Courses Taught for PCC
Writing 121: College Composition
Course catalog description: Offers broad preparation for both academic writing and professional communication. Includes composing for a variety of rhetorical situations, writing for both oneself, and for external audiences. Provides self-guided learning opportunities alongside more structured opportunities for practice with support as needed. Prerequisite: (WR 115 and RD 115) or IRW 115 or equivalent placement. Audit available.
Writing 122: Intermediate College Composition
Course catalog description: Offers focused preparation for academic communication. Provides opportunities for practice in academic writing and conventions with an emphasis on independent research, thinking, and learning necessary for self-guided academic projects. Prerequisite: WR 121 or equivalent. Audit available.
ENG 197: Film Studies–Contemporary Themes and Genres
Course catalog description: Enhances understanding of film through analysis of contemporary film-making, narrative techniques, genres, themes and critical approaches. Develops visual literacy and analysis skills by offering a range of tools to study any film. Analyze contemporary film techniques and the ways in which the films may both contribute and react to their time and culture; study contemporary film theory; and substantiate observations with examples taken from the film tradition and from the film itself. Prerequisite: (WR 115and RD 115) or IRW 115 or equivalent placement. Audit available.
ENG 250: Introduction to Folklore and Mythology
Course catalog description: Develops a cross-cultural perspective on myths, mythologies and folklore from around the world. Explores different theories of the cultural meanings and functions of myth, past and present. Introduces various ways of interpreting and experiencing myth and folklore as texts with oral origins. Prerequisite: (WR 115 and RD 115) or IRW 115 or equivalent placement. Audit available.
HUM 214: Race and Racism
Course catalog description: Introductory examination of the origins and manifestations of the socially constructed concept of race. Critical theory approach is used to analyze the manner in which the concept of race has been developed and interpreted and its influence on the social, economic and political relations between ethnic groups. Emphasis on racist ideas, theories, movements and key people and events in the evolution of race-based thinking. This study includes instances of racism in Eurasia, Africa, the Americas and Australia. Audit available.
HUM 100: Introduction to Humanities
Course catalog description: Introduces humanistic inquiry and the academic disciplines collectively known as the humanities, including literature, theater, art, art history, religious studies, music, film, architecture, and philosophy. Explores a broad range of topics such as artistic creation, human expression, cultural innovation, intellectual ideas and exchanges, political structures, and religious ideologies in different cultures around the globe in their historical context. Focuses on the ways human thought, creativity, and imagination reflect the cultures in which they arise as well as how they change through intercultural exchange and influence. Explores the answers to life’s enduring questions and invites a sense of wonder about the meaning of life. Prerequisite: (WR 115 and RD 115) or IRW 115 and MTH 20 or equivalent placement. Audit available.