The Language and Literature Department offers intensive English writing courses aimed at developing and strengthening critical thinking and proficient college level writing for effective communication. The writing courses focus on extensive coverage of combining rhetorical strategies to help students become more skillful and flexible writers. The literature courses provide students with the opportunity to study various genres of writing, to examine and increase their perception of the writing of different cultures, to use critical and analytical thinking skills in the application of literature, and to strengthen their reading comprehension. The Foreign language courses offer students a firm foundation in the language for further study upon transfer to a university. The Language and Literature Department is designed to prepare students for transfer to a four-year college or university or to be a successful and contributing member of the modern work force.

Upon completion of requirements, students will be able to:

• Write college level essay or expository writing. Select a limited subject, assemble materials by reading texts, newspaper, magazines, books, or research by internet. Relate ideas in a logical order in forming and writing extensive essays.
• Write effective essays - - develop paragraphs and longer papers - - select subject, develop topic sentence, develop unified thoughts and coherent paragraphs.
• Formulate and evaluate information and finding independently, group ideas, outline, and unity in paragraph, write the first drafts, revise, and final revision.
• Illustrate and develop an appreciation for literature, which helps student grow, both personally and intellectually. Students will provide an objective base for knowledge and understanding of cultural, philosophic, and religious world of which we are a part.
• Exemplify and identify human perceptions and struggles from different cultures of the world - and develop mature sensibility, respect, and compassion for all living things.
• Gain knowledge and perception and to appreciate the beauty of the literary world.
• Interpret and analyze the major genres of literature (poetry, drama, prose fiction, and non-fiction) and apply critical thinking through expository essays or term-paper analysis or academic writing.