CO150 - College Composition, 3 credits, Multiple dates and instructors

CO150 focuses on initiating students into academic discourse and developing composing practices that will prepare them for success as university students and as citizens. Therefore, the course focuses on critical reading and inquiry, writing for a variety of rhetorical situations, and enabling effective writing processes. The course or its equivalent is required by the All-University Core Curriculum to satisfy Category 1a., Basic Competency in Written Communication.

This course is also a gtPathways course. The Colorado Commission on Higher Education has approved CO150 for inclusion in the Guaranteed Transfer (GT) Pathways program in the [GT-2] category. For transferring students, successful completion with a minimum C‒ grade guarantees transfer and application of credit in this GT Pathways category. For more information on the GT Pathways program, go to http://highered.colorado.gov/academics/transfers/gtpathways/curriculum.html 

CO130 - Academic Writing, 3 credits, June 15 - Aug 9, Instructor Leslie Davis

In CO130 you will learn writing for academic contexts. As preparation for your other writing-intensive classes, CO130 will develop your research & writing skills in a small class setting.

For some students, CO130 is a required prerequisite for CO150. Other students may elect to take CO130 to further develop their writing skills before completing the required AUCC writing classes — CO150 College Composition and the 300-level advanced writing requirement.

Depending on your ACT/SAT scores, you may test out of CO130. Consult the Composition Placement for more information.

E210 - Beginning Creative Writing, May 18 - July 12, Instructor Felicia Zamora

E238 - Contemporary Global Literature, 3 credits, June 15 - August 9, Instructor Jeremy Proctor

Contemporary Global Lit is an exciting exploration of books from the last century to today.  Students will study the convergence between literature and important events of the twentieth century such as the Russian communist revolution, the struggle for women’s rights, the aftermath of the Reconstruction era, the colonization of Africa, the search for morality in turbulent postmodern times, and the reaction of fundamentalists in the Middle-East.  Beyond the fascinating content of the texts, students will learn new theoretical approaches to studying literature which opens new doors to the way fiction can be read and understood. 

This online course includes an original approach to studying fiction.  Educational and entertaining video lectures will serve as a guide to the student-led discussions, while treasure hunts motivate students to search for themes and other literary conventions.  This course is perfect for those looking for flexibility in their schedule!

CO300 - Writing arguments, 3 credits, Multiple dates and instructors

Reading, analyzing, researching, and writing arguments

CO301B - Writing in the Disciplines: Science, 3 credits, May 18 - August 9

In contrast with scientific writing directed at expert readers, writing about science informs non-experts about how science concepts and discoveries are relevant in our daily lives. Thus, writing about science relies more on analogy than on jargon, more on metaphor than on data tables, and more on writer- based narrative than data-based analysis. Ultimately, writing about science is an educational tool that provides non-technical but interested readers the opportunity to enhance their understanding of the world around them. Some of the best known and widely used examples of writing about science include Scientific American; WebMD; articles about science in TIME, Newsweek, and daily newspapers; and even the brochures we pick up in medical and veterinary offices.

Who are these non-technical but interested readers? Just about anyone. Except when experts write to experts in their own field, writers have to take into account that readers won’t know as much about the science as the writers do. Readers who are less knowledgeable about the science content are more likely to be called non-expert or non-technical readers. Here are some examples of texts to show the range of non-technical readers and how they use science writing texts:

• Webtexts on scientific method with activities that children can do with their parents at home.
• A website that teaches children about the importance of hygiene and vaccinations.
• Materials explaining the physiological and neurological effects of tobacco use to adolescents.
• Newspaper articles explaining the environmental impact and/or benefits of dams on a particular river system.
• Brochures detailing medical treatment options for cancer patients.
• Newsletter articles for fund-raising describing research being done at a local scientific organization.

These are just a few examples of potential texts and readers. Again, anybody can be interested in science and CO301B students study and practice how to write in the sciences effectively.

E311A - Intermediate Fiction Workshop, 3 credits, May 18 - July 12, Instructor Dana Masden

E311A is an eight week online intermediate online fiction workshop. This course deepens the beginner’s fiction writing knowledge learned in E210 through the study of craft and contemporary short stories. Students will learn specifically about sensory imagery, dialogue, characterization, plot, point of view, and setting, as well as writing techniques and process. Students will participate in online whole group and small group workshops of their own short fiction and will produce a final fiction portfolio including an original revised short story and a work of flash fiction. The course is designed to enhance craft knowledge in the techniques of writing fiction, expand the student’s experience in a writing community, encourage a fruitful writing practice, and prepare the student for further advanced workshops.

E311B - Intermediate Creative Writing: Poetry, 3 credits, May 18 - July 12, Instructor Sarah Pipelow

Group discussion of student writing, literary models, and theory; emphasis on developing individual style.

E311C - Intermediate Creative Writing: Nonfiction, 3 credits, May 18 - July 12, Instructor Dana Chellman

Group discussion of student writing, literary models, and theory; emphasis on developing individual style.

E320 - Introduction to the Study of Language, 3 credits, June 15 - August 9, Instructor Luciana Marques

E320 introduces the basic concepts and theories that linguists/applied linguists adopt in trying to understand how language works and how language is used. Language is studied from a structural perspective, with emphasis on morphology, phonetics and phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics. Additional topics of interest include language variation and language change. This course is recommended for, but not limited to, students interested in language description and its applications, such as TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages), language documentation, computational linguistics, foreign language teaching and teaching in linguistically and culturally diverse classrooms.

Upon the completion of this course, students will be able to:

• describe and account for the differences and relationships among various sub-fields of linguistics, including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatics;
• demonstrate control of basic analytical tools and linguistic techniques in the examination of linguistic data to identify and interpret linguistic patterns and state generalizations;
• formulate hypotheses on the basis of observations appropriate for linguistics;
• account for the diversity of language experience and language use; and
• describe the usefulness and relevance of linguistic knowledge to real-world experiences.

E332 - Modern Women Writers, 3 credits, May 18 - June 14, Instructor Aparna Gollapudi

This course brings together twentieth- and twenty-first- century women writers from all over the world working in various literary forms. Poets from Russia and Iran, novelists from India and Zimbabwe, Asian American playwrights, a graphic novelist: these are some of the figures you might meet in this course. We will consider their works from a range of historical and theoretical perspectives. Due to the pandemic, the course will be taught online using strategies such as recorded lectures, online discussion posts, formal essay assignments, optional video conferencing office hours.

E370 - American Literature in Cultural Contexts: American Fairy Tales, 3 credits, June 14 - July 11, Instructor Zach Hutchins

The fairy tale is a genre particular to Europe, populated with talking animals, witches, wizards, gnomes, dwarves, elves, goblins, fairies (of course), and other creatures of the Old World. American authors found themselves fascinated by these moralistic stories of magic and foreign realms and felt compelled to re-imagine them within the context of a melting pot United States. The innovative fairy tales they composed feature these traditional magical creatures but also draw mythic figures from Native American and African folklore into stories that communicate truths about the tragedies and triumphs of the American experiment. In this class, students, will journey to Oz, the Village of Cream Puffs, and many other fantastical settings only to gain a clearer and more nuanced view of the nation and reality they’ve just left. Featuring classic works of cinema as well as texts written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, W. E. B. DuBois, Rebecca Roanhorse, Mourning Dove, and Gloria Naylor, among others, this is a course that will transport and delight while illustrating the deadly seriousness of child’s play.

This course fulfills a Category 2 or 4 elective requirement for English majors.

E412A - Creative Writing Workshop: Fiction, 3 credits, June 14 - August 8, Instructor Maurice Irvin

E412 builds on concepts learned in E311A and E210; however, it is the most workshop-intensive course in this series and most closely resembles a graduate level workshop. This means students’ primary concern will be developing his or her own voice and secondary concern to learn by participating in discussions about others’ work.

AMST 101 - Self/Community in American Culture Since 1877, 3 credits, May 17 - June 13, Instructor Dr. Catherine Ratliff

What does it mean to be American? How do stories reflect and shape American cultural identity in roughly the last one-hundred years? These are some of the questions we’ll explore in AMST 101.

True to the discipline of American Studies, and not a traditional history course, we will employ a variety of interdisciplinary approaches and materials from the fields of history, literature, music, popular culture, visual arts, and more in order to examine the development of American cultural identity since 1877. We are not exploring the chronologies of facts, but the formations and interrelationships of ideas related to Americanness. This course asks you to think critically and engage with U.S. cultural histories from new perspectives. Students will engage with primary and secondary sources dealing with themes of gender, identity, race, religion, and society all to help answer some key questions such as: How do we currently identify and explore past elements of American culture via narrative? How do various narratives and culture(s) inform U.S. identities? What influences the creation of national narratives in the U.S.? In short, this class will be an exploration of Americanness as told through stories, cultures, and histories and it will challenge you to think of U.S. culture and history in new ways.