Dr. Christine Swiridoff

 
  Cerro Coso Community College
  Professor, English
 

Honors Program Coordinator

  Phi Theta Kappa Advisor
            
Contact Information
  • Office: LRC Art Gallery, IWV Campus
  • Phone: (760) 384-6312
  • E-mail: cswirido@cerrocoso.edu
  • Office hours: TBA for fall

Course Information for Fall 2009

Note: If no ISBN is listed, you may use any edition of the class text. Books are listed in the order needed.

English 101: Freshman Composition (onsite and online)

  • Required Texts:
    • Course packet (for onsite class only, available in bookstore in August)
    • The MLA Handbook, 7th edition (ISBN: 9781603290241)
    • Beowulf, Seamus Heaney translation (ISBN: 0393320979)
    • Richard Matheson. I am Legend
    • Chuck Palahniuk. Fight Club
    • The Omega Man. DVD starring Charlton Heston. (Required for online class)

English 102: Critical Thinking through Literature (onsite)

  • Required Texts:
    • Course packet (available in bookstore in August)
    • Sheila Cooper and Rosemary Patton. Writing Logically, Thinking Critically, 6th edition (ISBN: 9780205668564)
    • John Stuart Mill. On Liberty
    • George Orwell. 1984
    • Aldous Huxley. Brave New World
    • Alan Moore. V for Vendetta (ISBN: 140120841X)

English 102H: Critical Thinking through Literature, Honors (onsite)

  • Required Texts:
    • Course packet (available in bookstore in August)
    • Philip Dick. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
    • Leo Tolstoy. The Death of Ivan Ilych
    • Frank Miller. Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (ISBN: 1563893428)

English 151: Technical Writing (online)

  • Required Text:
    • Rebecca Burnett. Technical Communication, 6th edition (ISBN 1-4130-0189-0)

Honors Information

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