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During their first year, students will enroll in ENG 101 and ENG 102. ENG 101 is a composition course where students will explore the fundamentals of writing and learn to communicate their own ideas at a collegiate level. After students have explored these fundamentals, they will enroll in ENG 102 to take their skills a step further, learning to engage with outside sources in exploring their own views, introducing them to critical thinking and asking them to question their own assumptions and the assumptions of others. This is further supported by the vast liberal arts foundation students will receive in their first and second year, with a focus upon philosophy, political theory, religion, and Western Civilization courses.
Second-year students complete additional studies in the liberal arts core while enrolling in American and British Literatures, Visual Storytelling and Communication, and Principles of Cultural Interpretation. These courses are meant to give second year students an introductory foothold in the ENC concentration, helping them get a taste for which track they might like to take, while they still complete major requirements in the core.
Third-year students enroll in the final four required courses for the ENC concentration, New Media, Poetry, Aesthetics, and Creative and Narrative Writing Workshop, in addition to two ENC concentration electives, while finishing out their core liberal arts requirements. By the end of the first semester of the first year, students should have an idea about which of the three ENC tracks they would like to pursue: Literature and Poetics, Creative Writing, or Communications. Once students have decided upon a track, this will assist them with deciding which electives to take during their third and fourth year. In addition to these electives, students will round out their final degree requirements by completing the two semester capstone course, which will prepare them for future careers and future studies. Students also will have the option to spend a semester abroad during this year, completing their elective courses.
Mission Statement:
The mission of the English and Communications (ENC) concentration at Providence Christian College, in recognizing The Word as the creative origin of all life (John 1:1-5) is to equip students with college-level thinking and writing skills (writing), discipline-specific content knowledge, and familiarity with established critical approaches to literature (reading) so that they can become effective communicators who work and create in various mediums for the glory of God.
Concentration Learning Outcomes:
After active participation and completion of this program, students will be able to:
1. Demonstrate content knowledge: Literacy in British, American, and world poems, plays, short
stories, novels, and literary non-fiction; authors’ lives; texts’ historical context; and critical theory.
2. Develop communication and critical thinking skills, incorporating a Reformed Christian worldview into thoughts, attitudes, and actions that diminish the power of egocentric and socio-centric
tendencies.
3. Compose college-level analytical essays using rational structure (logos), accepted style and
appropriate evidence (ethos), and sympathy for opposing points of view (pathos) that promotes
reasoned and civil discourse in philosophical, political, and religious arenas.
4. Apply a Biblical perspective to literature to nurture wisdom and discernment: Assume an active role in facing and resolving community and global challenges in order to become proactive
contributors in the redemption of creation.
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