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ECED 1164 - EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDENT TEACHING
Minimum Credits: 14
Maximum Credits: 14
This is a full-time experience for teacher certification candidates in a student teaching center at an elementary school in grades PreK-4. It provides opportunities to observe, plan, conduct, and assess instruction.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Clinical
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ECED 1171 - SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY AND HEALTH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed help students develop the content, processes, and methodology necessary to teach pre-K - 4 science, technology, and health concepts. Students will demonstrate specific competencies related to planning, implementation, and evaluation of effective classroom instruction.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: NATSC 0080 and admission to upper level
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ECED 1172 - MATHEMATICS FOUNDATIONS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to provide the theoretical background, the pedagogical and psychological concepts, and the field-based experience necessary for planning, implementing, and assessing a numbers and mathematics program in a contemporary early childhood setting. Students will be introduced to a variety of instructional approaches and materials with particular emphasis on teaching about numbers and mathematics through problem solving and active learning.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0071 and 0080 and admission to upper level
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ECED 1173 - SOCIAL STUDIES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to provide the theoretical background, the pedagogical and psychological concepts, and the field-based experience necessary for planning, implementing, and assessing a social studies program in a contemporary early childhood setting. Students will be introduced to a variety of instructional approaches for facilitating the learning of content and skills drawn from the social sciences and for integrating this learning with other areas of the curriculum.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: GEOG 0810 and HIST 0610 or 0620, and admission to upper level
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ECED 1174 - PRE-PRIMARY STUDENT TEACHING
Minimum Credits: 7
Maximum Credits: 7
This is a full-time experience for teacher-certification candidates in a student-teaching center at a pre-school. It provides opportunities to observe, plan, conduct, and assess instruction in a pre-school setting with professional backup from University supervisors and experienced master teachers. Pre-school sites are within 15 to 20 miles from the college; students are placed in established sites only
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECED 1113 and admission to upper level
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ECED 1183 - ENGAGING YOUNG CHILDREN IN LEARNING (C&I)
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is taken during the term prior to student teaching. Candidates are expected to use information learned in earlier courses and apply it to the creation of developmentally appropriate early childhood curriculum and instruction. Emphasis will be placed on instructional planning and assessment in relation to holistic development.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECED 1101 and admission to upper level
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ECED 1184 - PRIMARY STUDENT TEACHING
Minimum Credits: 5
Maximum Credits: 14
This is a full-time experience for teacher-certification candidates in a student-teaching center at an elementary school, grades k - 4. It provides opportunities to observe, plan, conduct, and assess instruction in an elementary school setting with professional backup from University supervisors and experienced master teachers. School sites are within 15 to 20 miles from the college; students are placed in established sites only. This course is speaking enhanced.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Clinical
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECED 1113 and admission to upper level
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ECED 1190 - FAMILY AND SCHOOL COLLABORATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course pertains to family, school, and community collaboration partnerships. Establishing and maintaining partnerships with families will be addressed. Supporting the development of problem-solving strategies and fostering participation of children in the academic and social context of the classroom will be explored. Involving families and maintaining instructional goals and objectives with Pennsylvania’s learning standards will be introduced.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: Admission to upper level
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ECED 1194 - ECED STUDENT TEACHING SEMINAR
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This course is designed to provide the student teacher with basic elements of professional development and career opportunities. Emphasis is on professionalism, interviewing, rsums, portfolios, professional meetings, and other appropriate topics.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: CREQ: ECED 1174 or ECED 1184 or SPLED 1174
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ECED 1196 - EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDENT TEACHING SEMINAR - US
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Designed to provide the student teacher with the basic elements of professional development and career opportunities. Emphasis is on professionalism and ethical leadership, interviewing, resume, portfolios, reflective practice, and other appropriate topics. Must be taken during student teaching.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ECED 1197 - EARLY CHILDHOOD STUDENT TEACHING SEMINAR ABROAD
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ECON 0105 - INTRO MICROECONOMIC THEORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Uses basic economic principles to explain how markets work, how firms and consumers make decisions, how they interact in product and factor markets, and how these markets determine prices, output, wages, and profits. These principles are also used to analyze issues of current concern in public policy and to decide whether, when, and how government should intervene in the operation of the market.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ECON 0115 - INTRO TO MACROECONOMIC THEORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Applies the basic principles of economics to the problems of instability associated with business cycles, unemployment, and inflation and the problem of economic growth, and examines the role of government in promoting stability and economic growth.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ECON 0281 - INTRODUCTION TO MONEY & BANKING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Covers the role of money and financial intermediaries in the U.S. Economy and examines what role government has played and should play as regulator of the financial sector and money supply.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECON 0115 or 0110
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ECON 0401 - LABOR AND THE ECONOMY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introductory survey of contemporary labor market developments and issues. Readings and lectures emphasize an analytical approach supplemented by historical and institutional applications.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECON 0105 or 0100
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ECON 0501 - INTRODUCTION TO INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introduction to the basic issues of international economics and to the historical evolution and institutional structure of the international economy. Topics include mercantilism, comparative advantage as a basis for trade, the impact of trade on income distribution, the evolution of the international financial system, and the working of the international gold standard.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECON 0105 or 0100
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ECON 1011 - AMERICAN ECONOMIC HISTORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A survey of American economic growth from colonial times to the new deal and beyond. Particular attention is paid to economic policy. Topics include mercantilism and the origins of the revolution, the economic dimension of the constitution, Jacksonian Democracy and the bank war, the economics of slavery, the Civil War and reconstruction, tariff policy and industrialization, populism and progressivism, and the business cycle in historical perspective.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECON (0105 or 0100) or (0115 or 0110)
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ECON 1012 - COMPARATIVE ECONOMIC HISTORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course analyzes the development of the world economy from the early modern (c.1500) period to the present, with a particular emphasis upon economic development and industrialization. Consequently, socio-economic, political, and cultural institutions figure prominently. Major sub-themes of the course include the history of economic theory, mercantilism (including colonial development/extraction), technological innovation, industrial organizational theory (managerial and labor organization), government-business relations, international trade, business cycles, gold standard, foreign currency markets, financial markets and personal investment, war economics, and Soviet economic system.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ECON 1101 - INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An in-depth examination of price theory. Topics include theories of consumer behavior, production theory, the theory of the firm and market behavior, income distribution theory, and general equilibrium theory.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0121 or 0221 and Econ 0105 or 0100
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ECON 1111 - INTERMEDIATE MACROECONOMICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A rigorous treatment of macroeconomic problems such as the business cycle, inflation, and unemployment. Topics include the microeconomic foundations of aggregate consumption and savings behavior, equilibrium and disequilibrium models of the macroeconomy, rational expectations and real business cycles, cycle models, and growth theory.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECON (0115 or 0110) and MATH (0121 or 0120) or (0221 or 0220) or (0231 or 0230)
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ECON 1141 - ECONOMIC FORECASTING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Regression and time series techniques applied to forecasting financial and macroeconomic variables such as interest rates, exchange rates, stock prices, GDP, inflation and unemployment rates.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: STAT 1040
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ECON 1151 - FINANCIAL ECONOMICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Studies in valuation of corporate stocks using fundamental and psychological methods, measurement of risk, and technical analysis.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECON (0115 or 0110) and STAT (1040 or 1100)
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ECON 1370 - ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Examines the relationship between the economy and the environment, broadly defined. The theory of externalities and the role of property rights are emphasized in developing a framework for evaluating public policy proposals affecting the environment.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECON 0105 or 0100
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ECON 1375 - WORLD MOTOR CAR INDUSTRY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the basic history of the motor car by investigating corporate structure and strategy, design, engineering, production, quality control, distribution, marketing, exports/imports and consumer demand. The course will also examine socio-economic spin-off issues, such as motor safety, pollution, highway/road construction and placement, automobile repair/maintenance, government regulation and the so-called ‘car culture’, such as suburbia, ‘drive-in’ services, shopping malls, motels and the like. The car and its manufacturers were also prominent subjects in political economy. The course will study how mechanization influenced warfare in the 20th century and how politicians have embraced the car. The course will concentrate upon the consumer durable good that frequently acted as the ‘engine of the economy’ and its profound socio-economic and political effects around the world.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ECON 1471 - LAW AND ECONOMICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the law and legal rules from an economic perspective and applies economic reasoning to a number of legal topics such as property rights, contracts, torts, the efficiency of the common law, and crime.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECON 0105 or 0100
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ECON 1810 - SPECIAL TOPICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Current topics of particular interest to economics majors are discussed and analyzed in a seminar-style format.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ECON 1830 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
Students must undertake a defined task of research under the direct supervision of a faculty member, the fruits of which are embodied in a thesis, extended paper, or other appropriate form.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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EDUC 0100 - INTRODUCTION TO STEM EDUCATION COURSE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces STEM Endorsement Certificate Program candidates to teaching-learning theories, strategies, and issues in STEM education. The nature of STEM, the STEM disciplines, and the links between them will be analyzed to uncover outcomes of STEM education, including 21st Century outcomes and Career and College Readiness. Key pedagogical strategies will be explored via case studies and current instructional models to examine the best practices and challenges for implementing a variety of approaches to STEM Education.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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EDUC 0100 - INTRODUCTION TO STEM EDUCATION COURSE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces candidates to teaching-learning theories, strategies, and issues in STEM education. The nature of STEM, the STEM disciplines, and the links between them will be analyzed to uncover outcomes of STEM education, including 21st Century outcomes and Career and College Readiness. Key pedagogical strategies will be explored via case studies and current instructional models to examine the best practices and challenges for implementing a variety of approaches to STEM Education.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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EDUC 0150 - STEM EDUCATION METHODS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course continues STEM Endorsement Certificate Program candidates’ exploration of teaching-learning theories, strategies, and issues in STEM education. Candidates also begin to examine and design STEM-focused lessons and units while attending to purposeful instructional approaches and outcomes of STEM education. Principles and techniques of content and curricula, academic standards, teaching methods, classroom management, and assessment will be explored and analyzed. Methods include inquiry-based and project-based teaching and learning approaches, design thinking, the engineering design process, coding, and robotics.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EDUC 0100
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EDUC 0150 - STEM EDUCATION METHODS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course continues candidates’ exploration of teaching-learning theories, strategies, and issues in STEM education. Principles and techniques of content and curricula, academic standards, teaching methods and classroom management will be explored and analyzed. These methods include inquiry-based and project-based teaching and learning approaches. In addition, candidates will examine the fundamental teaching principles of science and mathematics as related to the T and E (technology and engineering) of STEM. These approaches will include design thinking and the engineering design process. Candidates will be assigned to an area school for a practicum component which will provide opportunities for observation/analysis of teaching-learning behavior in a STEM classroom.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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EDUC 0200 - STEM EDUCATION METHODS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course continues candidates’ exploration of teaching-learning theories, strategies, and issues in STEM education. Principles and techniques of content and curricula, academic standards, teaching methods and classroom management will be explored and analyzed. These methods include inquiry-based and project-based teaching and learning approaches. In addition, candidates will examine the fundamental teaching principles of science and mathematics as related to the T and E (technology and engineering) of STEM. These approaches will include design thinking and the engineering design process. Candidates will be assigned to an area school for a practicum component which will provide opportunities for observation/analysis of teaching-learning behavior in a STEM classroom.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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EDUC 0300 - CURRICULUM DESIGN IN STEM EDUCATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course continues candidates’ examination of teaching-learning theories, strategies, and issues in STEM education. As an application of learning from the first two courses, candidates will focus on examining and designing STEM-focused lessons and unites while attending to purposeful instructional approaches and outcomes of STEM education. This course is taken concurrently with STEM EDUCATION PRACTICUM, in which candidates are assigned to another area school for a practicum component for opportunities to observe, analyze, and begin the implementation of small-scale lesson and unit designs in a STEM classroom.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EDUC 0150; CREQ: EDUC 0310.
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EDUC 0300 - CURRICULUM DESIGN IN STEM EDUCATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course continues candidates’ examination of teaching-learning theories, strategies, and issues in STEM education. As an application of learning from the first two courses, candidates will focus on examining and designing STEM-focused lessons and unites while attending to purposeful instructional approaches and outcomes of STEM education. This course is taken concurrently with STEM EDUCATION PRACTICUM, in which candidates are assigned to another area school for a practicum component for opportunities to observe, analyze, and begin the implementation of small-scale lesson and unit designs in a STEM classroom.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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EDUC 0310 - STEM EDUCATION PRACTICUM
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This course is the culminating application of learning for the integrative STEM endorsement. In coordination with Curriculum Design in STEM Education, students will demonstrate their understanding of teaching-learning theories, strategies, and issues in STEM education, and their ability to design STEM-focused lessons and units to fulfill intentional learning outcomes. Candidates will continue to observe and analyze teaching-learning behavior in a STEM classroom, and begin to implement STEM lesson and unit designs of their own. Candidates will reflect upon lesson implementation in an authentic learning environment, and access student engagement and achievement in meeting the outcomes of STEM education.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EDUC 0150
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EDUC 0330 - STEM PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
STEM Endorsement Certificate Program candidates will engage in a number of professional development workshops and sessions to complete the STEM endorsement certificate. The aims of this component are to provide a relevancy in the ever-changing STEM education landscape and place an emphasis on the value of on-going professional development for educators. Course instructors will arrange sessions during class time, but also require students to complete directed independent study sessions that connect their personal areas of focus.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EDUC 0100
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EDPSY 0006 - INTRO TO EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Deals with the psychological aspects of the educational process. Theories and research from both psychology and educational psychology are examined in the areas of cognitive and social development, individual differences, culture, cognitive processes, learning, motivation, classroom management, and measurement.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0200 or 0010
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EDPSY 0011 - DIRECTED PRACTICUM IN EDPSY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Provides education and other majors the opportunity to actively assist a faculty member on teaching or curriculum projects.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
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EDPSY 0013 - DIRECTED STUDY IN PSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Provides education and other majors the opportunity to actively assist a faculty member on research projects.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
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EDPSY 1021 - STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This provides an introduction to the field of special education for children and adolescents. It covers the history of special education and how the field has developed. Special needs that are covered include learning disabilities, intellectual disabilities, speech and language disorders, sensory impairments, severe emotional disorders, neurological disorders, autism, physical disabilities, health impairments, traumatic brain injury, multiple disabilities, and giftedness. Topics include the characteristics of students with special needs, identification and assessment, making appropriate adaptations and accommodations, and other educational practices.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0200 or PSY 0010
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EDPSY 1025 - INCLUSION STRATEGIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Designed primarily for pre-service teachers, this course familiarizes students with inclusive practices in the schools. The course gives an overview of issues seen in a general education classroom. Topics include understanding the brain science behind learning and inclusive practices, collaborating with various educational stakeholders, outside factors that impact the classroom and student performance, incorporating social and emotional learning practices into classroom, classroom management, basic strategies and considerations for making age-appropriate accommodations and adaptations for students with special needs and or diverse backgrounds in the general education classroom.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: PSY 0200 and EDPSY 1021
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EDPSY 1121 - EDUCATIONAL ASSESSMENT FOR INCLUSION CLASSROOM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed for pre-service and in-service teachers. The course introduces the neuroscience behind assessment and student learning. Additionally, the course discusses classical and recent measurement theory, including reliability and validity, testing & evaluation and translating data to understand learning. The emphasis will be on developing and evaluating classroom testing methods and adapting assessments and the four forms of assessments seen in a general education classroom (Formative, Summative, Benchmark, and Diagnostic Assessments).
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0001 or Math Placement Score (46 or greater) and EDPSY 0006
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EE 0031 - LINEAR CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The analysis of linear circuits. Electric variables and circuit elements; Kirchhoff’s and Ohm’s law; mesh and node equations; Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits; first and second-order circuits; time domain analysis.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHYS (0152, 0175 or 0202) and MATH (0230, 0235, 0150 or 0231); CREQ: EE 0500 or JME-BSE Academic Plan
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EE 0132 - DIGITAL LOGIC
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduction to digital systems, Boolean algebra, minimization of logic functions, combinational and sequential circuit design.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHYS 0152 or 0175 and MATH 0230 or 0235 or 0150 or 0231; CREQ: EE 0500
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EE 0142 - COMPUTER ORGANIZATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores fundamental concepts and tools of digital system design, basic computer architecture, sequential circuit design techniques, simulation, modelling, hardware description languages; and introduction to programmable logic devices. It also introduces formats for processor instructions, data representations and error detection codes, memory and input & outputs.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 0132; CREQ: EE 0501
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EE 0257 - ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Analysis and design of diode circuits, bipolar junction transistor and field effect transistor circuits, power supply circuits, and power amplifiers. This also introduces bias stability analysis, operational amplifier circuits, CMOS inverters, and other linear circuits.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 0031; CREQ: EE 0501
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EE 0445 - PROGRAMMING AND INTRODUCTION TO DATA STRUCTURES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The student is exposed to a variety of computer based problem solving and algorithm developments in engineering field. Typical problems include numerical methods, modeling, simulation, computer graphics, linear programming, and statistical analysis. The course also covers basic data structures, programming techniques including recursion, memory management, functional scopes, variable referencing, and basic search and sort methods.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0221 and ENGR 0018
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EE 0500 - DIGITAL AND CIRCUITS LAB
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Analysis and experiments on introductory digital and electrical circuits.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: CREQ: EE 0132
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EE 0501 - DIGITAL & ELECTRONICS LABORATORY
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This course introduces basic implementation of digital circuits, and techniques in simulation and verification. Systems composed of discrete devices, logic gates, combinatorial circuits, and sequential circuits and systems are designed, simulated, built and tested. This course also explores and experiments on characteristic of transistors and electronic devices and circuits such as amplifiers, diodes, rectifiers, and other solid state devices.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Laboratory
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 0132 and EE 0031; CREQ: EE 0142 and 0257
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EE 1059 - ELECTROMAGNETICS LABORATORY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
This laboratory supports the concepts introduced in Electromagnets.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: CREQ: EE 1259
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EE 1071 - ELECTRICAL MACHINES LABORATORY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
This lab is associated with the materials presented in Electric Machines
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 0500 CREQ: EE 1771
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EE 1073 - CONTROL SYSTEMS LABORATORY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
This lab is associated with the materials presented in Control Systems
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: CREQ: EE 1673
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EE 1177 - MEASUREMENT AND INDUSTRIAL CONTROL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces Labview software as a graphical programming language to implement automated instrumentation and control systems. It explores the programmable logic controller (PLC) as an industrial implementation of sequential control techniques. Students will develop Labview and PLC programs to solve a variety of engineering problems. This course includes an integrated laboratory component.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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EE 1195 - ENGINEERING PRACTICE AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
The course requires students to work in small design teams to solve a significant engineering problem. Students propose, develop, and design a solution to a select engineering problem. The course reinforces principles of the engineering design process and serves as 1st part of a capstone project for the program. The consideration of the ethical and social implications of technology and the basic concepts of business are also aspects of the course. Each team presents information, in both written and oral formats, to peers and faculty at various developmental milestones of their project. This paper design is followed by conceptual or full implementation in EE 1199 follow-up course. Projects may be on an individual or group basis, either interdepartmental or intradepartmental in organization.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: CREQ: Senior Status
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EE 1197 - SPECIAL PROJECT: DIRECTED
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 4
Investigation and research embodying testing, original design, or research on an approved subject; or, a special problem or reading course of individual study guided by an approved departmental faculty member.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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EE 1198 - SPECIAL PROJECTS: INDEPENDENT
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 4
Independent study designed to give the student an opportunity to study a particular aspect of the discipline in some depth.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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EE 1199 - SENIOR DESIGN: ELECTIVE
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This is the follow-up practicum course serving as the 2nd part of the capstone project of the undergraduate program in order to implement the select student project developed in EE 1195 with the help of a faculty advisor. It is expected that a complete or partially working system will be presented in writing and orally followed by a demonstration at the end of the course. Projects may be on an individual or group basis, either interdepartmental or intradepartmental in organization.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 1195
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EE 1201 - ELECTRONIC MEASUREMENTS AND CIRCUITS LABORATORY
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This laboratory course explores circuits and electronic measurements including experiments on the use of electronic test equipment. Students are exposed to a variety of linear and non-linear devices and their characteristics, and operational amplifier basics. Time and frequency domain methodologies are also introduced. This course has a theory class and a lab class.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 0031 and EE 0257
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EE 1212 - ELECTRONIC CIRCUIT DESIGN LAB
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course emphasizes electronic circuit design and analysis. It explores frequency analysis of amplifiers, heat sinks, distortion analysis, circuit efficiencies, multi stage amplifiers, differential and operational amplifiers, feedback, active filters and oscillators. This course includes a theory class and a lab class.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 0257 and EE 1247
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EE 1247 - SEMICONDUCTOR DEVICES: THEORY AND APPLICATIONS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course covers electrical properties of semiconductor theory, energy levels, bipolar junction and field effect transistors, and diodes. The course introduces solid state devices such as rectifiers, sensors, small signal amplifiers, and low and high power solid state devices. Students are exposed to semiconductor manufacturing process, defect and failure mechanisms, and current state of technology.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 0031; CREQ: EE 0257
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EE 1259 - ELECTROMAGNETICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces the laws of physics and mathematical theorems relevant to Maxwells equations and waves. It explores uniform plane waves, reflection and transmission, wave guides and resonators, and transmission lines. The course covers electrostatic fields and magneto-static fields along with forces and energy.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHYS 0152 and MATH 1271 and MATH 0231 and EE 0031; CREQ: EE 1059
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EE 1541 - COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
Introduction of processors and microcomputer systems through the study of the hardware architecture and software. Topics include processor architectures, memory types and organization, instruction sets and executions, interfacing, hardware interrupts, and assembly language programming.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 0445 and EE 0142 and EE 0257
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EE 1552 - SIGNALS AND SYSTEMS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course covers signal representation, continuous time systems, fourier series, fourier transform, laplace transform, and discrete time system analysis.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 0031 and MATH 0231
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EE 1563 - SIGNAL PROCESSING THEORY AND PRACTICE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the analysis and representation of discrete-time signal systems, including impulse and step responses, convolution, Z-transform, and the discrete-time Fourier transform. The course covers basics in analysis, design, and implementation of digital filters. This course includes a theory class and a lab class.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 1552
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EE 1673 - CONTROL SYSTEMS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduction to feedback control systems, mathematical models, second order systems response and identification, system types, steady-state errors, root locus analysis and design, frequency domain techniques (bode diagrams), Nyquist theory and system reductions and stability.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: (EE 1552 or JME-BSE Plan) and MATH 0241; CREQ: MATH 1271 and (EE 1073 or JME-BSE Plan)
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EE 1769 - POWER SYSTEM 1
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
An introduction to modern power systems and methods of analysis of power generation and distribution systems. Topics include Transmission lines, network representations, network solutions, one-line diagram, system modeling, three-phase fault calculations, and system protective devices. This includes a 1 credit laboratory component.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 1771 and EE 1071
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EE 1770 - POWER SYSTEMS II
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores power system design and analysis. Topics include power flow, optimal power flow, economic dispatch, unit commitment, unbalanced faults (using symmetrical components), advanced power system protection, short circuit and coordination studies, system control, area control error, introduction to systems stability, and power distribution engineering. Extensive use of application software supplements the design and analyses of electrical power systems. This course includes a theory class and a lab class.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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EE 1771 - ELECTRIC MACHINES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Application of magneto-statics to the design of magnetic circuits, actuators, sensors and rotating electric machines. Performance characteristics of transformers, induction machines, synchronous machines and dc machines.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 0031; CREQ: EE 1071 or JME-BSE Plan
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EE 1772 - COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
Analysis of modern analog communication systems, including the theory underlying their design and practical implementation issues. Various forms of amplitude and angle modulation. Amplifiers, mixers, detectors, phase-lock loops, and the design of transmitters and receivers. Probability, random signals, optimal receivers, noise and performance analysis. Case studies includes telephone and commercial radio/television. This includes a 1 credit laboratory component.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 1552
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EE 1773 - DIGITAL COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Analysis of modern digital communications systems, including the theory underlying their design and practical implementation issues. Baseband digital signaling: pam, PCM, quantization, ISI, multiplexing. Modulation formats: ask, FSK, BPSK, DPSK, GAM. Probability, information channel capacity random signals, optimal receivers and performance analysis. Case studies include modems, satellite systems, and cellular telephone. This course includes a theory class and a lab class.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 1772
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ECE 1885 - DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR
Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
Seminars are designed to acquaint the student with aspects of engineering that are not normally encountered in classes and school activities and include a wide range of topics such as the significance of engineering as a profession, and ethical problems in engineering and skills required for a successful engineering career.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
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ENGR 0017 - INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING ANALYSIS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course introduces students to basic topics in engineering, problem-solving methods, and the role of the computer in engineering. The course includes the use of spreadsheets for engineering and statistical analysis, as well as the interpretation and presentation of data; an introduction to computer aided drawing (CAD); and an introduction to how teamwork, diversity, and professional and ethical responsibilities impact the engineering profession.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: CREQ: ENGR 0081 and (MATH 0004 or 0221 or 0220)
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ENGR 0018 - INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING COMPUTING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduces engineering problem solving with emphasis on computers as an engineering tool; social topics related to the engineering profession; technical report writing. The course explores computer based mathematical computations; integrated development environments; design, development, and debugging software programs. Software systems such as Matlab, Mathcad, AMD “C” language are used to practice computer based engineering problem solving with emphasis on data types and structures, functions, iterations and loops, file manipulations, graphs and plots, tables, and basic computer animations. The writing component included laboratory style reports and technical paper formatted research reports.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGR 0017; CREQ: MATH 0221 or MATH 0220
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ENGR 0020 - PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS FOR ENGINEERS 1
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
An introductory course in statistics. Topics covered include: data analysis, probability, random variables, selected discrete and continuous probability distributions, one sample and two sample estimation, hypothesis testing, experiments with two factors and introduction to regression analysis.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0150 or 0230 or 0231 or 0235
Course Attributes: SCI Quantitative: Statistics GE. Req.
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ENGR 0022 - MATERIALS STRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introduction to the basic concepts of materials science and engineering. The concepts of atomic, crystal, micro- and macro-structure, their control and effects on chemical, electrical, magnetic, optical, and mechanical properties. Modification of properties by heat treatment and control of processing. Fundamental considerations in materials selection.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGR 0081 - FRESHMAN ENGINEERING SEMINAR 1
Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
An in-depth orientation in the various areas of engineering and the related fields of employment. Includes small group meetings with departmental representatives and special freshman academic advisors. A formal departmental choice is made at the conclusion of these courses.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
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ENGR 0082 - FRESHMAN ENGINEERING SEMINAR 2
Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
An in-depth orientation in the various areas of engineering and the related fields of employment. Includes small group meetings with departmental representatives and special freshman academic advisors. A formal departmental choice is made at the conclusion of these courses.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
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ENGR 0132 - STATICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The principal objective of this course is to develop the ability to analyze any problem in a logical manner and to document that analysis in a clear and orderly fashion. Concepts to be studied include equilibrium of two- and three-dimensional force systems acting on rigid bodies as well as particles, plane trusses and frames, centroids and centers of gravity, elementary principles of dry friction, and moments of inertia of both areas and masses. The use of free-body-diagrams is stressed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: PHYS 0174 or 0475 or 0150 or 0201; CREQ: MATH 0230 or 0235 or 0150 or 0231
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ENGR 0142 - MECHANICS OF MATERIALS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The study of stress and strain relationships of bodies subjected to loads. Topics studied are axially loaded members; beam analysis including shear and moment diagrams, flexural and shearing stresses and beam deflections; torsion; principal stresses including Mohr’s circle; combined stresses; temperature effects; statically indeterminate members. In the laboratory component, physical tests are conducted illustrating selected concepts discussed in the course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGR 0132 and MATH 0231 or MATH 0230
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ENGR 0152 - DYNAMICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Dynamics of particles, systems of particles, and rigid bodies including energy and momentum methods, problems of varying forces and constraints, and relationship of motion to different reference frames.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGR 0132 and MATH 0231 or MATH 0230
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ENGR 1103 - ENGINEERING ECONOMICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course involves the integration of engineering and business decision making. It emphasizes analytical investment decision methodologies as they relate to engineering management decisions. It focuses on basic capital project evaluation techniques to include: interest calculations, present and annual worth comparisons, rate of returns, depreciation, income taxes, benefit/cost ratio analysis, replacement analysis, bonds, breakeven analysis and cash flows before and after taxes.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: LVL: Sophomore level or higher
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ENGR 1115 - ENGINEERING LEADERSHIP
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A course designed for the individual who wants to learn and develop their leadership and team building skills. Topics include influence, integrity, attitude, vision, change, priorities, self discipline, personal and interpersonal effectiveness, development of teams and principles of
leadership.
PREREQ: Level - Sophomore or above
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGCMP 0001 - FRESHMAN COMPOSITION 1 TUTORIAL
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Students meet weekly with their Composition 1 instructor to work on understanding and addressing writing assignments and how to strengthen their writing at the sentence and paragraph levels. Students use the papers they produce in ENGCMP 0005 as materials for discussion and revision.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGCMP 0005 - COMPOSITION 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this semester long course, students refine their ability to express themselves with clarity and coherence in various genres of writing; they learn the value of using the writing processes to generate, develop, share, revise, proofread, and edit major writing projects and demonstrate that they can produce essays that show structure, integrate evidence and organize significant content, demonstrate purpose, and reveal an awareness of audience. Required of all freshmen.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENGCMP 0006 - COMPOSITION 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this semester long course, students further refine their ability to express themselves with clarity and coherence in writing, demonstrate an understanding of the qualities inherent in various genres of writing, refine their ability to understand, employ, and effectively integrate various types of evidence in their written work, and learn how to conduct research on that topic using a variety of scholarly and popular sources and produce college level research papers. Required of all freshmen. Prerequisite: ENGCMP 0003 or ENGCMP 0005.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (ENGCMP 0005 or 0010 or 0200) or ENG 101 or (SAT High Verbal Score of 650 or Greater)
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ENGCMP 0008 - ESL WRITING WORKSHOP
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
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
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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.
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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
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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
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ENGLIT 0055 - BRITISH LITERATURE 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Especially designed for prospective English majors to acquaint them with the major works in English literature from its beginning through the 18th century.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0056 - BRITISH LITERATURE 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Traces the development of English literature from the beginning of the romantic period to the present.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0088 - INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces literature and literary analysis. Through close reading and critical analysis of a series of text selections, which vary by instructor and semester, the course explores the literary devices writers use to produce texts and the approaches and methods that readers use to understand and interpret them.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0316 - READING POETRY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
By studying various kinds of poetry from a number of sources, this course introduces students to particular forms of poetry and kinds of poetic language. Since poetry invites very close reading, students will explore various techniques for making sense of poems.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0318 - WRITING IN PARIS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will study the American writers who lived in Paris during the 1920s “the lost generation” and the ways they were influenced by Paris and its culture.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0326 - SHORT STORY IN CONTEXT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies short stories that explore a variety of themes. It seeks to define the short story as a specific literary genre and to distinguish it from earlier forms of short narrative literature. It then examines the effects of literary, cultural and historical traditions on these stories and their reception.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0333 - PARIS THROUGH THE AGES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The readings will introduce students to French writers who were influenced by Paris and who influenced the city and its intellectuals, from the Middle Ages through the twentieth century. This study abroad course includes excursions through the streets and museums of Paris. Taught in English.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0345 - LITERATURE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
In this course, students will read and write about the environment and its issues as expressed through literature. Readings in fiction, poetry, and non-fiction will explore how the geography of a location influences the character of its inhabitants, and how the forces of nature affect their lives and fortunes. Writing will consist of personal and critical short essays as well as a longer essay/project involving independent readings and research.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0351 - GENDER STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to offer interested students an opportunity to broaden their awareness and understanding of gender in contemporary American and global cultures in relation to the historical trajectories that shape and provoke current issues and events. The course provides a solid grounding in the critical understanding of both the representations of gender in texts of various media and the relationship of such representations to the culture that produces and receives them. A series of text selections, including primary and secondary essays of theory and criticism that explore particular ways of looking and primary texts of literature that contain representations to be analyzed, will be examined in their historical, intellectual, and literary contexts, considering a variety of critical approaches.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0354 - WORDS AND IMAGES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This interdisciplinary course explores the relationships between language and the diverse kinds of images that often accompany it (film, video, photography, book illustration, painting, etc.). The goal is to study the parallels and differences between images and words (as systems of communication) and to understand how they can productively interrelate within creative works such as literature, films, videos, and photographic studies.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Humanities
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Writing Intensive Course (WRIT)
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ENGLIT 0355 - DIGITAL HUMANITIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A broad overview of the many intersections of computational technologies and traditional Humanities disciplines, this course focuses on the following: Electronic Art and Literature, New Media, Digital Subcultures, Game Studies, Computational Cultural Studies, Digital Archives, and Technological Convergence. Much of the coursework is inspired by the ethos of collaboration, collective intelligence, and participatory culture, and it assumes that the human is at the center of technological advancement, that emerging technologies can help us create new works of art that resist description and genre classification, and that computers can help us better understand and appreciate human culture and creative expression.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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