To pass any English 101 course at Dawson College, students must demonstrate the following abilities:
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| 603-101-MQ |
Effective Reading and Writing |
2 - 2 - 4 |
60 |
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| Description for Course: |
This course is intended to provide an introduction to college-level literary studies. There will be special emphasis on basic textual interpretation and the construction of the literary essay through written and spoken critical responses to specific texts. |
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| 603-101-MQ |
ENG-101-R4 |
2 - 2 - 4 |
60 |
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| Description for Course: |
The description for this course is not available at this time.
Please check with the Program Coordinator. |
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| 603-101-MQ |
I.C.E. |
2 - 2 - 4 |
60 |
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| Description for Course: |
The description for this course is not available at this time.
Please check with the Program Coordinator. |
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| 603-101-MQ |
Introduction to College English |
2 - 2 - 4 |
60 |
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| Description for Course: |
This course is intended to provide an introduction to college-level literary studies. There will be a strong emphasis on basic textual interpretation and the construction of the literary essay through written and spoken critical responses to specific texts. |
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| 603-101-MQ |
Introduction to College English : Inside Out: Adventures in Autotheory |
2 - 2 - 4 |
60 |
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| Description for Course: |
Engaging with and critiquing the “Big Ideas” of our time from the point-of-view of the margins (African American, Indigenous, queer, and feminist art, to name a few), autotheory has infiltrated pop culture in a big way. Taking many forms and crossing boundaries, autotheory combines elements of memoir, critical theory, poetry, visual art, and more. This course is an introduction to the genre, beginning with autotheory’s roots in poetry and Second-Wave feminist visual art (particularly performance art) and moving on to explore recent groundbreaking works. Students will read and engage in critical analysis (in class as well as through written work), and, because the best way to learn about something is to practice it, we will engage in a weekly in-class creative process that will lay the groundwork for students to produce their own works of autotheory by the end of the course. |
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| 603-101-MQ |
Introduction to College English with New School |
2 - 2 - 4 |
60 |
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| Description for Course: |
This course will introduce students to college-level literary studies. We will analyze works of fiction, drama and poetry from various places and periods. We will learn essay-writing, including editing and revision, and students will produce essays and paragraphs of literary analysis on a regular basis. New School’s approach to learning is based on the principles of Critical Pedagogy and Humanistic Education. Students are divided into smaller learning groups. These groups explore the same learning competencies as in the regular course, but our facilitators give students a greater role in shaping their courses and designing their assessments. Our aim is to relate our studies to our personal and social lives, and to link the personal to the political. Go to the New School website for more information about our approach. |
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| 603-101-MQ |
Introduction to College English: Apocalyptic Visions |
2 - 2 - 4 |
60 |
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| Description for Course: |
This section of Introduction to College English is taught in tandem with a Humanities professor and is intended for students in the Reflections program. The course will focus on notions of the apocalypse - social and personal moments of upheaval and renewal. Students will read and discuss both mythological and contemporary texts concerned with this thematic, including works by Neil Gaiman, Alex Garland and Alan Moore. The course will emphasize discussion, group work, creative work, and also provide an overview of good academic writing practices. |
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| 603-101-MQ |
Introduction to College English: Journeys English |
2 - 2 - 4 |
60 |
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| Description for Course: |
This course will introduce students to college-level literary studies. We will analyze works of fiction, drama and poetry from various places and periods. We will discuss the essay writing process in detail, including strategies for editing and revision, and students will produce essays and paragraphs of literary analysis on a regular basis. |
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| 603-101-MQ |
Introduction to College English: Monsters, Madness, and Mourning: A Critical Introduction to Horror Cinema |
2 - 2 - 4 |
60 |
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| Description for Course: |
Along our journey into taboo territory, we’ll test the genre’s limits (are psychological thrillers horror?). We’ll discuss the range of emotions horror films evoke and the human experiences they speak to—including loss, mourning, and trauma. With the guidance of philosophy, literature, and our own experience, we’ll navigate the nightmares and make sense of films including Night of the Living Dead (1968), Mulholland Drive(2001), and The Atlantics (2019). Join us…if you dare! |
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| 603-101-MQ |
Introduction to College English: The Story of Us: The Oral Tradition and Digital Culture |
2 - 2 - 4 |
60 |
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| Description for Course: |
Long before we had books we had stories, and through legends, myths, plays, songs and nursery rhymes — even jokes and gossip — culture was passed from one generation to another and travelled over long distances and joined distant peoples in symbol and imagination — all by voice, memory, and performance. This is the Oral Tradition, ancient and powerful. The Oral Tradition didn’t die out when writing or the digital age came along. It transformed, yes, but it still lives and works on us and has power in our world today. Think of urban legends and conspiracy theories, memes, trends and slang. Now culture passes around in story form on digital platforms; online games, social media, chat groups and forums. What are the connections between ancient Oral Traditions and contemporary Digital Culture? Can we trace a through-line back through the ages to today? If stories are how we learn about ourselves, what are we to think of our own culture based on the stories we tell about “us” right now? |
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| 603-101-MQ |
Writing English |
2 - 2 - 4 |
60 |
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| Description for Course: |
Designed for students whose first language is not English and who have been educated in English for less than five years, this course introduces students to the study of literature at the college-level, with special emphasis on vocabulary-building, correct sentence structure, grammar, idiom and critical thinking. Students will learn how read a variety of literary works and how to write short analytical essays about literature. |
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