English 127

11:10-12:35MW

Aurora Reynoso

3:30-6:40T

Jodi Johnson

English 204

11:10-12:35MW

Charles Sheldon

English 205

11:10-12:35MW

Maria Bates

English 208

8-9:25 TTh

Mary Chavarria

English 216

9:35-11TTh

Donna Accardo

English 239

9:35-11MW

Marjorie Hoskinson

English 251

9:35-11TTh

Karin Burns

English 32: Direction Magazine: Join the staff of Pierce's literary magazine, Direction.  You will select student poems, fiction, essays, art, and phorography for the annual issue, then edit, design, and print the magazine.

English 127: A creative writing workshop in which students read their original compositions in prose or poetry, to be critiqued by their peers.  Students also generate work through writing exercises which are designed to expand their talents as writers.  Students produce a portfolio of work by the end of the semester and are graded on the completion of this portfolio.

English 203: Introduces selected great literary works of the world from ancient times to the Renaissance.  Ancient Greek, Roman, and Asian classics. Medieval romances, lyrics, and plays up to the Renaissance.  Accepted for credit  at UC and CSU.

English 204:Introduces selected great literary works of the world from the Renaissance to modern times. English 203 is not a prerequisite. Accepted for credit at UC and CSU.

English 205: From Beowulf to Chaucer, Milton's Paradise Lost to Shakespeare's sonnets, through Spencer's epic Faerie Queene and Sidney's tale of star-crossed lovers in Astrophil and Stella, to the wit of Alexander Pope and the satire of Jonathan Swift, students in English 205 study classics of English literature from its beginning to the Restoration and 18th century.  Read poetry, prose and drama, engage in scintillating discussion, and broaden the horizons of your experience through the words of some of the masters of the English language. Accepted for credit at UC and CSU.

English 206: In the second half of the English Literature series, we move from the Early Romantic period, through the Victorian and Modern periods, tasting a wide range of  works by Britain's greatest writers and thinkers along the way.  Since much of who we are today has been shaped by the forces of these periods, we will be exploring not only the works of these figures, but also the ideas that helped shape them and the impact of those ideas on the evolution of contemporary perceptions of reality. Accepted for credit at UC and CSU.

English 207:When Worlds Collide--from the late 15th century to 1865 was a period of tremendous cross-cultural contact in what became the United States.  English 207 examines the literature of indigenous peoples, Africans, and Europeans, who recorded their experiences in poetry, oral tales, fiction, and non-fiction texts, and who developed genre specific to this period of the American experience.  Accepted for credit at UC and CSU.

English 208: Examine the major American literary movements from 1865 to the present, as writers confront industrialization, urbanization, immigration, integration, evolutionary theory, 2 world wars, modernism, and the re-evaluation of American cultural identity.  Read prose (short story and novel), poetry, drama, non-fiction, including two Nobel laureates: Faulkner and Morrison. Accepted for credit at UC and CSU.

English 211: Why do we tell stories? What do stories tell us? English 211 explores the storied world, covering classic and contemporary short stories and novels primarily from the Western tradition.
Accepted for credit at UC and CSU.

English 215: We will examine and revel in the early comedies of William Shakespeare.  Come and laugh at love.   Accepted for credit at UC and CSU.

English 216: This course will examine the true heart of Shakespeare’s drama: passion, love, hate, and redemption.  We shall read the later plays and focus on the characters’ humanity, villainy, and humor.  Come see why Shakespeare attracts audiences world wide centuries after he lived. Accepted for credit at UC and CSU.

English 218: A survey of literature suitable for children of different age levels. Emphasis will be placed on story telling, acquaintance with authors and the development in children of appreciation of literature. Recommended for prospective parents, elementary and secondary teachers. Here's the syllabus from last semester, soon to be updated. Accepted for credit at CSU.

English 219: A study of the literature of American ethnic writers: stories, novels, plays, poems, essays, and other prose works. Works are examined in the context of traditional and contemporary problems of American ethnic groups.

English 239: Women have always been writers, but few people have heard of the early women who wrote.  We will read and discuss some early writers and some more modern ones. The course will be partly online. Here's the syllabus from last semester, soon to be updated.

English 250: How can you know where you're going if you don't know where you've been!  Learn the lore of earlier times, the stories of heroes and villains, of magical creatures and ordinary mortals, of deities and supernaturals.  We will read myths, epics, poetry, and prose from Sumer, Egypt, India, Greece, Rome, Scandinavia, and Celtic lands.  The class includes a visit to the Getty Museum.  Accepted for credit at UC and CSU. Here's the syllabus from last semester, soon to be updated.

English 252: Whether you think you already know the Bible thoroughly or have no experience with it directly at all, this class will probably stimulate your thinking. We're going to look at The English Bible as Literature in one semester from a feminist point of view so we can ask new, insightful questions about its composition and literary values.  The course is open to anyone with an inquiring mind about one of the most important texts in Western literature. Students in the past have enjoyed the broad sweep of the course as it provides a comprehensive introduction to the scholarship of Biblical literature. If you have questions about the course, please see Prof. Follett's Web Site for a sample syllabus and Supplemental Reading List. Accepted for credit at UC and CSU.

English 270: C.S. Lewis's space trilogy--Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra, and That Hideous Strength--follow Ransom, a British philologist, on his odysseys to Mars, Venus, and deepest, darkest Earth, the silent planet. Imagine sending an Oxford Don --somebody who has read Chaucer, Milton, and Shakespeare--up into space instead of a science PhD without the language acquisition skills to converse with non-terrestrials. And J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings--now a hugely successful film-- remain the standard fantasy epic in the English language, perhaps because they were written by a real philologist.

Humanities 14, which will not be offered this semester, presents the music and literature of the Romantic Era and the Modern Era.  In the literature, Marjorie Hoskinson will start with the poetry of the English poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley and Keats.  We will proceed to a discussion of the novel and its development and then to 20th Century writers, including selections from Pierce College poets.  For more information, contact Marjorie Hoskinson.

 Humanities 11 is a fascinating look at ancient cultures that influence our own.  Students will learn about ancient Sumer, Egypt, Greece, Rome, early Christianity and early Renaissance from 3 teachers - from the fields of music, literature and history.  This class is an ideal way to put together these different fields and learn how the archeological treasures from the ancient world fit with the literature and history of their time, how music arose and was a part of drama, what was happening with the people who made the art treasures we still find exciting. Students may get extra credit by going to the Getty Museum or the Huntington Library or the Los Angeles County Art Museum or The Gene Autry Museum among others. 
Accepted for credit at UC and CSU.