May 02, 2024  
2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog [Not Current Academic Year. Consult with Your Academic Advisor for Your Catalog Year]

Courses


 

Chemistry

  
  • CHEM 4370 - Physical Chemistry I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 3321 , PHYS 1322 , and CHEM 3332 , or consent of instructor.

    The gaseous state, thermodynamics, chemical equilibria, change of state, solutions, electrochemistry, and atomic and molecular structure. Credit may not be received for both CHEM 4370  and CHEM 4373 .

  
  • CHEM 4372 - Physical Chemistry II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 3321 , PHYS 1322 , and CHEM 3332 , or consent of instructor.

    Spectroscopy, kinetic theory, chemical kinetics, photochemistry, introductory quantum chemistry, crystalline and liquid states. May not apply toward degree until CHEM 4272 , or equivalent has been successfully completed.

  
  • CHEM 4373 - Survey of Physical Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHEM 3221  and CHEM 3331 , and MATH 1432 , or consent of instructor.

    Credit may not be received for both CHEM 4370  and CHEM 4373 . States of matter, thermodynamics, equilibria, kinetics, solutions, and molecular structure including biological applications.

  
  • CHEM 4396 - Research Project

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: CHEM 3396  and approval of the chair.

    Directed research project culminating in a departmentally approved report.

  
  • CHEM 4397 - Selected Topics in Chemistry

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • CHEM 4398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Cr. 3 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisites: CHEM 4370  or CHEM 4373 , consent of instructor, and approval of chair.

  
  • CHEM 4399 - Senior Honors Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: CHEM 3399  and approval of department chair.


Chinese

  
  • CHNS 1198 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Cr. 1 or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of instructor.

  
  • CHNS 1209 - Chinese Calligraphy

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Techniques of writing Chinese characters with a brush-pen. Integrates the Chinese language and culture by studying the formation of characters, and basic styles of Chinese calligraphy. Taught in English.

  
  • CHNS 1298 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 2.0
       
    Prerequisite: approval of instructor.

  
  • CHNS 1309 - Chinese Writing and Calligraphy

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: None.

    Integrates the Chinese language and culture by studying the formation and development of characters, and basic styles of Chinese calligraphy. Techniques of writing Chinese characters with a brush-pen.

    Note: Taught in English.
  
  • CHNS 1398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: approval of instructor.

  
  • CHNS 1501 - Elementary Chinese I

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Restricted to nonnative speakers of Chinese. Introduction to modern spoken and written Mandarin Chinese. Emphasis on oral skills with initial presentation of the written language.

    TCCNS Equivalent: CHIN 1511
  
  • CHNS 1502 - Elementary Chinese II

    Credit Hours: 5.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Prerequisite: completion of CHNS 1501  with a minimum grade of C- in twelve months immediately prior to enrollment or placement by examination immediately prior to enrollment.

    Restricted to nonnative speakers of Chinese. Introduction to modern spoken and written Mandarin Chinese.

    TCCNS Equivalent: CHIN 1512
  
  • CHNS 2198 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CHNS 2207 - Conversational Chinese I

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 1501  or equivalent.

    Students will develop communicative competence. Trains listening and speaking skills. Students will use cognitive strategies and learning skills in their listening comprehension and expression. Use of Chinese language functionally in daily situations.

  
  • CHNS 2208 - Conversational Chinese II

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 2207  or consent of instructor.

    Students will develop communicative competence. Trains listening and speaking skills. Students will use cognitive strategies and learning skills in their listening comprehension and expression. Use of Chinese language functionally in daily situations.

  
  • CHNS 2298 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 2.0
       
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

  
  • CHNS 2301 - Intermediate Chinese I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Prerequisite: completion of CHNS 1502  completed with minimum grade of C- in 12 months immediately prior to enrollment or placement by examination immediately prior to enrollment.

    Restricted to nonnative speakers of Chinese. Introduction to modern spoken and written Mandarin Chinese.

    TCCNS Equivalent: CHIN 2311
  
  • CHNS 2302 - Intermediate Chinese II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 2
    Prerequisite: completion of CHNS 2301  with a minimum grade of C- in twelve months immediately prior to enrollment or placement by examination immediately prior to enrollment.

    Restricted to nonnative speakers of Chinese. Introduction to modern spoken and written Mandarin Chinese. Continued development of oral skills with increased emphasis on the written language.

    TCCNS Equivalent: CHIN 2312
  
  • CHNS 2398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Cr. 3 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of chair.

  
  • CHNS 3198 - Special Problems

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CHNS 3298 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 2.0
       
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

  
  • CHNS 3301 - Advanced Mandarin Chinese I

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 2302  with a minimum grade of C- in twelve months immediately prior to enrollment or placement by examination immediately prior to enrollment.

    Continued development of communication skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing, and cultural understanding.

    Note: Restricted to nonnative speakers of Mandarin Chinese.
  
  • CHNS 3302 - Advanced Mandarin Chinese II

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 3301 .

    Continued development of communication skills of listening, speaking, reading, writing, and cultural understanding.

  
  • CHNS 3303 - Readings in Modern Chinese

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: placement by examination immediately prior to enrollment or consent of instructor.

    Essays, stories, biographies, and criticisms from Chinese literary genres. Development of listening, speaking, reading, writing, and cultural understanding. Designed for Chinese-American students and other students from a Chinese-speaking background.

  
  • CHNS 3304 - Business Chinese

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 2302  or consent of instructor.

    Oral and written communication with attention to contemporary business practices in China.

  
  • CHNS 3305 - Survey of Chinese Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: placement by examination or consent of instructor.

    Essays, stories, and poems from Chinese literature. Designed for Chinese-American and other students from a Chinese-speaking background.

  
  • CHNS 3306 - Chinese through Poetry

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 2302 .

    Readings in Chinese. Close readings of selected poetry from all time periods of Chinese literature.

    Note: May apply as foreign language credit.
    Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • CHNS 3307 - Chinese through Classical Stories

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 2302 .

    Readings in Chinese. Close readings of short classical stories from all time periods of Chinese literature.

    Note: May apply as foreign language credit.
    Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • CHNS 3350 - Chinese Culture Through Films

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

    Satisfies three hours requirement for the Minor in Chinese studies. May not apply as foreign language credit. Reading film critics and viewing Chinese films produced in contemporary China within the historical, cultural, thematic, and aesthetic content. Taught in English.

  
  • CHNS 3352 - Chinese Culture and Society Through Modern Literature

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly CHNS 2352
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Readings of the most important literary works from the 1919 May 4th Movement to the 1970’s.

    Note: Taught in English. May not apply as foreign language credit.
    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • CHNS 3354 - Chinese Culture and Language

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1303  and ENGL 1304 .

    Taught in English. Readings and discussions on Chinese language, culture and interactions between the language and the culture from the perspectives of history, geography, and linguistics.

  
  • CHNS 3355 - Roots of Chinese Culture through Classical Literature

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

    Covers the most important literary works of China from antiquity to the fall of the last imperial dynasty.

    Note: May not apply as foreign language credit. Taught in Enlish.
    Typically Offered: Spring

  
  • CHNS 3356 - Chinese Anecdotes and Cultural Memory

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

    Explores Chinese anecdotal literature and casual storytelling as ways of remembering the culture of the past.

    Note: May not apply as foreign language credit. Taught in English.
    Typically Offered: Spring

  
  • CHNS 3357 - Legends, Tales and Fantasy: Boundaries of Reality in Chinese Literature and Culture

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

    Readings cover legends, tales and fantasy, explore the boundaries of reality in Chinese literature and culture from all time periods.

    Note: May not apply as foreign language credit. Taught in English.
    Typically Offered: Fall

  
  • CHNS 3359 - Chinese Culture through History

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 . This course is restricted to students in the Chinese study abroad program.

    Studies of Chinese culture and history via course readings, Chinese museums and historical sites in China.

    Note: Taught in English. May not apply as foreign language credit.
  
  • CHNS 3360 - A Look Into Modern China

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

    China’s transformation in the last two decades and its understanding of modernity. Novels, essays, journals and films reveal conflicts between conventional Chinese values and modern legal systems, economic development and traditional living.

    Note: Taught in English.
    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • CHNS 3396 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: junior standing.

    Topics on Chinese language, literature, and culture. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • CHNS 3398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Cr. 3 per semester or more by concurrent enrollment. Prerequisite: approval of chair.

  
  • CHNS 4301 - Public Speaking in Chinese

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 3301  or equivalent.

    Includes giving an opinion, negotiating meanings, debates, proposals, and oral narrations. Designed for both heritage or nonheritage students of Chinese.

  
  • CHNS 4302 - Integrated Chinese

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 3301  or equivalent.

    Emphasizing four skills of listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Students receive language input through reading, produce their output through conversation and composition. Designed for both heritage or nonheritage students of Chinese.

  
  • CHNS 4364 - Issues in Chinese Language and Linguistics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1303 , CHNS 1501 , and CHNS 1502 .

    Issues of Chinese language and linguistics that will enhance appreciation of Chinese culture through analysis of language and linguistics. Taught in English.

  
  • CHNS 4371 - Principles of Teaching Chinese

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 2302  or consent of the instructor.

    Techniques for structuring Chinese classes, lesson planning, and curriculum implementation. Taught in English.

  
  • CHNS 4372 - Studies of Chinese Language Acquisition

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHNS 2302  or consent of the instructor.

    Methods of teaching and strategies for learning Chinese as a second language. Readings include current research on second language theory acquisition and practices. Taught in English.

  
  • CHNS 4396 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: senior standing.

    Topics on Chinese language, literature, and culture. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • CHNS 4398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: consent of instructor.

    Topics on Chinese language, literature, and culture. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.


Civil and Environmental Engineering

  
  • CIVE 2330 - Mechanics I (Statics)

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: PHYS 1321  and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ENGI 1331  and MATH 2433 .

    Fundamentals of vector mechanics applied to systems of forces, resultants, free body diagrams, equilibrium and analysis of frames and other structures. Centroids of areas and mass, moments of inertia.

  
  • CIVE 2331 - Mechanics II (Dynamics)

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 2330  and MATH 2433 .

    Dynamics of rigid bodies; force-mass-acceleration, work-energy, impulse-momentum, and introduction to mechanical vibrations.

  
  • CIVE 2332 - Mechanics of Solids

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 2330 , MATH 2433 , and credit for or concurrent enrollment in MECT 3341 .

    Stress and strain in elastic bodies; statically determinate and indeterminate members; axial force, shear, moment and torsion; beam deflections; columns; combined stresses.

  
  • CIVE 3331 - Environmental Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CHEM 1332  and CHEM 1112 , or CHEM 1372  and CHEM 1117 , CIVE 2330 , and credit for or concurrent enrollment in ENGI 2334 .

    Introduction to air, water, and environmental pollutants, and concepts of design for treatment.

  
  • CIVE 3332 - Engineering Materials

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: CIVE 2332  and ENGI 2304 .

    Analysis of properties of solid materials related to engineering design, introduction to metallurgical processes, and materials testing.

  
  • CIVE 3337 - Structural Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 2332 .

    Structural analysis of determinate and indeterminate trusses, beams and frames; influence lines; deflections.

  
  • CIVE 3339 - Geotechnical Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: CIVE 2332 , ENGI 2304 , and credit for or concurrent enrollment in MATH 3321 .

    Principles of solid and fluid mechanics applied to soils. Physical-chemical and mechanical properties of soils and introduction to geotechnical engineering concepts.

  
  • CIVE 3399 - Senior Honors Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

  
  • CIVE 3434 - Fluid Mechanics and Hydraulic Engineering

    Credit Hours: 4.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: CIVE 2331  or MECE 3336 , ENGI 2304 , MATH 3321  and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CIVE 2332  and ENGI 2334 .

    Fluid properties, hydrostatics, basic equations of fluid mechanics, inviscid and viscous flows, flow through pipes, pipeline systems, and open channel flow.

  
  • CIVE 4198 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

  
  • CIVE 4298 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 2.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

  
  • CIVE 4311 - Professional Practice in Civil Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Three CIVE 3000 level courses and ENGI 2304 .

    Professional practice in civil engineering including ethics, professional responsibility and licensure; legal issues; business and management principles; leadership; public policy concerns. Introduction of capstone design problem.

  
  • CIVE 4312 - Civil Engineering Design Project

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 1    Lab Contact Hours: 6
    Prerequisite: CIVE 4311 , CIVE 4332 , CIVE 4333 , CIVE 4363 , CIVE 4369  and INDE 3333 .

    Continuation of design project introduced in CIVE 4311 . Includes constraints such as economic, environmental, social, political, ethical, health and safety, constructability, and sustainability.

  
  • CIVE 4332 - Hydrology

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 3434 .

    Hydrologic cycle, rainfall and runoff, water losses, snowmelt, ground water, unit hydrograph, floods and flood routing, stream flow records, reservoir design, and sedimentation.

  
  • CIVE 4333 - Water and Wastewater Treatment

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 3331  and CIVE 3434 .

    Principles of municipal water and wastewater treatment processes.

  
  • CIVE 4337 - Transportation Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: INDE 2333  and two CIVE 3000 level courses.

    Introduction to transportation engineering, emphasizing highway engineering, including geometric design, traffic engineering, transportation planning, and safety.

  
  • CIVE 4363 - Concrete Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 3332  and CIVE 3337 .

    Analysis and design of concrete structures and their components.

  
  • CIVE 4364 - Structural Steel Design

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 3332  and CIVE 3337 .

    Analysis and design of steel structures and their components.

  
  • CIVE 4365 - Bridge Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 4363 .

    Classification, history, aesthetics of highway bridges; bridge design methods; influence lines for girders and trusses; loads and load distribution; pier and bearing types; concrete deck slab design; composite action.

  
  • CIVE 4369 - Foundation Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: CIVE 3339  and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CIVE 4363 .

    Applications of soil mechanics principles to foundation engineering. Exploration techniques, foundation selection criteria, design principles, and construction methods.

  
  • CIVE 4397 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: none.

    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • CIVE 4398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

  
  • CIVE 4399 - Senior Honors Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
       
    Prerequisite: approval of department chair.

  
  • CIVE 5362 - Water Quality Engineering

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly CIVE 4331 Water Quality Engineering
    Prerequisite: CIVE 3331  and credit for or concurrent enrollment in CIVE 3434 .

    Environmental chemistry and biology applications and implications to engineered and natural waters. Emphasis on physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of water and analytical methods for water quality management.

  
  • CIVE 5380 - Introduction to Geomatics and Geosensing

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 2    Lab Contact Hours: 3
    Prerequisite: Two CIVE 3000 level courses or consent of instructor.

    Introduction to plane surveying and differential leveling; horizontal and vertical curves computation; fundamentals of geodesy and map projection; Global Positioning System (GPS); principles of LiDAR and remote sensing.

  
  • CIVE 5397 - Selected Topics

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: 3 per semester (3-0). May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

    May be repeated for credit when topics vary.


Classical Studies

  
  • CLAS 2366 - Who Owns Antiquity? The Battle Over Our Cultural Heritage

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

    Current controversies surrounding the ethics of cultural property together with an exploration of why history matters to us, what purposes historical narratives and artifacts serve, who gets to interpret them, and why.

  
  • CLAS 3307 - Greek and Roman Myths of Heroes

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

    The concept of the hero in ancient Greek culture with comparative consideration of Rome and other cultures.

    Note: Taught in English.
    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • CLAS 3308 - Myths and Cult of the Greek Gods

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly CLAS 3307 Myths and Cult of Ancient Gods
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Religious narratives, beliefs, and rituals in ancient Greek culture with comparative consideration of Rome and other cultures.

    Note: Taught in English.
    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • CLAS 3341 - The Roman Republic

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

    Social, political, and cultural history of Rome, from its foundation to the Fall of the Republic, 753-27BCE. Taught in English.

  
  • CLAS 3345 - Myth and Performance in Greek Tragedy

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

    The reshaping of myths in tragedies performed in the fifth century BCE and in modem productions of those plays. Critical appraisal of text and performance in the respective cultural contexts.

    Core Category: [50] Creative Arts
  
  • CLAS 3350 - Law and Society in Ancient Rome

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL1304.

    A survey of key Roman legal ideas and texts from the archaic period to the late Republic and early Empire. Special attention paid to the law’s relation to Rome’s religion and changing social and political structures. Through Cicero the course explores the situation of the practicing advocate in complicated times. Ends with a look at later Roman jurisprudence.

  
  • CLAS 3366 - The Trojan War

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly CLAS 3366 Greek Art and Archaeology: In Search of the Trojan War
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Survey of ancient Greek art and archaeology connected to the Trojan War from the Bronze Age to the Classical Period with emphasis on its relationship to traditional myths and Classical literature.

    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • CLAS 3371 - Ancient Comedy and Its Influence

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

    Comic drama from its origins in ancient Greece, to its Roman transformation, ending with its Renaissance adaptions. Readings from Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terence, Machiavelli, and Shakespeare. Taught in English.

  
  • CLAS 3372 - Medieval Epic

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CLAS 3373 - Ancient Satire & Its Influence

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CLAS 3374 - Women in the Ancient World

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

    Women’s lives from the Graeco-Roman world. Analysis and comparisons of literary texts and archeological evidence in their cultural and historical context.

    Note: Taught in English.
    Core Category: [40] Language, Philosophy, & Culture
  
  • CLAS 3375 - Roman, Jew, and Christian: The Politics and Sociology of Religion in the First Century A.D.

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

    Political and social interactions of religions in the Roman Empire ca. 31 BC to 150 A.D. Special focus on emperor worship, Second Temple Judaism and the Jewish War of 66-70, and the early Jesus movement. Taught in English.

  
  • CLAS 3380 - Epic Masculinity: Ideologies of Manhood in Ancient Epic and Modern Film

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

    Ideologies of masculinity in ancient Greek and Roman epic as compared to modern cinema (e.g., Spartacus, Gladiator, and Braveheart). Taught in English.

  
  • CLAS 3381 - From Homer to Hollywood: Archaic and Classical Greek Themes in Modern Cinema

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly CLAS 3381 From Homer to Hollywood: Ancient Greek Themes in the Modern Cinema
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Examination of the way modern cinema adapts themes from Greek literature and uses them to explore modern conflict.

    Note: Taught in English.
    Core Category: [50] Creative Arts
  
  • CLAS 3397 - Sel Topics Gr & Rom Civ

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: sophomore standing.

    May not apply toward foreign language requirement. Topics from the literature, art, philosophy, religion, and culture of ancient Greece and Rome. May be repeated for credit when topics vary. Taught in English.

  
  • CLAS 3398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Cr. 3. Prerequisite: approval of chair. May be repeatedfor credit when topics vary.

  
  • CLAS 3399 - Senior Honors Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: permission of Director of Classical Studies.

    Independent research and writing for the senior honors thesis.

  
  • CLAS 4305 - Fifth-Century Athens: Readings in Intellectual, Literary, and Political History

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

    Overview of intellectual trends and political history of fifth-century BCE Athens. Topics include the development of Democracy, birth of tragedy, Persian Wars, Athenian Empire, court system, Peloponnesian Wars, and death of Socrates.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • CLAS 4350 - Age of Augustus

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

    Exploration of the political, literary, architectural, and artistic changes introduced during the reign of Caesar Augustus, first Emperor of Rome (27BC - 14AD). Taught in English.

  
  • CLAS 4353 - Classics and Modernity: The Uses of Antiquity in Modern and Postmodern Contexts

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

    Use of ancient Greek and Roman concepts by modern and postmodern thinkers, artists, and authors.

  
  • CLAS 4370 - Comparative Epic

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly CLAS 3370
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  and junior standing.

    Epic poetry from ancient Greece and Rome with a comparative approach drawing on other cultures, including the ancient Near East, the Hevrew Bible, medieval Europe, and /or modern oral epic traditions. Taught in English.

  
  • CLAS 4374 - Sex and Gender in Antiquity

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304  and junior standing.

    Issues of sex and gender in ancient Greece and Rome through the study of literature, art, and science.

  
  • CLAS 4375 - Gender and Race in Greek Myths

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

    Credit for CLAS 4375  may not be applied toward a degree by students who have credit for CLAS 3306 . May not apply toward foreign language requirement. Greek myths and rituals, focusing on dynamics of exclusion that parallel modern definitions of ethnicity and gender. Taught in English.

  
  • CLAS 4380 - Greek Classics in Translation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
  
  • CLAS 4381 - Latin Classics in Translation

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 3    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Formerly (also ENGL 4381)
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1304 .

    Works of Latin literature read in conjunction with modern text inspired by them.

    Core Category: [81] Writing in the Disciplines
  
  • CLAS 4398 - Independent Study

    Credit Hours: 1.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: Cr. 3. Prerequisite: approval of chair. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.

  
  • CLAS 4399 - Senior Honors Thesis

    Credit Hours: 3.0
    Lecture Contact Hours: 0    Lab Contact Hours: 0
    Prerequisite: permission of Director of Classical Studies

    Independent research and writing for the senior honors thesis.

 

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