Mar 29, 2024  
Undergraduate Catalog 2013-2014 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2013-2014 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 
  
  • 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 124 - (CL, W) The Art of Fiction

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisite: Satisfaction of the Written Communication requirement WRTG 107  or equivalent)

    This class aims to provide students with an understanding of the structure of the short story, novella, and novel, and to foster an appreciation of fiction as art.  Significant class time will be devoted to the process of writing analytical papers about fiction.

  
  • 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.


    (Theory Intensive) 

    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,W) The Cross-Cultural Novella

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: Satisfaction of the Written Communication requirements WRTG 107  or equivalent.  One ENLT course with a number between 120 & 179 or equivalent)

    This course is designed, first, to foster an understanding and appreciation of the novella as a distinct literary form; second, to introduce the student to the literature of a variety of countries and cultures; and third, to enable the student to write literary analyses of this form of comparative literature.

  
  • 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) (Theory Intensive) 

    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.

  
  • 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 258 - (CL, W) Contemporary American Fiction

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: ENLT 140  or the equivalent; any ENLT course between 120 & 179, inclusive)

    A survey of American fiction from 1950 to the present.  Requirements include participation in class discussion, oral presentations, and sustained consultation with the instructor on the writing and revision of several critical essays.

  
  • 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 265J - The American Literary Experience

    3 cr


    (Prerequisites: ENLT 140  or the equivalent; any ENLT course between 120 & 179, inclusive)

    A survey of prose landmarks in the evolution of a unique American literary consciousness from the eighteenth century to the present.  Discussions will focus on the American Enlightenment, Romanticism, Transcendentalism, Realism, Naturalism, Modernism, and Postmodernism.  Each literary movement will be considered in relation to its social, historical, & cultural contexts.

  
  • 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) (Theory Intensive) 

    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,CL,W) 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

    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.
  
  • ENTR 362 - Business Foundations for Entrepreneurs

    3 cr.
    (Formerly BUAD 362) (Prerequisite: ENTR 372 ) (This course is for Non-Business Majors only)

    The non-business major will learn and apply basic business concepts needed by the entrepreneur.  This will include concepts in financial accounting, managerial accounting, finance, management, operations management, marketing, and business law.  The student will take this course during the spring semester of the junior year.
  
  • ENTR 363 - Applied Business Foundations for Entrepreneurs

    1 cr.


    (Formerly BUAD 363)  (Prerequisite: ENTR 372 , ACC 253  or equivalent for accounting/finance majors; ACC 254  or equivalent for accounting/finance majors; MGT 251 , MGT 351 , and FIN 251  Concurrent)

    The business major will apply basic business concepts needed by the entrepreneur.  This will include concepts previously learned in financial accounting, managerial accounting, finance, management, operations management, marketing, and business law.  The student will take this course during the spring semester of the junior year.

  
  • ENTR 372 - The Entrepreneurial Mindset

    3 cr.


    (Formerly MGT 372)  (Prerequisites: Junior standing and approval of the coordinator of the minor. This course is limited to 20 seats and acceptance is based upon an application process.  The application process consists of a short essay and an interview.  Details are available from the Management and Marketing Department.)

    This course will introduce the student to various entrepreneurial issues.  Several guest speakers will present and discuss entrepreneurial experiences.  One of the major goals of this course is to engage and excite the student about entrepreneurship.  The student will be exposed to entrepreneurial theories and applicable project management tools.  This course will be taken during the fall semester of the junior year.

  
  • ENTR 373 - Business Creativity and Innovation

    3 cr.


    (Formerly MGT 373)  (Prerequisites: ENTR 372 )

    This course will provide the student with opportunities to further develop personal creativity within the context of entrepreneurial efforts.  Tools for analyzing the feasibility of entrepreneurial ideas and their transition into innovative efforts will be demonstrated.  The student will devise an idea that can be transformed into a business plan.  This course will be scheduled for the spring semester of the junior year.

  
  • ENTR 477 - The Entrepreneurial Business Plan

    3 cr.


    (Formerly MKT 477 and MGT 477)  (Prerequisites: ENTR 373 ; ENTR 362  or ENTR 363 ; For Entrepreneurship Minors Only)

    This course will provide the student with the opportunity to create and present a complete business plan for a proposed entrepreneurial effort.  The plan can be for a non-profit, family-business, or other for-profit endeavor.  Selected business plans will be entered in external entrepreneurial competitions.  This course will be taken during the fall semester of the senior year.

  
  • ENTR 478 - Social Entrepreneurship

    3 cr.


    (Formerly MKT 478) (Prerequisite: ENTR 372 )

    This course exposes the student to social and environmental entrepreneurial opportunities.  This includes both the examination of non-profit entrepreneurial efforts and the creation of hybrid organizations, which are self-sustaining for-profit businesses that have a primary social and stewardship mission.  Social and environmental responsibilities of traditional entrepreneurial activities will also be examined.  This course will be taken during the spring semester of the senior year. 

  
  • ENTR 480 - The Entrepreneurial Capstone Internship or Project

    3 cr.


    (Formerly MGT 480) (Pre-requisites: Entrepreneurship Minors Only; ENTR 477 )

    This course is designed to provide for the use of concepts, techniques, and theories learned in the classroom through completion of a 150-hour internship or a project.  Students pursuing either the internship or the project are assigned tasks that will enable them to develop competencies and increase their entrepreneurial skills.

  
  • 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. 

  
  • EXSC 212 - Nutrition in Exercise and Sport

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: EXSC 210 , 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: BIOL 110-111 )

    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 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. 

  
  • EXSC 313 - Biomechanics of Sport and Exercise

    3 cr.


    (Prerequisites: PHYS 120/120L , 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 )

    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.

 

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