2022-2023 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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1. Courses are listed by department.
2. 300 and 400 level courses are designed for students of upper-division standing (junior or senior standing).
3. In the course description, the digit(s) next to the course name indicate(s) the semester hours of credit for the course.
4. In planning schedules, students should be reminded that all courses are not offered each semester. In order that students may better plan their program of study, the semesters in which courses will be offered may be listed under the course description. Contact the department chair for information regarding the offering of a course without semester designation.
5. Courses that are designated Experiential Learning will have the following: (Q) All sections of Q designated courses will be experiential learning sections. (Q*) Selected sections of Q* designated courses will be experiential learning sections.
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EDSP 499 Practicum in Severe Disabilities - 1-3 credits
Prerequisite(s): EDSP 200
This course is a supervised field experience requiring six to ten full school days in a public school classroom that serves students with significant intellectual and multiple disabilities. In this field experience, teacher candidates pursuing the add-on license in severe disabilities make programmatic decisions and design instructional plans for students with significant intellectual and multiple disabilities under the supervision of a licensed special education teacher. Further, teacher candidates pursuing the add-on license in severe disabilities implement evidence-based practices and deliver instructional content that meets individual needs and grade-level academic standards for students with significant intellectual and multiple disabilities. This course is repeatable for up to 3 credits in varying field placement settings.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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ENGR 101 Inquiring Minds Want to Design: An Introduction to Engineering - 3 credits
Students are introduced to the engineering profession and various engineering specialists. The course teaches students about engineering teamwork and general design concepts through mini-design projects, and enhances students’ communication skills (through several written and oral reports) that are crucial in engineering. Professional ethics are emphasized. Communication Intensive.
Semester(s) Offered: Spring
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ENGR 102 Engineering Graphics Communication - 3 credits
This course is a project-based introduction to engineering graphics using SolidWorks. Topics include sketching, 3D part and assembly creation, and documented drawings. Students utilize the principles of engineering graphics to visualize, communicate, and analyze solutions to engineering problems.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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ENGR 199 Cohort Grand Challenge I - 1 credit
Great engineering achievements such as safe drinking water and electricity have revolutionized society. While these achievements are remarkable, future engineers are faced with many more great challenges and opportunities yet to be realized. With input from people around the world, an international group of leading technological thinkers were asked to identify the Grand Challenges for Engineering in the 21st century. Their 14 game-changing goals for improving life on the planet, are introduced in this course as a means to introducing complex engineering problems, how to identify and formulate them by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall
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ENGR 201 Engineering Problem Solving - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGR 101 or permission of instructor
In this course, students work in multi-disciplinary teams to formulate and solve engineering problems using robotics systems. The course covers reading, interpreting, and writing programs, debugging, loops, and conditional statements. Project management principles are also introduced as the framework in which group members cooperate. The course culminates in a design challenge that requires teams to devise a system, component, or process to meet desired needs with given constraints.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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ENGR 202 Engineering Graphics - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGR 101
This course is a project-based introduction to engineering graphics using SolidWorks. Topics include sketching, 3D part and assembly creation, and documented drawings. Students will utilize the principles of engineering graphics to visualize, communicate, and analyze solutions to engineering problems.
Semester(s) Offered: Spring
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ENGR 203 Engineering Professionalism and Pathways - 3 credits
This course provides an overview of professional and ethical responsibilities of scientists and engineers; the impact of engineering solutions in a global and societal context; contemporary issues; working in a diverse team environment, and life-long learning and career skills.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall
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ENGR 234 Engineering Mechanics I: Statics - 3 credits
Equivalent: PHYS 234
Prerequisite(s): PHYS 211 or permission of instructor
Corequisite(s): MATH 161 or MATH 161A or MATH 160B
This course deals with systems of forces acting on particles and rigid bodies at rest. The course addresses the finding of resultant forces and torques for various bodies. The covered topics include concentrated and distributed forces, equilibrium in two-and three-dimensions, moments, couples, and other key principals used in engineering design of structures that must remain static while bearing stress or performing a task.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall
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ENGR 235 Electric Circuits - 3 credits
Equivalent: PHYS 235
Prerequisite(s): PHYS 137 and MATH 160 or MATH 160B or PHYS 212 or PHYS 214 or permission of the instructor
This course is an introduction to electrical circuit theory and its application to practical direct and alternating current circuits. Topics include: Kirchhoff’s laws, fundamental principles of network theorems, transient and steady-state response of RC, RL and RLC circuits by classical methods, time-domain and frequency-domain relationships, phasor analysis and power.
Semester(s) Offered: Spring
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ENGR 244 Engineering Mechanics II: Dynamics - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGR 234 or permission of the instructor
Kinematics of particles: coordinate systems, relative and dependent motions, Kinetics of particles: Newton’s Second Law, Kinetics of particles: work and energy methods, Kinetics of particles: impulse and momentum methods, Kinematics of rigid bodies: absolute and relative motion, Review of mass moment of inertia, Planar kinetics of rigid bodies: Newton’s Second Law, Planar kinetics of rigid bodies: work and energy methods, Planar kinetics of rigid bodies: impulse and momentum methods, Vibrations: free and forced.
Semester(s) Offered: Spring
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ENGR 250 Communicating STEM - 3 credits
Equivalent: PHYS 250
This course introduces students to effective forms of communication in the disciplines of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Students learn about available tools for researching and writing academic papers, the proper structure for a journal article, and the publication process. Students are also exposed to the various styles for delivering an oral presentation including effective strategies for each style. Time is also spent on learning best practices for designing and presenting a scholarly poster.
Semester(s) Offered: Spring
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ENGR 265 Mechanics of Materials - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGR 234 or permission of the instructor
This course emphasizes the fundamental concepts and application of strength of materials while developing student’s analytical problem-solving skills.
Semester(s) Offered: Offered as needed.
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ENGR 299 Cohort Grand Challenge II - 1 credit
Prerequisite(s): ENGR 199 or permission of the instructor
In this part II of the two-course sequence, students develop and propose solutions to their complex problem identified and formulated in ENGR 199 by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics. Solution must meet specified needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall
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ENGR 302 Materials Science for Engineers - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 111 AND CHEM 111L or permission of the instructor
This introductory course in materials science is designed primarily for engineering students who wish to understand the relationships between a material’s structure, processing and properties (electrical, mechanical, and thermal). All levels of structure are considered: from macro structures easily visible to the eye through electronic structure of atoms.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall
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ENGR 315 Electric Power and Renewable Energy - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): A grade of ‘C’ or better in PHYS 212 or PHYS 214 ; or permission of the instructor
This course focuses on the role of renewable power generation in today’s electricity power grid. This course has three main sections. The first section introduces the topology and operation of the current power grid. The second section is an in-depth analysis of wind, solar, and hydro, the three major renewable sources in use today, from an electrical engineering perspective. Finally, we conclude with the future of renewable energy: experimental technologies and the challenges of operating the power grid in the 21st century.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall
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ENGR 317 Signals and Systems - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): (MATH 320 or permission of the instructor
This course covers signals and systems in both the time domain and in the frequency domain, including transformations such as Fourier, Laplace, and Z-transforms. Basic signal processing and controls concepts are introduced.
Semester(s) Offered: Offered as needed.
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ENGR 321 Electronics - 3 credits
Equivalent: PHYS 321
Prerequisite(s): ENGR 235 or PHYS 235
This course covers the analysis, modeling and design of electrical circuits that contain electronic devices. Topics include: properties of electronic materials, behavior of devices such as p-n junction diodes, field effect transistors and bipolar junction transistors, operational amplifiers, and transistors in digital circuits. Electronics design principles via a systems approach is emphasized.
Semester(s) Offered: Spring
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ENGR 323 Engineering Thermodynamics and Heat Transfer - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): PHYS 211 /PHYS 211L with a grade of ‘C’ or better or permission of instructor
Introduction to thermodynamics and heat transfer: properties of liquids and gases, first and second law analysis, introduction to cycles for power and refrigeration, heat flow by conduction and radiation, and convective heat flow and heat exchangers.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall
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ENGR 333 Engineering Fluids Mechanics - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGR 244 and ENGR 323 or permission of instructor
This course develops methods for analyzing fluid behavior while at rest or in motion starting from Newton’s Laws and control volume concepts. Important representations for fluid kinematics are developed, such as streamlines and students are introduced to the Reynold’s Transport theorem. Energy and momentum methods of fluid dynamics problem solving are developed and applied to engineering problems in the design of pipe flow systems.
Semester(s) Offered: Spring
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ENGR 356 Supply Chain Engineering - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGR 201 or permission of instructor
This course utilizes mathematical modeling and solution tools for logistics and service operations. We study manufacturing and logistic activities across the global supply chain. Emphasis is on supply chain technical design, implementation, and safety functions. Topics include transportation and distribution networks, inventory requirements, demand planning, materials handling and warehousing, supply chain contracts, manufacturing flexibility, product design, and using available SAP or other ERP systems.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall
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ENGR 365 Structural Analysis and Design I - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGR 265 or permission of the instructor
This course covers the fundamental topics in Structural Analysis including: functions of structure, design loads, reactions and force systems; analysis of statically determinate structures including beams, trusses and arches. In addition, this courses also emphasizes the analysis and design of basic reinforced concrete and steel structural members.
Semester(s) Offered: Offered as needed.
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ENGR 370 Environmental Engineering - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): CHEM 111 /CHEM 111L or permission of the instructor
Causes and effects of environmental problems and engineering methods to control them. This course is an overview of the major themes currently running through the field of environmental engineering. Major themes covered include the effect of human population growth and increased urbanization on the environment, energy consumption and production, water supply and treatment, air pollution and global climate change.
Semester(s) Offered: Offered as needed.
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ENGR 396 Engineering Professional Development Hours - (1-10 credits
Prereq/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: Permission of instructor and approved contract
Students complete supervised professional development and enhancement activities, working 50 hours during a semester for each credit hour enrolled. These activities include but are not limited to: education and research abroad, co-operative education, professional training and/or certification, service learning, and other approved opportunities. The course may be repeated for up to 10 total credit hours.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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ENGR 397 Independent Research - 1-7 credits
Prerequisite(s): permission of the instructor and approved contract
Directed study and/or research on a specific topic.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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ENGR 398 Project Management and Communication - 1 credit
Equivalent: PHYS 398
Prerequisite(s): ENGR 201
This course focuses on effective participation, communication, and collaboration in engineering and other applied science fields. The professional and ethical responsibilities of applied scientists and engineers will be discussed, along with project management principles and current topics of importance in the field.
Semester(s) Offered: Spring
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ENGR 399 Q Integrated Science and Design - 2 credits
Prerequisite(s): senior status or permission of instructor and approved contract
In this first of the two-course capstone sequence, students initiate culminating major engineering design projects. Projects can be developed from experiential opportunities, using concepts learned in foundational science, engineering science and advanced elective courses and/or a contemporary community problem. Students will use the engineering design approach to identify, formulate the specific problem under consideration and propose solutions by applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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ENGR 430 Fluid Mechanics - 3 credits
Equivalent: PHYS 430
Prerequisite(s): PHYS 212 or PHYS 213
Corequisite(s): MATH 320
This course is an introduction to fluid mechanics, and emphasizes fundamental concepts and problem-solving techniques. Topics to be covered include fluid properties, fluid statics, fluid kinematics, control volume analysis, Reynolds Transport Theorem, momentum theorem, differential analysis and exact solutions, dimensional analysis and an introduction to turbulence. Applications of fluid mechanics will be highlighted.
Semester(s) Offered: Spring
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ENGR 450 Radiation Detection and Measurement - 3 credits
Prereq/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: PHYS 212 or PHYS 214 and permission of the instructor
A course in the fundamentals of radiation detection and measurement covering topics including nuclear instability, radioactive sources, interaction of radiation with matter, processing of radiation-induced signals, biological effects of radiation, dosimetry, attenuation of charged particles, gamma rays and neutrons and effectiveness of shielding methods.
Semester(s) Offered: Spring
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ENGR 450L Radiation Detection and Measurement Laboratory - 1 credit
Prerequisite(s): ENGR 450 and permission of the instructor
A laboratory course demonstrating the fundamentals of radiation detection, radioactive sources, interaction of radiation with matter, processing of radiation-induced signals, dosimetry, spectroscopy and attenuation of charged particles, gamma rays and neutrons and effectiveness of shielding methods.
Semester(s) Offered: Summer
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ENGR 470 Water Resources Engineering I - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGR 370 or permission of the instructor
This course is designed to review the fundamentals and practices of water resources engineering with a focus on essential processes such as precipitation and runoff. Students explore water resources engineering processes in the theoretical, and applied realm in the fields of closed conduit (pipe) flow, open channel flow, surface water hydrology, water quality analyses, and groundwater flow.
Semester(s) Offered: Offered as needed.
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ENGR 495 Engineering Internship - 1-10 credits
Prerequisite(s): permission of major advisor and approved contract
Students are professionally supervised in an approved external or campus-based organization while working 50 hours during a semester for each credit hour enrolled. Three forms must be appended to this syllabus for a complete internship application. Students are required to read and sign form; Code of Professional and Ethical Conduct for Student Interns. Students must complete and sign the Internship Learning Contract, and obtain signatures from the Employer Supervisor and Faculty Advisor OR Engineering Program Director. Finally, Students must obtain a Memorandum of Understanding signed by their Employer Supervisor and Academic Advisor or Engineering Program Director. During the internship period, students are required to maintain an Engineering Workplace Competencies Gap Analysis Worksheet and Internship Work Hours Log. The Employer Supervisor will also complete the Engineering Workplace Competencies Gap Analysis Worksheet to assess the student’s performance. The course may be repeated for up to 10 total credit hours.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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ENGR 499 Q Senior Design - 2 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGR 399 or permission of instructor
In this second of the two-course capstone sequence, students incorporate appropriate engineering standards and multiple constraints into their developing project. Students apply the engineering design approach to produce solutions that meet specific client needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global, cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors. This major design experience serves to integrate the knowledge and skills that students have developed in earlier course work through the completion of an original project. Students will be required to utilize project management principles throughout the experience and develop a detailed report to be presented both orally in a public forum and in written form.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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ENGL 101 Composition - 4 credits
In ENGL 101, students focus on the writing process, paying special attention to prewriting, writing, and revising strategies. The course also introduces elements of academic writing as well as the research process. This class prompts students to hone their critical reading and writing skills as they consider the rhetorical situations that shape all writing tasks. As a hybrid course, ENGL 101 includes a parallel online component, Coastal Composition Commons, which provides uniform and digitally delivered content reinforcing a common set of student learning outcomes.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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ENGL 102 Composition and Critical Reading - 4 credits
Prerequisite(s): A grade of ‘C’ or better in ENGL 101
In ENGL 102, students read and respond to a variety of texts written across disciplinary lines. As they interpret and evaluate these texts by composing functional, rhetorical, and critical analyses, students extend their understanding of the writing process, consider the importance of context, and refine their approaches to research. This hybrid course includes a parallel online component, Coastal Composition Commons, which builds upon the content taught in ENGL 101 and continues to digitally deliver uniform content that stresses an ongoing set of common student learning outcomes.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring Su.
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ENGL 103 Rhetoric and Argumentation - 3 credits
This course provides students with an introduction to rhetorical theory and, as a result, strategies for analyzing the arguments used in a variety of texts. Primarily a course in critical thinking, ENGL 103 supports students’ development as both readers and writers through the application of rhetorical concepts.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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ENGL 201 Q* Introduction to Creative Writing - 3 credits
A course that introduces the fundamental elements of craft involved in composing poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction using a combination of example readings and writing workshops. Students are encouraged, though not required, to complete a college-level literature course before enrolling in ENGL 201.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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ENGL 205 Literature and Culture - 3 credits
This course is designed to provoke and cultivate students’ imaginative and critical understanding of literature in various cultural contexts. Text (in poetry, drama, fiction, and/or creative nonfiction) will vary by section. Each section will examine compelling themes, styles, and cultural arguments within their literary, historical, and philosophical contexts.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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ENGL 209 Q* Blue Ridge to Blue Sea: Cultures of the American South - 3 credits
This course will immerse students in diverse perspectives on the American South by investigating the ways in which the multifaceted cultural spaces and histories from “Blue Ridge” to “Blue Sea” are reflected in literature and other media. Alternating F, S.
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ENGL 210 Technical Editing - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): A grade of ‘C’ or better in ENGL 101 and ENGL 102
A rigorous workshop emphasizing essential methods and techniques for editing technical papers, including stylistic editing, substantive editing, and production editing. Students improve command of standard English grammar, mechanics, spelling, and usage. Students also edit documents for clarity, conciseness and style appropriate to a particular audience, and acknowledge primary and secondary sources of information using in-text citation.
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ENGL 211 Introduction to Technical and Professional Writing - 3 credits
Students read and analyze examples of technical, scientific, and professional writing. Writing assignments may include formal and informal reports, sets of instructions, research papers, annotated bibliographies, literature reviews, process analyses, position papers, or mechanism descriptions. Revising and editing skills are taught.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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ENGL 212 Theories of Visual Rhetoric - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): A grade of ‘C’ or better in ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 ; a grade of ‘B’ or better in ENGL 210 and ENGL 211
An introduction to the history, principles, theories and techniques of designing usable documents with an emphasis on rhetorical analysis and the integration of verbal and visual language. Students study the rhetorical qualities of fonts, typefaces, and the theories and principles that have guided the complex interactions of words and images from antiquity to electronic writing spaces.
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ENGL 231 Film, New Media and Culture - 3 credits
Equivalent: NMDC 231 DCD 231
This course is designed to provoke and cultivate students’ imaginative and critical understanding of film and new media in various cultural contexts. The course promotes an active and critical engagement with film, new media texts, and media innovations as a means for analysis and critique within the broader framework of humanistic inquiry. Texts and films will vary by section.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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ENGL 250 Introduction to Language and Linguistic Science - 3 credits
This course is an introduction to the interrelated elements of the multi-level system we know of as Language. These different levels include: the production of speech sounds and their mental representations, the formation of those speech sounds into words that have meaning, the organization of those words into phrases and sentences, the construction of meaning based on those sentences, and the ways in which social factors interact with and cause variation at each of these levels of the language system. In this course, students use naturally occurring language data to scientifically analyze the rules underlying each of the different levels of the language system. This scientific study of the language system is referred to as Linguistics.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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ENGL 277 Literature Across Cultures - 3 credits
This course is designed to introduce students to works of literature in translation from the Eastern and/or Western literary and intellectual traditions. Drawing from a variety of texts, genres, and formats, each section will examine issues of cultural interaction and translation, emphasizing the significance of cross-cultural dialogue and transfer of ideas between world cultures, historical periods, and/or literary movements.
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ENGL 290 Introduction to Business Communication - 3 credits
Equivalent: CBAD 290
Students will gain valuable experience with some of the most important types of written and oral communication required in a business and professional context.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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ENGL 300 Critical Conversations in English - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
A research-intensive course that offers English majors the opportunity to examine a critical issue current in the discipline of English studies and to participate in a rigorous exchange about this issue with their peers. Depending on the demonstrated scholarly expertise and active research agenda of the instructor, the course will explore a range of theoretical and historical models of reading and reception. English majors should take the course in the first semester of their junior year (or for more advanced majors, during the second semester of their sophomore year). Sections of the course will be offered in both fall and spring semesters and enrollment will be limited to 20 students. This course may be repeated for credit once under a different instructor.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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ENGL 301 Q* Forms of Creative Writing - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better.
Students examine the history, movements, and technical forms of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction using a combination of example readings and writing workshops.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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ENGL 302 The Renaissance - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
A survey of English literature of the Sixteenth Century from Thomas More’s Utopia to William Shakespeare’s comedies and histories.
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ENGL 303 British Literature I - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
A survey of representative works illustrating the development of British literature from its beginning through the eighteenth century, with an emphasis on major literary movements understood in relation to their intellectual, social, and political contexts.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall
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ENGL 304 British Literature II - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
A survey of representative works illustrating the development of British literature from the late eighteenth century to the present, with an emphasis on major literary movements understood in relation to their intellectual, social, and political contexts.
Semester(s) Offered: Spring
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ENGL 305 American Literature I - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
A survey of representative works illustrating the development of American literature from its beginnings through the mid-nineteenth century, with an emphasis on major literary movements understood in relation to their intellectual, social, and political contexts.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall
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ENGL 306 American Literature II - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
A survey of representative works illustrating the development of American literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present, with an emphasis on major literary movements understood in relation to their intellectual, social, and political contexts.
Semester(s) Offered: Spring
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ENGL 307 The Age of Chaucer - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
Masterpieces of fourteenth-century poetry and drama, including Pearl, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and works of the Wakefield Master. About one-third of the course is devoted to works of Chaucer not read in ENGL 401 .
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ENGL 308 Seventeenth-Century British Literature - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
A study of the major English poets, dramatists, and prose writers of the Seventeenth Century.
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ENGL 311 Topics in Shakespeare - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
In this course students will be familiarized with plays that represent the spectrum of Shakespeare’s drama, including comedies, tragedies, histories, romances, and problem plays. We may approach these texts from cultural, theatrical, socio-historical, and literary perspectives, and read each play closely as an artistic construction, a script for popular consumption, and a commentary on the political atmosphere of a period both similar to and different from our own. We may also consider the present place of Shakespeare’s drama in diverse cultures around the world.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall
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ENGL 314 Eighteenth-Century British Literature - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better, or ENGL 205
A historical and critical study of the prose and poetry of the principal Eighteenth-Century writers. Emphasis on the works of Dryden, Defoe, Pope, Swift, and others.
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ENGL 315 The British Novel I - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
A survey of the British novel from the beginning through the early Victorian era.
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ENGL 316 The British Novel II - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
A survey of the British novel from the mid-Victorian era to the present.
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ENGL 317 The Romantic Age - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
A study of the Eighteenth-Century transition from Classicism to Romanticism and of major Romantic writers.
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ENGL 318 The Victorian Age - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
A study of major mid-and late-Nineteenth-Century British writers, including Hardy, George Eliot, Dickens, Tennyson, the Brownings, and others.
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ENGL 320 Writing Tutor Training - 1 credit
Equivalent: UNIV 320
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
This course introduces students to both theoretical and practical concerns, issues, and questions central to the work of a writing center. As they investigate current trends in writing center scholarship, a variety of writing center models, and their own practices as tutors, students will question the practice of tutoring as they develop their own reflective stances. As it models effective center practices, this course will benefit current tutors, student hoping to tutor, students interested in education, or those considering graduate school.
Semester(s) Offered: Spring
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ENGL 322 Latin American Literature in Translation - 3 credits
Equivalent: SPAN 322
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
Selected readings of Latin American Literature in translation. Students write primary critical essays. All readings are in English.
Semester(s) Offered: Even years.
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ENGL 323 Modern British and Irish Literature - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
A study of the works of British and Irish writers from the turn of the Twentieth Century to 1945.
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ENGL 328 Modern American Writers - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
A study of the works of American writers in the first half of the Twentieth Century.
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ENGL 329 Autobiographies, Journals, and Memoirs - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
A study of selected Eighteenth-, Nineteenth-, and Twentieth-Century autobiographical writing in English. Students read selected Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century autobiographies, journals, and memoirs and explore the ways in which recent writers (in particular women and minorities) have challenged and revised the conventions of this genre. Students are required to produce some autobiographical writing.
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ENGL 330 Realism and Naturalism - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
A course that offers an intensive study of the historical phenomenon of literary realism and naturalism as it emerged in nineteenth-century France literature and its subsequent development in and influence on British and American Literature and drama.
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ENGL 331 Perspectives on Visual and New Media Studies - 3 credits
This course develops students’ knowledge of a wide range of new media, digital, and visual texts that are critically analyzed within particular social, historical, political, theoretical, popular, and/or aesthetic contexts. Through various overlapping forms of representation (textual, digital, aural, visual), students explore recurring themes of new media and visual culture. The course features interactive and diverse approaches to assessment, from traditional papers to digital collaborations that show student engagement with visual and new media texts or performances and their literary/cultural contexts.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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ENGL 332 Perspectives on American Literature and Culture - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
This course develops students’ knowledge of a wide range of American literary and cultural texts that are critically analyzed within particular social, historical, political, theoretical, popular, and/or aesthetic contexts. Through various overlapping forms of representation (textual, digital, aural, visual), students explore recurring themes of American culture including, but not limited to, American exceptionalism, race relations, the individual vs. the state, the meaning of nature, identity creation/identity crisis, and the politics of voice. The literary and cultural texts that students read, view, and listen to include canonical as well as less heralded titles that the instructor selects from these main sources: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, contemporary video, musical lyric, and/or cinema. The course features interactive and diverse approaches to assessment, from traditional papers to digital collaborations that show student engagement with American texts and their literary/cultural contexts.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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ENGL 333 The American Novel - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
A study of selected American novels.
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ENGL 334 Perspectives on British Literature and Culture - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
This course develops students’ knowledge of a wide range of British literary and cultural texts that are critically analyzed within particular social, historical, political, theoretical, popular, and/or aesthetic contexts. Through various overlapping forms of representation (textual, digital, aural, visual), students explore the major social, cultural, and political concerns of British literature and culture, including industrialization and urbanization, ideologies of class and gender, nation and empire, scientific progress and religious crisis, technological innovation, and modernization. The literary and cultural texts that students read, view, and listen to include canonical as well as lesser known titles that the instructor selects from these main sources: poetry, fiction, non-fiction, contemporary video, musical lyric, and / or cinema. The course features interactive and diverse approaches to assessment, from traditional papers to digital collaborations that show student engagement with British texts and their literary/cultural contexts.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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ENGL 335 Perspectives on World and Anglophone Literatures and Culture - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
This course develops students’ knowledge of a wide range of World and Anglophone literary and cultural texts that are critically analyzed within particular cultural, historical, political, theoretical, popular, and/or aesthetic contexts. Through various overlapping forms of representation (textual, digital, aural, visual), students explore diverse and recurring themes in World and Anglophone texts. The course features interactive and diverse approaches to assessment, from traditional papers to digital collaborations that show student engagement with visual and new media texts or performances and their literary/cultural contexts.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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ENGL 336 Contemporary American Literature - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
A study of the literary trends in America from 1945 to the present.
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ENGL 337 Perspectives on Genre - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
This course develops students’ knowledge of a particular genre through the study of a variety of literary and/or cultural texts that share (generic) features of form, style, and/or purpose. We analyze the texts as well as the genre in light of their engagement with the aesthetic, cultural, material, and historical contexts within which they are embedded and/or that they adapt and appropriate. While attending to the similarities among generically connected texts, we also study the critical nuances of their differences that enrich our understanding of the genre.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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ENGL 338 Perspectives on a Single Author - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
This course develops students’ focused understanding of literary and/or cultural works by a particular author. Through our close readings and in-depth analyses of the text/s as well as our critical study of the temporal and cultural contexts within which the author’s work/s were produced and received, we understand texts as cultural artifacts of their times that reflect the author’s and their contemporary society’s investments and preoccupations. At the same time, we analyze how our transhistorical and transcultural interest in the work/s of the author are sustained by our ability to engage with the text/s and interpret it/them through diverse critical and theoretical lenses.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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ENGL 339 Popular Fiction - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
What makes popular fiction popular? Why do we find pleasure in reading these texts? How are the various genres (detective, hard-boiled crime, western romance, horror, fantasy, science fiction, and thriller) structured and what cultural viewpoints do these formulas reinforce? As we read and discuss sample of each genre, including works by Agatha Christie, Raymond Chandler, Louis L’Amour, Stephen King, J.R.R. Tolkein, and Octavia Bulter, we will be looking at the texts through the critical lenses of literary theory, including psychoanalytic, feminist, Marxist, and structuralist approaches. We will also use this study of popular fiction to raise questions about authorship, readership, literary value, and the mass marketing strategies used to sell these texts.
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ENGL 341 African-American Literature, 1750-present - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
A survey of Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century literature. Emphasis on the classic works of Frederick Douglass, Charles Chesnutt, Zora Neale Hurston, Toni Morrison, and Ralph Ellison.
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ENGL 350 Language Variation in North America - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
Language variation in North America is considered from a contemporary sociolinguistic perspective. The course covers social, regional, ethnic, gender and style-related language variation among (English) speakers in the United States and Canada. The course will also explore issues of perception and attitude as reflected in evaluations of language varieties and the speakers of those varieties.
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ENGL 351 Language, Gender and Power - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
The course investigates language structure and usage patterns in the context of gender to achieve a better understanding of the way language references, and the perceptions, attitudes and behaviors related to these differences are examined.
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ENGL 352 African American English - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
A course that explores African American English from a linguistics and social perspective. Course content will focus on hypotheses of the development of African American English, linguistic theory as applied to African American English, and social/cultural dimensions of African American English.
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ENGL 353 Sounds of English - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): Completion of ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
This course introduces the systematic study of the sounds of the English language. Beginning with descriptions of the articulation of sounds through discussions of the acoustic properties of sounds and ending with the ways in which sounds work together to form the words that we have in the English language, the course examines all elements of the English sound. English vowel and consonant sounds are not static entities and we examine the variation in such sounds across English dialects. Application of phonetic and phonological methods in “real world” situations is also highlighted. This course is ideal for students interested in linguistics, speech language pathology, foreign languages, English as a second language, and education.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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ENGL 354 English Grammar and Syntax - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
This course examines individual components of modern English grammar from a formal perspective in the formation of phrases, clauses, and sentences. Students will analyze the patterned, rule governed nature of language through a study of syntax in standard and nonstandard varieties of English, especially in examples of written texts, and will apply grammar concepts to their own writing.
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ENGL 355 Introduction to Discourse Analysis - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
This course provides an introduction to discourse analysis, the study of language in context. It looks at what makes a complex stretch of language an interpretable piece of discourse, and examines the structural aspects of how language is used in society as well as how it reflects and shapes our world. It explores how we make sense of what we hear and read, and how we can recognize well-constructed discourse as opposed to that which is jumbled or incoherent. This course examines both the formal and contextual features of discourse and how it is that language users successfully understand what other language users intend to convey.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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ENGL 356 Introduction to Semantics - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
This course introduces the systematic study of semantics, focusing on the representation of meaning at the lexical level. This course covers ways of describing meaning (sense and reference, computational analysis and prototype theory), ways of organizing meaning (the mental lexicon, connotation and euphemism, linguistic relativity), and ways of applying these concepts to sort predicates by argument structure patterns.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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ENGL 362 Fiction I - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
An introductory creative writing workshop course in which students study published contemporary short stories and create original works of short fiction. Students read and critique both published and student work.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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ENGL 365 Creative Nonfiction I - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
An introductory creative writing workshop course in which students study published contemporary narrative nonfiction and create original nonfiction essays. Students read and critique both published and student work.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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ENGL 368 Poetry I - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
An introductory creative writing workshop course in which students study published contemporary poetry and create original poems. Students read and critique both published and student work.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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ENGL 371 Topics in World Literature: East/West Intersections - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
This course extends students’ understanding of and experiences in different cultures of the world by examining issues of cross-cultural interaction and transfer of ideas between and within world cultures, historical periods, and/or literary movements. The course will also introduce students to some strategies of literary criticism and research on world authors through examination of critical texts appropriate to the topic. In particular, this course will sharpen awareness of the various intersections between traditions of the East and West.
Semester(s) Offered: Alternating Fall, Spring
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ENGL 372 Studies in World Literature: Russian and Eurasian - 3 credits
Equivalent: LIS 372
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
This course examines literature from Russia and its borderlands (including Ukraine, Central Asia and the Caucasus) with an emphasis on the interrelationships between literature, folklore, history, and culture. Semesters may emphasize different regions and historical periods. This course may be repeated for credit once with a different topic.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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ENGL 375 Special Topics in World and Anglophone Literature - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
This course extends students’ understanding of and experiences in different cultures of the world by examining issues of cross-cultural interaction and transfer of ideas between and within world cultures, historical periods, and/or literary movements. The course will also introduce students to come strategies of literary criticism and research on world authors through examination of critical texts appropriate to the topic.
Semester(s) Offered: Spring
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ENGL 377 Special Topics in Middle Eastern and Diaspora Literatures - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 or equivalent with a grade of ‘C’ or better in both courses
This course examines literature from a diversity of Middle Eastern cultures and their diasporas in historical, cultural and critical contexts. Semesters may emphasize different themes, regions or historical periods. May be repeated once for credit with a different topic.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
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ENGL 379 Topics in Film Studies - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): (ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
Drawing from a variety of genres and styles, historical movements and production contexts, themes and national traditions, this course explores major concepts in film studies as academic discipline. Course content may privilege the work of a particular director, a movement or theme. The course consists of a 75-minute lecture/discussion session and a mandatory 2-hour screening lab each week.
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ENGL 382 Contemporary Fiction - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
A study of new fiction in English and other languages (in translation).
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ENGL 386 Topics in Contemporary Poetry - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
A study of the poetry of a variety of contemporary American and British poets.
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ENGL 390 Business and Professional Communication - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
Designed to improve practical communication, both written and oral. Students learn business style and formats (the letter, memo, resume, and report), as well as strategies for presenting neutral, negative, and persuasive messages. Students will speak on business or professional topics.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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ENGL 391 Introduction to New Literacy Studies - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
This course provides an introduction to the sub-field of New Literacy Studies, with emphasis on how the discipline works in conversation with the field of Composition and Rhetoric. Students will read theoretical, pedagogical, and narrative texts to engage with questions about how we navigate multiple and layered literacies in everyday life as well as in the academy.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall
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ENGL 392 Writing in Professional and Public Settings - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
This class studies the types of writing that happen in the 21st century workplace, where close attention to audience, context and purpose guide a writer’s decisions. The class considers a wide range of workplaces including corporations, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and educational institutions. Course methods approach textual creation from an ethical and rhetorical perspective, considering ways texts interweave the following variables: specialist and general knowledge; information, education and persuasion; public and community relations; and, importantly, citizenship and morality. Students analyze and create texts for both print and digital channels, including internal and external messages, public service announcements, features, and institutional profiles.
Semester(s) Offered: Spring
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ENGL 393 Introduction to Rhetorical Theory - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
This course provides an introduction to the concepts, tradition, and practice of rhetorical theory. Paying special attention to the relationship between rhetoric and composition, students will read a number of classical and contemporary texts in order to engage with the questions of rhetoric.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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ENGL 399 Independent Study - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): written contract between student and instructor, approved by adviser, chair of the English Department, and associate dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts. Approval must be gained by the end of the semester that precedes the semester in which the independent study is undertaken.
A maximum of 12 credit hours of 399 may be applied to a B.A. degree. Courses numbered 399 may not be used to fulfill requirements for core curriculum or English core (Major). This course may be repeated for credit under different topics.
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ENGL 401 Chaucer - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102 with a grade of ‘C’ or better
A study of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, with some attention to his other major works.
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ENGL 404 Topics in Non-Shakespearean Renaissance Literature - 3 credits
Prerequisite(s): (1 ENGL 101 , (2 ENGL 102 or ENGL 211 , or any ENGL course at the 200 level or above
This course will focus on the study of Renaissance texts in various genres, with emphasis on non-Shakespearean literatures. Readings and themes will vary by semester, but our analysis will include: the construction and representation of high and low cultures of Renaissance literature; the relationship of the literature to the specific political, intellectual, and social environments within which it was produced; the relationship of gender and authorship; and the transhistorical and transcultural influences of Renaissance literature.
Semester(s) Offered: Fall, Spring
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