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ENGL 3310 - Young Adult Literature Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Spring [Full Sem]
Students will study the characteristics of literature for young adults and connections to adolescent development. Selection and evaluation, ethnic and culturally diverse authors, the history of young adult literature, and book-to-film comparisons will receive special emphasis. This course is designed for non-teaching English majors, students interested in adolescent psychology or in acquiring a breadth of exposure to literature that appeals to young adult readers. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3350 - Studies in Literary Genres Credits: (3)
Variable Title Course
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Summer [Check with Department]
This variable topics course introduces students to the historical and cultural origins of literary genres, their distinguishing features, and the dynamics of literary development. Genres may include the novel, drama, poetry, creative non-fiction, bildungsroman, the diary, biography, autobiography, satire, and others. It may be taken more than once with different designations. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3352 - Studies in World Literary Genres Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Summer [Check with department]
This variable topics course introduces students to familiar and unfamiliar genres around the world, exploring their distinctive features and their interactions with the cultures and histories they represent. Genres might include poetry and prose, fiction and non-fiction, satire and fable, tragedy and ballad, biography and autobiography, and many others. It may be taken a total of 3 times (for a maximum of 9 credits) with different designations. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3353 - Genres in Cultural and Media Studies Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Summer [Check with department]
This variable topics course introduces students to genres in cultural and media studies, their distinguishing features, and the dynamics of their development. Genres may include the novel, digital novel, film, television, social media, advertising, music, and the internet. It may be taken a total of 3 times (for a maximum of 9 credits) with different designations. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3354 - Genres in Writing and Interdisciplinary Studies Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Summer [Check with department]
This variable topics course introduces students to interdisciplinary genres, new directions in transcending disciplinary boundaries, or issues in writing and rhetoric. Genres may include various forms of narrative as they intersect with the sciences, social sciences, arts and humanities, health professions, business and economics, applied science and technology, and others. It may be taken a total of 3 times (for a maximum of 9 credits) with different designations. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3355 - CW: Creative Nonfiction Forms and Craft Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
This class asks students to write a number of forms within the genre of creative nonfiction writing, experimenting with narrative shape and the effects of structural choices. Prerequisite: ENGL 2250 and ENGL 2260 or ENGL 2270 .
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ENGL 3360 - CW: Short Story Forms and Craft Credits: (3)
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Spring [Full Sem]
This class asks students to experiment with form and story structure within the genre of fiction writing, to understand how narrative shape affects the reader’s experience. Prerequisite: ENGL 2250 and ENGL 2260 or ENGL 2270 .
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ENGL 3365 - CW: Novel Forms and Craft Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
This class asks students to experiment with form and structure within the genre of novel writing to understand how narrative shape affects the reader’s experience. Prerequisite: ENGL 2250 and ENGL 2260 or ENGL 2270 .
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ENGL 3370 - CW: Poetic Forms and Craft Credits: (3)
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Spring [Full Sem]
This class asks students to experiment with form and structure within the genre of poetry writing to understand how line, repetition, rhyme patterns, and shape affect the reader’s experience. Prerequisite: ENGL 2250 and ENGL 2260 or ENGL 2270 .
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ENGL 3375 - CW: Forms and Craft of Notebooks and Journals Credits: (3)
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Spring [Full Sem]
This class examines the writer’s notebook, reading examples and studying possibilities. Students will keep a writer’s notebook inspired by those examples.
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ENGL 3380 - CW: Screenwriting Form and Craft Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
This class examines screenwriting form. Students will write their own original screenplay(s) in this form. Prerequisite: ENGL 2250 and ENGL 2260 or ENGL 2270 .
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ENGL 3400 - The Teaching of Literature Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Students will develop their own philosophies for teaching literature and language to middle, junior high, and high school students by exploring current research findings, theoretical approaches and practical strategies. This class is required of English teaching majors and minors and must be taken concurrently with ENGL 3020 , 3410 , and 3420 . Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent. Prerequisite/Co-requisite: Any student not admitted to the Teacher Education Program must have instructor approval prior to registering for this course.
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ENGL 3410 - The Teaching of Writing Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Students will develop their own philosophies for teaching writing to middle, junior high, and high school students by exploring current research findings, theoretical approaches and practical strategies. This class is required of English teaching majors and minors and must be taken concurrently with ENGL 3020 , 3400 , and 3420 . Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent. Prerequisite/Co-requisite: Any student not admitted to the Teacher Education Program must have instructor approval prior to registering for this course.
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ENGL 3420 - Teaching With Young Adult Literature Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
This course introduces prospective teachers, librarians, and other educators to the use of contemporary adolescent literature across the curriculum. Multicultural and global selection, critical evaluation of the literature, issues of censorship, reader response theory, media connections, and reading/writing strategies for teaching young adult readers will receive major emphasis. The course includes a practicum or service-learning experience in planning, sharing, and using young adult literature in public school classrooms. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent. This course is required of English teaching majors and minors and must be taken concurrently with ENGL 3020, ENGL 3400, and ENGL 3410.
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ENGL 3500 HU - Introduction to Shakespeare Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
This class is an introduction designed to foster a critical appreciation of the plays of Shakespeare. The class is intended for students who are fulfilling General Education credit, studying theater, or planning to teach. Students can expect to study at least one comedy, one tragedy, and one history play in this course. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3510 HU/DV - World Literature Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Summer [Check with Department]
This is a selection of masterworks from a variety of authors, regions, and eras - expressly to introduce diverse literatures other than British and American. The required readings may vary considerably from semester to semester, according to the instructors’ expertise. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3520 HU - Literature of the Natural World Credits: (3)
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Fall [Check with Department]
Spring [Full Sem Online]
Summer [Check with Department]
This course engages literary texts that focus on humans in relation to their natural environment. Conceived as a survey course, it attempts to delineate the various traditions of environmental concern, from the ancient past to the present, and to draw attention to the ongoing relevance of such texts. Students will learn how to read closely and carefully, and how to make such literature meaningful for their own daily lives. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3550 - Multicultural and Ethnic Literature in America Credits: (3)
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Fall [Check with Department]
Spring [Check with Department]
A survey of intercultural literature which reflects the rich diversity inherent in the American experience. The course includes works by Native, Hispanic, Asian, and African American authors. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3580 - Regional Literature in America Credits: (3)
Variable Title Course
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Fall [Check with Department]
Spring [Check with Department]
This variable topics course treats characteristic literature in various genres and themes from a designated region of the United States such as the West, South, New England, and so on. It may be taken more than once with different designations. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3610 - American Literature I Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Summer [Check with department]
This course will introduce students to the study of American Literature from its earliest known works to those produced prior to the American Civil War. We will examine its history, major works, and literary concepts. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 .
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ENGL 3620 - American Literature II Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Summer [Check with department]
This course will introduce students to the study of American Literature from the American Civil War to the contemporary period. We will examine its history, major works, and literary concepts. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 .
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ENGL 3650 - British Literature I Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Summer [Check with department]
This course will introduce students to the study of British Literature from its earliest known works to those produced in the eighteenth century. We will examine its history, major works, and literary concepts. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 .
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ENGL 3660 - British Literature II Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Summer [Check with department]
This course will introduce students to the study of British Literature from the eighteenth century to the contemporary period. We will examine its history, major works, and literary concepts. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 .
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ENGL 3730 - Literatures of Cultures and Places Credits: (3)
Variable Title Course
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Check with Department]
This variable topics course examines literature, cultures, and nations beyond England and America. Students will be introduced to the ways in which texts are closely tied to the geographical and cultural space as well as the historical movement from which they emerge. The course may focus on a single national culture or, alternately, offer representative works from various cultures. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent. It may be repeated 3 times with different designations.
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ENGL 3740 - The Literature of the Sacred Credits: (3)
Variable Title Course
Typically taught:
Fall [Check with Department]
Spring [Check with Department]
This variable topics course studies one or more spiritual, religious, or ethical books of world-wide fame. Texts such as the Bible, the Koran, and the Bhagavad-Gita will be considered as works of literature. It may be taken more than once with different designations. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3750 HU - Topics and Ideas in Literature Credits: (3)
Variable Title Course
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
This variable topics course focuses on the various social, philosophical, and political themes emerging in literary texts. Students will learn the critical skills necessary to identify the intellectual currents in the texts under consideration, to engage in focused discussion, and to probe the various intentions of any act of writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent. It may be repeated 3 times with different designations.
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ENGL 3752 - Topics and Ideas in World Literature and Language Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Summer [Check with department]
This variable topics course focuses on the various social, philosophical, and political themes emerging in literary texts from around the world excluding British and American texts. Students will learn the critical skills necessary to identify the intellectual currents in the texts under consideration, to engage in focused discussion, and to probe the various intentions of any act of writing. It may be taken a total of 3 times (for a maximum of 9 credits) with different designations. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3753 - Topics and Ideas in Cultural and Media Studies Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Summer [Check with department]
This variable topics course focuses on various themes in cultural and media studies. Students will learn the critical skills necessary to identify the intellectual currents in the texts under consideration, to engage in focused discussion, and to probe the various intentions of any text. It may be taken a total of 3 times (for a maximum of 9 credits) with different designations. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3754 - Topics and Ideas in Writing and Interdisciplinary Studies Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Summer [Check with department]
This variable topics course focuses on themes manifest in the field of writing and in interdisciplinary studies. This course may focus on issues in writing, rhetoric, and other disciplines as they intersect with English. Students will learn the critical skills necessary to identify the intellectual currents in the texts under consideration, to engage in focused discussion, and to probe the various intentions of any text. It may be taken a total of 3 times (for a maximum of 9 credits) with different designations. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3820 - History of Literary Criticism Credits: (3)
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Fall [Check with Department]
Spring [Check with Department]
Starting with the works of Plato and Aristotle, students will explore rhetorical strategies and philosophical ideas that have influenced the reading of literary texts from classical times to the present. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3840 - Methods and Practice in Tutoring Writers Credits: (1-3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Controlled experience in tutoring student writers in all disciplines. This course is only for people who are actually employed as a tutor. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3850 - Methods and Practice in Tutoring and Mentoring ESL Students Credits: (1-3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Check with Department]
Spring [Check with Department]
This course trains students who are native speakers of English or who are second language learners of English at native or near native levels of proficiency to work or volunteer in the ESL Program as tutors, classroom aides, mentors, and as language informants leading conversation groups. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3880 - Philosophy and Literature Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Spring [Full Sem]
A study of the interrelationships between ideas that shape the course of history and the poetry, prose, and/or drama of the periods that produce these ideas. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 4010 - Topics in Language Study Credits: (3)
Variable Title Course
Typically taught:
Fall [Check with Department]
Spring [Check with Department]
This variable topics course explores areas of study such as advanced grammar, sociolinguistics, language and the law, linguistics and composition, linguistics and language acquisition, or linguistics and literature, among others, as determined by the instructor. A previous language course or consultation with the instructor is recommended before enrolling. It may be taken more than once with different designations. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 4100 - Issues in Professional and Technical Writing Credits: (3)
Variable Title Course
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
This variable topics course focuses on specific issues in the ever-evolving field of professional and technical writing. Recent issues include indexing, professionalization, theoretical approaches, and discipline-specific emphases such as writing in the sciences and writing for the Web. It may be taken up to four times (for a total of 12 credit hours) with different designations to fulfill electives and must be pre-approved by an advisor. Prerequisite: ENGL 3100 .
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ENGL 4110 - Content Management Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Spring [Full Sem]
This class teaches the theory and application of content management. Students will learn how to evaluate content, divide content into reusable elements, label these elements, and then re-configure them into usable structures. Using the principles of single sourcing, modular writing, and structured authoring, students will map content for reuse, evaluate available authoring tools, implement state-of-the-art technologies, and develop project strategies. Prerequisite: ENGL 3100 .
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ENGL 4120 - Seminar and Practicum in Professional and Technical Writing Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem Online]
Spring [Full Sem Online]
This course serves as a capstone for the minor and emphasis, preparing students for immediate job placement. In the seminar, students review issues and strategies of professional and technical writing and prepare portfolios for job interviews. The practicum is based on an internship or cooperative work experience in the community, with industry, or with an on-campus organization. The internship is the most time-intensive aspect of the course. Prerequisite: ENGL 3100 .
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ENGL 4400 - Multicultural Perspectives on Literature for Young People Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Check with Department]
Spring [Check with Department]
Students will study the principles of literature for young people in combination with the theories of multi-cultural education. Designed for teachers or those preparing to teach, it will address issues connected to schools, teaching strategies and pedagogy, and the selection and evaluation of materials for diverse populations. May be substituted for either ENGL 3300 or ENGL 3310 upon approval. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 4410 - Strategies and Methodology of Teaching ESL/Bilingual Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
This course emphasizes practical strategies and methods of teaching ESL/Bilingual in the public school systems of this country. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 4420 - English Phonology and Syntax for ESL/Bilingual Teachers Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Summer [Check with Department]
This course provides the essential foundation for ESL/Bilingual teachers in the workings of the English language: pronunciation and spelling systems, word-forming strategies and sentence structure patterns. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 4450 - ESL/Bilingual Assessment: Theory, Methods, and Practices Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
This course explores how to effectively evaluate and implement assessment processes for ESL/Bilingual pupils in public schools. Students will gain experience with both standardized tests and authentic assessment. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 4520 - American Literature: Early and Romantic Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
This historical survey follows waves of European immigration and chronicles the effects of those on the American natives. The class then moves through the Revolutionary War and finishes with the relatively short but intense age of American Romanticism, which occurred in the decades just before the Civil War. The diverse writers in this period include such figures as Columbus, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Benjamin Franklin, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, Frederick Douglass, Herman Melville, and Walt Whitman. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 .
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ENGL 4530 - American Literature: Realism and Naturalism Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Summer [Check with Department]
This historical survey typically runs from the Civil War to WWI - emphasizing reconstruction, laissez-faire economics, growing imperialism, and universal suffrage. The diverse writers in this survey include such figures as Mark Twain, W. D. Howells, Sarah Orne Jewett, Henry James, Kate Chopin, Booker T. Washington, W. E. B. Du Bois, Stephen Crane, Jack London, Frank Norris, Theodore Dreiser, Mary Austin, and Henry Adams. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 .
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ENGL 4540 - American Literature: Modern Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Summer [Check with Department]
This historical survey focuses on the first half of the 20th century, when the United States went through a series of profound political and social changes, such as its entry into World War I and II, Prohibition, The Red Scare, Suffrage, the advent of the mass media, and Progressivism. Drawing on a variety of genres and media (including painting and film), the course will study developments in the New Negro Renaissance, Greenwich Village bohemianism, the Provincetown Players, “high” modernism, and the Lost Generation. Representative writers of the period include: Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Mina Loy, Eugene O’Neill, Susan Glaspell, Ezra Pound, John Dos Passos, Amy Lowell, William Carlos Williams, Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, and e.e. cummings. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 .
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ENGL 4550 - American Literature: Contemporary Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
This course focuses on American literature from the 1950s to the present within the context of the dramatic political and cultural changes that have shaped contemporary American culture, such as the Cold War, Vietnam, the Civil Rights movement, feminism and multiculturalism. Like its modernist predecessor, it ranges across genres and media to survey various emergent traditions and tendencies in contemporary and postmodern US letters. Representative writers of this period include: Arthur Miller, Flannery O’Connor, Elizabeth Bishop, Tillie Lerner Olsen, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, Cynthia Ozick, Amiri Baraka, Maxine Hong Kingston, Rita Dove, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, E. L. Doctorow. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 .
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ENGL 4560 - Contemporary Literature for Creative Writers Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
This course introduces students to the work of contemporary writers. Looking at variety of projects, including collections and individual pieces, we will examine their stylistic choices and the effects of those choices. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 .
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ENGL 4610 - British Literature: Medieval Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
This historical survey runs from the eighth century to the end of the fifteenth century - roughly from the reign of Alfred the Great to Henry VII. Some of the more recognizable works include Beowulf, The Wanderer, Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, early histories of King Arthur, Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D’Arthur, Julian of Norwich’s Showings, Everyman, and Gawain and the Green Knight. Works written in Anglo-Saxon English and northern medieval dialects will be read in modern translations. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 .
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ENGL 4620 - British Literature: Renaissance Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Summer [Check with Department]
This historical survey runs from just before the middle of the sixteenth century to just after the middle of the seventeenth - roughly from the reign of Henry VIII, through the reign of Elizabeth Tudor, to the restoration of Charles II. Some of the more recognizable figures of this study are Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Ben Jonson, John Milton, Anne Askew, Aemilia Lanyer, Mary Wroth, and Robert Herrick. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 . (Note: this survey does not typically try to do justice to its largest figure, Shakespeare - for whom the department has established ENGL 4730 : Studies in Shakespeare.)
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ENGL 4630 - British Literature: Neoclassical and Romantic Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
This historical survey links two periods: the first has frequently been referred to as the Enlightenment of the Eighteenth Century and includes such figures as Alexander Pope, Anne Finch, Mary Montagu, Jonathan Swift, and Samuel Johnson. The second period covers the relatively short but intense age of English Romanticism - popular because of such writers as William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Coleridge, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, Sir Walter Scott, Thomas De Quincey, and John Keats. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 .
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ENGL 4640 - British Literature: Victorian Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
This historical survey follows the long span of Queen Victoria’s life: from about 1837 when she came to the throne to 1901 when her funeral widely symbolized the passing of the age. Not merely a placid time of Victorian propriety, this era was marked by such philosophical upheavals as that which followed Darwin’s Origin of Species. Some of the notable writers are Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Lord Alfred Tennyson, Robert Browning, Emily Bronte, Charles Dickens, Matthew Arnold, and Thomas Carlyle. This era is marked by the Industrial Revolution, Utilitarianism (Mill), the rise of science and evolution theory (Darwin), socialism (Marx and Engels); Psychology (Freud), resurgence of art (the Pre-Raphaelites), and imperialism (Kipling). Notable writers include: Carlyle, Tennyson, the Brownings, Arnold, Wilde, Dickens, the Brontes, Eliot, and Hardy. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 .
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ENGL 4650 - British Literature: Modern Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Check with Department]
Summer [Check with Department]
This historical survey focuses on the first half of the twentieth century, a time of great social change for Great Britain and Ireland that led to a rich outpouring of traditional and experimental writing. A variety of writers will be studied in this course in connection with such key developments as the critique of Empire (Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster); the Abbey Theatre and the Irish Literary Renaissance (Lady Gregory, W.B. Yeats); World War I (Siegfried Sassoon, Vera Brittain); High Modernism (T.S. Eliot, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Katherine Mansfield); divergent poetic world-views (W.H. Auden, Dylan Thomas); and World War II, the collapse of Empire, and dystopian visions (Evelyn Waugh and George Orwell). Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 .
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ENGL 4660 - British Literature: Contemporary Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Check with Department]
Spring [Full Sem]
Summer [Check with Department]
This historical survey examines British and Anglo-Irish literature since 1950 as Britain metamorphoses from world power to an integral member of the European Community. The course asks what it means to be a “British” writer in the second half of a century increasingly multicultural in outlook. Possible focuses include post-war disillusion (William Golding); Absurdism and Postmodernism (Samuel Beckett, Tom Stoppard); neo-Romanticism (Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, Nuala Ni Dhomnhaill); experimentalism and magic realism (Doris Lessing, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter); innovative historical fiction (John Fowles, A.S. Byatt); and legacies of Empire in a postcolonial world (Jean Rhys, V.S. Naipaul, Kazuo Ishiguro, Anita Desai). Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 .
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ENGL 4710 - Eminent Authors Credits: (3)
Variable Title Course
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem Online]
Spring [Check with Department]
This variable topics course features a single author or several authors. Students may study authors such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, or Toni Morrison, in order to gain a greater understanding of the social, cultural, and aesthetic significance of their work. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 . May be taken up to 3 times with different designations.
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ENGL 4712 - Eminent World Authors Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Summer [Check with department]
This variable topics course features a single author or several authors. Students may study global anglophone writers and/or in translation authors such as Derek Walcott, Arundhati Roy, Chinua Achebe, Gabriel García Márquez, Nadine Gordimer, Margaret Atwood, Mo Yan, Fyodor Doestoevsky, Naguib Mahfouz, and Umberto Eco in order to gain a greater understanding of the social, cultural, and aesthetic significance of their work. It may be taken a total of 3 times (for a maximum of 9 credits) with different designations. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 .
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ENGL 4713 - Eminent Authors in Cultural and Media Studies Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Summer [Check with department]
This variable topics course features a single author or several authors. Students may study foundational and emerging authors in this dynamic and influential field in order to gain a greater understanding of the social, cultural, and aesthetic significance of their work. It may be taken a total of 3 times (for a maximum of 9 credits) with different designations. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 .
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ENGL 4720 - Chaucer Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Check with Department]
Spring [Check with Department]
A study of Chaucer’s best loved works, using mainly close reading to investigate selections from The Canterbury Tales and minor poems. The works will be considered in the context of theories of the Middle Ages and on the nature of love, of God, of persons, and of the universe. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 .
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ENGL 4730 - Studies in Shakespeare Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Check with Department]
Spring [Check with Department]
Summer [Check with Department]
This class is intended for English majors and minors seeking a deeper understanding of Shakespeare’s work. Students can expect to do close readings of at least five plays and to study such secondary materials as literary criticism and historical background. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 .
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ENGL 4740 - Milton: Major Prose and Poetry Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Check with Department]
Spring [Check with Department]
A comprehensive survey of the major prose and poetic works of John Milton, culminating in Paradise Lost and Samson Agonistes. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 .
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ENGL 4750 - Classical Literature Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Check with Department]
Spring [Check with Department]
A survey of 3,000 years of intellectual and cultural advancement paralleled with the ascent of civilization from Crete to the Roman empire. The course explores the significance of myths in the process of literary development. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 .
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ENGL 4760 - Irish Literature Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Check with Department]
Spring [Check with Department]
This course examines the distinctive temperament and outlook of both the Gaelic and Anglo-Irish traditions in such writers as Aogán Ó Rathaille, Eibhlín Dubh Ní Chonaill, Jonathan Swift, Lady Gregory, Oscar Wilde, John Millington Synge, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Eavan Boland, and Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill. The first portion of the course studies the body of literature from the sixth century through 1900; the remainder of the course focuses on modern and contemporary texts. Key themes to be examined, always in the larger context of Irish history as a whole, include the Irish use of words as weapons, the place of gender in Irish writing, and the intriguing nature of Irish - particularly as opposed to English - identity. Prerequisite: ENGL 3080 .
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ENGL 4801 - A&H Leadership Lecture Series Credits: (1)
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Spring [Full Sem]
This one-credit elective course will give arts and humanities’ majors the opportunity to interact with successful guest lecturers whose undergraduate backgrounds are in the arts and humanities. Lecturers will clarify how the talents and skills associated with their degrees have contributed to their pursuit of successful careers and lives.
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ENGL 4830 - Directed Readings Credits: (1-3)
Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent. May be repeated twice with a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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ENGL 4890 - Cooperative Work Experience Credits: (1-6)
A continuation of ENGL 2890 Cooperative Work Experience. Open to all students. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent. May be repeated 5 times with a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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ENGL 4900 - Internships in Literary and Textual Studies Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Summer [Full Sem]
This course allows students to receive academic credit for on-the-job learning in approved work environments and for approved projects. May be repeated for up to 6 credit hours. A maximum of 3 credit hours may be counted toward the major. Credit/No-Credit only. Prerequisite: English major with a Junior or Senior standing; ENGL 2010 , ENGL 3080 .
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ENGL 4920 - Short Courses, Workshops, Institutes and Special Programs Credits: (1-4)
Typically taught:
Fall [Check with Department]
Spring [Check with Department]
Consult the semester class schedule for the current offering under this number. The specific title and credit authorized will appear on the student transcript. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 with a “C” grade or better or eqivalent. May be repeated 3 times with a maximum of 4 credit hours.
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ENGL 4930 - Visiting Writing Master Class Credits: (1)
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Fall [1st Blk, 2nd Blk]
Spring [1st Blk, 2nd Blk]
In this class, students will study the art and craft of creative writing, studying under the guidance of a nationally recognized visiting writer who will instruct them on writing theory and/or provide a short writing workshop of work from each student. Credit/No Credit grading. May be repeated 3 times up to 4 credit hours.
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ENGL 4940 - CW: Senior Project Credits: (3)
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Fall [Check with department]
Spring [Full Sem]
This course offers an opportunity for students to choose a writing project and workshop it with their peers under the direction of the instructor. Writing skills will be developed and honed through intensive writing projects which could include a variety of genres: nonfiction, creative nonfiction, fiction, (short story collection, novel), biography, autobiography, poetry, etc. The course is designed for students with a strong writing background. Prerequisite: any of the following: ENGL 3250 , ENGL 3260 , ENGL 3270 , ENGL 3280 , ENGL 3350 .
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ENGL 4960 - Metaphor: Editing the Student Literary Journal Credits: (3)
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Spring [Full Sem]
Designed for students selected as staff for Weber State’s Literary Journal, Metaphor. Therefore, it is a hands-on workshop centering on all aspects of journal production: creating an editorial policy, advertisement, selection, layout, copy editing, preparing for print, marketing, distribution, etc. The journal itself is the final product. The staff supports writing and visual arts across campus through participation in several ancillary projects. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent. May be repeated twice with a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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ENGR 2010 - Statics Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Vector mechanics, force and moment systems, equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies, friction and moments of inertia. Prerequisite: MATH 1210 and PHYS 2210 .
 
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ENGR 2080 - Dynamics Credits: (4)
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Spring [Full Sem]
Fundamentals of position, velocity and acceleration. Kinematics and kinetics of particles. Newton’s laws, conservation of momentum and energy. Dynamics of rigid bodies. Prerequisite: ENGR 2010 with a grade of “C” or higher.
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ENGR 2140 - Strength of Materials Credits: (3)
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Spring [Full Sem]
Fundamentals of stress and strain, Hooke’s law, torsion, bending of beams, combined stresses and design of members. Prerequisite: ENGR 2010 with a grade of “C” or higher.
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ENGR 2160 - Materials Science and Engineering Credits: (3)
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Spring [Full Sem]
Combined lecture/laboratory course that introduces the fundamentals of atomic and microscopic structure of metals, polymers, ceramics and composite materials, and how these structures affect mechanical, thermal, electrical and optical properties. Prerequisite: CHEM 1210 . Co-Requisite: ENGR 2140 .
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ENGR 2210 - Electrical Engineering for Non-majors Credits: (4)
Typically taught:
Spring [Full Sem]
Combined lecture/laboratory course as an introduction to electrical engineering for non-electrical engineers. Fundamentals of DC and AC circuits, digital circuits, and power circuits. Prerequisite: MATH 1210 .
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ENGR 2300 - Thermodynamics I Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Thermodynamic properties, equations of state, first and second laws of thermodynamics. Analysis of open and closed systems, availability and irreversibility, power and refrigeration cycles. Prerequisite: MATH 1210 and PHYS 2210 .
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ENGR 2920 - Short Courses, Workshops, Institutes and Special Programs Credits: (1-4)
Consult the class schedule for the current offering under this number. The specific title and credit authorized will appear on the student transcript. May be repeated 5 times with a maximum of 6 credit hours.
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ENTR 1001 - Principles of Entrepreneurship Credits: (1)
Typically taught:
Not currently being offered
This course explores the process and theory designed to help ideation become customer needs driven to buffer against startup failure. By the end of the course, students will have created, tested and updated a business model based entirely upon customer feedback and customer development methodologies as described in Business Model Generation and Start-up Owner’s Manual textbooks.
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ENTR 1002 - Introduction to Entrepreneurship Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
This course will present a broad overview of entrepreneurship and teach students how to identify and create valuable entrepreneurial opportunities. This is accomplished via proven process and theory designed to help ideation become customer needs driven instead of based on the instincts of the entrepreneur. Students will create, test and update a business model based entirely upon customer feedback and customer development methodologies as described in Business Model Generation and Startup Owners Manual textbooks. This class will also have students spending time ‘out of the classroom’ - learning about what customers want and will pay for through in-person prototype testing, iteration and feedback. Prerequisite/Co-requisite: Prerequisite/Corequisite: BSAD 1010 or ACTG 2010 or ENTR 1001 .
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ENTR 1003 - Ideation and Customer Development: Testing Ideas with Customers Credits: (1.5)
Typically taught:
Not currently being offered
This course explores the process and theory designed to help ideation become customer needs driven to buffer against startup failure. By the end of the course, students will have created, tested and updated a business model based entirely upon customer feedback and customer development methodologies as described in Business Model Generation and Start-up Owner’s Manual textbooks. Prerequisite: ENTR 1001 , BSAD 2899 or ECON 2899 .
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ENTR 1004 - Entrepreneurial Finance: Bootstrapping, Accounting & Survival Tactics Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [1st Blk]
Spring [1st Blk]
This course presents traditional and non-traditional financing techniques appropriate for the entrepreneurial business start-up. Students will explore the application of corporate finance tools to new venture and private equity transactions including forecast simulations and the application of real options. The course will view finance from the entrepreneur, lender and investor’s perspectives. By the end of the course students will be able to evaluate and apply a range of financial techniques for business start-up purposes. Prerequisite: ENTR 1002 .
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ENTR 2001 - Sales and Marketing: Scaling a Successful Business Model Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [2nd Blk]
Spring [2nd Blk]
This course takes students who have successfully identified a start-up and teaches them the process of customer development, product development, business models and selling ideas to investors and customers. This includes examining a range of marketing techniques that are available for low to no cost. This course will look at alternatives to these traditional methods and students will, through hands on efforts, test these methods with real customers. By the end of the course students will be able to analyze business ideas for commercial viability. Prerequisite: ENTR 1004 .
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ENTR 3002 - Starting the Business Credits: (3)
Typically taught:
Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
The aim of this course is for students to develop a business model that they will validate and iterate via paying and participating customers including managing budgets and spending plans designed to launch a business using actual dollars. Student teams will present their company at the beginning of the course as teams and will then use student start-up funds to launch their business. By the end of the course students will have launched a real start up business. Prerequisite: ENTR 2001 .
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ENTR 3003 - Growing the Business Credits: (3)
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Not currently being offered
This course helps students take their start-ups business to the next level and accelerate the pace of customer validation and acquisition. This course will focus on launching the business from a student run start-up in a university setting, to a standalone company that can operate outside the confines of a college campus. Prerequisite: ENTR 3002 .
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ESL 0010 - Writing Level I Credits: (2)
Typically taught:
Fall [1st Blk]
Spring [1st Blk]
Summer [1st Blk]
Students receive instruction and practice writing English on the letter, word and phrase level. Writing by hand using the Roman alphabet is practiced. Students gain an understanding of elementary grammatical structures through practical application in conversation, reading and writing. Basic vocabulary development is stressed.
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ESL 0015 - Writing Level II Credits: (2)
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Fall [2nd Blk]
Spring [2nd Blk]
Summer [2nd Blk]
Students continue to receive instruction and practice writing English on the letter, word and phrase level, and simple sentences are introduced. Handwriting is reinforced and practiced. Students expand their understanding of elementary grammatical structures through practical application in conversation, reading, and writing. Vocabulary development is stressed.
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ESL 0020 - Reading Level I Credits: (2)
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Fall [1st Blk]
Spring [1st Blk]
Summer [1st Blk]
This course enables students to interpret language written in the Roman alphabetic system and build a foundation of basic vocabulary through reading simple text.
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ESL 0025 - Reading Level II Credits: (2)
Typically taught:
Fall [2nd Blk]
Spring [2nd Blk]
Summer [2nd Blk]
Students in this course expand their vocabulary and interpretation skills by reading short paragraphs of simple text.
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ESL 0030 - Speaking and Listening Level I Credits: (2)
Typically taught:
Fall [1st Blk]
Spring [1st Blk]
Summer [1st Blk]
Students in this course learn to understand and produce short spoken utterances referring to basic personal information and the immediate environment. Vocabulary-building of essential terms is strongly emphasized.
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ESL 0035 - Speaking and Listening Level II Credits: (2)
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Fall [2nd Blk]
Spring [2nd Blk]
Summer [2nd Blk]
This course facilitates students’ abilities to engage in basic communicative exchanges involving familiar topics such as personal background and needs, social conventions and routine tasks. There is a strong emphasis on vocabulary building.
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ESL 0040 - Grammar Level I Credits: 2
Typically taught:
Fall [1st Blk]
Spring [1st Blk]
Summer [1st Blk]
This course introduces entry-level students with no or almost no English to elementary grammar structures using an integrated communicative approach.
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ESL 0045 - Grammar Level II Credits: 2
Typically taught:
Fall [2nd Blk]
Spring [2nd Blk]
Summer [2nd Blk]
This course continues to build an understanding of elementary grammar structures for students with minimal English using an integrated communicative approach.
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ESL 0050 - Pronunciation Level I Credits: 1
Typically taught:
Fall [2nd Blk]
Spring [2nd Blk]
Summer [2nd Blk]
Students learn the English sound system through spoken, written and reading exercises incorporating consonants, vowels, and consonant clusters in their most common pronunciations. Concurrent vocabulary-building is emphasized.
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ESL 0055 - Pronunciation Level II Credits: 1
Typically taught:
Fall [2nd Blk]
Spring [2nd Blk]
Summer [2nd Blk]
Students continue to learn the English language sound system through spoken, written and reading exercises incorporating consonants, vowels and consonant clusters in their most common pronunciations. Concurrent vocabulary-building is emphasized.
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ESL 0060 - Reading Enrichment Credits: (1)
This reading course offers additional reading pracice for Novice-low English language learners. The course focuses on enlarging vocabulary and reinforcing basic sentence structures in English. Credit/no credit.
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ESL 0065 - Reading Enrichment Credits: (1)
This course offers additional reading practice for Novice-mid English language learners. Students expand their vocabulary and reading skills with high interest books adapted for this level. Credit/no credit.
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ESL 0110 - Writing Level III Credits: (2)
Typically taught:
Fall [1st Blk]
Spring [1st Blk]
Summer [1st Blk]
Students are introduced to writing simple paragraphs on familiar topics with instruction in basic punctuation as well as basic verb tense. Instruction includes joining sentences and making comparisons. Students continue to develop vocabulary and skills in basic grammar.
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ESL 0120 - Reading Level III Credits: (2)
Typically taught:
Fall [1st Blk]
Spring [1st Blk]
Summer [1st Blk]
While focusing on reading and vocabulary, this course enables students to apply basic reading strategies to short texts about non-academic topics to help novice level students increase their English proficiency.
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ESL 0130 - Speaking and Listening Level III Credits: (2)
Typically taught:
Fall [1st Blk]
Spring [1st Blk]
Summer [1st Blk]
The course is designed for the student to develop the ability to sustain basic conversations about common topics and exchanges encountered in and out of class. Course work includes introductory work in speaking, listening, and pronunciation.
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ESL 0141 - Grammar Level III Credits: (2)
Typically taught:
Full [1st Blk]
Spring [1st Blk]
Summer [1st Blk]
This course is a basic English grammar course structured around the simple present, present progressive, expressions of past time, nouns and pronouns. Basic sentence patterns using the verb “to be” and “to have” are emphasized. Grammar is integrated into writing exercises and speaking practice.
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ESL 0150 - Pronunciation Level III Credits: (1)
Typically taught:
Fall [1st Blk]
Spring [1st Blk]
Summer [1st Blk]
This course familiarizes students with the consonant and vowel sounds used in spoken English.
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