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University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown
2016-2017 Johnstown Campus Catalog
University of Pittsburgh Johnstown
   
2016-2017 Johnstown Campus Catalog 
    
 
  Mar 28, 2024
 
2016-2017 Johnstown Campus Catalog [Archived Catalog]

Course Information


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English Literature

  
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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: UGRD
    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 1200 - AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1860


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


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course surveys the flowering of American literature during the first half of the nineteenth-century. It analyzes the struggle of American writers to develop a new national literature.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1239 - SPEC 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: UGRD
    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 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: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1248 - LITERATURE OF MINORITY WOMEN


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Through a close study of literary works by minority women writers of North America, particularly African/Asian American writers, the course intends to help students develop a clear understanding and a critical appreciation of these different ‘strands’ in North American culture.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    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: UGRD
    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: UGRD
    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 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: UGRD
    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 1265 - SCIENCE FICTION VIRTUAL WORLDS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Drawing on game theory, this course will interrogate the boundaries between real and virtual worlds by considering literature and film as immersive, virtual environments before examining digital, virtual worlds such as second life, video game environments, and social media.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    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: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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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: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004  or ENGCMP 0006  or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1301 - 19TH CENTURY NOVEL


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Deals with the rise of the English novel of the 19th century. The authors include Austen, Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, the Brontes, George Eliot, Hardy, and Butler.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    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: UGRD
    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 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: UGRD
    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 1326 - THE MODERNIST TRADITION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course examines major works in the modernist tradition—poetry, fiction, drama—to determine the role these texts have played in creating the world that seems so familiar to us now.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    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 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: UGRD
    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 1362 - WORLD WAR IN LITERATURE


    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: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 1363 - SPY FICTION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Students will use digital archives from England to explore British and Irish spy fiction and films produced in the 20th century.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    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: UGRD
    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: UGRD
    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 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: UGRD
    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: UGRD
    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 ENGLSH 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: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1630 - THE AMERICAN DREAM


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    An interdisciplinary examination of the American dream of success and the myth of the self-made individual.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    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: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
  
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    ENGLIT 1701 - TOPICS IN WOMEN’S STUDIES


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


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


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


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

English Writing

  
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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: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006
  
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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: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006
  
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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: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006
  
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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: UGRD
    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: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006
  
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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: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006
  
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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: UGRD
    Course Component: Workshop
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 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, including hypertext, interactive digital performance, soundscapes, code poems, and video. Students will also craft their own digital poems.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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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: UGRD
    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
    A course on the nature and value of storytelling combined with the knowledge and skills needed to compose narratives in a variety of multimedia formats.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    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: UGRD
    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: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0050 or 0531
  
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    ENGWRT 1048 - NARRATIVE NONFICTION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This advanced writing course will provide students with an in-depth study of long-form, research-driven nonfiction writing through rigorous exercises, workshop-style peer critiques, and in-depth reading and analysis. Students will explore a variety of approaches to nonfiction subjects of their choosing for high-end magazine markets in print and online.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0050  or ENGWRT 0053  or ENGWRT 0500  
  
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    ENGWRT 1052 - WRITING INTERACTIVE NARRATIVES


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A creative writing course that introduces students to the non-linear, non-hierarchical narrative models endemic to the digital environment. After studying interactive digital works, students will practice their own interactive storytelling, including learning the basic coding required to compose hypertext narratives as well as collaborative work on game development.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Workshop
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGWRT 1111 - WRITING ECUADOR


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGWRT 1130 - GRAMMAR REVIEW


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Reviews essential grammatical principles traditionally and historically, including punctuation.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    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
    Students will produce their own individual online magazines and then work on an editorial team to select the best pieces from the separate magazines to build a single online magazine including such objects as stories, reports, poetry, slideshows, and audio/video podcasts.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Workshop
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0050  or ENGWRT 0053  or ENGWRT 0511  
  
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    ENGWRT 1180 - TRANSLATION WORKSHOP


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course views translation as a form of creative writing or as a technical skill. Proficiency above the intermediate level in some foreign language is desirable. Students are provided with literal translations to work on when necessary.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Workshop
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: SPAN 0212
  
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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: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006
  
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    ENGWRT 1294 - FORM AND THEORY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    An advanced writing seminar designed to focus on matters of interest unique to the written arts. Specific topics will change from year to year, but assigned texts, class discussion, and student writing will deal with modern and contemporary issued of form and theory from the writers’ point of view.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0050  or ENGWRT 0053 
  
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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: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0050 or 0053; PLAN: Writing major or minor; LVL: Junior or Senior
  
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    ENGWRT 1765 - PLAYWRITING 1


    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 per formed 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: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0050 or 0053
  
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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: UGRD
    Course Component: Independent Study
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0050 or 0053
  
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    ENGWRT 1950 - PROFESSIONAL WRIT INTERNSHIP


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 6
    This course will allow qualified students majoring in English writing 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 experience. Students must have junior or senior standing and a 3.0 Grade point average to be eligible.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Internship
    Grade Component: H/S/U Basis

Environmental Studies

  
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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: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENVSTD 1700 - SENR SEMNR IN ENVIRON STUDIES


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    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: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis

Fine Arts

  
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    FA 0015 - HISTORY OF WESTERN ART 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is a penetrating survey of the major accomplishments in Western art (painting, sculpture, architecture and the minor arts) from prehistory to the fourteenth century. Religious and philosophical beliefs, historical events, geological and astronomical phenomenon, and other areas of human inquiry will be addressed in order to better understand the context in which ancient and medieval art was created.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    FA 0016 - HISTORY OF WESTERN ART 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is a penetrating survey of the major accomplishments in Western art (painting, sculpture and architecture) from the Renaissance through the modern era. Contextual issues concerning the creation of art, including religious, political, economic and social conditions that existed in specific societies at specific moments in time, will be addressed through slide lectures.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    FA 0031 - INTRODUCTION TO MODERN ART


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Rather than simply chronologically surveying all modern art, this course focuses greater attention on primary and interrelated movements - such as realism, impressionism, cubism, dada, surrealism, abstract expressionism, and pop art - that were, arguably, the most influential art styles of the 19th and 20th centuries. The complex relationship between art movements, and the societal conditions that affected the creation and meaning of this art will be examined through readings, classroom discussion and visual analysis.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    FA 0040 - INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course introduces students to the art of architecture from the ancient world through the twentieth century. Structural, functional and aesthetic developments will be chronologically examined, with a focus on major monuments.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    FA 0050 - INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL ART


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is a thorough examination of the art and architecture created during the European Middle Ages. This period begins with the emergence and legalization of Christianity in the Roman Empire, and concludes with the arrival of the bubonic plague.  Particular attention will be paid to the evolution of Christian imagery as related to theology and society, as well as the structural, functional and aesthetic developments that occurred in architecture. Art created by migratory tribes and Islamic peoples will also be examined.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    FA 0080 - WORLD RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE


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


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


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


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


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    An intensive study on arguably the most important architect of the 20th century, this course seeks to examine the personal and professional life of Wright.  Key works and periods of his career will be focused upon, supplemented with analysis of his own writings, in order to come to an understanding of this man’s significance to modern architecture.  Of particular interest are the structures and projects Wright undertook in the Pittsburgh region, including the world-famous Kaufmann house, Fallingwater.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    FA 0450 - TWENTIETH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course closely examines the development of architectural styles and building technologies from the late nineteenth century to present day. This will be accomplished by thoroughly investigating (through assigned readings, classroom discussion and visual analysis) individual architects and their significant structures, as well as the relationship between the built-environment and societal conditions.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    FA 0491 - CONTEMPORARY ART


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course provides a survey of the important painting, sculpture and intermedia art from 1945 to the present. Special attention will be given to European art (surrealism and realist currents) before WW II and to their impact on America. Abstract expressionism, pop art, color field, minimal and conceptional art, and neo-expressionism will be discussed.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    FA 0521 - AMERICAN PAINTING 19TH CENTURY


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


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Notwithstanding the title, the purpose of this course is to introduce students to the rich artistic and cultural traditions of Asia as a whole, but particularly India, China, and Japan.  By necessity, this course takes a broad approach, yet singular monuments of great importance will receive intense study, such as the Great Stupa at Sanchi, the Taj Mahal, the Forbidden City and the great Shinto Shrine at Ise.  Other major topics include Chinese bronze ritual objects, Hindu architecture, Chinese scroll painting, and Japanese prints.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    FA 0711 - AFRICAN ART


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will focus on the art produced on the West coast and central part of sub-Sahara Africa. Through the use of slides, films and artifacts, the wide range of style groups will be examined and studied. Particular attention will be paid not only to the artifacts but to the functional use of the art object in the particular society. Since many of the art objects are used in religious ceremonies, the nature of these ceremonies will be examined.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    FA 1170 - FA INTERNSHIP


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 12
    To be arranged in consultation with instructor.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Internship
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    FA 1902 - INDEPENDENT STUDY


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

Foundations of Education

  
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    FDSED 0001 - HIST/PHIL OF ED: AMER EMPHSS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    American education is studied from a historical, cultural and philosophical perspective. Students will develop their philosophy of education, cultivate skills that enable them to analyze educational issues, and enhance their learning through local school classroom observations and reflective laboratory activity.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    FDSED 1170 - TRENDS AND ISSUES IN EDUC


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A course in which the students and the instructor determine a collection of various contemporary topics including trends and issues in the field of education. Students are expected to research various topics. The topics are analyzed, encouraging various points of view. The course is designed to expand prospective educator’s professional knowledge by providing them sufficient background for understanding how critical issues impact teaching and learning and the profession, in general.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
    Course Requirements: PREQ: FDSED 0001
  
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    FDSED 1171 - EDUCATIONAL LAW


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is designed to provide candidates with an overview and examination of laws and policies that govern K-12 education systems. Candidates will engage in an analysis of current trends in education, the roles of federal and local authorities, and issues of equitable educational opportunities for diverse communities. Lastly, candidates will develop a framework for the establishment and maintenance of professional relationships and networks with school/district personnel, related service providers and for ethical leadership practices governing one’s role as a professional educator.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    FDSED 1187 - STUDENT TCH EXPERIENCED TCHR


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 14
    For experienced teachers who need student teaching to satisfy certification guidelines. Specific requirements such as length of term, number of credits, student population, etc. will be determined on a case-by-case basis.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Practicum
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    FDSED 1188 - STUDENT TEACHING NEW ZEALAND


    Minimum Credits: 7
    Maximum Credits: 7
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Clinical
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    FDSED 1197 - STDNT TEACHING SEMINAR ABROAD


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    Student teaching seminar abroad
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: H/S/U Basis

French

  
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    FR 0111 - ELEMENTARY FRENCH 1


    Minimum Credits: 4
    Maximum Credits: 4
    This course introduces the oral-aural and reading-writing skills in the language, and stresses communication and grammatical structure. Emphasis is placed on using the spoken language.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    FR 0112 - ELEMENTARY FRENCH 2


    Minimum Credits: 4
    Maximum Credits: 4
    A continuation of elementary French 1, this course expands oral-aural and reading-writing skills in the language, and stresses communication and grammatical structure. Emphasis is placed on using the spoken language.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0111
  
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    FR 0211 - INTERMEDIATE FRENCH 1


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


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is a continuation of intermediate French 1.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0211
  
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    FR 0250 - SPECIAL TOPICS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The study of a special topic in French.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0212
  
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    FR 0311 - BUSINESS FRENCH


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


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


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


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


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is designed to enable students to improve their understanding and control of essential elements of written French.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0212
  
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    FR 0380 - MODERN FRENCH NOVEL


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The French novel is to a great extent a genre in which psychological analysis has been brought to a high level of sophistication. This shall be studied through close analyses of six to eight works in English translation.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0212
  
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    FR 0452 - INDEPENDENT STUDY


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 9
    To be arranged in consultation with instructor.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Independent Study
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0212
  
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    FR 0620 - FRENCH SHORT STORIES


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


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


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will introduce students to the courtly romance of 12th ‘century France through such works as the Arthurian tales of Chretien de Troyes, the romance of Tristan and Iseult, and Aucassin and Nicolette. (In English)
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    FR 1013 - FRENCH THEATRE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    In this course we shall consider the distinctive characteristics of French drama from the seventeenth century to the mid-twentieth century.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0212
  
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    FR 1017 - NOVEL 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course traces transformation in the French novel from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century new novel. We will read novels in French chosen for their literary merit as well as their importance as landmarks in the evolution of the French novel.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0212
  
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    FR 1019 - 20TH CENTURY TOPICS


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


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


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will explore Algerian literature written by Algerian writers as well as French writers in the 19th and 20th centuries. (In French)
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
 

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