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2021-2022 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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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 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 483 - Cultural Criticism for Publication and Industry 3 Credits
Spring
Amalgamating close reading practices, critical theory, and sociohistorical context within the real-world setting of cultural texts produced for public consumption, this course prepares students for being professional cultural critics. Students will strengthen the critical writing, research, and thinking skills required to be a credible critic of literary, theatrical, cinematic, musical, visual, digital, culinary, and game-based arts. Theory meets practice in this class with students learning about the history of cultural criticism, the principles behind contemporary criticism, the importance of contextualizing cultural products, and how to craft a well-structured review. Students will harness their writing skills for print, digital, radio, and streaming media.
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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 261 - Gender, Culture, and Identity 3 Credits
Fall, Spring
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course is designed to introduce students to the basic concepts and perspectives in Women’s Studies/Gender Studies. This course will place the category of gender and culture at the center of analysis it is an inter-disciplinary, transnational study of the significance of gender in shaping the cultural experience of communities and individuals.
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ENGL 365 - Global Rhetoric of Fashion 3 Credits
Fall, Spring
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. Utilizing traditional, cultural and contemporary fashioning of dress examples from Asia, the Islamic world, the Americas, Africa, and Europe, the course will demonstrate how clothing and adornment is interlinked to the self-(re)presentation of citizens on the national and trans-national political stage. This course will engage with the gendering of dress (clothing, hairstyles, footwear, body adornments and head wear) in a global perspective; examine dress as a site for performing culture, religion and politics; and analyze how groups craft political and social identities through invented dress.
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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 380 - Identity and Social Media 3 Credits
Fall, Spring
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course explores social media platforms from a cultural perspective, exploring this rapidly changing interactive environment where users are actively producing, consuming, and engaging with content. Students will examine the role social media plays in crafting both self-identity and social relationships and its role in shaping public discourse. In particular, this course will focus on the formation of identities based on gender, race, religion, ethnicity and sexuality, and further, look at the formation of activist movements, and the building of communal narratives and networks online today.
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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 239 - Introduction to Cultural Studies 3 Credits
Fall Only
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course introduces students to basic concepts in the study of culture and begins with the premise that culture is a richly symbolic network that expresses and embodies the values of a people. The course will focus on the interpretation and analysis of literature, film, music, shopping, sports, food, technology, tourism, fashion, the body, and other elements of lived experience in order to understand what culture is and how it works. It is designed to give students the tools to analyze, interpret, evaluate, and critique the culture(s) in which we live.
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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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ENGL 425 - Seminar in African American Literature 3 Credits
(Alternate Spring Semesters)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is an examination of novels and collections of short fiction by major contemporary African American novelists, such as Toni Morrison, Gloria Naylor, Ernest Gaines, etc.
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ENGL 439 - Seminar in Cultural Studies 3 Credits
Spring
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102; and either ENGL 213, 250, 253, 254, 283, 333, OR 437; or ART 407; or Permission of Instructor. This course explores the role of art in mass culture using cultural critique as our primary critical orientation. We will investigate the dialectical relationship between art (literature, film, music, and other art forms) and technology, capitalism, bureaucracy, politics, propaganda, production and consumption, and other components of contemporary lived experience. The concept of mass culture will be weighed against other cultural studies conceptualizations such as high culture, pop culture, folk culture, oppositional art, and other modes of understanding the ways in which material practices and ideologies play a role in how art is theorized, produced, and consumed.
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ENGL 407 - Shakespeare 3 Credits
(Fall)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 236 This course offers a study of Shakespeare’s dramatic and/other poetic works. Attention will be given to understanding the sociohistorical realities of the culture in which Shakespeare wrote. This course incorporates readings of Shakespeare’s work based on various schools of literary theory.
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ENGL 408 - Shakespeare and Film/New Media 3 Credits
(Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course offers a literary study of Shakespeare’s dramatic works and interpretations of said works on film, TV, the internet, and other forms of new media with the help of film studies, new media studies, and digital literacy tools.
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ENGL 265 - Social Identity and Dress in the United States 3 Credits
Fall, Spring
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. Clothing is a medium for fashioning identities. As a result, there is an inseparable link between cultures, aesthetics, power, and dress. In this course, students will explore how `dressed bodies¿ are tools affecting the ways in which the social world and power relations are organized and structured, with a particular focus on the United States. Clothing is a medium for fashioning identities. As a result, there is an inseparable link between cultures, aesthetics, power, and dress. In this course, students will explore how dressed bodies are tools affecting the ways in which the social world and power relations are organized and structured, with a particular focus on the United States.
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ENGL 319 - Special Topics in American Literature 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is a study of American literature focusing upon special topics beyond the traditional categories of period and genre. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: Native American literature; Asian American literature; Chicano/a American Literature; travel literature; Cold War literature; American autobiography; literature of specific geographic locations such as Washington, D.C., New York, or the Pacific Rim; and literature and the other arts.
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ENGL 303 - Special Topics in British Literature 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course is a study of British literature focusing upon special topics beyond the traditional categories of period and genre. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: medieval romance; the picaresque novel; gothic literature; literature, obscenity, and the law; fairy tales and fantasy literature; utopian literature; post-colonial literature; and literature and the other arts.
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ENGL 370 - Special Topics in Caribbean Literature 3 Credits
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Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. Possible topics for consideration in this course may include, but are not limited to, the following: literary interpretations of calypso and reggae music; Caribbean ‘yard’ literature; Caribbean autobiographical literature; Caribbean folk literature; Negritude writers of the Caribbean; the literature of Caribbean women writers; and the literature of colonization.
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ENGL 353 - Special Topics in Women’s Studies 3 Credits
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Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This is a study of literature written by and about women, focusing upon special topics beyond the traditional categories of period and genre. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: contemporary women writers; women in post-slavery and post-colonial environments; images of women in Renaissance Literature; images of women in Victorian writing by women and men; and the literary representation of mothers and daughters in twentieth-century fiction.
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ENGL 253 - Studies in Popular Culture 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course will examine and analyze popular culture and its representation in different media ranging from such diverse examples as hip-hop music to sci-fi cinema. Specifically, manifestations of popular culture in literature, film, television, music, and advertising will be assessed, as will the growing role of technology in the creation and understanding of culture. In addition, this course will assess the rhetorical situation of the examined texts, and analyze those texts through the application of traditional rhetorical and literary methods.
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ENGL 283 - Studies in Popular Songs and Artists 3 Credits
Spring
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course examines how and why certain songs and artists have become popular in the United States from the nineteenth century to today. Students will learn how genres such as blues, rock and roll, Latin, country, R&B, dance, and rap/hip-hop influenced one another to create popular music and culture. These interactions will be examined from a cultural studies perspective that analyzes lyrics, visual performances, and marketing strategies to understand how the race, class, gender, and sexuality of musicians and music listeners have responded to cultural trends, historical events, technological advancements, and sociopolitical movements to create music that is both timely and timeless.
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ENGL 279 - Study Abroad- Anglophone Literatures, Languages, and Cultures 3 Credits
Spring
This course immerses students in an Anglophone culture outside of the United States. Students will study the literature, culture, specific linguistic nuances, and historic nature of the Anglophone country’s employment of English. Special attention will be paid to the literary, cultural, linguistic, and historic contributions made by Africans and the African diaspora.
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ENGL 498 - Teaching A Second Language 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): Permission of Instructor. This course is a study of the new techniques and procedures for teaching a second language. Problems of teaching the language and the culture, traditional methods, audio-oral, and cognitive approaches will be discussed.
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ENGL 361 - Tech & Report Writing I 3 Credits
(Fall, Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course is a study of the particular requirements of technical and report writing, coupled with review and refinement of basic grammar and composition skills, designed to prepare students for career-related assignments. The course requires extensive work with computers, which includes word processing, graphics, and working on the Internet.
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ENGL 466 - Technical Editing 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): Working knowledge of at least one word processing system, ENGL 101 and 102, and ENGL 361 or Permission of Instructor. This course is an intensive study of and practicum for editing and designing complex documents such as technical manuals, proposals, and research reports. The course will provide students with the skills necessary for editing these documents as it applies to invention, arrangement, style, and delivery. Students will examine strategies for document management and explore the theoretical justifications for making editing decisions.
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ENGL 362 - Technical Writing for Computer Science 3 Credits
(Fall, Spring)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 361 or Recommendation by the Computer Science Department. This course covers topics for writing technical documents in the field of computer science. Topics include using documentation, proofreading, editing, designing, and writing proposals, short reports, and other business communication. This course requires extensive work with computers.
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ENGL 212 - The African American Literary Imagination 3 Credits
(Fall)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 101 and ENGL 102. This course explores how Africans in America have represented group and individual identities, aspirations and frustrations, and triumphs and defeats through the medium of writing. Focusing on selected texts from the enslavement era to contemporary literature, students will explore and analyze the trajectory of freedom, the resonance of culture, imaginations of Africa, and the politics of race.
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ENGL 329 - The African American Short Story 3 Credits
(Alternate Spring Semesters)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course provides an in-depth exploration of selected major African American short Story writers, such as Chesnutt, Hughes, Baldwin, Wright, Kelley, Petry, Bontemps, etc.
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ENGL 331 - The African American Vernacular Tradition 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. This course is a study of the African American Vernacular Tradition from the period of enslavement to the present. Possible topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: spirituals, ballads, tales, speeches, sermons, work songs, blues, jazz, spoken word and rap songs. This course will also examine the ways in which the vernacular tradition informs the African American literary canon, including writing by Sterling Brown, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Etheridge Knight, Amiri Baraka, and Paule Marshall.
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ENGL 402 - The British Romantic Period 3 Credits
(Alternate Spring Semesters)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is an intensive study in British Romanticism, focusing on the literary, historical, and cultural situation from ca. 1785-1830. Writers to be examined include Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats; Hazlitt, De Quincey, Lamb, and Leigh Hunt; and Wollstonecraft, Barbauld, Charlotte Smith, Mary Robinson, Baillie, and Hemans.
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ENGL 403 - The Victorian Period 3 Credits
(Alternate Fall Semesters)
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102 and ENGL 236. This course is an intensive study of the writers and culture of Victorian England. Writers to be studied may include Tennyson, the Brownings, the Brontës, Arnold, Wilde, and Conrad; and themes and topics may include aestheticism, industrialization and urbanization, gender and the “Woman Question,” evolution, and imperialism and colonization
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ENGL 266 - Writing About Disability and Health 3 Credits
Fall, Spring, Summer Prerequisite(s): ENGL 102. Applicable to a wide range of disciplines, course content includes the social model of disability, discourses around public and mental health, film representations of health and disability, and issues of inclusivity and accessibility. Students will expand their information literacy and writing skills while they learn about disability studies, adopt inclusive practices, engage in service learning, and become empowered to shape a more accessible world.
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FINA 424 - Commercial Banking 3 Credits
(Fall, Spring)
Prerequisite(s): FINA 320 and ECON 321. This course analyzes the problems and policies concerning structure, organization and management, deposits, cash and liquidity management, lending, investing, trust services, international banking, and capital structure of commercial banks.
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FINA 421 - Corp Finance 3 Credits
(Fall, Spring)
Prerequisite(s): FINA 320. This course examines the roles and functions of the financial manager. This course develops financial policies, skills, and techniques as they apply to financial problem-solving. This course will be supplemented by extensive readings and application of skills and techniques to selected problem situations faced by financial officers.
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FINA 430 - Current Issues in Finance 3 Credits
Course offered as needed
Prerequisite(s): FINA 320. This course will involve a wide spectrum of Current Issues in Finance (emerging topic in finance), in banking and finance with one selected for each semester in which it is offered. The course will allow students to relate the current events to the theory of their major area of study. The issue will be chosen based on the current events at the time the course is offered. Topics will vary each semester that the course is offered.
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FINA 422 - Investments 3 Credits
(Fall, Spring)
Prerequisite(s): FINA 320. This course is a study of the principles and techniques used in the analysis, selection, and management of securities investments. This course examines the relationship between risk and return, factors influencing securities valuation, and the development of appropriate investment objectives.
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FINA 222 - Personal Finance 3 Credits
(Fall, Spring)
This course focuses on the development and management of family income and the critical analysis of the potential benefits and associated cost of a particular financial decision. This course also emphasizes both short- and long-term financial goals. Issues to be examined include, but are not limited to, the development of a personal budget, efficient use of financial institutions and credits, strategy for financing both consumer expenditures and consumer durables, and, finally, building a financial future in terms of an efficient financial investment portfolio.
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FINA 320 - Principles of Finance 3 Credits
(Fall, Spring, Summer)
Prerequisite(s): ACCT 212, ECON 211, ECON 212. This course is an introduction to the principles, concepts, and techniques of business finance. This course focuses on the fundamentals of financial analysis, management of current assets, capital budgeting, capital structure, and external financing.
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FINA 323 - Small Business Finance 3 Credits
(Fall, Spring)
Prerequisite(s): FINA 320. This course examines the financial management requirements facing small and entrepreneurial firms. Topics related to financial analysis, financial planning and strategy, obtaining and deploying funds, and selected issues of concern to small business owners/managers and entrepreneurs will be discussed.
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FINA 400 - Special Topics in Banking and Finance 3 Credits
Fall, Summer
Prerequisite(s): FINA 320. This course will involve a wind spectrum of special topics like Real Estate Finance, Insurance etc in banking and finance with one selected for each semester in which it is offered. The topics will be chosen based on the interest of students in the Business Administration program.
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FREN 101 - First-Year French I 3 Credits
(Fall, Spring)
Designed for beginners, this classroom/laboratory course provides an introduction to the basic language skills (comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing), with emphasis on audio-lingual and writing skills. Laboratory work required.
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FREN 102 - First-Year French II 3 Credits
(Fall, Spring)
Prerequisite(s): FREN 101. This course is a continuation of FREN 101, with additional drill in the Language Laboratory and increasing attention in class to the relationship between speaking and writing. Laboratory work required.
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FREN 322 - Francophone African and Caribbean Women Writers 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): French 201 and 202. This course is a study of the literature and cultural traditions of the French-speaking world outside of France, including Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean. The study will focus on the following genres of postcolonial Francophone literature written by women: novels, short stories, legends, poetry, and drama.
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FREN 326 - Francophone Cultures and Literatures 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): FREN 302. This course is a comprehensive study of the origin and development of the cultures of the French-speaking world, including Louisiana, Haiti, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Quebec, Senegal, and the Bight of Benin. The study includes the literatures of these and other French-speaking areas.
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FREN 302 - French Conversation 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): FREN 301. This course is a continuation of FREN 301. Emphasis is placed on the development of aural/oral proficiency through discussion of contemporary events.
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FREN 301 - French Conversation I 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): FREN 202. This course is designed to develop aural-oral proficiency in French through a variety of classroom and laboratory learning experiences.
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FREN 327 - French Culture and Civilization 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): FREN 302. This course is a comprehensive study of the origin and development of France and it’s place in history, with emphasis on France social, economic, intellectual, artistic, and cultural contributions.
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FREN 340 - French for Business 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): French 202 or Equivalent. This course is designed to prepare business professionals to communicate effectively with French-speaking people and to enable students to embark on a career in international business by introducing them to the conventions and vocabulary of French-speaking business enterprises. This course prepares students for the certification of the Paris Chamber of Commerce.
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FREN 305 - French Phonetics 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): FREN 302. This course is an intensive study of French pronunciation and diction. Practice in discriminating French phonemes and allophones and in transcribing in phonetic symbols is provided. Recitation of poems and rhythmic prose.
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FREN 303 - Introduction to French Literature 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): FREN 302. This course focuses on French literature from the Middle Ages to 1800. This course consists of reading and analysis of representative texts of the major authors.
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FREN 304 - Introduction to French Literature II 3 Credits
(Periodically)
Prerequisite(s): FREN 303. This course is a continuation of FREN 303 and presents French Literature from 1800 to the present.
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FREN 201 - Second -Year French I 3 Credits
(Fall)
Prerequisite(s): FREN 102. This course provides continued development of skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing, with oral discussion and continued presentation of grammar and syntax. Laboratory work required.
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FREN 202 - Second-Year French II 3 Credits
(Spring)
Prerequisite(s): FREN 201. This course focuses on intensive reading of texts dealing with literature and culture, with emphasis on speaking and writing along with vocabulary expansion. Laboratory work required.
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FREN 279 - Studies Abroad: Studies in Francophone Literatures, Languages and Culture 3 Credits
The first level of French study abroad designed to develop the practical application of the five basic language skills: speaking, listening, reading, and writing, with emphasis on Francophone culture. This course includes readings on Francophone culture, including the African and Caribbean contributions.
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GEOG 211 - Economic Geography 3 Credits
(Offered Every Two Years)
This course is a consideration of people’s systems of livelihood, the distribution of these activities, explanations for the distributions, and the utilization of cultural and natural resources for economic gain.
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GEOG 101 - Elements of Geography 3 Credits
(Fall, Spring, Summer)
This course is an introductory course which provides a description of what exists at the surface of the earth and an explanation of how and why physical processes have acted to produce these varying phenomena. In addition, the four organizing traditions that have emerged through the long history of geographical thought (earth-science, culture-environment, location, and area analysis) will be considered. The map and computer are used as analytical tools.
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GEOG 102 - Elements of Geography 3 Credits
(Spring Only)
This course is a continuation of Geography I. Emphasis is placed on location and area analysis in terms of human occupance of the earth and the uniformity and differences that are recognized spatially on the earth’s surface.
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GEOG 300 - Environmental Management 3 Credits
(Every Two Years)
Prerequisite(s): GEOG 101, GEOG 102, or Permission of Instructor. This course is a discussion of selected problems that affect the natural environment–maintenance of renewable resources; conservation of non-renewable resources; reducing the effects of natural disasters; alleviating chronic damage; abating pollution by man; and coping with natural pollution.
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GEOG 220 - Geography of Africa 2 Credits
(Every Two Years)
This course is a general regional survey course which focuses on individual countries, with emphasis on political and sociological issues and the presentation of contemporary development prospects within a broad geographic framework.
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GEOG 496 - Independent Study Geography 3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): 9 Hours of Geography or Permission of Instructor. This course is an individualized course of independent study designed to allow the advanced student of geography to pursue a specialized topic or research project under supervision. An adequately documented report of publication quality will terminate the study.
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GEOG 110 - International Geography 3 Credits
(Spring Only)
This course is a study of both the human elements and the physical elements within specific areas. Emphasis is paced on understanding of the realities of contrasts in wealth and poverty among nations.
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GEOG 215 - Political Geography 3 Credits
(Offered Every Two Years)
This course is an introduction to the basic concepts of Political Geography and, specifically, how geography/location affects the struggle for power at the national and international levels.
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GOVT 460 - Advanced Fieldwork in Political Science 3 Credits
(Spring Only)
Prerequisite(s): GOVT 360. This course is essentially a continuation of GOVT 360.
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GOVT 251 - Africa in World Politics 3 Credits
(Spring Only)
Prerequisite(s): GOVT 130 or Permission of Instructor. This course is an analysis of Africa’s international relations, with a particular focus on interactions with Europe, Asia, and the United States in the post-Cold War years.
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GOVT 400 - Black Political Thought 3 Credits
(Spring Only)
Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior Only. This course is a review of the major Black thinkers who have made significant contributions to political thought. The focus will be on how they address the enduring problems of race and class, equality and justice, and unity and conflict in the human polity.
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GOVT 240 - Black Politics in the United States 3 Credits
(Spring Only)
Prerequisite(s): GOVT 130 or Permission of Instructor. This course provides an overview of Black leadership, as well as a comprehensive analysis of the socio-economic factors that shape Black politics in the United States.
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GOVT 462 - Capstone Seminar in Political Science 3 Credits
(Fall Only)
Prerequisite(s): GOVT 130, GOVT 140, GOVT 231, GOVT 315, GOVT 342 or the Instructor’s Permission. This course is a review of the major concepts, themes, and methods of the discipline so as to be better prepared for the departmental comprehensive examination.
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GOVT 463 - Capstone Seminar in Political Science II 3 Credits
(Spring Only)
Prerequisite(s): GOVT 145 and GOVT 391 or the Instructor’s Permission. This course is a review of some of the major philosophical and political questions to enable the successful completion of a senior thesis paper.
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GOVT 315 - Early Political Philosophy 3 Credits
(Fall Only)
Prerequisite(s): GOVT 130 and Permission of Instructor. This course is a study of classical political philosophy from antiquity to the eighteenth century, with emphasis on ideas of justice, equality, freedom, government, and governing in the human polity.
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GOVT 360 - Fieldwork in Political Science 6 Credits
(Fall, Spring)
Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior Only. This course explores internships in legislative and administrative agencies or projects utilizing the political process to bring about social change. This course requires a field placement and a weekly evaluative seminar.
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