Mar 29, 2024  
Undergraduate Catalog 2011-2012 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2011-2012 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 
  
  • EDUC 312 - The Secondary School Mathematics Curriculum

    3 cr.
    This course examines the strategies and content of mathematics curricula in the secondary school and attempts to compare them to major contemporary reform efforts.  The course includes a review of secondary-school (junior and senior high school) mathematics.
  
  • EDUC 313 - General Methods and Planning

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisite: EDUC 222; pre- or co-requisite for EDUC 380) 

    Methodology for setting direction in the classroom, creating a learning situation, developing the content, reinforcing and evaluating will be covered.  Students will be involved with developing plans for teaching.

  
  • EDUC 314 - Specific Subject Methods

    3 cr.
    Utilizing knowledge of planning and teaching, students are guided in the analysis of specific content and techniques for teaching that content.  They will demonstrate their ability to carry out plans in “micro” teaching experiences.  Includes service-learning component.
  
  • EDUC 316L - Elementary Methods Laboratory Course

    1 cr.


    (Co-requisites: EDUC 348 and 349) 

    Students will be placed in basic education schools.  An emphasis is placed on designing and implementing lesson plans that are consistent with evidence-based research.  Application to the field director and completed clearances are required.

  
  • EDUC 339 - Math for Grades 2-4

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisite: EDUC 242) 

    This course helps teachers analyze and become knowledgeable of the range and sequence of mathematical concepts, content and skills related to Grades 2-4.  A variety of teaching techniques explored includes problem solving, an integration of hands-on math manipulatives, interdisciplinary planning, cooperative grouping, and the inductive teaching model.

  
  • EDUC 343 - Evaluation and Measurement

    3 cr.
    This course is an introduction to the practical methods of assessment used in an early learning classroom environment.  The knowledge, perspective, and skills presented will support preservice teachers in becoming intelligent users of educational assessments for all children.
  
  • EDUC 344 - Science for PreK-4

    3 cr.
    This course is designed to help teachers become knowledgeable of local, state, and national science standards and to incorporate those standards in their teaching of environment and ecology, physical sciences, life sciences, birth sciences, and scientific inquiry for young children in the PreK-4 classroom.
  
  • EDUC 346 - Social Studies for PreK-4

    3 cr.
    This course is designed to help teachers become knowledgeable of the state and national standards and thematic strands of social studies in the five overarching principles of citizenship, geography, history, economics, and civics/government.  This course focuses on developmentally appropriate practice for young learners in the PreK-4 student population.
  
  • EDUC 349 - Integrated Methods: Elementary Language Arts/Social Studies

    4 cr.


    (Prerequisite: EDUC 225) 

    This course is designed to provide the elementary education major with planning and instructional strategies necessary for exemplary language arts and social studies instruction in the classroom.  Attention will be paid to those strategies that might be used for integrated instruction as well as instruction of each area as separate and distinct disciplines.

  
  • EDUC 351 - Methods Across the Integrated Curriculum,PreK-1

    3 cr.


    (Pre- or Co-requisites: EDUC 344, EDUC 346, Required Clearances) 

    Best practices in pedagogy for PreK-1 classrooms, including developmentally appropriate practices, play, authentic performance, and technology, informs part of this course.  Another part of the course allows students to engage in 60-hours of instructor-supervised practical experience in a PreK-1 classroom.

  
  • EDUC 357 - Methods Across the Integrated Curriculum, Primary Grades 2-4

    3 cr.


    (Pre-or C-requisites: EDUC 344, EDUC 346, Required Clearances) 

    Best practices in pedagogy for Gr 2-4 classrooms, including developmentally appropriate practices, play, authentic performance, and technology, informs part of this course.  Another part of the course allows students to engage in 60-hours of instructor-supervised practical experience in a Gr. 2-4 classroom.

  
  • EDUC 358 - Reading to Learn with Trade Books & Texts, Primary Grades 2-4

    3 cr.
    An advanced course in reading. It provides additional instruction in working with older students who have not fully developed reading fundamentals. Independent reading, literature study, comprehension, word analysis, learning with textbooks and the reading/writing connection are all studied in depth.
  
  • EDUC 359 - Introduction to English Language Learning

    3 cr.
    This course introduces pre-service teachers to the challenges they will face when English language learners are members of their classes.  The class will address how to successfully accommodate and integrate these students into class activities and how to assist them in their academic and linguistic development. Students will develop a clearer understanding of the challenges these students face in and out of the school setting.
  
  • EDUC 360 - Assessment for the Middle School Curriculum

    3 cr.


    (Clearances required.) 

    This course emphasizes procedures of assessing middle school students.  Considering that student performance is variable and that assessments are planned and modified to meet the varied needs of students, this course will enable students to understand and apply best practices in using validated and reliable assessments that inform classroom practices.  A field component of 20 hours of pre-student teaching is part of the course expectations.

  
  • EDUC 361 - Reading to Learn with Trade Books and Texts, Gr. 4-8

    3 cr.
    This is an advanced course in reading.  It provides additional instruction in working with older students who have not fully developed reading fundamentals. Independent reading, literature study, comprehension, word analysis, learning with textbooks and trade books, and the reading/writing connection are all studied in depth.
  
  • EDUC 364 - (D) Inclusionary Classroom Practices

    3 cr.
    Emphasis is placed on the special-education teacher as one member of an educational team.  Students will receive guidance in supporting the disabled student in a general-education classroom, supporting the general-education teacher in providing instruction for the disabled child, and generally facilitating the acceptance and optimal learning of the disabled student in a general-education environment.  Includes service-learning component.
  
  • EDUC 370 - Inclusionary Classroom Practices for Secondary Teachers

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: EDUC 142 and EDUC 223; Teacher Candidate Status) 

    Emphasis on the secondary teacher as a member of an educational team and as a member of a co-teaching team.  Students will receive guidance in supporting students with disabilities in general education classrooms.  Students will learn and utilize several different learning strategies to ensure success in the general education classroom.

  
  • EDUC 371 - Literacy Strategies in Secondary School

    3 cr.
    This course is the study of the literacy strategies for speaking, listening, reading, writing, and viewing with emphasis placed on understanding and skills needed by all secondary school students in content areas.
  
  • EDUC 372 - Integrated Methods: Middle Level Math/Science

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisite: EDUC 225) 

    This course is designed to provide the Middle School Grade 4-8 major with planning and instructional strategies necessary for exemplary science and mathematics both in distinct and in integrated methods of delivery.  An analysis of similarities and differences in content and standards within these disciplines will guide the study.

  
  • EDUC 373 - Integrated Methods: Middle Level Social Studies/Literacy

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisite: EDUC 225) 

    This course is designed to provide the Middle Level Grades 4 - 8 education major with planning and instructional strategies necessary for exemplary social studies and literacy instruction in the classroom.  Attention will be made to those strategies that might be used for integrated instruction as well as instruction of each area as separate and distinct disciplines.

  
  • EDUC 380 - Field Experience III

    1 cr.


    (Prerequisites: EDUC 225 and 280; pre- or co-requisite: EDUC 313) 

    This course is closely associated with the methods courses.  An emphasis is placed on studying teaching techniques and involvement in teacher activities in basic-education schools.   Application to field director, state police clearances, child abuse clearances and a record of FBI fingerprint clearances are required. EDUC 440, 441, 442, 443 and 444 must be scheduled during the same semester. Collectively, they comprise a semester of student teaching. Student teaching require an application due March 1 or October 1 for fall and spring placements, respectively. Current state police clearances, child abuse clearances and a record of FBI fingerprint clearances are required.

  
  • EDUC 440 - Professional Practice Seminar

    3 cr.
    In-depth study of the rationale, theories, and techniques for creating a situation where learning can take place and for handling specific individual and group behavior problems in productive ways. EDUC 440, 441, 442, 443 and 444 must be scheduled during the same semester.  Collectively, they comprise a semester of student teaching.  Student teaching require an application due March 1 or October 1 for fall and spring placements, respectively.  Current state police clearances, child abuse clearances and a record of FBI fingerprint clearances are required.
  
  • EDUC 441 - Planning in Elementary Student Teaching

    1 cr.
    Preparation of actual teaching plans during elementary student teaching.  Application to field director required. EDUC 440, 441, 442, 443 and 444 must be scheduled during the same semester.  Collectively, they comprise a semester of student teaching.  Student teaching require an application due March 1 or October 1 for fall and spring placements, respectively.  Current state police clearances, child abuse clearances and a record of FBI fingerprint clearances are required.
  
  • EDUC 442 - Instruction in Elementary Student Teaching

    1.5 cr.
    Involvement in implementing methods and techniques. Elementary-school student teaching on a full-time basis under the supervision of classroom teachers and University supervisors. EDUC 440, 441, 442, 443 and 444 must be scheduled during the same semester.  Collectively, they comprise a semester of student teaching.
  
  • EDUC 443 - Managing Elementary Classrooms in Student Teaching

    1 cr.
    Involvement in the management of learning situations during elementary student teaching. EDUC 440, 441, 442, 443 and 444 must be scheduled during the same semester.   Collectively, they comprise a semester of student teaching.
  
  • EDUC 444 - Professional Growth in Elementary Student Teaching

    1.5 cr.
    The demonstration of professional growth during student teaching as evidenced by professional behavior and skills, a commitment to improvement, and ability to relate to others.  This will include attendance at and participation in a weekly seminar to analyze and discuss professional considerations and student-teaching problems.  Includes service-learning component. EDUC 440, 441, 442, 443 and 444 must be scheduled during the same semester.  Collectively, they comprise a semester of student teaching.
  
  • EDUC 445 - Professional Practice Seminar, PreK-4

    1 cr.


    (Prerequisites: EDUC 351, EDUC 357) 

    In-depth study of the rationale, theories, and techniques for creating situations where learning can take place in the PreK-4 environment and for handling specific individual and group behavior problems in productive ways to meet the needs of all students, including those of children with disabilities.

  
  • EDUC 450 - Professional Practice Seminar, 4-8

    1 cr.
    In-depth study of the rationale, theories, and techniques for creating a situation where learning can take place in the 4-8 classroom environment and for handling specific individual and group behavior problems in productive ways to meet the needs of all students, including those of children with disabilities.  EDUC450, 452, 453, 454 and 455 must be scheduled during the same semester.  Collectively, they comprise a semester of student teaching.
  
  • EDUC 456 - Planning in PreK-4 Student Teaching

    1 cr.
    Preparation of actual teaching plans during early childhood student teaching.  Application to field director required. Student teaching require an application due March 1 or October 1 for fall and spring placements, respectively.  Current state police clearances, child abuse clearances and a record of FBI fingerprint clearances are required.
  
  • EDUC 457 - Instruction in PreK-4 Student Teaching

    1.5 cr.
    Involvement in implementing methods and techniques.  Early childhood student teaching on a full-time basis under the supervision of classroom teachers and University supervisors.
  
  • EDUC 458 - Managing Classrooms in PreK-4 Student Teaching

    1 cr.
    Involvement in the management of learning situations during early childhood student teaching.
  
  • EDUC 459 - Professional Growth in PreK-4 Student Teaching

    1.5 cr.
    The demonstration of professional growth during student teaching as evidenced by professional behavior and skills, a commitment to improvement, and ability to relate to others.  This will include attendance and participation in a weekly seminar to analyze and discuss professional considerations and student-teaching problems.  Includes service-learning component.
  
  • EDUC 461 - Planning in Special Education Student Teaching

    1 cr.
    Preparation of actual teaching plans during special-education student teaching.  Application to field director required. EDUC 461, 462, 463 and 464 must be scheduled during the same semester.  Collectively, they comprise a semester of student teaching.  Student teaching require an application due March 1 or October 1 for fall and spring placements, respectively. Current state police clearances, child abuse clearances and a record of FBI fingerprint clearances are required.
  
  • EDUC 462 - Instruction in Special Education Student Teaching

    1.5 cr.
    Involvement in implementing methods and techniques.  Special-education student teaching on a full-time basis under the supervision of classroom teachers and University supervisors.   EDUC 461, 462, 463 and 464 must be scheduled during the same semester.  Collectively, they comprise a semester of student teaching.
  
  • EDUC 463 - Managing Special Education Classrooms in Student Teaching

    1 cr.
    Involvement in the management of learning situations during special-education student teaching.  EDUC 461, 462, 463 and 464 must be scheduled during the same semester.  Collectively, they comprise a semester of student teaching.
  
  • EDUC 464 - Professional Growth in Special Education Student Teaching

    1.5 cr.
    The demonstration of professional growth during student teaching as evidenced by professional behavior and skills, a commitment to improvement, and ability to relate to others.  This will include attendance at and participation in a weekly seminar to analyze and discuss professional considerations and student-teaching problems.  Includes service-learning component.  EDUC 461, 462, 463 and 464 must be scheduled during the same semester.  Collectively, they comprise a semester of student teaching.
  
  • EDUC 475 - Professional Seminar

    3 cr.
    In-depth study of the rationale, theories, and techniques for creating a situation where learning can take place and for handling specific individual and group behavior problems in productive ways.  EDUC 475, 476, 477, 478 and 479 must be scheduled during the same semester.  Collectively, they comprise a semester of student teaching.
  
  • EDUC 476 - Planning in Secondary Student Teaching

    2 cr.
    Preparation of actual teaching plans during secondary student teaching. Application to field director required.  EDUC 475, 476, 477, 478 and 479 must be scheduled during the same semester.  Collectively, they comprise a semester of student teaching.  Student teaching require an application due March 1 or October 1 for fall and spring placements, respectively.  Current state police clearances, child abuse clearances and a record of FBI fingerprint clearances are required.
  
  • EDUC 477 - Instruction in Secondary Student Teaching

    3 cr.
    Involvement in implementing methods and techniques.  Secondary student teaching on a full-time basis under the supervision of classroom teachers and University supervisors.  EDUC 475, 476, 477, 478 and 479 must be scheduled during the same semester.  Collectively, they comprise a semester of student teaching.
  
  • EDUC 478 - Managing Classrooms in Secondary Student Teaching

    2 cr.
    Involvement in the management of learning situations during secondary student teaching.  EDUC 475, 476, 477, 478 and 479 must be scheduled during the same semester. Collectively, they comprise a semester of student teaching.
  
  • EDUC 479 - Professional Growth in Secondary Student Teaching

    3 cr.
    The demonstration of professional growth during student teaching as evidenced by professional behavior and skills, a commitment to improvement, and ability to relate to others.  This will include attendance and participation in a weekly seminar to analyze and discuss professional considerations and student-teaching problems.  Includes service-learning component.   EDUC 475, 476, 477, 478 and 479 must be scheduled during the same semester.  Collectively, they comprise a semester of student teaching.
  
  • EE 241 - Circuit Analysis

    4 cr.


    (Prerequisites: PHYS 141, MATH 221) 

    Analysis of resistive networks, sources, op-amps, capacitors and inductors.  Kirchoff’s Laws, Mesh and Nodal Analysis, Superposition, and Thevenin-Norton equivalent circuits.   Transient responses of RC, RL, and RLC circuits. AC steady state.  Computer assisted solutions using Multisim and Maple. Three hours lecture and two hours laboratory.

  
  • EE 243L - Digital System Design Laboratory

    1 cr.
    Introduction to the design, construction and testing of digital logic circuits.  Most of the major components of a computer will be investigated.  Use of computer program to draw circuits and designs.Two hours laboratory.
  
  • EE 343 - Electronic Circuits I

    4 cr.
    (Prerequisite: EE 241) 

    Modeling, analysis, and applications of semiconductor diodes, bipolar junction and field-effect transistors in analog circuits.  Analysis of non-ideal op-amps.  Amplifier biasing, small-signal analysis, design and frequency response.  Elementary bipolar and MOSFET logic circuits.  Circuit simulation using Multisim.  Introduction to LabView software.  Three hours lecture and two hours lab. 

     

  
  • EE 344 - Electronic Circuits II

    4 cr.


    (Prerequisite: EE 343) 

    Advanced transistor amplifier analysis and design, feedback effects.  Introduction to transistor level design of CMOS op-amp and digital circuits.  Design and analysis of power amplifiers, analog filters, oscillators, A/D and D/A converters, and electronic sensors.  Extensive use of Multisim for circuit simulation.  Design project using LabView.  Three hours lecture and two hours lab.

  
  • EE 346 - Digital Signal Processing

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: EE 240, EE 241) 

    A study of discrete-time signals and systems, convolution, z-transform, discrete Fourier transform, and FFT algorithms.  Analysis and design techniques for digital filters and their realizations.  Emphasis will be on the use of computer-aided interactive digital-signal processing programs for several projects on signal analysis and filter design. Three hours lecture.

  
  • EE 447 - Electromagnetics I

    3 cr.


    Also listed as PHYS 447. (Prerequisite: PHYS 270; pre- or co-requisite: ENGR 350) 

    Analytic treatment of electrical and magnetic theory; vector calculus of electrostatic fields; dielectric materials; vector calculus of magnetic fields. Three hours lecture.

  
  • EE 448 - Electromagnetics II

    3 cr.


    Also listed as PHYS 448 (Prerequisite: EE 447) 

    Magnetic materials, electromagnetic induction, displacement currents, Maxwell’s equations; radiation and waves; applications include transmission lines, wave guides, and antennas. Three hours lecture.

  
  • EE 448L - Electromagnetics Design Laboratory

    1 cr.
    (Co-requisite: EE 448)Laboratory designed to emphasize and reinforce the experimental basis of electromagnetism. Multi-week projects require the student to perform experiments that measure fundamental electrical constants, the electrical and magnetic properties of matter, and the properties of electromagnetic waves. Two hours laboratory.(Also listed as PHYS 448L.)
  
  • EE 449 - Computer Interfacing

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: EE 344, EE 346) 

    Microprocessor programming and interfacing; data acquisition, manipulation and transmission; microprocessor support devices and common computer interfaces.  Periodic written and oral presentations are required. One hour lecture and three hours laboratory.

  
  • EE 450 - Control Systems

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisite: EE 241; pre- or co-requisite: ENGR 350) 

    Models of physical systems using Laplace transforms and state variable methods. Structure of control systems, block diagram reduction, transfer functions.  System transient characteristics and steady-state error, disturbance rejection, and sensitivity.  Control system analysis; stability, root locus, Bode and Nyquist methods.  Simulation and design using MATLAB. 
      Three hours lecture.

  
  • EE 451 - Communication Systems

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: ENGR 350; pre-or co-requisite: EE 344) 

    An understanding of the basic concepts and principles of analog and digital communication systems and performance of these systems in the presence of noise.  Qualitative and quantitative analysis as well as computer tools (MATLAB) will be employed in solving selected communication theory and systems problems.  Three hours lecture.

  
  • EE 454 - Robotics Design Project and Professional Practice

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: EE 449, EE 450) 

    Students design a self-contained intelligent robot required to carry out a complex task.  Each project involves creative conception, design, development, evaluation, economic constraints, reliability and safety.  Written and oral presentations. Three hours lecture.

  
  • EE 484 - Superconductivity Devices and Circuits

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: EE 447, ENGR 252) 

    A course designed for students with interest in super-conductivity.  Strong background in calculus, electromagnetics and solid-state devices is necessary.  Topics to be discussed: perfect conductivity, the classical model of superconductivity, and direct applications; the quantum model of super-conductivity, Josephson junctions and super-conducting devices (SQUIDs).  Group projects (literature search and brief presentations at the end of the term) are assigned.

  
  • ENGR 250 - Engineering Mechanics-Statics

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisite: PHYS 140; pre- or co-requisite: MATH 221) 

    Various types of force systems; resultants and conditions of translational and rotational equilibrium; stress analysis of the parts of different types of structures by graphical, algebraic and vector methods; frictional forces; centroids and second moments of areas of solids. Three hours lecture.

  
  • ENGR 251 - Engineering Mechanics-Dynamics

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisite: ENGR 250; pre- or co-requisite: MATH 222) 

    Kinematics of particles and rigid bodies which include linear, curvilinear, angular and relative motions; inertia forces, impulse, momentum, work, energy and power; mechanical vibrations. Three hours lecture.

  
  • ENGR 252 - Photonic & Power Solid State Devices

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisite: ENGR 250, MATH 222) 

    The crystalline state of matter, band theory of semiconductors, semiconductor statistics, carrier drift and diffusion, impurities in semiconductors, electron generation-recombination processes, p-n junctions, optical absorption and optical devices; solar cells, photodectors, light emitting diodes, laser diodes, solid state lasers, power diodes, power MOSFET’s, Thyristors.  Three hours lecture.

  
  • ENGR 253L - An Introduction to Computer-Aided Design

    1 cr.


    (Prerequisites: MATH 114, CMPS 134) 

    This course is an introduction to the methods of drafting and design using computer-aided techniques.  Topics to be covered include plane geometry construction, projection theory, sectional views, dimensioning, tolerancing and the development of working drawings.  Extensive use will be made of commercially available CAD software packages. Two hours laboratory.

  
  • ENGR 254L - 3D Computer-aided Design

    1 cr.


    (Prerequisite: ENGR 253L) 

    Advanced computer aided design lab with emphasis on three-dimensional techniques.  Topics include wireframe and solid modeling, rendering and Boolean operations and use of a finite-element program for mechanical analysis of CAD designs.  Extensive use will be made of commercially available software packages. Two hours laboratory.

  
  • ENGR 350 - Applied and Engineering Mathematics

    3 cr.


    Also listed as PHYS 350 (Prerequisite: MATH 222, PHYS 141) 

    An applied course featuring first and second-order differential equations with constant coefficients; Fourier series, Fourier transforms, and Laplace Transforms; Partial differential equations and boundary value problems; special functions including Bessel functions and Legendre polynomials.  MAPLE software is utilized. Three hours lecture.

  
  • ENGR 352 - Statistical and Engineering Thermodynamics

    3 cr.


    Also listed as PHYS 352 (Prerequisite: PHYS 270) 

    Derivation of Thermodynamics from probability theory and atomic physics; Laws of Thermodynamics; Maxwell relations; chemical potential and phase changes; refrigerators and heat pumps; theory of gasses and theory of solids.  Special topics dependent upon interests of majors represented. Three hours lecture.

  
  • ENLT 103 - Children’s Literature

    3 cr.
    A broad study of literature for children since 1800, with the emphasis on American works since 1950, including aesthetic consideration of the art and design of picture books.  Works for children up to the age of 12 are considered.
  
  • ENLT 110 - History of Cinema

    3 cr.
    A study of the historical development of motion pictures.  Practitioners in America and throughout the world are treated in this concise history of cinema.  Film screening fee.
  
  • ENLT 111 - The Art of Cinema

    3 cr.
    The study of the artists, technicians and businessmen who make films.  Taped interviews of internationally famous filmmakers, as well as an analytic scrutiny of modern films, develop students’ intelligent, active participation in the major art form in modern culture.  Film screening fee.
  
  • ENLT 112 - Film Genres

    3 cr.
    A study of popular film genres (i.e., the western, the thriller, the musical, the historical epic, the woman’s picture) as they developed and changed in the U.S. and abroad.  Film screening fee.
  
  • ENLT 113 - Film Criticism

    3 cr.
    A study of the grammar, poetics, rhetoric, and aesthetic of film criticism constitutes the heart of this course.  Film screening fee.
  
  • ENLT 120 - (CL) Introduction to Fiction

    3 cr.
    An exploration of the nature of prose fiction, its elements and techniques.  The emphasis is critical rather than historical.  The range of works and the specific selections may vary with the individual instructor.
  
  • ENLT 121 - (CL) Introduction to Poetry

    3 cr.
    An exploration of the nature of poetry, its value, aims, and techniques.  The emphasis will be critical rather than historical.  The range of poems and the specific selections may vary with the individual instructor.
  
  • ENLT 122 - (CL) Introduction to Drama

    3 cr.
    An exploration of the nature of drama, its types, techniques, and conventions.  The emphasis will be critical rather than historical.  The range of plays and the specific selections may vary with the individual instructor.  This course may be counted toward the Theatre major, minor or track.
  
  • ENLT 123 - (CL) Masterworks of Western Civilization

    3 cr.
    Study of masterpieces of literature from the Hebrew Old Testament and classic Greek to the modern European, illuminating the development of Western civilization.
  
  • ENLT 125 - (CL) Classic American Stories

    3 cr.
    This course will examine representative examples of the American short story from the 19th century to the present.  Emphasis will be placed on the significance of individual works, but some consideration will be given to the evolving American milieu.  Readings will include Hawthorne, Poe, Crane, Malamud, and Oates.
  
  • ENLT 126 - (CL,D) Introduction to Irish Culture

    3 cr.
    An exploration of Irish culture by means of the island’s major works of mythology, history, religion, folk story, fairy tale, song, verse, drama and fiction.  All readings in English.
  
  • ENLT 127 - (CL) Myth of the Hero

    3 cr.
    Mythic materials are examined to discover the underlying heroic archetypal patterns.  Then modern literature is examined in the light of the same mythic patterns.
  
  • ENLT 140 - (CL) English Inquiry

    3 cr.
    An exploration of fiction, poetry, and drama.  The approach is inductive; the aims are a greater understanding of literature, and an introduction to techniques of literary scholarship, theory, and research.  The prerequisite for all 200-level ENLT courses is ENLT 140 or the equivalent.  Students must complete the University’s Written Communication requirement before they can register for any Writing Intensive literature course.
  
  • ENLT 210 - (CL) Modern Poetry

    3 cr.
    Some previous study of poetry expected.  Modern poets ranging from Frost and Stevens to Bishop and Larkin are examined.  Major emphasis is placed on close readings of representative works and historical and cultural contextualization.
  
  • ENLT 211 - (CL) Dramatic Comedy

    3 cr.
    Principles, modes, tactics used in dramatic comedy.  The plays of writers ranging from Shakespeare to Neil Simon, as well as several films, will be analyzed as models.  Opportunity for student writing of comedy.  This course may be counted toward the Theatre major, minor or track.
  
  • ENLT 212 - (CL,W) Masters of Darkness

    3 cr.
    This course will survey a significant sampling of the short works of three of America’s most famous “dark Romantic” writers: Melville, Hawthorne, and Poe.  Consideration will be given to the historical milieu and the authors’ responses to the problems and promises of the American experience.
  
  • ENLT 213 - (CL,W) Satire

    3 cr.
    An exploration of the historical, critical, and conceptual nature of satire, including established satirical conventions and techniques.  Representative examples in fiction, drama, poetry, and other media, with emphasis on British literature of the Restoration and 18th century, the Age of Satire.
  
  • ENLT 214 - Macabre Masterpieces

    3 cr.
    A survey of English and American horror fiction which focuses on this mode of writing as a serious artistic exploration of the human mind, particularly abnormal psychology.  Readings will include works by Mary Shelley, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson, Joseph Conrad, and Bram Stoker.
  
  • ENLT 215 - (CL) Literature of the Absurd

    3 cr.
    Focusing on literature from 1850 to the present, this course will examine fiction, drama, and poetry that reflect a general sense of disintegrating values and lost religious beliefs.   Readings will include works by Poe, Byron, Hardy, Stevenson, Conrad, Williams, Hemingway, and Beckett.
  
  • ENLT 220 - (CL) Shakespeare

    3 cr.
    An introduction to the works of William Shakespeare, including forays into each of the major dramatic genres (comedy, tragedy, history, and romance).  Consideration will be given to the biographical and cultural contexts of individual works.  This course may be counted toward the Theatre major, minor or track.
  
  • ENLT 221 - (W) Woody Allen

    3 cr.
    This course examines the films, the published screenplays, the volumes of short prose, and assorted interviews and articles.  We will examine some of Woody Allen’s sources, such as Plato, Shakespeare, Joyce, and Bergman. Our approach will be historical and analytical.
  
  • ENLT 222 - (CL,D,W) Graham Greene’s Travelers

    3 cr.
    Detailed study of several privileged characters who exchange the familiar comforts of home for the disorienting complexities of the post-colonial world.  Encountering social unrest in Africa, Latin America, Haiti, and French Indo-China, Greene’s protagonists abandon their aloof positions and confront the personal and ethical dilemmas raised by their situations.
  
  • ENLT 224 - (CL,D,W) Perspectives in Literature about Illness

    3 cr.
    This course will explore the narrative conventions of both the (literary) life story and the (scientific) case history as a means of analyzing both the characters involved in literary depictions of illness and the ways in which they perceive and understand others involved in the same healthcare event.
  
  • ENLT 225 - (CL,D,W) Writing Women

    3 cr.


    (Theory Intensive) 

    Organized around issues raised in Virginia Woolf’s A Room of One’s Own and Carolyn Heilbrun’s Writing a Woman’s Life, and informed by the ideas of British Marxist, French Psychoanalytic, and American traditional feminism, this course examines poetry and fiction from Sappho and Mary Shelley to Jean Rhys and Adrienne Rich.

  
  • ENLT 226 - (CL,D) Novels by Women

    3 cr.
    A study of novels by and about women, including such authors as Austen, Bronte, Eliot, Chopin, Woolf, Lessing, Byatt, and Morrison.  The aim is to expand students’ knowledge of the novel’s history and development and their understanding of women’s experiences as expressed by women writers.
  
  • ENLT 227 - (CL,D,W) Frankenstein’s Forebears

    3 cr.


    (Theory Intensive) 

    An interdisciplinary exploration of the influential lives and works of Mary Wollstonecraft (feminist, memoirist, and novelist); William Godwin (anarchist philosopher and novelist); their daughter, Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein); and her husband, Percy Bysshe Shelley (Romantic poet and erstwhile political activist).

  
  • ENLT 228 - (CL,D,W) Race in Anglo-American Culture 1600-1860

    3 cr.


    (Area G) (Theory Intensive) 

    Beginning with the first English colonies in North American and running through the American antebellum period, this course focuses on literary and historical treatments of encounters involving Europeans, European-Americans, Africans, African-Americans, and Native Americans.  The reading list includes poems, plays, novels, captivity narratives, frontier biographies, and slave autobiographies.

  
  • ENLT 229 - (CL,D) The Cross-Cultural Novella

    3 cr.


     

    This course aims both to foster an understanding and appreciation of the novella as a distinct literary form and to introduce the student to the literature of a variety of continents and cultures.  The course will deal with writers such as Tolstoy, Flaubert, Kafka, Kawabata, Mann, and Gaines.

  
  • ENLT 230 - (CL) American Romanticism

    3 cr.


    (Area A-1) 

    This course will deal with representative short works of America’s six major Romantic authors: Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Hawthorne, Melville, and Poe.

  
  • ENLT 234 - (CL,W) Camelot Legend

    3 cr.


    (Area B-1) 

    This course will examine the development of Arthurian legend-tales of knights and ladies associated with the court of King Arthur from its early origins in Celtic and Latin medieval literature, through medieval romances and histories, culminating in Malory’s Morte D’Arthur.

  
  • ENLT 235 - (CL,W) Literature in the Age of Chaucer

    3 cr.


    (Area B-1) 

    This course will explore 14th-century non-dramatic vernacular literature.  In addition to Chaucer, authors studied may include Langland, Kempe, and the Pearl Poet.

  
  • ENLT 236 - (CL,W) The Romantic Protest

    3 cr.


    (Area B-2) 

    A survey of the first half of the British Romantic period. Readings will include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge and at least three “minor” writers of this era.  Discussions will focus on the Romantic imagination, the role of nature in Romantic mysticism, and Romantic notions concerning heightened sensations and altered realities.

  
  • ENLT 237 - (CL,W) The Darker Romantics

    3 cr.


    (Area B-2) 

    A survey of the second half of the British Romantic period. Readings will include Byron, Percy Shelley, Keats, and at least three “minor” writers of this era.  Discussions will focus on the waning of the “Romantic religion” of Blake, Coleridge, and Wordsworth in an increasingly prosperous, skeptical, and secularized era.

  
  • ENLT 239 - (CL,D,W) The Irish Short Story

    3 cr.


    (Area B-3) 

    For two centuries, Irish short story writers have represented the comedy and tragedy of Irish experience and simultaneously have fashioned the medium into one of our most flexible and innovative art forms.  In historical and critical contexts, we examine the work of forth authors, emphasizing Joyce, O’Connor, O’Faolain, and O’Flaherty.

  
  • ENLT 240 - British Literature: Medieval and Renaissance

    3 cr.


    (Area B-1) 

    A detailed study of representative works and authors from the Anglo-Saxons to the 17th century.  Though the emphasis will be on an intensive study of major works in their literary and cultural context, consideration will be given to minor writers as well.

  
  • ENLT 241 - British Literature: Restoration and 18th Century

    3 cr.


    (Area B-2) 

    Study of a select group of English and Anglo-Irish authors whose works were first published between 1660 and 1776.  Discussions and assignments will emphasize literary history, critical analysis, and sociopolitical contexts.

  
  • ENLT 242 - British Literature: Romantic and Victorian

    3 cr.


    (Area B-2) 

    A study of the major literary works in 19th-century England: poetry, novels and non-fictional prose.  The emphasis is threefold: critical analysis; literary history; social, intellectual and political background.

  
  • ENLT 243 - American Literature to 1865

    3 cr.


    (Area A-1) 

    An in-depth study of a select group of major American authors from the Colonial Period to the Civil War.  Included are Bradford, Franklin, Irving, and Poe.  Consideration given to the historical and cultural milieu and development of major American themes and attitudes.

  
  • ENLT 244 - Modern British Literature

    3 cr.


    (Area B-3) 

    Selected modern and postmodern English poets, playwrights, and fiction writers: Hopkins, Eliot, Hughes, Auden, Larkin, Spender, Osborne, Stoppard, Pinter, Greene, Waugh, Read, Lodge, Amis, Spark, McEwan and Chatwin.

 

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