English
19 courses · Lake Tahoe Community College · 2026-2027 Catalog
Classes: Fall 2026 · Winter 2027 · Spring 2027
ENG 108 Women in Literature
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 4 hours lecture weekly, 48 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Eligibility for college-level composition (ENGLC1000 or ENG101) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate method.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This course examines literature by and about women from the Middle Ages to the present, with an emphasis on comparing social, literary, and mythic interpretations with what women themselves have written about their lives. Short stories, novels, poems, plays, and criticism are studied in terms of their literary elements and possible meanings.
ENG 152 Critical Reading and Writing
- Units
- 5
- Hours
- 5 hours lecture weekly, 60 contact hours total
This course emphasizes the development of critical reading and writing skills. Focus is on the organization, development, and analysis of ideas through both reading and written assignments.
ENG 158 Support for Success in English 152
- Units
- 2
- Hours
- 2 hours lecture weekly, 24 contact hours total
- Corequisite
- ENG 152 with a grade of "C" or better.
This supplemental course is designed for students needing additional support in basic skills English. Focus is on the fundamental reading, writing, and critical thinking tasks students are pursuing in English 152.
ENG 159 Expanded Reading and Composition
- Units
- 2
- Hours
- 2 hours lecture weekly, 24 contact hours total
- Corequisite
- ENGLC1000 or ENG 101 with a grade of "C" or better or equivalent.
This course is designed for students who want additional support to be successful in English C1000. Students learn to read critically, articulate arguments, and build relationships with texts, others, and themselves. Focus is on further strengthening the critical reading and writing skills necessary for success in English C1000.
ENG 200 Masterpieces of the Ancient and Medieval Worlds
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 4 hours lecture weekly, 48 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Eligibility for college-level composition (ENGLC1000 or ENG101) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate method.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 140 = ENG 200 + ENG 201
This course examines the masterpieces of literature from the ancient Greeks and Egyptians to the fourteenth century. Literature such as The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Iliad, The Bhagavad-Gita, The Hebrew Bible, The Qur'an, The Thousand and One Nights, and The Canterbury Tales will be read to cultivate intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity.
ENG 201 Masterpieces of the Renaissance and Modern World
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 4 hours lecture weekly, 48 contact hours total
- Advisory
- Eligibility for college-level composition (ENGLC1000 or ENG101) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate method.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 140 = ENG 200 + ENG 201<br /> ENGL 145 = ENG 201 + ENG 202
This course examines the masterpieces of world literature from the fourteenth century into the eighteenth century. Such authors as Basavanna, Kabir, Petrarch, Labé, Machiavelli, Navarre, Shakespeare, Cervantes, Milton, Motokiyo, Voltaire, and Basho will be read to cultivate intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity.
ENG 202 Masterpieces of the Modern World
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 4 hours lecture weekly, 48 contact hours total
- Advisory
- Eligibility for college-level composition (ENGLC1000 or ENG101) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate method.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 145 = ENG 201 + ENG 202
This course examines the masterpieces of literature from the eighteenth century to the present. Such authors as Douglass, Coleridge, Shelley, Dickinson, Rimbuad, Ghalib, Dostoevsky, Tagore, Kafka, Lu Xun, Woolf, Borges, Yeats, Rilke, Eliot, Mahfouz, Mishima, Marquez, Silko, Coetzee, and Allende will be read to cultivate intellect, imagination, sensibility, and sensitivity.
ENG 206 The Short Story
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 4 hours lecture weekly, 48 contact hours total
- Advisory
- ENGLC1000 or ENG 101 with a grade of "C" or better or equivalent.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This course will focus on the development of critical reading, investigation, and analysis of the best of modern and classic short stories by both American and international writers such as Hemingway, Welty, Nabokov, O'Connor, and Munro. Students will have the opportunity to discover and study both famous and little known writers through the basic features which characterize the short fiction genre. Students will examine such themes as love, betrayal, death, conformity, and rebellion.
ENG 207 Introduction to Creative Writing
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 4 hours lecture weekly, 48 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- ENGLC1000 or ENG 101 with a grade of "C" or better or equivalent.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 200
This is a course designed for creative writing students who wish to explore poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. The course includes a survey of methods and techniques practiced in the creation of poetry and creative prose.
ENG 208A Fiction Writing
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 4 hours lecture weekly, 48 contact hours total
- Advisory
- Eligibility for college-level composition (ENG101 or ENGL C1000) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate method.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This course is designed for creative writing students who wish to concentrate their efforts in the writing of fiction. The course includes a survey of methods and techniques practiced in the creation of fiction.
ENG 209 Creative Writing: Poetry
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 4 hours lecture weekly, 48 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- ENGLC1000 or ENG 101 with a grade of "C" or better or equivalent.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This course is designed for the student who wishes to concentrate on the writing of poetry. Emphasis will be on the study and analysis of selected poems coupled with assignments designed to help students experiment with the various techniques of the genre.
ENG 211 Creative Nonfiction
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 4 hours lecture weekly, 48 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- ENGLC1000 or ENG 101 with a grade of "C" or better or equivalent.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This writing course focuses on creative nonfiction and memoir. Students will practice with many essay forms, including the personal essay, memoir, and narrative journalism, learning how to incorporate research, develop character, setting, and voice, and revise work for clarity and artistic value.
ENG 212 English Literature I: From Beowulf's Monsters to Milton's Paradise
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 4 hours lecture weekly, 48 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Eligibility for college-level composition (ENGLC1000 or ENG101) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate method.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 160 = ENG 212 + ENG 213
This course examines early English monsters and magic, from the legends of King Arthur to Milton's Paradise Lost, and other literary masterpieces. It covers selected works of major British writers to 1640, examining the history of literary conventions and backgrounds in religious thought, intellectual and social history, and related art forms by writers such as Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, and Milton.
ENG 213 English Literature II: From Swift's Satire to the Passions of the Romantics
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 4 hours lecture weekly, 48 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Eligibility for college-level composition (ENGLC1000 or ENG101) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate method.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 160 = ENG 212 + ENG 213<br /> ENGL 165 = ENG 213 + ENG 214
This course will examine the subtleties of late seventeenth-century satire, the revolutionary literature of the Restoration, and the sublimity and passion of the Romantics. It will focus on selected works of major British writers from 1640-1832, covering the history of literary conventions and backgrounds in religious thought and intellectual and social history by writers such as Dryden, Pope, Swift, the Wordsworths, Coleridge, Shelley, Byron, and Keats.
ENG 214 English Literature III: Victorian Values and Modern Masterpieces
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 4 hours lecture weekly, 48 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Eligibility for college-level composition (ENGLC1000 or ENG101) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate method.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 165 = ENG 213 + ENG 214
This course will examine Victorian values and modern masterpieces by focusing on selected works of major British writers from 1832 to the present, covering the history of literary conventions and backgrounds in religious thought and intellectual and social history by writers such as Tennyson, Arnold, Browning, Rossetti, Joyce, Woolf, and Gordimer.
ENG 215 American Literature I: Beginnings - 1820
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 4 hours lecture weekly, 48 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Eligibility for college-level composition (ENGLC1000 or ENG101) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate method.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 130 = ENG 215 + ENG 216
This course examines the work of major literary figures from the beginnings to 1820 in the genres of poetry and prose. Such writers as Columbus, De Vaca, Bradstreet, Edwards, Franklin, Jefferson, Occom, Wheatley, Pontiac, and Equiano will be read to cultivate intellect and imagination.
ENG 216 American Literature II: 1820 - 1914
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 4 hours lecture weekly, 48 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Eligibility for college-level composition (ENGLC1000 or ENG101) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate method.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENGL 130 = ENG 215 + ENG 216<br /> ENGL 135 = ENG 216 + ENG 217
This course examines the work of major literary figures from 1820 to 1914 in the genres of poetry and prose. Such writers as Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville, Stowe, Douglass, Dickinson, Alcott, Du Bois, and Zitkala-Sa will be read to cultivate intellect and imagination.
ENG 217 American Literature III: 1914 - Present
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 4 hours lecture weekly, 48 contact hours total
- Prerequisite
- Eligibility for college-level composition (ENGLC1000 or ENG101) as determined by college assessment or other appropriate method.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
- C-ID
- ENG 135 = ENG 216 + ENG 217
This course examines the work of major literary figures from 1914 to present in the genres of poetry, prose, and drama. Such writers as Eliot, Glaspell, Moore, McKay, Hurston, Faulkner, Bishop, Baldwin, Plath, Komunyakaa, Silko, Alexie, Lahiri, and Diaz will be read to cultivate intellect and imagination.
ENG 218 Literature into Film
- Units
- 4
- Hours
- 4 hours lecture weekly, 48 contact hours total
- Advisory
- ENGLC1000 or ENG 101 with a grade of "C" or better or equivalent.
- Transfers to
- CSU, UC
This course focuses on an examination of how feature films are translated from literary works. At its center is the study of expectations and conventions used in literature and how those expectations and conventions are affected when they are transformed into film. Critical analysis of the various works and comparison/contrast of the different interpretations of these ideas will be stressed.