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Fitchburg State University 2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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ENGT 3025 - Engineering Design and Fabrication Systems I
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every fall semester
This course studies mass production theory, systems and procedures in metalworking which includes engineering design and leads to prototype development.
Prerequisite(s): ENGT 1020 and ENGT 2025 or permission of the instructor.
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ENGT 3040 - Metrology
4 cr. 4 hr. Offered every fall semester
The course introduces various shop-floor measurement techniques and provides an understanding of the basics of mechanical, optical and electrical measurement methods.
Prerequisite(s): PHYS 2400 or PHYS 2700 , and ENGT 2030
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ENGT 3042 - Enterprise Resource Planning Systems
4 cr. 4 hr. Offered every spring semester
This course addresses the rationale for ERP systems, their essential relational database structure and shows how a basic ERP system can be created through programming.
Prerequisite(s): MATH 1700 and ECON 1100
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ENGT 3300 - Methods of Teaching Technology/Engineering Education (5-12) I
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every spring semester.
This is the first of two methods courses and will focus on content pedagogy of engineering/technology at the middle and secondary level. Teacher candidates design and implement standards-based instruction and assessments that are aligned with best practices for teaching and learning in engineering/technology. Special emphasis is placed on employing a variety of instructional practices and classroom management strategies that provide learning opportunities for diverse student populations and enhance multicultural pluralism. Disciplinary literacy is particularly emphasized to enhance reading, writing, speaking, and listening in technology / engineering education. A pre-practicum of 25 hours is required.
Prerequisite(s): ENGT 1860 , EDUC 2011 , EDUC 2012 , and SPED 3800 . Students pursuing initial licensure will be required to complete two ESE required gateway tasks in this course. Candidates must pass the gateway tasks to continue within the licensure concentration.
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ENGT 3650 - Co-Generation and Waste Recovery
3 cr. 4 hr. This course may be offered less than once every two years.
The Co-generation and Waste Recovery course will focus on analyzing engineering and co-generation systems to meet industrial process needs and use of reject heat to integrate with the production plant. The course will also cover responsibilities of co-generators and their interconnection cost. Students will run computer programs for metering practices and other metering options.
Prerequisite(s): ENGT 1000 and ENGT 3000
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ENGT 3800 - Methods of Teaching Technology/Engineering Education I
3 cr. 3 hr. This course may be offered less than once every two years. Also offered evenings.
This course is designed to provide the prospective technology/engineering teacher with a series of related academic, observational and participatory experiences based on the fundamental elements of the teaching-learning process. Students develop, implement and evaluate a variety of short-range instructional methods. A pre-practicum experience in a public technology education program is a requirement of the course to meet state regulations for licensure.
Prerequisite(s): Junior status.
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ENGT 3810 - Curriculum Development in Technology/Engineering Education
3 cr. 4 hr. This course may be offered less than once every two years. Also offered evenings.
During this course the student is presented experiences that relate directly to the development of a course of study. Students also have the opportunity to analyze and develop strategies pertaining to curriculum development. A pre-practicum experience in a public technology education program is a requirement of the course to meet state regulations for licensure.
Prerequisite(s): Junior status.
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ENGT 4012 - Practicum Seminar (5-12)
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered concurrent with the practicum.
This course is taken in conjunction with the practicum. Using peer collaboration and self-reflection, teacher candidates explore strategies to improve instruction, promote positive student behavior and social-emotional growth, and provide leadership at a school-wide level. The course also serves as a culminating experience in which candidates produce a Teacher Work Sample (TWS), a multi-step performance assessment that models the planning-teaching-assessment cycle of the professional educator, and that provides evidence of the candidate’s readiness to teach.
This course is cross-listed with BIOL 4012 , CHEM 4012 , ENGL 4012 , HIST 4012 , MATH 4012 , and SCI 4012 .
Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: Stage II Review
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ENGT 4020 - Architectural Design
4 cr. 4 hr. Offered every fall semester
Students will develop an enhanced understanding of building system, the design of architectural space and its relationship to its surroundings, and how this affects human activity and behavior. Concepts dealing with light, texture, human scale and the role of building components are studied in context of the built environment.
Prerequisite(s): ENGT 3020
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ENGT 4025 - Industrial System Automation
4 cr. 4 hr. Offered every spring semester
This course addresses the knowledge and skills required to control production systems and manufacturing processes through the use of computers, by integrating software and hardware components in a formal systems model.
Prerequisite(s): ENGT 3025 , ENGT 3026 , ENGT 3042 and ENGT 4000
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ENGT 4120 - Performance Contracting for Energy Systems
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every fall semester
This course covers the effective use of performance contracting energy financing /service mechanisms that bring economics, energy, and the environment into an appropriate perspective. It covers the processes to effectively provide performance contracting services as they apply to different market segments, such as business, utilities, and the governments.
Prerequisite(s): ENGT 3000
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ENGT 4150 - Seminar in Architecture
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every spring semester
This course studies the professional responsibilities and procedures used in the practice of architecture including the roles and relationships of architects to their clients and to the design and construction industry in general. Ethical and legal responsibilities of the profession, the business of architecture, service delivery methods, contract agreements, and the types of services provided are discussed.
Prerequisite(s): ENGT 4020
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ENGT 4700 - Engineering Project Management
3 cr.
The objective of this course is to familiarize the students with the principles and best practices of project management with emphasis on time, cost, quality and environmental impact management for construction projects.
Prerequisite(s): ENGT 3025 and ENGT 3026
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ENGT 4850 - Methods in Teaching Technology/Engineering Education (5-12) II
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every spring semester
This is the second part of the methods course that focuses on Technology / Engineering Education pedagogy at the middle and secondary level. Teacher candidates continue designing and implementing standards-based instruction and assessments that are aligned with best practices for teaching and learning in Technology/Engineering Education. Special emphasis is placed on employing a variety of instructional practices and classroom management strategies that provide learning opportunities for diverse student populations and enhance multicultural pluralism. Moreover, teacher candidates will gain knowledge in using technology to facilitate teaching and learning appropriate for the needs of diverse learners and across varied subject areas. This course also addresses select Technology/Engineering Education subject matter knowledge (5-12) required by ESE. A pre-practicum of 25 hours is required.
Prerequisite(s): ENGT 3300
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ENGT 4862 - Practicum 1 in Technology/Engineering Education
4 cr. 18 hr. Day course offered every Semester. Also offered evenings.
This course is the middle (junior high) school component of the student teaching experience for all technology education teacher candidates. The teacher candidate will be afforded the opportunity to experience all aspects of the middle (junior high) school instructional environment. The teacher candidate works collaboratively with a master teacher, administrators, supports staff, and parents in the successful completion of this educational activity.
Prerequisite(s): ENGT 3800 , ENGT 3810 .
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ENGT 4864 - Practicum 2 in Technology/Engineering Education
5 cr. 18 hr. Day course offered every Semester.
This course is the senior high school component of the student teaching experience for all technology education teacher candidates. The teacher candidate will be afforded the opportunity to experience all aspects of the senior high school instructional environment. The teacher candidate works collaboratively with a master teacher, administrators, supports staff, and parents in the successful completion of this educational activity.
Prerequisite(s): ENGT 3800 , ENGT 3810 .
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ENGT 4903 - Engineering Technology Capstone
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every spring semester
Students apply acquired skills and techniques to a specific project relative to their concentration of study. The project identifies a real-world engineering technology problem, issue, event, developing technology, or case study to which the student will research, exploring, evaluate, and theorize a solution in a final paper and project/presentation format.
Prerequisite(s): ENGT 4700
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ENGL 0100 - Basic College Writing
3 inst. cr. 3 hr. Day course offered in the Fall.
This course explores writing as both process and product to prepare the undergraduate student for Writing I and Writing II. The course will focus on how to plan, draft, and revise analytical and argument essays, and to use correct citation forms. Credits do not count toward graduation.
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ENGL 1100 - Writing I
3 cr. 3 hr. Day course offered every Semester. Also offered evenings.
Writing I provides the undergraduate student with the foundation necessary for critical thinking through academic and other professional writing. Students will cultivate the skills of argumentation, uses of evidence, analysis, close reading of texts, and revision as essential elements of the college-level writing process. ART
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ENGL 1200 - Writing II
3 cr. 3 hr. Day course offered every Semester. Also offered evenings.
Expanding upon the argumentative and analytical emphases of Writing I, Writing II will foster research-based composition. In Writing II, students will demonstrate in prose their knowledge of rhetoric, employ a variety of research methods, and become familiar with latest information technologies. ART
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ENGL 1400 - Introduction to Teaching English
3 cr. 3 hr. Day course offered in the Fall.
This course introduces theoretical and practical knowledge of English teaching and learning in the middle and secondary school. Teacher candidates consider the development of adolescents; explore the role of the teacher; learn ways to manage the classroom environment; learn instructional strategies to motivate and engage students with diverse learning styles, interests, and levels of readiness; and examine the use of assessment to measure student growth, and to plan, evaluate and strengthen instruction. A review of legal and ethical principles reinforces the importance of integrating culturally and linguistically diverse students and those with disabilities; collaborating with caregivers; and professional attitudes and behaviors in general. A pre-practicum of 25 hours in required.
Pre/Concurrent ENGL 1100
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ENGL 2000 - American Literature I: Age of Exploration to the Civil War
3 cr. 3 hr. Day course offered every Semester. Also offered evenings.
The significant texts of American literature from early Native-American oral narratives to Civil War texts in a variety of genres, including poetry, fiction, sermons, journals, letters, and other historical documents are surveyed. We examine how and why certain issues (such as American identity, Puritanism, cultural conflict, gender and racial equality) recur and evolve throughout early American literature. Students who have declared an English Studies major may take concurrently with ENGL 1200 with department approval. ART, LIT
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ENGL 2003 - Hispanic Literature
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered as needed
This class, conducted in English, traces major cultural and political moments in Latin America, Spain and the Caribbean from the 1920s to the present. We will explore cultural products from a broad range of genres and media (fiction, non- fiction, film, music) in order to reflect upon significant artistic trends, political movements and intellectual debates of the last century: modernism and modernity, citizenship and nationhood, revolution, subalternity, dictatorship and postdictatorship, political economy, migration, and globalization. Students will be expected to contribute oral and written assignments reflecting upon these works and- through these assignments as well as active participation in class meetings- will learn to think critically about Hispanic cultural production. ART, LIT, GDAN
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 OR HON 1200
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ENGL 2010 - Introduction to Cultural Studies
3 cr. 3 hr Offered every fourth Semester.
This course will give students the opportunity to concentrate on a variety of cultural texts and phenomena through the lens of cultural and critical theory. The study of culture is an inherently interdisciplinary investigation, but one that draws heavily on critical theory and Marxist literary theory in its study of complex ideas and experiences. Cultural Studies engages with the study of the meaning and practice of everyday life and systems. In this course, students will consider the history of critiques of culture and the rise of cultural studies as a discipline. In learning to read the signs and signifiers of cultural systems, students will be able to consider topics including resistance and assimilation, subcultural identity, gender and sexuality, race and ethnicity, disability, globalization, national identity, and cultural geography. ART
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 2020 - Style Studio
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every other year
This studio course will focus on understanding style through practicing rhetorical and literary devices, copying stylistic models, and inventing unique styles. Students will analyze written texts closely for their rhetorical and stylistic qualities, paying particular attention to the relationship between style and content. Students exercise their skills in replicating and inventing stylistic patterns appropriately and for a range of situations.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 or HON 1200
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ENGL 2025 - Foundations of Professional Writing
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every fall semester
This course provides an introduction to rhetorical theories and techniques for writers across genres and media as well as background in the history of writing and writing as technology. Students will see writing from many dimensions (as craft, communication, linguistic structure, cultural marker, historical record, and medium for language) and will engage with information on potential pathways toward professionalization.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 or HON 1200
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ENGL 2030 - News Reporting and Writing
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every fall semester
This course will provide students with the necessary skills and tools to effectively research and write articles for news publications. Students will learn how to evaluate newsworthy content, pitch story ideas, conduct in-depth research, interview subjects, and write news articles for various mediums.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 or HON 1200
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ENGL 2040 - Introduction to Creative Writing
3 cr. 3 hr. Day course offered every semester.
This course serves as an introduction to the elements of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. Students will engage in in-class writing activities, discuss student-produced creative writing in the form of small group workshops,and receive extensive feedback from the professor. Also, students will discuss assigned readings with an emphasis on craft. Students are encouraged to take this class prior to other creative writing courses. This course is available to majors and non-majors. Credit not awarded for both ENGL3500 and ENGL2040.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 or HON 1200
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ENGL 2100 - American Literature II: Civil War to the Present
3 cr. 3 hr. Day course offered every Semester. Also offered evenings.
This course surveys all genres of American writing from 1865 to the present, tracing the effects of social, economic, scientific and artistic turmoil on authors and their works. We explore the interconnections among succeeding eras of American literature: Realism, Modernism and Post-Modernism. Students who have declared an English Studies major may take concurrently with ENGL 1200 with department approval. ART, LIT
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ENGL 2200 - British Literature I: Beowulf to Milton
3 cr. 3 hr. Day course offered every Semester. Also offered evenings.
This course surveys the major British literary texts from the Anglo-Saxon period through the seventeenth century. During this exploration, we study and discuss significant historical moments as well as cultural developments that defined the literary imagination of these time periods and influenced authors to create their writings. Students who have declared an English Studies major may take concurrently with ENGL 1200 with department approval. ART, LIT
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ENGL 2210 - British Literature II: Pepys to Shelley
3 cr. 3 hr. Day course offered every Semester.
This course examines British literature from the Restoration, Eighteenth-Century, and Romantic eras (1660-1834). The course considers how ‘classical’ and ‘romantic’ authors think about literary authority, influence, and imagination. It also explores cultural and historical contexts as they shape British literature and thought during these eras, with a focus on issues of race, class, and gender. Students who have declared an English Studies major may take concurrently with ENGL 1200 with department approval. ART, LIT
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ENGL 2220 - British Literature III: Brönte to Rushdie
3 cr. 3 hr. Day course offered every Semester. Also offered evenings.
This course surveys British writers from the Victorian era to the present, tracing their responses to the revolutionary changes in art, music, science and social and economic classes. Representative authors include Dickens, Eliot, Trollope, Barrett-Browning, Wilde, Shaw, Woolf, Joyce and Beckett, authors whose depiction of human nature challenged contemporary concepts of self and society. Students who have declared an English Studies major may take concurrently with ENGL 1200 with department approval. ART, LIT
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ENGL 2300 - Literature and Disability
3 cr. 3 hr. Day course offered every Semester. Also offered evenings.
This course examines individual, family and societal images of disability through autobiography, biography, fiction, poetry and children’s literature. Students will explore themes around the disability experience using reflective writings, class discussions and activities. ART, LIT
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ENGL 2320 - Script Writing
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every fourth semester.
This basic course in script writing for film, television and multi-image productions includes information on the preparation of proposals, treatments, storyboards and scripts. Script formats include documentary, educational, corporate and dramatic film/video writing.(credit is not given for both ENGL 2320 and COMM 2320 .)
Prerequisite(s): or HON 1200
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ENGL 2323 - Digital Journalism
3 cr. 3 hr. Day course offered in the Fall.
What is the future of Journalism? Technology has given journalists new reporting tools and storytelling & strategies; it has also created an interactive news environment that has fundamentally changed the report’s relationship with the public. In this course, students practice digital storytelling skills, while exploring the social, commercial and technological shifts that have shaped the news media in recent years. The end result is a framework for understanding digital journalism’s emerging role in society.
Prerequisite(s): or HON 1200
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ENGL 2330 - Literature and Film
3 cr. 3 hr. Day course offered every Semester. Also offered evenings.
This course involves the critical study of literature and film as means to convey narratives. The conventions of various literary genres and types of films will be considered. Special attention is paid to the adaptation of novels and stories for the screen. Students study a dozen or more motion pictures in depth and compose six to eight critical essays. ART, LIT
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ENGL 2340 - American Political Film and Literature: Conspiracies & Controversies
3 cr. 3 hr Offered every fourth Semester.
This course introduces students to divisive American political controversies of the past century and equips them to analyze Hollywood’s representations of these pivotal events, as well as political discourse in literature. In particular, you will examine cinematic and literary portrayals of the political process, labor and class struggles, and real and imagined government conspiracies. This course is writing intensive; students will write several short film analysis papers, as well as two longer, researched analysis papers. ART, LIT
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ENGL 2400 - World Literature I
3 cr. 3 hr. May be offered less than once every two years. Also offered evenings.
This course presents a selection of works from around the world, from ancient/classical traditions up to the 16th century. We explore the aspects of the human experience and how they are reflected in the literary traditions of these time periods. Focus is on the Judeo-Christian and Greco-Roman foundations of Western literature, and on the Confucian, Hindu/Sanskrit, Buddhist, and Islamic underpinnings of literature in Asia and the Middle East. Students who have declared an English Studies major may take concurrently with ENGL 1200 with department approval. ART, GDAN, LIT
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ENGL 2500 - World Literature II
3 cr. 3 hr. May be offered less than once every two years. Also offered evenings.
This course examines a selection of major works from the mid-17th century to the present. We cover a wide span of cultures, narratives, and genres from the onset of modernity to the present. Focus is on literatures from a variety of non-western cultures and traditions and on interactions between cultures. By setting up various cultures in conversation with each other, students understand the ways in which modernity shapes itself through considerations of gender, class, race, etc. Students who have declared an English Studies major may take concurrently with ENGL 1200 with department approval. ART, GDAN, LIT
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ENGL 2540 - Global Issues in Film
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every third semester.
This course introduces students to crucial global issues of our time, many of which principally concern developing, non-Western nations, but all of which will impact the future of the U.S. Through film viewings, readings, writing, and discussion, students will engage with global problems and learn to develop their own critical viewpoints on complex issues. Students will analyze both documentaries and narrative films as artistic treatments of human problems. Their final project will require an in-depth study of, and presentation on, media representations of global issues pertaining to one nation. This course is cross-listed as IDIS 2540 /POLS 2540 . CTW, GDCN
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 2600 - The Bible as Literature
3 cr. 3 hr. May be offered less than once every two years. Also offered evenings.
The course examines the style, narrative techniques, symbols, and historical settings of the Old and New Testaments. We examine the Bible as a work of literature by thinking about and identifying themes, forms and historical and cultural contexts. We read the Bible in translation and will reflect on how this affects our interpretations. ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 2620 - Classical Mythology
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every third semester.
This course is an introduction to mythology, with an emphasis on the myths, epics and plays of ancient Greece and Rome. These may include the works of Homer, Euripedes, Hesiod, Virgil, Ovid and others. ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 2650 - Ethnic American Literature
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every third semester.
This course presents works by significant ethnic writers, such as James Baldwin, Maxine Hong Kingston, Zora Neale Hurston, M. Scott Momoday, Toni Morrison and Leslie Marmon Silko. This course is cross-listed with AAST 2650 ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200
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ENGL 2660 - 19th Century African American Literature
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every fall semester.
In this course, we will encounter the poetry, fiction, journals, essays, speeches, and songs of nineteenth-century African-American writers. By paying close attention to the personal as well as cultural forms of expression, we will observe how the anguish, joy, and even the mundane aspects of the early African-American experience translate into a distinct canon of literature. Representative authors include Phillis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Frances E.W. Harper, Pauline Hopkins, and W.E.B. Dubois. This course is cross-listed with AAST 2660 ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 2670 - 20th Century African American Literature
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every spring semester.
This course surveys the major periods, genres, and authors of African-American literature in the twentieth century. This course also connects African-American literature to the representation of Blacks in music, film live performance, media, and society in general. Representative authors include James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, and Toni Morrison. This course is cross-listed with AAST 2670 ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200
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ENGL 2700 - The Short Story
3 cr. 3 hr. May be offered less than once every two years. Also offered evenings.
Significant stories by some of the world’s great writers are read and analyzed to show the evolution of the short story form. ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 2710 - Introduction to Science Fiction and Fantasy
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every fourth semester.
This course will serve as an intensive introduction to the interconnected genres of science fiction and fantasy. We will read a number of significant authors and texts on three related levels; defining specific formal and thematic elements of each; thinking about some of the main sub-categories and periods through which the genres have developed; and working to develop overall concepts and definitions about the genre’s form, content, and goals. ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 2720 - Reading Poetry
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every fourth semester.
In this course, we will develop techniques to read, understand, perform and appreciate poetry. Through exposure to a wide variety of poetry, we will examine the mechanics of poetic form and also consider the function of poetry in the world, its future and the formation of personal identities through language. LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 2750 - Detective Fiction
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every fourth semester.
The mystery novel/crime story genre is explored through a range of authors and time periods, including stories from Poe to Conan Doyle, classic British fiction, and its distinctively American counterparts, and significant contemporary works. ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 2765 - LGBTQ Issues & Literature
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every other year.
This course explores lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) issues in society and literature. We examine the historical and current construction of gender and identity. Students interpret fiction, nonfiction, and poetry using multiple perspectives; additionally, they interpret contemporary cultural texts, such as speech, art, advertising, and film. ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 or HON 1200
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ENGL 2800 - Journalism
3 cr. 3 hr. Day course offered every Semester.
This course covers central principles and practices of journalism. Students will study ideas of credibility, accuracy, the First Amendment, the roles and responsibilites of the press, and the function of the journalist within a democratic society. Students will discuss the challenges facing the industry, the impact of changing priorities, and consumption of news products. This course will provide a foundation for students interested in professional news writing. (Credit is not given for both ENGL 2800 and COMM 2800 )
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 or HON 1200
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ENGL 2890 - Storytelling and the Oral Tradition
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every fourth semester.
The course studies the oral tradition in European and non-Western contexts. Students examine the oral tradition in classic works as well as its continuance in fairy tales, popular music, story theater and performance art. Students will consider the structure and presentation of traditional, individually composed and family narratives. Each student will give at least two oral presentations before an audience. ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 2900 - Children’s Literature
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every semester. Also offered evenings.
The course serves as an introductory survey of both classic and contemporary children’s literature. Texts are studied from a variety of perspectives in the contexts of both childhood and society. ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 2910 - Literature for Young Adults
3 cr. 3 hr. Day course offered every Semester. Also offered evenings.
This course is a survey of literature for young adults intended to develop the aesthetic and literary judgment of participants through the study of selected authors and genres. The special challenges and concerns of pre-adolescence through young adults will be explored. Such works as realistic fiction, young adult classics, historical novels, and science fiction will be examined. ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 2951 - The Grammar Dilemma: Grammar Instruction in the Middle and Secondary School
3 cr. 3 hr. May be offered less than once every two years.
Designed for prospective English teachers, students will develop a comprehensive knowledge of English grammar and the pedagogical strategies for helping secondary students develop necessary proficiency in English grammar.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 2999 - Approaches to English Studies
3 cr. 3 hr. Day course offered every Semester. Also offered evenings.
An introduction to the academic study of English and the different ways readers can connect to, think about and experience literature. The course provides an overview of the discipline’s issues and theories and gives students experience in writing practical criticism and using research tools and methods. LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 3000 - World Drama
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every third semester. Also offered evenings.
This survey course focuses on non-English language Drama across the ages. The works of the Golden Age of Greece, Moliere, Pirandello, Dario Fo, Brecht, great Spanish writers like Calderon, Lope de Vega and Lorca, Japanese masters like Chicamatzu and Kanimi, might be studied in this course. ART, GDAN, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 3010 - American Drama
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every third semester.
This is a survey of American Dramatic Literature from its beginnings in the prerevolutionary British Colonies to the present. The course involves critical reading of dramatic texts. Students will attend productions of plays on and off campus studied in the class. Students will engage in active discussion and analysis of these plays and will be required to write papers on particular authors. ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 3015 - Writing the Science Fiction and Fantasy Novel
3 cr. 3 hr. Day course offered every other fall semester.
This production writing course provides the opportunity to plan and then begin a genre novel project over the semester. Students will also develop world building resources and timelines for completing the novel once the official semester is over.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 or HON 1200
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ENGL 3020 - Modern Drama
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every third semester.
This course surveys the dramatic Literature and theatre movement from roughly 1800 to the present. Students will read and analyze works of Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw, Brecht and Beckett among others. The class covers such movements as Realism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Absurdist Drama and the Dada movement. ART, GDA, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 3025 - English Studies Abroad
3 cr. 3 hr. As instructor interest
Special topics taken in a foreign study program. The topics covered in this course will vary according to the location of the program, duration of travel, and specialty of the respective instructors. Each version of the course will concentrate on the literary culture of the locale of the program and incorporate the value of travel and intellectual inquiry in the experience of reading, writing, performing, and/or teaching. Possible locations abroad include England, Ireland, France, Italy, Germany, the Netherlands, India, the Middle East, South Africa, etc. May be taken more than once for credit with departmental approval. GDA, LIT
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ENGL 3026 - Genres, Forms, and Themes in Creative Writing
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered once a year.
This writing-intensive course combines theory and practice for an in-depth exploration of a specific genre, form, or theme in creative writing. Students will examine and apply specific skills and techniques to craft original creative pieces informed by the course topic. Student writing will represent deep investigation and advanced understanding of the chosen genre, form, or theme. This course can be taken twice given different course topics.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 or HON 1200
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ENGL 3027 - Experimental Writing
3 cr. 3 hr. Day course offered every other year.
This course explores techniques and genres of writing open to creative experimentation. Students will negotiate the boundaries of literary forms by conducting their own experiments in writing. These could include cross genre and multimedia work, anti-narrative writing, appropriated/found writing, generative literature, and constraint writing.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 or HON 1200
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ENGL 3028 - Research for Creative Writers
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every other year.
In this class, we will read and write fiction, persona poetry, and investigative creative nonfiction. Students will learn different research methodologies writers use and how writers use sources such as the Internet, archives, and expert interviews. Students will apply such research methodologies to various writing assignments.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 or HON 1200
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ENGL 3030 - The Middle Ages
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every fourth semester.
This course is an introduction to primary texts of medieval period, c. 500-1500, from both the British Isles and continental Europe, and explores the interconnected literary history of these traditions. Possible readings include the earliest extant Old English epic Beowulf, Chrétien de Troyes, Marie de France, Norse sagas, and Malory’s Morte d’Arthur. Genres covered may include epic, history, poetry, mysticism, hagiography, romance, and drama. ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 3035 - Playwrighting
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every other semester. FIRST OFFERING SPRING 2014
This course in Playwrighting will teach students the craft and art of Playwrighting for the Stage. The course will have a professional orientation for Theater Concentration Majors but welcomes all serious upper division students as well. The aim of the course is to foster and augment the motivated student to engage in the writing of new theater works in the professional arena. Cross listed with THEA 3035
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 orHON 1200
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ENGL 3040 - British Literature Since World War II
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every fourth semester.
This course examines fiction, drama and poetry written in Britain and its former Commonwealth since World War II. Special emphasis is placed on the role imperialism and decolonization has had in literature. Authors examined include A.S. Byatt, Derek Walcott, Wole Soyinka, Salman Rushdie and Michael Ondaatje. ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 3045 - Media Conscious Storytelling
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every second semester beginning Spring 2015
This writing course will introduce students to crafting original digital and digitally inspired creative stories. In preparation, students will consider contemporary and historical experiments in literatures ranging from print to electronic literature, hypertext, artists’ books, mobile literature, multimedia literary texts, and comparisons of cross media adaptations to equip students to write literary works for and with new media.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 or HON 1200
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ENGL 3050 - 20th-Century Irish Literature
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every third semester.
Students will examine poetry and prose from the entire century of Irish writing in this course. Special emphasis is placed on Joyce and Yeats as major writers whose influence continues to shape Irish writers and thinkers. Other authors covered include Roddy Doyle, Lady Gregory, and Sebastian Barry. ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 3055 - The Structure and Nature of Language
3 cr. 3 hr. Day course offered in the Spring.
This course studies the history of the English language, theories of language acquisition, and psycholinguistic and sociolinguistic topics. Students will also develop understanding of language systems and grammatical theories. L
Prerequisite(s): GPA of 2.5.
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ENGL 3060 - Modern Poetry
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered once every two years.
Chief modern poets of America and England are introduced and close reading is encouraged in the lyric form of writers such as Eliot through Lowell, Plath and other end-of-century writers. Emphasis is on these creators as precursors in a tradition. ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 3061 - Jewish American Literature & Culture
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every fourth semester.
This course investigates Jewish American participation in the stages of American literary history, but it also examines the larger framing influences that Jewish culture has had on America and the ways in which Jewish Americans have successively reinvented themselves both as Jews and as Americans. Our exploration of Jewish American culture will extend to include attention to the history of Jewish life in America, as well as Jewish contributions to such aspects of the national culture as language, film, music, and diet. ART, GDA, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 3065 - Jewish Literature Around the World
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every third year
This course explores literary representations of the Jewish experience from the early modern period to the present-day. Texts to be examined include works of fiction, poetry, drama, autobiography, and film deriving from distinctively Jewish traditions on five continents. ART, LIT, GDAN
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 OR HON 1200
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ENGL 3070 - European Literature I
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every third semester.
This class will provide a selective survey of European Literature from the Medieval period to 1800, at time period which lays the foundation for many poetic, prose, dramatic genres of Western literature and which spans many political, social, cultural developments. Special emphasis is given to the development of the novel, women’s writing and the development of a “European” literature and tradition. ART, GDA. LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 3075 - Editing and Publishing
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every fall semester.
This class explores the mechanics of editing and the relationship between editor and writer with reference to agents, the submission and selection process, and collaboration. Students also gain an understanding of writing for special markets and trends or practices in publishing. A portion of course work will include producing issues of Route 2, the campus literary journal.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2040 , OR ENGL 2020 , OR ENGL 3510 , OR ENGL 3520 , OR ENGL 3870 , OR COMM 3870 , OR ENGL 3890
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ENGL 3080 - European Literature II
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every third semester.
In this course we examine some of the most important recent European works from the past three hundred years. Works read cover not only the different cultures that constitute Europe, but also reflect the changing political landscape that has shaped the landmass that is identified as “Europe.” ART, GDA , LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 3090 - Questioning War in Film and Literature
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every fourth semester.
This course examines the narrative and stylistic conventions of war stories, along with the cultural and political implications of screen images and written accounts of violent conflict and its effects. Our main focus will be films and literature that address the human costs of modern warfare and thereby question war itself. We will explore texts representing the experiences of women as well as men and individuals with a range of national, cultural, and political backgrounds. ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 3091 - Asian Cinemas: Eastern Visions in a Post Colonial World
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every fourth semester.
This course is a survey of classic and contemporary Asian film. The history of colonialism and imperialism in South and East Asia, a legacy that figures prominently in the films we will study. Assessing the stylistic and narrative conventions of Indian, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean cinemas, we will recognize how these storytelling traditions often contrast with Hollywood and other Western cinemas. We will become acquainted with the work of some of Asia’s greatest directors. ART, GDAN
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 3092 - Transatlantic Literature
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every third semester.
This course will survey significant works from writers across the Atlantic; that is, writing from and about the Americas, the Caribbean, Africa, Europe, and England. By interrogating canonical and non-canonical writing within the particular context of transatlantic cultural exchanges, the course will consider the ways in which cultural and historical factors shape and change the literary subject. ARTS, GDAN, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 3100 - World Novel
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every fourth semester.
The course investigates significant novels such as Madame Bovary and Anna Karenina representing various countries and periods, as well as stages in the development of this literary form. L, C
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 3120 - Golden Age of English Renaissance Literature
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every fourth semester.
This course focuses on the poetry, prose and drama of the English Renaissance’s Golden Age, roughly 1530-1625, beginning with poetry of the Tudor period and ending with drama from the reign of the Stuarts. This period encompasses the work of some of the greatest and best-known English authors, lays the foundation for many genres of literature, and encompasses many political reigns and social and cultural developments. The course will examine major literary forms and genres and topical/thematic concerns of writers, linking these to key social, political, and historical developments. ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 3210 - Major American Writers of the 20th Century
3 cr. 3 hr. May be offered less than once every two years. Also offered evenings.
The varied creativity of American writers in this century is explored through the study of fiction, drama, poetry, criticism and the essay. ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 3220 - American Novel to 1950
3 cr. 3 hr. Offered every fourth semester.
This course provides a close examination of several representative works by major American novelists between 1800 and 1950. ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 3300 - Women and Literature
3 cr. 3 hr. May be offered less than once every two years. Also offered evenings.
Literature by and about women is examined in light of their roles in society, at work and in relationships. ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 3460 - Rebels in American Film and Literature: Race, Gender, and Class Outsiders
3 cr. 3 hr Offered every fourth semester.
Students in this course will explore significant trends and breakthroughs in Hollywood’s representation of racial minorities, women, gay people, and the incarcerated. You also will read key literary texts by marginalized voices in society and study the work of scholars in the field of representation studies, learning to apply their methods in your own analytical writing. This course is writing intensive; students will write several short film analysis papers, as well as two longer, researched film analysis papers. ART, LIT
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 .
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ENGL 3480 - Writing for the Web
3 cr. 3 hr. Day course offered in the Spring.
This course combines theory and practice in examining the unique challenges inherent in writing for the World Wide Web. Students learn the conventions, ethics and laws governing various forms of online writing, including online discussion and reviews, blogs, Web pages, wikis, ezines and collaborative fiction. Students then put this knowledge into practice, creating original content for the Web.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1200 or HON 1200
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