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2020-2021 Johnstown Campus Catalog
University of Pittsburgh Johnstown
   
2020-2021 Johnstown Campus Catalog 
    
 
  May 20, 2024
 
2020-2021 Johnstown Campus Catalog [Archived Catalog]

Course Information


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Engineering

  
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    ENGR 1115 - ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A course designed for the individual who wants to learn and develop their leadership and team building skills. Topics include influence, integrity, attitude, vision, change, priorities, self­ discipline, personal and interpersonal effectiveness, development of teams and principles of leadership. PREREQ: Level - Sophomore or above
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade

Engineering Technology

  
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    ET 0011 - ENGINEERING DRAWING


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Covers the basics of engineering drawing utilizing freehand sketching, mechanical drawing, computer aided drafting, and solid modeling. The fundamental principles of orthographic projection, as well as the topics of dimensioning, sectional views, auxiliary views, descriptive geometry and assembly drawings are covered.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ET 0023 - INTRO TO COMPUTER-AIDED ENGNRNG


    Minimum Credits: 2
    Maximum Credits: 2
    The purpose of this course is to introduce students to a variety of computational methods and software tools for engineering problem solving and documentation.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ET 0030 - COMPUTR SYMS PRGMG & APPLCTNS


    Minimum Credits: 2
    Maximum Credits: 2
    Introduces the student to the basic structure of a digital computer and a higher level programming language. Use of a programming language as a problem-solving tool is emphasized. The student is exposed to a wide variety of computer applications within the engineering field. Typical application areas include numerical methods, modeling, simulation, computer graphics, linear programming, statistical analysis, and engineering economics.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ET 0023 and (Math 0221 or 0220)
  
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    ET 0031 - COMPUTR SYMS PRGMG APPLC IN C


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Introduces the student to the basic structure of a digital computer and a higher level programming language. Use of the c language as a problem-solving tool is emphasized. The student is exposed to a wide variety of computer applications within the engineering field. Typical application areas include numerical methods, modeling, simulation, computer graphics, linear programming, statistical analysis, and engineering economics.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ET 0023 and (MATH 0221 OR 220)
  
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    ET 0035 - ENGINEERING DESIGN


    Minimum Credits: 2
    Maximum Credits: 2
    Introduction to the basic concepts involved in good engineering design. Design methodology, analysis and synthesis techniques are studied. Fundamental engineering concepts and laws studied in prior courses, such as statics and electrical circuits along with concurrent courses like dynamics and strength of materials are used in completing required design projects.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: EET 0110 and 0010; CREQ: ET 0052 and (ET 0053 or EET 0111)
  
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    ET 0051 - MECHANICS-STATICS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The principle objective of this course is to develop the ability to analyze any problem in a logical manner and to document that analysis in a clear and orderly fashion. Concepts to be studied include equilibrium of two and three-dimensional force systems acting on rigid bodies as well as particles, plane trusses and frames, centroids and centers of gravity, elementary principles of dry friction, and moments of inertia of both areas and masses. The use of free-body diagrams will be stressed.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: (MATH 0221 or 0220) and (PHYS 0150 or 174); CREQ: (Math 0231 or 0230)
  
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    ET 0052 - MECHANICS DYNAMICS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This second course in mechanics adds the concept of motion to the principles developed in the first course. Kinematics of rigid bodies as well as particles, including relative motion as well as both simple rectilinear and curvilinear motion are studied. In addition, kinetic analysis using Newton’s second law, work-energy methods, and impulse momentum techniques will be applied to those same systems. The free-body, diagram rational analysis of rigid bodies will be emphasized.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0231 or 0230 and PHYS 0150 or 0174
  
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    ET 0053 - STRENGTH OF MATERIALS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The study of stress and strain relationships of bodies subjected to loads. Topics studied are axially loaded members; beam analysis including shear and moment diagrams, flexural and shearing stresses and beam deflections; torsion; principal stresses including Mohr’s circle; combined stresses; temperature effects; statically indeterminate members.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ET 0051 and (MATH 0231 or 0230); CREQ: ET 0054
  
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    ET 0054 - STRENGTH OF MATERIALS LAB/REC


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    Physical tests are conducted and lab reports written on many of the basics learned in the lecture course.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Credit Laboratory
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ET 0023; CREQ: ET 0053
  
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    ET 0079 - FRESHMAN SEMINAR


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    This course is designed to help students maximize their potential for academic success in engineering technology and engineering in general. The course serves as a bridge with ET 0023 and the ENGR 0011 that will be required in the future and will replace a necessary credit for the current engineering technology program. Topics pertaining to engineering careers, ethics, and problem solving and working through the first years in college and an engineering program will be covered.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ET 0082 - FRSHMN ENGNRNG TECHNLGY SEMNR


    Minimum Credits: 0
    Maximum Credits: 0
    Presents a detailed description of both the engineering technology program and the engineering profession. Professional engineers currently in practice with industrial, governmental and/or consulting organizations are invited as guest lecturers.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
  
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    ET 1103 - ENGINEERING ECONOMICS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course involves the integration of engineering and business decision making. It emphasizes analytical investment decision methodologies as they relate to engineering management decisions. It focuses on basic capital project evaluation techniques to include: interest calculations, present and annual worth comparisons, rate of returns, depreciation, income taxes, benefit/cost ratio analysis, replacement analysis, bonds, breakeven analysis and cash flows before and after taxes.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: LVL: Sophmore level or higher
  
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    ET 1115 - ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A course designed for the individual who wants to learn and develop their leadership and team building skills. Topics include influence, integrity, attitude, vision, change, priorities, self-discipline, personal and interpersonal effectiveness, development of teams and principles of leadership.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: LVL: Junior or Senior only

English Composition

  
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    ENGCMP 0001 - FRESHMAN COMPOSITION 1 TUTORIAL


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    Students meet weekly with their Composition 1 instructor to work on understanding and addressing writing assignments and how to strengthen their writing at the sentence and paragraph levels. Students use the papers they produce in ENGCMP 0005 as materials for discussion and revision.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Workshop
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGCMP 0005 - COMPOSITION 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    In this semester long course, students refine their ability to express themselves with clarity and coherence in various genres of writing; they learn the value of using the writing processes to generate, develop, share, revise, proofread, and edit major writing projects and demonstrate that they can produce essays that show structure, integrate evidence and organize significant content, demonstrate purpose, and reveal an awareness of audience. Required of all freshmen.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGCMP 0006 - COMPOSITION 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    In this semester long course, students further refine their ability to express themselves with clarity and coherence in writing, demonstrate an understanding of the qualities inherent in various genres of writing, refine their ability to understand, employ, and effectively integrate various types of evidence in their written work, and learn how to conduct research on that topic using a variety of scholarly and popular sources and produce college level research papers. Required of all freshmen. Prerequisite: ENGCMP 0003 or ENGCMP 0005.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: (ENGCMP 0005 or 0010 or 0200) or ENG 101 or (SAT High Verbal Score of 650 or Greater)
  
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    ENGCMP 0008 - ESL WRITING WORKSHOP


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Workshop
    Grade Component: Letter Grade

English Literature

  
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    ENGLIT 0040 - ESL READING SKILLS


    Minimum Credits: 2
    Maximum Credits: 2
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 0055 - BRITISH LITERATURE 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Especially designed for prospective English majors to acquaint them with the major works in English literature from its beginning through the 18th century.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0056 - BRITISH LITERATURE 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Traces the development of English literature from the beginning of the romantic period to the present.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0080 - NARRATIVE LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Traces the course of narrative literature from the epic through the novel, with an emphasis on the search for the form.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0088 - INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course introduces literature and literary analysis. Through close reading and critical analysis of a series of text selections, which vary by instructor and semester, the course explores the literary devices writers use to produce texts and the approaches and methods that readers use to understand and interpret them.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0311 - THE DRAMATIC IMAGINATION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course introduces students to the major dramatic forms and compares the ways playwrights from several centuries use ideas, characters and theatrical contexts. We will consider how social, historical, and dramatic contexts influence our interpretations and evaluation, or may lead to alternative understandings of a play.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0316 - READING POETRY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    By studying various kinds of poetry from a number of sources, this course introduces students to particular forms of poetry and kinds of poetic language. Since poetry invites very close reading, students will explore various techniques for making sense of poems.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0318 - WRITING IN PARIS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Students will study the American writers who lived in Paris during the 1920s “the lost generation” and the ways they were influenced by Paris and its culture.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 0326 - SHORT STORY IN CONTEXT


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course studies short stories that explore a variety of themes. It seeks to define the short story as a specific literary genre and to distinguish it from earlier forms of short narrative literature. It then examines the effects of literary, cultural and historical traditions on these stories and their reception.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0333 - PARIS THROUGH THE AGES


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The readings will introduce students to French writers who were influenced by Paris and who influenced the city and its intellectuals, from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century. This study abroad course includes excursions through the streets and museums of Paris. Taught in English.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 0345 - LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    In this course, students will read and write about the environment and its issues as expressed through literature. Readings in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction will explore how the geography of a location influences the character of its inhabitants, and how the forces of nature affect their lives and fortunes. Writing will consist of personal and critical short essays as well as a longer essay/project involving independent readings and research.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0351 - GENDER STUDIES


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is designed to offer interested students an opportunity to broaden their awareness and understanding of gender in contemporary American and global cultures in relation to the historical trajectories that shape and provoke current issues and events. The course provides a solid grounding in the critical understanding of both the representations of gender in texts of various media and the relationship of such representations to the culture that produces and receives them. A series of text selections, including primary and secondary essays of theory and criticism that explore particular ways of looking and primary texts of literature that contain representations to be analyzed, will be examined in their historical, intellectual, and literary contexts, considering a variety of critical approaches.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 0354 - WORDS AND IMAGES


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This interdisciplinary course explores the relationships between language and the diverse kinds of images that often accompany it (film, video, photography, book illustration, painting, etc.). The goal is to study the parallels and differences between images and words (as systems of communication) and to understand how they can productively interrelate within creative works such as literature, films, videos, and photographic studies.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Requirement Course
  
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    ENGLIT 0355 - DIGITAL HUMANITIES


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A broad overview of the many intersections of computational technologies and traditional Humanities disciplines, this course focuses on the following: Electronic Art and Literature, New Media, Digital Subcultures, Game Studies, Computational Cultural Studies, Digital Archives, and Technological Convergence. Much of the coursework is inspired by the ethos of collaboration, collective intelligence, and participatory culture, and it assumes that the human is at the center of technological advancement, that emerging technologies can help us create new works of art that resist description and genre classification, and that computers can help us better understand and appreciate human culture and creative expression.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 0361 - WOMEN AND LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    An exploration of writings by and about women. Through reading of various literary forms—poetry, fiction, and auto biography—students will explore the aspirations and realities of women’s lives. Students will consider how social issues—class, race, etc.—Affect women writers.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0363 - PUMPED: LITERATURE AND SPORTS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A course that draws on selected fiction, documentary, and non-fiction. This class explores sports as they appear in literary texts. It also examines the cultural, social, and economic effects of sports. Students also focus on applying critical reading skills to appreciating the literary value of the written works about various sporting events. While attempting to find connections between how cultures value sports and how those values come to define the culture itself, students are also challenged to connect what they learn with real world situations.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0364 - LIT AND FOODS: RAW & RADICAL


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A course that draws on selected fiction, documentary, and non-fiction. This class explores foods as they appear in literary texts. It also examines how foods trigger or drive the cultural, social, and economic changes. Students also focus on applying critical reading skills to appreciating the literary value of the written works about various foods. While attempting to find connections between how cultures value these subjects and how the values come to define the culture itself, students are also challenged to connect what they learn to real world situations.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0365 - IMAGINING SOCIAL JUSTICE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course questions the relationship between present and/or “contemporary” literature and past literary traditions. It is not a course solely in contemporary literature but a course that compares contemporary texts with texts from other periods. It investigates the contemporary as both a complex reworking of past narratives and traditions and as the production of the experimental and the new.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 0367 - THE LAW IN LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will examine literary representations of the law, legal issues, punishment, and legal ethics, using works that range from, “Twelve Angry Men” to “Soul on Ice” to “The Indian Lawyer.”
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 0368 - THE LITERATURE OF SCIENCE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The course will allow students to read and appreciate texts in which scientists explain and meditate upon what they do along with literary texts that depict the impact of science on human, albeit fictional, endeavors.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 0400 - GLOBAL LITERARY TRADITIONS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A survey course that explores world literature from the ancient world to the present time. This course examines the development of various literary genres, motifs, and themes, and explores how political, social, and spiritual changes around the globe influenced these elements through time.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 0401 - GLOBAL LITERATURE 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    An introductory course that draws on diverse literary texts (oral, written, visual, digital) from around the world, with a focus on recurring issues and themes such as migration, trans-nationality, and globalization.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 0410 - GLOBAL LITERATURE 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A course that draws on literary texts from around the world, with a focus on their universal value that transcends time, geography, social systems, and spiritual backgrounds.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 0522 - INTERACTIVE FICTION AS LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course examines digital, text-based and turn-driven narratives as immersive and interactive cultural products. Students study the history of “traditional” interactive narratives - such as riddles and puzzle games - and their impact on electronic literature, and they further this study by reading several works of digital interactive narratives from 1975 to the present. In addition to studying interactive fiction in an historical context, students create original interactive pieces.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 0523 - MARS IN LITERARY IMAGINATION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 0530 - FILM ANALYSIS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course introduces students to the art of the cinema, and to the techniques for its formal and iconographic analysis. It examines the nature of shot composition and visual framing, the use of color, the role of lighting as a pictorial element, the potentials of camera movement, the modes of editing and the nature of image/sound montage. It also introduces students to dominant cinema forms—narrative, experimental, documentary, etc.—And connects the cinema to visual arts (like painting and sculpture).
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Attributes: Childrens Literature, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
  
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    ENGLIT 0557 - INTRO TO LITERATURE FOR ADOLESCENTS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will focus on American literature written specifically for an adolescent audience. The course will allow an examination of the historical changes in the perception of adolescence in the U.S. and explore both canonical and modern texts that use literary devices and techniques as well as portraying psychological awareness while exploring the complex ethical concepts that face teenagers today.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 0574 - AMERICAN LITERATURE 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    An introductory course that draws on fiction, non-fiction, and poetry to trace characteristic features and consistent concerns that shaped the development of a distinctly American literature. Begins with the religious/economic argument of the first-generation European migration, moves through the literature of the politically-charged colonial era, and closes in the mid-nineteenth century and the initial expressions of a national literature.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0575 - AMERICAN LITERATURE 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    An introductory course that draws on fiction, non-fiction, and poetry to explore the characteristic features and shared concerns that shaped the emergence of American literature into international prominence. Begins with the emergence of realism in post-Civil War industrial America, moves through the literature of two World Wars and the economic and social revolutions of the twentieth century, and closes with the defining concerns of the contemporary era.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0578 - THE LITERATURE OF VIOLENCE: EXAMINING THE VIOLENCE IN AMERICAN CULTURE THROUGH LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The Literature of Violence is a course that contemplates the idea that the American inclination to embrace violence is an essential but very troubling element of our culture and our nature. Throughout this course, students will hone their ability to critically examine novels and short stories written by canonical authors whose explorations of this violent tendency in their protagonists allows us insight into the evolution of American culture and our consciousness of our history of violence. In the process of reading texts written by authors whose fictional works paralleled the development of American culture, students will gain an appreciation for the insightfulness of their literary forebears and the ways in which respective authors have clarified the condition of humanity in their respective eras. Additionally, they will learn the degree to which literary texts have profoundly influenced the modern English-speaking world. Finally, students of the Literature of American Violence World will develop their understanding of the significance of reading literature as means of comprehending their world and recognize their connection to other individuals who have struggled against the inclination to embrace violence and determine how they will help shape the future of their societies.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0581 - INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will focus on a number of Shakespeare’s major plays from all phases of his career. Class discussion will consider the historical context of the plays, their characterization, theatrical technique, imagery, language and themes. Every attempt will be made to see the plays both as poems and as dramatic events.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0598 - BIBLE AS LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This introductory course acquaints students with what is in the bible and provides background information drawn from various disciplines about the elements and issues that give it its distinctive character. Attention is necessarily given to its religious perspectives, since they govern the nature and point of view of the biblical narratives, but no specific religious view is urged.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0615 - LITERATURE AND RACE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course examines the relations between literature and race. It views race as an idea `an ‘invention’ that works as a mechanism for organizing the world `which, though it emerged during the enlightenment, continues to have far-reaching implications for the literature produced in the us. It will consider the ways in which categories such as race and nation affect literary representations of different groups of people in us society. It will also look at a variety of narratives of race and racialized experiences, and how these are explored in different literary contexts, asking to what extent such discourses of race are both critical and formative elements in us American literature and culture.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0616 - EXILES, NOMADS, AND MIGRANTS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The course reads various reflections on the immigrant’s experience of separation or exile, the problems of encountering a new society, and the processes of acculturation.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Urban Studies
  
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    ENGLIT 0619 - THE LITERATURE OF THE GREAT WAR


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course focuses solely upon the literature that most poignantly depicts the experiences and perspectives of the soldiers who fought on the battlefields of World War I and the civilians who suffered its destruction. It will allow students to explore the most significant memoirs, poetry, and works of fiction that emerged from the ravaged battlefields of the western front and the ravaged homes destroyed by what some called “war to end all wars”.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 0621 - AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
  
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    ENGLIT 0625 - DETECTIVE FICTION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course examines detective fiction in terms of its history, its social meaning and as a form of philosophizing. It also seeks to reveal the place and values of popular fiction in our lives.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
  
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    ENGLIT 0626 - SCIENCE FICTION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course introduces students to the major ideas, themes, and writers in the development of science fiction as a genre. Discussions will help students to understand and use critical methods for the analysis of science fiction. The topics covered include problems describing and defining the genre, contrasting ideologies in soviet and American science fiction, the roles of women as characters, readers and writers of science fiction, etc.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
  
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    ENGLIT 0634 - LIVING ON THE EDGE: LITERATURE ON THE EXTREME


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course explores the radical literature that pushes cultural and social boundaries and compels readers to contemplate the impact of transgressive fictional characters who reject the conventional perspectives of their contemporaries and establish new possibilities for social discourse. It asks students to investigate the revolutionary power of literature and consider whether it inspires social and cultural change or whether it reinforces cultural mores.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 0690 - LITERATURE OF TERRORISM


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Students in this course will explore the literature that examines, interrogates, and chronicles the emergence of terrorism as contemporary cultural phenomena that dominates revolutionary twenty-first century rhetoric. It will offer students the opportunity to gain an understanding of the conditions that compel individuals to embrace extreme acts of arbitrary violence and take advantage of the attention that those acts inspire to bring about social and cultural changes in hostile political environments.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 0695 - WAR LITERATURE AND ITS DISCONTENTS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    War and its discontents is a course focused solely upon the literature that poignantly expresses the perspectives of soldier-authors whose experience in 20th and 21st century wars inspired them to craft novels that loudly protested war. It is a course that will interrogate the way in which war affects individuals, shapes them, radicalizes them, and makes them agents for social, cultural, and political change.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 1019 - SHAKESPEARE AND CULTURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Designed to offer interested students an opportunity to study Shakespeare’s works and culture between the Introductory and Advanced levels, a more in-depth engagement with a more substantial critical focus. We will consider a sequence of text selections of varied genres and themes, in relation to their historical, intellectual, and literary contexts. As well, we will explore a variety of critical approaches, with a focus upon the controversies and concepts of ideology at the core of the relationships between and among the plays, their contemporary audiences, and our own engagement with them. Counts as an “Aesthetics and Creative Expression” course in the GenEd WoK.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0006
  
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    ENGLIT 1021 - HISTORY OF LITERARY CRITICISM


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course concentrates on the major developments in the history of literary thought and criticism from Plato to the modern and post-modern developments. The major documents of literary criticism are studied in relation to the contexts- historical, cultural and philosophical—that gave rise to these responses.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1033 - DANTE’S DIVINE COMEDY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1106 - MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The major works of English literature of the 14th and 15th centuries, exclusive of Chaucer, will be read in the original middle English.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1116 - CHAUCER


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course closely examines major works by Chaucer - the Canterbury tales and Troilus and Criseyde. Students will view Chaucer’s work in its historical, social, artistic and intellectual contexts.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1120 - RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY LIT


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Deals with the main literary developments of the period, excluding the novel. Emphasis is on the major figures from Dryden to Goldsmith.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1129 - ADVANCED SHAKESPEARE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Students will read several plays in different genres, to be analyzed in class discussion and to serve as the focus of students’ research writing, applying to the plays critical theory, performance theory and practice, and textual analysis. This course assumes a basic familiarity with Shakespeare’s dramatic genres and poetic techniques.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 1151 - ROMANTIC POETRY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Deals almost exclusively with the poetry of the six major romantic poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. Some minor poets of the romantic period may also be studied.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1171 - THE ROMANTIC PERIOD


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course studies the work of those major writers- from Blake through Keats—which constitutes British romanticism. It explores the social, intellectual and aesthetic concerns of this movement and its relationships with its British and European cultural contexts.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1175 - 19TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A study of the major writers and cultural issues of 19th century Britain situated in relation to the social and intellectual developments of the time.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., West European Studies
  
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    ENGLIT 1182 - VICTORIAN LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course studies the poetry of Tennyson, the Brownings, Clough, Arnold, the Rosettis, Meredith, Morris, Swinburne, Hopkins and Hardy. Attention will also be given to a sampling of prose of the period.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1200 - AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1860


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course surveys literature produced in America before the Civil War. In the process it explores the historical, political, social and cultural factors that affected the development of that literature. It examines the work of writers who saw themselves as powerful framers of the national experience yet fearful they would have little effects on a culture confronting problems of slavery, divisiveness, literacy, economic change, immigration, etc.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1210 - THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course surveys the flowering of American literature during the first half of the nineteenth-century. It analyzes the struggle of American writers to develop a new national literature.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1239 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN AMER LITRATUR


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Treats topics relevant to American literature. Topics vary, but will include the literature of a specific era or region; the achievement of a specific writer or school of writers; ethnic and/or gender studies; film and literature studies; specific thematic topics; genre studies; and/or close readings of influential texts.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1241 - JANE AUSTEN: BOOKS & FILM


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will cover four of the novels of Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma), and their film and television series equivalents, plus one very recent derivative novel, Helen Fielding’s, “Bridget Jones’s Diary” (and its film version). The point of the course would be to refine students’ sense of how to read both novels and films and simultaneously to sharpen their sense of a historical period in some cultural detail and examine the cultural and aesthetic values of their own post-modern era.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1248 - LITERATURE OF MINORITY WOMEN


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Through a close study of literary works by minority women writers of North America, particularly African/Asian American writers, the course intends to help students develop a clear understanding and a critical appreciation of these different ‘strands’ in North American culture.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1252 - 20THC AMERICAN LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Examines significant American writings published from 1900 to World War II, specifically American literature’s response to two World Wars, the introduction of narrative experimentation, economic booms and busts, the scientific revolution, political radicalism, the women’s movement, the emergence of ethnic literatures, and the beginning of the nuclear age.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1253 - CONTEMPORARY POETRY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A study of works by poets who have been active since World War II to the present.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1260 - AMERICAN POETRY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Examines select poets and signature texts that represent the defining elements of American poetry from the Puritan era to the present. Emphasizes shared themes and concerns as well as those formal experiments that have come to distinguish American poetry.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1265 - SCIENCE FICTION AND VIRTUAL WORLDS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A literature course centered on concepts and representations of virtual reality in literature, film, and digital media. Drawing from several bodies of critical theory including game studies and post-humanistic models of subjectivity, the course interrogates the shifting boundaries between the real and the virtual, and it requires students to read, view, and interact with several advanced works of science fiction.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 1280 - CNTMPRY AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course examines writings by American women from the 1950’s to the present. It draws upon feminist literary criticism to explore issues such as the symbolic significance of gender, power relations between the sexes, and differences in representation across race, class and ethnicity.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1312 - 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN NOVEL


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Tracks the emergence of a defining American novel from the early years of the republic through the political and social upheavals of the Civil War and through the issues specific to a new industrial and economic power at the close of the century. Includes texts that represent the romance, psycho logical realism, experimental impressionism, naturalism, and the urban and regional realism.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1320 - THE 20TH CENTURY NOVEL


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A study of the various transformations of the traditional novel in modern British and American fiction. Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, Hemingway, and Faulkner are among the writers to be studied.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1327 - BRITAIN’S MODERNITY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will explore the massive changes in Britain after the First World War, reflected in the faster pace of life amidst planes, underground trains, cars and technological modernization. We will read novels, short stories and essays that ponder the changes upon art and human expression of the expanding consciousness created by psychoanalysis, the craze for spiritualism, as well as the revolutionary effects of one marriage manual, debated in fiction by women.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0006
  
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    ENGLIT 1360 - TOPICS IN 20TH CENTURY LIT


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Considers thematic, formal historical or cultural topics in late 19th and 20th century literature. It ties these issues to critical and social concerns in international modernism and post modernism.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
    Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., West European Studies
  
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    ENGLIT 1362 - WORLD WAR IN 20TH-CENTURY LITERATURE, FILM, AND DIGITAL ARCHIVES


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Students will explore the cultural constructs of World War through the literature and film of the time, and they will use digital archives from England to investigate the unreliability of memory.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1363 - SPY FICTION IN 20TH-CENTURY LITERATURE, FILM, AND DIGITAL ARCHIVES


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Students will use digital archives from England to explore British and Irish spy fiction and films produced in the 20th century.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 1364 - LONDON IN CURRENT BRITISH FICTION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course explores writers’ fascination with London in the literature that has been published in the last 15 years. It examines narratives that depict the city’s geography, history, anthropology, representation, and both its “psychogeography” and the relative modern multi-media fracturing of its utopian and dystopian narratives.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 1365 - CONTEM AMERICAN LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Explores works that represent the defining literary movements of American literature from 1950 to the present, including post-Hiroshima realism, postmodernism, post humanism, cyber-realism, and post-postmodernism. Offers historical perspective on post-war American intellectual culture by examining the era’s defining theoretical/literary models.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1371 - MAKERS OF MODERN DRAMA


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This class will read intensively and comparatively plays written by late-19th and early-20th century continental, English, Irish and American dramatists. Plays selected will reflect major dramatic movements of the period (realism, naturalism, symbolism, expressionism) and will be analyzed not only by theatrical characteristics but also in relation to their dramatic, critical and cultural contexts.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1381 - WORLD LITERATURE IN ENGLISH


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course examines contemporary literature, primarily in English, written in eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, etc. It pays particular attention to its depiction of social, political and moral concerns.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1500 - INDEPENDENT STUDY


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 6
    To be arranged in consultation with instructor.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Independent Study
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1553 - HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A survey of the linguistic development of English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. Attention given to basic linguistic structures and discursive practices and to the social and historical conditions under which they change.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1630 - THE AMERICAN DREAM


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    An interdisciplinary examination of the American dream of success and the myth of the self-made individual.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1647 - LITERATURE FOR ADOLESCENTS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will read classics as well as modern works written specifically for an adolescent audience. We will also read and discuss sociological and psychological constructions of adolescents and books on pedagogy.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1701 - TOPICS IN WOMEN’S STUDIES


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Investigates issues raised by the woman’s movement in literature written by and about women. It ties these issues to critical and cultural concerns both at the time the text was written and to the present day.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1704 - WOMEN NOVELISTS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course explores the important role women have played in the development of the novel and how they have used and transformed its generic traditions. We will place novels in the contexts of issues important to their own time and discuss questions raised by recent feminist criticism.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1705 - WOMEN AND DRAMA


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will focus on the work of playwrights who came of age during the feminist movement in the 1970s and won critical and /or popular acclaim. Students will choose one of the playwrights to research for a class presentation and term paper.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1830 - FILM AS LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    An in-depth study of film as literature, primarily dealing with objectively observing and evaluating the film experience. In alternating offerings the course may deal with directorial studies, mileu, genres, and literature into-film studies.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1902 - ENGLISH LITERATURE INTERNSHIP


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 12
    This internship will allow you to use your skills in English literature to the context of a publishing house, in a supervised structure in which you will learn proof-reading, copy-editing, and literary production. This course will rely on the skills in grammar, spelling, and clear expression, as well as an awareness of literary style.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Internship
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1912 - SENIOR SEMINAR


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Intensive study of a single topic or figure that assumes previous work in related literary, historical, and critical areas. Each seminar moves toward a final paper that integrates earlier literary study with the specific critical perspective developed in this course.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
 

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