HCD 1010: Literature and Writing I
This is the first part of a two-semester course, which emphasizes writing and critical thinking. Students will read and write about a selection of modern Western works from among the following authors: Voltaire, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Anton Chekhov, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, James Joyce, Zora Neal Hurston and Albert Camus, as well as American and English poetry. The courses focus on writing short essays, improving grammar, coherence and essay development will help prepare students for the Proficiency Examination(P.E.) and elective humanities and sciences and art history courses. The first work assigned for all sections will beVoltaire's Candide.
HCD 1020: Literature and Writing II This is the second part of a two-semester course, which emphasizes writing and critical thinking. Students will read and write about a selection of premodern Western works from among the following authors: Homer, Dante, Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, as well as Greek and Roman poetry and plays, and the anonymous works Beowulf and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Students will write essays and complete a research paper; grammar, essay coherence and essay development will continue to be the focus of writing instruction.
Note: Students are required to take and pass the Proficiency Examination by the end of this course in order to continue with any other humanities and sciences courses.
