Apr 29, 2024  
2015-2016 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2015-2016 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Dance

  
  • DANC 3880 - Costuming for Dance

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Course restricted to those pursuing theatre and dance majors, minors or concentrations; or permission of instructor.
    Description: Basic design theory emphasizes line, shape, color, and texture, followed by a discussion of style. Includes more practical work of draping, dyeing, painting, and patterning. Teaches students to measure and research.
  
  • DANC 3900 - Tap Dance III

    2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 2900  
    Description: Intermediate exploration of form, style, and techniques of tap dance.
  
  • DANC 4040 - Dance History II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 3040  
    Description: Designed for majors and non-majors.  This course will present a comprehensive view of the evolution of dance as an art form, from 1900 to the present.  It is designed to develop awareness and insight through lecture, discussion, music, video, observation, and writing about dance.
  
  • DANC 4200 - Dance Kinesiology

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Sophomore standing
    Description: This course will introduce the structure and function of the human body in relationship to dance.  Students will gain a better understanding of human motion through anatomical analysis, conditioning principles, injury prevention, and by identifying individual anomalies.
  
  • DANC 4300 - Dance Somatics

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 4200  
    Description: A guided and structured exploration of movement that employs awareness of the body systems.
  
  • DANC 4350 - Ballet IV

    2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 3350  
    Description: Development of pre-professional classical ballet technique including principles, theory and practice.
  
  • DANC 4400 - Dance Composition II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 3800  
    Description: This course is a continuation of the skills and concepts learned in DANC 3400. Students in this course will explore the pre-classic choreographic studies of Louis Horst as well as choreography in group forms and choreography in modern forms.
  
  • DANC 4450 - Modern Dance IV

    2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 3450  
    Description: Pre-professional studio class designed to increase skills, range, and artistry in modern dance techniques.  Emphasis will be placed on movement proficiency and combinations.
  
  • DANC 4500 - Theory and Practice of Teaching Dance

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Course restricted to those pursuing dance majors, minors or concentrations; or permission of instructor; sophomore standing.
    Description: This course will allow students to teach dance as a human art experience, establish a teaching philosophy, and develop material for dance technique courses. Students will also analyze, structure, and practice teaching skills for dance technique.
  
  • DANC 4550 - Jazz Dance IV

    2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 3500  
    Description: Pre-professional exploration of the form, style, and techniques of jazz dance.
  
  • DANC 4600 - Special Topics in Dance

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department consent
    Description: Occasional course offerings to further prepare students for a professional career in dance.  Focus may include the rehearsal and performance of significant dance repertoire, ballet partnering, specialized course taught by a guest artist in residence or other.  Topics to be announced.
  
  • DANC 4650 - Independent Research

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department consent
    Description: Opportunity for directed scholarly research in an area of special interest to the student.  Enrollment accepted only after professor has approved a written project proposal from the student.  Variable 1-3 credits.
  
  • DANC 4700 - Analysis and Criticism of Dance

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Course restricted to those pursuing dance majors, minors or concentrations; or permission of instructor; and sophomore standing.
    Description: Students will study major theories in dance performance, which inform their analysis of contemporary choreography. Students will hone presentation and writing skills through exposure to different styles and types of critical writing.
  
  • DANC 4750 - Directed Studies in Dance

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department consent
    Description: Directed concentrated study in a specific area of dance. Designed as a substitute for a required course that is needed but not offered in a specific semester.  Permission granted only to allow student a timely graduation.  Variable 1-3 credits.
  
  • DANC 4850 - Dance Performance Practicum

    1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department consent
    Description: Student performance in a concert dance work.  May be repeated for credit an additional two times.
  
  • DANC 4900 - Tap Dance IV

    2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: DANC 3900  
    Description: Pre-professional exploration of form, style, and techniques of tap dance.
  
  • DANC 4950 - Choreography Practicum

    2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department consent
    Description: Student choreography of a substantial concert dance work.  May be repeated for credit an additional two times.
  
  • DANC 4995 - Senior Capstone

    4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department consent and senior standing
    Description: Final semester of study with supervision of dance faculty, each individual senior dance student will create a substantial work (i.e., thesis or in-depth dance work) that culminates his/her studies.  Written component required.  Performance-based capstones will be showcased in an annual senior dance concert.  Application must be approved.

Decision Sciences

  
  • DSCI 3510 - Managerial Dynamics and Simulation

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross Listed ENGT 3660 
    Prerequisite: MGT 3410  and Business majors must meet the BB 1 , Junior standing
    Description: Dynamic phenomena surrounding business and engineering environment through simulation techniques on computer. Problems in queuing theory, inventory processing, sales forecasting, advertising, random number generators, flow charting, and stochastic nature of equations, Buffon’s Needle, and discrete and continuous systems.
  
  • DSCI 3530 - Statistical Quality Control

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MGT 3410 , Business majors must also meet the BB 1 , Junior standing
    Description: Basic principles and techniques of quality control and its applications to manufacturing process. Emphasis on process control, sampling inspections, reports, and records based on statistical analysis.
  
  • DSCI 4410 - Operations Research

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MGT 3410 , Business majors must also meet the BB 1 , Junior standing
    Description: Continuation into the advanced sections of production/operations management. Stochatic inventory, integer, non-linear, mathematical and goal programming; effects of quality control, plant layout, and queuing on the overall production process; sensitivity analysis and simulation.

Early Childhood-Teaching and Learning

  
  • EC 2200 - Introduction to Early Childhood Education

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite:   and completion of  
    Description: Historical and theoretical influences upon early childhood education. Legal, ethical, health and safety, and professional issues impacting the care and education of children, birth through age eight. Orientation to early childhood teacher education licensure program and the early childhood profession, including leadership and measurement of programs for young children and their families. Includes observation of early childhood programs.
  
  • EC 3010 - Early Literacy Development

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II 
    Description: Survey of theoretical, conceptual, and empirical materials on language development in children. Implications for literacy development and the teaching of reading and writing will also be required.
  
  • EC 4020 - Developmentally Appropriate Practice: K-3

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II 
    Description: Survey of theoretical and practical issues related to developmentally appropriate practice including social constructivism, thematic and literature-based instruction, curriculum integration, and the role of the physical and social environment in teaching and learning. Emphasis on social studies curriculum, K-3.
  
  • EC 4030 - Evaluation and Assessment: PreKindergarten–Grade 3

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II  and MATH 1530 ;
    Description: Student assessment, evaluation of programs, and processes for parent involvement will be addressed. Emphasis on observation on documentation and other authentic strategies. Includes field-based experience with children.
  
  • EC 4040 - Problem Solving: Prekindergarten

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II 
    Description: Develops competency in the selection and use of materials, resources, and instructional strategies to foster problem-solving and higher order thinking skills in prekindergarten children. Develop of early science, math, and social skills will be emphasized. Includes field-based experience with children.
  
  • EC 4080 - Child Guidance and Classroom Management

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II 
    Description: Theories of classroom organization and management and their application, prekindergarten - grade three.  A field experience is required.  Must be taken in semester prior to student teaching.
  
  • EC 4140 - Applications of Development Theory

    3 Credit Hours
    Description: Develops competency in the selection and use of materials, in the use of instructional strategies, and in the teaching of specific skills. A portion of course is field based.
  
  • EC 4160 - Learning Styles of the Culturally Different

    3 Credit Hours
    Description: Give the student appropriate experiences in: (1) developing an awareness of the learning styles, (2) investigating materials and methods designed to aid in the learning process, and (3) formulating objectives and techniques for working with the parents of the culturally different child.
  
  • EC 4170 - Evaluation and Assessment in Early Childhood Education

    3 Credit Hours
    Description: Pupil assessment, evaluation of programs, and processes for parent involvement in Early Childhood Education. A portion of the course is field based.
  
  • Milestone I - Milestone I – Candidacy Status

    Credit Hours
    Prerequisite:
     

     
    Description: • Completion of EDUC 2100 /5500  or equivalent with “C” or better
    • Minimum of 12 hours of undergraduate credit or 3 hours of graduate credit
    • Minimum 2.5 GPA
    • Acceptable level for knowledge and skills identified for Milestone I through approval of electronic portfolio
    • Evidence of Professional Dispositions
    • Completion of security clearance by TBI/FBI

  
  • Milestone II - Milestone II – Provisional Status

    Credit Hours
    Description: • Minimum 2.75 GPA
    • Minimum of “C” in Professional Minor courses
    • Acceptable level for knowledge and skills identified for Milestone II through approval of electronic protfolio
    • Evidence of Professional Dispositions
    • Minimum of 45 hours if undergraduate or 9 hours if graduate student
    • Minimum Praxis I (PPST Reading–174; Writing–173; and Math–173 or ACT–22; SAT–1020) or GRE (Verbal–350 and Quantitative–350) for graduate students
    • Successful interview (during EDUC 3070/5501)
    • Completion of security clearance by TBI/FBI
  
  • Milestone III - Milestone III – Clinical Status

    Credit Hours
    Description: • 2.75 GPA
    • Minimum of Grade of “C” in all professional education courses
    • Passing all required Praxis II tests (see list of testing requirements for specific tests on College of Education website)
    • Completion of all courses required for licensure/degree
    • Acceptable level for knowledge and skills identified for Milestone III through approval of electronic portfolio
    • Evidence of Professional Disposition
    • Completion of security clearance by TBI/FBI

Economics

  
  • ECON 490A,B,C - Special Problems in Economics

    1,2,3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of Chair and instructor
    Description: Teacher supervised independent study of economics topics (out-of-classroom) of mutual interest to the student and faculty member.
  
  • ECON 2000 - Contemporary Economics

    3 Credit Hours
    Description: Introduction to current economic events; relates current happenings to past events to understand the basic economic forces that influence our system.
  
  • ECON 2010 - Principles of Macroeconomics

    3 Credit Hours
    Description: Principles of pricing, stabilization, and growth in a modern capitalist economy, supply and demand, employment theory and fiscal policy banking systems and monetary policy, economic growth, and fundamentals of the international economy.
  
  • ECON 2020 - Principles of Microeconomics

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ECON 2010  recommended
    Description: Concepts of value and distribution under alternative market condition, elasticity, allocation of resources and price determination, analysis of consumption, and marginal utility.
  
  • ECON 3010 - Intermediate Microeconomics

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: Concepts of value and distribution under alternative market condition, elasticity, allocation of resources and price determination, analysis of consumption, and marginal utility.
  
  • ECON 3020 - Intermediate Macroeconomics

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: Macroeconomic problems of inflation and unemployment, statistics (GDP and the Consumer Price Index) and theory (Classical, Keynesian, and Monetarist views), and public policies.
  
  • ECON 3210 - Money and Banking

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: The nature and function of money, organization and operation of monetary and financial systems, determinants of money supply and demand, the conduct of monetary policy and its impact on employment, income and price level.
  
  • ECON 3220 - Managerial Economics

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: Environment of the firm, intra-firm decision problems, analytical concepts and methods, partial-quilibrium analysis of the product markets, analysis of factor productivities, cost, pricing principles and practices, and estimation of demand and cost primarily from the standpoint of managers in the private sector.
  
  • ECON 3510 - Government and Business

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: Relationships between government and business, government efforts to enforce competition to regulate public utilities, and protect the special interests of farmers, workers, and consumers.
  
  • ECON 3900 - Economic Internship

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1  with GPA of 3.0 and permission of Internship Coordinator
    Description: Designed to provide academic credit for relevant and meaningful experience in preparation for economics positions.  Weekly updates, term paper, and satisfactory evaluation by employer/supervisor required for credit.  Grading on a pass/fail basis.
  
  • ECON 3960 - Urban Environments and Economics

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: An examination is made of the urban environments. Consideration is given to environmental problems.
  
  • ECON 3980 - Economic Geography

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: A systematic examination of the structure of dynamic global economic activities. Economic theory is emphasized for review of geographic patterns of resource utilization.
  
  • ECON 4000 - Issues in Free Enterprise

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: Special topics in the area of free enterprise; topics may vary from time to time according to the specialty of the occupant of the Chair of Excellence in Free Enterprise in the BBA Program.
  
  • ECON 4210 - Public Finance

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: Role of government and its function and limitations in a market, provision of goods and services by all levels of government instruments of taxation evaluated according to efficiency and equity criteria, and contemporary public sector issues.
  
  • ECON 4310 - Labor Economics

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: Economics of the labor market and labor relations, theories of wages and employment, determination of unemployment, investment in human capital, discrimination, public policy toward the labor market, role of labor unions, practices, procedures, legal foundations, legal structure associated with collective bargaining, form and content of the labor contract, grievance machinery, and mediation and arbitration institutions.
  
  • ECON 4410 - History of Economic Thought

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: Origin and evolution of economic ideas with emphasis on historical context, problems, and nature of the solutions, historical survey of the economic doctrines of the physiocratic, classical, neoclassical, historical, Keynesian, and other schools of economic thought.
  
  • ECON 4610 - International Economics

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BB 1 
    Description: Process of international commerce. Theory of trade and exchange rates, institutional and legal environment, current policy issues, analysis of international trade and finance, causes and effects of protection, balance of payments, foreign exchange market, international monetary and financial systems, and international economic cooperation and competition.

Education

  
  • EDUC 2100 - Foundations of Education

    2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 12 credit hours of core requirements
    Description: The social, philosophical and historical background of education. The course will contain lecture/discussion and a required field based experience. LiveText is introduced.
  
  • EDUC 3040 - Instructional Technology

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone I 
    Description: Competency in microcomputer applications in the instructional process, including the use of instructional software, media integration, and use of micros in classroom management.
  
  • EDUC 3070 - Instructional Strategies

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone I 
    Description: Competencies in selected generic teaching skills such as mastery learning, questioning, positive reinforcement, student evaluation/differential instruction, etc. Required prior to restricted enrollment courses (methods blocks, 4400’s). Application for provisional admission to teacher education required during this semester of enrollment. A field experience is required.
  
  • EDUC 3090 - Elementary School Curriculum, Methods, and Philosophy

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II , MUS 1030 , ART 1030 ; Corequisite: RDG 4010 , 4020 
    Description: Elementary School Curriculum, Methods, and Philosophy. The courses focuses on the principles of child development, effective and differentiated instructional strategies for diverse young learners, standards-based curriculum integration, instructional planning and assessment. A field experience is required.
  
  • EDUC 4040 - Teaching Social Studies: K-6

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II , HIST 1210 , 1220 , 2010 , 2020 ; Corequisite: SCI 4020 , RDG 4030 
    Description: The objectives, problems, and instructional techniques in teaching social studies, grades K-6. A school-based teaching experience is required.
  
  • EDUC 4080 - Classroom Organization and Management

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II 
    Description: Theories of classroom organization and management and their application. A field experience is required. Must be taken semester prior to student teaching.
  
  • EDUC 4090 - Middle School Methods and Curriculum

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II , MUS 1030 , ART 1030 
    Description: Curriculum, program, and philosophy uniquely focused on the middle grades student. A field experience is required.
  
  • EDUC 4160 - Teaching Diverse Students

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone I 
    Description: This course addresses the impact of student diversity on teaching and learning.  Differences in beliefs, effective instruction of linguistic minorities, and socialization among groups are analyzed, with a focus on the relationship of these differences to learning outcomes in U.S. classrooms.  Instructional strategies based on multicultural models of education are examined and alternative assessments are reviewed.  A field experience is required.
  
  • EDUC 4200 - Capstone: Contemporary Problems

    2 Credit Hours
    Description: A culminating course for the student seeking licensure to teach. Topics include school law, problems of the beginning teacher, seeking a teaching position, and professional growth.
  
  • EDUC 4270 - Classroom Evaluation and Assessment

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone I  Pre/Corequisite: EDUC 3070 
    Description: Pupil assessment; evaluation of programs; self-assessment; differentiated instruction; contemporary assessment strategies; and related research applications.
  
  • EDUC 4310 - Student Teaching PreKindergarten

    5 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite:  
    Description: Teacher candidates will teach a full semester under the direction of supervising teachers. Experience at two grade levels and in varied settings is required. According to state directives, the student teacher must receive prior written permission from the Coordinator of Clinical Experiences to enroll in coursework other than student teaching during the semester. EDUC 4310, 4410 , 4610 , and 4710  include an intensive seminar in which portfolio-based summative assessment is accomplished. The seminar also addresses relevant issues in professional education as well as licensure procedures and induction into the teaching profession.
  
  • EDUC 4410 - Student Teaching Grades K-3

    5 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone III 
    Description: Teacher candidates will teach a full semester under the direction of supervising teachers. Experience at two grade levels and in varied settings is required. According to state directives, the student teacher must receive prior written permission from the Coordinator of Clinical Experiences to enroll in coursework other than student teaching during the semester. EDUC 4310 , 4410, EDUC 4610 , and EDUC 4710  include an intensive seminar in which portfolio-based summative assessment is accomplished. The seminar also addresses relevant issues in professional education as well as licensure procedures and induction into the teaching profession.
  
  • EDUC 4440 - Theories of Learning

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone I  (Milestone I status)
    Description: Description:  This course promotes understanding of human learning and development necessary to engender competent, caring professionals by providing opportunities to describe, compare, and contract various theories in order to create appropriate learning environments.  Course will be part of Residency I and require extensive field experience.
  
  • EDUC 4510 - Student Teaching Grades 4-6

    5 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone III 
    Description: Teacher candidates will teach a full semester under the direction of supervising teachers. Experience at two grade levels and in varied settings is required. According to state directives, the student teacher must receive prior written permission from the Coordinator of Clinical Experiences to enroll in coursework other than student teaching during the semester. EDUC 4310 , 4410 , 4610 , and 4710  include an intensive seminar in which portfolio-based summative assessment is accomplished. The seminar also addresses relevant issues in professional education as well as licensure procedures and induction into the teaching profession.
  
  • EDUC 4610 - Student Teaching Grades 7-8

    5 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone III 
    Description: Teacher candidates will teach a full semester under the direction of supervising teachers. Experience at two grade levels and in varied settings is required. According to state directives, the student teacher must receive prior written permission from the Coordinator of Clinical Experiences to enroll in coursework other than student teaching during the semester. EDUC 4310 4410 , 4610 , and 4710  include an intensive seminar in which portfolio-based summative assessment is accomplished. The seminar also addresses relevant issues in professional education as well as licensure procedures and induction into the teaching profession.
  
  • EDUC 4710 - Student Teaching Grades 9-12

    5 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone III 
    Description: Teacher candidates will teach a full semester under the direction of supervising teachers. Experience at two grade levels and in varied settings is required. According to state directives, the student teacher must receive prior written permission from the Coordinator of Clinical Experiences to enroll in coursework other than student teaching during the semester. EDUC 4310 4410 , 4610 , and 4710  include an intensive seminar in which portfolio-based summative assessment is accomplished. The seminar also addresses relevant issues in professional education as well as licensure procedures and induction into the teaching profession.
  
  • EDUC 4720 - Special Topics in Education

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Permission from the Dean, College of Education
    Description: Used to satisfy special needs of groups or independent study activities for individuals.
  
  • EDUC 4730 - Problems in Education

    1-3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Permission from the Dean, College of Education
    Description: Used to satisfy special needs of groups or individuals who have unusual or atypical requests.
  
  • EDUC 4950 - Teaching Seminar

    2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone III  (Milestone III requirements)
    Description: This course is a capstone seminar required during the clinical semester. The course will focus on formative and summative assessment; completion of program and licensure requirements; professional development, and orientation and induction into the teaching profession. The Teacher Performance Assessment will be completed and defended during the seminar. Course includes small group and whole group discussions, guest speakers, and self-reflection.

English

  
  • ENGL 340A - Arthurian Romance

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Various versions of the Arthurian legend from the Middle Ages to the 20th century.
  
  • ENGL 340B - Native American Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030  
    Description: Native American writing and oratory from pre-Columbian Trickster Tales to recent novels.  Special attention will be paid to Native American cultures, sovereignties and EuroAmerican acculturation, reading such writers as Samson Occom, Zitkala-Sa, Leslie Marmon Silko and Sherman Alexie.
  
  • ENGL 340C - Modern Southern Fiction

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Southern writers with special emphasis on those of the 20th century.
  
  • ENGL 340D - Mythology and Folklore

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030  
    Description: The role of mythology in literature from the Golden Age of Greece to that of contemporary popular culture, including the function of folklore stories, music, and legends.
  
  • ENGL 340E - Russian Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: A study of Russian literature with emphasis on the 19th century.
  
  • ENGL 340F - Women Writers: Topics in Women Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Examination of significant issues or topics reflected in women’s literature from a variety of cultures and perspectives. Topics will be selected by individual instructors.
  
  • ENGL 340G - Critical Studies: African American Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Selected readings in African American literature with an emphasis on different critical approaches to literature.
  
  • ENGL 340H - African Writers

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: African writers in English since the colonial experience. Illuminates the character, literary and thematic concerns of the works studied. Students will read from West, East, and South African authors.
  
  • ENGL 340J - Shakespeare on Film and Stage

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 3150  or permission of instructor
    Description: This course will examine Shakespeare in performance through a reading of texts, watching live theater, and viewing significant 20th and 21st century movie adaptations and filmed stage productions.  Students will examine the effectiveness of film in translating Shakespeare’s language and the varied interpretations of Shakespeare on film and on stage.
  
  • ENGL 340L - Early American Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Major and minor writers from the first arrival of the Europeans to 1776.
  
  • ENGL 340M - U.S. Latino/a Literatures

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Studies in the Latino/Latina literatures of the United States with emphasis on Cuban-American, Puerto Rican, Mexican-American, and Dominican-American literary and cultural traditions.
  
  • ENGL 340N - Gay and Lesbian Literature Across Cultures

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Cross-cultural studies in gay and lesbian literature. Topics, approaches, and readings will vary with individual instructors.
  
  • ENGL 340P - Topics in World Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Reading and analysis of literature in translation from various cultures and time periods. Topics, critical approaches, genres, and writers will vary with individual instructors.
  
  • ENGL 340R - Century’s End: Race and Gender at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Examination of the ways in which race and gender were constructed and construed in American culture from 1890 to 1914 through study of relevant fiction, nonfiction, and film.
  
  • ENGL 340S - Literature of the English Bible

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 , 1010 , 1020 
    Description:  Careful analysis of large portions of the 1611 King James Bible, in order to understand genres and forms of biblical literature, problems of translation and literary influences of this work.
  
  • ENGL 340T - German Literature in Translation

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Selected readings in German literature to study a specific topic or genre or era.  The course is taught in English.
  
  • ENGL 340W - Critical Studies in Women’s Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Selected readings in Anglo-American women’s literature with an emphasis on feminist, new historicist, and other contemporary critical approaches involving race, class, and gender issues.
  
  • ENGL 360A - American Drama

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: American drama as literature. Drama written in the 20th century, especially the works of Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, Maxwell Anderson, Lillian Hellman, Edward Albee, and others.
  
  • ENGL 360B - American Short Story

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: The historical and literary backgrounds of the American short story; extensive reading, discussion, and presentation of analyses of representative stories.
  
  • ENGL 360C - English Drama 1580-1780

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Examination of selected non-Shakespearean plays of the Renaissance and of representative plays of the Restoration and 18th century as well as exposure to the nature of theaters of these periods and to the general character of the criticism of this literature.
  
  • ENGL 360D - Literary Criticism

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: An exploration of critical approaches to literary texts and a study of recent developments in the theory of language and literature.
  
  • ENGL 360E - Modern Drama

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Important plays from Ibsen to the present. Also includes Strindberg, Chekhov, Pirandello, Shaw, and others.
  
  • ENGL 360F - Modern Fiction

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Selected modern works of prose fiction by European as well as British and American authors.
  
  • ENGL 360G - Modern Poetry

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Modern British and American poets with emphasis on poets of the late 19th and 20th centuries.
  
  • ENGL 360H - Literature and Film Across Cultures

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Study of films that are adapted from literature and literary texts from which they have been created. Readings and films will represent various cultures. Selections, critical approaches, and topics will vary with individual instructors.
  
  • ENGL 370A - 17th Century British Prose and Poet

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Readings in prose, metaphysical poetry, and the Cavalier lyricists including Bacon, Donne, Milton, Jonson, Herrick, and Herbert.
  
  • ENGL 460A - Major Medieval Writers

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: One major writer or selected major writers of the Middle Ages will be studied in depth.
  
  • ENGL 460B - Major Renaissance Writers

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: One or two major writers of the Renaissance will be studied in depth.
  
  • ENGL 460C - Major 18th Century Writers

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: One or two major writers of the 18th century period will be studied in depth.
  
  • ENGL 460D - Major Romantic Writers

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: One or two major writers of the Romantic period will be studied in depth.
  
  • ENGL 460E - Major Victorian Writers

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: One or two major writers of the Victorian period will be studied in depth.
 

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