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ETEC 7100 - Television Production I for Educators
3 cr.
This is a process-oriented course with emphasis on setting up, operating, and maintaining radio and television production equipment. Students will be involved in production of a half-hour show to be cablecast on Channel A-3, A-8, A-22 in Boston.
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ETEC 7150 - Television Production II for Educators
3 cr.
This process-oriented course is designed to make students proficient in production of TV programming with stress upon being able to make, obtain and setup necessary props, background, trick camera shots and sound effects. Emphasis is on advanced skill development and color production as a team. Students will learn to integrate good television programming into school-based curriculum and to use television as an instructional tool.
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ETEC 7200 - Applying Visual Theory to the Classroom
3 cr.
Exploration of the theoretical constructs underlying all visual expression with particular emphasis on projected imagery. Activities include applying theory through design and producing visual statements in a variety of media for the classroom.
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ETEC 7250 - Photography for Educators
3 cr.
This basic course offers instruction in camera handling, film exposure and development, production, mounting, display, and evaluation of prints. A skills course with applications for teachers, media specialists and others interested in use of the photographic medium. Students must have access to an adjustable camera. Students are responsible for film, paper and chemicals.
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ETEC 7253 - Web Design for Teachers
3 cr.
Process-oriented course covering basic HTML (hypertext markup language), emphasizing the use of CGI scripts and forms to create customized and interactive Web pages. The course will touch on some features of HTML, such as tables, for educational purposes.
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ETEC 7600 - Introduction to Educational Technology
3 cr.
This course includes content related to the impact of technology on education, especially as it relates to effective teaching and curriculum development. The use of technology as a change agent in schools is explored. Students are exposed to the variety of technologies used in schools.
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ETEC 7700 - A Graphics Approach to Technology
3 cr.
This course explores the integration of visual learning and computers. Students explore the use of paint and draw programs, videos, and interactive videos.
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ETEC 7800 - Using the Computer as a Research Tool
3 cr.
This course integrates critical thinking skills and computers. Students explore the use of problem solving software, Logo, and Logo Writer. By using the computer as a tool for conducting research students are enabled to look at CD-ROM, database applications, Hypercard and telecommunications.
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ETEC 8050 - Advanced Photography for Educators
3 cr.
This course assumes knowledge of basic photographic principles with emphasis on control of the medium. Topics include exposure, metering, darkroom techniques and print manipulation. Students will discuss educational applications, design and composition, and critical evaluation of work.
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ETEC 8100 - Color Photography for Educators
3 cr.
This color course offers instruction in all basic aspects of color printing whether you intend to work with color negatives or color slides. Students must have access to an adjustable camera. Students are responsible for film paper and chemicals.
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ETEC 8150 - Advanced Graphics for Educators
3 cr.
This advanced course applies the elements of graphic design, copy-fitting and printing procedures to the development learning resources. Students apply their acquired graphic skills to prepare overhead transparencies, visual for display and other graphic materials in instructional settings.
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ETEC 8200 - Advanced Portable Video Production
3 cr.
In this advanced ITV production course students will supplement skills developed in prior production classes. It involves use of sophisticated program planning procedures and production/postproduction techniques. There is emphasis on advanced skills development and color production as a team.
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ETEC 8600 - Computers and Writing
3 cr.
This course provides teachers and administrators, at all levels and in all subject areas, with strategies for developing and implementing a computer-assisted process writing program in their classrooms and schools. Participants examine the process of writing (idea generating, drafting, responding, revising, editing, and publishing) and are introduced to ways of using the computer to facilitate writing growth at each stage. Working with current writing software programs, editing tools, and desktop publishing packages, participants devise a computer-assisted writing program for their own classrooms and schools. Previous computer experience is not required.
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ETEC 9090 - Interactive Design and Analysis in Education
3 cr.
This course includes a presentation of organizational structure and teamwork requirements and their impact on timeline demands of various multimedia designs. Analysis of project objectives for designs and paradigms of interactive formats is conducted for presentations, training, marketing, and kiosks. Students will survey hardware and software options for addressing project needs.
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ETEC 9100 - Seminar in Educational Technology
3 cr.
Students have the opportunity to examine, in depth, current issues and future directions in educational technology. Discussions and readings focus on the relationship between the computer and teaching methodologies, as well as teacher effectiveness and curricula.
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ETEC 9140 - Communication and Productivity Tools for Teachers
3 cr.
This course presents the principles of formulating persuasive strategies for organizing information and creating written, electronic, and mediated communications. Candidates become familiar with current computing hardware, software, accessories, interfaces, and applications helpful to technology leaders.
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ETEC 9200 - Project in Educational Technology
3 cr.
Completion of a comprehensive project utilizing educational technology in elementary, middle school, special, or secondary is required. Additional projects focus on associated school and school-district-based technology leadership. The course addresses competencies for developing and sustaining a comprehensive technology plan to improve teaching and learning.
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ENGL 7010 - Children’s Literature
3 cr.
Students in this class study the content of classic and contemporary children’s literature plus various approaches for interpreting and teaching a wide variety of children’s texts. Close attention is paid to emerging trends in children’s literature as well as to the literature’s enduring concerns.
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ENGL 7012 - The Modern Secondary School
3 cr.
This course is required of all MAT candidates who do not have initial licensure to teach and covers a broad range of issues faced by teachers in today’s secondary schools. Students become familiar with the complexities and demands of secondary school teaching. The course includes 25 hours of prepracticum experience.
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ENGL 7020 - Teaching College Writing
3 cr.
This course is designed to prepare English graduate students or others with proper academic credentials to teach introductory college-level writing, introduce students to central issues, problems, and theories in composition studies, and to examine ways in which our experience as writers can help shape the teaching of composition. Although the emphasis on this course will be on the central, practical tasks of teaching writing, we will move beyond a simple, prescriptive “how-to” in order to examine other theoretical and pedagogical issues that shape what we do and why.
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ENGL 7850 - Advanced Special Methods in English
3 cr.
The approach in this course for the Post Baccalaureate Certificate, Initial Licensure, provides a holistic framework for teaching secondary English emphasizing the interrelatedness of all language abilities: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. We experiment with and evaluate a variety of teaching strategies for creating responsive, reflective, and responsible readers, writers, and speakers as well as methods for the assessment of student performance. A prepracticum is required.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 7016/2860 and /4700 or equivalent and a 2.75 overall GPA and 3.0 in the major, Communication/Literacy MTEL and Subject Area Exam.
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ENGL 8000 - Advanced Methods of Teaching at the Secondary Level
3 cr.
This course combines academic study with clinical practice and supervision. Theories and topics studied and demonstrated include learning styles, critical thinking, computer applications and inclusive learning environments. Emphasis is placed on integrating culturally or linguistically diverse students and those with special needs. Interdisciplinary course development and implementation, student assessment including portfolio assessment and writing are studied for utilization across the curriculum.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 7012 or initial teacher licensure.
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ENGL 8020 - Creative Writing
3 cr.
This course facilitates the writing of poetry and/or short fiction in a workshop atmosphere.
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ENGL 8035 - The Robert Cormier Collection
3 cr.
This course is a study of the writings of Robert Cormier, the internationally acclaimed Leominster author, using materials in the Robert Cormier Manuscript Collection at Fitchburg State University. The Chocolate War, I Am the Cheese, Tenderness, Heroes, Frenchtown Summer, and other works by Cormier are examined.
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ENGL 8040 - Theories and Principles of Language Learning
3 cr.
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This course provides teachers of multilingual students with a theoretical background for the teaching and learning of languages. It introduces research into second language acquisition from perspectives of the fields of linguistics, psychology and education. Topics include language acquisition; learning styles and strategies; effects of personality, age, motivation and sociological factors; and the role of the first language. Discussions explore the relationship of theory to methodology and classroom practice.
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ENGL 8042 - Methods and Materials in ESL
3 cr.
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This course will explore the major methodological approaches to teaching English as a Second Language (ESL), including a historical survey and a review of current applications. The following topics are discussed: interactive, communicative classroom practices; teaching reading, writing, listening, oral communication, grammar, and vocabulary; testing and designing and evaluating classroom materials.
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ENGL 8050 - Advanced Research in English Studies
3 cr.
Designed for students who are new to the English Graduate Program, this course promotes the student’s ability to do independent and creative scholarly research and to become more competent in critical approaches to literature, research techniques, new methodologies, and technologies, as well as library and archival examination. Students in the MAT in English Licensure Program develop the research proposal for the classroom research project required during their 400 hour Internship/Clinical experience.
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ENGL 8070 - Literature in the Classroom
3 cr.
This course examines the place of literature in today’s middle and secondary school classroom. Using the Standards for the English Language Arts (NCTE and IRA) and the Massachusetts English Language Arts Curriculum Framework as guides, we consider the choice of classic and contemporary literature for whole class and individual reading, strategies for creating responsive and reflective readers of literature, and means of assessing student performance.
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ENGL 8071 - Literature for Young Adults
3 cr.
Literature for Young Adults is a survey of current books written especially for middle and secondary school students, as well as a study of strategies for teaching them. The emphasis is on the newest books available in paperback that are suitable for classroom use or recreational reading. Strategies for encouraging student engagement with literature, for pairing young adult novels with the classics and for sharing responses are modeled by the professor and evaluated by students.
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ENGL 8076 - Creating Literacy Experience: Building Reading and Writing into the Content Areas
3 cr.
Writing across the curriculum provides learners with the opportunity to investigate their own thinking as they go beyond the surface level of text or subject matter to arrive at meaningful connections and insights. Students investigate creative approaches to introduce current research journals into portfolios and audience assessment. Working independently and in cooperative learning groups, participants immerse themselves in the reading/writing/thinking process, create their own portfolios, design mini-lessons, conduct research, and share their learning and thinking.
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ENGL 8085 - Literature and Film
3 cr.
This is an introduction to the relationship between literature and film through the critical study of each medium. Special consideration is given to matters of characterization, narration, plot, setting, theme and tone in written works and films. Students are introduced to conventions of the documentary and fictional film, principles of scriptwriting and the elements of formal screen production.
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ENGL 8090 - Practicum
6 cr.
Student teaching experience is offered to give practical classroom experience to those degree students who have not satisfied the state requirements for certification. Students may enroll for a second semester by permission.
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ENGL 8091 - Practicum
6 cr.
Student teaching experience is offered to give practical classroom experience to those degree students who have not satisfied the state requirements for certification. Students may enroll for a second semester by permission.
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ENGL 8260 - Curriculum Design & Development
3 cr.
This course is designed to provide students with knowledge and skills of the curriculum development-revision process. The course examines societal demands on the curriculum and the role of the American school in a democratic and multicultural society as students assess, revise, and implement instructional programs and the curriculum in a systematic and logical way. Active participation in school-based curriculum teams, IEP teams, site-based management teams and community groups teach effective delivery of services to all students and school improvement/reform efforts. In collaborative groups students review, revise, and expand the curriculum and assessment procedures in order to integrate current research findings and education reform initiatives.
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ENGL 8750 - Advanced Special Methods in English
3 cr.
The approach in this course for the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate for Initital Licensure provides a holistic framework for teaching secondary English emphasizing the interrelatedness of all language abilities: speaking, listening, reading, and writing. We experiment with and evaluate a variety of teaching strategies for creating responsive, reflective, and responsible readers, writers, and speakers as well as methods for the assessment of student performance. A prepracticum is required.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2860 or 7016, and ENGL 4700 or or equivalent and a 2.75 overall GPA and 3.0 in the major, Communication/Literacy MTEL and Subject Area Exam.
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ENGL 9000 - Literary Theory: Practical Applications for Today’s Readers
3 cr.
This course surveys theories of literature with emphasis on applying them to our readings of a wide variety of texts. Study includes a brief historical survey, but focuses on such contemporary practices as cultural studies and feminist theory. Texts and theoretical schools may vary from semester to semester. Practical applications in the classroom and in one’s own reading guide class discussion.
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ENGL 9010 - Chaucer
3 cr.
Students read Chaucer’s major works, beginning with early poems and lyrics, then concentrating on The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde. Focus is on the Middle English Language; critical approaches, and literary analysis.
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ENGL 9011 - The Literature of the Middle Ages
3 cr.
The course surveys selected texts from the Middle Ages, starting with Beowulf and Old English lyrics, and including representative Middle English, Celtic, Anglo-Norman and French works. Various genres are covered, including epic, lyric, drama, Arthurian romance, legend, religious verse and satire. All works except the Middle English are read in translation.
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ENGL 9012 - The Practice of Poetry: Critical Reading, Creative Writing
3 cr.
This active-learning course explores the contemporary poetry scene: productions, performances and discussions of poetry as it is practiced today. Students compose original poems in a variety of styles and learn interactive methods of responding to poetry. Students read literary works representing major poetry trends. Students visit the computer lab, learning the basics of accessing online poetry groups and publications online. Students attend a live or taped reading, research several literary journals and prepare either a final paper or a selection of original poems.
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ENGL 9015 - Folklore in American Culture
4 cr.
Folklore constitutes an integral link between traditions of the past and the practices of the present. The course introduces the study of folklore - its guiding theories and methods, as well as its historical and present day contributions to research in the humanities and the social sciences. The course culminates with student field research.
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ENGL 9016 - Composition Theory and Practice
3 cr.
This course is intended to help students create a framework for generating their own philosophy of writing. It is intended to help students develop a deeper understanding of their own writing processes, to recognize the complexities of literacy and writing, and to become more conscious of the rhetorical choices writers make in different writing situations.
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ENGL 9017 - Genre, Adaptation and Hybridity
3 cr.
In this course we will study writers who create literature in more than one genre or who defy genre by destabilizing fixed systems of classification. Artistic combinations include poet/novelist, poet/musician and novelist/screenwriter. There are three sections to the course. First we will consider an author’s thematic and stylistic consistencies from one genre to another, as well as his or her reasons for choosing to write in one particular genre. Second we will consider the links between originals and adaptations. The final section of the course examines hybridity as a concept in identity and its corresponding multi-generic textual expression.
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ENGL 9020 - Shakespeare’s Major Plays
3 cr.
This course examines Shakespeare’s major plays in relation to the culture and interpretive concerns of both Shakespeare’s world and our contemporary one. Special emphasis is placed on his works as read, taught, performed and constructed in regard to power, gender, class and literary aesthetics.
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ENGL 9025 - Romantic Women Writers
3 cr.
Romantic-era literature is known for its invocations of the power of the imagination through lyric poetry that illustrates the contemplations of a mind nurtured by the power of nature. While these ideas hold true to well-known male poets of the period (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, et al), they seem less precise in describing writings by female authors of the Romantic era. This course will examine works by female poets, novelists, and critics from 1789-1834 to uncover how women’s writing can adapt, challenge, or controvert well-established ideas about the Romantic era. Our readings will include works from writers such as Helen Maria Williams, Hannah More, Mary Wollstonecraft, Charlotte Smith, Joanna Baillie, Mary Robinson, Anna Barbauld, Dorothy Wordsworth, Felicia Hemans, Letitia Elizabeth Landon, and Mary Shelley.
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ENGL 9035 - Revisiting the Romantics
3 cr.
This course emphasizes the work of romantic era writers (1780-1830). Students examine the key aesthetic and political debates of the time through an analysis of essays, poetry, novels and plays. Authors include such writers as Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, William Godwin, Dorothy and William Wordsworth, Coleridge, Keats and Byron.
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ENGL 9036 - The Quiet Revolution: 19th-Century American Women Writers
3 cr.
This course considers texts by Matilda Joslin Gage, Sarah Orne Jewett, Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Ida B. Wells and others. Students learn how these women used essays, magazine and newspaper columns, novels, short stories and slave narratives as a public forum for discussing issues such as sexism, racism, the reform of labor, marriage, property, voting and education.
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ENGL 9037 - American Renaissance: Works by Hawthorne, Poe, and Others
3 cr.
This course looks at fiction and poetry by several great American writers of the mid 19th century. Readings will explore the revolution that took place in the treatment of nature and science in the middle of that century.
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ENGL 9040 - Mark Twain and American Humor
3 cr.
This course surveys several of Twain’s works, with a focus on his performance as a humorist and as a wry commentator on and critic of American life. The course explores Twain’s treatment of such serious issues as race and cultural conformity through the medium of laughter. Humorists who share the Twain legacy, such as Kurt Vonnegut and stand-up comics, are also studied.
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ENGL 9046 - American Art and Literature 1800–1860
3 cr.
This course explores the relationship between the “plastic” art and the literary art of the new nation. Students learn to identify the forces that inspired imaginative production in both art forms during the period that attempted to define the American style. Slides of paintings as well as literary texts are studied.
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ENGL 9047 - Women in European Literature
3 cr.
At the center of this course are texts by women authors from various European countries written during the 18th through the 20th centuries. Students consider the kinds of writings published by women, their audiences and motivations and the accessibility or popularity of their writings. Close analysis and discussion of individual texts lead students to consider variations of these factors between countries and time periods.
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ENGL 9048 - Multicultural Children’s Literature
3 cr.
This course focuses on contemporary multicultural children’s literature and requires students to learn and apply appropriate interpretive strategies for understanding texts and cultural contexts. Students gain and demonstrate a firm understanding of the major critical issues regarding multicultural children’s literature and formulate and support personal responses to these issues.
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ENGL 9049 - The World Novel to 1914
3 cr.
This course examines significant novels outside the American/English literary canon in translation representing the development of the form. Selected authors may include comic, romantic (Sand), realist (Balzac, Flaubert), and psychological (de Assis, Micha’lis).
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ENGL 9050 - American Historical Fiction: Practice and Theory
3 cr.
This course typically examines several sub-genres of the American historical novel, looking in each case at multiple primary text and excerpts from scholarly approaches to the sub-genre. At the broad level, this course’s goal is to help us think about how we read and define a literary genre, both in terms of our own individual analyses and the ongoing critical conversation; concurrently, one specific goal is to develop working definitions for both the “American” and the “historical fiction” contained within our title. Studied authors may include Nathaniel Hawthorne, Charles Chesnutt, William Faulkner and Leslie Marmon Silko.
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ENGL 9052 - 20th Century British and American Poetry
3 cr.
This seminar explores the works of poets such as Auden, H.D., Lowell, Plath, Roethke, Kinnell, Rich, Heaney, Bishop, Walcott and Hughes. Students make presentations on assigned topics and may also be required to attend live and filmed poetry readings.
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ENGL 9055 - Modern Irish Literature
3 cr.
This seminar concentrates on major works by Irish poets such as Yeats, Heaney, Muldoon; Irish fiction writers such as Joyce, O’Connor, O’Faolain; and Irish playwrights such as Synge, O’Casey, Friel.
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ENGL 9058 - Contemporary World Literature
3 cr.
Particular emphasis in this course is placed on authors who write to effect changes in our perceptions of the other so we may understand the otherness of ourselves. Authors studied include: Conrad, Forster, Achebe, Gordimer, Fugard and others.
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ENGL 9059 - The Shapes of Modern Drama
3 cr.
In this seminar students read plays from such traditions as the realist, the symbolist and the expressionist, including works by Yeats, Pirandello, Beckett, Pinter and Mamet.
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ENGL 9060 - Women Writers Around the World: Stories of Maturation and Initiation
3 cr.
Students take a global approach to women’s stories of growing up found in autobiographies, novels, short stories, and poetry. This course includes works by authors such as Toni Cade Bambara, Nawal El Saadawi, bell hooks, Leslie Marmon Silko and Jeanette Winterson. Much of this literature is appropriate for use in the high school classroom.
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ENGL 9061 - Africa Through the Novel
3 cr.
Students read, examine and discuss texts by African writers who have (re)constructed, in their imaginary worlds, specific and multiple visions of African life. All texts were written in the 20th century, although some portray periods prior to that time. Emphasis is on characteristics of style, politics and culture evoked in these works and aspects of contemporary literary theory pertaining to African literature today.
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ENGL 9063 - Canon Formation in African American Literature
3 cr.
This course examines texts by African American writers who have (re)constructed in their imaginary worlds specific and multiple visions of African-American life. All of the texts read in this course were written during the 19th and 20th centuries, but some of them involve historical periods prior to these times. Others are informed by variations of historical consciousness of the past/present/future.
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ENGL 9064 - Three American Literatures: Native American, African American, and Asian American
3 cr.
The focus of this course is on relationships between culture and society as works by three groups of Americans are considered within historical, ethnic and cultural backgrounds. Discussion may concern questions of identity, family, initiation, politics and ideology, education, gender, aggression and violence. Special attention is paid to the novel as a popular art form in aesthetic and social terms.
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ENGL 9065 - Women in Contemporary Society
3 cr.
Women as a force in society are the focus of this cross-discipline course. The political, social and economic issues concerning women are subjects for student research. Areas explored include anthropology, business, education, history, literature, philosophy, psychology, sociology, science and the arts. Students also consider the role of cultural diversity (both nationally and internationally) in the scholarship of women.
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ENGL 9066 - Latin American Novels
3 cr.
This course offers an introduction to the literature of the various cultural areas of Latin America. Such authors as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Amado and Miguel Angel Asturias are studied in their English translations. The roles of the church and the Latin American family are examined as well as the image of tropical nature. Comparisons to English/North American literature are made when useful.
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ENGL 9067 - Asian English Literature in Cultural Context
3 cr.
This course covers selected works, mostly fiction and memoir, of American, Canadian and British writers of Asian ancestry including Maxine Hong Kingston and Gail Tsukiyama. We gain familiarity with the Asian cultural framework of the writers in order to understand differences with western traditions and expectations.
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ENGL 9075 - Topics Course
3 cr.
Course content varies from semester to semester, reflecting contemporary issues in the discipline and depending upon student and faculty interest.
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ENGL 9080 - Independent Study
3 cr.
Independent study provides special individualized study under close supervision for students excelling in scholarship.
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ENGL 9090 - 20th Century American Women Writers
3 cr.
American literary history in the 20th century can be centrally defined by the expanding and significant community of women writers present in each era and genre. In this course we will trace the century’s literary history across multiple moments and movements (from turn of the century innovators and modernists to postmodernists, ethic writers, and 21st century voices), focusing at length on key individual authors and texts but adding lots of additional writers into the mix as well. Authors to be read may include Cather, Larsen, Plath, Morrison, and Tan.
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ENGL 9100 - Master’s Thesis Research
3 cr.
The student researches in depth a topic of their own interest in English. Students who successfully complete this course should enroll in ENGL 9200 - Master’s Thesis Writing
Prerequisite(s): Signed permission from the Graduate English Chair.
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ENGL 9200 - Master’s Thesis Writing
3 cr.
Using the research developed in the Master’s Thesis Research course, the student will write a master’s thesis under the guidance of a faculty member and following the Graduate English Thesis Guidelines.
Prerequisite(s): Signed permission from the graduate English chair and Master’s Thesis Research.
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ENGL 9500 - Internship
6 cr.
The internship is a clinical, capstone experience allowing full integration and application of content knowledge and pedagogical theory and practice. It should incorporate all standards specific to the discipline of English as well as all common standards for classroom teachers (section 7.04). Students must fulfill a minimum of 400 clock hours or one full semester on site under the auspices of the university.
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HIST 7010 - From Weimar to Hitler: Germany 1918-1945
3 cr.
This class, run as a seminar with joint student/faculty leadership, traces the developments that led to the collapse of the Weimar Republic and the National Socialist acquisition of power in Germany. Issues covered include social and economic trauma after the first World War, the relationship between state and society in the Weimar Republic, political fragmentation, the reaction against modernist culture, the National Socialist power, everyday life in National Socialist Society, women and National Socialism, racist ideology and extermination.
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HIST 7012 - The Modern Secondary School
3 cr.
This course is required of all MAT candidates who do not have initial licensure to teach and covers a broad range of issues faced by teachers in today’s secondary schools. Students become familiar with the complexities and demands of secondary school teaching. The course includes 25 hours of prepracticum experience.
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HIST 7030 - American Civil War and Reconstruction
3 cr.
This course examines the American Civil War through lectures and comparative readings in order to understand the causes of sectional conflict, the war and its aftermath. Major themes include abolition, African-American resistance to slavery, war strategy and the social and political impact of Reconstruction.
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HIST 7040 - Introduction to Public History
3 cr.
The course examines the central issues involved in the various fields of public history. Students learn how to apply their academic history training to a broader range of professional and educational applications - museums, historical agencies, and historic preservation organizations. Students learn about specific functional strategies employed by public historians including oral history, exhibition planning and design, and collections management as they develop an understanding of the ethical debates about collecting, exhibiting, and interpreting historical materials.
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HIST 7100 - Genocide in World History
3 cr.
This course focuses on Genocide in world history. The class begins by investigating the definition and different possible origins of genocide. The class then examines major causes of cases of genocide including the Armenian Genocide, the Holocaust, Cambodia, and Rwanda. The class concludes by focusing on genocide today and the prevention of genocide.
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HIST 7150 - The U.S. Women’s Rights Movement Since 1820
3 cr.
The class, run as a seminar with joint student/faculty leadership, traces the development of the women’s rights movement from its roots in the abolitionist movement to its present status in the feminist movement. Issues covered are abolitionism, woman suffrage, temperance, labor, peace, reproductive rights and general rights. Students investigate issues, ideologies, strategies, tactics and personalities. Research involves biographies, organizational histories and/or analysis of political theories and strategies. The course provides students with the knowledge to incorporate new teaching materials about women’s history into U.S. history courses and to gain a broader understanding of women as actors in U.S. politics.
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HIST 7200 - Beyond Antiques: Artifacts and History
3 cr.
American material culture - personal and domestic artifacts, buildings and historic landscapes can tell us much about life in the past. Through a combination of readings, object studies and field trips, students survey different modes of investigation: social and cultural history, history of technology, cultural geography, historical archaeology, folk-life studies, art history and decorative arts studies. The seminar tests the applicability of these disciplines, methods, and theories to specific spheres of activity and thought, including community, class, work, house and household, clothing, dining, landscape and play.
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HIST 7250 - Judaism and Early Christianity
3 cr.
This course offers an overview of the formative period of development of both Judaism and Christianity, from 300 BC to 500 CE. It explores a variety of factors that led Christianity to break away from Judaism and its transformation into the single most powerful religious movement in the Mediterranean region. Readings in both primary and secondary texts (translated into English) provide vantage points to examine various aspects of the spread of Jesus movement within the contexts of social unrest, competition among ethnic minorities, and the socio-economic reasons that led to the dissolution of the Roman Empire.
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HIST 7260 - Middle East History
3 cr.
This course surveys Middle East History from its beginnings to the present. The course explores religion, politics, social institutions and gender history of Muslim civilizations as its expansion and confrontation with other civilizations sharpened its own self-image. The methodology of this course is interdisciplinary, including archeology, comparative literature, cultural and social history, and religious studies. Particular attention will be paid to the countries of the Middle East as they developed after World War I and how the various coalitions of the Arab nations were formed in response to Western European interventions. Emphasis will be placed on international politics and the hidden agendas involving defense, oil, economics and security between Western Europe and the Middle East alliances.
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HIST 7270 - Amerindian History
3 cr.
This course studies Amerindian history from the earliest settlement through the 19th century, including, religion, politics, social institutions and gender history of Amerindian cultures. The methodology of this course is interdisciplinary, including archeology, linguistics and comparative literature, cultural and social history and religious studies. We shall examine the social reasons for the first migrations and local developments in many regional areas using archeology and social histories of various archeological cultures and historic tribes.
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HIST 7280 - Irish History
3 cr.
This course examines the history of Ireland from its beginnings to the present. It focuses on the cultural history of Ireland as it evolved through a series of waves of immigration since ancient times, which created new cultural mixes and confrontations. The course explores religions, social and political institutions and gender history of this island, which provided a haven for a variety of immigrants from ancient times. The methodology of this course is interdisciplinary, including archeology, comparative cultural and social history, and religious studies. We shall examine the diversity of Irish social and cultural origins and investigate how these contribute to the formation of an Irish identity. The story of competing mores will be examined in the tensions, which are apparent in the modern history of Ireland today.
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HIST 7300 - Modern Russia: Rebirth and Renewal
3 cr.
The course is a survey of several major historiographical problems in modern Russian history from the reign of Peter the Great through the revolutions of the 20th century with a focus on cultural and political history. Also emphasized, however, are teaching strategies and tactics at the secondary level designed to prepare students for the MCAS history examinations.
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HIST 7450 - Historiography
3 cr.
Historiography or the historian’s craft is addressed by considering how a historian discovers facts and formulates them into hypotheses, how the historian’s craft has changed over the course of time; and how different historians handle the same era or subject matter. The course enables students to read a piece of secondary source writing and analyze the author’s perspective and biases, analyze and understand a primary source document, write a paper using primary source material, understand historians’work within their own historical era and appreciate the subjective as well as objective nature of historical research. In any particular semester, the instructor chooses one of two forms for the course : a) a survey and analysis of various historians’work, their approaches and their tools, or b) a study of historians’ methods and a research paper based on primary source research putting these methods into use.
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HIST 7850 - Advanced Special Methods in Teaching History
3 cr.
This course introduces candidates to current theories, methods, and standards of history education, with an emphasis on their practical application to social studies curricula. Course includes a 25 hour pre-practicum requirement.
Prerequisite(s): HIST 2860 or SEED 7012 and SPED 3800 or SEED 7016
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HIST 8000 - Advanced Methods of Teaching at the Secondary Level
3 cr.
This course combines academic study with clinical practice and supervision. Theories and topics studied and demonstrated include learning styles, critical thinking, computer applications and inclusive learning environments. Emphasis is placed on integrating culturally or linguistically diverse students and those with special needs. Interdisciplinary course development and implementation, student assessment including portfolio assessment and writing are studied for utilization across the curriculum.
Prerequisite(s): HIST 7012 or initial teacher licensure.
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HIST 8010 - Modern Japan and East Asia
3 cr.
This course examines modern Japan from the Tokugawa shogunate and Meiji Restoration to the present. Major themes include the interaction between Japan and East Asia, its relationship with the U.S., and the impact of industrialization and militarization, as well as the economic dominance of the post-WWII era and the collapse of the bubble economy in the 90s.
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HIST 8020 - Teaching Historical Thinking
3 cr.
This course addresses current theories, methods, and standards of history curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Topics include teaching for historical thinking and reasoning, linking the goals of teaching history with literacy, and curriculum trends.
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HIST 8090 - Practicum
1-6 cr.
Student teaching experience is offered to give practical classroom experience to those degree students who have not satisfied the state requirements for certification.
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HIST 8250 - Curriculum and Technology
3 cr.
This course looks at the integration of educational technology in the classroom and its relationship to learning theories and curriculum, specifically, the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks. This course explores the use of the Internet as a classroom resource to strengthen curriculum. Various Internet related topics are covered, such as acceptable use policies and copyright issues.
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HIST 8260 - Curriculum Design & Development
3 cr.
This course is designed to provide students with knowledge and skills of the curriculum development-revision process. The course examines societal demands on the curriculum and the role of the American school in a democratic and multicultural society as students assess, revise, and implement instructional programs and the curriculum in a systematic and logical way. Active participation in school-based curriculum teams, IEP teams, site-based management teams and community groups teach effective delivery of services to all students and school improvement/reform efforts. In collaborative groups students review, revise, and expand the curriculum and assessment procedures in order to integrate current research findings and education reform initiatives.
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HIST 9000 - Topics in History
3 cr.
Course content varies from semester to semester, reflecting contemporary issues in the discipline and depending upon student and faculty interest.
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HIST 9100 - Thesis in History
6 cr.
Students will conduct original, archival research that will result in a thesis. This thesis will be developed under the supervision of a thesis chair and a thesis committee of at least two additional faculty.
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HIST 9200 - Comprehensive Oral Examination
0 cr.
All History MA Non-Thesis track candidates must register for HIST 9200 Comprehensive Oral Examination to take the comprehensive oral examination as part of the program of study after they have completed at least 27 credits of program coursework. For a full policy consult the History MA Manual or contact the program chair.
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HIST 9210 - The Vietnam War: An International Perspective
3 cr.
(Formerly titled The Vietnam War and Society) A graduate seminar which examines the Vietnam War from an international perspective. Surveys the historical background to conflict in Vietnam. Major themes: history and culture of Vietnam, early conflict with China, French colonialism, US diplomatic involvement, origins of American military involvement, POW-MIA issues, Paris peace talks, post-war memorialization, and resumption of US-Vietnamese relations.
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HIST 9400 - Clinical Experience
6 cr.
Clinical Experience is a capstone course allowing full integration and application of content knowledge and pedagogical theory and practice. In a high school classroom students incorporate all standards specific to the discipline of biology as well as all common standards for classroom teachers. A minimum of 400 clock hours or one full semester on-site under the auspices of the university is fulfilled. A research project is completed during the duration of the clinical experience.
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IDIS 8000 - Critical Inquiry in Interdisciplinary Studies
3 cr.
The course is designed to enhance students’ abilities to read and listen critically, to respond reflectively to arguments offered by others, to distinguish between successful and unsuccessful arguments, and to generate well-formed arguments of their own. In a broad sense, the course is intended to introduce students to philosophical argumentation and reflection, and to develop skills of reading, writing, and argumentation that are valuable in a number of academic and everyday contexts.
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IDIS 9000 - Advanced Research Methods
3 cr.
This course will build on the background and skills students develop in master’s level programs. The course will include a review of the range of research methodologies commonly used in education and the social and behavioral sciences. It will examine the different types of research generally used in those fields, including case studies, causal comparative research, action research, experimentation and survey research. This course should be taken midway through the plan of study so that the student will be able to use the class to develop a methodology specific to a thesis or action research project he or she plans as a capstone to the individual curriculum. The course will assist the student in developing focused research questions, as well as problem identification and significance. Further, the student will develop a comprehensive literature review and methodology for the capstone project.
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IDIS 9065 - Women in Contemporary Society
3 cr.
This course is an introductory graduate level course on issues of concern to women. The class examines women’s economic, social, and political roles in society. Ethnic diversity and international comparisons are also discussed.
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IDIS 9400 - Research Project in Interdisciplinary Studies
6 cr.
The research project in interdisciplinary studies is a capstone experience which allows students to demonstrate full integration and application of content knowledge and or pedagogical theory and practice.
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IDIS 9500 - Graduate Thesis
6 cr.
Students meet the requirements as outlined in the Graduate Thesis Guidelines Handbook. In order to complete this phase of the program, a faculty committee is to be established by the student under the guidance and supervision of the graduate advisor.
See thesis description under program of study section of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program Description.
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