May 15, 2024  
2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2015-2016 Undergraduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Courses


 

Engineering

  
  • ENGI 4398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

  
  • ENGI 4498 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 4.0
       
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.


Engineering PROMES

  
  • EGRP 1120 - Design Laboratory

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Hands-on design and problem-solving laboratory.

    Note: Restricted to PROMES students unless approved by instructor.
  
  • EGRP 1121 - Design Laboratory II

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 4
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Guided in design of simple engineering applications. Credit may not be applied to a degree in engineering.

  
  • EGRP 1130 - Engineering Applications I

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Cooperative workshop on engineering applications of chemistry, physics, and advanced mathematics. May be repeated for credit.

    Note: Credit may not be applied to degree in engineering.
  
  • EGRP 1140 - Engineering Applications III

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Cooperative workshop on engineering applications of chemistry, physics, and advanced mathematics. May be repeated for credit.

    Note: Credit may not be applied to a degree in engineering.
  
  • EGRP 1150 - Engineering Applications IV

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Cooperative workshop on engineering applications of chemistry, physics, and advanced mathematics. May be repeated for credit.

    Note: Credit may not be applied to degree in engineering.
  
  • EGRP 1165 - Engineering Workshop

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Special problems performed in a collaborative workshop. May be repeated for credit.

    Note: Credit may not be applied to degree in engineering.

English

  
  • ENGL 1100 - Basic Writing

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in ENGL 1303.

    The student will complete developmental English writing requirements in less than a semester. Upon completion, the student will demonstrate an understanding of the academic writing process: critical thinking, planning, and drafting/revising.

  
  • ENGL 1195 - English Practicum

    Credit Hours: 1.0
       
    Prerequisite: approval of the director of lower division studies in English.

    Concurrent enrollment in an approved 1000 level English course. Supplemental work in writing or research. May be repeated for credit.

  
  • ENGL 1300 - Basic Writing

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    May not be substituted for ENGL 1303  or ENGL 1304  or equivalents. May be taken concurrently with ENGL 1303 . May not be used to satisfy any degree requirements at the university. Work in the development of basic expository writing skills.

  
  • ENGL 1303 - First Year Writing I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: score of 240 on the TASP Writing Test or its equivalent.

    A detailed study of the principles of rhetoric as applied in reading and writing expository essays.

    Note: Students who score below the minimum must enroll in ENGL 1300 , which may be taken concurrently with ENGL 1303.
    Core Category: [10] Communication
    TCCNS Equivalent: ENGL 1301
  
  • ENGL 1304 - First Year Writing II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1303  or equivalent.

    Detailed study of the principles of rhetoric as applied to analyzing and writing argumentative and persuasive essays; principles and methods of research, culminating in writing a substantial research paper.

    Core Category: [10] Communication
    TCCNS Equivalent: ENGL 1302
  
  • ENGL 1309 - English Composition for Nonnative Speakers I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: passing scores on the university’s Placement Examination for Nonnative Speakers of English (PENNSE).

    Credit may not be received for both ENGL 1303  and 1309. Rhetoric and composition; practice in reading and writing expository essays.

  
  • ENGL 1310 - English Composition for Nonnative Speakers II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1309  or equivalent and passing scores on the university’s Placement Examination for Nonnative Speakers of English (PENNSE).

    Students may not receive credit for both ENGL 1304  and 1310 or ENGL 1370 . Rhetoric and composition. Practice in reading and writing argumentative and research essays.

  
  • ENGL 1370 - Freshman Composition II - Honors

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: placement by the university’s Honors College.

    Corequisite: HON 2301 .

    Principles of rhetoric as applied to writing persuasive essays; principles and methods of research.

    Note: Credit for both ENGL 1370 and ENGL 1304 , ENGL 1310 , or 1360 may not apply toward a degree.
    Typically Offered: Fall

    Core Category: [10] Communication
  
  • ENGL 1398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: approval of the director of lower division studies.

  
  • ENGL 2301 - Western World Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Credit may not be applied toward a degree for both ENGL 2301 and ENGL 2360  or ENGL 3300 . First semester: classical through the Renaissance; second semester: neoclassical to present. Emphasis on composition.

    TCCNS Equivalent: ENGL 2332
  
  • ENGL 2302 - Western World Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Credit may not be applied toward a degree for both ENGL 2301  and ENGL 2360  or ENGL 3300 . First semester: classical through the Renaissance; second semester: neoclassical to present. Emphasis on composition.

    TCCNS Equivalent: ENGL 2333
  
  • ENGL 2303 - English Literature to 1798

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Students may not receive credit for both ENGL 2303 and ENGL 3327 . Students may not receive credit for both ENGL 2304  and ENGL 3328 . First semester: critical examination of works of major and selected minor writers from Beowulf through the Neoclassical Age; second semester: from the beginnings of Romanticism to present. Emphasis on composition.

    TCCNS Equivalent: ENGL 2322
  
  • ENGL 2304 - English Literature Since 1798

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Students may not receive credit for both ENGL 2303  and ENGL 3327 . Students may not receive credit for both ENGL 2304 and ENGL 3328 . First semester: critical examination of works of major and selected minor writers from Beowulf through the Neoclassical Age; second semester: from the beginnings of Romanticism to present. Emphasis on composition.

    TCCNS Equivalent: ENGL 2323
  
  • ENGL 2305 - Introduction to Fiction

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Selected works of fiction emphasizing composition.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
    TCCNS Equivalent: ENGL 2342
  
  • ENGL 2306 - Introduction to Poetry

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Selected works of poetry emphasizing composition.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • ENGL 2307 - Introduction to Drama

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Selected works of drama emphasizing composition.

    Core Category: [50] Creative Arts
  
  • ENGL 2308 - Introduction to Nonfiction Prose

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Study of literary works of nonfiction prose, centering on important aspects of the Western tradition. Emphasis on composition.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • ENGL 2309 - American Life Through Literature for Nonnative Speakers of English

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1310  or equivalent and passing scores on the university’s Placement Examination for Nonnative Speakers of English (PENNSE).

    For nonnative speakers only. May not be used as an elective for an English major. Reading and analysis of various genres of American literature to 1930 with focus on aspects of American culture, emphasizing composition.

  
  • ENGL 2310 - American Life Through Literature for Nonnative Speakers of English

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1310  or equivalent and passing scores on the university’s Placement Examination for Nonnative Speakers of English (PENNSE).

    For nonnative speakers only. May not be used as an elective for an English major. Reading and analysis of various genres of American literature since 1930 with focus on aspects of American culture. Emphasis on composition.

  
  • ENGL 2312 - Literature and Technology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Study of literature utilizing technical vocabulary and prose essays treating modern technology.

  
  • ENGL 2315 - Literature and Film

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Representations of literary works and themes as they have appeared in films. Topics may vary; course cannot be repeated for credit.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • ENGL 2316 - Literature and Culture

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Literature and its relations to various aspects of culture. Topics may vary; course cannot be repeated for credit.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • ENGL 2318 - Creation and Performance of Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Creation and performance of literature, such as prose fiction, poetry, and drama; may include recitations.

    Core Category: [50] Creative Arts
  
  • ENGL 2320 - Book and Beyond

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Print in the development and spread of humanistic culture. Attention to impact of technological innovation on expression and communication.

  
  • ENGL 2321 - Computers in Humanities

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Communication and electronic technologies. Emphasis on writing that employs new forms of communication, such as hypertext, Web pages, and other dynamic interactive modes.

  
  • ENGL 2322 - Literature and Nature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Literary explorations of the state of nature, its consequences for human life, and the impact of human beings on the natural environment.

  
  • ENGL 2323 - Literature and Identity

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Literature and its relation to various aspects of identity.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • ENGL 2324 - Literature, Arts, and Society

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    The ways in which socio-political and artistic contexts influence the creation and appreciation of literature.

  
  • ENGL 2325 - Literary Traditions of the Nonwestern World

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Comparative study of literary traditions of the nonwestern world, such as South Asian, Middle Eastern, African, or Latin American.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • ENGL 2330 - Writing in the Discipline of English

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Practices of reading and writing in the discipline of literary studies with emphasis on writing the critical essay and the research paper.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • ENGL 2340 - Cosmic Narratives

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Narrative history of the Universe from its beginnings to the present emphasizing relevance of cosmic narratives to human situation.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • ENGL 2360 - Western World Literature - Honors

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: placement by the Honors College and concurrent enrollment in HON 2301 .

    Credit for both ENGL 2360 and ENGL 2301  or ENGL 3300  may not apply toward a degree. Classical through the Renaissance. Emphasis on composition.

  
  • ENGL 2361 - Western World Literature II - Honors

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: placement by the Honors College and

    Corequisite: concurrent enrollment in HON 2101

    Neoclassical through the present. Emphasis on composition.

    Note: Credit for both ENGL 2361 and ENGL 2302  may not apply toward a degree.
    Core Category: [10] Communication
  
  • ENGL 2396 - Intermediate Composition

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: concurrent enrollment in HON 2101 .

    Intermediate writing practice in genre, style, form, analysis, and argument.

  
  • ENGL 2397 - Undergraduate Studies in Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent and sophomore standing.

    May not be used as an elective for an English major. Intensive reading in single area unified by period, genre, or theme. Emphasis on composition. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • ENGL 2398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: approval of the director of lower division studies.

  
  • ENGL 3300 - Ancient and Classical Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    May not be taken for credit if student has already taken ENGL 2301  or ENGL 2360 . Ancient and classical literature through the Renaissance.

  
  • ENGL 3301 - Introduction to Literary Studies

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Development of skills in critical reading of and critical writing about literary texts.

  
  • ENGL 3302 - Medieval Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Survey of English and translated European literature of the eighth through fifteenth centuries, including such genres as lyrics, drama, romance, epic, satire, allegory, dream vision.

  
  • ENGL 3304 - Chaucer

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Selections from The Canterbury Tales and shorter poems with emphasis on literary qualities, Middle English language, and medieval setting.

  
  • ENGL 3305 - English Renaissance

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    An introduction to significant authors, movements, and genres of English literature from about 1500 to 1660; includes readings from Bacon, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Donne, Burton, et al.

  
  • ENGL 3306 - Shakespeare: The Major Works

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    One-semester concentration on the major plays, such as The Merchant of Venice, Henry IV, King Lear, and The Tempest.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • ENGL 3309 - Renaissance Drama

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    English drama, exclusive of Shakespeare, from 1580 to 1642.

  
  • ENGL 3311 - John Milton

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Readings include Lycidas, Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, and Samson Agonistes.

  
  • ENGL 3312 - Literature of Restoration and Eighteenth Century Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, and Blake; the poetic genres; the rise of journalism and the novel; biography and drama; historical and philosophical background.

  
  • ENGL 3313 - Restoration and Eighteenth Century Drama

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Survey of the witty, sometimes bawdy drama of the court of Charles I and the serious, sentimental productions of the Age of Johnson.

  
  • ENGL 3315 - The Romantic Movement

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Early romantic writers: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, and DeQuincy and later Romantic writers: Hazlitt, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Close study of major poems, literary and intellectual backgrounds.

  
  • ENGL 3316 - Literature of the Victorian Age

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    British Victorian poetry and prose from the High Victorians through the Pre-Raphaelites to the Decadents. Novels may be included at the instructor’s option.

  
  • ENGL 3317 - The British Novel Before 1832

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Representative novels by writers such as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, and Austen.

  
  • ENGL 3318 - The British Novel Since 1832

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Representative novels by writers such as the Brontes, Dickens, Thackeray, Eliot, and Hardy.

  
  • ENGL 3321 - Modern British Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    A survey of major British writers from the turn of the century to World War II, including Joyce, Lawrence, Yeats, Forster, Thomas, and related figures.

  
  • ENGL 3322 - Contemporary Novel

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    The contemporary English novel and the continental European novel.

  
  • ENGL 3323 - Development of Literary Criticism and Theory

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    The course will cover the major developments in critical thought from Plato and Aristotle to the present.

  
  • ENGL 3324 - The Development of the Novel

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Comparison of novels representing various periods in Western cultures with emphasis on a broad historical perspective of the genre, as well as its special characteristics.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • ENGL 3325 - Structures of Poetry

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Comparison of novels representing various periods in Western cultures with emphasis on a broad historical perspective on the genre, as well as its special characteristics.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • ENGL 3326 - The Development of Dramatic Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 2303 , ENGL 2304 , or ENGL 2307 , three semester credit hours in sophomore-level English or equivalent.

    European dramatic literature from its classical origins to the modern period.

  
  • ENGL 3327 - Masterpieces of British Literature to the Eighteenth Century

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Students may not receive credit for both ENGL 2303 and 3327. Works by major British authors representative of medieval, Renaissance, and neoclassical periods.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • ENGL 3328 - Masterpieces of British Literature from the Eighteenth Century

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Works by major British authors representative of the romantic, Victorian, and modern periods.

    Note: Students may not receive credit for both ENGL 2304  and 3328.
    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • ENGL 3329 - Beginning Creative Writing: Fiction and Poetry

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent and 3 hours in 2000- or 3000-level literature.

    Analysis and writing of fiction and poetry. Basic techniques and vocabulary in craft.

  
  • ENGL 3330 - Beginning Creative Writing: Fiction

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 3329  and 3 hours in 2000- or 3000-level literature.

    Analysis and writing of fiction. Techniques and craft vocabulary essential to construction of narratives. Exploration of both traditional and contemporary fiction; practice in fictional techniques.

  
  • ENGL 3331 - Beginning Creative Writing: Poetry

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 3329  and 3 hours in 2000- or 3000-level literature.

    Analysis and writing of poetry. Techniques and craft vocabulary essential to construction of poems. Exploration of both traditional and contemporary poetry; practice in poetic techniques.

  
  • ENGL 3332 - Introduction to Creative Writing: Nonfiction

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 3329 and 3 hours in 2000- or 3000- level literature.

    Analysis and writing of nonfiction.Techniques and craft vocabulary essential to nonfiction. Exploration of both traditional and contemporary nonfiction: practice in nonfictional techniques.

  
  • ENGL 3340 - Advanced Composition

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Undergraduate credit only. Practice in prose rhetoric, especially in formal and informal essays, popular and professional articles, and critical reviews.

  
  • ENGL 3341 - Business and Professional Writing

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Writing business letters, various types of business reports, proposals, and resumés.

  
  • ENGL 3345 - Nobel Prize Winners in Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Examination of selected works by winners of the Nobel Prize in literature in prose, poetry, and drama, focusing on literary techniques and the cultural background and significance of the work.

  
  • ENGL 3346 - Classics of Children’s Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: six semester hours in 2000-level English.

    Selected literary classics, including tales by the Grimm brothers, children’s poetry, animal stories, fantasy, and fiction, with emphasis on literary and cultural significance.

  
  • ENGL 3347 - Classics of Adolescent Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: six semester hours in 2000-level English.

    Selected literary classics by representative writers from Louisa May Alcott and Robert Louis Stevenson to Anne Frank and Harper Lee, with emphasis on literary and cultural significance.

  
  • ENGL 3349 - Native American Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Literary study of myths, legends, stories, and novels of Native Americans in relevant historical and cultural contexts.

  
  • ENGL 3350 - American Literature to 1865

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    First semester: critical examination of major and selected minor writers from the colonial period through Hawthorne and Melville; second semester: from Whitman and Twain to the present.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • ENGL 3351 - American Literature Since 1865

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    First semester: critical examination of major and selected minor writers from the colonial period through Hawthorne and Melville; second semester: from Whitman and Twain to the present.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • ENGL 3352 - Nineteenth-Century American Fiction

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Development of theme, symbolic patterns, and form in the nineteenth-century American novel from a historical, sociocultural, and/or generic perspective.

  
  • ENGL 3353 - Modern American Fiction

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Development of theme, symbolic patterns, and form in the modern American novel from a historical, sociocultural, and/or generic perspective.

  
  • ENGL 3354 - Contemporary American Fiction

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Trends and ideas in major writers since 1940.

  
  • ENGL 3355 - Literature of the American West

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Literature of the American West in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

  
  • ENGL 3357 - Modern American Drama

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    An examination of themes and dramatic techniques of major modern and contemporary American plays, with special emphasis upon the work of O’Neill, Williams, Miller, Albee.

  
  • ENGL 3358 - Hong Kong Cinema

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Study of generic, historical, and stylistic characteristics of non-western, postcolonial Hong Kong Cinema.

  
  • ENGL 3360 - Survey of African American Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Literary-historical survey of African American literature from mid-eighteenth century to present.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • ENGL 3361 - Mexican American Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Formerly ENGL 2397
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Works of Mexican- American writers, including fiction, poetry, drama, the essay, and autobiography.

  
  • ENGL 3362 - Women in Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Formerly ENGL 4363
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Literature by and about women. Offered either as a general survey or specific study of the literary period or genre. Approach is historical or critical.

  
  • ENGL 3363 - Masterpieces of African American Fiction

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Major works of African American fiction.

  
  • ENGL 3364 - African American Poetry and Drama

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Major works of African American poetry and drama.

  
  • ENGL 3365 - Postcolonial Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Literary works from and about cultures that have recently emerged from a colonial past.

  
  • ENGL 3366 - Jewish-American Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Works of Jewish-American writers. May include fiction, drama, poetry, or non-fiction prose.

  
  • ENGL 3367 - Gay and Lesbian Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Literature by and about gays and lesbians. May include fiction, drama, poetry, or nonfiction prose.

  
  • ENGL 3368 - Caribbean Novels

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    The range of literary expression including novels, short stories and poetry by peoples of Caribbean origin in the diaspora.

  
  • ENGL 3369 - Caribbean Diaspora Literatures

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Development and thematic concerns of novel writing from the Anglophone, Hispanophone, and Francophone Caribbean in English.

  
  • ENGL 3370 - Modern Irish Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: six semester hours in core communications courses.

    Literature from the Celtic Renaissance to 1950 with emphasis on Lady Gregory, Yeats, Joyce, and Synge.

  
  • ENGL 3371 - Contemporary Irish Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: six semester hours in core communications courses.

    Irish novels, drama, poetry, film and music from 1950 to the present.

  
  • ENGL 3396 - Selected Topics in English

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent and approval of department chair.

    Topics vary depending on field of interest of instructor. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • ENGL 3399 - Senior Honors Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

  
  • ENGL 4198 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent and approval of department chair.

  
  • ENGL 4300 - Introduction to the Study of Language

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  or equivalent.

    Overview of linguistics, introducing basic concepts with particular attention to English: sounds, word formation, approaches to grammatical description, history, acquisition, and social and regional variation.

 

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