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
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.
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.
Students will take one 2000-level english elective.
Students will take one 3000/4000-level english 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.
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.
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 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.
