{
  "college": "coastline-college",
  "edition": "2026-2027",
  "departmentName": "English",
  "id": "english--english-aa",
  "name": "English",
  "award": "Associate of Arts Degree",
  "department": "english",
  "sourceUrl": "https://catalog.cccd.edu/coastline/pathways/language-literature/english/english-aa/",
  "blocks": [
    {
      "kind": "text",
      "markdown": "The study of English provides opportunities to explore the worlds of literature and culture. This English major produces graduates with demonstrated skills in literary analysis, critical thinking, writing, and communication. With this major, students build important research and critical thinking skills. They learn to discern what is important and to synthesize that information for other usage. As English majors are learning to read with a critical eye, they are also polishing their own writing skills.\n\n#### Program Learning Outcomes\n\n1.  Write well-organized, well-developed expository essays in a variety of rhetorical modes, using Standard English, with a clear thesis statement and supporting topic sentences and supporting details.\n2.  Search for and find reliable, unbiased sources and to use these sources in research papers, using correct MLA documentation.\n3.  Evaluate a literary work in terms of style and descriptive technique, language, tone, mood, and literary conventions, such as symbolism, imagery, irony, and poetic devices such as meter and rhyme pattern.\n4.  Analyze a given literary work and explain its relevance to the time period and genre in which it was written as well as the relationship between the events in an author’s life, time, and culture to the development of his or her writing."
    },
    {
      "kind": "text",
      "markdown": "### REQUIREMENTS\n\nReview the Associate in Science and Associate in Arts Graduation Requirements and General Education requirements."
    },
    {
      "kind": "courselist",
      "rows": [
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Required Core"
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Complete the following:"
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL C1001",
          "title": "Critical Thinking and Writing",
          "indent": true
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL C140",
          "title": "Introduction to Literature",
          "indent": true
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Program Electives"
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Select two of the following:",
          "units": "3-4"
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL C150",
          "title": "American Literature through the Civil War",
          "indent": true
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL C155",
          "title": "American Literature 1865 to Present",
          "indent": true
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL C270",
          "title": "British Literature to 1800",
          "indent": true
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL C275",
          "title": "British Literature since 1800",
          "indent": true
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Select one of the following:",
          "units": "6"
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL C133",
          "title": "Introduction to Creative Writing",
          "indent": true
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL C143",
          "title": "Children's Literature",
          "indent": true
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Select two of the following or any course not selected above:",
          "units": "6"
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL C101",
          "title": "Critical Thinking and Writing Through Literature",
          "indent": true
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL C128",
          "title": "Asian American and Transpacific Literature",
          "indent": true
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL C129",
          "title": "Black Voices: Introduction to African American Literature",
          "indent": true
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL C136",
          "title": "Business Communication",
          "indent": true
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "BUS C139",
          "title": "Business Communication",
          "indent": true,
          "connector": "or"
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL C296",
          "title": "Gothic Victorian Literature",
          "indent": true
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ENGL C297",
          "title": "American Gothic Literature",
          "indent": true
        },
        {
          "type": "course",
          "code": "ANTH A190",
          "title": "Introduction to Linguistic Anthropology",
          "indent": true
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Units Required for Major",
          "units": "18-19"
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Local General Education or CalGETC pattern",
          "units": "Varies"
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Electives to satisfy unit requirement",
          "units": "Varies"
        },
        {
          "type": "comment",
          "text": "Total Units",
          "units": "60"
        }
      ]
    }
  ]
}