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EDUC 242 - Pre-student Teaching Clinical Experience I
Credits: var-1
Prerequisite: Admission to teacher certification
Description: Introduces specific competencies that relate to individual major fields of teaching and university-based instruction, as well as observation/participation in a preK-grade 12 field experience. These competencies incorporate strategies and techniques for addressing the needs of all students, including those with special and English language learning needs.
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EDUC 250 - Labyrinth Seminar
Class Hours: 1
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 1
Description: Focuses on the communication, executive functioning, and inter/intrapersonal demands of college life. Designed to build the necessary skills to navigate the social and academic environment to succeed in the college experience. The seminar includes both teacher- and student-directed topics. Repeated: This course can be repeated every semester that the student elects to participate in the Labyrinth Center.
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EDUC 281 - Special Topics
Class Hours: var
Credits: 1-3
Prerequisite: As appropriate to course content
Description: Offered on an experimental or temporary basis to explore topics not included in the established curriculum. A given topic may be offered under any special topic identity no more than three times. Special topics numbered 281 are offered primarily for lower-level undergraduate students.
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EDUC 342 - Pre-student Teaching Clinical Experience II
Credits: 1
Prerequisite: EDUC 242 , admission to junior standing
Description: Continues to develop and refine competencies that relate to individual major fields of teaching through university-based instruction as well as participation and teaching in a preK-grade 12 school field experience. Also incorporates strategies and techniques for the delivery of instruction to all students, including those with special and English language learning needs. May be repeated for students seeking dual certification.
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EDUC 421 - Student Teaching
Class Hours: var
Credits: 5-6
Prerequisite: Admission to student teaching
Description: An experience in teaching at the elementary level; coordination and visitation by a university faculty member with daily supervision by a cooperating classroom teacher.
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EDUC 440 - Professional Seminar: Teacher as Leader and Researcher Grades 4-8
Class Hours: 2
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 2
Prerequisite: Middle-level education 4-8 major, concurrent enrollment in student teaching EDUC 421 and EDUC 441
Description: Provides support in a teacher candidate’s ongoing professional development. Emphasizes guidelines for professional etiquette, ethical behavior, professional practice, and effective interpersonal relations with teachers, paraprofessionals, school and agency personnel, parents, and students in grades 4-8. Examines the theoretical and research basis for classroom practices.
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EDUC 441 - Student Teaching
Class Hours: var
Credits: 5-12
Prerequisite: Admission to student teaching, successful completion of Step 2 of Teacher Education 3-Step Process
Description: An experience in teaching at the elementary or secondary level; coordination and visitation by a university faculty member with daily supervision by a cooperating classroom teacher.
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EDUC 442 - School Law
Class Hours: 1
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 1
Description: Required of all teacher certification students. Includes an overview of legal principles that apply to special areas of education. Must be taken before student teaching.
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EDUC 451 - Teaching Science in the Secondary School
Class Hours: 2
Lab/Discussion: 2
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Admission to student teaching
Description: Provides the background to help science majors meet the problems of teaching science. Various inquiry approaches useful in meeting the objectives of a contemporary science class, including special needs students and English-language learners, are taught and exemplified.
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EDUC 452 - Teaching of English and Communication in the Secondary School
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 314 , ENGL 323 , ENGL 324 (or approved equivalents) and admission to Step 1 of the 3-Step Process
Description: A Prerequisite to student teaching in English. Introduces current professional practices in the teaching of English and communications in secondary school.
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EDUC 453 - Teaching of Foreign Languages in the Secondary School
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Grade of “C” or better in SPAN 390 or FRNC 390 /GRMN 390; instructor permission
Description: Helps students develop an understanding of current theories of foreign language learning through exploration of relevant research. Students read about and discuss the implications of key research for teaching in secondary school classrooms. Opportunities are provided to use the theoretical base to design and present classroom lessons and to reflect on the effectiveness of their teaching. Special attention is given to designing performance-based language assessments and to adapting instruction to address the special needs of learners. Taught fall semester only.
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EDUC 455 - Teaching of Social Studies in Secondary Schools
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education Program
Description: A study of modern methods and techniques for teaching social studies and of current curricula in social studies.
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EDUC 456 - Teaching Mathematics in the Secondary Schools
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education Program, a declared major in mathematics education, and EDUC 242 with a grade of “C” or better
Description: A study of curricula, standards, methods, and techniques for teaching mathematics in the secondary schools.
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EDUC 461 - Student Teaching
Class Hours: 6
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 6
Prerequisite: Admission to student teaching, successful completion of Teacher Education Step 2
Description: An experience in teaching students with special needs at the preK to grade 8 level; coordination and visitation by a university faculty member with daily supervision by a cooperating teacher.
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EDUC 471 - Student Teaching
Class Hours: 6
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 6
Prerequisite: Admission to student teaching, successful completion of Teacher Education Step 2
Description: An experience in teaching students with special needs at the preK to grade 8 level; coordination and visitation by a university faculty member with daily supervision by a cooperating teacher.
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EDUC 481 - Special Topics
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: By permission only
Description: An opportunity to investigate in depth an area of education under professional supervision.
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EDUC 482 - Independent Study
Class Hours: var
Credits: 1-3
Prerequisite: Prior approval through advisor, faculty member, department chairperson, dean, and Provost’s Office
Description: Students with interest in independent study of a topic not offered in the curriculum may propose a plan of study in conjunction with a faculty member. Approved: Approval is based on academic appropriateness and availability of resources.
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EDUC 499 - Multicultural/Multiethnic Education
Class Hours: 2
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 2
Prerequisite: One methods course must be taken before, or concurrently with, EDUC 499
Description: Provides an understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity in the United States. Students gain the ability to locate and develop curricular materials appropriate to this country’s diversity.
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Education, Training, and Instructional Technology |
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ETIT 330 - Technology in the Classroom
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Description: Examines approaches for the evaluation and use of various classroom technologies. Explores the development of technology design and how these developments influence the current status of student performance in education. Highlights research that allows them to systematically and creatively apply the concepts and rules learned in the research and practiced in classrooms.
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Effective Teamwork and Communication Studies |
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TMWK 461 - Teamwork and Communication Capstone
Class Hours: 1
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 1
Prerequisite: Any independent study, undergraduate research, or honors thesis
Description: Capstone course for those minoring in effective teamwork and communication. Reflective nature of the course builds on core foundational material and in-major teamwork experiences. Emphasizes development of students’ philosophies of teamwork and communication through reflection and practice. Coupling of in-major independent study, undergraduate research, or honors thesis, by means of an interdisciplinary, semester-long project enhances real-world team experiences valued by future employers and graduate programs. Promotes the importance of showcasing team and communication skills to future employers through resume, cover letter, and portfolio. May Be: (may be taken concurrently)
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Employment and Labor Relations |
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ELR 314 - Health Policy and Law
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Description: Focuses on understanding the evolution of healthcare policy, health law, and federal and state regulation of healthcare financing programs. Introduces healthcare policy making; critical health policy issues; legislative, regulatory, and legal challenges; and legislative and political processes that impact the healthcare delivery system in the United States. Cross-Listed: (Cross-listed as NURS 314 .)
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ELR 480 - Introduction to Negotiations and Conflict Resolution
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Description: Deals with negotiations and conflict resolution techniques. An introduction to current concepts and theories of negotiations and resolving conflict and their application generally to everyday issues. Prepares students to engage in these techniques in workplace issues such as collective bargaining, negotiating contracts and agreements internally as well as externally.
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English |
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ENGL 100 - Basic Writing
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Description: The student develops the basic English skills necessary for clear and effective communication. Restricted to freshmen whose placement testing essay or portfolio score is a four or under. Does not meet General Education English or Liberal Studies writing requirements.
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ENGL 101 - Composition I
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 100 where required by placement testing
Description: In this first-year writing course, students compose projects in multiple written genres that address specific rhetorical situations. Uses memory, observation, critical reading and viewing, analysis, and reflection to draft, peer review, revise, and edit projects.
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ENGL 121 - Humanities Literature
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 101
Description: An exploration of literature and the methods of close reading. Through encounters with significant literary texts, students investigate and analyze how literary meaning is constructed; how literature shapes and is shaped by its various contexts; and how literature enables critical
inquiry into values. Includes literary texts by women and people from underrepresented communities. Offered: Also offered as FNLG 121 . May Be: ENGL 121/FNLG 121 may be used interchangeably for D/F repeats; may not be counted for duplicate credit.
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ENGL 122 - Introduction to English Studies
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: English major/minor; minimum grade of “C” in ENGL 101
Description: Introduces students to English studies by acquainting them with the critical approaches appropriate to the varied subject areas of the discipline. The assumptions and methods of these approaches are considered, especially in the interpretation of literature. At the conclusion, students are able to critically analyze texts and demonstrate those skills in discussion and writing. Required of all English majors.
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ENGL 202 - Composition II
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and sophomore standing
Description: Serves as a bridge between Composition I and students’ professional writing. Develops rhetorical skills for informed inquiry. Also develops the following abilities: writing, critical reading, revising, citing and documenting, speaking and listening, and reflecting.
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ENGL 203 - Introduction to Language Studies
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 101
Description: Introduces the study of linguistics and rhetoric. Considers cultural contexts and issues of power, focusing on questions such as how our brains use language, how language represents the world we live in, and how language influences our actions.
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ENGL 208 - Introduction to Film Studies
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Description: Concentrates on the film as an artistic medium. Eight to 12 motion pictures are shown during semester and are analyzed in class discussions.
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ENGL 210 - British Literature to 1660
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 , and ENGL 121 or ENGL 122
Description: Surveys British literature from its beginnings to about 1660, acquainting students with the experience of reading many of the primary materials (whole works whenever possible or full, free-standing parts) and provides background information concerning the development and flowering of the various genres, the dominant ideas of each period, and the social and cultural context of the separate works.
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ENGL 211 - British Literature to 1660-1900
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 , and ENGL 121 or ENGL 122
Description: Surveys British literature from about 1660 to the beginning of the 20th century, acquainting students with the experience of reading many of the primary materials (whole works whenever possible or full, freestanding parts) and providing them with background information concerning the development and flowering of the various genres, the dominant ideas of each period, and the social and cultural context of the separate works.
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ENGL 212 - American Literature: Beginnings to 1900
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 , and ENGL 121 or ENGL 122
Description: Provides an understanding of American literature from its beginning to about 1900. Concentrates primarily on a relatively small number of major works, each of which helps to illustrate the “spirit of the age” it represents.
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ENGL 213 - British and American Literature Since 1900
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 , and ENGL 121 or ENGL 122
Description: A survey of major authors and works in British and American literature since 1900. Begins with the shift from Victorianism and late 19th-century literature into modernism, as exemplified by writers such as Woolf, Hemingway, and O’Neill, and continues with postmodernism and contemporary literature.
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ENGL 220 - Advanced Composition
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 202
Description: Primarily seeks to improve writing style, particularly in the more utilitarian forms, such as magazine article and personal essay.
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ENGL 221 - Creative Writing
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or ENGL 122 or FNLG 121
Description: A seminar course in which students are expected to produce a substantial body of written work in one or more of the creative genres, the particular kind of writing chosen with regard to the special interests and abilities of each student.
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ENGL 222 - Technical Writing
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 101
Description: Focuses on helping the student to acquire and to apply communication skills essential to the technical and professional writer.
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ENGL 225 - Introduction to Literature by Women
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or ENGL 122 and ENGL 202
Description: Major trends and motifs across genres (fiction, nonfiction, poetry, autobiography) that reflect themes and subjects of continuing interest to women writers. The intersection of genre with race, ethnicity, and social class is of particular significance.
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ENGL 226 - Survey of Global Literature Since 1900
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 , and ENGL 121 or ENGL 122
Description: Surveys 20th century and contemporary global literature in English and/or translation. Readings are organized around major contexts and themes of colonialism, revolution, decolonization, nationalism, and globalization.
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ENGL 227 - Introduction to Legal Writing
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 202
Description: Introduces legal research and writing. Students learn to prepare research memos, memoranda of law, legal briefs, court observation essays, and other legal documents. Other topics include legal terminology, audience analysis, and case study analysis.
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ENGL 265 - Law and Literature
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of “C” in ENGL 101 and ENGL 202
Description: Explores the historical and cultural connections between selected legal texts and themes as they relate to novels, poems, films, drama, essays, and other literary genres.
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ENGL 281 - Special Topics
Class Hours: var
Credits: 1-3
Prerequisite: As appropriate to course content
Description: Offered on an experimental or temporary basis to explore topics not included in the established curriculum. A given topic may be offered under any special topic identity no more than three times. Special topics numbered 281 are offered primarily for lower-level undergraduate students.
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ENGL 308 - Critical Theory
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Minimum grade of “C” in ENGL 122
Description: Explores the major writings, writers, issues, technical vocabulary, and critical methods in literary, textual, and cultural studies theory; acquaints students with how such theoretical methods affect the way literary and cultural texts are read, studied, and taught; and enables the students to recognize and engage in theoretical praxis of various kinds.
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ENGL 310 - Public Speaking
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 101
Description: Fundamental principles of public speaking, audience analysis, interest, and attention and selection and organization of speech material.
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ENGL 313 - Rhetorical Trends and Traditions
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 101
Description: A survey of the major issues in and uses of rhetorical theory and criticism in contemporary culture, using rhetorical concepts from ancient through contemporary times. Rhetoric is the humanistic study of the ways people manipulate language and try to persuade others in the social world.
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ENGL 314 - Speech and Communication in the Secondary English Classroom
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 122 , ENGL 202
Description: Offers practical and theoretical approaches to relationships between oral and written communication. Performance based (involving a variety of communication activities) and knowledge based (involving study of research on language arts relationships). Emphasizes integration of the four language arts for improving teachers’ own communication skills as well as those of their students.
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ENGL 321 - Persuasive Speech and Writing
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 202
Description: Focuses on the practice of persuasive discourse in speech, writing, and visual media. Includes projects and readings in debate, written argument, and rehearsed and extemporaneous speaking. Students investigate such subjects as rhetorical foundations and applications, language choice and stylistic variations, popular culture, literature, and communication dynamics.
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ENGL 323 - Teaching Literature and Reading in the Secondary School
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 122 , ENGL 202
Description: Introduces the theory and research on teaching literature and reading in the secondary school. Reviews reader-response literary theory and classroom-based research on teaching literature. Also reviews socio-psycholinguistic reading theory and classroom-based research on teaching reading.
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ENGL 324 - Teaching and Evaluating Writing
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 122 , ENGL 202 , English education major or permission
Description: A study of modern approaches to the teaching of writing, including current theories on the composing process, as well as instruction in evaluating, including holistic scoring. Includes practice in writing.
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ENGL 325 - Writing Poetry
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 221 or instructor permission
Description: A writing workshop for students who wish to focus intensively on the writing and revision of poetry and on developing an audience for one’s creative work.
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ENGL 326 - Writing Fiction
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 221 or instructor permission
Description: A writing workshop for students who wish to focus intensively on the writing and revision of fiction and on developing an audience for one’s creative work.
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ENGL 327 - Writing Creative Nonfiction
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 221 or instructor permission
Description: A writing workshop for students who wish to focus intensively on the writing and revision of literary nonfiction forms and on developing an audience for one’s creative work.
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ENGL 328 - Introduction to Linguistics
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Description: An introduction to the study of languages as complex sets of interacting systems needed for human communication in a variety of interpersonal, academic, and professional contexts. Focuses on the fundamentals of sound systems, word structures, sentence structures, text structures, meaning systems, and language-related power systems. Also considers questions of how language develops over time, how languages are made up of a number of varieties, how languages are learned and used, how language use varies for different groups of users, and how these issues are related to cultural contexts including issues of power.
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ENGL 329 - The History of the English Language
Class Hours: 1
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 1
Prerequisite: ENGL 202
Description: Studies historical development of the English language as a basis for a better understanding of modern American English.
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ENGL 332 - Film Genres
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 , ENGL 208
Description: Offers a close examination of classic and contemporary films and film theory from a variety of critical perspectives—for example, spectatorship, auteurism, feminism, historiography, and cultural studies—through a focus on genre.
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ENGL 335 - Literary Nonfiction
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 202
Description: Focuses on the study of forms of literary nonfiction, in English, which may include traditional essays, lyric essays, memoir, and/or creative nonfiction depending on the instructor’s expertise.
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ENGL 336 - Language, Gender, and Society
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 202 , junior standing
Description: Investigates the various ways that language and gender interact and intersect in society. Examines such questions as: Does society use language to favor one sex over the other? Why is language a crucial component in formulating constructs of masculinity and femininity? What stereotypes of gender-based language are promoted in our society? How can we analyze language to reveal disparate views and treatment of the sexes?
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ENGL 337 - Myth
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 202 , and ENGL 121 or ENGL 122
Description: Examines the nature and function of the mythic experience and explores the archetypal patterns of myths from various cultures.
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ENGL 341 - Poetry
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 , and ENGL 121 or ENGL 122
Description: Studies the forms and theories of poetry as a genre. Includes study of major writers, movements, and aesthetic developments.
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ENGL 342 - Short Fiction
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 , and ENGL 121 or ENGL 122
Description: Studies the form and theory of short fiction as a genre. Emphasizes major writers and movements as well as significant historical developments.
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ENGL 343 - Drama
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 , and ENGL 121 or ENGL 122
Description: Focuses on the forms and theories of drama as a genre. Emphasizes major writers and movements as well as significant historical developments.
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ENGL 344 - Ethnic American Literature
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 , and ENGL 121 or ENGL 122
Description: Concerned with ethnic US experiences as expressed in poetry, fiction, drama, and autobiography. The topic will vary and be announced in advance. Examples include Asian American, Hispanic, Irish American, Jewish American, and Native American literatures.
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ENGL 347 - Playwriting
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: THTR 111 or instructor permission
Description: A practical exploration of the craft and process of playwriting. Focuses primarily on the practical, “hands-on” experiences approximating the “developmental process” currently in use in the American theater. The student is guided from the initial concept through synopsis, outlines, working drafts, and completion of an original one-act play and a “staged reading” of this project. May Be: Either of these courses may be substituted for each other and may be used interchangeably for D/F repeats but may not be counted for duplicate credit. Note: Note: Cross-listed as THTR 347 .
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ENGL 348 - African American Literature
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or ENGL 122 and ENGL 202
Description: Primarily 19th- and 20th-century African American literature (poetry, fiction, nonfiction), including works by Frederick Douglass, W. E. B. Du Bois, spirituals and folk poetry, Harriet B. Wilson, Jean Toomer, Richard Wright, Audrey Lorde, and Toni Morrison. Emphasizes historical context and an Afrocentric approach.
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ENGL 350 - Gender and Sexual Orientation in Literature,Theory, and Film
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 01
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 202
Description: Introduces literature, film, and theory that focus primarily on lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender perspectives. Inquires into the representation of gender and sexuality within historical and cultural contexts.
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ENGL 360 - Editing and Publishing
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 202 and ENGL 220 or ENGL 221
Description: A project-based career preparation course focused on creating, editing, and publishing in print and/or electronic forms. Includes theory and practice of editing, practice with publication tools, and group collaboration.
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ENGL 361 - Environmental Literature
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or ENGL 122 , ENGL 202
Description: Focuses on literature devoted to natural and constructed environments, exploring connections among such topics as nature writing, environmentalism, ecocriticism, place studies, bioregionalism, and environmental justice.
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ENGL 398 - Global Genres
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 202
Description: Focuses on a specific literary genre (including, but not limited to, poetry, drama, film, the short story, or the novel) as it has been developed and transformed in global contexts beyond the typical domains of the British or American literary traditions. Situates the use of a genre within transnational literary and historical developments. The global genre studied in a particular semester to be announced in advance.
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ENGL 415 - English Language Studies for Teachers
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 202
Description: Focuses on the fundamentals of language study with equal emphasis on the sound, the word, the sentence, the meaning, and the discourse patterns of English as they manifest in daily lives. Educationally relevant topics, such as applications of sociolinguistics to the teaching of English language and literature, varieties of grammar, and linguistic descriptions of styles and registers are an integral part of the course.
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ENGL 418 - Young Adult Literature
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 , ENGL 122 , ENGL 323 , or permission, English education major
Description: Introduces literature for and about young adults. Emphasizes critical study of the literature and its classification as well as resources and rationales for using young adult literature in the middle and secondary classroom. Explores selection of literature and various methods of literature instruction. Offered: (Offered as ENGL 318 before 2014-15.)
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ENGL 420 - Writers’ Studio
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 220 or ENGL 221
Description: An upper-division course emphasizing reading, discussion, and writing on specialized topics related to the study and performance of writing. The focus varies from semester to semester according to the expertise of the faculty member teaching the course.
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ENGL 421 - Digital Writing
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 202
Description: Introduces composition and presentation issues in writing for digital media. Focuses on the conventions of digital writing and provides practice in conceiving, composing, and producing networked texts and may include creative expression, persuasion, and collaboration. Extends traditional literacy skills into emergent, digital genres.
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ENGL 424 - Second Language Acquisition
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Description: Focuses on how people learn and develop a second language. Explores research in second language acquisition (SLA) and focuses on the multi-disciplinary nature of second language learning and use. Concentrates on the history of SLA and how understanding SLA can affect teaching and learning.
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ENGL 426 - ESL Methods and Materials
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Senior standing or instructor permission
Description: An introduction to English as a second language theory and practice. Aims: (1) general understanding of current theory and methods of teaching ESL; (2) ability to select appropriate, and adapt existing, materials for elementary and high school ESL students.
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ENGL 434 - Shakespeare
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 122 , ENGL 202 , and one of ENGL 210 -ENGL 213 or ENGL 226
Description: Studies Shakespeare’s development as a poetic dramatist against background of Elizabethan stage; examines audience, textual problems, language imagery, and philosophy.
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ENGL 436 - Major American Authors
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 122 , ENGL 202 ; and one of ENGL 210 -ENGL 213 or ENGL 226
Description: Studies in the literary output of a major American author or authors against the background of the social and literary milieus in which the works were created. Specific subject or subjects to be announced by the instructor.
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ENGL 440 - Major Figures in Film
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or ENGL 122 ; and ENGL 202 , ENGL 208
Description: Studies major artists and their contributions to the development of film as an art form from its beginnings to the present. Close analyses of directors, cinematographers, editors, screenwriters, or actors—as individuals or as representatives of a movement in film. Topics vary from semester to semester; thus, one semester may concentrate on a specific director such as Alfred Hitchcock; another semester might study women (as directors, actresses, and editors); and yet another semester might study a collective movement such as film noir.
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ENGL 442 - Cross-Cultural Communication
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Description: Explores major trends, issues, research, and exploration in cross-cultural
communication. Introduces conceptual frameworks for understanding cross-cultural communication in and out of the classroom.
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ENGL 450 - Film Theory
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 121 or ENGL 122 ; and ENGL 202 , ENGL 208
Description: An introduction to major film theories, studied in relation to representative films. Details the complex relationship between film production and film theory, i.e., how theorists have attempted to explain what appears on the screen, its impact, and its relation to “reality,” and how filmmakers have responded to the works of theorists (with the two sometimes being the same). Goes far deeper into understanding film than ENGL 208 , which focuses mainly on how film is constructed through aesthetic and institutional processes.
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ENGL 460 - Topics in Film
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 , ENGL 208
Description: Selected films dealing with a specific, advanced topic are viewed and assessed to explore the different roles that film plays. Topic to be announced in advance.
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ENGL 463 - Topics in Global Literature and Film
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENGL 202
Description: Examines major works in English of a particular topic in global literature and/or film by focusing on the transnational contexts of history and culture surrounding the production and/or reception of literature and film. Topic of global literature and/or film to be announced in advance.
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ENGL 481 - Special Topics
Class Hours: var
Credits: 1-3
Prerequisite: As appropriate to course content
Description: Topics vary from semester to semester covering such diverse topics as autobiography, science fiction, folklore, the political novel, black theater, etc.
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ENGL 482 - Independent Study
Class Hours: var
Credits: 1-6
Prerequisite: Prior approval through advisor, faculty member, department chairperson, dean, and Office of the Provost
Description: Students with interest in independent study of a topic not offered in the curriculum may propose a plan of study in conjunction with a faculty member. Approved: Approval is based on academic appropriateness and availability of resources.
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ENGL 483 - Honors Thesis
Class Hours: var
Credits: 1-6
Prerequisite: Admission to departmental honors program; prior approval through advisor, faculty member, department chairperson, dean, and Office of the Provost
Description: An intensive, focused study involving independent research culminating in a written thesis approved by a thesis director and two faculty readers/committee members. May be taken more than once to a maximum of 6cr. Repeated: May be taken more than once to a maximum of 6cr.
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ENGL 484 - Topics in English Studies
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Declared English major; ENGL 122 , ENGL 202 ; minimum 24cr in major
Description: Explores themes that may vary according to the faculty member teaching the course. Gives upper-level English majors an opportunity to share their expertise in their track: Literary/Textual/Cultural, Writing, Film, or Language Studies. Students are part of a community of learners and reflect on the ways disciplinary knowledge is constructed in English studies and will construct a portfolio of their work as an English major, both in and out of this class, to assess their growth and potential as readers, writers, and critical thinkers.
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ENGL 493 - Internship
Class Hours: var
Credits: 3-12
Description: On-the-job training opportunities in related areas. Application and acceptance to internship program required.
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Environmental Engineering |
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ENVE 101 - Introduction to Environmental Engineering
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Description: Introduces the principles of environmental engineering with specific focus on water pollution and control, hazardous substances and risk assessment, water and wastewater treatment systems, air-pollution and emission control, solid wastes, and global warming.
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ENVE 201 - Fluid Mechanics
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENVE 101 , MATH 125 , PHYS 131
Description: Applies basic laws of fluid mechanics with applications to engineering problems, hydrostatic pressure, buoyancy, open systems and control volume analysis, mass conservation and momentum conservation for moving fluids, viscous fluid flows, flow through pipes, and dimensional analysis.
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ENVE 211 - Statics and Solid Mechanics
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENVE 101 , MATH 125 , PHYS 131
Description: Examines principles of mechanics, force systems, equilibrium structures, distributed forces, centroids, stress and strain, torsion, bending of beams, shearing stress in beams, combined stresses, principal stresses, deflections of beams, and statically indeterminate members and columns.
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ENVE 301 - Environmental Aquatic Chemistry
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 3
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: ENVE 101 , CHEM 112 or CHEM 114
Description: Examines fundamental principles of general, analytical, physical, and equilibrium chemistry applicable to water and wastewater treatment systems. Topics include thermodynamics and kinetics of acids and base reactions, carbonate chemistry (alkalinity), air-water exchange, precipitation and dissolution, oxidation-reduction, and chemical analysis of water and wastewater in a laboratory.
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ENVE 311 - Water Resources Engineering
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 3
Credits: 4
Prerequisite: ENVE 201
Description: Explores hydrologic engineering, including fundamentals of hydrology, rainfall-runoff modeling, hydraulic processes (including both pressurized pipe flow and open channel flow), and hydrologic frequency analysis. These fundamentals are then applied in the computation of design flows and in the analysis and design of hydraulic systems such as pipe networks and storm water management systems.
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ENVE 461 - Water and Wastewater Treatment
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: BIOL 202 , ENVE 301
Description: An overview of engineering approaches to protecting water quality with an emphasis on fundamental principles. Explores design of systems for treating municipal wastewater and drinking water as well as physical, chemical, and biological processes, including sedimentation, filtration, biological treatment, disinfection, and sludge processing.
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ENVE 471 - Solid and Hazardous Waste Management
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: BIOL 202 , ENVE 311
Description: Examines the principles of integrated solid waste management. An overview of municipal solid waste (MSW), industrial waste and hazardous waste management, including design and economic analysis. Explores the planning and engineering principles needed to address the growing and increasingly intricate problem of controlling and processing the refuse (solid waste) created by urban societies. Discusses options such as landfilling, composting and incineration from engineering, social, and regulatory perspectives. Reviews physical, chemical, and biological treatment of hazardous waste. Covers federal regulations, permitting and public participation processes and innovative management practices associated with solid and hazardous waste.
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ENVE 498 - Environmental Engineering
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Senior standing (90 or more credits) or instructor permission
Description: Capstone design experience involving an interdisciplinary environmental engineering project incorporating real-world clients. Includes visits and tours of field sites as well as interaction with professional engineers. Focuses on water treatment alternatives, regulatory operational needs, sustainability; and implementation of a realistic schedule and project budget.
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Family and Consumer Sciences Education |
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FCSE 101 - Personal and Family Management
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Description: Personal and family management as a system and its relationship to the global environment, individuals, and families. Formulation of goals, values, and standards; use of decision-making process; sustainability and utilization of resources.
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FCSE 143 - Financial Wellness
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Description: Theories and principles related to the physical, social, and emotional wellness aspects of individual money management. Information is focused on building a sound financial foundation as a college student and can be applied throughout the life span to ensure future financial well-being. Successful completion fulfills the Liberal Studies Dimensions of Wellness requirement. Other 143 courses will also fulfill this requirement, and any of these courses may be substituted for each other and may be used interchangeably for D/F repeats but may not be counted for duplicate credit. Cross-Listed: This course is cross-listed with ECON 143 /FIN 143 .
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FCSE 315 - Consumer Economics and Family Finance
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Description: Explores the decision-making process of families concerning the utilization of financial, personal, environmental, and social resources. Course content focuses on how families develop, exchange, and allocate resources throughout the lifespan. Discusses basic consumer education including an overview of financial products (e.g., insurance, credit cards), as well as laws and policies related to financial management discussed.
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FCSE 350 - Teaching Family Life Education
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Family and consumer sciences education, child development and family relations, and disability services majors, or instructor permission
Description: Emphasizes teaching family life education in family and consumer sciences classrooms and through community organizations and agencies. Lessons are planned and implemented using a variety of instructional methods incorporating adaptations and modifications for special needs learners, basic skills, global concerns, and use of a problem-solving/decision-making approach. Planning of content, learning activities, instructional materials, and evaluation based on clearly stated objectives is emphasized. A microcomputer spreadsheet is utilized to manage a department budget and a grade book. Participation in professional organization activities is expected.
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FCSE 450 - Teaching Vocational and Family Consumer Science Education
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: FCSE 350
Description: Emphasizes teaching vocational family and consumer sciences in consumer/ homemaking and occupational family and consumer sciences programs. Federal legislation affecting family and consumer sciences is analyzed for use in program decisions. Emphasizes program development using CBVE model, development of individual learning packets, vocational youth organizations, advisory committees, family and consumer sciences and vocational educational priorities, professional organizations, proposal development for funding, impact on public policy, marketing family and consumer sciences, and development of a personal philosophy of family and consumer sciences education.
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Foundations of Education |
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FDED 440 - Orientation to Teaching in Urban Centers
Class Hours: 2
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 2
Description: Provides an understanding of urban learners and their unique learning needs and conditions. Emphasizes understanding the origin of attitudes and values and how these affect the relationships that exist between students and teachers. Special attention given to practical application of theoretical information to problems of urban education.
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FDED 441 - Field Experiences in Urban Education
Class Hours: 3
Lab/Discussion: 0
Credits: 3
Description: A specialized experience for students who are considering teaching in inner-city schools. Aspects to be emphasized include physical characteristics of community, background and aspirations of children and parents, and specialized teacher competencies, classroom management, planning, instructional materials, teaching strategies, and evaluation. All participating preservice teachers receive significant exposure to English language learners and students with special needs. Schools selected for student experiences are located in Philadelphia. May be substituted for EDUC 242 with program approval and completion of Step 1 for teacher certification.
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