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2012-2014 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Communication |
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CT 4350 - Organizational Communication
(3)
This course provides an orientation into the ways communication operates in organizations through historical, philosophical, and theoretical issues. Case study and organizational research are emphasized for study of leadership styles; communication climates; organizational design, coordination and symbolism; and communication satisfaction.
Prerequisite: CT 2000 , CT 2040 .
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CT 4750 - Rhetorical Criticism
(3)
An examination and evaluation of verbal, visual and rhetorical artifacts which are formed due to social issues. Emphasis is placed on the relationship among the rhetor, the message, the audience, the cultural environment in which they communicate, and their ethical standards. This course is designed to develop critical thinking, listening and visual literacy.
Prerequisite: CT 2000 , CT 2040 .
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CT 4860 - Seminar in Group Interaction
(3)
This course will focus on the study of the principles and processes unique to group situations. Topics will include leadership, followership, group roles, norms, tasks, social functions, problem-solving, decision making, and conflict resolution. Emphasis is on learning and acquiring group communication skills, including self-disclosure, conflict management skills, and leadership and followership skills.
Prerequisite: CT 2000 , CT 2040 .
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CT 4870 - Seminar in Communication Theory and Research
(3)
A survey of the contemporary contributions to the study of human communication. Evaluation and analysis are designed to explore what occurs when humans communicate and why certain effects occur. Survey includes considerations of interpersonal, intercultural, organizational, mass media and rhetorical communication.
Prerequisite: CT 2000 , CT 2040 , junior standing.
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CT 4880 - Research Methods in Communication
(3)
This course introduces students to the theory and practice of social science methods in the field of communication. Students will learn quantitative and qualitative research methods. Students will learn to be critical readers of research, and emphasis will be placed on understanding research and assigning credibility to these findings. Students will also learn the importance of conducting and identifying ethical research. Students will design and conduct their own research including asking research questions, developing theoretical explanations for communication phenomena, formulating hypotheses, designing methodologies, analyzing data, and drawing conclusions about research findings. Students will present findings orally and in writing.
Prerequisite: CT 2000 , CT 2040 , CT 3000 or CT 4860 , senior standing.
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CT 4890 - Seminar in Mass Media
(3)
Topics vary each semester but may include such themes as First Amendment issues, journalistic ethics, theories of the effects of mass communication, federal regulation, cultural impact of media and global issues in mass communication.
Prerequisite: Junior standing.
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CT 4940 - Senior Capstone
(3)
Independent and collaborative research into major focus area; written/oral/artistic presentations required to demonstrate mastery of major area of study. Required to fulfill major.
Prerequisite: CT 2000 , CT 2040 , junior standing.
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CT 4970 - Internship
(2-3)
Opportunities for students to apply their education by working in career fields related to a specific track in either communication or business communication. Internships may be in business, industry, government and not-for-profit organizations. Locations include Kansas City, St. Louis, and Paris. The Paris internship requires additional concurrent course enrollment.
Prerequisite: Junior standing, upper-level courses relating to the specific internship, and internship faculty advisor approval.
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Economics |
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EC 1000 - Principles of Macroeconomics
(3)
A first course in macroeconomics, a social science, that introduces students to theories of how the economy operates and demonstrates the interrelationships of macroeconomic policies, national debt, inflation and unemployment. From primary information sources and educational media, students learn to hypothesize, gather data and test fundamental economic relationships, as well as learn to anticipate the performance of the overall economy.
(SRI)
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EC 1050 - Honors Macroeconomics
(4)
A first course in macroeconomics, a social science, that introduces students to theories of how the economy operates and demonstrates the interrelationships of macroeconomic policies, national debt, inflation and unemployment. From primary information sources and educational media, students learn to hypothesize, gather data and test fundamental economic relationships, as well as learn to anticipate the performance of the overall economy. This course takes the place of EC 2000 for honors students.
(SRI)
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EC 1100 - Principles of Microeconomics
(3)
A first course in microeconomics, a social science, that introduces students to theories of how consumers and producers interact through supply and demand within the economy. This course helps students in developing a scientific approach to studying economic systems such as modern capitalism. Students investigate the structure of market behavior, performance in the marketplace and optimizing behavior regarding consumer demand, revenues, costs and profits.
(SRI)
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EC 1150 - Honors Microeconomics
(4)
A first course in microeconomics, a social science, that introduces students to theories of how consumers and producers interact through supply and demand within the economy. This course helps students in developing a scientific approach to studying economic systems such as modern capitalism. Students investigate the structure of market behavior, performance in the marketplace and optimizing behavior regarding consumer demand, revenues, costs and profits. This course takes the place of EC 1100 for honors students.
(SRI)
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EC 3000 - Intermediate Macroeconomics
(3)
Intermediate Macroeconomics is a social science that focuses on the fundamental determinants of output, employment, prices and interest rates. As an extension of the foundation built in Principles of Macroeconomics, critical economic factors and issues such as technology, the labor force, the capital stock and government policies are investigated. Students gain an understanding of the competing economic analyses explaining macroeconomic problems and the variety of possible alternatives for fiscal, monetary, investment, and labor force policies.
Prerequisite: EC 1000 or EC 1050 , EC 1100 or EC 1150 , introductory statistics.
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EC 3100 - Intermediate Microeconomics
(3)
An advanced study of microeconomics that includes the study of consumer behavior, production theory and general equilibrium. Topics include indifference analysis, costs, isoquants, and welfare economics.
Prerequisite: EC 1000 or EC 1050 , EC 1100 or EC 1150 , introductory statistics.
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EC 3225 - Health Care Issues: Economics and Policy
(3)
This class helps students develop an understanding of the public policy formulation and implementation process, as well as an awareness of the critical economic issues in American health care markets. It also provides an exposure to options for health care policy reform. Students are introduced to health service economic issues of access, technology, labor, equity and efficiency from both domestic and international perspectives. A prior course in economics is helpful.
Prerequisite or Concurrent: (with permission of the department): EC 1000 or EC 1100 ; withdrawal from concurrent course will result in automatic drop of EC 3225.
(SRII or SRI)
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EC 3300 - Money and Banking
(FN 4300 )
(3)
Overviews the financial and derivatives markets and the institutional environment in which these markets operate. Instruments traded in these markets (equities, bonds, currencies, options, futures, swaps, etc.) and the principles underlying price determination of these instruments is covered. The course also covers ALM (Asset Liability Management) for financial institutions.
Prerequisite: EC 1000 or EC 1050 , EC 1100 or EC 1150 , introductory statistics.
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EC 3400 - The Developing World: Economics, Politics and Culture
(3)
The Developing World has often been viewed through the lens of theory that evolved in the context of what is known as the Developed World. This seminar course assembles profiles of developing countries and regions from a wide variety of sources to give students a foundation to understand theories focused on the Developing World. Such a foundation includes examinations of the interacting forces of economics, culture, politics, and the natural world.
Prerequisite or Concurrent: (with permission of the department): EC 1000 or EC 1100 ; withdrawal from concurrent course will result in automatic drop of EC 3400.
(SRII or SRI, GPR)
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EC 3501 - Leadership: Perspectives from Social Science and the Arts
(3)
The purpose of this course is to create a perspective of just one concept, leadership, which is key to Rockhurst’s mission and which is greatly valued in any community. Students have an opportunity to integrate what they have learned from many different disciplines in the social sciences and the arts to arrive at this economic perspective. Not only do they learn the substance of what leadership can mean but the different methodologies for learning what leadership is.
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EC 3750 - Law and Economics
(3)
The purposes of government intervention in markets are the focus of the course. The market failures that government is designed to correct are weighed against government failures. Industry studies are used to illustrate public choices about regulation, deregulation, antitrust, and other legal interventions in markets. Students learn the role of property in our legal system and economic analysis. The structure of the U.S. and foreign legal systems are examined from an economic perspective. Students learn to read, interpret, and apply Supreme Court cases to economic analysis of markets. A prior course in economics is helpful.
Prerequisite or Concurrent: (with permission of the department): EC 1000 or EC 1000 ; withdrawal from concurrent course will result in automatic drop of EC 3750.
(SRII or SRI)
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EC 3800 - Competitive Analysis: An International Perspective
(MG 3800 )
(3)
A comprehensive course applies modern business and economic principles to study a firm’s international strategic position. The class integrates insights from the theory of the firm, industrial organization, game theory, and complexity analysis which are used in may fields besides Economics. The broad sweep of modern economics and strategy research is organized and presented on a wide variety of issues, such as defining boundaries, “make or buy fallacies,” competitor identification, rivalry, commitment, cooperation, and strategic positioning.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or above, BUS 3350 or equivalent, and EC 1100 .
Recommended: MK 3000 .
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EC 4001 - Forecasting and Data Analysis for Decision Making
(BUS 6201)
(3)
This course will provide students with the practical business and market research tools required for today’s data-driven decision needs. Understanding your products, customers, competitors, employees and processes is essential to achieve competitive advantage. These business intelligence tools include market research, data mining, forecasting, financial modeling and industry research. This course will focus on the processes and analysis of data using software, not the mathematics.
Prerequisite: EC 1000 or EC 1050 , EC 1100 or EC 1150 , introductory statistics and skills in using windows-based software.
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EC 4200 - International Economics
(3)
This course introduces the student to international trade, with emphasis on the balance of payments, foreign exchange rates and adjustments, the history of trade laws, and current directions in free trade and protectionism.
Prerequisite: EC 1000 or EC 1050 , EC 1100 or EC 1150 , introductory statistics, BUS 3350 or EC 3000 .
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EC 4300 - Political Economy: Economics Systems of the World
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Capturing the essence and dynamism of economic systems is the focus of this course. In this discussion-based course, students will engage in critical reflection of the criteria for comparing economic systems, apply criteria to a self-determined research of particular economy, and examine the different types of economic systems. Particular topics include the role of culture in understanding systems, transitioning systems in Eastern Europe, the emerging role of Islam and issues particular to developing countries.
Prerequisite or Concurrent: (with permission of the department): EC 1000 or EC 1100 ; withdrawal from concurrent course will result in automatic drop of EC 4300.
(SRII, GPR)
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EC 4400 - Industrial Organization
(3)
The study of industrial organization provides a well-organized, widely accepted set of principles about the ways markets fail depending upon how they are structured, how governments do or do not intervene to correct market failures, and the kinds of failures governments experience in trying to correct market failures. The course analyzes the structural characteristics, conduct patterns and social performance of industries with special attention given to major U.S Industries. The point of this analysis is to develop skill in analyzing whether or not government intervention is effective and desirable.
Prerequisite or Concurrent: (with permission of the department): EC 1100 ; withdrawal from concurrent course will result in automatic drop of EC 4400.
(SRI or SRII)
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EC 4500 - Applied Quantitative Methods
(3)
This course introduces applied concepts in mathematical analysis, statistics, and spreadsheet application. The focus is on providing a background in the quantitative methodology used in areas such as economics, finance, operations management, marketing, and management. Major topics include linear and non-linear functions, linear programming and statistical concepts. Waived in lieu of six hours of undergraduate statistics and quantitative analysis. This course cannot be taken by BSBA majors to apply toward the BSBA degree requirements or by BA in Economics majors to apply toward the BA in Economics.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or post-baccalaureate pre-MBA student.
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EC 4550 - Principles of Economics
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This course examines major topics including role of the price system, the factors which impact prices in resources and product markets, determinants of price level and national income, and the effects of governmental stabilization policies. Waived in lieu of six hours of macro and microeconomics. The course cannot be taken by BSBA majors to apply toward the BSBA degree requirements or by BA in Economics majors to apply toward the BA in Economics.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or post-baccalaureate pre-MBA student.
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EC 4940 - Global Economic Issues
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A seminar course which examines different economic paradigms to analyze current and controversial economic, environmental, political and social issues from a global perspective. Juxtaposition of the interpretations strengthens students’ understanding of competing theories. Research and critical analysis of a chosen issue is presented by students as part of the course.
Prerequisite or Concurrent: (with permission of the department): EC 1000 or EC 1100 ; withdrawal from concurrent course will result in automatic drop of EC 4940.
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Education |
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ED 1320 - Multicultural Clinical Experience
(3)
Students spend a significant amount of course time in actual school settings acquiring firsthand classroom experience. On-campus sessions develop students’ ability to analyze and place these experiences into a broader context to come to a fuller understanding of the schooling process and the role it plays in social reproduction and change. Students are encouraged to take the College Basic Academic Subjects Examination (C BASE) after this course and to apply to the Department of Education.
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ED 2500 - Curriculum and Instruction in Health and Physical Education
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This course examines the goals and methods of elementary and middle school health and physical education. Students will look at the role of health education in today’s society and the need for a coordinated health education program in schools. Students will also construct, teach and evaluate a short unit in health education.
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ED 3080 - Integrating the Curriculum through the Arts
(3)
Students consider the curriculum needs of children in preschool to grade 6 as they develop interdisciplinary lessons that also involve a variety of art mediums, music, movement and drama. This course is designed to make the multicultural experience easily accessible to teachers. Dances and music are drawn from the folk traditions of African-Americans, Anglo-Americans and Hispanic-Americans, and Asian-Americans as well as Native Americans. This course meets certification standards. Celebrate the diversity of our nation through the arts.
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ED 3100 - Teaching Elementary School Mathematics
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Students explore and practice varied approaches of teaching elementary school mathematics. In order to develop the ability to evaluate and create math curriculum, students compile a unit of instruction in mathematics. Integration of math into the total elementary school curriculum is emphasized. Areas to be covered include objectives and evaluation of math education, learning theory as it is related to math, major concepts and alternate approaches to instruction. There is an emphasis on the use of concrete learning aids and practical experience in local elementary school classrooms. This course requires non-credit field placement experience.
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ED 3200 - Teaching Elementary School Science
(3)
This course examines the goals, principles and procedures of science education in elementary schools. Science is examined as both a process and product. Students examine the roles of developing students’ science process skills and understanding of the nature of science as these issues relate to teaching science for concept attainment. The role of science-technology-society connections in science education is emphasized. Issues of successful teaching and learning for a broad range of science learners are addressed. This class requires a noncredit field placement experience.
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ED 3300 - Teaching Elementary School Social Studies
(3)
Students explore and analyze a variety of issues and approaches to the teaching of elementary school social studies. The development of curriculum is emphasized, as well as the development of quality assessments and learning activities. Students participate in on-campus teaching demonstrations and varied sample instructional activities. Students prepare a unit of instruction and demonstrate their understanding of the major concepts and tools of the social studies disciplines. This course includes a non-credit field placement experience.
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ED 3360 - Sociological Perspectives on School and Society
(3)
This course examines education as a social institution and focuses its role in 1) transmitting dominant culture and knowledge; 2) reproducing social stratification and 3) maintaining social control. Drawing, for example, on functionalism and conflict theory, linkages will be drawn between these broader social functions of the school and specific processes at the school and classroom level. Implications for educational policy will also be examined. Classic works by authors such as Willard Waller, Robert Dreeben, Philip Jackson, and Dan Lortie as well as contempory research will comprise the course readings.
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ED 3450 - Literature in the Classroom
(3)
This course provides a survey of children and young adult literature and aims at expanding levels of literacy for prospective teachers and their students. Students consider the history and development of literature for young people by reading widely in this rich contemporary and classical body of work. Particular attention is given to the application of criteria for selection and evaluation of this literature for use in the classroom. The link between censorship and alternative views of childhood and youth is explored. Various genres within this category of literature are considered.
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ED 4010 - Foundations of Education
(ED 6010)
(3)
The purpose of this course is to highlight the interpretive, normative, and critical perspectives on education. Construing education broadly to include both school and non-school enterprises, the course aims to deepen students’ awareness of the social context and social implications of various educational activities. The course draws largely from the disciplinary lenses provided by the social sciences and the humanities, encouraging students to develop their capacities to examine, understand, and evaluate educational policies and practices.
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ED 4020 - Fundamentals of Literacy Learning
(ED 6020)
(3)
This course examines the process of lifelong literacy from birth to adulthood. In-depth reading and writing instruction on strategies used by proficient readers are developed to help students gain success in their meaning-making ability and to become linguistically empowered. Diverse forms of literacy are investigated. An inquiry-based approach to content areas focuses on using the four language cueing systems to transact meaning by reading, writing, speaking, listening, mediating, and viewing. This approach is presented within the context of how to build a community of literate learners in today’s society through a literature-rich reader’s and writer’s workshop.
Concurrent: with ED 4021 for Elementary Education majors only.
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ED 4021 - Literacy Practicum
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Students focus on assessing and teaching various reading/writing instructional strategies through a supervised classroom experience. Classroom opportunities for developing and implementing appropriate literacy activities with individual, small, and large groups are incorporated. Preservice teachers receive on-going guidance in the components of their reading curriculum, e.g., independent reading, guided reading, book talks, word study, and reading aloud.
Concurrent: with ED 4020 for Elementary Education majors only.
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ED 4030 - Technology and Education: Applications and Implications
(ED 6030)
(3)
This course introduces students to the practical applications of computer technology in education. Students will develop proficiency with a wide range of software applications and examine and evaluate educational software programs. Students will also examine emerging information technologies that show promise in the field of education and explore how these technologies might be of assistance in meeting the needs of diverse learners. Students will examine the requirements for the pre-service electronic teacher education portfolio and use software programs to create the framework for their portfolio. This course requires non-credit field experiences.
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ED 4050 - Middle School Methods of Teaching Reading and Writing Across the Disciplines
(ED 6050)
(3)
Middle school teachers typically teach more than one subject which requires them to be proficient in various content methods. Because reading and writing are cross disciplinary skills, students will come to understand how the use of reading and writing strategies such as journals, reaction logs, and investigation can improve comprehension and reasoning skills in middle school students. In this course, the student will focus on the pedagogical techniques, content standards, and the nature of the disciplines as they apply to middle school.
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ED 4160 - Teaching Middle and Secondary School Mathematics
(ED 6160)
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This course examines the goals, principles and procedures of mathematics education in secondary schools. Guided by the NCTM standards, the course examines current practice and emerging trends in secondary mathematics education. Special emphasis is placed on mathematics as a problem solving activity. Issues of successful teaching and learning for a broad range of math learners are addressed. This class requires non-credit field placement experience.
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ED 4260 - Teaching Middle and Secondary School Science
(ED 6260)
(3)
This course examines the goals, principles and procedures of science education in elementary schools. Science is examined as both a process and product. Students examine the roles of developing students’ science process skills and understanding of the nature of science as these issues relate to teaching science for concept attainment. The role of science-technology-society connections in science education is emphasized. Issues of successful teaching and learning for a broad range of science learners are addressed. This class requires a noncredit field placement experience.
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ED 4350 - History and Philosophy of Science and Technology
(ED 6350)
(3)
Students will examine the history and philosophy of the natural sciences and relate these topics to current issues and trends in science education. Topics include the goals of science, the goals and methods of science education, the nature of the scientific enterprise, the nature of scientific reasoning, the nature of warrants for scientific knowledge, the post-modern critique of science, responses to the post-modern perspective, the differences and similarities between science and technology, and the role of science and technology in contemporary society. Historical and contemporary examples will be used to illuminate many of the aspects of the course and significant attention will be paid to the examination of various positions within the historical development of philosophy of science.
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ED 4360 - Teaching Middle and Secondary School Social Studies
(ED 6360)
(3)
Students explore and analyze a variety of issues and approaches to the teaching of middle and secondary school social studies. The development of curriculum is emphasized, as well as the development of quality assessments and learning activities. Students participate in on-campus teaching demonstrations and varied sample instructional activities. Students prepare a unit of instruction and demonstrate their understanding of the major concepts and tools of the social studies disciplines. This course includes a non-credit field placement experience.
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ED 4400 - Assessing Literacy Development and Teaching Struggling Readers
(3)
Students learn to assess literacy development of elementary grade students using a variety of authentic assessment techniques, including informal reading inventories, retellings, running records, and miscue analysis. They also evaluate standardized and criterion referenced tests for reading and language arts in elementary grades. Students learn how and when to use instructional strategies to help elementary grade students develop fluency, comprehension, and word analysis strategies (including phonics) in appropriate contexts. Students practice these strategies during school site field experience.
Prerequisite: ED 4020 and ED 4021 .
Corequisite: ED 4411 .
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ED 4411 - Practicum in Assessing Literacy Development and Teaching Struggling Readers
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Students engage in continuous assessment and diagnostic teaching with struggling readers in a school setting. Instructional strategies to develop fluency, and to use strategies for word analysis and comprehension are taught in context of reading leveled texts and practiced during school site field experience.
Prerequisite: ED 4020 and ED 4021 .
Corequisite: ED 4400 .
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ED 4460 - Teaching Middle and Secondary School English
(ED 6460)
(3)
Students will explore and analyze a variety of issues and approaches to the teaching of middle and secondary school English. The development and assessment of curriculum, instructional methods, and learning activities are emphasized. Students will participate in on-campus teaching and teaching in local classrooms. Students will develop a unit of study for the English classroom. This course also requires a non-credit field placement experience.
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ED 4500 - Curriculum, Methods, and Assessment in Secondary Education
(ED 6500)
(3)
Building on the various foundations courses in the secondary certification program, this course focuses on the application of theory to practice as it pertains to curriculum development, instructional strategies, and assessment practices in secondary classrooms. Specific topics of inquiry will include development of curriculum for deep understanding, design of various types of assessments for varied audiences and purposes, and acquaintance with a range of instructional strategies appropriate for varied situations and purposes. The course also addresses issues surrounding standards for various disciplines and introduces various approaches to classroom management. This course includes a non-credit field placement experience. Certification course.
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ED 4560 - Teaching Middle and Secondary Foreign Language
(ED 6560)
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Students examine the recent findings of linguists, psycholinguists, sociolinguists, cognitive psychologists and educational theorists in curriculum and motivation relative to second language learning. The student appraises methods of foreign language teaching at K-12 level as they relate to proficiency in listening, reading, writing and speaking, and critically analyzes existing methods and gives rationale for selection of a preferred method. Additionally, the student works with a practicing professional at a school site. This course requires a non-credit field placement experience.
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ED 4600 - Teaching the Language Arts
(3)
Students receive both a theoretical and practical background in language learning and its connections to literacy acquisition. The course focuses on the elements in a language arts program. Particular emphasis is placed on integrating language arts into the total elementary school curriculum by examining the process of developing effective communication skills and integrating content areas. Students develop a unit of study that addresses the development of children’s language and thinking skills, written communication and grammar, listening and speaking skills, spelling and handwriting. This course requires non-credit field placement experience that provides for implementation and assessment of the student’s unit.
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ED 4660 - Teaching Middle and Secondary School Business Education
(ED 6660)
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Students explore and analyze a variety of approaches to the teaching of business education courses at the high school level. A major focus is upon the development of curriculum, teaching materials and learning activities appropriate to the business education curriculum. The integration of business education into the total school curriculum is also emphasized and experience is provided through on-campus demonstrations and visits to local school classrooms. Students develop an original plan of study for one of the business education areas during the course of the semester and they develop the ability to create and evaluate curriculum. This course requires non-credit field experiences.
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ED 4665 - Implementing Vocational Business Education Programs
(ED 6665)
(3)
This course covers curriculum development, assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation strategies and procedures relating to skills instruction in vocational business education programs; philosophical, historical, social, economic, political, and educational influencing factors; analysis and synthesis of current research and conceptual models; practical applications for vocational education programs; intervention strategies; resource and support service identification, location, selection and evaluation and interagency collaboration approaches.
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ED 4770 - The Middle School: Foundations, Philosophy, and Structure
(ED 6770)
(3)
In this course, we will examine the history and structure of the middle school in addition to the physical, social, emotional, and cognitive make-up of pre-adolescents. We will compare middle schools to traditional junior high schools to determine how the specific needs of students in these grade levels are being addressed in different ways. Teaming, advisory groups, exploratory courses, and the flexibility of teaching core curriculum are some of the topics we will explore.
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ED 4800 - Student Teaching in the Elementary School
(10)
Students serve as interns in local elementary schools and work closely with cooperating teachers and university mentors for fourteen weeks to experience first-hand the responsibility for planning and implementing instruction. Students initially observe, and then gradually assume responsibility for all classroom activities. The course is part of the Professional Semester.
Fee.
Corequisite: ED 4900 , ED 4910 .
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ED 4825 - Undergraduate Student Teaching in the Middle School
(10)
Students serve as interns in local schools and work closely with cooperating teachers to experience firsthand responsibility for planning and implementing instruction in their major content fields. All content area Liberal Core requirements, education coursework, and the Praxis II exam must be completed before student teaching. This course is part of the Professional Semester. Certification course.
Fee.
Corequisite: ED 4900 , ED 4910 .
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ED 4850 - Student Teaching in the Secondary School
(10)
Students serve as interns in local secondary schools and work closely with cooperating teachers and university mentors for fourteen weeks to experience first-hand the responsibility for planning and implementing instruction in their major content field. Students initially observe, and then gradually assume responsibility for all classroom activities. The course is part of the Professional Semester.
Fee.
Corequisite: ED 4900 , ED 4910 .
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ED 4900 - Integrated Student Teaching Seminar: Classroom Planning, Management, and Assessment
(3)
This course is taken in conjunction with the student teaching experience. A range of problems encountered by teachers (e.g., classroom management, authentic and standardized assessment, planning issues, professional ethics, etc.) is explored in a seminar setting.
Corequisite: ED 4910 .
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ED 4910 - The Professional Semester Portfolio
(1)
During the final semester of the undergraduate program, the portfolio, based on the 11 Missouri Beginning Teacher Standards and the Rockhurst Department of Education Standard 12, is submitted, evaluated, and presented using Live Text. An Education Department faculty member who will read and evaluate both the initial and final submission of the portfolio will be a student’s portfolio coach. The portfolio coach will also work individually with the student to prepare for the oral portfolio defense. Meetings between the student teacher and portfolio coach will be scheduled as needed.
Corequisite: ED 4900 .
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EN 1100 - Reading and Study Skills
(1-3)
Students will develop the academic skills that strengthen their learning and strengthen their chances for success in college by improving time management, active reading and listening, note-taking, outlining, and critical thinking. Students will also be introduced to information literacy and begin to work with research materials. Finally, they will work to improve their self-confidence, motivation, and test-taking skills.
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EN 1101 - Advanced Reading and Study Skills
(1-3)
Students will refine the academic skills that support their learning and ensure their chances for success in college by reinforcing time management, active reading and listening, note taking, outlining, and critical thinking. Students will expand their information literacy by evaluating sources, organizing information, and presenting research in oral or written form. Finally, they will solidify their self-confidence, motivation, and test-taking skills.
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EN 1110 - College Composition I
(3)
Fall semester
A course designed to assist students in achieving proficiency in college-level written composition. Includes study of and regular practice in the process of composing and editing as well as relating reading and writing.
(Completing both EN 1110 and 1120 satisfies WCP.)
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EN 1120 - College Composition II
(3)
Spring semester
A course designed to assist students in achieving fuller proficiency in college-level written composition. Includes study of and regular practice in the process of composing and editing as well as relating reading and writing. A greater emphasis is placed upon analytical and interpretive writing; the documented thesis paper that employs research skills is also included.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 .
(Completing both EN 1110 and 1120 satisfies WCP.)
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EN 1140 - English Composition
(3)
Fall and Spring semester
A one-semester course designed to study contemporary rhetorical strategies of composition through close analysis of sample essays which demonstrate skillful use of these principles, by regular written compositions employing designated rhetorical strategies, and by recalling the basic structures of the English language to develop a style appropriate to the audience.
Prerequisite: dean’s approval.
(WCP)
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EN 1150 - Honors Composition
(3)
Intensive study of written communication in three phases: information gathering, message preparation and process and style of delivery.
Prerequisite: honors status or instructor approval.
(WCP)
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EN 1180 - The Research Paper
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This course deals with the basic areas of producing a college-level research paper: generating ideas, developing an adequate thesis, finding proper sources, evaluating sources and taking notes, avoiding plagiarism, integrating source material into a longer work, editing and proofreading, and using appropriate documentation style. A research paper based on these elements will be written in the course.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 or equivalent.
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EN 2740 - World Literature Through the 16th Century
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This course explores representative works of world literature from antiquity to the early modern period, within a framework that compares cultures and historical periods and invites consideration of both what is shared among cultures and what is unique about the culture from which each text emerged. With emphasis on critical thinking, reading, and writing, the course examines several major genres of literature and studies themes, forms, and styles in the literary texts.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 and EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTI)
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EN 2760 - World Literature Since the 16th Century
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This course explores representative works of world literature from the early modern period to the present, within a framework that compares cultures and historical periods and invites consideration of both what is shared among cultures and what is unique about the culture from which each text emerged. With emphasis on critical thinking, reading, and writing, the course examines several major genres of literature and studies themes, forms, and styles in the literary texts.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 and EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTI)
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EN 2800-2890 - Introduction to Literature
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Lecture and discussion courses designed to deepen and extend the student’s sensitivity to and understanding of literature. Courses weave together the study of genre, thematic elements (including ethnic culture) and historical background. Choices are offered by semester. Students should consult departmental announcement.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 2900-2989 - Studies in World Literature
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These courses provide a concentrated study of particular themes, genres, or periods of world literature, with emphasis on critical thinking, reading, and writing. The “Studies” courses explore a broad range of representative works of world literature within a framework that compares cultures and historical periods and invites consideration of both what is shared among cultures and what is unique about the culture from which each text emerged.
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EN 2960 - Journeys, Voyages, and Quests
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From Homer’s Odyssey, through Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels, Voltaire’s Candide, and Conrad’s Heart of Darkness, to Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, journeys, voyages, and quests have thematically structured literary works, enabling readers to venture abroad, experience new worlds, and to reflect on what they and the characters in particular works have learned along the way as well as at their ports of call.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTI)
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EN 3000 - Major Figures of British Literature
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This course examines a selection of major authors in the history of English literature with attention given to the developing traditions of English literature and to the use of various literary forms as they appear in the tradition. A selection is made from authors like the Beowulf Poet, Chaucer, the Pearl Poet, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Dryden, Pope, Swift, Blake, Wordsworth and Coleridge, Keats, Dickens, Browning, Hopkins, and Eliot.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 3110 - Creative Writing
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Introduction to the art of writing poetry and fiction. Emphasis on writer-teacher conferences. Best productions are published in the Rockhurst Review, the student literary and arts publication.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 3140 - Introduction to Playwriting
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A course designed to introduce the student to the principles of playwriting including the scenario, plot structure, character, thought, diction, and spectacle. Some attention is given to the requirements of play production in script-writing. Regular creative exercises, workshop readings in the class, and the writing of original drama are required.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 3150 - Advanced Composition
(3)
Designed to assist students in mastery of writing techniques and to acquaint students with rhetorical principles and backgrounds useful in developing various types of written communication. Attention is given to rhetorical theories and their practical application through regular writing assignments.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 3160 - Writing for the Marketplace
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The course covers four kinds of business documents: letters/memos, marketing/sales brochures, reports, and proposals. It includes editing strategies and techniques incrementally throughout the course. Design, graphics, layout, and analytical commentary are reviewed for structuring readable documents.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 3170 - Practical Stylistics
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Designed to acquaint the student with the practical uses of stylistics by reviewing the place of vocabulary, syntax, register, and rhetorical context in written discourse as applied to specific goals of writing. Regular writing assignments are used to apply stylistic principles and readings are analyzed as models.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 3180 - Business Writing
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Theory and practice in writing business letters, memos and reports. Includes study of basic communication theory as it applies to writing in these forms.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 3190 - Technowriting: the Technologies of Written Communication from the Alphabet to the World Wide Web
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This course focuses on four overlapping kinds of written applications based on network technology: e-mail, information sharing, document management, and office automation. With an ongoing emphasis on technologically based writing that incorporates the best of information available on the Internet, the World Wide Web, and developing multimedia technologies, the course’s purpose is to familiarize the student with the literacy requirements of the 21st century in a technological setting.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 3200 - Exploring the Self in Reading and Writing
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Students will read literature that reveals the Self, focusing especially on genres marked by self exploration such as autobiography, memoir, and personal essay. Students will respond to their reading by writing in these same genres, striving to improve as writers and to develop as readers. The class will include instruction in writing, with attention to process, audience, publication, and collaboration in workshops, taking advantage of the natural relationship between reading and writing.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 and EN 1120 ; or EN 1140 ; or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 3220 - Chaucer and His World
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The primary focus of this course is Chaucer’s writing. The course begins with his earlier poetry and moves to an in-depth study of The Canterbury Tales. To gain greater insight into Chaucer’s works and his world, students are also introduced to short pieces by other writers of the period, as well as to the art, the music, the social background of the period.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 3350 - Shakespeare Seminar I
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An intensive study of the poetry and plays of Shakespeare in their language, structure, backgrounds, characters, and criticism for English majors and those with a deep interest in Shakespeare. Selections are made from the range of Shakespeare’s works.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 3360 - Shakespeare Seminar II
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An intensive study of a different selection of the poetry and plays of Shakespeare in language, structure, backgrounds, characters, and criticism for English majors and those with a deep interest in Shakespeare. Selections are made from the range of Shakespeare’s works.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 3380 - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
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This course is designed as a survey of the major plays and sonnets of Shakespeare chosen from the comedies, tragedies, and final romances along with a comparative study of the drama of other great Renaissance playwrights like Webster, Ford, and Marlowe. It studies the drama as a genre that encompasses several sub-genres and look at Elizabethan language usage, backgrounds, character, and literary criticism of the dramas.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 3400 - British Literature: 17th and 18th Centuries
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Exploring major themes of Restoration and 18th Century British Literature, e.g., human sinfulness, social unrest, political corruption, economic change, the course focuses upon political and social satirists like Dryden, Swift, and Pope; novelists like DeFoe, Fielding, and Richardson; dramatists like Dryden, Wycherley, and Sheridan; essayists like Addison, Steele, and Johnson; and, above all, poets like Dryden, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Smart and Collins.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 3500 - Studies in the English Novel
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Early influences and major trends in the development of the English novel. Emphasis on the form and themes of prose fiction as they appear in Richardson, Fielding, Austen, Scott, Emily Brontë, Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, Hardy, Conrad, Forster, Lawrence and Joyce.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 3520 - Jane Austen Study
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An intensive study of selections from the body of Jane Austen’s work, the course is divided into three areas of interest. The primary focus begins on two representative novels, their place in Austen’s developing technique, and a review of the criticisms – both historical and present day – that influenced readers of the novels from the beginning until now. The middle section of the course centers on selected letters and excerpts from influential biographical works. The final highlight of the course is the viewing and reviewing of the recent revival of Austen’s work in the cinema and the critical response thereto.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 3530 - The Romantic Period
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Exploring major themes of English Romanticism, e.g., rebellion, self-assertion, primacy of feelings, imaginative perception, the course focuses upon social critics like Mary Wollstonecraft and Thomas Paine; novelists like Mary Shelley and the Brontë sisters; and, above all, poets like Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 , and one Level I Literary Mode course.
(LTII)
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EN 3550 - The Victorian Period
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A study of Victorian literature, including poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction prose, the course explores the work of authors such as Tennyson, Hopkins, Arnold, the Brownings, Rossetti, Dickens, Hardy, Wilde, Shaw, Carlyle, Mill, and Newman.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 3600 - Early American Literature
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A survey of the highlights of American literature from the first Puritan settlement to the beginning of the Civil War, with emphasis on the puritan, revolutionary, neoclassical, romantic, and transcendal eras of literary production.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 3610 - American Literature 1865-1945
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A survey of the rich literary-historical period between the Civil War and the Second World War, with emphasis on the ebb and flow of the period’s major literary and artistic movements (realism, regionalism, naturalism, and modernism) and the expansion of authorship to diverse segments of the population.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 3620 - American Literature since 1945
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An examination of literature that has been produced in the U.S. since 1945, with emphasis on the seismic effect of countercultural movements and Civil-Rights-era political commitments on both literary production and recent debates about the tensions between experimental (or “postmodern”) fiction and the ongoing tradition of American literary realism.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 3670 - Studies in the American Novel
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An inquiry into how novelists manage such formal elements as character, world, plot, and point of view as well as thematic and stylistic patterns. Intensive analysis of a set of novels that exemplifies the tensions and opportunities of a given theme, style, or historical period.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 3680 - Twentieth Century U.S. Drama
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This course studies 1) plays that have contributed to the development of American theater and 2) drama theory – from Aristotle to the present day – relating to tragedy and comedy, to realism, naturalism, expressionism, and surrealism, to theater of social protest, theater of the absurd, etc. Readings include plays of Eugene O’Neill, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, Arthur Miller, William Gibson, Edward Albee, Horton Foote, Mark Medoff, August Wilson, etc.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 3700 - The Structure of Modern English
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A study of contemporary English, considering various approaches including traditional, structural and transformational grammars.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 3750 - Development of the English Language
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A study of the history of English, its relationships with other languages, its linguistic changes, structure and dialects.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 3810 - Detective Fiction
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An inquiry into detective fiction, from the 19th century to the present and from a variety of national and cultural perspectives. The object of this course is to study detective stories in their international settings focusing on character development, exploitations of the plot, and assessments of local customs from the microcosm of the murder itself to the macrocosm of cultural influence.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 or EN 1150 .
(LTII, GPR)
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EN 3820 - American Literature and the Environment
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In this course, students explore environmental issues as they are expressed both explicitly and implicitly in literary texts. In this two-fold strategy, the primary approach is to study texts that establish environment as their principal focus, works of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction broadly classed as “nature writing.” The second approach is to examine the implicit treatment of environment within literary works whose focus is not primarily environmental. Both approaches expose students to writers from diverse cultural, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 3830 - Utopian and Anti-Utopian Literature
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Emphasis on the many speculations as to what life in the future might be like, both hopes and fears. Readings include Plato’s The Republic, More’s Utopia, Canticle for Leibowitz, Brave New World and A Clockwork Orange.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 3840 - Honors Literature and Art
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This interdisciplinary seminar format course studies the presentation of experience in literature and in the visual arts. With the aim of exploring questions about civilization and culture, the quality of progress, the nature of the world and of the human person, the focus is on works conveying such themes as man in the wilderness, the individual vs. society, the hero and the antihero and the quest for meaning and transcendence.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 , and honors status or instructor approval.
(LTII)
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EN 3850 - Literature and Cinema
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This course examines the art of adaption (i.e., the process of translating a narrative from one medium and cultural context to another). Looking closely at the process of translating literature (i.e., novels, short stories, and plays) into film, we will study the way global cross-cultural exchange and encounter get mediated by storytelling conventions that are specific to either the medium of the story (book or movie) or the cultural perspective of the storyteller (author or director).
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII, GPR)
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