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2022-2023 UNDERGRADUATE CATALOG [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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ED 4560 - Teaching Foreign Language
(ED 6560)
(3)
Students examine the recent findings of linguists, psycholinguists, sociolinguists, cognitive psychologists and educational theorists in curriculum and motivation relative to second language learning. Students appraise methods of foreign language teaching at K-12 levels as they relate to proficiency in listening, reading, writing and speaking, and critically analyze existing methods to give rationale for selection of a preferred method. Additionally, the student works with a practicing professional at a school site. This course, additionally, will prepare the pre-service and in-service teachers about the challenges of today’s modern classroom; therefore, it will focus on how to best serve English language learners, underperforming students, and a diverse student body. Critical thinking and problem solving will be central to the training of the students. This course requires a non-credit field placement experience.
Prerequisite: ED 1340 .
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ED 4620 - Foundations of Classroom Management
(2)
This course is designed to help pre-service teachers organize an enriched learning environment and develop strategies for managing and motivating students to help them become better and more responsible learners. This course is an introduction to the theory and application of management techniques that provide the basis for an effective, efficient, and positive classroom climate. Techniques that result in effective use of time, efficient use of materials and improved student behavior are identified and practiced. Emphasis is placed on the importance of classroom dynamics in creating a proactive approach to classroom management. Non-credit hour field experience is required.
Prerequisite: ED 1340 .
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ED 4660 - Teaching Secondary School Business Education
(ED 6660)
(3)
Students explore and analyze a variety of approaches to the teaching of business at the secondary 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 will prepare the pre-service and in-service teachers about the challenges of today’s modern classroom; therefore, it will focus on how to best serve English language learners, underperforming students, and a diverse student body. Critical thinking and problem solving will be central to the training of the students. 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 4700 - Methods of Diagnosis and Instruction of Remedial Reading
(3)
This course focuses on ways to individualize instruction for diverse needs of students who have difficulty reading and understanding texts necessary for school and the enjoyment of reading. Students will review research on ways to support readers who struggle and instructional strategies to develop fluency, comprehension, and word analysis strategies including phonics.
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ED 4800 - Student Teaching in the Elementary School
(9)
Students serve as interns in local elementary schools and work closely with cooperating teachers and university mentors for fifteen 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.
Prerequisite: ED 1340 .
Corequisite: ED 4900 .
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ED 4850 - Student Teaching in the Secondary School
(9)
Students serve as interns in local secondary schools and work closely with cooperating teachers and university mentors for fifteen 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.
Prerequisite: ED 1340 .
Corequisite: ED 4900 .
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ED 4900 - Undergraduate Student Teaching Seminar
(3)
This course is taken in conjunction with the student teaching experience. Pedagogy and best practices related to effective instructional, management, and curriculum design strategies are explored in a seminar setting. Topics addressed include learner engagement and motivation, cultural and academic diversity, differentiated learning, authentic assessment, collaboration with colleagues, and legal and ethical issues related to teaching.
Prerequisite: ED 1340 .
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ED 4940 - Capstone in Educational Studies
(1)
All students in the Bachelor of Arts in Educational Studies program build a portfolio that showcases students’ critical reflection and learning related to themes in the program. Students will collect artifacts relating to program standards, integrate and synthesize knowledge and skills acquired throughout their coursework, and create a culminating and comprehensive written and oral presentation.
Prerequisite: School of Education approval.
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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
(1)
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
(3)
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
(3)
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
(3)
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
(3)
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 2920 - Literature of Medicine and Wellness
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Reading and discussing literature will prepare students to better understand, intellectually and emotionally, the experience of providing and receiving medical care. Writing assignments will develop students’ analytical, reflective, and practical communication skills.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 and EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTI)
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EN 2930 - World Literature and the Environment
(3)
In World Literature and the Environment students will examine literature from around the globe as a way to understand the intersections of human culture and the physical environment. The course will give special focus to the natural environment as it both affects and is affected by human culture, giving attention to possible topics such as wilderness, ecosystems, natural history, recreation, agriculture, hunting, pollution, animal life, extinction, natural resources, and environmental justice. Students will seek to understand how differing locations and differing cultures around the world affect the human relationship to environment.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 2940 - Global Magical Realism
(3)
Tracing magical realism from its roots in the endlessly unfurling stories of folklore and The Thousand and One Nights to its legacies in the globally diverse narratives of authors like Salman Rushdie, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Isabel Allende, Ben Okri, and Toni Morrison, this course explores the richness of the human experience, which exceeds the limits set by western rationality and empirical science. In the process of thinking and writing about global magical realism, we will consider how magic allows authors to think and to write from marginalized or displaced positions within contemporary global society.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 and EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTI)
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EN 2960 - Journeys, Voyages, and Quests
(3)
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
(3)
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 - Introduction to Creative Writing
(3)
Students will study the three main genres of contemporary creative writing: poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. Their work will be discussed by the class in a workshop setting. Writing projects will help students practice specific skills such as pacing, dialogue, and meter.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 3120 - Creative Writing and the World: Writing, Editing, and Publishing
(3)
Students in this course analyze and perform the labor that makes literary community possible: writing, editing, and publishing. In addition to developing their own creative writing projects, students will study theories of editing, and publishing creative writing. Students will then put that knowledge into practice by engaging in literary editing and publishing and teaching creative writing in the community. Service learning is central to this course.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 3130 - Writing for the Environment: Advanced Composition
(3)
In this advanced composition course, students will read and write environmentally focused texts while working to move themselves beyond proficiency toward becoming more accomplished writers who are attentive to process, sensitive to the rhythms and nuances of language, and deliberate about style. Students will read and write in a variety of environmental genres and uncover the conventions of accomplished environmental writing.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 3140 - Playwriting
(3)
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 and EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 3150 - Writing the Essay: Advanced Composition
(3)
In this advanced composition course, students will read and write in theessay genre while working to move themselves beyond proficiency toward becoming more accomplished writers who are attentive to process, sensitive to the rhythms and nuances of language, and deliberate about style.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 3160 - Writing for the Marketplace
(3)
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
(3)
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
(3)
The study and practice of writing business and professional documents, with attention to process, audience, purpose, and discourse conventions related to genres such as memos, business letters, emails, reports, and proposals. Students will practice the skill of communicating technical information to non-technical audiences.
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
(3)
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
(3)
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 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 3220 - Chaucer and His World
(3)
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 3240 - Fearless Girls in Adolescent Literature
(3)
The fearless girls of adolescent literature - whether Alice who falls into Wonderland or Katniss who competes in the Hunger Games - both reflect and defy the norms and standards of the society around them. This course explores adolescence as a transitional stage, in which young women explore the possibilitites of youth and confront the inflexibility of the adult world. This course will equip students with new approaches to thinking about adolescence through critical lenses of gender, ethnicity and culture, and will allow students to consider the unique opportunities and challenges of literature written for adolescent readers.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 and EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LT II)
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EN 3350 - Shakespeare Seminar I
(3)
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
(3)
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 3370 - Shakespeare on Screen
(3)
For more than 400 years, Shakespeare’s works have been reconceived, adapted, and rewritten to suit various historical, cultural, and critical contexts. This course explores a selection of Shakespeare’s plays alongside 20th and 21st century film and media adaptations from across the globe. We will read a selection of Shakespeare’s plays and consider how their adaptations both model critical methods of interpretation and renew audience engagement through creative re-imaginings. Throughout, we will explore Shakespeare’s works not as a fixed body of literature but as dynamic invitation to invention.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 and EN 1120 , or EN 1140 or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 3380 - Shakespeare and Renaissance Drama
(3)
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
(3)
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
(3)
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
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For more than 200 years, the novels of Jane Austen have captivated readers and critics with their deft renderings of character and their precise manipulation of prose. In this course, we will explore the layers of Austen’s appeal. Drawing on theoretical and historical perspectives, we will examine Austen not just as a writer of romantic novels, but also as an Enlightenment thinker, an astute social critic, a broadly compassionate humanist and a masterful literary craftsperson. Finally, we will look forward - exploring the Austen’s legacy in the present day.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 3530 - The Romantic Period
(3)
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 - Victorian Literature
(3)
The Victorian period was an era of profound social, political, and spiritual turmoil. This course explores a broad range of Victorian literature, including poetry, fiction, drama, and nonfiction prose, in which authors represent the changing place of the individual within society and wrestle with profound changes to national identity, social structures, gender roles, and religious beliefs.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 3560 - Unruly Victorian Women
(3)
We often imagine Victorian women as passive and domestic figures who were corseted and kept at home. In this course, we will explore the active role that Victorian women played in the workforce, working as governesses, seamstresses, factory workers, farm hands, and prostitutes, among others. Reading novel and poems alongside historical documents and contemporary literary criticism, we will uncover the complex realities of life for both Victorian women and men with a particular emphasis on issues of class and gender.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 and EN 1120 or EN 1140 or EN 1150 .
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EN 3600 - Early American Literature
(3)
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
(3)
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
(3)
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 .
(LTII)
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EN 3670 - Studies in the American Novel
(3)
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
(3)
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
(3)
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
(3)
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 3800 - Introduction to Film
(3)
This course is designed for students who are interested in discovering a method for analyzing films and a language through which to discuss the value of film as an expressive, cross-cultural art form. The course will introduce students to the fundamentals of film form (mise-en-scène, cinematography, editing, and sound) and some of the methodologies (that is, interpretive lenses) through which films get studied. With this knowledge of fundamentals and methodologies, students will examine specific films and discuss the significance of the film experience in general. Students will learn to identify the formal components, common themes, and basic genres that span diverse film cultures. Students’ learning will help them to understand why films are so central to so many different cultures. In short, this course will provide students an opportunity to examine films and the film-going experience from a wide perspective, a perspective that includes formal analysis, reception, and critical interpretation.
Recommended: EN 1110 and EN 1120 ; or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 3805 - Writing About Film
(3)
This course will expose students to the various typs of expository, experimental, and reflective writing that have evolved alongside the growth of cinema worldwide-types of writing that span from the quippy reviews of James Agee and sprawling essays of Pauline Kael to the genre-defying writing about film exemplified in works by James Baldwin, Nathalie Leger, and Manuel Puig. This exposure will help students develop as film writers themselves, as writers who reflect deeply on their experience with film and who place their reflections into vital conversations about film in the twenty-first century.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 and EN 1120 or EN 1140 or EN 1150 .
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EN 3810 - Detective Fiction
(3)
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
(3)
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
(3)
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
(3)
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 Film
(3)
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 and EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII, GPR)
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EN 3855 - American Literature and Film
(3)
This is a course about the meaningful interactions between literature and film in America. Through examining film adaptations of specific works of literature and, more broadly, through comparing the ways in which writers and filmmakers respond differently to similar historical, cultural, economic, and political shifts, students will gain insight into the correspondence between literature and film in the development of American culture.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 and EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 3870 - Irish Literature
(3)
This course will survey Irish writing in English, with emphasis on the literature of the early 19th century to the present. It will consider, in particular, works of major figures such as James Joyce, W.B. Yeats, G.B. Shaw, Seamus Heaney, and Brian Friel, as well as the contexts of Irish history and cultural politics.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII, GPR)
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EN 3880 - The Gothic Novel as Genre
(3)
Gothic fiction, a reaction against comfort, security, political stability, and commercial progress, resists the rule of reason. It began with the 1764 publication of Horace Walpole’s The Castle of Otranto, and prospered through its steady reference to crags and chasms, torture and terror, and the supernatural – clairvoyance, dreams, ghosts. This course studies a series of representative texts that establish and sustain the genre from the 18th century to now.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 3885 - The Contemporary Novel
(3)
A study of some of the most recognized and noteworthy long fiction of the prior 25 years, the course will consider the work of writers such as Toni Morrison, Philip Roth, Ian McEwan, A. S. Byatt, David Lodge, and Salman Rushdie, as well as recent theories of the novel and cultural contexts that bear on the creation, publication, and reception of such works.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 or equivalent.
(LTII)
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EN 3890 - Women and Literature
(3)
This course offers a selection of fiction and poetry by women and about issues traditionally considered important to women. Fiction includes, but is not limited to, works by Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, Willa Cather, Alice Walker, and Rachel Ingalls. Poetry includes, but is not limited to, works by Emily Dickinson, Gwendolyn Brooks, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, and Rita Dove. Essays by such authors as Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Catherine McKinnon, and Mary Daley are used to complement the poetry and fiction. The course begins with consideration of Virginia Woolf’s contention that in order to create, a woman needs an independent income and a room of her own. Emphasis is on the works of literature as literature.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 3896 - The Literature of Catholicism and Christian Spirituality
(3)
The course will analyze works of literature that explore the Catholic faith, the sacramental experience of Catholicism, and Christian spirituality depicted in human relationships with Christ. The course further highlights issues common to major writers across the centuries, e.g., problems of evil and sinfulness, anguish over personal salvation, the beauty and goodness of God’s creation, the unconditional love of God. To accomplish these aims, the course introduces students to poets like John Donne, George Herbert, and Gerard Manley Hopkins; narrative artists like Graham Greene, Flannery O’Connor, and Ron Hansen; dramatists like Thomas Bolt and T.S. Eliot; spiritual autobiographers like Thomas Merton and Therese of Lisieux.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 4001 - Contest and Sexuality in Early English and Modern Literature
(3)
A study of the theme of play and struggle and its connection to the motif of eros in Old and Middle English literature along with their evolving influences in modern literature, showing the development of these traditions in a literary legacy.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 4110 - Advanced Creative Writing
(3)
For poets and fiction writers committed to developing their crafts, this course offers a variety of well-tested strategies: reading intentionally; writing regularly; respectfully critiquing the work of others; engaging with respectful critiques; teaching (therefore deeply learning) literary theory and techniques; and editing the Rockhurst Review in order to understand the dynamics of publication. Students will demonstrate their learning through the production of a final portfolio.
Prerequisite: EN 3110 or EN 3120 .
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EN 4120 - Screenwriting
(3)
This course provides an introduction to the foundations of screenwriting, including generating ideas, finding a subject, building characters, developing a plot through a beginning, a confrontation, and a resolution, designing individual scenes to advance the story, building momentum for an audience, and achieving a convincing climax. The primary purpose of the course is the production of a complete written script that fulfills the specialized needs of this particular writing genre.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 and EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 4150 - The Tradition of Rhetoric: Principles and Practices
(3)
This course examines rhetorical history and theory as it started in classical Greece, developed in ancient Rome, was modified in medieval times, and matured into modern times. The use of rhetoric as a practical force, as a base in the academic tradition, as part of modern media (including the work of Walter J. Ong), and as a necessary part of pedagogy in teaching is reviewed in its methods and concepts as a valuable principle in human communication.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 4170 - Teaching of Writing
(3)
This course will explore the teaching of writing, both in theory and in practice, by considering an array of approaches, methods, and techniques that inform current research on best practices in composition pedagogy. The course will be beneficial for all students who desire to imporve their own writing, though it particularly focuses on techniques needed by secondary-school teachers of English, topics may include designing writing assignments, the role of reading in writing, teachers’ comments and feedback, and assessment.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 4180 - Report Writing
(3)
Intensive course in the writing of reports usual in business, institutions and government. Includes research, layout and graphics. One original project required.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
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EN 4190 - Literature and Orality
(3)
A course that studies the oral basis of modern writing beginning with global oral storytelling traditions and continuing through into contemporary typographic and spoken forms of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Works that present rhetorical backgrounds are reviewed to synthesize the rhetorical forms with the literature. Recent literary theory is also examined along with the implications of this work for the written and spoken word.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 4600 - Twentieth Century British and American Poetry
(3)
A survey of the principal figures and major developments in 20th century British and American poetry from Yeats, Pound, Eliot, Stevens and Williams to contemporary poets.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 4610 - African American Literature
(3)
This course studies major works by major African American writers by addressing one or two selected themes developed in a variety of genres. The authors studied, predominantly of the 20th century, span several literary movements, beginning with pre-Civil War writings and moving through the post-1960’s avant garde period. The primary aims of the course include deepening students’ awareness of the social and literary contributions of African Americans to the larger body of American literature and exploring the ways African Americans define themselves and their unique culture in their literature.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 4620 - The Novels of Faulkner
(3)
Study of the themes in Faulkner’s novels. Readings include The Unvanquished, Intruder in the Dust, The Bear, Spotted Horses, Old Man, As I Lay Dying and Absalom, Absalom.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 4640 - Americans in Paris
(3)
In this course students examine poetry and fiction of American writers who found community and artistic inspiration in the City of Light during the early decades of the 20th century, especially in the entourage of Gertrude Stein. She labeled them “A Lost Generation.” While such writers as T.S. Eliot, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, may have felt alienated and dispossessed, they gave American Literature its modern vision.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII)
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EN 4810 - Mythology: Literature and Criticism
(3)
The course begins with a survey of Greek and Roman mythology and considers its influence on literature along with definitions of mythology. Selected authors are read to familiarize students with the use of myth in literary works. Selected myths from west to east are examined according to modern classifications of mythic themes.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII, GPR)
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EN 4820 - Literary Theory: Text and Context
(3)
An intensive upper-division seminar that focuses on techniques derived from historical as well as mid- and late-20th century literary criticism to examine literary texts and the role that literary theory has played in our understanding of the concept of literature, per se. Applying a variety of theory-based methodologies to selected poems, short stories, and novels, the course introduces the student to both the literature and the theoretical constructs that have helped form what has become the modern institutions of literary culture. The impact of such approaches as diverse as traditional, authorial intensions; text-centered analyses; and the more intense, linguistic focus of recent history will be combined with applied textual analysis techniques that reveal different, yet not altogether opposing, insights into a representative sample of texts as diverse as Andrew Marvel’s “To His Coy Mistress,” William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “Young Goodman Brown,” and Alice Walker’s “Everyday Use”, to name a few.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 ; and junior standing or above.
(LTII)
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EN 4830 - Honors Classic to Romantic
(3)
While comparing views of Neoclassical and Romantic British literature, e.g., regarding human nature, social and political change, truth, imagination, objectivity and subjectivity, the course focuses on major writers of the respective periods: poets like Dryden and Keats; novelists like Defoe and the Brontës; dramatists like Sheridan and Shelley; literary theorists like Dryden, Pope, Johnson, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, and Keats. In addition, the course takes up issues and events (e.g., the Bloodless Revolution and the French Revolution) which comprise the intellectual contexts of both periods.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 , and honors status or instructor approval.
(LTII)
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EN 4845 - Short Fiction and Metaphor: 19th Century America
(3)
This is an intensive upper-division seminar that focuses on metaphor in the short, fictional prose works (as opposed to the poetry) of American writers during the nineteenth century. Highlighting foundation texts that have contributed significantly to the development of this uniquely American prose form, this course will explore a wide range of writers that were attempting to broaden the concept of literature, per se, during this time period. The purpose here is to apply metaphorical theory and methodologies, from Aristotle to the present, to the fiction of authors such as Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150
(LTII).
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EN 4850 - Modern Drama
(3)
This course will help students understand and appreciate drama by exploring major works of world drama from the late nineteenth century to the present, with an emphasis on the development of the modern theater. Students will analyze, interpret, and discuss representative works while seeking also to understand the texts’ cultural and historical contexts. Playwrights may include Ibsen, Shaw, O’Neill, Miller, Fugard, Pinter, and Albee.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII, GPR)
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EN 4855 - Colonialism and Literature
(3)
An inquiry into the relationships between British literature and the empire from the 16th to the 20th centuries, the course will explore works by writers such as Shakespeare, Swift, Dickens, Kipling, Conrad, Forster, Joyce, and Woolf.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /1120 , or EN 1140 , EN 1150 , or equivalent.
(LTII)
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EN 4860 - The Empire Writes Back
(3)
Exploring a variety of themes (identity, tradition, change, and cultural values, for example) in the literature of colonized nations such as Ireland, India, and Nigeria, the course focuses on the global phenomenon of postcolonialism in the works of major 20th century writers such as James Joyce, Chinua Achebe, Salman Rushdie, Wole Soyinka, and Anita Desai.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 .
(LTII, GPR)
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EN 4880 - Poetry of Ecstasy
(3)
Since Sapho, Lyric poetry by definition celebrates the emotions. Certain poets intensify the language and passions of this already avid genre to the level of ecstacy. This course will examine in detail the works of several modern poets with a view to understanding the techniques they used to heighten the tone and meaning of their writings. Poets to be studied may include William Wordsworth, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Anne Sexton, and Sylvia Plath.
Prerequisite: EN 1110 /EN 1120 , or EN 1140 , or EN 1150 , or equivalent.
(LTII)
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EN 4920 - Report Project
(3)
This course prepares the student to develop an extensive report project and prepare both a written report and an oral presentation with participation of faculty from areas relevant to the student’s project. This course is also available as an advanced offering in the writing track of the English major.
Prerequisite: EN 4180 .
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EN 4930 - Senior Thesis
(1-3)
The senior thesis, written under the guidance of a member of the English Department, is a longer, sustained piece of writing that demonstrates the major skills of reading, writing, and research in a culminating experience on a topic related to a student’s studies in the major. Credit varies according to the topic chosen.
Prerequisite: Senior standing and department chair approval.
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ENGL 1300 - Written Communication for Health Professionals
(3)
Provides an introduction to critical reading, research, and writing processes. The emphasis on writing as a process develops students’ understanding of the ways writers generate and express ideas of different purposes to various audiences across a range of contexts, including social, academic, and healthcare professions. Students work on argumentation, rhetorical analysis, fundamentals of research process and documentation, as well as revision.
Prerequisite: Must meet college placement criteria.
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ENGL 1500 - Professional Communication in Health
(3)
Building on the skills developed in ENGL 1300, this course will develop critical thinking skills, information literacy, and will prepare students to write persuasive essays for academic and professional audiences. Students will complete an extensive research project with a focus on health care or diversity that incorporates multiple forms of media. In addition, students will apply appropriate research and documentation techniques and evaluate source materials.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1300 .
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HUMS 2500 - Writing and Research about Race, Racism and Culture
(3)
This class will prepare students for upper-level writing and research. The course will focus on race, racism and health care disparities. We’ll be debunking misconceptions of race, exploring the sociohistorical evolution of race, and ways that geography and instituionalized racism impacts health and health care. Students will explore the social determinants of health. In addition, this course is designed to foster skills in teamwork, communication, critical thinking, analysis of data, and the research process. All students will be required to complete and present a research project.
Prerequisite: ENGL 1500 .
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ES 3400 - Thermodynamics
(PH 3400 )
(3)
Spring semester of odd-numbered years
Fluid properties, work and heat, first law, second law, entropy, applications to vapor and ideal gas processes.
Prerequisite: PH 2850 and MT 1810 .
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ES 3500 - Statics
(PH 3500 )
(3)
Spring semester of even-numbered years
Fundamentals of statics; static equilibrium and introduction to elements of mechanics to elastic materials.
Prerequisite or Concurrent: MT 2800 .
Prerequisite: PH 2850 .
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EXS 2000 - Introduction to Exercise Science
(2)
This course investigates the nature, scope and philosophy of exercise science, as well as historical influences on the field. Physiological, biomechanical, neurological and behavioral, and nutritional foundations of exercise science are included. Career opportunities and the corresponding professional responsibilities related to professions in exercise and sports science are explored.
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EXS 3051 - Dissection Laboratory
(2)
This course allows student participation in an in-depth study of gross human anatomic structure through cadaver dissection. The head/neck, back, thorax, abdomen, and upper/lower extremities are examined.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
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EXS 3300 - Kinesiology
(3)
Structural and functional components of human anatomy including musculoskeletal origins, insertions, actions, and innervations will be examined. Related introductory medical terminology and basic biomechanical principles are included. Movements in various sports activities will be analyzed to identify which muscles individually and collectively act to create motion. An introduction to basic measurements and evaluations such as goniometry and group muscle testing will be included.
Prerequisite or Concurrent: BL 3030 , BL 3031 , PH 2700 , PH 2710 .
Corequisite: EXS 3301 .
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EXS 3301 - Kinesiology Lab
(1)
This course provides the foundation for understanding the anatomical perspective of human movement. Specific emphasis is placed on the function and roles of the muscles, bones and joints in the production of human motion. Additional emphasis will be placed on the adaptation of the musculoskeletal system to the strain of physical activity, exercise and dysfunction.
Prerequisite or Concurrent: BL 3030 ,BL 3031 ,PH 2700 , PH 2710 .
Corequisite: EXS 3300 .
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EXS 3500 - Physiology of Exercise
(3)
The immediate and long-term effects of exercise on the body will be examined, including the impact on various body systems, nutrition, and weight management. Measurements used to evaluate fitness such as aerobic capacity testing and determination of body composition will also be included.
Prerequisite or Concurrent: BL 3040 , BL 3041 .
Corequisite: EXS 3501 .
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EXS 3501 - Physiology of Exercise Lab
(1)
This laboratory emphasizes application of physiological principles from the lecture section of this class. Laboratory exercises include both data interpretation and integration with these principles as well as the direct application of the principles to performance and activity.
Fee.
Prerequisite or Concurrent: BL 3040 , BL 3041 .
Corequisite: EXS 3500 .
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EXS 3700 - Psychology of Sport and Exercise
(3)
This course serves as an introduction to the related and complimentary fields of sport psychology and exercise psychology. Emphasis will be on the application of psychological concepts and principles in the context of a professional relationship. Topics include psychological skills training, motivation, goal setting, personality, teamwork, and injury recovery.
Prerequisite: PY 1000 .
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