Contact Info:
Email: julie.cardenas@gcccd.edu
Phone: 619-644-7486
Office: Bldg. 52, Room 568A
Office Hours: Monday 6pm-7, Tuesday & Thursday 12:30pm-2, Wednesday 11:30am-12:30
Course(s):
ENGL 110 College Composition
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COURSE OBJECTIVES
This course is designed specifically to help you:
- Improve your competence in writing short expository and argumentative compositions.
- Develop critical thinking and reading skills in response to various forms of writing.
- Write prose that conforms to the conventions of English spelling, punctuation and grammar.
- Learn to revise, edit, and improve your own writing. To meet these goals, my English 110 course is primarily an English writing workshop with an emphasis on the relationship between reading and writing, the process of writing and revision, and the importance of students as their own best teachers and critics.
ENGL 122 Introduction to Literature
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is designed to introduce you to the major literary genres through reading, analysis, and discussion. These genres will include the novel, short story, drama, and poetry. You will be required to write critical and appreciative essays in response to the works presented this semester.
ENGL 126 Creative Writing
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
English 126 is a course designed to provide you with practice in writing short prose,
dramatic and poetic literature. You will also study and analyze techniques in the
works of professional writers and in the works of students. In addition, there will
be an opportunity for publication of your work.
ENGL 145 The Acorn Review: Editing & Production I
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
In this course you will be responsible for reading, selecting, editing, proofreading,
and arranging student manuscripts for Acorn Review, the Grossmont College literary
magazine.
ENGL 236 Chicano/Chicana Literature
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COURSE DESCRIPTION
This course is a survey of folk, traditional, and contemporary Chicano and Mexican
literature. You will read and analyze selected works from the following literary genres:
the novel, short story, poem, and drama
Education
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BA CSU Sacramento
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MA University of San Diego