2021-2022 Johnstown Campus Catalog

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Division Policies and Requirements
Humanities Internships

Academic Programs Offered

Chair: Michael Stoneham, Ph.D.
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Division Policies and Requirements

Candidates for graduation in Humanities must have earned a minimum of 120 credits.

The final 30 credits MUST be earned at Johnstown.

Degree candidates must have a quality point average of 2.00 (C average) or higher in all work at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown or at the University’s other campuses.

The courses required for a major must be completed with a minimum quality point average of 2.00.

All students must satisfy all foundational, general education, and all major requirements to graduate with a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pittsburgh Johnstown.

Completion of no fewer than 12 credits in a related area is required in certain major programs. Consultation with an advisor will help students determine the best approach to this requirement; the related area that a student pursues must be approved by the student’s respective advisor.

A satisfactory level of competence in English Composition must be demonstrated by the successful completion of UPJ general education writing requirements. For the majority of students, this means successful completion of both ENGCMP 0005 - COMPOSITION 1 and ENGCMP 0006 - COMPOSITION 2 .

A student may earn no more than two credits in Physical Education per term, to a maximum of eight during his or her entire scholastic career at Pitt-Johnstown. Only the first four Physical Education credits are counted as being in Arts and Sciences; any additional credits are considered as non-Arts and Sciences.

Majors in Humanities may not elect the H/S/U option for courses in their respective majors.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS
In addition to the above credits, each Humanities major must complete the following requirements along with major course requirements:

I. Each major must take courses prescribed areas common to all Humanities degrees:
A. Foreign Language and/or Literature:
All students must complete two sequential courses in the same foreign language depending on Placement Exam results or complete three courses designated as Literature in Translation.
B. At least one course in Fine Arts or Music
C. At least one course in Philosophy
D. At least one course in Communication or Theatre Arts or English Literature

II. At least half of the courses in Humanities must be upper-division level courses (1000 series)

These degree requirements apply to students who will complete degrees in Humanities at Pitt-Johnstown. Students who plan to relocate to other schools of the University should be guided by the requirements set forth in the appropriate University catalog.

HUMANITIES INTERNSHIPS
Students majoring in Communication, Journalism, Multimedia and Digital Culture, or Professional Writing are encouraged to serve a 1-12 credit internship. Internships are designed to provide students with field experience in their chosen major. Students may take multiple internships, but are limited in the maximum number of credits that can count toward completition of a program. Students must seek permission from the program coordinator for admission.

Academic Programs Offered

Programs

Major

Minor

In addition to an academic major, a student may elect to pursue a minor in another academic discipline. The specific requirements for each minor are established by the individual academic disciplines. However, all minors require the completion of a minimum of 18 credits of course work.

Courses

Communication: Rhet & Comm

COMMRC 0025 - ESL SPEAKING AND LISTENING

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: Letter Grade
COMMRC 0030 - INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNICATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introduction to communication theory with consideration given to how theoretical stances relate to areas of communication study including: interpersonal communication, small group communication, mass communication, organizational communication, and gender issues in communication.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
COMMRC 0052 - PUBLIC SPEAKING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduction to the composition, delivery and critical analysis of informative and persuasive speeches.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
COMMRC 0083 - INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An analysis of various foreign cultures and U.S. Subcultures focusing on communication behavior. Attitudes held by each group and problems which may arise in exchange of ideas between groups are studied.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
COMMRC 0320 - MASS COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to introduce students to the basic concepts of mass communication research and to the history and development of various media (TV., Radio, newspapers, magazines, etc.).
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., Undergraduate Research
COMMRC 0600 - THEORIES OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the conceptualization, theories, and models of interpersonal (between two people) relationships involving face-to-face and mediated interactions.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
COMMRC 0650 - THEORIES OF PERSUASION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Survey of 21st century theories of persuasion, with analysis of research about how the spoken word and the visual image influence public belief and action.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
COMMRC 0700 - COMMUNICATION RESEARCH METHODS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The research methods course will provide an overview of different research methodologies, which are utilized within the communication discipline. The course will present a foundational base of theory through lecture, and encourage students to apply their knowledge through in-class exercises. A large portion of the in-class exercises will ask students to analyze and interpret data through the use of statistical software. Students will also be expected to read and present critiques of communication research articles. As a final project students will be able to present their cumulative understanding of the research process through a group project. In groups, students will design a study that employs one of the major methodologies discussed in this class (i.e. Experiments, survey, content analyses etc.). The groups will formulate a research question/hypothesis, develop an instrument for data collection, collect data, analyze data, and present the results in a poster presentation at the end of the semester.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: COMMRC 0030 and MATH 0001 or Math Placement Score (46 or greater)
COMMRC 1107 - GENDER AND COMMUNICATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In-depth exploration of the communication of women and men in society in such settings as families, friendships, schools, organizations, and media.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: COMMRC 0030
COMMRC 1124 - RHETORICAL CRITICISM

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Designed to help students become acquainted with contemporary methods of rhetorical criticism through a combination of lecture, discussion and practical applications.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006
COMMRC 1130 - BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL SPEAKING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A speaking course focusing on researching, developing, and delivering presentations appropriate for business contexts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
COMMRC 1131 - ORGANIZATIONAL COMMUNICATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An overview of the relationship between communication and organizing processes, with an emphasis on theories, principles and practices of organizational communication as well as organizational research methodology.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
COMMRC 1132 - POLITICAL COMMUNICATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Analysis of methods of symbol use in the political arena and in public policy debates.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
COMMRC 1133 - INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
LMC is a marketing approach that emphasizes coordination and syncronization of all communication that has the potential to influence the consumer about a brand. Students will expand their knowledge of marketing models and tactics applicable to advertising and public relations.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
COMMRC 1134 - SMALL GROUP COMMUNICATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Examination of communication principles, theories and behaviors relevant to small group formation, dynamics and decision making.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
COMMRC 1135 - MEDICAL COMMUNICATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines how communication within the medical relationship determines the effectiveness of health-related decision-making, information exchange, and treatments
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
COMMRC 1136 - NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Examination of nonverbal communication channels including physical characteristics and movements of communicators, as well as spatial and environmental influences on the communication process.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
COMMRC 1139 - MEDIA CRITICISM

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Advanced analysis of the messages, formats and implications of media texts, applying various theories of contemporary media criticism.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (ENGCMP 0004 or 0006) and COMMRC 0320
COMMRC 1144 - VISUAL COMMUNICATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is a survey of several theoretical perspectives on visual communication. Students can expect to learn broad and diverse approaches to visual perception, reception and persuasion. Learning will come from readings, comics, graphic design, film, photography and other viewings and applications of visual rhetoric.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
COMMRC 1158 - SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGIES

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to invite students to think reflectively about the implications of new communicative technologies for human flourishing as connected to civility. Students will consider and articulate the importance of being informed, active, critical citizens in a complex global society. Students will understand social media platforms, learn elements of mindful social media engagement, and analyze and evaluate social media strategies. This course provides a detailed look at social media strategies connected to storytelling, brand building, crisis management, and public relations. This course will be listed in the Aesthetic and creative Expression WOK.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
COMMRC 1211 - PUBLIC RELATIONS 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will study the field of public relations and what it takes to help build a positive image for an organization through both traditional media and emerging social media tools. Students will choose a local organization to work with to research and develop a Public Relations plan throughout the course of the semester.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
COMMRC 1212 - PUBLIC RELATIONS 2

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is divided into two areas of focus, traditional public relations and personal public relations. Students will build upon the tools used in PR1 to execute public relations strategies for local organizations who will speak to the class about their PR needs and challenges. Students will also build a personal portfolio of tools to help present themselves in the best possible light to potential employers.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
COMMRC 1733 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN COMMUNICATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Examines a specific communications topic which varies each time this course is offered.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: COMMRC 0030
COMMRC 1902 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
Provides an opportunity for qualified undergraduate students, under the guidance of a classroom teacher, to have a first-hand experience with peer mentoring and classroom instruction as a uta. Participation is by instructor invitation only.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
COMMRC 1903 - COMMUNICATION INTERNSHIP

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 12
Internships provide practical work experience related to the student’s course of study. Placement of students in community agencies, offices, etc., For training and experience in communication applications.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
COMMRC 1950 - COMMUNICATION CAPSTONE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on research in communication. After a brief introduction of basic concepts, selected methodologies will be examined. Students will engage in individual research projects, utilizing one of these methodologies. Students will submit a written report as well as give a public oral presentation of their original research.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: COMMRC 0030 and COMMRC 0052 and COMMRC 0700 and COMMRC 1124

English Composition

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
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
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)
ENGCMP 0008 - ESL WRITING WORKSHOP

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
English Writing Workshop is the pre-requisite course for ESL Composition I for college students whose first language is not English and whose placement scores indicate a requirement for additional preparatory study to succeed in undergraduate courses with writing requirements. The course provides small group and one-on-one instruction, real world application of English, and plenty of opportunities to succeed for the English language learning college student. Instruction includes grammar, sentence structure, paragraph writing, writing as a process, writing for a variety of purposes, and documentation of sources.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: Letter Grade

English Film Studies

ENGFLM 0400 - INTRODUCTION TO FILM

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a basic course on the visual arts that offers the student abroad introduction to the medium of film. As part of this overview, the class will consider such issues as: the process of contemporary film production and distribution; the nature of basic film forms; selected approaches to film criticism; comparisons between film and the other media.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.

English Literature

ENGLIT 0040 - ESL READING SKILLS

Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
ESL Reading Workshop is designed specifically for college students whose first language is not English and whose reading placement test scores indicate a need for additional preparatory study to succeed in undergraduate reading requirements. ESL Reading Workshop helps students improve comprehension of written college level writing in English. The course provides small group and one-on-one instruction, real world application of English including academic, legal, and media reading, and reading strategies for freshmen college students.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
ENGLIT 0040 - ESL READING SKILLS

Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
ENGLIT 0367 - CRIME STORIES: COURTROOM DRAMAS & PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS

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
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
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
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
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
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
ENGLIT 0523 - MARS IN LITERARY IMAGINATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course approaches the planet Mars as an object of both scientific inquiry and literary exploration, and it examines the relationship between the two from the late Nineteenth Century to the present. It takes a global, multidisciplinary approach to appreciating the ways in which humankind’s longstanding fascination with the Red Planet has spurred advances and developments in both the sciences and the arts. Readings will include both literary and multimedia works in science fiction, creative nonfiction, journalism, and science writing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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.
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
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
ENGLIT 0695 - LITERATURE OF WAR

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The Literature of War explores the literature that emerged from the wars of the 20th and 21st century and interrogates the way in which war impacts 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
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
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
ENGLIT 1033 - DANTE’S DIVINE COMEDY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will study Dante’s Divine Comedy in English in its historical, intellectual, and literary contexts, using various critical approaches. This course offers the opportunity to develop skills in reading, thinking, and writing, as well as studying one of the most aesthetically and intellectually accomplished literary works of all time.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
ENGLIT 1230 - 20TH CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The first half of this course begins by examining some of the major authors from the 1920s who were a part of what came to be known as the ‘new negro renaissance’ or ‘Harlem renaissance,’ such as Langston Hughes, Nella Larsen, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, and Zora Neale Hurston. We will then study a range of modernist and naturalist writers of the 1930s and 1940s, such as Richard Wright, Ann Petry, and Gwendolyn Brooks. In the second half of the course we will focus on several post-WWII writers that were associated with the civil rights and black arts movements, from the 1950s to the 1970s, including such figures as Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Toni cade Bambara. Finally, we will consider the recent wave of African American writers that emerged with the popularization, in the 1980s, of several new genres of African American literature.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Diversity General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Diversity General Ed. Requirements, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
ENGLIT 1294 - FORM AND THEORY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced seminar explores the interconnections between the disciplines of literature and creative writing. Students will study the history, criticism, and craft of modern and / or contemporary literary works. Through critical and creative writing assignments, students will engage these texts as both writers and readers.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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
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
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
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
ENGLIT 1361 - 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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

English Writing

ENGWRT 0050 - INTRO TO CREATIVE WRITING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course offers students an introductory study of the written arts. Through the close reading of modern and contemporary texts and guided experimentation in a variety of genres (e.g. Poetry, fiction, drama, and creative nonfiction), students will examine, explore, and discuss the creative process.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0006 or (ENGCMP 0005 and ENGR Program) or (ENGCMP 0005 and JNUR-UNK Plan)
ENGWRT 0053 - INTRO TO PROFESSIONAL WRITING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to several forms of professional writing, such as review and profile writing, public relations and marketing writing, and writing for the web. Students will compose, revise, and edit their own texts and also read and study “real world” examples of professional writing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0006 or (ENGCMP 0005 and ENGR Program) or (ENGCMP 0005 and JNUR-UNK Plan)
ENGWRT 0500 - CREATIVE NONFICTION WRITING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the art and practice of creative nonfiction prose, including personal essay, memoir, and literary journalism. Students will explore the unique possibilities of the genre by reading and studying modern and contemporary authors, and composing and revising a variety of creative writing assignments.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006
ENGWRT 0501 - BUSINESS WRITING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will learn how to write in and about the profession they plan to pursue after college. Classroom instruction, careful attention to the professional samples (e.g. readings, websites), various written exercises completed during class, and one on one conferences will help students learn the basics of workplace prose. Students will complete five out-of-classroom assignments that focus on writing for an in-house or an online audience. They will also write in the classroom to demonstrate their understanding of the concepts involved with each assignment. A final exam on fundamentals of writing is also required. Proper grammar, punctuation, mechanics, spelling and formatting will be expected and clear writing required; graceful prose will be encouraged within these bounds. This course will be listed in the Aesthetic and Creative Expression WOK. In ENGWRT 0501, students will demonstrate knowledge and understanding of human expression as well as create work in written and digital mediums. ENGCMP 0006 is the prerequisite (ENGCMP 0005 for Engineering and Nursing).
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
ENGWRT 0511 - WRITING FOR DIGITAL MEDIA

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This intermediate writing course will teach students writing strategies for online media across a range of professional fields such as business and technology, journalism, public relations and marketing, and creative writing. Students will analyze the particular needs of digital media, inluding blogs, hypertext websites, social media, and collaborative media (e.g. Wikis), and then apply that knowledge to shaping clear, concise prose for a digital audience.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or ENGCMP 0006
ENGWRT 0521 - FICTION WRITING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to aspects of prose fiction - plot, point of view, characterization, conflict, etc. Students may write exercises on these aspects of fiction, or write one or more short stories and revise frequently. Students will also read representative stories and explore their use of particular fictional techniques.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0006 or (ENGCMP 0005 and ENGR Program) or (ENGCMP 0005 and JNUR-UNK Plan)
Course Attributes: Writing Requirement Course
ENGWRT 0531 - POETRY WRITING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Through writing exercises, close and extensive reading of modern and contemporary poetry, and intense revision of their own poetry, students will be introduced to the forms, elements, and techniques of poetry writing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0006 or (ENGCMP 0005 and ENGR Program) or (ENGCMP 0005 and JNUR-UNK Plan)
ENGWRT 0541 - PLAYWRITING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A beginning course in writing for the stage. Starting with short scenes, students will work towards understanding the craft and art of constructing theatre stories to be performed by actors. The final project will be a one-act play. Throughout there will be emphasis on the stage effectiveness of the writing and opportunity for informal performance of student scripts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0006 or (ENGCMP 0005 and ENGR Program) or (ENGCMP 0005 and JNUR-UNK Plan)
ENGWRT 0551 - SCIENCE AND NATURE WRITING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to writing about science and nature (including medicine, technology, the environment, and other scientific disciplines) for a lay audience. Students study contemporary science writing from a craft perspective to learn the tenets of literary nonfiction including narration, description, and reflection. In addition, students pursue their own scholarly and field research to produce original nonfiction writing on a scientific subject of their choosing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
ENGWRT 0561 - WRITING FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines writing from times of conflict and crisis to help students compose work in which they witness, report, advocate, question, and/or desire change. Students study creative writing by authors responding to significant cultural and political events for its use of writing strategies such as observation, reflection, advocacy, and argument. Students develop their own creative work on social change issues relevant to their interests and ultimately gain knowledge of the importance of civic engagement.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or ENGCMP 0006
ENGWRT 0570 - DIGITAL POETRY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will read, critique, and experience poems by published authors who employ innovative media and forms. Students will also craft their own digital poems.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
ENGWRT 0600 - WRITING WITCHES, HARPIES & HAGS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This multi-genre creative writing course explores three common literary archetypes of monstrous women: the witch, the harpy, and the hag. Our primary focus will be looking at how contemporary women, trans, and non-binary writers engage with these tropes, whether by expanding, embracing, or rejecting them. In their own writing, students will be asked to explore ideas of magic, power, rage, and ugliness across several creative genres.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0005 or ENGCMP 0006
ENGWRT 1000 - ADV CREATV NONFICTION WRITING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An advanced writing course designed to hone creative nonfiction writing skills through extensive writing, workshop style peer critiques, and in-depth reading. Several of the subgenres of creative nonfiction will be studied and practiced: memoir, personal essay, nature writing, travel writing, science writing, biographical profile, and historical incident. Accurate description, scenic representation, and narrative framing will be among the technical devices considered.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0050 OR 0053 OR 0500
ENGWRT 1011 - DIGITAL STORYTELLING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An advanced creative and professional writing course on the nature and value of storytelling and the ways in which storytelling is changing in the digital era. Students compose narratives in a variety of multimedia formats, including digital images, audio and video recording, and hypermedia.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 and ENGWRT 0050 or 0053
ENGWRT 1021 - ADVANCED FICTION WRITING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course assumes students know the basics of fiction. Students work on writing short stories and read a wide range of stories. Students can expect to revise their work regularly. Class sessions will address problems in fiction writing - from plot to characterization, from point-of-view to style.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0050 or 0053 or 0521
ENGWRT 1031 - ADVANCED POETRY WRITING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This upper level poetry writing course offers students who have mastered fundamental skills and who are familiar with basic issues of craft and form a workshop environment in which to compose and revise a significant group of poems. The course will include the close reading and study of some important works of modern and contemporary poetry.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0050 or 0531
ENGWRT 1130 - GRAMMAR, USAGE, AND STYLE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Reviews essential grammatical principles traditionally and historically, including punctuation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006
ENGWRT 1140 - DIGITAL MAGAZINE PRODUCTION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
After rigorous study of landmark print and online magazines, students will produce solo magazines and then work in an editorial team to build a single online magazine.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0050 or 0053 or 0511
Course Attributes: Hybrid
ENGWRT 1192 - TECHNICAL WRITING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Prepares students to deal with problems of technological communication in various fields. Includes analysis, development, use and evaluation of various models employed in the process of technical writing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0006 or (ENGCMP 0005 and JENGR Program) or (ENGCMP 0005 and JNUR-UNK Plan)
ENGWRT 1700 - ADVANCED SEMINAR IN WRITING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This seminar provides a capstone experience for English writing majors and students intensely committed to writing. It is assumed that students come to the seminar having taken a fairly broad range of both English writing and literature courses. Students will complete an original manuscript in a genre of their choice (e.g. poetry, fiction, drama, creative nonfiction). Manuscripts will be evaluated by an approved outside reader as well as the instructor. Class hours will be devoted to workshop critiques and discussing contemporary issues of form and theory related to the written arts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0050 and 0053; PLAN: Writing major or minor; LVL: Junior or Senior
ENGWRT 1902 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
This option permits students to design their own course with the approval of a department faculty member. Students must submit a proposal to the faculty member.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0050 or 0053
ENGWRT 1950 - PROFESSIONAL WRITING INTERNSHIP

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
This course will allow qualified students majoring in English wriitng to work under an employer’s supervision while developing and completing tasks relevant to their eventual professional employment. In an internship, students could write in any number of forms (memos, letters, reports, web pages, press releases, etc) and would devote at least 50% of their time to drafting, revising, and finalizing various documents for an employer. In addition, students will write a final report for the coordinator of professional writing in which they describe and assess their internship expereince. Students must have Junior or Senior standing and a 3.0 Grade Point Average to be eligible.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
Course Attributes: Undergraduate Internship

Fine Arts

FA 0015 - HISTORY OF WESTERN ART 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introductory survey course that explores the major accomplishments in Western art (painting, sculpture, architecture, and the minor arts) from prehistory to the arrival of the Black Death. A strongly interdisciplinary approach is taken, one that considers how religious, political, economic and social conditions affected the creation of art.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
FA 0016 - HISTORY OF WESTERN ART 2

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introductory survey course that explores the major accomplishments in Western art (painting, sculpture, architecture, and the minor arts) from the Renaissance through the modern era. A strongly interdisciplinary approach is taken, one that considers how religious, political, economic and social conditions affected the creation of art. It is not necessary to have taken FA 0015 History of Western Art 1 before taking this course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
FA 0031 - MODERN ART

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A period survey that examines the most influential art styles of the 19th and 20th centuries. The complex relationship between art movements and the societal conditions that affected the creation and meaning of this art is examined through readings, class discussion and visual/contextual analysis. Writing skills are emphasized.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
FA 0050 - MEDIEVAL ART

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A period survey that examines the art and architecture of the European Middle Ages, beginning with the emergence and legalization of Christianity in the late Roman empire and ending with the arrival of the Black Death. Particular attention is paid to the evolution of Christian imagery as it relates to historical and theological developments over time, as well as the structural, functional and aesthetic characteristics of individual monuments. Writing skills are emphasized.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
FA 0054 - ART LOOTING AND DESTRUCTION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This seminar explores the complex history of art looting and destruction, the motives behind it, the methods by which it occurred and the impact it made not only upon those involved, and, indeed, humanity as a whole. The course uses specific case studies of both political and religious iconoclasm, as well as historical and contemporary incidents of art looting-especially during times of war and unrest-and both examines the pertinent literature that chronicles the theft of objects of art and investigates the impacteon works of art and architecture.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
FA 0080 - WORLD RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introductory-level course that examines a rich variety of the world’s major religious buildings and complexes, focusing particular attention on understanding structural, functional and aesthetic characteristics of individual monuments. Societal conditions and religious beliefs that affected their design and meaning are examined through readings, discussion and visual/contextual analysis.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
FA 0150 - ANCIENT ART

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines in full or in part the artistic and cultural traditions of the ancient world, including the ancient near east, Egypt, the Aegean, Greece and Rome. Religious, literary and political documents are analyzed to better understand the form and function of ancient sculpture, painting and architecture.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
FA 0304 - RENAISSANCE ART

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the art and architecture created in Italy and in Northern Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. Focus is placed on defining the term “renaissance,” as well as exploring the major artists, patrons and cultural centers of the period. Historical events, pertinent literary and philosophical sources, and religious figures are explored to contextualize the work of great masters such as Giotto, Masaccio, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian and Palladio.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
FA 0351 - BAROQUE ART

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The Protestant reformation brought about not only a strong Catholic counter-reformation, but also entirely new economic and social conditions under which art and architecture thrived in 17th and 18th century Italy, Spain, Flanders, Holland, France and England. In this course we closely examine how societal conditions affected the creation, type, subject matter and meaning of this art, through readings, classroom discussion and visual/contextual analysis.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
FA 0440 - FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A comprehensive study of master architect Frank Lloyd Wright, this course carefully investigates his life, his career and his far-reaching beliefs on a number of topics. All of his major structures and creative periods are examined, including those buildings and projects Wright undertook in the Pittsburgh region, especially the world-famous Kaufmann House, Fallingwater. In addition, a broader discussion of modern architectural movements and relevant architects will be undertaken in order help students contextualize Wright’s ideas and achievements. Writing skills are emphasized.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
FA 0450 - TWENTIETH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course closely examines the development of architectural styles and building technologies from the late nineteenth century to the present. This is accomplished by thoroughly investigating (through assigned readings, classroom discussion and visual/contextual analysis) individual architects and their significant structures, as well as the relationship between the built-environment and societal conditions.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
FA 0521 - AMERICAN PAINTING 19TH CENTURY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the major movements, artists and cultural issues in the development of nineteenth century American painting. Chronologically or thematically this course addresses portraiture, landscape, still-life, genre and history painting, up to the 1913 Armory Show.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
FA 0621 - ART OF CHINA

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the rich artistic and cultural traditions of Asia, particularly China, but also India and Japan. Singular monuments of great importance receive intensive study, such as the Great Stupa at Sanchi, Taj Mahal, Angkor Wat, the Forbidden City and the Ise Grand Shrine. Other major topics include Chinese bronze ritual object, Hindu architecture, Chinese scroll painting and Japanese prints.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
FA 1170 - FA INTERNSHIP

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 12
Supervised internship working for a museum, arts organization or other relevant entity, arranged in consultation with instructor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
FA 1902 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Independent reading and research to be arranged in consultation with instructor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis

French

FR 0052 - FRENCH FOR READING KNOWLEDGE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed for students who have never studied french and desire to study french for reading knowledge and translation essential for graduate schooling in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. In this course, students will learn basic french grammar rules, vocabulary, and syntax essential to comprehending basic french texts in their respective areas of study.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
FR 0054 - FRENCH CONVERSATION FOR BUSINESS AND TRAVEL

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course would give the business student and the traveler the knowledge and skills necessary to communicate with others during business and travel in francophone nations. Learning French can also help them improve the interpersonal skills they would need in an international career.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
FR 0101 - ELEMENTARY FRENCH 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A study of the grammar and vocabulary of elementary spoken and written French. Stresses grammatical structure and its correct application.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: UPB Global General Ed. Requirement, UPB Language General Ed. Requirement
FR 0102 - ELEMENTARY FRENCH 2

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A continuation of elementary French 1. A study of the grammar and vocabulary of elementary spoken and written French. Stresses grammatical structure and its correct application.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0101 or 0111
Course Attributes: DSAS Second Language General Ed. Requirement, UPB Global General Ed. Requirement, UPB Language General Ed. Requirement
FR 0211 - INTERMEDIATE FRENCH 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is a logical continuation of the first year, elementary French 1 and 2 sequence. Emphasis continues to be placed on communication.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0102 or 0112
FR 0212 - INTERMEDIATE FRENCH 2

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is a continuation of intermediate French 1.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0211
FR 0311 - BUSINESS FRENCH

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will be an introduction to business practices in France. The major topics covered in class will include written business, communication, financial institutions, trade, and advertising. The students will be asked to do translations, to write professional correspondence, and to read articles related to the world of business, economics, and finance. Cross-cultural differences regarding the work place are also a focus of the course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0212
FR 0320 - INTRODUCTION TO CIVILIZATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to lead students to a better understanding of France today. Particular attention is directed to the major aspects of contemporary French life and society.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0212
FR 0321 - APPROACHES TO FRENCH LITERATURE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The goal of this course is to illustrate ways of looking at literary texts. We shall examine plays, short prose works and poems focusing on textural elements such as narrative technique, characterization, societal factors and language.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0212
FR 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: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
FR 0355 - FRENCH CONVERSATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to help students already familiar with the basic grammatical structure of the language to improve their facility in oral expression.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0212
FR 0356 - WRITTEN FRENCH 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to enable students to improve their understanding and control of essential elements of written French.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0212
FR 0452 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 9
To be arranged in consultation with instructor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0212
FR 0610 - FRENCH HUMANIST WRITERS OF THE RENAISSANCE (ENGLISH OR FRENCH)

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will read English translations of sixteenth-century French prose with a focus on the historical, intellectual, and literary contexts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
FR 0620 - NINETEENTH-CENTURY FRENCH SHORT STORIES (ENGLISH OR FRENCH)

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will read English translations of nineteenth-century French short stories and will be introduced to French history, art, and literary theory.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: Letter Grade
FR 0630 - MEDIEVAL EPIC POETRY (ENGLISH OR FRENCH)

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will read English translations of several French epic poems and will study the epic tradition along with French cultural history from the 9th century through the 12th century.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
FR 0640 - MEDIEVAL FRENCH COURTLY ROMANCE (ENGLISH OR FRENCH)

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will introduce students to the courtly romance of 12th century France through such works as the Arthurian tales of “Chretien de Troyes,” the romance of “Tristan and Iseult,” and “Aucassin and Nicolette.” (In English)
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
FR 0650 - FRENCH LITERATURE AND MODERN CINEMA (ENGLISH OR FRENCH)

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This literature in translation course focuses on Canonical texts and their modern American adaptations. The texts will cover an area from the seventeenth century to WWII. We will study French culture and watch famous films such as “Beauty and the Beast”, and “The Monuments Men”. We will pay attention to the audiences of these works and study the main differences between the original French texts and the American films.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
FR 0660 - LITERATURE IN THE FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The readings in this course are designed to help you become acquainted with the English translations of eighteenth-century French literature. While plot summary is important, what matters most is your reading of the texts and how well you support your interpretation with specific examples found in the text. The course is designed to continue to develop your ability to analyze and synthesize literary works. This is what is meant by the term close reading. The relationship between a text and its reader is at once personal and scholarly. You will learn to recognize and appreciate the works in their historical, intellectual, and literary contexts, considering various critical approaches and scholarship. You will also be given a cursory introduction to XVIIIth century French history, art, architecture, philosophy, and society. This course is designed to help you learn to read and analyze critical scholarship, while at the same time learning to incorporate it into your work.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
FR 1019 - 20TH CENTURY TOPICS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course, offered infrequently, will treat some aspect of the literature of the 20th century in France.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0212
FR 1060 - FRANCOPHONE LITERATURE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will cover the social, cultural, and political issues of French-speaking Africa and Canada as represented in poetry and fiction. (In French)
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
FR 1062 - ALGERIAN LITERATURE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will explore Algerian literature written by Algerian writers as well as French writers in the 19th and 20th centuries. (In French)
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
FR 1083 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN LIT (ENGLISH)

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course taught in English and offered infrequently, will treat some aspect of French literature.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
FR 1090 - INTRODUCTION TO TRANSLATION STUDIES

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course serves as a foundation course for the professional translation certificate program, and for related fields. It deals with translation theory and the general problematics of the translation process, providing a theoretical framework for translation and systematically linking theory and practice.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

Humanities

HUMAN 0500 - DIGITAL TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to introduce tools and technologies in humanities computing for undergraduate digital research. We will create opportunities for engagement beyond the classroom, as students work together in teams to create websites, produce scholarship, and offer service in the public humanities. The course is modeled on the “Humanities Lab”, which emphasizes project-based learning, collaboration, and long-term project development. The course does require some programming, database design, and mark-up instruction, but on a level that assumes no prior knowledge or experience with computers.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: Letter Grade
HUMAN 1350 - MULTIMEDIA AND DIGITAL CULTURE INTERNSHIP

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
The MMDC Internship course is designed to provide MMDC majors with opportunities to apply discipline-specific knowledge and skills to a modern workplace, thus allowing for a supervised structure for using MMDC theory and practice in a practical, hands-on environment.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
HUMAN 1500 - MULTIMEDIA AND DIGITAL CULTURE CAPSTONE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A capstone course in which students will refine their previous digital projects and produce new ones to be assembled in a digital portfolio, suitable for job applications or graduate school applications. Students will also begin their job search by identifying and locating potential employers and targeting their materials for those positions.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Attributes: Capstone Course

Italian

ITAL 1033 - DANTE’S DIVINE COMEDY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A reading of Dante’s divine comedy in English, using a bilingual edition.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
ITAL 1181 - DANTE’S DIVINE COMEDY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A reading of Dante’s divine comedy in English, using a bilingual edition.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis

Journalism

JOURNL 0053 - INTRODUCTION TO JOURNALISM

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A course designed to provide both philosophical and historical foundations for consumers of mass media and those wishing to practice journalism. Provides an overview of American journalism-its underlying philosophies, history, theories, functions and ethics.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
JOURNL 1132 - REPORTING 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A course in news gathering and reporting with coverage of Richland township supervisors’ meetings or in-class exercises. Students are called upon to produce a range of journalistic writing, including hard news and human interest. Emphasis on deadline writing; reporter initiative; and clear and concise writing. Associated press style.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
JOURNL 1133 - MAGAZINE WRITING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students produce four or five magazine articles with emphasis on student ideas. Interviewing and information gathering skills are developed. The objective is publication with research of magazine markets. Associated press style.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
JOURNL 1134 - FEATURE WRITING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students produce weekly feature articles based on their ideas. Emphasis on student initiative and writing skills, including analysis of the best of American journalism. Consistent productivity is tested. Associated press style.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
JOURNL 1135 - EDITORIAL WRITING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Designed to introduce journalism students to an area of specialization in communications—the editorial. Emphasis on writing opinion for newspaper and electronic media and discussion of editorial policy-making, the means of per suasion and the roles of syndicated and local columns, editorial cartoons, letters to the editor and journals of opinion.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: JOURNL 1132
JOURNL 1136 - COPYREADING/EDITING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A workshop in which students receive editing and headline writing experience of the type they would receive in a daily newspaper newsroom. The emphasis is on “doing,” with deadlines and demands for accuracy in a job potential field consistently in demand.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
JOURNL 1137 - NEWSPAPER LAYOUT/DESIGN

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students study and utilize a wide variety of newspaper lay out-makeup styles in this workshop. Speed, accuracy, and imagination are combined to produce attractive, readable page designs.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
JOURNL 1138 - REPORTING 2

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A rigorous course in which students accept responsibility for beat coverage. Students produce two stories a week with a minimum of errors. Emphasis on productivity, initiative and error-free writing under deadline pressure. Associated press style.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: JOURNL 1132
JOURNL 1140 - PHOTOGRAPHY IN COMMUNICATIONS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A workshop in newspaper photography emphasizing coordination with writers and editors, artistic aspects, productivity and digital darkroom.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
JOURNL 1142 - JOURNALISM PRACTICUM

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Award of academic credits based on experience. Course available to members of the advocate, WUPJ radio station, editorial staff of backroads, and staff of the UPJ yearbook, with faculty consultation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
JOURNL 1144 - PUBLIC RELATIONS 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students study the concepts and practices of internal and external public relations. Along with contemporary theory, the course stresses writing, communication, layout and design. Writing skills expected.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
JOURNL 1145 - BROADCAST JOURNALISM

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students are introduced to broadcast journalism through traditional classroom instruction and writing of stories for radio and television formats.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
JOURNL 1146 - PUBLIC RELATIONS 2

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students study public relations taking a problem-solving approach. The workshop method enables students to experience various public relations “hands on.”
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: JOURNL 1144
JOURNL 1171 - CONFERENCE IN WRITING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The students are required to produce a 12,000-word writing project, a portion or all of which will be submitted for publication. Journalism students are required to write nonfiction projects, which might include a series of newspaper stories, one or more magazine articles, or a lengthy investigative reporting project. Non-journalism students may submit works of fiction (short stories, novel, etc.). Independent study format.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
JOURNL 1173 - INTERNSHIP

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 12
3-, 6-, 9-, and 12-credit journalism internships have been established with area media, businesses, and organizations in order to provide a practical experience supplement to the academic program. Six internship credits may be applied to the journalism major. The credit value of each internship program is determined by the number of working hours involved.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis

Music

MUSIC 0062 - CONCERT CHOIR

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Open to all students interested in developing musical techniques. The repertoire includes music of all periods from the Renaissance to the present.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
MUSIC 0063 - CHAMBER CHOIR

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
The chamber choir is a select group of singers that come from the UPJ concert choir. Admission into this ensemble is by audition only.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
MUSIC 0065 - WOMEN’S CHORUS

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
The women’s chorus performs literature from all historical periods. Admission into this ensemble is by audition only.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
MUSIC 0069 - CONCERT BAND

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Open to all students interested in ensemble playing. Rehearsals twice a week. Performs concerts and participates in sports events. A varied repertoire is performed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
MUSIC 0123 - BASIC MUSICIANSHIP: CLASS VOICE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed for non-voice majors who want to develop their singing and sight-reading skills. It provides an introduction to posture, breathing, tone production, diction, and interpretation, while introducing students to the elements of music theory and notation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
MUSIC 0212 - INTRO TO WESTERN ART MUSIC

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course presents the historical unfolding of the major achievements of music in Western culture from Gregorian chant to the twentieth century. The course assumes no ability to read musical score; the emphasis is on developing intelligent and creative listening skills.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
MUSIC 0223 - HISTORY OF WESTERN MUSIC TO 1750

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A study of selected master works of Western art music in a historical context from Gregorian chant through Johann Sebastian Bach. Emphasis is on musical understanding through critical listening, score study and lectures.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
MUSIC 0225 - HIST WESTERN MUSIC SINCE 1750

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the music of the classical, romantic and modern periods. Selected genres such as symphonies and masses will be analyzed, along with specific composers from these eras. Special attention will be given to stylistic and structural procedures. Emphasis will be on listening in a more critical fashion. No ability to read music is assumed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
MUSIC 0230 - BEETHOVEN SYMPHONIES

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the compositional techniques of Beethoven by emphasizing listening and discussing his nine symphonies. Students will learn about Beethoven’s life and the events in his life that inspire him to write each symphony. Students will also be introduced to basic music elements such as rhythm, melody and symphonic form. No prior musical background or knowledge is needed for this course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
MUSIC 0243 - MAJOR COMPOSERS 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the life of one or more major figures in Western art music. The content of the course changes, but it emphasizes music in its historical and cultural contexts, as well as individual genres and styles.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
MUSIC 0244 - MAJOR COMPOSERS 2

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is a continuation and further in-depth study of the musical giants from the romantic period to the twentieth century. We will study the lives and compositions of the great composers of this time, within the context of their living standards, personal circumstances and political ideologies.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
MUSIC 0413 - THEORY AND EAR-TRAINING 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the basic materials of music. Students will be introduced to such topics as note/rest values, intervals, rhythm and meter, key signatures, scales and triads. Students will become familiar with how to notate these elements, both by sight and aural recognition. Concepts will be practiced through singing and writing. This course assumes no ability to read music.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
MUSIC 0414 - THEORY AND EAR-TRAINING 2

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is a continuation of the materials learned in theory and ear-training 1. New topics will include triads and their harmonic functions within a key, sight-singing, melodic and harmonic dictation and beginning part-writing. Students will demonstrate learned knowledge through singing, keyboard playing and composition. This course does assume the ability to read music.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: MUSIC 0413
MUSIC 0425 - WRITING ABOUT MUSIC

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on how to write critical and analytical papers on the subject of music. Students are expected to learn musical terminology and how to use that terminology in a paper. Students will be asked to attend events such as concerts, lectures, rehearsals, and film viewings.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
MUSIC 0527 - PERCUSSION

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
This course provides instruction in the techniques and literature of percussion. Students receive a one hour private lesson each week. May be repeated for credit. Dietrich School students must complete three credits in performance courses to meet the Creative Work General Education Requirement.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: Letter Grade
MUSIC 0531 - VOICE

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
This course provides group and individual instruction in vocal techniques. Topics will include posture, breath support, diction and sight-singing. Ability to read music is assumed for this course. In addition, students must have choral or private voice study experience.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
MUSIC 0641 - JAZZ ENSEMBLE

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
The University Jazz Ensemble is a performance ensemble that provides sectional and solo experience in a big band jazz and combo jazz setting. The University Jazz Ensemble is open to all University students and community members including instrumentalists and vocalists, without audition. Students will develop musicianship and specific performance skills through group and individual settings for the study and performance of the varied styles of instrumental and vocal jazz. Idioms included are jazz, swing, shuffle, rock, funk, ballads, Latin, blues, and more. These idioms will be introduced as selected. Improvisation skills will be encouraged, but not required. Students will be able to develop their creative skills through improvisation, arranging, performing, listening and analyzing jazz and popular music. Concert performances include major concerts each semester in the Pasquerilla Performing Arts Center. There is the potential for additional on-campus or off-campus performances.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: Letter Grade
MUSIC 0712 - JAZZ

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course focuses on the chronological development of jazz from its beginnings on the plantation to its present state as a world concert music. Various influences such as spirituals, ragtime and blues will be examined. The primary focus of the course will be of listening and analyzing jazz in a more critical fashion.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
MUSIC 0801 - HISTORY OF ROCK AND ROLL

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the origins of Rock and Roll from its earliest influences, such as work songs and the Blues, and will follow its development as a musical genre. Students will then learn about the different musical genres that are spawned from the development of Rock and Roll. Critical listening of the music is required for this course. Students will also be exposed to general music elements such as rhythm, form, harmony and melody. This course assumes no prior musical knowledge.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
MUSIC 0802 - MUSIC FOR SOCIAL CHANGE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will look at the evolution of music as a tool in the quest for change the United States and the world as a whole. Students will be introduced to the important pieces of music that have been created and used to shed light on social and political aspects in our country such as racism, war, poverty, prison reform and the ecology. The course will then examine how music has aided in more global reform efforts and how music has become a very influential tool in shaping these efforts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
MUSIC 0845 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN MUSIC

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Topics for this course will be chosen by the instructor for each subsequent time the course is offered. This course will allow students to do in-depth exploration of a given topic.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
MUSIC 0846 - THE BEATLES

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will take an in-depth look at the Beatles’ music, personalities, compositional techniques, and their influence on our culture from the 1960’s into the 21st century. The major emphasis of this course will be focused on student listening skills and the fostering of a deeper appreciation for the Beatles and their music.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
MUSIC 0897 - MUSIC AND FILM

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Film music is capable of powerful effects which are a product of a unique combination of art forms. The course will explore both properties of music and cinematic practice and the way that film music functions in partnership. Examination of film history and trends in film music will guide the course chronologically. Material will be drawn from American film with occasional analysis of foreign film. The process of critique will be used as students review examples and advance skills in watching and listening to this art form.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
MUSIC 1905 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Independent study is elected by students who are making significant use of university resources in an independent project not related to any regularly offered course. The project is often off campus, but with some guidance from sponsoring faculty member(s).
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: Letter Grade

Philosophy

PHIL 0013 - CONCEPTS OF HUMAN NATURE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introduction to some ways in which ethical and social thought has been influenced by different views of human nature. Readings are from such authors as Plato, Hobbes, Rousseau, Marx, and Freud.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
PHIL 0083 - INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHICAL PROBLEMS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introduction to some classical problems of philosophy. Topics vary, but might include skepticism, free will, the existence of god, and the justification of ethical beliefs.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
PHIL 0120 - ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals with moral and philosophical issues having to do with humanity’s relationship to the environment and humanity’s duties toward future generations and perhaps to nature itself. It will deal both with theory and with practice.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
PHIL 0203 - PHILOSOPHY IN LITERATURE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An examination of philosophical themes in literature from both East and West. A novel, a play, folk tales, and poetry will be discussed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
PHIL 0209 - HISTORY OF ANCIENT PHILOSOPHY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The aim of this course is to introduce students to some of the main achievements and leading ideas of ancient Greek philosophy up to classical times. Emphasis will be on understanding and evaluating the arguments and ideas of the Greek philosophical tradition.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
PHIL 0213 - HISTORY OF MODERN PHILOSOPHY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introduction to the philosophical period from Descartes through Kant. Special attention is given to at least one rationalist, one empiricist, and Kant.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
PHIL 0214 - BIOETHICS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Bioethics is the study of the ethics of life and death. Some of the topics to be covered in this class include: abortion, stem cell research, cloning, euthanasia, capital punishment, distribution of heath care resources, and human and animal experimentation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
PHIL 0220 - INTRODUCTION TO EXISTENTIALISM

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This introductory level course explores the central existentialist question of how to be a genuine individual or self through reading of several major authors, such as pascal, Kierkegaard, Dostoievski, Nietzsche, and Sartre.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Phil. Think or Ethics General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Ethical/Policy GE. Req., West European Studies
PHIL 0230 - PHILOSOPHY AND FILM

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an introductory aesthetics course dealing with philosophy and film.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Phil. Think or Ethics General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Ethical/Policy GE. Req.
PHIL 0303 - INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An examination of philosophical theories concerning good and evil, right and wrong, and virtue and vice, and their implications for some specific moral issues.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
PHIL 0320 - SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introduction to some traditional philosophical perspectives on the nature of society. Philosophers studied might include Plato, Hobbes, Marx, and Twentieth-Century social theorists.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Phil. Think or Ethics General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Ethical/Policy GE. Req., West European Studies
PHIL 0333 - POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This introductory level undergraduate course studies several important views on the nature and justification of government, such as those of Plato, Hobbes, and Marx.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
PHIL 0353 - PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC ISSUES

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The aim of this introductory undergraduate course is to encourage systematic and clear thought about issues of public importance by philosophic reflection which emphasizes the implications of different moral and political theories for these issues.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
PHIL 0440 - MINDS AND MACHINES

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This introductory level course is devoted to explicating and critically evaluating the thesis that the human mind, or at least its cognitive faculty, can be understood as a computing machine. Readings are primarily from contemporary authors, and include both scientists and philosophers.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Phil. Think or Ethics General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Ethical/Policy GE. Req.
PHIL 0445 - PHILOSOPHY OF TECHNOLOGY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A course that reviews questions about the nature and value of technology and moves on to issues of intellectual property rights in digital media and aesthetic analysis of digital media.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
PHIL 0474 - PHILOSOPHY OF RELIGION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A critical examination of the rationality of faith in the existence of god. Traditional arguments both for and against the existence of god are considered, along with pragmatic justifications of faith based upon its beneficial consequences.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
PHIL 0501 - INTRODUCTION TO LOGIC

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introduction to the concepts and methods of modern deductive logic. Propositional logic is emphasized, but quantificational logic is touched upon.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0001 or 0031 or Math Placement Score (46 or greater)
PHIL 0841 - SCIENCE AND RELIGION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This introductory undergraduate course addresses two questions: does the scientific understanding of the world suffer from a kind of incompleteness that can be remedied by the supernaturalist religions? Or is there even a clash between contemporary science and such religion?
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
PHIL 0850 - PHILOSOPHY AND LIBERAL DEMOCRACY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course provides an introduction to several problems common to philosophers and politics and introduces students to the different theories, modes of argument, and techniques of analysis used by the two disciplines to understand them. It is intended to help students deepen their understanding of the dominant political stance of our society.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Phil. Think or Ethics General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Ethical/Policy GE. Req., West European Studies, Writing Requirement Course
PHIL 0891 - TOPICS IN PHILOSOPHY (VARIOUS)

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This intensive but introductory level seminar is reserved for special philosophical topics that do not fit standard course-catalog categories. Issues discussed vary from year to year, but tend to be narrowly focused and specialized.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
PHIL 1157 - PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Discussion of various philosophical views of language and the relevance of the study of language to philosophical problems.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
PHIL 1201 - HISTORY OF 20TH-CENTURY ANALYTIC PHILOSOPHY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will examine the history of analytic philosophy from its beginnings with Frege and Russell, through the rise and fall of logical positivism, and into its current state today.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
PHIL 1245 - AMERICAN PHILOSOPHY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will survey major themes in American philosophy, with a concentration on pragmatism. It will begin with a study of early thinkers like Thoreau and Emerson, though the majority of course will be dedicated to the pragmatists pierce, James and Dewey. The course will conclude with a look at one or more contemporary pragmatists, like Rorty.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
PHIL 1370 - PHILOSOPHY OF ART

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced undergraduate course addresses philosophical problems that arise in connection with art, such as the nature of works of art, the comparison and contrast between representational and non-representational art, the definition of beauty, and special obligations concerning art works.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
PHIL 1380 - BUSINESS ETHICS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced undergraduate course considers a selection of ethical issues that arise in connection with business needs and practices, such as employer-employee relations, truth in advertising, responsibilities to consumers, fair and unfair competitive practices, environmental effects, contractual obligations, liability for damages, and governmental regulation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
PHIL 1440 - PHILOSOPHY OF MIND

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an advanced undergraduate course in the philosophy of mind, taking up problems of both historical and contemporary interest. Topics vary, but are likely to include many of mind-body dualism, materialist reductionism, phenomenalism, the other-minds problem, philosophical behaviorism, qualia, propositional attitude ascriptions, intentionality, and so on.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
PHIL 1461 - EPISTEMOLOGY (THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE)

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will focus on philosophical theories that attempt to answer the questions “what is knowledge?” And “how does one get knowledge?” It will examine how claims to know are justified, and if such claims are even possible within both scientific and nonscientific contexts. We will look at the attempts of classical and modern authors to offer analyses and justification of human knowledge over and against the claims of skepticism.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
PHIL 1480 - METAPHYSICS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced undergraduate course considers a selection of central problems in metaphysics, such as the problems of realism, essentialism, free will, necessity and possibility, substance and property, persistence through time (including personal identity), the nature of truth, and so on.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
PHIL 1501 - SYMBOLIC LOGIC

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced undergraduate course develops skills in formal and informal reasoning in predicate-quantifier logic, and covers formal semantics for sentential logic, informal semantics for predicate-quantifier logic, and elementary syntactic metatheory.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0001 or 0031 or Math Placement Score (46 or greater)
PHIL 1611 - INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an advanced undergraduate survey of the major problem areas in the philosophy of science. Topics vary somewhat, but generally include many of the following: the nature of explanation, the problem of induction and confirmation, concept formation, scientific methodology, verifiability and falsifiability, the observation theory distinction, scientific realism, law-like form, and theory change.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
PHIL 1660 - PARADOX

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores paradoxes both for the fun of untangling an intriguing puzzle and for the more serious reason of the easy access they provide to some of the most important foundational issues in philosophy and the sciences.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: Hourly Final
PHIL 1891 - ISSUES IN PHILOSOPHY (VARIOUS)

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This intensive, advanced-level seminar is reserved for special philosophical topics that do not fit standard course-catalog categories. Issues discussed vary from year to year, but tend to be narrowly focused and specialized.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
PHIL 1904 - INDEPENDENT STUDY—UNDERGRADUATE

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 9
This course is a way of offering university credit in philosophy for relevant experiences or work undertaken independently, with little or no formal interaction with an instructor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis

Spanish

SPAN 0082 - LATIN AMERICA TODAY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is an overview of contemporary Latin America and its people and is designed to be an introduction for students who have no previous knowledge of the area. Students will be exposed to several aspects of Latin America. A special attempt will be made to show contemporary social reality as interpreted by some of the region’s most gifted writers. In English.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Geographic Region General Ed. Requirement, Latin American Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Global&Cross Cul GE. Req.
SPAN 0101 - ELEMENTARY SPANISH 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to develop the student’s communicative proficiency through an integrated approach to the teaching of all four language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Grammatical structures; vocabulary and readings are presented as tools for developing good communication skills. The course also aims to foster cultural awareness of the Spanish-speaking world.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: UPB Global General Ed. Requirement, UPB Language General Ed. Requirement
SPAN 0102 - ELEMENTARY SPANISH 2

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A continuation of Elementary Spanish 1, training in spoken and written Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0101 or 0111
Course Attributes: DSAS Second Language General Ed. Requirement, UPB Global General Ed. Requirement, UPB Language General Ed. Requirement
SPAN 0106 - SPANISH FOR SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An intensive reading course in Spanish designed to science and engineering students who want to study Spanish for reading and communication knowledge. The course stresses language skills useful for the science and engineering profession. Provides training in basic reading, writing and conversation with emphasis on the use of language in a professional context.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
SPAN 0107 - DIGITAL SPANISH

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduction to Spanish language and culture on the web: social networking sites, trends in digital culture, including video and music. The student will learn blogging, text messaging, and digital basic skills in Spanish. The course is aimed at facilitating the acquisition of the necessary abilities and intercultural competence to manage multimedia tasks in Spanish at a basic level.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: Letter Grade
SPAN 0108 - SPANISH FOR READING AND TRANSLATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An intensive basic reading course in Spanish designed to all students who want to study Spanish for reading knowledge and translation. No prior knowledge of Spanish is required. Readings are drawn from many areas, including the Spanish language press, the natural sciences, the social sciences, and the humanities. A great course for students headed for graduate school.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
SPAN 0109 - SPANISH FOR BUSINESS PROFESSIONALS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed as a practical elementary Spanish course that will include technical vocabulary and idiomatic expressions needed by business professionals who must communicate in both oral and written ways with Spanish-speaking companies and bilingual colleagues as well. The course will offer an essential foundation in grammar, vocabulary and speech related to functional business areas, and practice in carrying out simple business transactions in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: Letter Grade
SPAN 0110 - SPANISH FOR HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed as a practical introductory Spanish course that will include technical vocabulary and idiomatic expressions needed by healthcare professionals who must communicate orally with Spanish-speaking patients. We will emphasize grammar, speaking and pronunciation skills. Students will learn and practice useful phrases within a medical context as well as acquire vocabulary and basic grammatical knowledge.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
SPAN 0211 - INTERMEDIATE SPANISH 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is a continuation of the first-year sequence and includes a functional review of language structure and vocabulary. Primary emphasis is development of conversational skills, with topical reading and some writing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0102 or 0112
SPAN 0212 - INTERMEDIATE SPANISH 2

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students continue a functional review of language structure and build vocabulary. Emphasis is on conversational, reading and writing skills.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0211
SPAN 0320 - CONVERSATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The aims of this course are to improve the learner’s ability to understand and speak fluent Spanish. A native speaker instructor guides the student, but the learner does most of the talking. Emphasis in small classes is on vocabulary building and some basic structures. Daily participation is necessary.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0212
SPAN 0325 - GRAMMAR AND COMPOSITION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A review of Spanish grammar, designed to aid the student in building vocabulary, translating from English to Spanish, and writing compositions.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0212
SPAN 0326 - LATIN AMERICAN FILM AND LITERATURE IN TRANSLATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course pairs contemporary literature and film to offer an in-depth look at Latin America via authentic cultural forms. We will explore how Latin American writers and filmmakers distinguish themselves from European and North American traditions, particularly from the filmmaking of Hollywood. We will connect readings and viewings to contemporary political trends in Latin America, including the intellectual push for “decolonization.” The course is taught in English, and readings are in English translation. Students seeking SPAN credit must read and write in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
SPAN 0351 - LATIN AMERICAN CIVILIZATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Readings, lectures, films and class discussions in Spanish on the historical development of Latin American civilization and its major social, economic and cultural features.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0212
SPAN 0355 - INTRODUCTION HISPANIC LITERATURE 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Aims to acquaint students with major genres and trends of Spanish literature from the 16th century to the present, to equip them with essential techniques of literary criticism, and to develop their ability to speak and write in the foreign language.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0212
SPAN 0356 - INTRODUCTION TO HISPANIC LITERATURE 2

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Aims to acquaint students with major genres and trends of Latin American literature from the 16th century to the present, to equip them with essential techniques of literary criticism, and to develop their ability to speak and write in the foreign language
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0212
SPAN 0451 - SEMINAR IN CERVANTES

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A seminar for Spanish majors and others which focuses on Don Quixote and various minor works. Quixote is read closely in Spanish and analyzed in class for content, narrative technique, structure and style.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0212
SPAN 1021 - ADVANCED CONVERSATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course develops advanced oral skills in small class groups. Students work to build vocabulary and gain a control of the essential structures. Both Spanish majors and non-majors who wish to improve their fluency enroll in this course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0212
SPAN 1026 - ADVANCED GRAMMAR

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An advanced study of Spanish grammar designed for students who have already taken grammar and composition or have equivalent knowledge. While the emphasis is on practical usage, theoretical aspects of the finer points of syntax will be also considered.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0325
SPAN 1193 - LITERARY AND NON-LITERARY TRANSLATION

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is intended to develop translating skills in other than legal, business or industrial uses of Spanish, namely the language of literary (including scholarly and critical), journalistic and advertising texts. It involves the discussion of translation problems and the ways to solve (or circumvent) them through the actual task of translating selected passages from fiction, poetry, plays, and articles.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0212
SPAN 1308 - ADVANCED SPANISH

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a course in advanced Spanish that allows students to acquire a broader and deeper knowledge of Spanish structure, vocabulary, and idiomatic usage. In addition, students will be able to progress in their reading and aural comprehension skills as well as in their command of the spoken language and their familiarity with aspects of the various cultures of the hispanophone world.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: UPB Global General Ed. Requirement, UPB Language General Ed. Requirement
SPAN 1331 - STRUCTURE OF MODERN SPANISH

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course teaches the structure of the Spanish language, including components which address Spanish phonology, morphology and syntax.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0212
SPAN 1443 - LATIN AMERICAN NARRATIVE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals with the development of Latin American prose narrative as it moves from 19th century realism and naturalism in the direction of modernista and vanguardista innovations, culminating in the narrative of the boom and the post-boom. Taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0212
SPAN 1444 - LATIN AMERICAN TOPICS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals with literary, linguistics or cultural topics, or a combination of these. Its primary emphasis is on developing an understanding of contemporary cultures in Latin America. Taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0212
SPAN 1640 - SURVEY OF SPANISH LITERATURE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the development of Spanish literature from the twelfth century to the present. Taught in Spanish.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0212 and 0355
SPAN 1805 - CONTEMPORARY HISPANIC LITERATURE AND SOCIETY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals with contemporary Spanish and Latin American societies as revealed in short stories, novels and poetry in an effort to ascertain the cultural values and concepts of these societies. Taught in English.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
SPAN 1841 - DON QUIXOTE AND THE NOVEL

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals in depth with Cervantes’ Don Quixote as the first modern novel and its profound influence on European literatures. Taught in English.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
SPAN 1844 - CONTEMP LATIN AMER LITERATURE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals with contemporary Latin American literature, showing its literary development up to and including the so-called boom, as well as post-boom developments. The course also will deal with the cultural values and concepts of the works read. Taught in English.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
SPAN 1847 - HISPANIC SPECIAL TOPICS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals in depth with such topics as mass media, sexual roles, social structures and political institutions in Hispanic society as revealed in various literary works, films, documents and other sources. Taught in English.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
SPAN 1941 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
This course allows students to work in-depth in areas of their choice.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
SPAN 1942 - DIRECTED STUDY

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
This course allows students to work in depth in areas of their choice, with the approval and supervision of a faculty member, who meets regularly with the student
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis

Studio Arts

SA 0120 - PAINTING STUDIO 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is an introduction to oil painting that emphasizes color mixing, painting techniques, and composition. The purpose of the course is to promote sensitivity to color interaction, advance technical and compositional skills, and provide a basis for creative growth and expression.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
SA 0130 - DRAWING STUDIO 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course provides a comprehensive introduction to observational drawing. The coursework follows a sequence of exercises in various media that introduce basic drawing skills, techniques, and composition through observation and analysis of natural and manufactured forms. The course culminates with an introduction to the human figure.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Creative Work General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.

Theatre Arts

THEA 0027 - STAGECRAFT 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will entail a study of the construction and rigging of scenic units for stage settings.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
THEA 0028 - STAGE LIGHTING 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will entail a study of stage lighting equipment and related technologies that are used in the typical proscenium and arena style theatres.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
THEA 0040 - STAGE MANAGEMENT

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will examine in detail the backstage activities necessary to support a professional theatrical, music theatre, or concert production, from sound and lighting cue placement to properties and running crew. Students anticipating careers in the entertainment industry will benefit from this background in communication, safety, proper terminology, and technical support.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: Letter Grade
THEA 0053 - ORAL INTERPRTTN OF LITERATURE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An investigation of the process of rendering literature aloud, with attention to problems of impersonation, consideration of style, and application of specific vocal techniques.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
THEA 0630 - PUPPETRY IN THEATRE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will explore a variety of puppetry forms and will cover their historical context as well as practical design issues, performance aesthetic and techniques, and the influence that each form exerts on theatre today. Students will then translate several children’s tales from page to stage, culminating in a performance.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
THEA 0841 - INTRODUCTION TO THEATRE DESIGN

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introduction to the process of designing scenery, lighting, properties and costumes for live theatre.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
THEA 1027 - STAGECRAFT 2

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed for students who want to employ creative engineering skills to learn more about what is needed to produce technical elements (scenery, properties, etc.) For entertainment productions. Intermediate and advanced Stagecraft skills will be taught hands-on with tools and materials. The topics to be taught may include: Rigging and Mechanical Advantage, Welding (Steel and Aluminum MIG), Scenic Sculpting, Casting and Mold-making, Production Budgeting, and Automation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
THEA 1500 - VOICE AND MOVEMENT 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course stresses principles of effective, safe vocal production, maximizing sound and expressivity. The international phonetic alphabet is taught as a tool for the second objective of the course, precise articulation with a minimizing of regional sound.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
THEA 1502 - ACTING 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will entail a study of beginning skills such as movement for the stage, relaxation, beginning acting tasks: observations, emotional recall, use of space, concentration. Beginning scene work will be included.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
THEA 1503 - ACTING 2

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A continuation of the prerequisite acting 1, with advanced scene work drawn largely from the theatre of realism. Required participation in the UPJ mainstage productions.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: THEA 1502
THEA 1506 - MODERN ACTING THEORY

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will first learn some of the major acting theories and perspectives of character development from the 20th century. Then students will apply these theories through scene work, monologues, and original projects.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
THEA 1507 - SHAKESPEARE IN PERFORMANCE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will improve their acting technique, vocalization, and physicality through the basics of performing Shakespeare. Students will perform monologues, soliloquies, and scenes and will study Shakespeare’s use of language to create character and setting.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: Letter Grade
THEA 1510 - DIRECTING 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is an introduction to basic technical and conceptual skills in directing, including script analysis ground plan, stage movement and composition.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: THEA 1502
THEA 1541 - THEATRE REPERTORY 1

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
Active participation in the staging of a university dramatic production and/or dance. Students study various backstage processes and performance techniques according to their individual needs and interests.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
THEA 1542 - THEATRE REPERTORY 2

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
Advanced students are assigned to positions that enable them to take primary responsibility for one aspect of a dramatic production. Beginning students study basic backstage and performance techniques.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
THEA 1551 - CLASSICAL THEATRE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A history of the theatre in performance during its great periods. Emphasis on the relation of the written drama to the physical theatre, the actor, and the audience.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
THEA 1553 - MODERN THEATRE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The stage and theatre from Ibsen to the present.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
THEA 1627 - RENDERING AND PAINTING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will include study of the small size and large scale painting techniques used for proscentium-style theatres.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
THEA 1635 - SCENE DESIGN 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will provide a study of the elements of scenery design, with preliminary investigation of historical developments as well as modern currents of design.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
THEA 1646 - COSTUME DESIGN 1

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course entails a study of the basics of costume design and the psychology of clothing for the stage. Theories of design and color as well as an overview of the professional design business.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
THEA 1650 - VISUALLY-BASED DESIGN AND MULTIMEDIA FOR THEATRE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will examine differences in methodology between visually-based (concept-based) and traditional (script-based) design, with special attention to the use of multimedia. Students will create theoretical designs using the techniques learned in class.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
THEA 1733 - SPECIAL TOPICS

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The study of a special topic in theatre arts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
THEA 1765 - PLAYWRITING

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A beginning course in writing for the stage. Starting with short scenes, students will work towards understanding the craft and art of constructing theatre stories to be performed by actors. The final project will be a one-act play. Throughout there will be emphasis on the stage effectiveness of the writing and opportunity for informal performance of student scripts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006
THEA 1900 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
The terms of the student’s independent study will be agreed upon by the instructor and the student.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: Capstone Course
THEA 1902 - INTERNSHIP

Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 9
Course content to be decided between teacher and student.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
THEA 1971 - CAPSTONE IN THEATRE

Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Theatre majors undertake a theatrical project of significant scope to provide portfolio material whether for graduate school or professional interview. This project should represent a culmination of the student’s academic career. The exact nature of the project is different from student to student depending on the focus of each student.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: Letter Grade

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COMMRC 0030 - INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNICATION

COMMRC 0052 - PUBLIC SPEAKING

COMMRC 0083 - INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

COMMRC 0320 - MASS COMMUNICATION AND SOCIETY

COMMRC 0600 - THEORIES OF INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION

COMMRC 0650 - THEORIES OF PERSUASION

COMMRC 0700 - COMMUNICATION RESEARCH METHODS

COMMRC 1107 - GENDER AND COMMUNICATION

COMMRC 1124 - RHETORICAL CRITICISM

COMMRC 1130 - BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL SPEAKING

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COMMRC 1132 - POLITICAL COMMUNICATION

COMMRC 1133 - INTEGRATED MARKETING COMMUNICATION

COMMRC 1134 - SMALL GROUP COMMUNICATION

COMMRC 1135 - MEDICAL COMMUNICATION

COMMRC 1136 - NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION

COMMRC 1139 - MEDIA CRITICISM

COMMRC 1144 - VISUAL COMMUNICATION

COMMRC 1158 - SOCIAL MEDIA STRATEGIES

COMMRC 1211 - PUBLIC RELATIONS 1

COMMRC 1212 - PUBLIC RELATIONS 2

COMMRC 1733 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN COMMUNICATION

COMMRC 1902 - INDEPENDENT STUDY

COMMRC 1903 - COMMUNICATION INTERNSHIP

COMMRC 1950 - COMMUNICATION CAPSTONE

ENGCMP 0001 - FRESHMAN COMPOSITION 1 TUTORIAL

ENGCMP 0005 - COMPOSITION 1

ENGCMP 0006 - COMPOSITION 2

ENGCMP 0008 - ESL WRITING WORKSHOP

ENGFLM 0400 - INTRODUCTION TO FILM

ENGLIT 0040 - ESL READING SKILLS

ENGLIT 0040 - ESL READING SKILLS

ENGLIT 0055 - BRITISH LITERATURE 1

ENGLIT 0056 - BRITISH LITERATURE 2

ENGLIT 0088 - INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE

ENGLIT 0311 - THE DRAMATIC IMAGINATION

ENGLIT 0316 - READING POETRY

ENGLIT 0318 - WRITING IN PARIS

ENGLIT 0326 - SHORT STORY IN CONTEXT

ENGLIT 0333 - PARIS THROUGH THE AGES

ENGLIT 0345 - LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT

ENGLIT 0351 - GENDER STUDIES

ENGLIT 0354 - WORDS AND IMAGES

ENGLIT 0355 - DIGITAL HUMANITIES

ENGLIT 0361 - WOMEN AND LITERATURE

ENGLIT 0363 - PUMPED: LITERATURE AND SPORTS

ENGLIT 0364 - LIT AND FOODS: RAW & RADICAL

ENGLIT 0365 - IMAGINING SOCIAL JUSTICE

ENGLIT 0367 - CRIME STORIES: COURTROOM DRAMAS & PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLERS

ENGLIT 0368 - THE LITERATURE OF SCIENCE

ENGLIT 0400 - GLOBAL LITERARY TRADITIONS

ENGLIT 0401 - GLOBAL LITERATURE 1

ENGLIT 0410 - GLOBAL LITERATURE 2

ENGLIT 0522 - INTERACTIVE FICTION AS LITERATURE

ENGLIT 0523 - MARS IN LITERARY IMAGINATION

ENGLIT 0530 - FILM ANALYSIS

ENGLIT 0557 - INTRO TO LITERATURE FOR ADOLESCENTS

ENGLIT 0574 - AMERICAN LITERATURE 1

ENGLIT 0575 - AMERICAN LITERATURE 2

ENGLIT 0578 - THE LITERATURE OF VIOLENCE: EXAMINING THE VIOLENCE IN AMERICAN CULTURE THROUGH LITERATURE

ENGLIT 0581 - INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE

ENGLIT 0598 - BIBLE AS LITERATURE

ENGLIT 0615 - LITERATURE AND RACE

ENGLIT 0616 - EXILES, NOMADS, AND MIGRANTS

ENGLIT 0619 - THE LITERATURE OF THE GREAT WAR

ENGLIT 0621 - AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE

ENGLIT 0625 - DETECTIVE FICTION

ENGLIT 0626 - SCIENCE FICTION

ENGLIT 0634 - LIVING ON THE EDGE: LITERATURE ON THE EXTREME

ENGLIT 0690 - LITERATURE OF TERRORISM

ENGLIT 0695 - LITERATURE OF WAR