Johnson University is a place of uncommon community where students get ready for a fulfilling career and a meaningful life. Join us in Tennessee or online!
Whether you're an incoming freshman, a transfer student, or a graduate student, this is the place to begin your application and join our community. Welcome to Johnson!
Johnson is more than a place where you receive a quality, affordable education - it's a community where classmates become friends, professors become mentors, and the campus becomes home.
Johnson University is a place of uncommon community where students get ready for a fulfilling career and a meaningful life. Join us in Tennessee or online!
Whether you're an incoming freshman, a transfer student, or a graduate student, this is the place to begin your application and join our community. Welcome to Johnson!
Johnson is more than a place where you receive a quality, affordable education - it's a community where classmates become friends, professors become mentors, and the campus becomes home.
The Associate degree in English provides broad training for a wide range of academic and professional careers by developing a critical understanding of the human experience across time, place, and cultures. Courses in the program introduce skills for research, analysis, and communication that prepare students for further studies toward a four-year bachelor’s degree and help students engage the world in which they serve in thoughtful, constructive, and creative ways.
All students in the degree have opportunities to take classes from a range of literature and writing courses.
Core Classes
English Composition I
This course introduces students to university-level writing and focuses on communication structure, rhetorical strategies, writing processes, argumentation, research, and documentation. The course also includes an emphasis on revision through workshops and other formats.
English Composition II
A continuation of English Composition I, this class focused on writing across the curriculum/writing in the disciplines. Students are introduced to the basics of reading and researching in various majors. The class is organized around a research project relating to the student’s fields of interest. By the end of the semester, students learn how to: develop an actionable central research question, propose a research project, conduct primary and secondary research, design a research project for multimodal platforms, and present their research in an oral presentation.
Elective
Students will take one 2000-level english elective.
Elective
Students will take one 3000/4000-level english elective.
Elective
Students will take one 3000/4000-level multicultural English elective.
Online
The Associate degree in English provides broad training for a wide range of academic and professional careers by developing a critical understanding of the human experience across time, place, and cultures. Courses in the program introduce skills for research, analysis, and communication that prepare students for further studies toward a four-year bachelor’s degree and help students engage the world in which they serve in thoughtful, constructive, and creative ways.
All students in the degree have opportunities to take classes from a range of literature and writing courses.
English Composition I
This course introduces students to university-level writing and focuses on communication structure, rhetorical strategies, writing processes, argumentation, research, and documentation. The course also includes an emphasis on revision through workshops and other formats.
English Composition II
A continuation of English Composition I, this class focused on writing across the curriculum/writing in the disciplines. Students are introduced to the basics of reading and researching in various majors. The class is organized around a research project relating to the student’s fields of interest. By the end of the semester, students learn how to: develop an actionable central research question, propose a research project, conduct primary and secondary research, design a research project for multimodal platforms, and present their research in an oral presentation.
Poetry Reading
Poetry Reading hones knowledgeable, close-examination skills for studying the poetic genre. This development broadens and deepens the reader’s interpretation in definition & approach, form, music, rhetoric, meaning, aesthetics, and oral interpretation, culminating in an informative survey for the collected works of two selected poets.
