Course Descriptions

EDUC 357 - Integrated Methods Across Curriculum

3 cr.

Students will learn best practices in pedagogy, including developmentally-appropriate instructional practices, classroom management, technology, and professionalism.  Part of the course requirements is a field experience that allows students to engage in a classroom-teacher-mentored and university-supervised practical experience in classrooms.  A field component is part of the course requirements.

EDUC 358 - Reading to Learn with Trade Books & Texts

EDUC 359 - (D) Introduction to English Language Learning

EDUC 362 - Psycholinguistics

EDUC 363 - Foundations of Literacy Development II

3 cr.

This course aims to provide students with the content knowledge necessary to teach reading and writing to typically developing students as well as students with reading disabilities. The content focus is on Text Fluency, Vocabulary, Comprehension, and Written Expression.  Students will also have an opportunity to develop proficiency in the application of research-based methods that integrate the literacy strands.  A field component is part of the course requirements.

EDUC 370 - Inclusionary Classroom Practices, Grades 4-12

3 cr.

Emphasis on the middle level and secondary teacher as a member of educational and co-teaching teams.  Students will utilize different learning strategies to support students with disabilities in the general education classroom.  A field component is part of the course requirements.

EDUC 371 - Literacy Strategies in Secondary School

EDUC 380 - Field Experience III

1 cr.

This course is closely associated with the methods courses in Secondary Education programs of study.  An emphasis is placed on studying teaching techniques and involvement in teacher activities in basic-education schools.   As a field experience course, appropriate clearances are required.

EDUC 445 - Professional Practice Seminar, PreK-4

3 cr.

In-depth study of the rationale, theories, and techniques for creating appropriate learning situations in PreK-4 environments and for handling individual and group behavioral problems in productive ways to meet the needs of all students. Scheduled with EDUC 445, EDUC 456 , EDUC 457 , EDUC 458  and EDUC 459  during the same student teaching semester.

EDUC 450 - Professional Practice Seminar, 4-8

EDUC 452 - Planning in Middle Level Student Teaching (Gr. 4-8)

2 cr.

Preparation of actual teaching plans during Middle Level (Gr. 4-8) student teaching requires an application to the Field Director, due March 1 or October 1 for Fall and Spring placements, respectively.  Current/valid clearances required: PA criminal record check; PA child abuse, FBI fingerprint, TB result and ACT 24 statement.

EDUC 453 - Instruction in Middle Level Student Teaching (Gr. 4-8)

3 cr.

Involvement in implementing methods and techniques.  Middle Level (Gr. 4-8) teaching on a full-time basis under the supervision of classroom teachers and University supervisors.

EDUC 454 - Managing Classrooms in Middle Level Student Teaching (Gr. 4-8)

EDUC 455 - Professional Growth in Middle Level Student Teaching (Gr. 4-8)

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 community-based learning component.

EDUC 456 - Planning in Early/Primary (PreK-4) Student Teaching

EDUC 457 - Instruction in Early/Primary (PreK-4) Student Teaching

EDUC 458 - Managing Classrooms in Early/Primary (PreK-4) Student Teaching

EDUC 459 - Professional Growth in Early/Primary (PreK-4) Student Teaching

EDUC 465 - Seminar in Educational Studies

3 cr.

(Prerequisites: Students must have completed 15 credits in Education according to the Educational Studies Minor sequence.)

This seminar is a capstone experience for students enrolled in the Minor in Educational Studies.  Students will demonstrate their knowledge in Educational Studies through an original research projects of their choice and under the mentorship and supervision of an Education Department faculty member.

EDUC 475 - Professional Seminar

EDUC 476 - Planning in Secondary Student Teaching

EDUC 477 - Instruction in Secondary Student Teaching

EDUC 478 - Managing Classrooms in Secondary Student Teaching

EDUC 479 - Professional Growth in Secondary Student Teaching

EE 240L - Introduction to Computer Engineering Lab

1 cr.

Introduction to the design, construction and testing of digital systems including microprocessors and /or microcontrollers, motor drive, sensing and timing circuits. (Credits may not be earned for EE 240L and EM 243L .) Two hours Laboratory.

EE 241/EE 241L - (EPW) Circuit Analysis

4 cr.

Analysis of resistive networks, sources, op-amps, capacitors and inductors.  Kirchhoff’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

EE 250/EE250L - Computational Tools for Physics and Engineering

4 cr.

This course covers the basic computational tools needed by scientists and engineers. Included are tools for drafting (AutoCAD), data collection (Labview, C) and Data analysis (Mathematica, Matlab, Maple, Excel and MathCAD). 2.5 credits lecture and 1.5 credits lab.

EE 343/EE 343L - Electronic Circuits I

4 cr.

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.  (Credit may not be earned for EE 343/EE343L and EM 343/EM 343L .)

EE 344/EE 344L - Electronic Circuits II

4 cr.

(Prerequisite: EE 343/EE 343L  or EM 343/EM 343L )

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. (Credit may not be earned for EE 344/EE 344L and EM 344/EM 344L .)

EE 346 - Digital Signal Processing

3 cr.

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.

Vector calculus, electrostatics (Coulomb’s law, E-fields), Gauss’s law, Maxwell equations, Gauss’s law, potentials, electric dipoles, Energy density in electrostatic fields, Electric fields in material space, dielectrics; Boundary conditions, Poisson’s, Laplace’s equations; Uniqueness theorem, resistance and capacitance, method of images, Magnetostatics, Biot-Savart’s Law, magnetic forces, vector potentials, magnetic flux density.  (Credit cannot be earned for EE 447 and PHYS 447 )

EE 448 - Electromagnetics II

3 cr.

Magnetic materials, Ampere’s law, Faraday’s law, vector potentials, Magnetic forces, Magnetic dipoles, Magnetization, Inductors, Magnetic energy, Magnetic circuits; Maxwell’s equations, electromagnetic wave propagation, plane waves, power propagation; Reflection/Transmission/Polarization; Transmission lines; Waveguides, resonators; Radiation, Hertzian dipoles, antennas; Relativistic electromagnetics, Maxwell’s equations unified. (Credit cannot be earned for EE 448 and PHYS 448 .)

EE 448L - Electromagnetics Design Laboratory

EE 449/EE 449L - (EPW lab only) Embedded Systems

3 cr.

Microprocessor programming and interfacing; data acquisition, manipulation and transmission; microprocessor support devices and common computer interfaces.  Periodic written and oral presentations are required. (Credit may not be earned for EM 449/EM 449 and EM 449/449L .) One hour lecture and three hours laboratory.

EE 450 - Control Systems

3 cr.

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.

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.

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 475 - Digital Image Processing

3 cr.

Digital image processing is a modern scientific and engineering technique employed to enhance and extract details of images in diverse fields such as medicine, military, industry, and artistic photography.  This course will make use of the Matlab programming package for algorithmic development.  The student will develop algorithms and implement code for automated image analysis. (Credits may not be earned for both PHYS 475  and EE 475.)

EE 484 - Superconductivity Devices and Circuits

3 cr.

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.

EM 243L - Digital System Design Laboratory

EM 343/EM 343L - Electronic Circuits I

4 cr.

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. (Credit may not be earned for EM 343/EM 343L and EE 343/EE 343L .)

EM 344/EM 344L - Electronic Circuits II

4 cr.

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. (Credit may not be earned for EM 344/EM 344L and EE 344/EE 344L .)

EM 351 - Principles of Management

3 cr.

Survey course examines key aspects of organizations and their management – dynamic environments, organization design and structure, roles/functions of managers, managing technology and change, global management, and alternative types of organizations. This course examines the expanding role of the manager from planning, organizing, controlling and directing, to the knowledge and skills involved in managing and working with a diverse workforce. (Credit may not be earned for EM 351 and MGT 351 .)

EM 449/449L - Computer Interfacing

3 cr.

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. (Credit may not be earned for EM 449/EM 449L and EE 449/EE 449L .)

EM 455 - Business Policy & Strategy

3 cr.

This is the capstone course for all Business majors.  Concepts and skills developed in the prerequisite courses are integrated and applied to the overall management of an organization.  Topics will include setting objectives, designing strategic plans, allocating resources, organizational structuring and controlling performance. (Credit may not be earned for MGT 455  and EM 455.)

EM 462 - Project Management in Organizations

3 cr.

This course will examine advanced project-management concepts from all phases of the project lifecycle (from requirements-specification through post-project assessment).  Special emphasis will be placed on understanding projects within the context of complex organizational settings by utilizing an open-systems perspective.  Linkages with more permanent administration structures within the organization will be reviewed.  (Credit cannot be earned for MGT 462  and OIM 462 .)

ENGR 150 - (FYOC, FYDT) Foundations of Physics and Engineering

ENGR 250 - Engineering Mechanics-Statics

3 cr.

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.

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 - Solid State Devices & Power Electronics

3 cr.

Semiconductor basics, Carrier Transport, Excess carriers in semiconductors, P-N junctions and diodes; Field Effect and Bipolar Junction Transistors (FETs & BJTs). Power Schottky diodes, Power MOSFETs, Power BJTs, and Concepts of power distribution.  Three hours lecture Three hours lecture.

ENGR 253L - An Introduction to Computer-Aided Design

ENGR 254L - 3D Computer-aided Design

1 cr.

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.

This course derives and solves first and second-order ordinary and partial differential equations as applied to physical systems.  Fourier series, Fourier transforms, and Laplace Transforms are included; as well as, special functions, such as Bessel and Legendre.  MAPLE and MATHEMATICA software are utilized.  (Credit cannot be earned for ENGR 350 and PHYS 350 ) Three hours lecture.

ENGR 352 - Statistical and Engineering Thermodynamics

3 cr.

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.  (Credit cannot be earned for ENGR 352 and PHYS 352 .) Three hours lecture.

ENGR 365 - Introduction to Solid State Physics

3 cr.

A physics course designed for senior Physics and Electrical Engineering majors and focusing on the Quantum Theory of solids including: fundamentals of crystals, wave diffraction in crystals, reciprocal lattices, crystal binding, phonons and phonon scattering, free-electron Fermi gases, energy bands, periodic potentials, semiconductor theory, superconductors, quantum theory of diamagnetism, optical processes in semiconductors and optoelectronic devices, quantum mechanics and electronic structure of graphene, graphene-based nanostructures, quantum electronic devices.  (Credits may not be earned for both PHYS 365  and ENGR 365.)

ENLT 103 - Children’s Literature

ENLT 120 - (CL) Introduction to Fiction

ENLT 121 - (CL) Introduction to Poetry

ENLT 122 - (CL) Introduction to Drama

ENLT 123 - (CL) Masterworks of Western Civilization

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

3 cr.

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

ENLT 126 - (CL,D) Introduction to Irish Culture

ENLT 127 - (CL) Myth of the Hero

ENLT 129 - (CL, D) Literature and Social Justice

ENLT 140 - (CL) English Inquiry

ENLT 210 - (CL) Modern Poetry

ENLT 212 - (CL,W) Masters of Darkness

ENLT 214 - Macabre Masterpieces

ENLT 215 - (CL) Literature of the Absurd

ENLT 220 - (CL) Shakespeare

ENLT 221 - (W) Woody Allen

ENLT 222 - (CL,D,W) Graham Greene’s Travelers

ENLT 224 - (CL,D,W) Perspectives in Literature About Illness

ENLT 225 - (CL,D,W) Writing Women

3 cr.

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

ENLT 227 - (CL,D) Frankenstein’s Forebears

3 cr.

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 229 - (CL,W) The Cross-Cultural Novella

3 cr.

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.

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

ENLT 231 - (CL) Shakespeare’s Comedies

3 cr.

 A consideration of Shakespeare’s dramatic work in the comic sub-genres of romantic comedy, farce, and pastoral.  Students will read seven plays, usually Two Gentlemen of Verona, Comedy of Errors, Love’s Labor’s Lost, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merchant of Venice, Much Ado About Nothing, and As You Like It.

ENLT 232 - (CL) Shakespeare’s Tragedies

3 cr.

(Prerequisite: One 100 – Level ENLT Course)

 A consideration of Shakespeare’s dramatic work in the tragic sub-genres of revenge tragedy, romantic tragedy, de casibus tragedy, and political tragedy.  Students will read seven plays, usually Titus Andronicus, Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet, Macbeth, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus.

ENLT 233 - (EPW, CL) Imagining Native Americans

3 cr.

The first half of the course begins with the Pocahontas stories of the colonial era and moves on to captivity narratives, autobiographies, and relevant prose fiction; the second half considers Hollywood portrayals of ‘cowboys and Indians’ & contemporary films by Native American filmmakers.

ENLT 234 - (CL,W) Camelot Legend

3 cr.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

(Offered Fall Semester Only)

ENLT 244 - Modern British Literature

3 cr.

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.

(Offered Fall Semester Only)

ENLT 245 - American Literature, 1865 to the Present

3 cr.

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.

(Offered Spring Semester Only)

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

3 cr.

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.

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 - (W,EPW,CL,D) African-American Literature

3 cr.

(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 259 - (CL) Contemporary American Poetry

3 cr.

This course invites students to a sampling of significant poems by a half dozen or more contemporary American poets who have published within the past half century.  All poets selected have enjoyed major recognition. Poets may include Sylvia Plath, Philip Levine, Rita Dove, Frank O’Hara, Gary Soto, Li-Young Lee, and others.

(Offered alternate years)
 

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

3 cr.

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.