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EET 2130 - PC Board Design Credits: (3)
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Spring [Full Sem]
An introduction to the design of printed circuit boards and packaging with emphasis on the design, simulation, analysis and packaging of circuits. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities include the design, construction, and testing of prototype circuit boards. CAD programs will be used for the design and layout of circuit boards. Prerequisite: EET 2110 .
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EET 2140 - Communications Systems Credits: (4)
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Spring [Full Sem]
Introduction to digital and wireless communication circuits. Topics to include radio frequency circuits, modulation, detection, transmitters, receivers, transmission lines, antennas, and measurement instruments. Digital communications topics to include parallel and serial data transmission. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to include the design, construction, computer simulation, and analysis of communication circuits. Prerequisite: EET 2110 .
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EET 2150 - Embedded Controllers Credits: (4)
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Spring [Full Sem]
A study of microprocessors, embedded controllers, operational characteristics, computer architecture, machine code programming, memory devices, and interfacing. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities include the design, construction, and analysis of microprocessor based systems. Analysis techniques include the use of assemblers, cross-assemblers, and emulators. Prerequisite: Credit for or Current Enrollment in EET 2110 .
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EET 2160 - Troubleshooting Credits: (3)
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Spring [Full Sem]
An introduction to troubleshooting techniques and skills. Topics include the use of diagnostic electronic test equipment such as multi-meters, power supplies, signal generators, digital storage oscilloscopes, and spectrum analyzers. Students will diagnose and repair electronic circuits and systems. Lecture and laboratory combination. Prerequisite: EET 2110 , EET 2120 , EET 2170 .
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EET 2170 - Industrial Controls Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Introduction to industrial control systems for manufacturing and automated test applications. The course will focus on LabVIEW control systems and Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). Students will configure, program, and troubleshoot industrial control systems. Lecture and lab combination. Prerequisite: EET 1130 , EET 1140 .
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EET 3010 - Circuit Analysis Credits: (4)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Advanced calculus-based topics related to electronic circuit analysis, Laplace transforms, differential equations, Fourier series, Fourier transforms, and applications. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities include circuit design, construction, computer simulation, and analysis. Prerequisite: EET 2110 , EET 2140 , Credit for or Current Enrollment in in MATH 1210 .
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EET 3020 - Active Filters Credits: (4)
Continuation of Circuit Analysis, EET 3010 . Topics include active and passive filters, Pole-zero analysis, stability, Bode diagrams, frequency response, and applications. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities include circuit design, construction, computer simulation, and analysis. Prerequisite: EET 3010 .
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EET 3030 - FPGA and ASIC Design Credits: (4)
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Spring [Full Sem]
Introduction to field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) and application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) design. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to include the use of computer design tools to design, model, simulate, and program gate arrays and application specific integrated circuits. Prerequisite: EET 2150 .
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EET 3040 - Instrumentation and Measurements Credits: (4)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Introduction to electronic data acquisition, data analysis, error analysis, signal measurement, and automatic testing techniques. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to include the design, construction, and analysis of measurement circuits, data acquisition circuits, instrumentation devices, and automatic testing. Prerequisite: EET 2110 , EET 2170 .
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EET 3050 - Assembly Language & Device Drivers Credits: (4)
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Spring [Full Sem]
Small computer architecture, computer I/O, graphics, assembly language fundamentals, BIOS, device drivers, advanced assembly language techniques. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to include design, simulation, computer programming, analysis, and troubleshooting. Prerequisite: EET 2150 .
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EET 3060 - Real-Time Embedded Controllers Credits: (4)
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Fall [Full Sem]
An introduction to real-time kernals and operating systems. Priority-based pre-emptive scheduling, intertask communication, and intertask sychronization will be studied. Other topics include priority inversions, semaphores, mutexes, context switches, rate monotonic analysis (RMA), various kernal services, finite state machines, and nested state machines. Prerequisite: EET 2150 .
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EET 3070 - Engineering Technology Research Credits: (3)
Engineering problem solving using the Internet, professional journals, and human networking. Three styles of writing emphasized; technical descriptions, historical perspectives of technology, and technical defensible arguments. Prerequisite: AAS degree in CET or EET.
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EET 3080 - Embedded Networks Credits: (4)
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Spring [Full Sem]
This course provides an in-depth study of several serial communication standards and how to implement them in embedded systems. The standards addressed in this class include RS232, RS485, Controller Area Network (CAN), and Ethernet. Emphasis will be placed on utilizing the stacks and protocols for each standard. The channel bandwidth, noise, and data error rate will be addressed. Wireless methods of serial communication will be surveyed. Prerequisite: EET 2150 .
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EET 3090 - Project Management Credits: (2)
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Spring [Full Sem]
An introduction to project management. The course prepares students for Senior Projects. Course will include the writing of contracts, goal setting, project leadership and team building principles of engineering economics, team work, quality, statistics, and continuous improvement will be discussed. Other topics include project life cycles, organization, and risk management. Project scheduling and performance will be discussed. Prerequisite: EET 3010 , EET 3040 .
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EET 3100 - Renewable Energy Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
The purpose of the EET 3100 Renewable Energy course is for each student to learn the fundamental knowledge and technology of various types of renewable energy including solar energy, wind power, hydroelectric, geothermal energy, biomass and ocean energy. This course discusses the limitations and the impacts of using fossil fuel energy and its possible impact on global climate change. This course will enable students to build an essential foundation towards the specific applications of renewable energy such as solar PV (Photovoltaic) systems, wind turbine systems and micro-hydro systems. Incentives, rebates and policies from federal, state and local power companies will also be addressed in the class. The students will learn how to acquire professional certifications if they are interested in developing a career in the area of renewable energy. Prerequisite: EET 1110 or EET 1850 .
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EET 4010 - Senior Project I Credits: (2)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Students will work on teams to design, construct, test, and install a significant engineering project. The course includes selecting a team, selecting a project, writing a contract, maintaining a logbook, creating and following project milestones, setting and completing weekly goals, writing a manual, and making a final presentation to students, faculty, and industry advisers. Prerequisite: EET 3090 .
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EET 4020 - Senior Project II Credits: (2)
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Spring [Full Sem]
A continuation of EET 4010 Senior Project I. Students will work on teams to design, construct, test, and install a significant engineering project. The course includes selecting a team, selecting a project, writing a contract, maintaining a logbook, creating and following project milestones, setting and completing weekly goals, writing a manual, and making a final presentation to students, faculty, and industry advisers. Prerequisite: EET 4010 .
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EET 4030 - Controls & Systems Credits: (4)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Introduction to automatic control theory, analysis, and testing, pole, zero, Bode plots, and frequency response. The design and application of programmable controllers using ladder logic, sequential functions charts, PID, and data highway. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to include computer simulation, servo-system construction, and analysis. Prerequisite: EET 3010 , MATH 1210 .
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EET 4040 - Signals and Systems Credits: (4)
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Spring [Full Sem]
An introduction to digital signal processing, digital filters, discrete and fast Fourier transforms, quantization, introduction to adaptive filters, industrial applications, and DSP hardware. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities include the design, construction, computer simulation, and analysis of digital signal processing circuits. Prerequisite: EET 3010 , MATH 1210 .
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EET 4060 - Advanced Communications Credits: (4)
Introduction to satellite communications, spread spectrum techniques, digital satellite communications, antennas, small signal amplifiers, Smith charts, and “S” parameter analysis. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to include the design, construction, computer simulation and analysis of wireless communications circuits and systems. Prerequisite: EET 3010 .
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EET 4090 - Systems Design and Integration Credits: (3)
An introduction to the fundamentals of large-scale systems. The first part deals with systems analysis, design and integration with emphasis on input/output models, transfer functions, and interface issues. The second part discusses a variety of systems design and management approaches, particularly those concerned with system requirements, interface control, evaluation, quality assurance through configuration management, audits and reviews, and the human role in systems. Prerequisite: EET 3090 .
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EET 4800 - Individual Studies Credits: (1-4)
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Spring [Full Sem]
The student will receive credit for approved studies in an area not covered in the EET program. A maximum of four credits can be counted as electives for EET majors.
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EET 4890 - Cooperative Work Experience Credits: (2)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
The student will receive credit for approved electronics industrial experience. Professional development activities will include resume writing, goal setting, progress reports, and a supervisor’s evaluation. The course can be taken a maximum of three times for a total of 6 credits. Prerequisite: EET 3090 .
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EET 4900 - Special Topics Credits: (1-4)
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Fall [Full Sem]
A one-time special study course designed to introduce a new relevant topic that is not covered in the EET program. Lecture and lab combination. Laboratory activities to support the selected course topic. A maximum of four credits can be counted for EET majors.
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ENGL 0900 ND - Fundamentals of College Reading and Writing Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
A course designed to help students develop fundamental reading, writing, and thinking skills. Students in this course work closely with Skills Enhancement Center tutors in both group and one-to-one settings. Students with ACT scores in either English or Reading of 12 and below are required to take ENGL ND0900. Students without ACT scores are also placed in this course unless they are otherwise placed by Accuplacer. Students must complete this course with a grade of C or better before enrolling in ENGL 0955 . ND (non-degree) do not count toward hours required for graduation.
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ENGL 0955 ND - Developmental College Reading and Writing Credits: (6)
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Fall [Full Sem, Online]
Spring [Full Sem, Online]
Summer [Full Sem]
A course to help students develop reading, writing, and critical thinking skills prerequisite for entry-level college courses. Students in this course are supported by the Skills Enhancement Center. Students who pass ENGL 0900 with a grade of C or better, whose ACT scores in English or Reading run from 13 to 16, or who are placed by Accuplacer are placed in ENGL ND0955. Students must complete ENGL ND0955 with a grade of C or better before enrolling in ENGL 1010 . ND (non-degree) do not count toward hours required for graduation.
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ENGL 0960 ND - Developmental College Writing Credits: (3)
Developing fundamental reading, thinking, and writing skills. Focuses on sentence structure and essay development. ND (non-degree) do not count toward hours required for graduation.
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ENGL 1000 - College Reading Credits: (1-3)
The English department recommends this course as an excellent entry-level college course. Students in this course can expect to improve their reading comprehension, their critical thinking skills, their breadth and depth of knowledge, and their aptitude for learning. May be repeated 4 times up to 6 credit hours.
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ENGL 1010 EN - Introductory College Writing Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem, Online]
Spring [Full Sem, Online]
Summer [1st Blk, 2nd Blk, Online]
Students will learn practices of successful academic writing. Students will focus on the writing process, writing for specific audiences, collaboration with peers, and on the interrelationship between reading and writing. To enter 1010 the student must have 17 or higher on the ACT English portion, or equivalent. Student must complete ENGL 1010 satisfactorily (a grade of “C” or better) before enrolling in ENGL 2010 .
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ENGL 2010 EN - Intermediate College Writing Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem, Online]
Spring [Full Sem, Online]
Summer [1st Blk, 2nd Blk, Online]
This course will focus on writing arguments, conducting research, and documenting sources. Students will continue to learn practices of successful academic writing including the writing process, writing for specific audiences, and collaboration with peers. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 with “C” grade or better, AP Language and Composition or Literature and Composition examination with a score of 3 or better, ACT English and Reading score of 29 or better, CLEP with essay test with a score of 50 or better, or articulated transfer credit from another regionally accredited college or university.
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ENGL 2100 - Technical Writing Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem, Online]
Spring [Full Sem, Online]
Summer [Online]
This course prepares students for on-the-job writing and emphasizes the importance of audience analysis, graphics, and document design. Students study and practice writing and designing a variety of technical documents as they learn to write clearly, concisely, and persuasively to a specific audience for a specific purpose. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 or 2010 .
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ENGL 2200 HU/DV - Introduction to Literature Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
An introduction to three major literary genres, fiction, poetry, and drama, drawn from a diverse range of authors from various cultures and historical periods. Students will learn how to read literary texts closely and critically, and how literature–reading more generally–can have a meaningful part of their daily lives. Course includes relevant practice in the principles of successful writing, including drafting, revising, and editing. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 or 2010 with a “C” grade or better or equivalent.
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ENGL 2220 HU/DV - Introduction to Fiction Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
An introduction to short stories, novellas, and novels, selected from a diverse range of authors from various cultures and historical periods. Students will learn how to read fiction carefully and critically, and how fiction can have a meaningful part in their daily lives. Course includes relevant practice in the principles of successful writing, including drafting, revising, and editing. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 or 2010 with a “C” grade or better or equivalent.
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ENGL 2240 HU/DV - Introduction to Poetry Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
An introduction to poetry written in English, selected from a diverse range of authors from various cultures and historical periods. Students will develop the critical and interpretive skills necessary to appreciate the craft of poetry as a valid and important way of talking about human experiences. Course includes relevant practice in the principles of successful writing, including drafting, revising, and editing. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 or 2010 with a “C” grade or better or equivalent.
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ENGL 2250 CA - Creative Writing Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
In this Gen Ed course students will learn in a workshop setting to write original pieces in three genres that may include the following: short stories, poetry, creative non-fiction, and plays. As models for their own writing, students will read exemplary pieces from each genre taught from different eras and cultures, in order to build a vocabulary base. Thus, students will become familiar with aspects of storytelling such as story arc, characterization, and dialogue; and aspects of poetry such as rhyme, rhythm, and figurative language, for use in their own writing. Through regular exercises, students will generate ideas for creating original writing such as stories, poems, plays, and creative essays, and will refine oral and communicative skills. Students will critique and be critiqued by the entire class in order to revise early drafts, will analyze selected texts, and will evaluate their own and others’ work. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 or 2010 with a “C” grade or better or equivalent.
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ENGL 2260 CA - Introduction to Writing Short Fiction Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
This course introduces students to writing original short fiction in a workshop setting. Students will read as models a judicious sampling of stories by authors such as Edgar Allen Poe, William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Truman Capote, and others as selected by the professor in order to build a vocabulary for analyzing aspects of storytelling such as plot, story arc, characterization, dialogue, meaningful detail, and story pacing. Using guided writing exercises and journaling, students will develop ideas from these sources to create original fiction for a series of in-class workshops. Students will critique, and be critiqued by, the entire class, in order to revise their stories. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 or 2010 with a “C” grade or better or equivalent.
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ENGL 2270 CA - Introduction to Writing Poetry Credits: (3)
This course introduces students to writing original poetry. Students will read as models a judicious sampling of poems by contemporary poets as selected by the professor in order to build a vocabulary for analyzing aspects of poetic craft, such as form, line, prosody, image, sound, narrative, and lyric. Using guided writing exercises and journaling, students will develop their ideas into original poems for a series of in-class writing workshops. Students will critique and be critiqued by their peers in order to revise their poems. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 or 2010 with a “C” or better or equivalent.
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ENGL 2290 HU/DV - Introduction to Drama Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
An introduction to drama from around the globe, selected from a diverse range of authors from various cultures and historical periods. Students will develop the critical and interpretive skills necessary to analyze and appreciate plays and to recognize their contemporary relevance. Course includes relevant practice in the principles of successful writing, including drafting, revising, and editing. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 or 2010 with a “C” grade or better or equivalent.
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ENGL 2510 HU/DV - Masterpieces of Literature Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
An introduction to select masterworks, selected from a diverse range of authors from various cultures and historical periods. Students will develop the critical and interpretive skills necessary to analyze various genres (fiction, drama, and poetry) and to reflect on the nature of literary excellence. Course includes relevant practice in the principles of successful writing, including, drafting, revising, and editing. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 or 2010 with a “C” grade or better or equivalent.
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ENGL 2710 HU /DV - Perspectives on Women’s Literature Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
The purpose of this class is to introduce students to the rich contributions of women to the field of literature. The course will cover a variety of women writers that may range from the medieval period to the present and will feature literary genres such as fiction, poetry, drama, non-fiction, and journals/diaries. In discussing and writing about these works, students will consider why women were excluded or marginalized in the canon for such a large part of literary history and how society, family, and politics impacted the way these women wrote. Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 or 2010 with a “C” grade or better or equivalent.
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ENGL 2830 - Directed Readings Credits: (1-3)
Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent. May be repeated twice up to 3 credit hours.
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ENGL 2890 - Cooperative Work Experience Credits: (1-6)
Open to all students in the English Department who meet the minimum Cooperative Work Experience requirements of the department. Provides academic credit for on-the-job experience. Grade and amount of credit will be determined by the department. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent. May be repeated 5 times up to 6 credit hours.
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ENGL 2920 - Short Courses, Workshops, Institutes and Special Programs Credits: (1-4)
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 equivalent. May be repeated 3 times up to 4 credit hours with different topics.
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ENGL 2920S - Community Service Credits: (3)
Students will receive an overview of community service and explore opportunities for service learning in the community. A weekly seminar with required readings and writings as necessary and 50 hours of community service. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3010 - Introduction to Linguistics Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
This course introduces students to the scientific study of language. It looks across languages to explore what they have in common, as well as what distinguishes them from one another. Students learn basic analytic techniques in articulatory phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics and apply them to data drawn from various languages. These core concepts may be applied to other areas, such as language acquisition, language history, language and culture, language and society, language and thought, or language and literary expression. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent. Students in English, foreign languages, anthropology, philosophy, psychology, and history are encouraged to take this course.
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ENGL 3020 - Introduction to the Study of Language for Teachers Credits: (3)
This course is designed for English teaching majors and minors. It introduces students to the nature of language and linguistics. It also reviews the elements of traditional grammar. This course surveys prescribed applications for prospective secondary school English teachers, including language variation, contemporary alternatives to traditional grammar, and linguistics and composition. This class is required of English teaching majors and minors and must be taken concurrently with ENGL 3400 , 3410 , and 3420 . Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3030 - Structure of English Credits: (3)
This course presents the major parts of speech, grammatical functions, and constructions of Standard English. Its purpose is to show that English, like any human language, is an intricate and rule-governed system. To this end, it draws on the terminology of traditional grammar and the analytical techniques of structural and transformational grammar, including contextual definitions and tree diagramming. The course is directed toward departmental English majors, teaching majors, advanced ESL students, and students majoring in foreign language teaching. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3040 - History of the English Language Credits: (3)
This course begins by introducing the elementary vocabulary and concepts of linguistic theory as these pertain to historical linguistics. It then traces the prehistory of English from its beginnings in Indo-European, through its place in the Germanic branch, to its historical phases of Old, Middle, and Early Modern English. Attention may also be given to national varieties of English and the development of English as a world language. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3050 - Grammar, Style, and Usage for Advanced Writing Credits: (3)
This course presents the concepts and nomenclature of traditional grammar as a context for students wishing to increase their control of punctuation, style, and usage in order to become more proficient writers. Its purpose is to offer practical guidance in how grammatical concepts can be applied to revising and editing one’s own or others’ writing to more effectively express one’s intended meaning. The course is offered to all English majors and minors as a means of fulfilling the language requirement for the major, especially those in technical writing, as well as students in communication, pre-law, and criminal justice. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3080 - Critical Approaches to Literature Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Summer [1st Blk, 2nd Blk]
Students will study and practice critical approaches to literature. The course will begin with New Criticism and proceed to study more resistant reading strategies such as feminism, Marxism, and deconstruction. Students will not only learn the theoretical premises behind these theories, but also practice explicating various texts from a particular critical perspective. Primarily for English majors and minors. Recommended to take early in major. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent. Recommended prerequisites: ENGL 2220 , ENGL 2240 , or ENGL 2290 .
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ENGL 3100 - Professional and Technical Writing Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem, Online]
Spring [Full Sem, Online]
Summer [Online]
This course introduces students to the basic theories and practices of technical communication. Using audience, purpose, and context as their guides, students create various professional and technical documents, such as formal and informal reports, instructions, proposals, job application materials, brochures, web media, and presentations. Working both individually, and in collaboration, students analyze their rhetorical situation as they create usable and appropriate professional documents. This course provides the practical and theoretical basis for the minor and emphasis in Professional and Technical Writing. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3140 - Professional and Technical Editing Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Building on the knowledge of technical writing genres and the writing strengths developed in ENGL 3100, this course introduces students to copyediting, comprehensive editing, and the basics of collaborative editing and document management. Technical editing is designed to strengthen students’ writing, editing, and visual design skills through attention to detail and application of style, grammar, and usage principles. Additionally, this course focuses on hard copy and soft copy editing principles. Co-Requisite: ENGL 3100 .
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ENGL 3190 - Document Design Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
This course teaches a rhetorical approach to document design. Using the rhetorical principles of audience, purpose, and context, students will discuss sample documents, analyze the layout of documents (both professional documents and ones students create in class), and articulate what makes an effective layout and design (regarding arrangement, emphasis, clarity, conciseness, tone, and ethos). Throughout the course, students will create (both individually and collaboratively) documents that meet client specifications thereby providing practical experience and generating material for their professional portfolios. Prerequisite: ENGL 3100 .
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ENGL 3210 - Advanced College Writing Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Basic expository techniques combined with other forms of discourse. Emphasis on originality, clarity and practical application for other courses as well as vocation. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3250 - Advanced Fiction Writing Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Short story and novel writing with emphasis upon free lancing and publication. Begins with a review of basic elements of literature and effective creative writing and offers extensive feedback on each assignment from both professor and peers. Class lectures are combined with extensive student discussion. Prior experience in creative writing and other areas of literature is recommended. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3260 - Poetry Writing Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Using “workshop” methodology, this course identifies and practices a variety of techniques and devices for generating, writing, and revising poems. It is intended for the serious student interested in writing poetry for publication and public reading. The course requires a substantial commitment to reading and evaluating original poetry. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3270 - Magazine Article Writing Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Emphasis on writing for publication and study of the current market. Extensive feedback is provided on each assignment by teacher and class. Lecture is combined with lively class discussion. Any additional background in imaginative writing, other areas of literature, or communications such as news reporting not essential but helpful. Lecture is combined with lively class discussion. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3280 - Biographical Writing Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Includes autobiographical writing and is oriented strongly toward personal and familial interests. Written assignments include the personal narrative, character sketch, as told to, and conclude with a chapter or two on a projected book-length project. Extensive written and oral input on each assignment from professor and class. Strong emphasis is placed on techniques of research including interviewing, effective characterization, narration and description. Prior experience in imaginative writing and other areas of literature is recommended. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3300 - Children’s Literature Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
Students will study the principles of literature for children with special emphasis on evaluation and selection, classroom and library use, ethnic and cultural diversity, and the development of literacy. Designed to meet the needs of teachers, those preparing to teach and those who work with children in various settings. Prerequisite: ENGL 2010 or equivalent.
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ENGL 3310 - Young Adult Literature Credits: (3)
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Fall [Full Sem]
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
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
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 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. 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. 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]
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 [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
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 [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
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 [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
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 3730 - Literatures of Cultures and Places Credits: (3)
Variable Title Course
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
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
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
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
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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 3820 - History of Literary Criticism Credits: (3)
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)
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)
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)
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
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
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
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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)
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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)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
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)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
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)
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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)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
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)
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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)
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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)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
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)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
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)
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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 4610 - British Literature: Medieval Credits: (3)
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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)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
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 : Shakespeare’s Tragedies, Comedies & Histories.)
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ENGL 4630 - British Literature: Neoclassical and Romantic Credits: (3)
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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)
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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)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
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)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
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]
Spring [Full Sem]
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 4720 - Chaucer Credits: (3)
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)
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Fall [Full Sem]
Spring [Full Sem]
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)
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)
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)
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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