English
Language, Literature, and Critical Thinking
The Associate in Arts in English for Transfer has been prepared to allow individuals to achieve their academic and career goals through developing strong writing and revising skills, research skills, critical reading skills, and the overall ability to generate, organize and communicate ideas. The Associate in Arts in English for Transfer provides courses to assist students so that they may succeed at college-level writing by composing effective essays, fulfill the writing requirements for a two-year degree program, prepare for success in a bachelor’s program at a transfer institution, and enhance the understanding and critical acumen derived from reading complex and diverse texts. The Associate in Arts in English for Transfer degree also offers courses designed to enhance cultural literacy, information competency, critical judgment, creative imagination, and independent thought. The Associate in Arts in English for Transfer prepares students to seamlessly pursue a baccalaureate degree in English at a California State University.
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Program Information
- http://www.ipl.org/ - The Internet Public Library
- http://www.popcultures.com/ - This is the best site I've found for pop culture analysis--a great collection of links! Click on the categories Journals/Archives, Articles/Papers, or General Links, and you can surf in the world of pop culture studies for hours. There's also a link to PopMatters, "a magazine of global culture, [which] is the sister site of PopCultures.com."
- http://www.yourdictionary.com/ - yourDictionary.com: "yourDictionary.com (YDC) was founded in 1999 to provide the world's most comprehensive, and authoritative portal for language, and language-related products and services on the world wide web. yourDictionary.com has the widest and deepest set of dictionaries on the web (more than 1500 dictionaries representing more than 230 languages)."
- http://www.quotationspage.com/ - The Quotation Page
- http://www.britannica.com/ - The online edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica
- http://lcweb.loc.gov/homepage/lchp.html - The Library of Congress
- http://www.ecola.com/ - NewsDirectory.com: "NewsDirectory.com is a guide to English-language media online."
- http://www.suite101.com/ - Suite101.com: Suite101.com is... "an Internet company... engaged in the creation, operation, and support of an Internet-based Best-of-Web Directory and community known as Suite101.com. Thousands of users from around the world use this site to find relevant and quality information on a variety of topics as well as express themselves and share ideas, interests, and expertise with other users who have similar interests."
- http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm
- http://webster.commnet.edu/grammar/index.htm - Guide to Grammar and Writing - The Guide focuses primarily on grammar, punctuation, sentence skills, and paragraph-level writing issues. It includes a grammar question service and interactive grammar quizzes. The section on coherence and transition is quite good and could benefit any CR composition student. (Created by Professor of English/Humanities Charles Darling for English courses at Capital Community College and for the general online public.)
- http://www.powa.org/ - Paradigm Online Writing Assistant - "Paradigm... is online writer's guide and handbook," which provides excellent information on writing a variety of standard academic essay assignments, as well as documenting sources. Especially useful for the English 150 and English 1A student is the section on writing thesis/support papers. (Created by Chuck Guilford, textbook author and associate professor of English at Boise State University.)
- http://www.sff.net/People/LisaRC/index.htp - The Writers Block - This site offers "information about what writer's block is and isn't, why writers get blocked and some things that might help you get into, around, thru or over your own block. (Created by Lisa Cohen, a science fiction writer.)
- http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/index.html - Purdue University's website that introduces many grammatical concepts and terms.
- Redwood Coast Writers' Center - Local Humboldt Country Writers Group
Contact email: Daryl Chinn: darylngee@yahoo.com - Humboldt State Creative Writing Program
- Toyon: Humboldt State University's literary magazine
- Mendocino Coast Writers Retreat
- North Coast Redwoods Writers Retreat
- Associated Writing Programs - This is the association's homepage, with extensive links and much professional information, for writers and teachers of writing.
- Poets and Writers: both the organization and the magazine (includes classifieds for submissions)
- Dutrope: an excellent search engine for literary magazine submission possibilities
- Mystery Writers of America
- Romance Writers of America
Education, Society, & Democracy Theme: Analyzes contemporary social and political issues in our global society.
Food Theme: Explores the personal, cultural, and global impact of both what we eat and how we eat on our bodies, our communities, and our environment.
Humans & the Environment Theme: Explores perspectives and ethical questions presented by environmental and ecological issues.
Popular Culture - The Arts: Examines fine art, dance, music, film, tv, and other arts and pop culture in order to observe, analyze and deconstruct emerging rhetoric in the subject.
Service Writing Theme: Uses service opportunities in local, national, and global organizations as a foundation for analytical reading and writing projects that reach "real world" audiences.
Health Theme: Studies professional, practical, and cultural concerns in public health and personal wellness in our communities.
Food Theme: Explores the personal, cultural, and global impact of both what we eat and how we eat on our bodies, our communities, and our environment.
Contemporary Culture and Connection Theme: Analyzes current conversations surrounding how people connect to the world and one another through work, entertainment, language, media, and consumerism.
(Note: these special sections of English 1A meet the same transfer and program requirements as regular English 1A courses while offering students the additional opportunity to explore an area of interest. In each section, the reading and writing assignments are unified by a specific topic.)
Personas: Multilingual Studies
In most literary journals, there is a dominant voice: one that has defined the standards of artistic expressions. Personas is a new literary journal that seeks to go beyond this standard by giving particular focus to writing from multilingual writers. This is our contribution to altering the traditional narrative and adding new points of inquiry to old conversations. En la mayoría de las revistas literarias, hay una voz dominante: una que ha definido los estándares de la representación artística. Personas es una nueva revista literaria que busca ir más allá de este estándar dando un enfoque particular a la escritura de escritores multilingües. Esta es nuestra contribución para alterar la narrativa tradicional y agregar nuevos puntos de indagación a viejas conversaciones.
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Literature Databases
"This site lists many of the best literary links on the web. While not exhaustive, it is representative and offers connections to other major online lists."