May 20, 2024  
2014-2015 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2014-2015 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Economics

  
  • ECON 2010 - Principles of Macroeconomics

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 2
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 2
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 5
    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

    Credit Hours: 5
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 5
    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

    Credit Hours: 5
    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

    Credit Hours: 5
    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

    Credit Hours: 1-3
    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

    Credit Hours: 1-3
    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

    Credit Hours: 2
    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

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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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, legends.
  
  • ENGL 340E - Russian Literature

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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

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

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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

    Credit Hours: 3
    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

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

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

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

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

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: One or two major American writers of prose will be studied in depth.
  
  • ENGL 460G - Major American Writers II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: One or two major American poets will be studied in depth.
  
  • ENGL 460H - Major Modern British Writers

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: One or two major British writers of the 20th century will be studied in depth.
  
  • ENGL 460I - Special Topics in Film Studies

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: This course will focus on special topics in film studies, including film history, film interpretation, and/or film theory.  May be taken twice for a maximum of six (6) hours.
  
  • ENGL 460J - Film Auteurs

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Film auteurs are directors whose creative vision is so distinctive that they can be considered the “authors” of their films.  In-depth study of two or three auteurs, defining and comparing their styles.  Examples:  Alfred Hitchcock, Akira Kurosawa, Jane Campion.  May be taken twice for a maximum of six (6) credit hours.
  
  • ENGL 1010 - English Composition

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: DSPR 0800 with grade of “C” or better or DSPR score of 4 and DSPW 0800 with grade of “C” or better or DSPW score of 4
    Description: Development of the student’s writing skills through a process of thinking, researching, planning, writing, reviewing, revising, and editing expository essays.
  
  • ENGL 1020 - English Composition

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1010  with a “C” or better
    Description: Development of the student’s writing skills through a process of thinking, researching, planning, writing, reviewing, revising, and editing expository essays.
  
  • ENGL 1100 - Technical and Report Writing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1010  with a “C” or better
    Description: Introduction to technical writing for students whose jobs will require writing. Coursework simulates actual working conditions and skills, including professional language, audience-analysis, data collection and organization, and page design, with practice in reports, proposals, instructions, and other professional documents, working with word processing, desktop publishing, and graphics computer programs.
  
  • ENGL 1210 - English as a Second Language

    Credit Hours: 4
    Prerequisite: (1) Status as an international student whose native language is not English. (2) The minimum proficiency in English that is required of foreign students for admission to the University (500 minimum score on TOEFL). This is a one-year series of courses designed to meet the special linguistic needs of international students of permanent residents whose native language is not English. ENGL 1210-ENGL 1220  do not satisfy the communication requirement in the Liberal Arts core, nor do they count toward graduation. ENGL 1210-ENGL 1220  do NOT satisfy the ENGL 1010  and ENGL 1020  requirement, but they do count toward semester accumulated hours.
    Description: Development of English language skills: reading, writing, speaking and listening.
  
  • ENGL 1220 - English as a Second Language

    Credit Hours: 4
    Prerequisite: (1) Status as an international student whose native language is not English. (2) The minimum proficiency in English that is required of foreign students for admission to the University (500 minimum score on TOEFL). This is a one-year series of courses designed to meet the special linguistic needs of international students of permanent residents whose native language is not English. ENGL 1210 -1220 do not satisfy the communication requirement in the Liberal Arts core, nor do they count toward graduation. ENGL 1210 -1220 do NOT satisfy the ENGL 1010  and ENGL 1020  requirement, but they do count toward semester accumulated hours.
    Description: Focuses on composition, the process of organizing thoughts, writing, revising and editing. Works of established writers are analyzed and discussed.
  
  • ENGL 2030 - Traditions in World Literature

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1020 
    Description: An overview of world literature that will include works from different periods. This course is a prerequisite to all ENGL upper-division literature courses.
  
  • ENGL 2070 - Introduction to Film Studies

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1020 
    Description: An introduction to the fundamentals of film studies, especially the history and forms of films, films as narratives, film genres, film theory and criticism, and approaches to writing film reviews and film essays.  Films are viewed in and outside of class.
  
  • ENGL 2200 - Introduction to Creative Writing: Poetry and Fiction

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Writing and analysis of poetry and short stories.
  
  • ENGL 2700 - Scientific Writing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: For students in scientific disciplines, this course presents strategies of writing clearly for both fellow scientists and policymakers. Subjects include the writing process and collaboration, effective sentence style, and the accurate and correct use of scientific language.
  
  • ENGL 3010 - Studies in American Literature I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Advanced analysis and background study of American texts written before 1866.
  
  • ENGL 3020 - Studies in American Literature II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Advanced analysis and background study of American texts written after 1865.
  
  • ENGL 3040 - Study Abroad in English Speaking Countries

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030  and permission of instructor
    Description: Study Abroad program in English speaking countries designed to provide students with experiences in expository writing to include freshman composition, travel writing, and British theatre.
  
  • ENGL 3100 - Studies in British Literature I

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Advanced study of medieval and early modern British literature with an emphasis on critical and theoretical approaches.
  
  • ENGL 3130 - Studies in British Literature II

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Advanced study of 19th and 20th century British literature with an emphasis on critical and theoretical approaches.
  
  • ENGL 3150 - Shakespeare

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Reading of selected plays and poems including a comedy, a tragedy, a history play, and a romance. The choice of works will be made after class has been surveyed. Some attention will be given to the life and times of Shakespeare.
  
  • ENGL 3200 - Expository Writing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Instruction in the art of expository writing that introduces students to the aims of discourse; the methods for applying rhetorical schemes and tropes, including the use of symbolism; the use of grammar in the service of style; academic formats and styles of writing; and the paradigms for various types of writing projects.
  
  • ENGL 3210 - Writing Fiction

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 , 2200 
    Description: The student is guided individually and as a member of a group in the writing and analysis of short stories.
  
  • ENGL 3220 - Writing Poetry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030  , 2200 
    Description: The student is guided individually and as a member of a group in the writing and analysis of poems.
  
  • ENGL 3310 - Stories for Creative Writers

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Exposes readers and writers of fiction to a body of classic short stories: by Americans, other writers of the English language, and non-English-speaking writers in translation.
  
  • ENGL 3320 - Poetry for Creative Writers

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Exposes readers and writers of poetry to a variety of contemporary poems: by Americans, other writers of the English language, and, possibly, non-English-speaking writers in translation.
  
  • ENGL 3420 - The Adolescent Experience in Literature

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 
    Description: Emphasizes thematic connections between adolescent literature as a late-20th century genre and traditional literature from various literary perspectives. Particular focuses: aesthetic qualities, portrayal of adolescent developmental tasks, representation of adolescence in diverse cultural contexts, and application in Secondary-English classrooms. Required for English majors in teacher licensure program.
  
  • ENGL 3500 - Advanced Technical Writing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1020 , 1100 , 1010  
    Description: Technical writing as a professional discipline, for students planning careers as technical writers or who anticipate that technical writing will be among their major duties in their chosen fields. Styles and forms in technical writing, emphasizing audience analysis and other social aspects of technical writing along with page design and desktop publishing. Extensive use of computers.
  
  • ENGL 3510 - Technical Report Writing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1100  or 3500 
    Description: Designed to give the student extensive practice in designing, writing and producing a variety of technical papers, reports, and manuals. Projects determined by student’s major and interests. Extensive use of sophisticated graphics and desktop publishing equipment.
  
  • ENGL 3600 - Professional Writing and Editing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1020 , 1100  
    Description: Writing common to professions outside of business, academic writing, report writing, industrial writing, scientific discourse, empirical research, and environmental writing.
  
  • ENGL 3700 - Business Writing

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1010  with a “C” or higher, ENGL 1020  
    Description: Writing common to business, including rhetoric, style, and graphic design in memos, letters instructions, researched reports, and proposals.
  
  • ENGL 4200 - Writing Workshop: Creative NonFiction

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030 ; recommended ENGL 2200 
    Description: An opportunity to develop skills in the writing of nonfiction. Assignments may include the following: personal essay, memoir, feature article, review, journalistic report. The student is guided individually and as a member of a group through rigorous analysis of his or her work.
  
  • ENGL 4210 - Writing Workshop: Fiction

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 3210  and permission of instructor
    Description: An opportunity to develop skills learned and projects begun in 3210. The student is guided individually and as a member of a group through rigorous analysis and criticism of their work.
  
  • ENGL 4220 - Writing Workshop: Poetry

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 3220  and permission of instructor
    Description: An opportunity to develop skills learned and projects begun in 3210. The student is guided individually and as a member of a group through rigorous analysis and criticism of their work.
  
  • ENGL 4300 - Literary Writers’ Marketplace

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2030  
    Description: This course helps writers understand how editors assess writing that has been submitted for publication.  The course also helps students determine whether a piece of writing is appropriate for a press.  Students produce book review essays as a means of acquiring skill at making this determination.
  
  • ENGL 4400 - Teaching English in Secondary School

    Credit Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Milestone II 
    Description: Description: Surveys research-based instructional strategies in secondary English education in these areas: language, communication, listening and speaking, writing/research, logic, informational texts, literature, media, assessment, and adaptive instruction for diverse population including English Language Learners.  This class requires 5 weeks in Residency I with specific performance assessment requirements.
 

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