1974-1975 Academic Catalog

66 Cedarville College Language and Literature Department Associate Professors: Harmon Bergen, Edward L. Greenwood, Edward E. Spencer, Chairman Assistant Professors: Pat L. Dixon, Ronald M. Grosh The division of Communication is comprised of A) English Language, B) World, English, and American Literature, C) French, D) German, E) Greek. The English Department seeks to achieve the following objectives: (1) to speak and write correctly and effectively; (2) to read and appreciate the great masterpieces of English and American and World Literature; (3) to teach intelligent standards for evaluating literature; (4) to provide a general knowledge of the chronology and the social and ·intellectual background of English and American Literature; (5) to prepare students for graduate work in the field of English; (6) to prepare teachers of English. A qualifying test in English grammar is a requirement for the student who elects either of the two programs in English. The qualifying test should be taken by the middle of the sophomore year. An average of 2.5 in English course work is an acceptable criteria for the student who elects the English teaching field program and an average of 3.0 for the student who elects the English major in preparation for graduate school. Students who choose English as a major are expected to acquire a reasonable level of competency in the discipline of the English language. Students receiving a high score on the ACT, or SAT will enroll in the LL121, Advanced Rhetoric and Composition. Students who have taken the CEEB advanced placement test will begin the sequence with LL130, literature and Composition. mrc:hm1Pn11"' for a Minor in Twenty-four or twenty-five quar- ter hours including Rhetoric and Composition, 120; Literature and Com– position, 130; World literature, 231; and Major American Writers 232, 233 or Major British Writers, 241, 242; and elective{s) from Creative Writing, 303; The English Language, 305; Principles of Linguistics, 306; or Shake– speare, 335. Communication Ninety quarter hours. A student with a Com- munication major will select course work well distributed over the fol– lowing areas: Advanced composition, English language, and linguistics, literature, including English, American, and world literature; speech and