English

The English program offers a wide variety of courses in reading, writing and literature, leading to the degree of Associate in Arts. Students are able to cover great English Literature and non-English majors can take sections of the English and American literature survey courses. There is also a variety of elective courses offered for English majors in creative writing, literature and cinema.

The English program also offered multiple sections of transfer-level and developmental writing courses to give you the writing skills to succeed in college, to write in the workplace, and to meet university transfer requirements. There is also developmental and college-level reading and vocabulary courses, some of which can be completed at an individualized pace in the college Learning Center

Students who have completed this program have transferred to UCLA, UCSB, CSUN and California State University, Channel Islands Career opportunities for students who have transferred and earned a bachelors degree in English include: reporter/writer, copywriter, copy editor, screenwriter, novelist and playwright.

For more information, contact:

James Merrill
Department Chair
jmerrill@vcccd.edu
805-986-5800, ext. 1949

• Catalog description Courses

Important note: clicking on this link will download the entire Oxnard College Catalog (which might take a few moments). You will be taken to the catalog pages for this area of study. If you want to print just these pages you must go to File, Print and then select the page numbers of the range of pages you want to print in order to insure that you do not print the entire catalog.