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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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ECON 405 - Economics Teaching and Leadership Experience 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): ECON 211 and ECON 212 and Junior or Senior level and Departmental Permission. This course offers students the opportunity to provide hands on instructional support for ECON 211 and ECON 212. Students enrolled in the course will learn strategies that will enhance their knowledge of the economics. Students will also learn various pedagogy techniques along with techniques for academic assessment, mentoring, and leadership. The students will learn how to apply the pedagogy techniques and discipline of economics to classroom and work group environments.
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ECON 493 - Elements of Econometrics 3 Credits
(Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ECON 211, ECON 212, and ECON 351. Introduction to Econometrics is a course that will focus on the development and application mathematical and statistical method to estimating the relationship between and testing the validity of economic theory. ECON 451 is an introductory course in Econometrics Methods. Elementary econometric models and techniques will be introduced in this course. Students are expected to acquire the skills necessary to do conduct regression analysis with real economic data. Computer programs such as SPSS, STATA, MINITAB, and Microsoft Excel will be used for running real-world problems.
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ECON 373 - Environmental and Resource Economics 3 Credits
(Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ECON-211 and ECON 212 or Instructor’s Permission: This course explores the origins of environmental problems, how to measure the value of environmental amenities, and the efficacy of specific forms of regulation, including mandated technologies, taxes, subsidies, and pollution permit trading. Topics include air and water pollution, climate change, the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources, and sustainable development.
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ECON 441 - Global Economic Institutions 3 Credits
(Fall, Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ECON 211, ECON 212 or Permission of Instructor. The course is a comprehensive study of the concepts, processes, and strategies used in the development and management of global economic institutions like the World Bank, International Monetart Fund, and UNCTAD etc. This course will be taught through the use of textbook materials, outside readings, and case analysis.
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ECON 353 - Health Economics 3 Credits
(Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ECON 211 and ECON 312. This course explores economic principles and its relationship to the field of health care. It will provide an introduction to the health care system in the U.S. We will discuss some of the key concepts that health economists use to analyze health care markets. Finally, we will apply these concepts to selected current issues in health policy.
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ECON 412 - Industrial Organization 3 Credits
(Fall)
Prerequisite(s): ECON 211 and ECON 312 This is an advanced course in undergraduate Industrial Organization. Industrial Organization is essentially a branch of applied Microeconomics, which seeks to understand the causes and effects of various market structures on pricing and product choice. We focus on the behavior of firms in imperfectly competitive markets, which appear to be far more common than the perfectly competitive markets. Topics include price discrimination, oligopolistic competition, network externalities, collusion through contractual arrangements, advertising. Some introductory topic in Game Theory will be introduced
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ECON 311 - Intermediate Macroeconomics 3 Credits
(Fall)
Prerequisite(s): ECON 211 and ECON 212 This course is an extension of macroeconomic and microeconomic theories to serve as a bond between the principles ( level) and the advanced level courses. Macro and micro dimensions of economics will be taught during the first and second semesters, respectively.
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ECON 312 - Intermediate Microeconomics 3 Credits
(Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ECON 211 and ECON 212. This course is an extension of macroeconomic and microeconomic theories to serve as a bond between the principles (elementary level) and the advanced level courses. Macro and micro dimensions of economics will be taught during the first and second semesters, respectively.
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ECON 341 - International Trade and Finance 3 Credits
(Fall Only)
Prerequisite(s): ECON 211 and ECON 212 or Permission of Department. This course focuses on the theory of international trade, commercial policy and its relation to economic development. Balance of payments, international capital movements, and foreign exchange are examined against the background of current theories and policies.
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ECON 448 - Managerial Economics 3 Credits
(Fall Only)
Prerequisite(s): ECON 211 and ECON 212. This course is a study of the economic aspects of the managerial decision making process in various market structures, with special emphasis on quantitative analysis.
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ECON 423 - Monetary and Fiscal Policy 3 Credits
(Spring Only)
Prerequisite(s): ECON 321. This course is a study of the Monetarist and Keynesian Models and their applications to monetary and fiscal stabilization policies for the nation’s economy.
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ECON 321 - Money, Banking and Financial Markets 3 Credits
(Fall, Spring, Summer)
Prerequisite(s): ECON 211. This course is a study of the nature and function of money and credit, with emphasis on the roles played by depository institutions and of the structure of the financial market and the effects of regulatory agencies on the financial market and the money supply.
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ECON 211 - Prin of Macroeconomics 3 Credits
(Fall, Spring, Summer, Mini-Semester)
Prerequisite(s): MATH 116, 118, 125 or higher or Permission of Department. This course is a study of the basic macroeconomic concepts, economic institutions, and tools of analysis used in understanding the problems of inflation and unemployment, and the effects of fiscal and monetary policies on economic stability and growth. (NOTE: May be taken for honors credit.)
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ECON 212 - Prin of Microeconomics 3 Credits
(Fall, Spring, Summer, Mini-Semester)
Prerequisite(s): MATH 116, 118, 125 or higher or Permission of Department. This course is a study of microeconomics, explaining how the price of a product or a resource is determined under various market structures, how an economy’s resources are allocated, and how factor incomes are determined. Current problems in domestic and international economics are explored. (NOTE: May be taken for honors credit.)
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ECON 422 - Public Finance and Budgeting 3 Credits
(Spring Only)
Prerequisite(s): ECON 211 and ECON 212. This course is a survey of the welfare implications of government expenditures, revenues and debt systems in view of principles of taxation and the criteria for public expenditures, with special reference to allocation, stabilization, and redistribution functions of the public sector.
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ECON 483 - Quantitative Methods Dm 3 Credits
(Fall, Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ECON 351. This course is a study of the quantitative techniques common in decision-making, with emphasis on application. Topics discussed include decision-making and decision analysis, linear programming, transportation and assignment problems, forecasting and time-series analysis, inventory concepts, and mathematical simulation.
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ECON 400 - Special Topics in Economics 3 Credits
(Fall, Spring, Summer)
Prerequisite(s): To be approved by Department Chair and Instructor. This course will involve a wide spectrum of special topics in economic policy with one selected for each semester in which it is offered. Topics will cover a range of issues of concern to and debated in the society. They will be chosen based on the interests of students in the Business Administration program as a whole and Economics, in particular, and the different instructors’ area of specialization. Examples of such topics include Crises in the Financial Market, The Housing Market, Global Warming, Globalization, Trade Policy, Race and Gender Discrimination, Health Care Policy, Social Security, Regulation versus Deregulation, Environmental Policy, Education Policy, Labor and Industrial Organization, among others
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ECON 421 - Urban Economics 3 Credits
(Spring Only)
Prerequisite(s): ECON 211 and ECON 212. This course examines the economic base of urban areas and how these bases are related to employment, population, economic growth, and the economic and social structure. This course also is designed to analyze the economic aspects of the most pressing urban problems, including housing, transportation, municipal finance, poverty, urban services, and the environment.
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Education |
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EDUC 404 - Ad Fund of Sign Lang Com 3 Credits
This course is a continuation of the basic course, Fundamentals of Sign Language Communication. Primary focus is on increasing facility in finger spelling, receiving and sending signs. Special emphasis is placed on developing basic skills in learning the pattern of grammatical structure in the idiomatic language of signs in order to help students progress from formal sign language and finger spelling to manual communication as it is used in the deaf community.
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EDUC 314 - Assess for Reading Instruction 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): EDUC 101, EDUC 201, EDUC 316. Permisson of Dept Chair. This course is designed to provide teachers with research-validated strategies and assessment tools that can be used to enhance reading instruction and meet the needs of individual learners. Specifically, teachers will comprehend the many purposes of literary assessment and the tools and techniques required to achieve those different purposes. The dimensions of assessment to include norm-referenced instruments as well as alternative assessments will be utilized to provide an accurate and on-going depiction of the progress of readers.
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EDUC 402 - Assessment & Measurement 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): EDUC 101, EDUC 201. This course is a study of the construction, validation, and use of tests for diagnosing levels of achievement and measuring educational outcomes. It is an introduction to the use, administration, and interpretation of standardized tests and performance-based assessments.
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EDUC 398 - Coop-EDUC 6 Credits
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EDUC 210 - Educ of Child in Cont Us 3 Credits
This course is a study of current educational issues and practices from a political, social, and urban view that explores contemporary problems in American education.
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EDUC 298 - Education Coop 12 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Permisson of department chair.
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EDUC 225 - Education Psychology 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): Permission of Dept Chair.
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EDUC 316 - Foundations of Education 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): EDUC 101, EDUC 201. The major historical, social, and philosophical concepts that undergird present educational philosophy, objectives, forms, and practices are explored in this course. Emphasis is also placed on discussion of the administration of the organization and the financing of public education laws dealing with American education and values and the teaching of values in a school setting. Admission to Teacher Education is a course requirement.
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EDUC 403 - Fund of Sign Lang Comm 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): This course will not satisfy state certification special education requirements. This course is designed to facilitate communication between hearing and deaf persons in the workplace, community settings, and other everyday situations and provides an overview of deafness and the deaf community and the use of sign language as a formidable tool of communication. Special attention is given to the use of a combination of traditional American signs, finger spelling, and other body dynamics that play an important role in conveying meaning.
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EDUC 201 - Human Grwth and Dvmt 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): EDUC 101. This course is a study of the biological, psychological, and social factors that influence the growth and development of the individual from conception to adulthood. Students enrolled in EDUC 201 are required to take Practicum II concurrently.
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EDUC 320 - Instruc Tech for the Classroom 1 Credits
Prerequisite(s): EDUC 201, ENGL 102, COSC 110, SPED 403. This course provides strategies, resources, tools and organizational concepts for using technology to facilitate classroom learning and school administrative functions.
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EDUC 101 - Introduction to Education 3 Credits
This course provides an overview of American public education, the teaching profession, and contemporary issues that impact on public education. Students must also enroll concurrently in EDUC 102 Practicum I.
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EDUC 242 - Literature for Children 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): EDUC 101, EDUC 201. This course is an orientation to the history, trends, values, and content of children’s literature and its importance in the education of young children. Emphasis is on acquiring knowledge of a wide variety of contemporary children’s books and strategies for appreciating, teaching, and evaluating.
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EDUC 311 - Managing the Diverse Clsrm 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): EDUC 101, EDUC 201. This course is an exploration of the characteristics and patterns of behavior of students within a diverse classroom. Students will develop strategies for managing an orderly and effective learning environment for students.
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EDUC 103 - Microcomp in An Educ Set 3 Credits
This course is an introduction to the use of microcomputers in the classroom. Topics will include how a computer operates, a short history of the development of the computer, the use of prepared software, an examination of existing software, and criteria for assessment of programs.
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EDUC 315 - Processes and Acquisi of Rdng 3 Credits
This course is designed to assist pre-service teachers in understanding the reading acquisition process. Introduction to language structures including spoken syllables, phonemes, graphemes and morphemes is included in this course. Participants will be introduced to current scientific research.
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EDUC 220 - Test Criterion for Certi 3 Credits
This course emphasizes enhancing the student’s familiarity and contact with various standardized test formats and their specifications, objectives, instructions, item designs, and scoring formulas, with particular reference to the PRAXIS EXAMS. A testing fee will be assessed each student upon registration for the course. This course is a Prerequisite(s) for all other professional sequence courses. The Praxis Lab is a requirement with this course. The Praxis I is a course requirement.
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EDUC 312 - The Middle School 3 Credits
This course explores the pre-adolescent and early adolescent and the endeavors of educational systems to meet his/her needs through the middle school. The unique nature of the eleven to fourteen age group emerging from a variety of psychological and social factors is addressed.
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Elementary Education |
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ELED 398 - Coop-ELED 6 Credits
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ELED 410 - Diag & Remedial Reading 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): A course in reading methods, EDUC 101, Praxis I. This course is a study of the important principles of diagnosis and remediation in reading, with appropriate emphasis on major causes of reading problems. Emphasis is placed on formal and informal procedures for diagnosing and remediating reading problems.
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ELED 401 - Dir Tchg Seminar Eled 12 Credits
Prerequisite(s): ELED 301, all Methods courses Praxis II completed to apply. This is a semester-long course in which the student participates in all of the activities of the teacher in the classroom, in the school, and in the community. Beginning with a period of observation and orientation, the student receives assignments of increasing difficulty from the cooperating teacher until he/she is capable of assuming full responsibility for teaching. The semester is divided into an eight-week assignment in the intermediate and an eight-week assignment in the primary grades. The practical experience is accompanied by a regularly scheduled seminar. The student teacher follows the entire schedule of the school at which the student is placed.
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ELED 303 - Meth Tchg Lang Arts Eled 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): ELED 301 and Praxis I. This course is a study of the language arts curriculum (listening, speaking, reading, and writing) and strategies for teaching the language arts. Examination of theories and philosophies related to literacy learning, as well as curriculum and classroom environments that allow children to emerge more fully into literacy will be conducted. Practicum III is taken concurrently Praxis II should be taken with this course.
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ELED 314 - Meth Tchg Math Eled 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): ELED 301, and Praxis I. This course explores the content and methods of teaching mathematical concepts and arithmetical skills. Practicum III is taken concurrently. Praxis II should be taken with this course.
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ELED 304 - Meth Tchg Reading Eled 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): ELED 301, and Praxis I. This course provides prospective teachers competencies and other attributes essential for delivering effective reading instruction for children in elementary schools. Students broaden their knowledge and understanding of the process of reading and the importance of literacy in a modern, technologically oriented society. Students integrate their professional knowledge through actual experiences in the schools. Practicum III is taken concurrently. Praxis II should be taken with this course.
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ELED 306 - Meth Tchg Science Eled 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): ELED 301, and Praxis I. Concepts and techniques of teaching general science in the elementary and secondary schools will be explored. Emphasis is placed on planning activities for the direct observation of phenomena in the classroom. Practicum III is taken concurrently. Praxis II should be taken with this course.
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ELED 310 - Meth Tchg Soc Stds Eled 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): ELED 301, and Praxis I. This course is a study of concepts underlying the several social studies and the techniques and materials useful for understanding this content. Practicum III is taken concurrently. Praxis II should be taken with this course.
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ELED 301 - Theory & Practice Eled 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): EDUC 101, 201, Registration for Praxis I. This course is a study of the theory and teaching techniques appropriate for elementary school children. Attention is given to recent research on effective teaching; planning, implementing, and evaluating lessons; motivating and organizing for effective instruction; and techniques for meeting the needs of diverse school populations. Performance-based assessment is applied.
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ELED 316 - Year Long Internship Phrase I 1 Credits
Prerequisite(s): This course will enable observation of model lessons in an elementary classroom, examination of curriculum materials, and teaching of selected lessons under the supervision of a master teacher. The practicum is completed on a Tuesday or Thursday for the full day. This practicum must be taken with methods courses. Praxis I required to apply for Student Teaching. Application is made for Student Teaching during this course.
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English |
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ENGL 416 - 20th Century American Literature 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is an in-depth exploration of the developments in American poetry, prose, and drama from 1900 to the present. While the focus is on modernism and modernization in the novel, pre-war experimental drama, and the emergence of new poetic forms, the course will also link these trends to the emerging postmodern literary fors of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
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ENGL 255 - Advanced Composition 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course builds on the competencies developed in ENGL 101-102, stressing greater awareness of vocabulary, logic, rhetoric, and grammar. Through interdisciplinary readings, this course assists the students in communicating their ideas with simplicity and clarity.
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ENGL 455 - Advanced Creative Writing I 3 Credits
(Fall Every Three Years)
Prerequisite(s): Two courses from ENGL 367, ENGL 358, ENGL 359, and ENGL 360, or Permission of the Instructor. This course allows the more advanced student the opportunity to develop greater skills in writing fiction, poetry, plays, or nonfiction prose. It is conducted primarily as a workshop. Advanced Creative Writing I provides extensive analyses of students’ works in progress.
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ENGL 456 - Advanced Creative Writing II 3 Credits
(Spring Every Three Years)
Prerequisite(s): Five Creative Writing Courses with a “C” or higher, or Permission of the Instructor. This course is an independent study in creative writing designed for the serious student writer who will work closely with a faculty member to produce a novella, a group of short stories, a collection of poetry, a play, or a significant work of creative nonfiction.
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ENGL 445 - Advanced Grammar 3 Credits
(Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course is a practical focus on language form and usage. It is an intensive study of American English grammar, drawing upon contributions from traditional language scholarship and from more recent communicative approaches to grammar study.
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ENGL 324 - African American Literature I to 1926 3 Credits
(Fall)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course traces the development of the African American literary tradition from the end of the eighteenth century to the midst of the Harlem Renaissance in 1926. It will cover a variety of genres, including slave narratives, poetry, personal correspondence, essays, short stories, autobiographies, and novels. It will examine many literary conventions and innovations, including tropes such as the talking book and the tragic mulatto, and techniques such as written vernacular and jazz poetry.
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ENGL 325 - African American Literature II, 1926 to the Present 3 Credits
(Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course traces the development of the African American literary tradition from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. It will examine the ways that modern and contemporary African American writers have explored political, social, and aesthetic issues in a variety of genres: essays, poetry, fictionalized autobiography, novels, plays, etc. Among the many topics we will consider are: the “New Negro,” migration from the rural south to the urban north and west, the emergence of the Black Arts Movement, and the current “renaissance” in African American arts and letters.
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ENGL 330 - African American Poetry and Poetics 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course provides an in-depth exploration of selected African American poets and their impact on American culture. Poets studied might include Phyllis Wheatley, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Amiri Baraka. The course also seeks to enlarge and complicate our sense of African American and African diasporic poetics by looking at poets who rarely show up in the literature curriculum including Melvin B. Tolson, Bob Kaufman, Stephen Jonas, Kamau Brathwaite, Harryette Mullen, and Tracie Morris.
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ENGL 327 - African Literary Expression 3 Credits
(Alternate Fall Semesters)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course is a survey of selected poetry, short fiction, and novels of contemporary writers of West Africa and East Africa. Consideration also will be given to the oral and narrative traditions in Africa and their contributions to modern African literature.
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ENGL 318 - American Fiction Since 1945 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course is an examination of the leading novelists and the major trends in American fiction since World War II.
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ENGL 316 - American Literature I 3 Credits
(Fall)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course is a study of American writers and writings from colonial times to the mid-nineteenth century. Selected works will be examined in historical context and in their relationship to the political, social, and intellectual milieu in which they were produced.
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ENGL 317 - American Literature II 3 Credits
(Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course is a study of American writers and writings, from the rise of Realism to the present. This course includes considerations of the development of the American writer as reflected in American literature and the study of literary trends within the specified period.
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AMHR 101 - Amharic for Beginners 3 Credits
(Fall only)
The course’s aim is to provide students with basic and practical knowledge of Amharic, an African Business Language Skill, including the ability to use the script (“Fedel”) and understand the fundamental grammatical structures of the language. In each unit, dialouges, expressions, vocabulary items, grammar, exercises and cultural considerations are incorporated. The course instruction will focus on every day use of the language, particularly in a business setting.
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ENGL 102 - Argument and Research 3 Credits
(Fall, Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 with a Final Course Grade of “C” or Higher. Argument and Research builds on the skills developed in Expository Writing (ENGL 101), focusing on analysis, synthesis and evaluation, logical thinking, the techniques of argument, writing about literature, and preparation of the documented essay. (NOTE: May be taken for honors credit.)
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ENGL 409 - Chaucer 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is a study of Chaucer’s main texts in relation to fourteenth century literature and society.
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ENGL 213 - Cinema of Africa and the African Diaspora 3 Credits
(Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. The course will begin with the examination of the philosophical and cultural ideas represented in films of Africans in America. It will also focus on political, social, and traditional forces that shape the lives of Black people in the Caribbean, South America, and Continental Africa.
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ENGL 417 - Contemporary American Literature 3 Credits
(Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course provides an analysis of the major trends in current literature-poetry, fiction, drama-with special emphasis on works written during the past decade, the Jewish and African American schools of fiction, the absurd drama, and experimental poetry.
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ENGL 298 - Coop English 3 Credits
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ENGL 259 - Creative Writing II: Drama 3 Credits
(Alternate Fall Semesters)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 256 or Permission of Instructor. This course emphasizes the development of skills in writing in the genre of drama, both the short play and the full-length drama. It is conducted primarily as a workshop to critique students’ original work, with an emphasis on technique and form and close examination of published texts as models. Voice and style will be introduced.
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ENGL 257 - Creative Writing II: Fiction 3 Credits
(Alternate Spring Semesters)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 256 or Permission of Instructor. This course emphasizes the development of skills in writing in the genre of fiction, both short fiction and novel chapters. It is conducted primarily as a workshop to critique students’ original work, with an emphasis on technique and for and close examination of published texts as models. Students read and respond to their peers’ original creative work in terms of technique and form, with close examination of published texts as models. Voice and style will be introduced.
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ENGL 260 - Creative Writing II: Non-Fiction Prose 3 Credits
(Alternate Fall Semesters)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 256 or Permission of Instructor. This course emphasizes the development of skills in writing in the genre of non-fiction prose, more recently referred to as creative non-fiction. It is conducted as a workshop to critique students’ original creative work, with an emphasis on technique and form and close examination of published texts as models. Voice and style will be introduced.
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ENGL 258 - Creative Writing II: Poetry 3 Credits
(Alternate Spring Semesters)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 256 or Permission of Instructor. This course emphasizes the development of skills in writing in the genre of poetry, both traditional and experimental. It is conducted primarily as a workshop to critique students’ original work, with an emphasis on technique and form and close examination of published texts as models. Voice and style will be introduced
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ENGL 359 - Creative Writing III: Drama 3 Credits
(Alternate Spring Semesters)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and Junior Status, with at Least One Course in the ENGL 257-260 Series or Permission of Creative Writing Instructor. This course provides advanced practice in the techniques of writing drama. It is conducted primarily as a workshop to critique students’ original creative work, emphasizing the relationship between content (including technique and form) and style, with close reading of published work as models.
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ENGL 357 - Creative Writing III: Fiction 3 Credits
(Alternate Fall Semesters)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and Junior Status, with at Least One Course in the ENGL 257-260 Series or Permission of Creative Writing Instructor. This course provides advanced practice in the techniques of writing fiction. It is conducted primarily as a workshop to critique students’ original creative work, emphasizing the relationship between content (including technique and form) and style and published work as models.
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ENGL 360 - Creative Writing III: Non-Fiction 3 Credits
(Alternate Spring Semesters)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and Junior Status, with at Least One Course in the ENGL 257-260 Series or Permission of Creative Writing Instructor. This course provides advanced practice in the techniques of writing non-fiction prose, most recently referred to as “creative non-fiction.” It is conducted primarily as a workshop to critique students’ original creative work, emphasizing the relationship between content (including technique and form) and style, with close reading of published work as models.
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ENGL 358 - Creative Writing III: Poetry 3 Credits
(Alternate Fall Semesters)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and Junior Status, with at Least One Course in the ENGL 257-260 Series or Permission of Creative Writing Instructor. This course provides advanced practice in the techniques of writing poetry. It is conducted primarily as a workshop to critique students’ original creative work, emphasizing the relationship between content (including technique and form) and style, with close reading of published work as models.
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ENGL 301 - English Literature I 3 Credits
(Fall)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. Talking trees, a wise dwarf, vomiting dragons, a sorcerer, warring sprites, and a recipe for eating babies make up some of the arresting content you could encounter in this course. This course is a survey of British literature and literary history from Old English through the eighteenth century. Major writers and works to be studied include Beowulf, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Swift, and Johnson.
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ENGL 302 - English Literature II 3 Credits
(Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. A survey of English literature from about 1780 to the present, this course includes Romantic poets who are “mad, bad, and dangerous to know,” Victorian aesthetes and dandies, and Modernist rebels against tradition. Students will discover the literature in its cultural context and in relation to other modes of expression, including film, painting, and music. Authors such as Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, the Shelleys, Keats, Tennyson, the Brownings, Yeats, Woolf, Joyce, Achebe, McKay, Walcott, Heaney, and Rushdie will be featured.
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ENGL 406 - English Literature of the Restoration and Eighteenth Century 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and 236. This course covers the “long eighteenth century,” from the Restoration until ca. 1785. Dryden, Aphra Behn, Congreve, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Addison and Steele, Lady Montagu, Samuel Johnson, Olaudah Equiano, Thomson, Gray, and Collins will be studied as representative authors. Topics will address cultural issues of the enlightenment, including the rise of periodicals, depictions of the culturally “other,” diaries, science, realism and the rise of the novel, women writers, slavery, political liberty, and the ballad and other popular forms of writing.
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ENGL 405 - English Literature of the Seventeenth Century 3 Credits
(Alternate Spring Semesters)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course examines literary production in Great Britain from the early seventeenth century until the Restoration. Readings in Donne, Jonson, and Milton will be augmented with works by other poets such as Herbert, Marvell, Wroth, Vaughan, Crashaw, Herrick, and Philips, and prose writers such as Sir Francis Bacon and Hobbes. The literary production of the age will be considered in relation to other cultural determinants such as religion, gender and identity, education, the emergence of the media, and politics.
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ENGL 404 - English Prose and Poetry of the Sixteenth Century 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This is a course in the literature of Great Britain from the late fifteenth century through the early seventeenth century covering writers such as Skelton, More, Wyatt, Tyndale, Elizabeth I, Spenser, Raleigh, Sidney, Marlowe, and Shakespeare. Topics may include the development of the sonnet, the Bible in English translation, exploration and travel writings, the pastoral, women in power, and revenge tragedy.
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ENGL 101 - Expository Writing 3 Credits
(Fall, Spring)
Prerequisite(s): Must be completed with a grade of “C” or better to progress to ENGL 101. Expository Writing teaches the rhetorical, analytical, and comprehension skills necessary for academic success. The students are instructed to emulate the rhetorical strategies of professional writers. They use the word processor for writing and editing their essays. Throughout this course, students are given opportunities to develop oral communication skills and to continue their growth as readers and writers through exposure to interdisciplinary readings, ranging from the natural and social sciences to the humanities. (NOTE: May be taken for honors credit.)
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ENGL 333 - Graphic Novels 3 Credits
Fall, Spring
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course uses the analytic tools or literary theory and cultural studies to study the graphic novel and the way in which this medium creates narrative meaning through the dynamic interplay of images and words. Students will learn the history o graphic novels and read works created domestically and internationally with special attention given to image-text relationships, form, style, and the cultural identities of characters, artists,.and readers.
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ENGL 437 - History of Literary Criticism and Theory 3 Credits
(Spring)
Prerequisite(s): Senior Standing and Permission of Chair. This course is a historical survey of literary criticism and theory since Plato culminating in an overview of contemporary theories, including psychoanalytic, Marxist, reader-response, feminist, deconstruction, New Historicist, race, and post-colonial theories and cultural criticism.
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ENGL 446 - History of the English Language 3 Credits
(Alternate Fall Semesters)
Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior Standing. This course is a study of the origin and development of the English language. Some attention is given to the development of the English vocabulary, semantics, and social, regional and functional varieties of English usage.
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ENGL 401 - History of the English Novel 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is a study of the history of the novel written in English from the realist and picaresque traditions of eighteenth-century novelists such as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, and Smollett; through nineteenth-century prose stylistics such as Austen, the Brontës, Dickens, George Eliot, Hardy, and Conrad, and on through the stream-of-consciousness works of Woolf and Joyce and the post-colonial novels of Achebe, Ngugi Wa-Thiong’o, Jean Rhys, and Salman Rushdie.
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ENGL 100 - Interactive English 3 Credits
(Fall, Spring)
Prerequisite(s): Students who place into ENGL 100 must completed ENGL 100 with a grade of “C” or better to progress to ENGL 101. This course reviews basic English concepts and introduces students to college-level writing with an emphasis on basic grammar and mechanics and paragraph writing. This course also provides diverse interactive online and media rich content that engages visual and audio learners. Students will apply their learning to a variety of traditional and online writing activities.
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ENGL 383 - Internship
Prerequisite(s): English 236 and Permission of Instructor. Declaration as an English major and at least nine completed English credits above the ENGL 102 level. This course provides students with work-like experience in the professional realm of English language, literature, technical writing, and/or cultural studies. The intern will meet with a designated tenured or tenure-track instructor on a semimonthly basis to ensure that the field placement is harnessing the skills of the students in a respectful and effective manner. This course allows students to get a better understanding of how their degree in English can be employed in the world of business, media, non-profit organizations, government, law, health care, activism, and communication. Students can arrange their own internship and fill out the necessary paperwork to receive credit before beginning the internship.
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ENGL 256 - Introduction to Creative Writing 3 Credits
(Fall)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course is an introductory experience in the writing of short stories and poetry, with attention given to techniques and forms. Students’ work will be submitted for workshop criticism by the instructor and peers, but emphasis will be on published works as models.
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ENGL 210 - Introduction to English Grammar 3 Credits
(Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course is an introduction to the study of standard English grammar and its usage. The focus will be on lexical categories (parts of speech) with the goal of understanding how words from different lexical categories work together to form phrases, clauses, and sentences. The course will also explore how the basic English sentence can be transformed into other forms (such as questions, passive constructions, and compound and complex sentences) for rhetorical effectiveness.
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ENGL 250 - Introduction to Film 3 Credits
Fall
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course is an introduction to the historical, technical, and aesthetic development of film as a literary genre. Topics to be studied include cinematic techniques, narrative and thematic structures, and the history and cultural significance of film from the silent screen through the latest advances in digital cinematography.
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ENGL 345 - Introduction to General Linguistics I 3 Credits
(Fall)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course is an introduction to trends in contemporary linguistic theory, language acquisition, and dialects, with special emphasis on phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics.
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ENGL 346 - Introduction to General Linguistics II 3 Credits
(Alternate Spring Semesters)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 345. This course focuses on the most important syntactic rules of English and how these rules interact in the formation of individual sentences. Close attention will be given to analyzing English sentences.
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ENGL 236 - Introduction to Literature 3 Credits
(Fall)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. English majors should take this course early in their program. Everything is a text-from 19th-century poetry to hip-hop lyrics. The course introduces students to major literary genres (short stories, novels, memoir, drama, poetry, and film), literary terminology and concepts, cultural conventions, and artistic techniques. Students will sharpen their analytical and interpretive skills as they practice writing and speaking effectively about literature and culture.
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ENGL 337 - Literature for Adolescents 3 Credits
(Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102, ENGL 236, EDUC 101, and passing scores on PRAXIS I. This course emphasizes readings in major genres, current and classic; determines reading levels for appropriate selection of classroom literature; explores interests and needs of adolescents; identifies sources of literary material for adolescents; and emphasizes techniques for and improving skills in the reading of various types of prose and poetry.
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ENGL 326 - Literature of the Caribbean 3 Credits
(Alternate Fall Semesters)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course is an introductory survey of Caribbean literature from the beginning of the twentieth century to the present. It focuses on novels, short stories, poetry drama, and essays. Consideration is given to the developing Caribbean national consciousness and an emerging post-colonial posture as reflected in the literature of the Caribbean
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ENGL 211 - Literatures of the World 3 Credits
(Fall and Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course introduces students to the world’s major civilizations from ancient to modern. Focusing on the ethos of diverse cultures, students observe the ways a multiplicity of storytellers comment on their perception of themselves and their stories. Students taking ENGL 211 satisfies either ENGL 338 or 339 (World Literature I or II, not both)
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ENGL 418 - Major American Writers 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course provides an intensive study of major American writers, from Poe to the present. This course will focus on no more than six authors in any given semester to permit analysis of background, characteristic themes, style, and critical response.
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ENGL 470 - Methods of Teaching English 3 Credits
(Fall Only)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of Chair Based on PRAXIS results. This course is a study of the objectives, methods, and materials in teaching English in the secondary school. Should be taken the first semester of the senior year with SCED 305 Practicum III.
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ENGL 340 - Modern Drama 3 Credits
(Alternate Spring Semesters)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course considers trends in the theatre through analysis of representative plays by playwrights from Ibsen to the present. Analyses of developments in society and in the theatre as shaping forces in drama are conducted.
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ENGL 436 - Modern European Novel 3 Credits
(Alternate Fall Semesters)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is a study of major developments in the novel within the aesthetic and cultural milieu of European modernism. Major writers to be studied include Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Kafka, Gide, Mann, Sarte, de Beauvoir, Camus, Unamuno, Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence, and Orwell. Topics may include narratology, the stream-of-consciousness novel, existentialism, technology and modernization, politics and the novel.
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ENGL 424 - Neo-Slave Narratives 3 Credits
(Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 324 or ENGL 325. This course studies fictionalized and poetic treatment of the traditional slave narrative as rendered by contemporary African American writers such as Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, Octavia Butler, Charles Johnson, Edward P. Jones, Robert Hayden, Margaret Walker, Ernest Gaines and Lalita Tademy.
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ENGL 254 - Queer Cultural Studies 3 Credits
Periodically
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course offers an introduction to Queer Theory within the context of cultural studies including but not limited to the academic analysis of literature, music, film, social media, the internet, theatre, politics, sociology, and history. Using queer as an inclusive umbrella term for gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, and straight, this class examines how society negotiates identities based on gender, sex, and sexuality in relationship with constructions of race, religion, and class.
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ENGL 438 - Seminar for Majors and Minors 3 Credits
(Spring)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of Chair. This course is an intensive review across the genres of the English literary canon from its Celtic and Anglo-Saxon beginnings through the post-modern period. The course will also review American and African American literature. The course is designed to prepare majors and minors for graduate study and for professional careers. Of importance will be a senior comprehensive examination and a major research paper to be presented by each student at the senior symposium.
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