination and subordination, topic sentence, paragraph and essay development and organization, thesis statement, and rhetorical modes. This course is graded on a Pass/ No Pass basis. Students may register through the 8th week of the semester. Scheduling is flexible depending on the FLC Reading and Writing Center or EDC or RCC English Center hours of operation. This course was formally known as ENGWR 46.

ENGL 48 Individualized Vocabulary Skills

• Units:1.5
• Hours:27 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:None.
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

Individualized instruction modules at a wide range of skill levels designed to help the student acquire and/or improve written vocabulary skills and usage. Modules assigned will vary according to student's needs and ability level. Specific skill areas could include: using words in context; effective dictionary usage; prefixes, suffixes and roots; job-related, college related and/or other specialized vocabularies. This course is graded on a Pass/No Pass basis. Students may register up through the 8th week of the semester. Scheduling is flexible, based on the FLC Reading and Writing Center or EDC English Center's hours of operation. This course was formally known as ENGWR 48.

ENGL 110 College Reading and Writing Skills

• Units:4
• Hours:72 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:None.
• Corequisite:ENGLB 71
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This pre-transfer-level course is designed to prepare students for success in ENGWR 300 and other courses that require college level reading and writing. Students will read primarily transfer-level non-fiction texts of varying length, and write essays responding to and incorporating these readings. The course will focus on reading and writing fundamentals, such as active reading strategies, writing process, thesis development, paragraph structure, logical support, and sentence awareness. A half-unit Reading and Writing Center English Lab (ENGLB 71) is also required to provide more individualized support.

ENGL 299 Experimental Offering in English

• Units:0.5 - 4
• Prerequisite:None.
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This is the experimental courses description.

ENGL 301 College Composition and Literature

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:ENGL C1000 or C1000H with a grade of "C" or better
• Transferable:CSU; UC
• General Education:Local GE L1B; Local GE L3; Cal-GETC Area 1B
• C-ID:C-ID ENGL 120
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course offers study and practice in critical reading of and analytical writing about literature. Students read fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction, and criticism from diverse cultural sources and perspectives. With a minimum of four critical essays totaling 5,000 words, and the use of relevant external sources, students analyze, criticize, reason inductively and deductively, and reach evaluative conclusions based on evidence and sound inferences derived from their close readings of literary texts. This course was formerly known as ENGWR 301 and is not open to students who have successfully completed that course or its honors equivalent ENGL/ENGWR 481.

ENGL 481 Honors College Composition and Literature

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:ENGL C1000 or C1000H with a grade of "C" or better
• Transferable:CSU; UC
• General Education:Local GE L1B; Local GE L3; Cal-GETC Area 1B
• C-ID:C-ID ENGL 120
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This honor's course offers a rigorous study and practice in critical reading of and analytical writing about literature and extends beyond the traditional composition and literature course. In this advanced seminar, honors students read fiction, poetry, drama, nonfiction, and criticism from diverse cultural sources and perspectives. Honors students learn about and apply literary theories to deepen analysis and critical perspective expanding beyond the traditional ENGWR 301 course. Students in this advanced honor's course will engage in complex written work totaling a minimum of 6500 words through at least four essays using MLA citation methods. Honors students will engage in research and oral presentation, utilizing relevant external sources to analyze, criticize, reason inductively and deductively, and assert evaluative conclusions based on evidence and sound inferences derived from their close readings of literary texts. Honors students will engage in additional presentations of independent and collaborative research. This course was formerly known as ENGWR 481 and is not open to students who have successfully completed that course or its equivalent ENGL/ENGWR 301.

ENGL 495 Independent Studies in English

• Units:1 - 3
• Hours:54 - 162 hours LAB
• Prerequisite:None.
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

ENGL 499 Experimental Offering in English

• Units:0.5 - 4
• Prerequisite:None.
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This is the experimental courses description.

ENGL C1000 Academic Reading and Writing

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:Placement as determined by the college’s multiple measures assessment process
• Transferable:CSU; UC
• General Education:Local GE L1A; Cal-GETC Area 1A
• C-ID:C-ID ENGL 100
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course was formerly known as ENGWR 300 College Composition.

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. Students will develop an awareness of their audience and individual writing voices through a variety of written assignments (5000 words). The course will emphasize workshop, collaboration, and reflection on the writer’s process. Reading assignments include a variety of transfer-level texts of substantial length including one full-length literary work. This course was formerly known as ENGWR 300 and is not open to students who have successfully completed ENGWR 300 or 480. Students may satisfy the prerequisite for the course through the Los Rios placement process OR guided self-placement OR successful completion of ESL 325.

ENGL C1001 Critical Thinking and Writing

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:College-level composition (ENGL C1000/ENGL C1000H/ENGL C1000E/C-ID ENGL 100) or equivalent
• Transferable:CSU; UC
• General Education:Local GE L1B; Cal-GETC Area 1B
• C-ID:C-ID ENGL 105
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course was formerly known as ENGWR 302 Advanced Composition and Critical Thinking.

In this course, students receive instruction in critical thinking for purposes of constructing,
evaluating, and composing arguments in a variety of rhetorical forms, using primarily non-fiction
texts, refining writing skills and research strategies developed in ENGL C1000 Academic Reading and
Writing (C-ID ENGL 100) or similar first-year college writing course. Students will examine methods by which people are persuaded to think, believe, and/or act by exploring the relationship between language and logic. Students will identify fallacies of argument and craft traditional and/or multimodal arguments in context of current social, economic, political, and environmental discourse. This course includes writing a minimum of 5,000 words. This course was formerly known as ENGWR 302 and is not open to students who have successfully completed ENGWR 302 or 482. Students may satisfy the prerequisite for the course through successful completion of ENGL C1000 or C1000H or ESLW 340.

ENGL C1000H Academic Reading and Writing - Honors

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:Placement as determined by the college’s multiple measures assessment process
• Transferable:CSU; UC
• General Education:Local GE L1A; Cal-GETC Area 1A
• C-ID:C-ID ENGL 100
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course was formerly known as ENGWR 480 Honors College Composition.

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 is an honors course. This honors composition course focuses on reading, writing, and critical thinking skills that extend past those developed in a traditional composition course. This rigorous course requires the analysis of complex short works along with at least one full-length professional text. Honors students will write carefully reasoned, stylistically sophisticated essays, which include appropriate MLA documentation and additional research. The written work of honors students should demonstrate a more nuanced view of writing situation and purpose. Honors students will refine their practice of rhetorical strategy, research, and citation methods in a minimum of 6,500 written words in at least four essays. Honors students will engage in additional presentations of independent and collaborative research. This course was formerly known as ENGWR 480 and is not open to students who have successfully completed ENGWR 300 or 480. Students may satisfy the prerequisite for the course through the Los Rios placement process OR guided self-placement OR successful completion of ESL 325.

ENGL C1001H Critical Thinking and Writing - Honors

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:College-level composition (ENGL C1000/ENGL C1000H/ENGL C1000E/C-ID ENGL 100) or equivalent
• Transferable:CSU; UC
• General Education:Local GE L1B; Cal-GETC Area 1B
• C-ID:C-ID ENGL 105
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course was formerly known as ENGWR 482 Honors Advanced Composition and Critical Thinking.

In this course, students receive instruction in critical thinking for purposes of constructing,
evaluating, and composing arguments in a variety of rhetorical forms, using primarily non-fiction
texts, refining writing skills and research strategies developed in ENGL C1000 Academic Reading and
Writing (C-ID ENGL 100) or similar first-year college writing course. This is an honors course. This honors course refines critical reasoning, reading, and writing, and requires a high level of competence in English composition extending beyond a traditional ENGL C1001 course. In this advanced seminar, honors students will read, discuss, and analyze complex texts, such as essays and book-length works reflecting a variety of social, cultural, and historical contexts. Honors students will employ elements of inductive and deductive reasoning, persuasion, and argumentation. Honors students will write at least 6500 words in at least four nuanced academic essays of a variety of purposes, including primary and secondary research and use of the Modern Language Association citation methods. Honors students will engage in research and oral presentation, utilizing relevant external sources to analyze, criticize, reason inductively and deductively, and assert evaluative conclusions based on evidence and sound inferences derived from their close readings of scholarly texts. Honors students will engage in additional presentations of independent and collaborative research. This course was formerly known as ENGWR 482 and is not open to students who have successfully completed ENGWR 302 or 482 or ENGL C1001. Students may satisfy the prerequisite for the course through successful completion of ENGL C1000 or C1000H or ESLW 340.

ENGCW 400 Creative Writing

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:ENGL 110 with a grade of "C" or better; Placement into ENGWR 300 via the assessment process.
• Transferable:CSU; UC (UC credit limitation: 400, 410, 420 and 430 combined: maximum credit, two courses )
• General Education:Local GE L3
• C-ID:C-ID ENGL 200
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This introductory creative writing course offers writing experience in three or four of the following genres: short story, poetry, creative nonfiction, and script writing. The course includes analysis of literary models, faculty and class critiques of work, and discussion of literary techniques in each of the covered genres.

ENGCW 410 Fiction Writing Workshop

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:Eligibility for ENGWR 300 or ENGWR 480 or ESLW 340
• Transferable:CSU; UC (UC credit limitation: 400, 410, 420 and 430 combined: maximum credit, two courses )
• General Education:Local GE L3
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course is focused on the craft of fiction writing, with an emphasis on short fiction. Students write short fictional pieces, receive feedback from their peers and the instructor, and analyze fiction written by professional writers.

ENGCW 420 Poetry Writing Workshop

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:ENGL C1000 with a grade of "C" or better
• Transferable:CSU; UC (UC credit limitation: 400, 410, 420 and 430 combined: maximum credit, two courses )
• General Education:Local GE L3
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course focuses on the craft of poetry writing. Students write a number of poems in a variety of forms, receive feedback on their poetry from their peers and the instructor, and analyze poetry written by professional writers.

ENGCW 430 Creative Non-Fiction Writing Workshop

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:ENGL C1000 with a grade of "C" or better
• Transferable:CSU; UC (UC credit limitation: 400, 410, 420 and 430 combined: maximum credit, two courses )
• General Education:Local GE L3
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This is a creative writing course concentrating on the literary essay. Students will write and critically examine various kinds of creative nonfiction such as memoir, autobiography, prose with poetic elements (prose-poetry), and fact-based or philosophical writing with a definite literary, stylistic component. It also focuses on constructive in-class analysis of personal essays written by students.

ENGCW 452 College Literary Magazine

• Units:4
• Hours:54 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB
• Prerequisite:None.
• Transferable:CSU
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course provides instruction and editorial staff experience in producing a literary and fine arts magazine. Editorial staff collaborate with multiple departments to prepare FLC's college magazine, The Machine, for national competitions sponsored by organizations such as the Columbia Scholastic Press Association and the Associated Collegiate Press. The course focuses on the selection and editing of literary content, and on the publicity, marketing, fundraising, and distribution of a magazine. This course may be taken four times for credit.

ENGCW 495 Independent Studies in English - Creative Writing

• Units:1 - 3
• Hours:54 - 162 hours LAB
• Prerequisite:None.
• Transferable:CSU
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

ENGCW 499 Experimental Offering in English - Creative Writing

• Units:0.5 - 4
• Prerequisite:None.
• Transferable:CSU
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This is the experimental courses description.

ENGED 305 Structure of English

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:ENGL C1000, ENGL C1000H, or ESLW 340 with a grade of "C" or better
• Transferable:CSU
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

Designed for prospective teachers or those entering professions requiring strong written language skills, this course is a study of the structure of English grammar systems, especially as they relate to writing. Students will write 2-3 short essays (totaling 2000 words) in which they discuss various aspects of grammar instruction. The class includes the study and practice of traditional and modern grammars, with emphasis on the relationship of grammar to sentence structure. Students will have the opportunity to study the history of the English language, instructional methodologies, and selected issues of language acquisition among the culturally diverse population in California schools. This class meets the CSU, Sacramento, requirement for Liberal Studies majors and is on the list of recommended courses for English majors.

ENGED 320 Tutoring Elementary Students in Reading

• Units:3
• Hours:36 hours LEC; 54 hours LAB
• Prerequisite:None.
• Enrollment Limitation:Students are required to show proof of TB clearance and complete a fingerprint clearance through the cooperating school district before they can attend the school site for field work.
• Transferable:CSU
• General Education:Local GE L7B
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This class offers students an opportunity to learn and practice basic methods of tutoring elementary children in reading. After the first 2-3 weeks of training, students will be assigned to a nearby public elementary school to tutor during school hours, or they may be placed in a before or after school program. At the tutoring site, they will have in-depth practice tutoring elementary children who are reading below grade level. The students will tutor a total of 54 hours. Students will continue to attend the lecture portion of the class throughout the semester in order to receive additional training. This course is one of the two required field experience courses for the CSUS Liberal Studies major, also known as the Teacher Preparation Program. Prior to beginning work in the schools, students may be required to be fingerprinted and must pass a TB test.

ENGED 495 Independent Studies in English - Education

• Units:1 - 3
• Hours:54 - 162 hours LAB
• Prerequisite:None.
• Transferable:CSU
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

ENGED 499 Experimental Offering in English - Education

• Units:0.5 - 4
• Prerequisite:None.
• Transferable:CSU
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This is the experimental courses description.

ENGLB 71 Reading and Writing Across the Curriculum

• Units:0.5 - 3
• Hours:27 - 162 hours LAB
• Prerequisite:None.
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

Students receive individualized assistance with their reading and writing assignments across the disciplines. Students may enter the course up through the 8th week of the semester and earn either 0.5 or 1 unit per semester. ENGLB 71 may be taken for up to 3 units total, at a rate of .5 or 1.0 unit per semester, until the 3 unit limit is reached or course is being repeated for the third time. This course is graded on a pass/no pass basis.

ENGLT 303 Introduction to the Short Story

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:Placement into ENGL C1000 or equivalent through the assessment process.
• Transferable:CSU; UC
• General Education:Local GE L3; Cal-GETC Area 3B
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course introduces students to the short story genre, and involves a close study of this genre's role in literary history. Students will read, analyze, and discuss short stories by predominantly American and British authors, but include authors from other countries who have been significant to this genre. Thematic emphasis will focus on the connections between literature, culture, and human experience.

ENGLT 305 Introduction to the Novel

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:Eligibility for ENGL C1000 or equivalent.
• Transferable:CSU; UC
• General Education:Local GE L3; Cal-GETC Area 3B
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course explores the novel and its genre conventions beginning with its formative years and the writings of Samuel Richardson and Daniel Defoe to the present.

ENGLT 310 English Literature I

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:ENGL C1000, ENGL C1000H, or ESLW 340 with a grade of "C" or better
• Transferable:CSU; UC
• General Education:Local GE L3; Cal-GETC Area 3B
• C-ID:C-ID ENGL 160
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course involves a close study of significant works of major British authors from the Beowulf poet through Samuel Johnson, with consideration of the important aspects of British literary history. In this course, students will read and analyze numerous literary works relevant to literature as a whole and to British culture in particular, making connections between various literary periods.

ENGLT 311 English Literature II

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:ENGL C1000 with a grade of "C" or better
• Transferable:CSU; UC
• General Education:Local GE L3; Cal-GETC Area 3B
• C-ID:C-ID ENGL 165
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course surveys significant works of British authors from the beginning of Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century to the Moderns and Post-Moderns of the Twentieth Century, with consideration of the important aspects of English literary history. In this course, students will read and analyze numerous literary works relevant to literature as a whole and to British culture in particular, making connections between various literary periods.

ENGLT 319 Introduction to English Epic Poetry

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:ENGL C1000 with a grade of "C" or better
• Advisory:ENGLT 310, 311, and 340
• Transferable:CSU; UC
• General Education:Local GE L3; Cal-GETC Area 3B
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course involves a study of English Epic poetry, literature too long and too complex to be covered in traditional English literature survey courses. This course reviews the conventions of epic poetry (with a focus on the works by Homer and Virgil), explains the typical structure, devices, and concerns of the epic, and studies the particular development of the English epic with analysis of epic poetry by Spenser, Milton, and Wordsworth (or any other English work of literature that could be considered an epic like Beowulf or Tennyson's Idylls of the King). Additionally, this course involves a cursory study of the lives of the poets and of their times to understand themes in their respective works, ultimately to put their poems in an historical context and to recognize their influences on literature and on the world as a whole and to appreciate these poems individually as works of art.

ENGLT 320 American Literature I

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:ENGL C1000 with a grade of "C" or better
• Transferable:CSU; UC
• General Education:Local GE L3; Cal-GETC Area 3B
• C-ID:C-ID ENGL 130
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course surveys representative early American literature from approximately 1620 to 1865, the Civil War period. It begins with a consideration of pre-colonial American influences such as Native American oral tradition and European exploration of the Americas, through Colonial literature, to the emergence of a distinctive national literature, the "American Renaissance," "reformism," and the diversity of voices that will continue into modern American literature.

ENGLT 321 American Literature II

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:ENGL C1000 with a grade of "C" or better
• Transferable:CSU; UC
• General Education:Local GE L3; Cal-GETC Area 3B
• C-ID:C-ID ENGL 135
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course surveys representative American literature from approximately 1865 (the post-Civil War period) to the present, with consideration of important aspects of American literary history. It begins with the end of the Romantic period and follows the rise of Realism and Modernism. The course may incorporate examples of local color, regionalism, social criticism, naturalism and determinism, and/or works by "Lost Generation" or modernist writers as well as contemporary authors and poets.

ENGLT 330 African American Literature

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:None.
• Transferable:CSU; UC
• General Education:Local GE L3; Cal-GETC Area 3B
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course is a survey of the most representative African-American writers and periods of African-American Literature from slavery to the present. This comprehensive literary study includes analysis of significant historical and cultural influences.

ENGLT 339 Postmodern American Fiction

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:None.
• Transferable:CSU; UC
• General Education:Local GE L3; Cal-GETC Area 3B
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course analyzes American Fiction (1960-2000) that depicts postmodernism, the radical cultural and intellectual shift that has profoundly altered Western traditional thought and art. Students will gain a more critical awareness of the aesthetic, ideological, and philosophical issues of postmodernism, and understand how traditional assumptions about meaning-making were undermined by doubts about knowledge, perception, and identity. Students from various majors across the curriculum will have the opportunity to explore the important interconnections between literature, cultural studies, philosophy, art, art history, architectural studies, anthropology, sociology, psychology, and physics, all of which intersect in postmodern thought and fiction.

ENGLT 340 World Literature I

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:ENGL C1000, ENGL C1000H, or ESLW 340 with a grade of "C" or better
• Transferable:CSU; UC
• General Education:Local GE L3; Cal-GETC Area 3B
• C-ID:C-ID ENGL 140
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course involves a survey of significant masterpieces of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance literature from the Hebrew Bible to John Milton's Paradise Lost. Students will analyze numerous works of literature, comparing ideas across time, place, and culture and making connections between different literary works and between different literary periods.

ENGLT 341 World Literature II

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:ENGL C1000, ENGL C1000H, or ESLW 340 with a grade of "C" or better
• Transferable:CSU; UC
• General Education:Local GE L3; Cal-GETC Area 3B
• C-ID:C-ID ENGL 145
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course involves a survey of significant masterpieces of modern world literature from the middle of the seventeenth century to the present. Students will analyze numerous works of literature, comparing ideas across time, place, and culture and making connections between different literary works and between different literary periods.

ENGLT 345 Mythologies of the World

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:Placement into ENGLC 1000 or equivalent through the assessment process.
• Transferable:CSU; UC
• General Education:Local GE L3; Cal-GETC Area 3B
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course examines some of the myths underlying the western world view, and recognizes diversity and commonality in myths from Middle Eastern, Native North American, African, Asian, and South American cultures. Students compare and contrast myths from different cultures and analyze various themes, including: the goddess culture, the nature of creation, the dying and reviving god, and the hero's journey. In addition, students will identify Judaeo-Christian themes in various myths and evaluate the myths' psychological applications. From this process, they will gain an understanding of ethnocentrism, ethnicity and racism and the impact of these on the American experience.

ENGLT 359 Prison Writings: The Rhetoric of Resistance

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:ENGL C1000 with a grade of "C" or better, or placement through the assessment process.
• Transferable:CSU; UC
• General Education:Local GE L3; Cal-GETC Area 3B
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

We examine the writings of the incarcerated, whose letters, essays and books expose prisons as the arm of an oppressive state, the instrument of racial/ethnic and economic oppression and the home for political prisoners around the world. From Gandhi to Martin Luther King, Solzhenitsyn to Gramsci, Angela Davis to Nelson Mandela to Leonard Peltier, Malcolm X and countless others, prison writings form a record of resistance to tyranny and oppression worldwide. This class examines these writings, their impact and the resistance movements of which they are a part.

ENGLT 360 Women in Literature

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:Placement into ENGL C1000 or equivalent through the assessment process.
• Transferable:CSU; UC
• General Education:Local GE L3; Cal-GETC Area 3B
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course is a survey of literature from the Middle Ages through the 21st Century, designed for students who are interested in examining the writing of and about women and their roles in literature, both as writers and as protagonists. Emphasis will be placed on literature that develops protagonists and explores literary themes found in these works, such as: women representative of or in conflict with their societies; women and power; women as daughters, wives, mothers, sisters, leaders; independence vs. dependence; domestic vs. public space; women in relation to men and to each other. In developing cultural competency, students will also explore related issues as discovered in the readings, including ethnocentrism, racism, ageism, classism, gender construction, gender inequity, sexual orientation, and religious differences. The literary selections may include essays, biographies, short stories, novels, poems, and plays. These works will be considered in various critical and theoretical perspectives: feminist, historical, formalist/ New Critical, psychoanalytical, sociological, biographical, Marxist, and eco-critical.

ENGLT 370 Children and Literature

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:Eligibility for ENGL C1000, ENGL C1000H, or ESLW 340.
• Transferable:CSU; UC
• General Education:Local GE L3; Cal-GETC Area 3B
• C-ID:C-ID ENGL 180
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course is a survey of children's literature that requires the reading and study of children's poetry, traditional literature, fantasy and science fiction, realistic fiction, historical fiction, nonfiction for children, and children's literature for a diverse society. This course includes discussion of the history of children's literature and of current issues, such as censorship, literacy, and multicultural diversity. This course covers literary elements of plot, characters, setting, theme, style, and techniques specific to children's literature, such as illustrations and visual elements. This course provides students of literature an opportunity to appreciate all genres of children's literature.

ENGLT 402 Introduction to Shakespeare and Film

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:Eligibility for ENGWR 300
• Transferable:CSU; UC
• General Education:Local GE L3; Cal-GETC Area 3B
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course will draw connections between traditional and contemporary literary genres as students read William Shakespeare's selected histories, comedies, tragedies, and romances, critically analyzing film versions of the plays, and examining the effects of various cultural eras from Elizabethan to contemporary culture on various stage and film versions.

ENGLT 495 Independent Studies in Literature

• Units:1 - 3
• Hours:54 - 162 hours LAB
• Prerequisite:None.
• Transferable:CSU
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

ENGLT 499 Experimental Offering in Literature

• Units:0.5 - 4
• Prerequisite:None.
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This is the experimental courses description.

ENGRD 18 Individualized Reading Skills

• Units:1 - 2
• Hours:18 - 36 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:None.
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course offers individualized reading instruction modules at a wide range of skill levels, from basic to advanced, designed to help the student improve reading skills in specific areas. Modules assigned will vary according to the student's needs and ability level. Specific skill areas could include: comprehension (stated and implied main idea, major and minor details, inferences, organization, fact from opinion, tone, evaluating arguments), vocabulary development, and textbook reading skills. This course is graded on a Pass / No Pass basis. Students may register through the 8th week of the semester. Scheduling is flexible, based on the FLC Reading and Writing Center or EDC English Center hours of operation.

ENGRD 110 Comprehension Strategies and Vocabulary Development For College

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:None.
• Advisory:ENGLB 71
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course is designed to help students prepare for college level reading. Areas of concentration include vocabulary development, literal and inferential comprehension skills, textbook reading techniques, study skills, and reading for pleasure. Students will become more efficient readers by learning to vary reading rate depending upon their purposes for reading. Enrollment in ENGLB 71 is recommended for additional individualized help.

ENGRD 299 Experimental Offering in English - Reading

• Units:0.5 - 4
• Prerequisite:None.
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This is the experimental courses description.

ENGRD 310 Critical Reading as Critical Thinking

• Units:3
• Hours:54 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:None.
• Advisory:ENGLB 71 or ENGRD 18
• Transferable:CSU
• General Education:Local GE L1B
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course covers the theory and practice of critical reading as critical thinking for successful academic performance. The course emphasizes the following areas: logic and its relation to written text; inductive and deductive reasoning; formal and informal fallacies; academic vocabulary advancement; development of effective and flexible reading rates; proficiency of textual comprehension; identification of rhetorical elements; discernment between factual evidence and opinion; strategic application of these abilities in reading university level texts. This course meets Los Rios' Area II b critical thinking for general education requirements. One or more hours per week may be required in the Folsom Lake College Reading and Writing Center or English Center.

ENGRD 315 Reading Across the Disciplines for Content Courses

• Units:0.5 - 1
• Hours:9 - 18 hours LEC
• Prerequisite:None.
• Corequisite:Another transfer-level content-area course.
• Transferable:CSU
• Catalog Date:August 1, 2026

This course offers reading skills to students as they apply to various content-area courses. Topics include the principles of the reading process, analysis of discipline specific reading assignments, strategies for retention, study and utilization of discipline-specific vocabulary and research strategies particular to the chosen discipline. Students should contact the Reading and Writing Center before enrolling. This course is graded on a pass/no pass basis.