English for Transfer, AA-T

The curriculum emphasizes the integration of reading and writing throughout its courses reflecting the faculty’s belief that the study of language includes the study of culture. English students examine a broad range of topics within composition, creative writing, and literature. Upon completion of the Associate in Arts in English for Transfer (AA-T in English) students will be able to read, write, and think critically in producing essays and original work that demonstrates the craft of a given genre. Additionally, students will be able to interpret literary texts within their contexts, reflecting diversity in genre, historical period, and cultural expression. The proposed Associate in Arts in English for Transfer (AA-T in English) is designed to assist students in the seamless transferring to a CSU and complete a Bachelor’s Degree in English.

Pursuant to SB 1440, section 66756, to earn an AA-T in English, students must:

Completion of 60 semester units or 90 quarter units of degree-applicable courses,
Minimum overall grade point average of 2.0,
Minimum grade of “C” (or “P”) for each course in the major, and
Completion of IGETC and/or CSU GE-Breadth.

Program Student Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this program, students will be able to:

Literature: Interpret literature critically and imaginatively, and respond in writing that is clear, exact, and expressive.
Demonstrate through both speaking and writing how literature might embody and generate meaning, reflect and create culture, and engage the human imagination.
Analyze the major types of literary expression as well as recurrent conventions, concerns, and values central to literature and to the understanding of literary texts and contexts.
Possess knowledge of literary materials reflecting diversity in genre, historical period, cultural expression and non-canonical texts, including those of marginalized peoples and emergent cultures whose literature has traditionally been ignored.
Writing: Demonstrate proficiency in essential, course-appropriate skills in reading, research, critical and creative problem solving, speaking, and writing in order to produce, within a literary genre, original work that demonstrates an understanding of both the writing process and the stylistic craft choices of the genre.

Complete the following courses:

WR 2 COLLEGE WRITING 2: CRITICAL THINKING, WRITING 4 Units
OR
WR 2H COLLEGE WRITING 2: CRITICAL THINKING, WRITING HONORS 4 Units
LIT 1 INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE 3 Units

List A: Select two (6 units):

LIT 20 SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE TO 1776 3 Units
LIT 21 BRITISH LITERATURE FROM BLAKE TO THE PRESENT 3 Units
LIT 22 AMERICAN LITERATURE THROUGH THE CIVIL WAR 3 Units
LIT 23 AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE THE CIVIL WAR 3 Units

List B: Select one (3 units) - Any course from List A not already used, or the following:

LIT 33 INTRODUCTION TO DRAMA 3 Units
LIT 46 ETHNICITY IN LITERATURE OF THE UNITED STATES 3 Units
WR 10 INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING 3 Units
WR 11 WRITING SHORT FICTION 3 Units
WR 13 WRITING POETRY 3 Units
WR 16 WRITING CREATIVE NONFICTION 3 Units

List C: Select one (3 units) - Any course from List A or B not already used, or the following:

LIT 7 SURVEY OF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE 3 Units
LIT 16 SURVEY IN CONTEMPORARY CREATIVE NONFICTION 3 Units
LIT 24 CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE 3 Units
LIT 30 INTRODUCTION TO THE NOVEL 3 Units
LIT 31 INTRODUCTION TO SHORT FICTION 3 Units
LIT 32 INTRODUCTION TO POETRY 3 Units
LIT 43 INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE 3 Units
LIT 45 WOMEN IN LITERATURE 3 Units
LIT 46 ETHNICITY IN LITERATURE OF THE UNITED STATES 3 Units
LIT 48 FILM AND LITERATURE 3 Units
LIT 49 POPULAR LITERATURE 3 Units
WR 15 INTRODUCTION TO SCREENWRITING FOR FILM/TV 3 Units

Total Units Required: 19

To earn the associate for transfer degree:

See Earning an Associate Degree for associate degree for transfer graduation requirements.

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