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University of Pittsburgh-Johnstown
2016-2017 Johnstown Campus Catalog
University of Pittsburgh Johnstown
   
2016-2017 Johnstown Campus Catalog 
    
 
  May 02, 2024
 
2016-2017 Johnstown Campus Catalog [Archived Catalog]

Course Information


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Electrical Engineering Technology

  
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    EET 1185 - JUNIOR SEMINAR FALL


    Minimum Credits: 0
    Maximum Credits: 0
    Practicing professional engineers speak on a variety of subjects of interest to the electrical engineering profession.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
  
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    EET 1186 - JUNIOR SEMINAR SPRING


    Minimum Credits: 0
    Maximum Credits: 0
    Practicing professional engineers speak on a variety of subjects of interest to the electrical engineering profession.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
  
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    EET 1187 - SENIOR SEMINAR FALL


    Minimum Credits: 0
    Maximum Credits: 0
    Practicing professional engineers speak on a variety of subjects of interest to the electrical engineering profession.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
  
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    EET 1188 - SENIOR SEMINAR SPRING


    Minimum Credits: 0
    Maximum Credits: 0
    Practicing professional engineers speak on a variety of subjects of interest to the electrical engineering profession.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
  
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    EET 1195 - SENIOR PROJECT PROPOSAL


    Minimum Credits: 2
    Maximum Credits: 2
    A written proposal, functional specification, time schedule, and block diagram will be submitted. After approval of the proposal by the faculty, a faculty advisor is assigned and the senior project is begun.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Practicum
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    EET 1197 - SPECIAL PROJCT - DIRCTED STUDY


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 6
    Directed study or independent study designed to give the student an opportunity to study a particular aspect of the discipline in some depth.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Directed Studies
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    EET 1198 - SPECIAL PROJECT - INDEP STUDY


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 6
    Independent study designed to give the student an opportunity to study a particular aspect of the discipline in some depth.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Independent Study
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    EET 1199 - SENIOR PROJECT


    Minimum Credits: 2
    Maximum Credits: 2
    Employs previously learned material in electrical engineering technology. The project involves design and analysis of a new or modified electrical circuit or system with verifiable feasibility. Projects may be on an individual or group basis, either interdepartmental or intradepartmental in organization.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Practicum
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: EET 1195 and ENGWRT 1192

Elementary Education

  
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    ELED 0010 - DIRECTED TUTORING PRACTICUM


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Provides elementary education and pre-education majors with tutoring experiences in area school districts or other field settings.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Internship
    Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
  
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    ELED 0011 - DIRECTED FIELD PRACTICUM


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Provides individual elementary education and pre-education majors the opportunity to actively assist a faculty member on teaching or curriculum projects.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Directed Studies
    Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
  
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    ELED 0012 - DIRECTED STUDY IN ELED


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Provides individual elementary education and pre-education majors the opportunity to explore in-depth specific topics in education.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Directed Studies
    Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
  
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    ELED 1160 - TECHNG SOCL STDS IN ELEM SCHL


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Designed to prepare the undergraduate elementary education student to effectively teach social studies at the elementary school level. The practical competencies needed for teaching social studies are explored, developed and experienced.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ELED 1174 - PRIMRY STUDNT TCH IN ELEM EDUC


    Minimum Credits: 7
    Maximum Credits: 7
    Full-time experience for teacher certification candidates in a student teaching center at an elementary school, grades kindergarten through three. Provides opportunities to observe, plan, conduct, and assess instruction in the school setting with professional feedback from university supervisors and experienced master teachers. School sites are located within 15 miles of the college; students are placed in established sites only.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Practicum
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ELED 1184 - INTRMD STDNT TCH IN ELEM EDUC


    Minimum Credits: 7
    Maximum Credits: 7
    Full-time experience for teacher certification candidates in a student teaching center at an elementary or middle school, grades 4 through 6. Provides opportunities to observe, plan, conduct, and assess instruction in the school setting with professional feedback from university supervisors and experienced master teachers. School sites are located within 15 miles of the college; students are placed in established sites only.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Practicum
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ELED 1186 - ELEM STDNT TCH ABR-NEW ZEALAND


    Minimum Credits: 7
    Maximum Credits: 7
    Seven-weeks in duration, this full-time experience is for teacher certification candidates in a student teaching center at an elementary school in New Zealand. Provides opportunities to observe, plan, conduct, and assess instruction in the school setting with professional feedback from university supervisors and experienced master teachers. School sites are selected in exemplary Auckland area schools; students are placed in established sites only. Open only to elementary education students approved for student teaching.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Practicum
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ELED 1194 - ELED EDUC TEACHING SEMINAR


    Minimum Credits: 2
    Maximum Credits: 2
    Designed to provide the student teacher with the basic elements of professional development and career opportunities. Emphasis is on professionalism, interviewing, resumes, professional meetings and other appropriate topics. Must be taken during student teaching term.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
  
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    ELED 1196 - ELEM EDUC TEACHING SEM - US


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    Designed to provide the student teacher with the basic elements of professional development and career opportunities. Emphasis is on professionalism, interviewing, resumes, portfolios, professional meetings, and other appropriate topics. To be taken by elementary education students during their student teaching term.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
  
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    ELED 1197 - ELEM EDUC TEACHING SEM ABROAD


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

Emergency Medical Services

  
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    EMS 1070 - ACLS, PHTLS


    Minimum Credits: 2
    Maximum Credits: 2
    This course will lead to certification in advanced cardiac life-support (ACLS) and pre-hospital trauma life support (PHTLS).
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis

Engineering

  
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    CEE 1085 - DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR


    Minimum Credits: 0
    Maximum Credits: 0
    The departmental seminars are designed to acquaint the student with aspects of the civil engineering profession which are not normally encountered in classes and school activities.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Colloquium
    Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
  
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    COE 1885 - DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR


    Minimum Credits: 0
    Maximum Credits: 0
    Seminars are designed to acquaint the student with aspects of engineering that are not normally encountered in classes and school activities and include a wide range of topics such as the significance of engineering as a profession, ethical problems in engineering, and skills required for a successful engineering career.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
  
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    ECE 1885 - DEPARTMENTAL SEMINAR


    Minimum Credits: 0
    Maximum Credits: 0
    Seminars are designed to acquaint the student with aspects of engineering that are not normally encountered in classes and school activities and include a wide range of topics such as the significance of engineering as a profession, and ethical problems in engineering and skills required for a successful engineering career.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
  
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    EE 0031 - LINEAR CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The analysis of linear circuits.  Electric variables and circuit elements; Kirchhoff’s and Ohm’s law; mesh and node equations; Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits; first and second-order circuits; time domain analysis.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
    Course Requirements: PREQ: PHYS 0152 or 0175 and MATH 0230 or 0235 or 0150 or 0231; CREQ: EE 0500 or JME-BSE Academic Plan
  
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    EE 0132 - DIGITAL LOGIC


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Introduction to digital systems, Boolean algebra, minimization of logic functions, combinational and sequential circuit design.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
    Course Requirements: PREQ: PHYS 0152 or 0175 and MATH 0230 or 0235 or 0150 or 0231; CREQ: EE 0500
  
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    EE 0142 - COMPUTER ORGANIZATION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course explores fundamental concepts and tools of digital system design, basic computer architecture, sequential circuit design techniques, simulation, modelling, hardware description languages; and introduction to programmable logic devices. It also introduces formats for processor instructions, data representations and error detection codes, memory and input & outputs.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
    Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 0132; CREQ: EE 0501
  
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    EE 0257 - ANALYS & DESGN ELECTRNIC CIRCT


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Analysis and design of diode circuits, bipolar junction transistor and field effect transistor circuits, power supply circuits, and power amplifiers. This also introduces bias stability analysis, operational amplifier circuits, CMOS inverters, and other linear circuits.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
    Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 0031; CREQ: EE 0501
  
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    EE 0501 - DIGITAL & ELECTRONICS LAB


    Minimum Credits: 2
    Maximum Credits: 2
    This course introduces basic implementation of digital circuits, and techniques in simulation and verification. Systems composed of discrete devices, logic gates, combinatorial circuits, and sequential circuits and systems are designed, simulated, built and tested. This course also explores and experiments on characteristic of transistors and electronic devices and circuits such as amplifiers, diodes, rectifiers, and other solid state devices.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Laboratory
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
    Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 0132 and EE 0031; CREQ: EE 0142 and 0257
  
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    EE 1771 - ELECTRIC MACHINES


    Minimum Credits: 4
    Maximum Credits: 4
    Application of magneto-statics to the design of magnetic circuits, actuators, sensors and rotating electric machines. Performance characteristics of transformers, induction machines, synchronous machines and dc machines. This course includes a 1 credit laboratory component.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
    Course Requirements: PREQ: EE 0031
  
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    ENGR 0017 - INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING ANALYSIS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The course introduces students to basic topics in engineering, problem-solving methods, and the role of the computer in engineering.  The course includes the use of spreadsheets for engineering and statistical analysis, as well as the interpretation and presentation of data; an introduction to computer aided drawing (CAD); and an introduction to how teamwork, diversity, and professional and ethical responsibilities impact the engineering profession.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG
    Course Requirements: CREQ: ENGR 0081  and MATH 0004  or MATH 0221  or 0220
  
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    ENGR 0018 - INTRODUCTION TO ENGINEERING COMPUTING


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Introduces engineering problem solving with emphasis on computers as an engineering tool; social topics related to the engineering profession; technical report writing.  The course explores computer based mathematical computations; integrated development environments; design, development, and debugging software programs.  Software systems such as Matlab, Mathcad, AMD “C” language are used to practice computer based engineering problem solving with emphasis on data types and structures, functions, iterations and loops, file manipulations, graphs and plots, tables, and basic computer animations.  The writing component included laboratory style reports and technical paper formatted research reports.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGR 0017 ; CREQ: MATH 0221  
  
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    ENGR 0020 - PROBLTY & STAT FOR ENGINEERS 1


    Minimum Credits: 4
    Maximum Credits: 4
    An introductory course in statistics. Topics covered include: data analysis, probability, randon variables, selsected discrete and continuous probability distributions, one sample and two sample estimation, hypothesis testing, experiments with two factors and introduction to regression analysis.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
    Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0150 or 0230 or 0231 or 0235
  
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    ENGR 0022 - MATERLS STRUCTURE & PROPERTIES


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    An introduction to the basic concepts of materials science and engineering. The concepts of atomic, crystal, micro- and macro-structure, their control and effects on chemical, electrical, magnetic, optical, and mechanical properties. Modification of properties by heat treatment and control of processing. Fundamental considerations in materials selection.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGR 0081 - FRESHMAN ENGINEERING SEMINAR 1


    Minimum Credits: 0
    Maximum Credits: 0
    An in-depth orientation in the various areas of engineering and the related fields of employment. Includes small group meetings with departmental representatives and special freshman academic advisors. A formal departmental choice is made at the conclusion of these courses.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
  
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    ENGR 0082 - FRESHMAN ENGINEERING SEMINAR 2


    Minimum Credits: 0
    Maximum Credits: 0
    An in-depth orientation in the various areas of engineering and the related fields of employment. Includes small group meetings with departmental representatives and special freshman academic advisors. A formal departmental choice is made at the conclusion of these courses.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
  
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    ENGR 0132 - STATICS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The principal objective of this course is to develop the ability to analyze any problem in a logical manner and to document that analysis in a clear and orderly fashion.  Concepts to be studied include equilibrium of two- and three-dimensional force systems acting on rigid bodies as well as particles, plane trusses and frames, centroids and centers of gravity, elementary principles of dry friction, and moments of inertia of both areas and masses.  The use of free-body-diagrams is stressed.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG
    Course Requirements: PREQ: PHYS 0174 or 0475 or PHYS 0150  or 0201; CREQ: MATH 0230 or 0235 or 0150 or MATH 0231 
  
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    ENGR 0142 - MECHANICS OF MATERIALS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The study of stress and strain relationships of bodies subjected to loads.  Topics studied are axially loaded members; beam analysis including shear and moment diagrams, flexural and shearing stresses and beam deflections; torsion; principal stresses including Mohr’s circle; combined stresses; temperature effects; statically indeterminate members.  In the laboratory component, physical tests are conducted illustrating selected concepts discussed in the course.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGR 0132 and MATH 0231 or MATH 0230
  
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    ENGR 0152 - DYNAMICS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Dynamics of particles, systems of particles, and rigid bodies including energy and momentum methods, problems of varying forces and constraints, and relationship of motion to different reference frames.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGR 0132  and MATH 0241  or MATH 0240
  
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    ENGR 1103 - ENGINEERING ECONOMICS


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

Engineering Technology

  
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    ET 0011 - ENGINEERING DRAWING


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    This course is designed to help students maximize their potential for academic success in engineering technology and engineering in general. The course serves as a bridge with ET 0023 and the ENGR 0011 that will be required in the future and will replace a necessary credit for the current engineering technology program. Topics pertaining to engineering careers, ethics, and problem solving and working through the first years in college and an engineering program will be covered.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ET 0081 - FRSHMN ENGNRNG TECHNLGY SEMNR


    Minimum Credits: 0
    Maximum Credits: 0
    Presents a detailed description of both the engineering technology program and the engineering profession. Professional engineers currently in practice with industrial, governmental and/or consulting organizations are invited as guest lecturers.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ET 0082 - FRSHMN ENGNRNG TECHNLGY SEMNR


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


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


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

English Composition

  
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    ENGCMP 0001 - FRESHMN COMPOSITION 1 TUTORIAL


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    Students meet weekly with their ENGCMP 0001  instructor to work on understanding and addressing writing assignments and how to strengthen their writing at the sentence and paragraph levels. Students use the papers they produce in ENGCMP 0005  as materials for discussion and revision.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Workshop
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGCMP 0002 - FRESHMAN WRITING SEMINAR


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The freshman writing seminar provides incoming freshmen with the opportunity to enhance their writing skills while studying a topic reflecting the particular interest of the instructor. Students engage in challenging reading and substantial writing assignments.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGCMP 0003 - COMMUNICATION 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is designed for students in engineering technology, but it may be elected by any student who wants to enhance skills in reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Workshop
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGCMP 0004 - COMMUNICATION 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A continuation of communications 1 with additional emphasis on research writing.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Workshop
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0002 or 0003 or 0005 or 0010 or 0101 or 0150 or 0200 or ENG 0101 or (English Composition Placement Test with Score of 17 or Greater and Program: Engineering Technology at UPJ)
  
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    ENGCMP 0005 - COMPOSITION 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    In this course students study and practice the essentials of essay writing, with an emphasis on producing clear, correct prose.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGCMP 0006 - COMPOSITION 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    In this course, a companion course to freshman writing seminar and composition 1, students study and practice essay writing in more depth. The course also includes an introduction to researching and writing from sources.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0002 or 0003 or 0005 or 0101 or 0010 or 0200 or (English Composition Placement Test with Score of 17 or Greater and NOT in Program: Engineering Technology at UPJ)
  
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    ENGCMP 0008 - ESL WRITING WORKSHOP


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Workshop
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGCMP 0621 - THE TEACHING OF WRITING


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course prepares students to teach and evaluate essay writing and will be based on the theories of proven composition experts.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade

English Literature

  
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    ENGLIT 0040 - ESL READING SKILLS


    Minimum Credits: 2
    Maximum Credits: 2
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 0055 - SURVEY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE


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


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


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


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course studies invention and interpretation and explores the literary devices writers use to produce texts and readers use to interpret them. Though texts may change from section to section and instructor to instructor, they always stimulate investigation into reading.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0311 - THE DRAMATIC IMAGINATION


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


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


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


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


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


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


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


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course explores the relationships between lanaguage and images. It studies how we describe and understand visual images and how they help us understand qualities that could not easily be defined otherwise. It considers how images function in literary texts and other writers as well as the unconventional images found in dreams, ads, and popular prints, etc.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0355 - DIGITAL HUMANITIES


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The course will introduce students to the emerging field of digital humanities by exploring the contemporary theories of social media, by designing a website, studying digital texts and objects, examining fictional personae within virtual environments, and investigating virtual worlds as spaces of creation, inquiry, political upheaval, and social change.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 0361 - WOMEN AND LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    An exploration of writings by and about women. Through reading of various literary forms—poetry, fiction, and auto biography—students will explore the aspirations and realities of women’s lives. Students will consider how social issues—class, race, etc.—Affect women writers.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0365 - IMAGINING SOCIAL JUSTICE


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


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will examine literary representations of the law, legal issues, punishment, and legal ethics, using works that range from twelve angry men to soul on ice to the Indian lawyer.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    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: UGRD
    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: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 0522 - INTERACTIVE FICTION AS LITERTR


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A course on a form of narrative called interactive fiction, a text-driven and turn-based narrative form that takes input from a reader and responds with some degree of ‘intelligence.’ The narrative advances as a result of the interaction between the player-character, who occupies a space within the fictional world, and the fictional work itself.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    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: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0574 - AMERICAN LITERARY TRADITIONS 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: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0575 - AMERICAN LITERARY TRADITIONS 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: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    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: UGRD
    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: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0615 - LITERATURE AND RACE


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


    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: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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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: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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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: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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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: 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 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: 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 1111 - THE RENAISSANCE IN ENGLAND


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A study of the historical background as well as the important social, political, and literary developments in 16th century England.  Authors range from More to Spenser to Marlowe.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 of 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: 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 1120 - RESTORATION & 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: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1129 - ADVANCED SHAKESPEARE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course assumes a basic understanding of Shakespeare’s dramatic genres and poetic techniques. Students will read and research roughly seven plays, applying to the plays critical theory, performance theory and practice, and textual analysis.
    Academic Career: UGRD
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: Letter Grade
  
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    ENGLIT 1130 - 17THC ENGLISH LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A study of important ideas and forms in 17th-century England from Donne through Milton.  Emphasis is on Hilton’s, Paradise Lost.”“
    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 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: 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 1155 - 18TH CENTURY NOVEL


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course explores the literary and historical conditions that gave rise to the development of the novel in 18th-century England.
    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 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: 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 1175 - 19TH CENTURY BRITSH 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: UGRD
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
 

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