Applied Themes in English

Prerequisites:

  • 603-101 – Introduction to College English
  • 603-102 – Literary Genres
  • 603-103 – Literary Themes

This course is designed to help students to develop further their skills in reading, writing, speaking, and researching. Students will study and produce various forms of communication while strengthening their skills in argumentation. They will learn to recognize and use various rhetorical strategies in order to produce a program-specific major assignment.

After successful completion of a BXE course, students will be able to do the following:

  • communicate in appropriate, precise and objective language
  • employ rhetorical strategies pertinent to the student’s field of study involving, for example, description, narration, explanation, argument, persuasion, summarizing, organization, research and documentation
  • write for an audience comprised of people with different points of view, interests and understanding by developing and organizing ideas into arguments and theses, and by revising and editing the work
  • speak effectively by demonstrating sensitivity and flexibility in tone and diction
  • read and listen critically so as to distinguish sound from unsound argument and to recognize rhetorical tone and bias

Please note that not all the courses listed below are offered every term:

Course Number Course Name C - L - H Hrs
603-BXE-DW Careers and Callings  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Creative Nonfiction  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Creativity  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Critical Reading of Digital Culture  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Critical Reading of Popular Culture  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Culture and Rhetoric  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Dystopian Fictions  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Ecological Literacy  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Food for Thought  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Food for Thought: From Farm to Table  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Humans, Animals and the Environment  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Imagining Futures  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Inquiry-Based Writing  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Investigating Story Value(s)  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Jordan Peterson's Rules for Life  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Literary Nonfiction and Social Critique  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Literature and Ethics  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Literature and Peace  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Literature and Trauma  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Literature of Migration and Exile  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Literature of Shell Shock  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW New Narrative  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Non-Fiction Workshop  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Novel History  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Place, Belonging, and Identity  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Reading the Classic Horror Film  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Rhetoric  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Rhetorical Strategies  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Robot Visions  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Sports Literature and Ethics  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Sports Literature and Society  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Staging the Strange: Disorientation and Ethics in Immersive Performance  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Stranger Than Fiction: Memoir and Autobiography  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Text and the City: Writing Montreal  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW The Bigger Picture  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW The Storytelling Animal  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Welcome to the Machine: An Introduction to Ethics and Sci-Fi  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Women and Anger  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW World War II's Long Shadow  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Writing about Film  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Writing about the Novel  2 - 2 - 2 60 
603-BXE-DW Writing Work  2 - 2 - 2 60 
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Last Modified: March 23, 2022