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ENGLIT 0361 - WOMEN AND LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An exploration of writings by and about women. Through reading of various literary forms—poetry, fiction, and auto biography—students will explore the aspirations and realities of women’s lives. Students will consider how social issues—class, race, etc.—Affect women writers.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0363 - PUMPED: LITERATURE AND SPORTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A course that draws on selected fiction, documentary, and non-fiction. This class explores sports as they appear in literary texts. It also examines the cultural, social, and economic effects of sports. Students also focus on applying critical reading skills to appreciating the literary value of the written works about various sporting events. While attempting to find connections between how cultures value sports and how those values come to define the culture itself, students are also challenged to connect what they learn with real world situations.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0364 - LIT AND FOODS: RAW & RADICAL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A course that draws on selected fiction, documentary, and non-fiction. This class explores foods as they appear in literary texts. It also examines how foods trigger or drive the cultural, social, and economic changes. Students also focus on applying critical reading skills to appreciating the literary value of the written works about various foods. While attempting to find connections between how cultures value these subjects and how the values come to define the culture itself, students are also challenged to connect what they learn to real world situations.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 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
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ENGLIT 0368 - THE LITERATURE OF SCIENCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course will allow students to read and appreciate texts in which scientists explain and meditate upon what they do along with literary texts that depict the impact of science on human, albeit fictional, endeavors.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0400 - GLOBAL LITERARY TRADITIONS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A survey course that explores world literature from the ancient world to the present time. This course examines the development of various literary genres, motifs, and themes, and explores how political, social, and spiritual changes around the globe influenced these elements through time.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0401 - GLOBAL LITERATURE 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introductory course that draws on diverse literary texts (oral, written, visual, digital) from around the world, with a focus on recurring issues and themes such as migration, trans-nationality, and globalization.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0410 - GLOBAL LITERATURE 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A course that draws on literary texts from around the world, with a focus on their universal value that transcends time, geography, social systems, and spiritual backgrounds.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0522 - INTERACTIVE FICTION AS LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines digital, text-based and turn-driven narratives as immersive and interactive cultural products. Students study the history of “traditional” interactive narratives - such as riddles and puzzle games - and their impact on electronic literature, and they further this study by reading several works of digital interactive narratives from 1975 to the present. In addition to studying interactive fiction in an historical context, students create original interactive pieces.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0523 - MARS IN LITERARY IMAGINATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
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
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ENGLIT 0530 - FILM ANALYSIS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the art of the cinema, and to the techniques for its formal and iconographic analysis. It examines the nature of shot composition and visual framing, the use of color, the role of lighting as a pictorial element, the potentials of camera movement, the modes of editing and the nature of image/sound montage. It also introduces students to dominant cinema forms—narrative, experimental, documentary, etc.—And connects the cinema to visual arts (like painting and sculpture).
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: Children’s Literature, DSAS The Arts General Ed. Requirement, Film Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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ENGLIT 0557 - INTRO TO LITERATURE FOR ADOLESCENTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will focus on American literature written specifically for an adolescent audience. The course will allow an examination of the historical changes in the perception of adolescence in the U.S. and explore both canonical and modern texts that use literary devices and techniques as well as portraying psychological awareness while exploring the complex ethical concepts that face teenagers today.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0574 - AMERICAN LITERATURE 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introductory course that draws on fiction, non-fiction, and poetry to trace characteristic features and consistent concerns that shaped the development of a distinctly American literature. Begins with the religious/economic argument of the first-generation European migration, moves through the literature of the politically-charged colonial era, and closes in the mid-nineteenth century and the initial expressions of a national literature.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0575 - AMERICAN LITERATURE 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introductory course that draws on fiction, non-fiction, and poetry to explore the characteristic features and shared concerns that shaped the emergence of American literature into international prominence. Begins with the emergence of realism in post-Civil War industrial America, moves through the literature of two World Wars and the economic and social revolutions of the twentieth century, and closes with the defining concerns of the contemporary era.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0578 - THE LITERATURE OF VIOLENCE: EXAMINING THE VIOLENCE IN AMERICAN CULTURE THROUGH LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The Literature of Violence is a course that contemplates the idea that the American inclination to embrace violence is an essential but very troubling element of our culture and our nature. Throughout this course, students will hone their ability to critically examine novels and short stories written by canonical authors whose explorations of this violent tendency in their protagonists allows us insight into the evolution of American culture and our consciousness of our history of violence. In the process of reading texts written by authors whose fictional works paralleled the development of American culture, students will gain an appreciation for the insightfulness of their literary forebears and the ways in which respective authors have clarified the condition of humanity in their respective eras. Additionally, they will learn the degree to which literary texts have profoundly influenced the modern English-speaking world. Finally, students of the Literature of American Violence World will develop their understanding of the significance of reading literature as means of comprehending their world and recognize their connection to other individuals who have struggled against the inclination to embrace violence and determine how they will help shape the future of their societies.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0581 - INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will focus on a number of Shakespeare’s major plays from all phases of his career. Class discussion will consider the historical context of the plays, their characterization, theatrical technique, imagery, language and themes. Every attempt will be made to see the plays both as poems and as dramatic events.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0598 - BIBLE AS LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This introductory course acquaints students with what is in the bible and provides background information drawn from various disciplines about the elements and issues that give it its distinctive character. Attention is necessarily given to its religious perspectives, since they govern the nature and point of view of the biblical narratives, but no specific religious view is urged.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0616 - EXILES, NOMADS, AND MIGRANTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course reads various reflections on the immigrant’s experience of separation or exile, the problems of encountering a new society, and the processes of acculturation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., Urban Studies
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ENGLIT 0619 - THE LITERATURE OF THE GREAT WAR
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses solely upon the literature that most poignantly depicts the experiences and perspectives of the soldiers who fought on the battlefields of World War I and the civilians who suffered its destruction. It will allow students to explore the most significant memoirs, poetry, and works of fiction that emerged from the ravaged battlefields of the western front and the ravaged homes destroyed by what some called “war to end all wars”.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0621 - AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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ENGLIT 0625 - DETECTIVE FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines detective fiction in terms of its history, its social meaning and as a form of philosophizing. It also seeks to reveal the place and values of popular fiction in our lives.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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ENGLIT 0626 - SCIENCE FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the major ideas, themes, and writers in the development of science fiction as a genre. Discussions will help students to understand and use critical methods for the analysis of science fiction. The topics covered include problems describing and defining the genre, contrasting ideologies in soviet and American science fiction, the roles of women as characters, readers and writers of science fiction, etc.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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ENGLIT 0634 - LIVING ON THE EDGE: LITERATURE ON THE EXTREME
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the radical literature that pushes cultural and social boundaries and compels readers to contemplate the impact of transgressive fictional characters who reject the conventional perspectives of their contemporaries and establish new possibilities for social discourse. It asks students to investigate the revolutionary power of literature and consider whether it inspires social and cultural change or whether it reinforces cultural mores.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0690 - LITERATURE OF TERRORISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students in this course will explore the literature that examines, interrogates, and chronicles the emergence of terrorism as contemporary cultural phenomena that dominates revolutionary twenty-first century rhetoric. It will offer students the opportunity to gain an understanding of the conditions that compel individuals to embrace extreme acts of arbitrary violence and take advantage of the attention that those acts inspire to bring about social and cultural changes in hostile political environments.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 0695 - 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
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ENGLIT 0702 - INTRODUCTION TO GAME STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course offers an introduction to the critical study of games and gaming. From a theoretical overview of the roles that games play in our cultures and lives to in-depth examinations of specific games, this course seeks to investigate the uses and potentials of gaming as a cultural form that combines elements of literature, cinema, and computation. While the course focuses primarily on video games, it also examines other forms of games such as board games, role-playing games, and literary games. Students will be urged to examine games as narratives and narratives as games, consider ethical and ideological conundrums inherent in virtual representations of bodies and environments, and analyze traditional elements of narrative, time, tropes, and simulations in games.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Creative Work General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req.
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ENGLIT 1019 - SHAKESPEARE AND CULTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Designed to offer interested students an opportunity to study Shakespeare’s works and culture between the Introductory and Advanced levels, a more in-depth engagement with a more substantial critical focus. We will consider a sequence of text selections of varied genres and themes, in relation to their historical, intellectual, and literary contexts. As well, we will explore a variety of critical approaches, with a focus upon the controversies and concepts of ideology at the core of the relationships between and among the plays, their contemporary audiences, and our own engagement with them. Counts as an “Aesthetics and Creative Expression” course in the GenEd WoK.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0006
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ENGLIT 1021 - HISTORY OF LITERARY CRITICISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course concentrates on the major developments in the history of literary thought and criticism from Plato to the modern and post-modern developments. The major documents of literary criticism are studied in relation to the contexts- historical, cultural and philosophical—that gave rise to these responses.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1033 - DANTE’S DIVINE COMEDY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
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
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ENGLIT 1106 - MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The major works of English literature of the 14th and 15th centuries, exclusive of Chaucer, will be read in the original middle English.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1116 - CHAUCER
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course closely examines major works by Chaucer - the Canterbury tales and Troilus and Criseyde. Students will view Chaucer’s work in its historical, social, artistic and intellectual contexts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1120 - RESTORATION AND 18TH CENTURY LIT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Deals with the main literary developments of the period, excluding the novel. Emphasis is on the major figures from Dryden to Goldsmith.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1129 - ADVANCED SHAKESPEARE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will read several plays in different genres, to be analyzed in class discussion and to serve as the focus of students’ research writing, applying to the plays critical theory, performance theory and practice, and textual analysis. This course assumes a basic familiarity with Shakespeare’s dramatic genres and poetic techniques.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 1151 - ROMANTIC POETRY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Deals almost exclusively with the poetry of the six major romantic poets Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats. Some minor poets of the romantic period may also be studied.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1171 - THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies the work of those major writers- from Blake through Keats—which constitutes British romanticism. It explores the social, intellectual and aesthetic concerns of this movement and its relationships with its British and European cultural contexts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1175 - 19TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A study of the major writers and cultural issues of 19th century Britain situated in relation to the social and intellectual developments of the time.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Attributes: DSAS Historical Analysis General Ed. Requirement, DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req., West European Studies
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ENGLIT 1182 - VICTORIAN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies the poetry of Tennyson, the Brownings, Clough, Arnold, the Rosettis, Meredith, Morris, Swinburne, Hopkins and Hardy. Attention will also be given to a sampling of prose of the period.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1210 - THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the flowering of American literature during the first half of the nineteenth-century. It analyzes the struggle of American writers to develop a new national literature.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 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 Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., SCI Polymathic Contexts: Soc/Behav. GE. Req.
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ENGLIT 1239 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN AMER LITRATUR
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Treats topics relevant to American literature. Topics vary, but will include the literature of a specific era or region; the achievement of a specific writer or school of writers; ethnic and/or gender studies; film and literature studies; specific thematic topics; genre studies; and/or close readings of influential texts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1241 - JANE AUSTEN: BOOKS & FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will cover four of the novels of Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma), and their film and television series equivalents, plus one very recent derivative novel, Helen Fielding’s, “Bridget Jones’s Diary” (and its film version). The point of the course would be to refine students’ sense of how to read both novels and films and simultaneously to sharpen their sense of a historical period in some cultural detail and examine the cultural and aesthetic values of their own post-modern era.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1252 - 20THC AMERICAN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Examines significant American writings published from 1900 to World War II, specifically American literature’s response to two World Wars, the introduction of narrative experimentation, economic booms and busts, the scientific revolution, political radicalism, the women’s movement, the emergence of ethnic literatures, and the beginning of the nuclear age.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1253 - CONTEMPORARY POETRY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A study of works by poets who have been active since World War II to the present.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1260 - AMERICAN POETRY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Examines select poets and signature texts that represent the defining elements of American poetry from the Puritan era to the present. Emphasizes shared themes and concerns as well as those formal experiments that have come to distinguish American poetry.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1265 - SCIENCE FICTION AND VIRTUAL WORLDS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A literature course centered on concepts and representations of virtual reality in literature, film, and digital media. Drawing from several bodies of critical theory including game studies and post-humanistic models of subjectivity, the course interrogates the shifting boundaries between the real and the virtual, and it requires students to read, view, and interact with several advanced works of science fiction.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 1280 - CNTMPRY AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines writings by American women from the 1950’s to the present. It draws upon feminist literary criticism to explore issues such as the symbolic significance of gender, power relations between the sexes, and differences in representation across race, class and ethnicity.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Attributes: Gender, Sexuality & Women’s St
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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
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ENGLIT 1312 - 19TH CENTURY AMERICAN NOVEL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Tracks the emergence of a defining American novel from the early years of the republic through the political and social upheavals of the Civil War and through the issues specific to a new industrial and economic power at the close of the century. Includes texts that represent the romance, psycho logical realism, experimental impressionism, naturalism, and the urban and regional realism.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1320 - THE 20TH CENTURY NOVEL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A study of the various transformations of the traditional novel in modern British and American fiction. Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, Hemingway, and Faulkner are among the writers to be studied.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1327 - BRITAIN’S MODERNITY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will explore the massive changes in Britain after the First World War, reflected in the faster pace of life amidst planes, underground trains, cars and technological modernization. We will read novels, short stories and essays that ponder the changes upon art and human expression of the expanding consciousness created by psychoanalysis, the craze for spiritualism, as well as the revolutionary effects of one marriage manual, debated in fiction by women.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0006
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ENGLIT 1360 - TOPICS IN 20TH CENTURY LIT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Considers thematic, formal historical or cultural topics in late 19th and 20th century literature. It ties these issues to critical and social concerns in international modernism and post modernism.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
Course Attributes: DSAS Literature General Ed. Requirement, Global Studies, SCI Polymathic Contexts: Humanistic GE. Req., West European Studies
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ENGLIT 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
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ENGLIT 1362 - WORLD WAR IN 20TH-CENTURY LITERATURE, FILM, AND DIGITAL ARCHIVES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will explore the cultural constructs of World War through the literature and film of the time, and they will use digital archives from England to investigate the unreliability of memory.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1364 - LONDON IN CURRENT BRITISH FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores writers’ fascination with London in the literature that has been published in the last 15 years. It examines narratives that depict the city’s geography, history, anthropology, representation, and both its “psychogeography” and the relative modern multi-media fracturing of its utopian and dystopian narratives.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 1365 - CONTEM AMERICAN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Explores works that represent the defining literary movements of American literature from 1950 to the present, including post-Hiroshima realism, postmodernism, post humanism, cyber-realism, and post-postmodernism. Offers historical perspective on post-war American intellectual culture by examining the era’s defining theoretical/literary models.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1371 - MAKERS OF MODERN DRAMA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This class will read intensively and comparatively plays written by late-19th and early-20th century continental, English, Irish and American dramatists. Plays selected will reflect major dramatic movements of the period (realism, naturalism, symbolism, expressionism) and will be analyzed not only by theatrical characteristics but also in relation to their dramatic, critical and cultural contexts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1381 - WORLD LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines contemporary literature, primarily in English, written in eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, etc. It pays particular attention to its depiction of social, political and moral concerns.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1500 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
To be arranged in consultation with instructor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1553 - HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A survey of the linguistic development of English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. Attention given to basic linguistic structures and discursive practices and to the social and historical conditions under which they change.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1647 - LITERATURE FOR ADOLESCENTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will read classics as well as modern works written specifically for an adolescent audience. We will also read and discuss sociological and psychological constructions of adolescents and books on pedagogy.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 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
Course Attributes: Gender, Sexuality & Women’s St
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ENGLIT 1830 - FILM AS LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An in-depth study of film as literature, primarily dealing with objectively observing and evaluating the film experience. In alternating offerings the course may deal with directorial studies, mileu, genres, and literature into-film studies.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1902 - ENGLISH LITERATURE INTERNSHIP
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 12
This internship will allow you to use your skills in English literature to the context of a publishing house, in a supervised structure in which you will learn proof-reading, copy-editing, and literary production. This course will rely on the skills in grammar, spelling, and clear expression, as well as an awareness of literary style.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1912 - SENIOR SEMINAR
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Intensive study of a single topic or figure that assumes previous work in related literary, historical, and critical areas. Each seminar moves toward a final paper that integrates earlier literary study with the specific critical perspective developed in this course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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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
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ENTR 1680 - ENTREPRENEURS IDEA LAB
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed as a pragmatic approach to converting a new idea into a new venture. Students are led through a step-by-step process of developing an idea in context with a beachhead market so that it will be commercially viable. Students will present new ideas, select the best and work on the strongest innovations for presentation to local entrepreneurs at the end of the course. Local business experts and business owners will mentor students during the course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENTR 1685 - ENTREPRENEURS TOOLKIT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will provide students with knowledge of important tools and skills required for entrepreneurial success, including finding investors or financing; developing a leadership team; managing risk and change; legal considerations and protecting proprietary information; cash flow tracking; ethics; and exit strategies.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENTR 1686 - ENTREPRENEURS FIELD CAMP
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will complete 150 hours in a local start-up, small business, or established company learning and applying skills in business planning, market research, product development, website development or social media marketing, investor or finance solicitation and planning, or business accounting.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENVSTD 0100 - INTRO TO ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Survey of environmental concepts and principles. Students evaluate contemporary environmental issues as they relate to the quality of life. Environmental topics are used to develop analytical skills. The natural and social (environ mental) consequences of population growth, food supply demands, pollution, and resource exploitation are discussed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENVSTD 1200 - INTERNSHIP
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 12
Practical experience in environmental studies in a professional setting. Students earning internships must write an extensive summarization and analysis of their field experiences. Work is directed by the employer and evaluated by the faculty advisor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
Course Requirements: PROG: SOCSCI; PLAN: ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Course Attributes: Undergraduate Internship
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ENVSTD 1400 - SOIL IN THE ENVIRONMENT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to engage students to critically look at soil as the central link in the function and creation of the terrestrial environment by examining the physical, chemical, and biological aspects of soil. Soils are a natural body, engaged in dynamic interaction with the atmosphere above and the strata below that influences the planet’s climate and hydrological cycle, and serves as the primary habitat for a versatile community of living organisms. This course will incorporate how soils influence climate change, pollution control, human expropriation of natural resources, and the prospects for harmonious and sustainable development. This course will also include field activities relevant to a career in Environmental Science.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENVSTD 0100; PLAN: Environmental Studies
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ENVSTD 1500 - ENVIRONMENTAL FIELD STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Immerse a student in a regional experience as a two week field course. This course will enable students to see critically and to interpret a cultural landscape through the perspective of culture and history, sustainability, ecology and natural environment, geology, and geography. Using a combination of structured field studies, cultural specific readings, primary and secondary data, and standard geographic field techniques this course strives to develop a deeper affective and cognitive understanding of a specified geographic region. This course is designed to offer students the opportunity to participate in a travel experience that is directly linked to their coursework and academic concentration and to broaden understanding of social and environmental processes through hands-on-site visits to several national and global parks, cities, towns, cultural centers, nature preserves, museums, etc. Course can be taken more than once as study sites will change.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENVSTD 1700 - SENIOR SEMNR IN ENVIRON STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The student undertakes a critical examination of the problems and issues associated with a particular dimension of environmental policy or environmental management, culminating in a final paper.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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FIN 0300 - PRINCIPLES OF FINANCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Focuses on how companies make investment and financing decisions, including capital formation and resource allocation. The concepts of time-value of money, security valuation, capital budgeting, and the tradeoff between risk and expected return are also introduced. Cost of capital, financial leverage, and capital structure policies are also presented.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ACCT 0115
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FIN 1310 - INVESTMENTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Provides an understanding of the process of evaluating and selecting investments. Discusses investment techniques, vehicles, and strategies emphasizing the risk-return tradeoffs. The operations of securities markets are explained and investments in equities, fixed income securities, and other outlets are discussed. The course also familiarizes students with published financial data.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FIN 0300
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FIN 1315 - PERSONAL FINANCIAL PLANNING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduction and overview of personal financial planning. Topics include financial planning, managing assets, credit, insurance, investments and retirement and estate planning.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FIN 0300
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FIN 1330 - FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course views financial statement analysis as an integral part of economic and financial decision theories with emphasis on the use of analytical techniques to predict corporate earnings, growth, and failure. Topics include credit and risk evaluation, profitability analysis, financial statement component analysis, and financial statement forecasting.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FIN 0300
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FIN 1356 - INTERMEDIATE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Analyzes long term decision making for the firm. The course will investigate various techniques in capital budgeting. An emphasis on the impact on shareholder wealth will be stressed. Additional topics include the analysis of cost of capital and capital structure issues. Dividend policy will be presented as it impacts share value and financing. The course will use spreadsheet analysis models for case work.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FIN 0300 and STAT 1040; CREQ: FIN 1310
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FIN 1365 - FINANCE SPECIAL TOPICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Detailed analysis of a particular topic not covered by regularly scheduled courses.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FIN 0300 and FIN 1310
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