Glendale Community College
English Department

6000 W. Olive Avenue, Glendale, Arizona  85302
Phone 623.845.3625      Location: 05 building (view map)

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English Department at
Glendale Community College

GCC

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Welcome to the English Department at GCC.  We offer courses in composition, reading, and English literature. 

We also have a Creative Writing program, an English as a Second Language program, a Developmental Literacy program to prepare you for college-level work,  and a Journalism/Mass Communications/New Media program.

Classes are scheduled to offer flexibility in completing your academic goals at GCC.   Courses are available on campus and online, during the day and at night, and in both traditional and accelerated formats. GCC also offers classes at our campus at  GCC North, at the Communiversity @ Surprise, and in the far west valley at Valley Vista High School, 15550 N. Parkview Place, Surprise.

We hope our Web site will provide answers to many of your questions about our programs and look forward to meeting you in one of our classes.

News and Announcements

The Traveler 2010 Winners Announced
These students' writing will be featured in the 2010 edition of The Traveler, available in late Spring, 2010.
Poetry
     1st Place: "Family Values" by Lee Sola
     2nd Place: "Do Mirrors Have Memories" by Dan Ramirez
     3rd Place: "All Coasts are Infinite" by Edwin Horn
     Honorable Mention: "Movie Star Kisses" by Jennifer Delgado

Fiction
     1st Place "Upon Bathroom Stalls" by Leann Higbee
     2nd Place "The Crystal Myth Story" by Callista Barnes
     3rd Place "A Different Kind of Love Story" by Michael Lamb
     Honorable Mention "Perfecting Hannah" by Martine Cloud

Nonfiction
     1st Place: "Crossing in Shadows" by Jennifer Delgado
     2nd Place: "The Hallucination" by Steven Clauer
     3rd Place: "The Illusion of Cunning" by Kelsie Cady
     Honorable Mention: "A Failed Experiment by Dan Ramirez

GCC's student Art and Literary magazine, The Traveler 2009,  is now available online at http://www.gc.maricopa.edu/English/travissues.html.

Poetry, anyone?
Join the Rorschach Poets on the second Tuesday of every month for Free Association Poetry Open Mic from 7 to 9:30 p.m. in Room 104E of the Student Union at GCC.   The free event seeks to bring contemporary poetry to local residents. The event is open to the public, and poetry readers are invited to present all styles and stages of writing.