Program Overviews
The English program offers a wide range of writing courses designed to meet the needs of all who enroll. Offerings include review and developmental grammar and writing; expository, research, and work-related writing; creative writing; and linguistics.

Career opportunities include the fields of teaching, law, speech writing, technical communication, and editing, journalism, and public relations, among others. In general, these courses give students the reading, writing, and critical thinking skills to prepare for success in life.

The literature program offers a wide range of courses satisfying degree requirements and enrichment. Course offerings include general introductory courses, survey courses, and special genre courses. The general value of these courses is their humanizing and aesthetic effects on students.

Career opportunities include the fields of teaching, communication, law, speech writing, journalism, public relations, and library science, among others. In general, these courses give students the aesthetic, reading, writing, and critical thinking skills to prepare for success in life.


English Courses
Literature Courses

Faculty

• Dave Abbott
  Location: A Building
  Phone: 509-542-4386
  Email: dabbott@columbiabasin.edu
  Education: M.A., B.A., Washington State University

Courses taught at CBC:
English Composition, Technical Writing, Shakespeare

• Noel Commeree
  Location: A Building
  Phone: 509-542-5515
  Email: ncommeree@columbiabasin.edu
  Education: Advanced Study, Whitworth College
  University of Washington
  M.A., Seattle University
  B.A., Central Washington University

Courses taught at CBC:
Writing Prep, English Composition, Technical Writing

• Melissa Holmes
  Location: A Building
  Phone: 509-542-5516
  Email: mholmes@columbiabasin.edu
  Education: M.A., Western Washington University
  B.A., Western Washington University

Courses taught at CBC:
English Composition, Advanced English Composition, Creative Writing, Intro to Literature

• Gwen James
  Location: A Building
  Phone: 509-542-4709
  Email: gjames@columbiabasin.edu
  Education: B.A., M.A., Eastern Washington University
  A.A., Community Colleges of Spokane
  M.F.A., Pacific University

Courses taught at CBC:
Writing Prep, English Composition, Advanced English Composition, Intro to Literature, Multicultural Literature, Creative Writing, American Literature

• Michael Lee
  Location: A Building
  Phone: 509-542-4399
  Email: mlee@columbiabasin.edu
  Education: M.A., Western Washington University
  B.A., University of Idaho

Courses taught at CBC:
Writing Prep, English Composition, Advanced English Composition, Gay and Lesbian Studies, American Literature

• Matt Mathesius
  Location: K Building
  Phone: 509-542-4815
  Email: mmathesius@columbiabasin.edu
  Education: M.A., B.A., Western Washington University
  Community Colleges of Spokane

Courses taught at CBC:
The Cinema, Writing Prep, Intro to Literature

• Elaina Meiners
  English/Literature Instructor
  Location:  A Building
  Phone: 509-542-4655
  Email: emeiners@columbiabasin.edu
  Education: M.Ed., Washington State University
  B.A., M.A., Eastern Washington University
  A.A., Walla Walla Community College

Courses taught at CBC:
English Composition, Mythology

• Dennis L. Pearson
  Location: A Building
  Phone: 509-542-5530
  Email: dpearson@columbiabasin.edu
  Education: Advanced Study, M.A., B.A., Central Washington University

Courses taught at CBC:
Writing Prep, Advanced English Composition

• Bob Pederson
  Location: A Building
  Phone: 509-542-4287
  Etmail: bpederson@columbiabasin.edu
  Education: M.A., B.A., Washington State University

Courses taught at CBC:
English Composition, Writing in the Workplace, Technical Writing, Bible as Literature

• Brad Sealy
  English/Literature Instructor
  Location:  A Building
  Phone: 509-542-4760
  Email: bsealy@columbiabasin.edu
  Education: M.S., Boise State University
  M.A., University of North Carolina
  B.A., University of California 

Courses taught at CBC:
English Composition, Intro to Literature

• Teresa Thonney
  Location: A Building
  Phone: 509-542-5539
  Email: tthonney@columbiabasin.edu
  Education: Ph.D., University of Washington
  M.A., B.A., Eastern Washington University

Courses taught at CBC:
English Composition, Reading and Writing in College, World Literature

• Cliff Wakeman
  Location: A Building
  Phone: 509-542-4441
  Email: cwakeman@columbiabasin.edu
  Education: Advanced Studies, University of Nebraska
  M.A., San Francisco State University
  B.A., University of California
  A.A., Modesto Junior College

Courses taught at CBC:
Writing Prep, English Composition