May 14, 2024  
Undergraduate Catalog 2011-2012 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2011-2012 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 
  
  • ENLT 245 - American Literature, 1865 to the Present

    3 cr.


    (Area A-2) 

    Study of a select group of major American authors from the Civil War to the present. Included are Twain, Crane, Fitzgerald and Vonnegut.  The historical and cultural milieu and the development of major American themes and attitudes are reviewed.

  
  • ENLT 250 - (CL, D, W) Multi-Ethnic American Literature

    3 cr.


    (Area G) 

    Readings will be drawn primarily from Native American, Asian American, African American and Latina/o writings.  The class will trace common themes and questions such as what it means to be “American,” gender identity, the conflict of cultural identities, alienation and assimilation.

  
  • ENLT 251 - (CL,D,W) Borderlands Writing

    3 cr.


    (Area G) 

    An introduction to Latino/a literature of the U.S. southwest and southeast.  Each location represents a type of border culture, U.S./Mexican in the southwest and U.S./Cuban in the southeast.  Discussions and assignments will explore the cultural role of women, nation-states and nationalism, violence, healing practices, spirituality and sexual identity.

  
  • ENLT 255 - (CL, D, W) African-American Literature

    3 cr.


    Prerequisite: ENLT 140 

    (Area G, A-2, or A-3 dependent on course syllabus and approval of chair).  This course is an in-depth study of African-American literature.  A variety of genres and authors can be explored.  This examination will entail discussion of critical topics such as slavery and its legacy, racial identity, and the meaning of freedom.

  
  • ENLT 260 - (CL,D) Women of Color: Literature & Theory

    3 cr.


    (Area G) 

    This course introduces the intermediate student to the critical and creative writings by women of color.  These texts convey women of color’s unique subjectivities.  Discussion topics include themes of the body and storytelling, the ideas of self and communal preservation, and the political and cultural negotiation of multiple communal memberships.

  
  • ENLT 295 - (CL) Shakespeare in Stratford

    3 cr.
    This course combines a traditional study of six Shakespearean plays on the University campus with a week-long residency at the Shakespeare Centre in Stratford-upon-Avon, England.   Students will read and discuss the plays produced during the current Royal Shakespeare Company season and attend performances of those plays.
  
  • ENLT 323J - (CL) Classics of Western Literature I

    3 cr.
    This SJLA course surveys a tradition concerned with the individual, family, and society from classical Greece (Homer, Aeschylus, Plato) to Shakespeare and thence to the Post-Colonial (Joyce, Woolf, Morrison).  Readings explore the culmination of epic and dramatic modes in modern fiction.  The emphasis is inductive, within cultural and theoretical contexts.
  
  • ENLT 340 - Late Medieval Drama

    3 cr.


    (Area B-1) 

    A survey of 14th- and 15th-century drama, including the Corpus Christi cycle, morality plays such as Everyman, Mankind and Castle of Perseverence, and the saint’s play.  This course may be counted toward the Theatre major, minor or track.

  
  • ENLT 341 - (CL,W) Shakespeare: Special Topics

    3 cr.


    (Theory Intensive) 

    A detailed study of Shakespeare’s treatment of either a particular genre (comedy, tragedy, history, romance) or a particular subject that occurs across genres.  Special attention will be paid to the meaning of plays in performance.  This course may be counted toward the Theatre track or minor.

  
  • ENLT 342 - Renaissance Poetry and Prose

    3 cr.


    (Area B-1) 

    A survey of lyric and narrative poetry, fictional and non-fictional prose, and drama written in England between the time of Sir Thomas More and John Milton.  Readings will include More, Surrey, Lyly, Spenser, Sir Philip and Mary Sidney, Donne, Webster, Jonson, Marvell, and Milton.

  
  • ENLT 344 - Milton’s Paradise Lost

    3 cr.
    Intensive study of Milton’s masterpiece. In addition to our reading and discussion of the text itself, we will examine its biographical and historical context and explore a variety of critical approaches to the poem.
  
  • ENLT 345 - (CL,W) Restoration and 18th-Century Drama

    3 cr.


    (Area B-2) (Theory Intensive) 

    A survey of the major formal and thematic developments on the London stage between 1660 and 1776.  Discussions will focus on the social, political and institutional changes that re-shaped theatrical productions during this period.  This course may be counted toward the Theatre major, minor or track.

  
  • ENLT 347 - Victorian Voices

    3 cr.
    This course will focus on three major Victorian authors: one non-fiction prose writer, one novelist, and one poet. Possible authors include Carlyle, Arnold, Ruskin, Dickens, Eliot, Bronte, Tennyson and Browning.
  
  • ENLT 348 - (CL,D,W) Colonial and Postcolonial Fiction

    3 cr.


    (Area G) 

    Through detailed study of such authors as Achebe, Conrad, Forster, Kincaid, Kipling, Naipaul, Orwell, and Rushdie, this course explores the myths and meanings of 19th- and 20th- century European colonialism in Asia, Africa, and the Americas.

  
  • ENLT 349 - (CL) Restoration and 18th-Century Poetry

    3 cr.


    (Area B-2) 

    A study of the major developments in English poetry between 1660 and 1780 in relation to the cultural and literary history of the period.  The reading list will focus on the major ‘“Augustan” poets (Dryden, Pope, Swift, and Johnson).  It will also include works by Rochester, Behn, Gay, and Goldsmith.

  
  • ENLT 350 - Major Works: American Romantics

    3 cr.


    (Area A-1) 

    Cooper’s The Prairie, Emerson’s Nature, Thoreau’s Walden, Melville’s Moby Dick, and others.  Evaluation of the works in their historical context and the development of the American Romantic movement, 1820-1865.

  
  • ENLT 351 - Transcendentalists

    3 cr.


    (Area A-1) 

    This course transcends the typical limits of this literary period to Emerson and Thoreau’s major works.  Thus, Orestes Brownson, Margaret Fuller, Ellery Channing, Theodore Parker are covered.

  
  • ENLT 352 - (CL,W) The Development of the American Novel

    3 cr.
    This course will focus on the ways in which the American novel has reflected our changing literary and cultural values from the late 18th to the 20th century.  The reading list will include works by Charles Brockden Brown, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, John Steinbeck, and Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  
  • ENLT 353 - Major Works: American Realists

    3 cr.


    (Area A-2) 

    Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, Howell’s The Rise of Silas Lapham, James’s The American, Crane’s The Red Badge of Courage, Dreiser’s Sister Carrie and others.  Works are evaluated in their historical milieu and the development of American Realism, 1865-1900.

  
  • ENLT 355 - American Drama 1919-1939

    3 cr.


    (Area A-2) 

    A review of the first “golden age” of American drama, which includes biting masterpieces such as The Hairy Ape, Awake and Sing, and comic works such as You Can’t Take It with You and The Time of Your Life.  This course may be counted toward the Theatre track or minor.

  
  • ENLT 360 - (D) Jewish Literature

    3 cr.
    The course provides a broad literary overview of Jewish life from medieval times to the present, examining the poetry, fiction, memoirs, and drama of Jewish writers from a variety of cultures.
  
  • ENLT 362 - Literature and Philosophy

    3 cr.


    (Theory Intensive) 

    This course explores the Platonic insight that on the highest level literature and philosophy converge.  We begin with a few of Plato’s dialogues which develop this idea.  Then we examine several “literary” works in English which embody it.  Our approach is analytical, inductive and historical.

  
  • ENLT 363 - Magazine Editing

    3 cr.
    The process of editing is surveyed.  Macro-editing (publishing for a defined audience and delighting, surprising, informing, and challenging it) is emphasized over micro-editing (grammar, punctuation, and so forth).  Both are fitted into the larger picture of promotion, fulfillment, circulation, advertising, production, and distribution.
  
  • ENLT 366 - Dante’s Divine Comedy

    3 cr.
    A canto-by-canto study, in translation, of Dante’s dream vision of hell, purgatory, and heaven.  Consideration will be given to the cultural milieu and to medieval art and thought as these affect the allegorical meaning and structure of the poem.
  
  • ENLT 367 - Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J.

    3 cr.
    Study of the life and works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, S.J., the only priest-poet ever to be honored with a place in Westminster Abbey’s Poet’s Corner.
  
  • ENLT 369 - (CL) Playing God: Theatrical Presentations of Divinity

    3 cr.
    Theatrical Presentations of Divinity Playwrights from Aeschylus to Tony Kushner have attempted to stage the divine in various ways.  This course will explore the cultural contexts for these plays and the always complicated relationship between organized religion and the stage.  The reading list will include representative works from antiquity to the present day.
  
  • ENLT 382 - Guided Independent Study

    Variable credit
    A tutorial program open to third-year students.  Content determined by mentor.
  
  • ENLT 383 - Guided Independent Study

    Variable credit
    A tutorial program open to third-year students.  Content determined by mentor.
  
  • ENLT 395 - Travel Seminar: Ireland

    3 cr.
    This is an artistic, cultural, literary tour.  Students will study the people and places that contribute to Ireland’s distinct place in the world of literary art. (Intersession or Spring Break)
  
  • ENLT 423J - (CL) Classics of Western Literature II

    3 cr.
    This SJLA course examines epic and lyric poetry from classical Roman poetry through medieval, early modern and modern literature.  The approach is both literary (i.e., studying plot, character, style, genre) and thematic (i.e., addressing traditions concerning the individual, family and society).  The emphasis is inductive, within cultural and theoretical contexts.
     
  
  • ENLT 443 - Chaucer

    3 cr.


    (Theory Intensive) 

    A study of Chaucer’s poetry in the context of medieval culture. Readings and assignments will concentrate on The Canterbury Tales, but will also cover the other major poems, such as the Book of the Duchess and the Parliament of Birds.

  
  • ENLT 455 - American Realists

    3 cr.


    (Area A-2) 

    Study of representative figures in the post–Civil War period, the period of the rise of American realism.  Authors treated will be Mark Twain, Henry James, Stephen Crane, and selected modern authors.

  
  • ENLT 458 - Joyce

    3 cr.
    This course explores the prose works of James Joyce, a major figure in 20th-century literature. We will read Dubliners, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and, with the help of various guides, Ulysses.  We will work to apprehend in Joyce both the universal and the peculiarly Irish.
  
  • ENLT 461 - Modern Drama

    3 cr.
    Some previous study of drama required. A survey of the major trends and authors in 20th-century British and American drama, with some Irish and Continental works included.  Readings will include works by Shaw, O’Neill, Miller and Williams.  This course may be counted toward the Theatre major, minor, or track.
  
  • ENLT 462 - Literary Criticism and Theory

    3 cr.


    (Theory Intensive) 

    This course explores both the derivation and the defining characteristics of a range of contemporary interpretive practices, including those of psychoanalytic, Marxist, feminist, formalist, reader response, structuralist, poststructuralist, and cultural materialist critics.

  
  • ENLT 470 - Teaching Modern Grammars

    3 cr.
    This course explores the English language in the context of transformational/generative grammar and in relation to what is expected of middle school and high school English teachers.  Techniques for teaching these new grammars and laboratory teaching experience in the first-year writing clinic will be presented.
  
  • ENLT 480 - Internship

    Variable Credit
    English majors can receive internship credit for a variety of on-the-job experiences.  Approval must be obtained beforehand from chair and dean.
  
  • ENLT 482 - Guided Independent Study

    Variable Credit
    A tutorial program open to fourth-year students.  Content determined by mentor.
  
  • ENLT 483 - Guided Independent Study

    Variable Credit
    A tutorial program open to fourth-year students.  Content determined by mentor.
  
  • ENLT 490 - (W) Senior Seminar

    1.5 cr.
    The topics of these writing-intensive seminars vary from semester to semester.  Based largely on student writing, presentations, and discussion, this capstone course is required in the major and culminates in the student’s development of a seminar paper.  May be repeated for credit.  Enrollment limited to 15 students per section.
  
  • ENLT 491 - (W) Senior Seminar

    1.5 cr.
    The topics of these writing-intensive seminars vary from semester to semester.  Based largely on student writing, presentations, and discussion, this capstone course is required in the major and culminates in the student’s development of a seminar paper.  May be repeated for credit. Enrollment limited to 15 students per section.
  
  • ESCI 440 - Topics in Environmental Science

    1 cr.


    (Prerequisite: senior standing in ESCI major or permission of instructor) 

    One credit/semester.  Discussions of current and significant environmental science issues.

  
  • ESCI 441 - Topics in Environmental Science

    1 cr.


    (Prerequisite: senior standing in ESCI major or permission of instructor) 

    One credit/semester.  Discussions of current and significant environmental science issues.

  
  • ESCI 480 - Internship in Environmental Science

    1.5 cr.


    (Prerequisite: senior standing in ESCI major or permission of instructor) 

    Student to work with private firm, advocacy group, or governmental agency on an environmental issue or technique that involves application of scientific principles to monitor, test, or develop/implement solutions to environmental problems.  Project and institutional sponsor subject to approval of the Environmental Science Committee; final project report required.

  
  • ESCI 481 - Internship in Environmental Science

    1.5 cr.


    (Prerequisite: senior standing in ESCI major or permission of instructor) 

    Student to work with private firm, advocacy group, or governmental agency on an environmental issue or technique that involves application of scientific principles to monitor, test, or develop/implement solutions to environmental problems.  Project and institutional sponsor subject to approval of the Environmental Science Committee; final project report required.

  
  • ESCI 493 - Research in Environmental Science

    1.5 cr.


    (Prerequisite: senior standing in ESCI major or permission of instructor) 

    Individual study and research of a specific environmental problem.  Mentored by a Biology or Chemistry faculty member.

  
  • ESCI 494 - Research in Environmental Science

    1.5 cr.


    (Prerequisite: senior standing in ESCI major or permission of instructor) 

    Individual study and research of a specific environmental problem.  Mentored by a Biology or Chemistry faculty member.

  
  • ESL 101 - Academic ESL

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: for ESL 101: Paper TOEFL score of 500 or equivalent; for ESL 102, ESL 101 or consent of instructor) 

    Designed for students for whom English is a second/additional language to develop skills in academic English discourse.  Focuses on reading and writing needed for university course work as well as dominant mores and characteristics of U.S. culture such as the political, economic, historical, and social environment of the United States

  
  • ESL 102 - Academic ESL

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: for ESL 101: Paper TOEFL score of 500 or equivalent; for ESL 102, ESL 101 or consent of instructor) 

    Designed for students for whom English is a second/additional language to develop skills in academic English discourse.  Focuses on reading and writing needed for university course work as well as dominant mores and characteristics of U.S. culture such as the political, economic, historical, and social environment of the United States

  
  • EXSC 210 - Sport and Exercise Physiology

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisite: BIOL 110 or permission of instructor) 

    This course explores the physiological principles and systems underlying sport performance – aerobic and anaerobic energy, oxygen transport, and muscular and cardiovascular systems.  Students will learn how to apply the principles to improve human performance.  Includes service-learning component.

  
  • EXSC 212 - Nutrition in Exercise and Sport

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: EXSC 210 or BIOL 347, CHEM 112-113 or permission of instructor) 

    Role of nutrients in optimizing human performance.  Consideration of caloric and nutrient exercise requirements, gender-specific needs, weight loss/eating disorders, and nutritional ergogenic aids.  Includes service-learning component.

  
  • EXSC 229 - Applied Anatomy and Kinesiology

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisite: BIO 110-111, EXSC 210) 

    This course is designed to provide the student with basic scientific information and an understanding of human motion within the areas of anatomy and neuromuscular physiology.

  
  • EXSC 230 - (D,S) Health Promotion/Disease Prevention and Health Disparities

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: EXSC 212 or NUTR 101 or NUTR 110 or NUTR 220 or permission of instructor) 

    This course overviews health promotion/disease prevention in the United States, including health promotion statistics, strategies/resources and health disparities (social justice).  Areas highlighted are cultural and behavioral influences on disease, equity in prevention strategies, culturally competent and gender-specific interventions (i.e., people of color, women, the aged, people with disabilities/mental illness).

  
  • EXSC 240 - Prevention and Care of Sports Injuries

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: EXSC 229, Exercise Science major) 

    Will cover sports first aid, prevention of and dealing with sports injuries.  Helps students become competent first responders in sports emergencies.  Students will learn how to recognize and prevent common sports injuries and administer appropriate first aid.  Also covers procedures for evaluating and caring for injuries, guidelines for rehabilitation and therapeutic taping.  Includes service-learning component.

  
  • EXSC 313 - Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: BIO 110-111, PHYS 120, EXSC 210, EXSC 229) 

    This course introduces the student to the concepts and principles of biomechanics as they relate to sport and exercise.

  
  • EXSC 350 - Nutrition through the Life Cycle

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisite: EXSC 212, NUTR 220 or permission of instructor) 

    This course is based on the common organizational structure used in nutrition that begins with key nutrition concepts then moves to prevalence statistics, physiological principles, and then, nutrition needs and recommendations.  The needs addressed begin with preconception and then trace those needs through the aging process and is suitable for a variety of career goals.

  
  • EXSC 360 - Essentials of Strength Training and Conditioning

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: EXSC 229, EXSC 313) 

    This course examines the advanced methods and techniques associated with the design of strength and conditioning programs to enhance human performance in sport and fitness.  The course is designed to enhance students’ current level of knowledge in preparation for the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) certification.

  
  • EXSC 375 - Exercise Testing/Programming for Health and Performance

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: EXSC 210, Exercise Science major or permission of instructor) 

    Provides knowledge related to Graded Exercise Testing and counseling, including purposes, basic exercise ECG, energy costs of exercise, principles of exercise prescription, special populations, and case study.

  
  • EXSC 380 - Internship in Exercise Science

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: EXSC 375, Exercise Science major) 

    The application of Exercise Science principles, knowledge and skills in a supervised setting.  Depending on career interests, students can select from a variety of interest including sites located outside of the Northeast region.

  
  • EXSC 412 - (W) Current Topics in Exercise Science and Sports Medicine

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisite: EXSC 210 or BIOL 347 or permission of instructor) 

    Current topics in the field affecting health and human performance including ergogenics, exercise benefits in chronic, disease states, clinical exercise physiology, and age/gender issues.

  
  • EXSC 413 - (W) Worksite Health Promotion

    3 cr.


     

    This course provides an overview of health promotion in the worksite including supporting theories and critical issues such as management support, economic benefits, and worksite health promotion professional standards.  Focus is on implementing worksite health promotion programs.  Implementation phases include needs assessment/evaluation, effective interventions, program marketing and organizational development.

  
  • EXSC 435 - (D) Exercise, Nutrition and Women’s Health

    3 cr.
    This course is designed to address the major aspects of women’s health, including historical, epidemiological, clinical, exercise, nutrition, special populations, cultural and psychosocial issues. Includes service-learning component.
  
  • EXSC 440 - Advanced Physiology of Sport and Exercise

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisite: Fourth-year standing in Exercise Science) 

    Advanced concepts of human performance as related to sport and exercise including physiological limits, Bioenergetics, fiber type/myoplasticity of skeletal muscle, cardiovascular dynamics and the athletic heart, and pulmonary ventilation and aerobic performance.

  
  • EXSC 442 - Clinical Exercise Physiology

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisite: EXSC 210 or BIOL 347 or permission of instructor) 

    This course covers exercise response and adaptation in a variety of chronic lifestyle diseases and the use of exercise tolerance assessment to improve and optimize quality of life.

  
  • EXSC 448 - Research Methods in Exercise Science

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: Fourth-year standing in Exercise Science, EXSC 375) 

    Designed for the student to study and gain experience in research related to the field of Exercise Science.  The nature of research, methods for acquiring, analyzing, and publishing/presenting research relevant to Exercise Science.

  
  • FIN 351 - Introduction to Finance

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: junior standing, ECO 153-154 or 101, ACC 252 or 253, or permission of the instructor) 

    This course introduces students to the field of finance.  Topics include time value of money, risk analysis, basic operation of the capital markets, current asset and liability analysis, and introduction to the topics of capital budgeting and cost of capital calculation.

  
  • FIN 361 - Working Capital Management

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisite: FIN 351) 

    This course provides advanced study in the financial-management area through detailed analysis of financial statements, liquidity crises, cash optimization, credit analysis, banking arrangements, loan contracts, commercial paper and the use of money market.

  
  • FIN 362 - Investments

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisite: FIN 351) 

    An introduction to the theory and process of managing investments.  Topics include practical operation of the equity markets, debt options and futures markets.  Stock-valuation models using fundamental technical and random-walk approaches.

  
  • FIN 470 - Capital Investment and Structure

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisite: FIN 351) 

    Advanced study in the “permanent” financial aspects of the firm, including capital-budgeting models, optimal-replacement processes, abandonment, leasing, cost of capital, capital structure, dividend theories, mergers and acquisitions, and bankruptcy.

  
  • FIN 471 - Derivative Securities

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisite: FIN 362) 

    This course looks at the nature of derivative securities, focusing on options.  It develops pricing models for options, emphasizing the Black-Scholes model.  The use of options in various investment strategies is discussed in terms of risk and return.  Students use real-time data to implement these strategies.

  
  • FIN 472 - Portfolio Management

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisite: FIN 362) 

    Advanced study of professional management of various portfolios including those of banks, insurance companies, pension funds, and non-profit institutions.  Markowitz and Sharpe models, data availability, and computerized-data services are covered.

  
  • FIN 473 - Financial Institutions

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisite: ECO 362) 

    The study of financial markets and financial institutions, including depository and nondepository institutions.  Topics include regulation, operation, and management of financial institutions, financial instruments, interest-rate principles, risk-management strategies, loan analysis, and asset/liability management.  Insurance and pension principles and investment banking are covered.

  
  • FIN/IB 475 - International Finance

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: ECO/IB 351, FIN 351) 

    This course deals with the environment of international financial management, exchange-rate determination, foreign-exchange risk-management, multinational working-capital management, international financial markets and instruments, foreign-investment analysis, and management of ongoing operations.  It also exposes students to a wide range of issues, concepts, and techniques pertaining to international finance.

  
  • FREN 101 - (CF) Beginning French

    3 cr.
    Designed to impart a good basic foundation in comprehending, speaking, reading, and writing the French language.  Designed primarily for students with little or no background in the French language. (FRN 101 is normally the prerequisite to 102.)  Taught in French.  Includes activities inside and/or outside the classroom that involve Language Learning Center (language lab) resources.
  
  • FREN 102 - (CF) Beginning French

    3 cr.
    Designed to impart a good basic foundation in comprehending, speaking, reading, and writing the French language.  Designed primarily for students with little or no background in the French language. (FRN 101 is normally the prerequisite to 102.)  Taught in French.  Includes activities inside and/or outside the classroom that involve Language Learning Center (language lab) resources.
  
  • FREN 203 - French Cultural Heritage

    3 cr.
    This course aims to develop understanding of the culture, literature and civilization of France.  Representative readings from different periods.  Lectures, discussions and readings in English.
  
  • FREN 211 - (CF,D) Intermediate French

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: FREN 101-102 or equivalent, as determined by placement exam) 

    Completion of FREN 212 satisfies one semester of the cultural diversity requirements.  Designed to give greater scope and depth to the student’s knowledge of the French language and Francophone culture.  Taught in French.  (FREN 211 or its equivalent is normally the prerequisite to 212.)  Includes activities inside and/or outside the classroom that involve Language Learning Center (language lab) resources.

  
  • FREN 212 - (CF,D) Intermediate French

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: FREN 101-102 or equivalent, as determined by placement exam) 

    Completion of FREN 212 satisfies one semester of the cultural diversity requirements.  Designed to give greater scope and depth to the student’s knowledge of the French language and Francophone culture.  Taught in French.  (FREN 211 or its equivalent is normally the prerequisite to 212.)  Includes activities inside and/or outside the classroom that involve Language Learning Center (language lab) resources.

  
  • FREN 311 - (CF,D) French Conversation

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: FREN 211-212 or equivalent, as determined by placement exam) 

    Intensive French conversation, emphasizing cross-cultural comparisons and development of self-expression in French.  Taught in French. Includes activities inside and/or outside the classroom that involve Language Learning Center (language lab) resources.

  
  • FREN 312 - (CF,W) French Composition

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: FREN 211-212 or equivalent, as determined by placement exam) 

    An intensive course in writing in French, stressing grammar, writing analysis and composition.  Taught in French. Includes activities inside and/or outside the classroom that involve Language Learning Center (language lab) resources.

  
  • FREN 315 - (D) Survey of French Culture and Civilization

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: FREN 311-312 or equivalent) 

    A review of the geography, history, art and other components of the heritage of continental France, from antiquity to the present.  Taught in French.

  
  • FREN 316 - (D) Survey of Francophone Culture and Civilization

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: FREN 311-312 or equivalent) 

    A historical view of the cultural contribution and heritage of French-speaking peoples living outside continental France.  Taught in French.

  
  • FREN 319 - Business French

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: FREN 311-312 or equivalent) 

    Overview of the spoken and written language of the French business world.  Formalities and conventions of letter writing, banking, import/export, and other commercial transactions.   Analysis of terminology from business-related areas such as finance, insurance and international commerce within a contemporary cultural setting.  Taught in French.  Includes activities inside and/or outside the classroom that involve Language Learning Center (language lab) resources.

  
  • FREN 320 - (CL,W) Introduction to French Literature

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: FREN 311-312 or equivalent) 

    An introduction to the principal literary genres of poetry, novel, short story, essay and drama, through analysis of representative works in the French tradition.  Strongly recommended as a prerequisite for all upper-division literature courses in French.  Taught in French.

  
  • FREN 325F - (D,W) French-Francophone Politics and Society

    3 cr.
    The course addresses the historical, social and cultural aspect of France’s imperialistic expansion, with particular emphasis on French relations, past and present, with the African colonies. FREN 325F can count towards the major or minor by arrangement with the professor. Taught in conjunction with FREN 333.
  
  • FREN 333 - French Practicum

    1 cr.


    (Prerequisite: Enrollment in a FLaC course, that is, a course listed as E and F, English language or Foreign language credit bearing.) 

    A one-credit course in the target language to supplement FLaC courses (Foreign Language across the Curriculum) taught in English.  In addition to doing their reading and writing in the target language, students receiving credit in the target language will meet an additional hour per week for discussion in that language.

  
  • FREN 430 - Women Writers of the Francophone World

    3 cr.
    (Prerequisites: FREN 311-312 or equivalent)Women’s view of themselves and the world as reflected in their literary creations. Cross-listed with Women’s Studies Concentration. (See Women’s Studies Concentration  section.) Taught in French.
  
  • FREN 431 - (D,W) Literature of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

    3 cr.
    This course provides an overview of different literary genres and literary currents through in depth reading and analysis of exemplary texts written in French in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
  
  • FREN 432 - French Short Story

    3 cr.
    (Prerequisites: FREN 311-312 or equivalent)Principal practitioners of the short story in French, including contemporary authors.
  
  • FREN 433 - Twentieth-Century French Drama

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: FREN 311-312 or equivalent) 

    The development of dramatic forms from the Théâtre Libre to the present.

  
  • FREN 435 - The French Theater

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: FREN 311-312 or equivalent) 

    An inquiry into the various forms of the French theater through a study of significant representative works from different periods.

  
  • FREN 437 - Francophone Literature

    3 cr.
    This course provides an overview of different forms of literary expression throughout the Francophone world, from Africa to Haiti to Quebec.  Emphasis will be on main literary currents, ideology, political climates, and linguistic traditions in each country.
  
  • FREN 439 - The Craft of Translation

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: FREN 311-312 or equivalent) 

    A study of the techniques of translation with emphasis on accurate terminology and proper syntax when translating newspaper articles, legal documents, medical records, business records and correspondence, essays, poems, songs, and short fiction.

  
  • FREN 482 - Guided Independent Study

    1.5 cr.


    (Prerequisites: FREN 311-312 or equivalent; junior or senior standing) 

    Tutorial content determined by mentor.

  
  • FREN 483 - Guided Independent Study

    1.5 cr.


    (Prerequisites: FREN 311-312 or equivalent; junior or senior standing) 

    Tutorial content determined by mentor.

  
  • GEOG 134 - (S) World Regional Geography

    3 cr.


     

    Introduces the major concepts and skills of geography.  A regional approach stresses the five themes of geography including location, place, human environment interaction, movement and region.

  
  • GEOG 217 - (D,S) Cultural Geography

    3 cr.
    Study of the influence of geography on the origin, structure, and spread of culture.  Focuses on describing and analyzing the ways language, religion, economy, government and other cultural phenomena vary or remain consistent from place to place.
  
  • GERM 101 - (CF) Beginning German

    3 cr.


    (GERM 101 is normally the prerequisite to 102.) 

    A complete course in the fundamentals of the German language.  Emphasis on reading of graded texts, with written, oral and aural exercises.  Designed for students with little or no background in the German language.  Taught in German.  Includes activities inside and/or outside the classroom that involve Language Learning Center (language lab) resources.

  
  • GERM 102 - (CF) Beginning German

    3 cr.


    (GERM 101 is normally the prerequisite to 102.) 

    A complete course in the fundamentals of the German language.  Emphasis on reading of graded texts, with written, oral and aural exercises.  Designed for students with little or no background in the German language.  Taught in German.  Includes activities inside and/or outside the classroom that involve Language Learning Center (language lab) resources.

  
  • GERM 211 - (CF,D) Continuing German I

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: GERM 101-102 or equivalent) 

    Completion of GERM 212 satisfies one semester of the cultural diversity requirements.  Reading from modern authors of moderate difficulty.  Oral and written exercise.  Systematic review of German grammar.  (GERM 211 or its equivalent is normally the prerequisite to 212.)  Taught in German.  Includes activities inside and/or outside the classroom that involve Language Learning Center (language lab) resources.

 

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