May 09, 2024  
2014-15 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2014-15 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


 

Engineering Technology

  
  • ET 1210 - Introduction to Metals and Metallurgy

    3 credit hours
    Origin and behavior of metals. Extractive metallurgy–reduction of metallic ores, production of stock shapes, identification and selection of ferrous and nonferrous metals. Physical metallurgy–mechanical and physical properties, crystalline structure, phase diagrams, hardening and tempering, isothermal diagrams, metallurgy of welds, service problems, casting processes. Exercises in the use of basic welding, foundry, and metallurgical testing equipment. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 2310 - Computer-Assisted Drafting and Design I

    3 credit hours
    Covers basic technical drawing/sketching and drafting concepts using personal computers, plotters, and appropriate CAD software. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.
     


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  • ET 2920 - Industrial Orientation Internship

    1 to 3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor. Provides industrial exposure for students with little or no industrial work experience. Students will be placed in an acceptable company for introductory industrial experiences. Arrangement for this course must be made in advance. Students may take from one to three credit hours; may be repeated for up to a maximum of three credit hours. Pass/Fail.


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  • ET 2930 - Cooperative Education Experience I

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of department. Provides students with opportunity for on-the-job training in conjunction with on-campus academic experiences. Students will participate in professional growth seminars. Pass/Fail.


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  • ET 3210 - Machine Tool Technology

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 1210  and ET 2310 . Metals, their sources, manufacture, and properties; basic metalworking hand tools, measurements; layout; drawing and safety. Exercises in the use of the basic machine tools in machine shop work. Lecture and laboratory. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3220 - Advanced Metalwork

    3 credit hours
    Techniques, equipment and procedures, advantages and disadvantages of current metal-casting processes used in industry. Laboratory exercises in sand molding and casting, the full mold process, investment casting, and permanent mold casting including pattern design and construction, mold making, metal melting and handling. Guest lecturer(s). Plant tour(s). Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3360 - Computer-Assisted Drafting and Design II

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: CMT 3320  or ET 2310 . Utilizes PC and CAD software to develop skills in the creation and analysis of mechanical solid models for design and production purposes. Includes the use of shading and rendering to enhance three-dimensional model display and the extraction of two-dimensional engineering drawings. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3601 - Electrical Circuit Analysis I

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ENGR 1100 . Corequisite: MATH 1910 . Fundamentals of electrical circuits. Addresses basic circuit components and quantities. Emphasis on DC circuit calculations and theorems. Uses lab equipment to build and test DC circuits. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3602 - Electrical Circuit Analysis II

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3601  and MATH 1910 . Addresses basic circuit components and quantities of AC circuits. Introduces three-phase circuits and transformers. Emphasis on AC circuit calculations and theorems. Uses lab equipment to build and test AC circuits. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3610 - Introduction to Electricity and Electronics

    4 credit hours
    Prerequisite: MATH 1710  or MATH 1730 . Orientation to direct current, alternating current, magnetism, filters, and semiconductor devices. Rectifier-filters and basic transistor amplifiers are also examined as representative electronic circuits. Use of meters, oscilloscopes, and other test instruments are stressed in the laboratory. Three hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3615 - Principles of Electricity

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: MATH 1710  or MATH 1730 . An overview of basic electrical circuits and systems, direct current circuits, alternating current circuits, and electrical devices and control schemes. Electrical motors, relays, solenoids, transformers, and power supplies examined. National Electric Code also examined. For students enrolled in Construction Management or Concrete Industry Management. Laboratory exercises stress the use of test instruments and the construction of basic electrical circuits. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3620 - Digital Circuits Fundamentals

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3601  or permission of instructor. Provides thorough coverage of basic digital electronic circuits analysis and design. TTL and CMOS families examined. Number systems, mapping, and minimization techniques covered. Digital design using random logic and programmable logic devices (FPGAs and CPLDs). Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3630 - Electronics

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3602  or permission of instructor. Introduction to analog electronics. Defines basic parameters and theory of operation of discrete semiconductor devices. Introduces fundamentals of electronic circuits analysis and design. Applications illustrate use and laboratory projects provide hands-on experience. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3640 - Digital Circuits Design

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3620 ; corequisite: ET 3630  or permission of instructor. In-depth study of sequential circuit analysis and design that includes sate machine design. Emphasis on the use of available development boards using both FPGAs and CPLDs and their respective CAD tools. PLDs programmed using latest relative CAD systems. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3650 - Introduction to Microprocessors

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: CSCI 1170  and ET 3620 . Covers architecture of microcontrollers and microprocessor-based systems and their related components. Machine language programming extensively used to solve problems and demonstrate the relationship of the microprocessor and its supporting peripherals. Basic microcomputer architecture also emphasized. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3660 - Communication Electronics

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3630  or permission of instructor. Theory of electronic circuits as applied to communication; special electronics circuits required in communications systems. Testing theory and procedures. Various methods of electronic communications. Testing and evaluation of electronic circuits. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3670 - Computer-Assisted Printed Circuit Board Design

    2 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ET 3620  and ET 3630  or permission of instructor. Utilizes computer software to develop skills in creating schematic and printed circuit board artwork for use in printed circuit board production. Includes plotting, printing, and generating all necessary documents required for fabrication. One hour lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3840 - Dynamics

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3830 . Rectilinear curvilinear, and rotary motion of rigid objects both with and without consideration of the unbalanced force causing the motion. Application of the principles of work, energy, impulse, and momentum to the solution of engineering problems.


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  • ET 3860 - Strength of Materials

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ENGR 2110 . The mechanics of materials emphasizing the analysis and design of statically determinate beams, columns, and structural members in torsion and application of the three moment equations to statically indeterminate beams.


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  • ET 3910 - Introduction to Operations Management

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. A foundation course in manufacturing and service operations management. Problem-solving applications emphasized.


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  • ET 3920 - Industrial Internship I

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Student is employed by an acceptable industry for industrial experience. Credit given for actual work with employer. Arrangement for this course must be made in advance. Pass/Fail.


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  • ET 3950 - Metrology

    3 credit hours
    Overview of methods and procedures of precision measuring and gauging as used in inspection and quality control by industry. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 3960 - Industrial Quality Technology

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or consent of instructor. Covers breadth and some depth in quality technology. Explores history of quality, present techniques, and future predictions. Covers six-sigma methodology at the “greenbelt” level. Certification after industry project. Lecture.


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  • ET 4230 - Advanced Machine Tool Technology

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3210 . Taper turning, boring and thread chasing, and calculations of screw threads and other operations. Gear terminology and calculations; practice gear cutting on the milling machine; use of index head. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4280 - Computer-Aided Manufacturing: Numerical Control (NC)

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ET 2310  and ET 3210  or consent of instructor. The role of NC in today’s manufacturing environment; machines and machine control systems of a typical installation. Justifying NC equipment. Emphasis on writing and debugging programs for a three-axis milling machine and a two-axis turning machine utilizing both computer numerical control and computer-aided part programming. For those with little experience or seeking to broaden their knowledge. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4330 - Advanced Computer-Aided Drafting

    2 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3360  or permission of instructor. Topics include customizing menus, 3-D concepts and surface modeling, AutoLisp, rendering, and slide shows. Interactive computer drafting and design using advanced AutoCAD software and add-ons. Primarily for students who want to increase their capabilities using CAD. One hour lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4340 - Design of Machine Elements

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3860 . Analytical design methods. Stress analysis, working stress, combined stresses, failure theories, fatigue failure. Design techniques for shafts, fasteners, gears, bearings, and belt and chain drives. Includes a design project.


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  • ET 4440 - Fire Safety

    3 credit hours
    Fundamental methods of fire protection, prevention, and suppression. Includes characteristics and behavior of fire, fire hazards of materials and buildings, codes and standards for fire prevention and protection, fire protection equipment and systems, and fire fighting forces and how they operate.


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  • ET 4450 - Industrial Hygiene

    3 credit hours
    Corequisite: ENGR 3920  or permission of instructor. An introduction to industrial or occupational hygiene–that science and art devoted to the anticipation, recognition, evaluation, and control of those environmental factors or stresses, arising in or from the workplace, which may cause sickness, impaired health and well-being, or significant discomfort and inefficiency among workers or citizens of the community.


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  • ET 4590 - Manufacturing Automation Systems

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Junior status or consent of instructor. Technical, human, and business aspects of modern automation system. Includes automation controls, levels of control and major components/subsystems, object-based software components, intelligent actuators and sensors, emerging trends, flexible manufacturing systems (FMS), computer integrated manufacturing (CIM), industrial systems and supply chain applications, organizational approaches, and automation justification.


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  • ET 4600 - Programmable Logic Controllers

    2 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3602  or permission of instructor. Introduction to programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Selection, operation, and troubleshooting. Ladder diagrams and programming of PLC emphasized. One hour lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4610 - Instrumentation and Controls

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ET 3620  and ET 3630 . Devices and techniques used in the measurement of physical parameters. Consideration of accuracies and sources of error, identification of typical measurements, sensors and transducers, control stability and response. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4630 - Local Area Networks

    3 credit hours
    Provides the necessary foundation experience to understand the design, implementation, and management strategies of local and wide area networks (LAN/WAN). Data Communication Standards and protocol, fundamentals included. Will include lecture, laboratory activities, and a LAN design requirement. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4640 - Industrial Electricity

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3602  or permission of instructor. AC power theory and circuits for industrial applications, polyphase systems, power factor correction, and transformers. Theory, applications, and selection of motors and generators. Industrial motor control and power transmission. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4660 - Microprocessor Interfacing

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ET 3640  and ET 3650  or permission of instructor. Emphasis on interfacing various analog and digital devices to a microcontroller/microprocessor-based system: memory expansion, A/D and D/A, display devices, keyboards and keypads, electromechanical devices, and sensors. PLDs (FPGAs/CPLDs) interfaced to facilitate rapid prototyping of digital system design. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4670 - Microprocessor Design

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ET 3640  and ET 4660  or permission of instructor. Advanced microprocessor system design. Emphasis on the design of core CPUs and imbedded components using high-density FPGA/CPLD development boards. Industrial applications of microprocessor-based systems. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4710 - Professional Development Seminar

    1 credit hour
    Prerequisite: Junior status. Orientation to industrial job opportunities, placement practices, interview techniques, and preparation of application materials (resume, cover letter, and portfolio if warranted). Guest lecturers, films, and student and faculty presentations arranged in seminar fashion. One-hour lecture weekly.


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  • ET 4790 - Advanced Problems in Technology

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of all courses in a given area or approval of instructor. For the advanced student who wishes to work on a designated problem in a specific area. Works on an individual problem or project independently under the guidance of an instructor.


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  • ET 4801 - Computer Engineering Technology

    1 to 3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ET 4670 ; CSCI 3160 . All required freshman-, sophomore-, and junior-level courses in all disciplines have to be completed before registering for this course. Engineering situations are solved by experimental means. Student must have experimental approach, gather data, interpret results, and prepare a formal technical written and oral report.


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  • ET 4802 - Electro-Mechanical Engineering Technology

    1 to 3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ET 3650 , ET 3860 , ET 4610 , and ET 4860 . All required freshman-, sophomore-, and junior-level courses in all disciplines have to be completed before registering for this course. Engineering situations are solved by experimental means. Student must have experimental approach, gather data, interpret results, and prepare a formal technical written and oral report.


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  • ET 4803 - Mechanical Engineering Technology

    1 to 3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ET 3860 , ET 4340 , and ET 4815 . All required freshman-, sophomore-, and junior-level courses in all disciplines have to be completed before registering for this course. Engineering situations are solved by experimental means. Student must have experimental approach, gather data, interpret results, and prepare a formal technical written and oral report.


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  • ET 4804 - Design Engineering Technology

    1 to 3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ET 3840 , ET 3860 , and ET 4340 . All required freshman-, sophomore-, and junior-level courses in all disciplines have to be completed before registering for this course. Engineering situations are solved by experimental means. Student must have experimental approach, gather data, interpret results, and prepare a formal technical written and oral report.


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  • ET 4815 - Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3810  or permission of instructor. Design and operation of heat and mass transfer systems which produce the needed environments for manufacturing operations, industrial processes, and human comfort. Systems that use mechanical equipment such as pumps, blowers, fans, compressors, and heat exchanges found in fields such as air conditioning, low temperature metallurgy, food preservation, chemical processing, and industrial manufacturing covered. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4830 - Vibration

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ET 3840 . Provides a broad-based background in vibration analysis and introduces present practices. Topics include free, damped, and forced vibrations with one degree of freedom; vibration isolation; free vibration with two degrees of freedom; and introduction to matrix formulation. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4850 - Fluid Power

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ENGR 1100 , ET 3810 . Systems and the basic components that make up these systems, including hydraulic, pneumatic, and fluidic. Emphasis on understanding the language and graphic symbols associated with fluid power, the performance characteristics of system components, and problem solving. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4860 - Robotics

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: MATH 1910 ; CSCI (3 hours). Fundamentals of robots. Types of robots, types of controls, the prime movers, the application of robots in the industrial environment, and problem solving. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 4900 - Productivity Strategies

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. Analysis, design, and implementation of productivity strategies and productivity improvement programs for a wide variety of organizations. Touches a spectrum of disciplines such as work design, quality, design engineering, and employee involvement. Includes lean manufacturing with certification available after successful industry project.


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  • ET 4920 - Plant Layout and Materials Handling

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: ET 2310  and ET 3910 . An overview of facility planning including equipment selection, work flow analysis, activity relationship analysis, and plant layout for product, process, and JIT requirements. Teams assigned actual projects in industry. CAD layout presentations to industry management required.


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  • ET 4990 - Industrial Engineering Systems

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing or permission of instructor. System design of work tasks including establishing time standards by time and motion study and work sampling; ergonomic design for integration of the human into the work task environment. Scientific methods supplemented by quality considerations with emphasis on statistical quality control (SQC). Computer software used for design and analysis.


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English

  
  • ENGL 1008 - Writing for English as Second Language (ESL) Students

    3 credit hours
    Open only to students whose native language is not English. Prerequisite to General Education English courses for ESL students who do not perform satisfactorily on diagnostic test given by the department. Introduces the ESL student to the process of English composition. Three lecture hours and two one-half hour lab sessions. Does not fulfill General Education English requirement. Grade of C- is required to earn credit.
     


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  • ENGL 1009 - Introduction to University Writing

    3 credit hours
    An introduction to the practices of university writing. Required for students whose writing assessment indicates placement. Emphasis on developing rhetorical knowledge; critical thinking, reading, and writing skills; understanding of the processes of writing; and knowledge of conventions. Does not fulfill General Education English requirements.


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  • ENGL 1010 - Expository Writing

    3 credit hours
    The first General Education English course. Emphasis on learning to adapt composing processes to a variety of expository and analytic writing assignments. Minimum grade of C- required for credit.


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  • ENGL 1020 - Research and Argumentative Writing

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1010 . The second General Education English course. Emphasis on analytic and argumentative writing and on locating, organizing, and using library resource materials in the writing. Minimum grade of C- required for credit.


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  • ENGL 2550 - Introduction to Peer Tutoring in Writing: Theory and Methods

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: B or better in ENGL 1020  or permission of the instructor. Techniques of tutoring with a variety of writers and genres and the theoretical and practical components of writing center work with a focus on how collaboration, composition, and learning theories and methods can be applied to tutoring in college as well as high school and middle school settings.


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  • ENGL 2580 - Teaching Internship

    1 credit hour
    Prerequisites: Permission of the internship director and completion of twelve (12) hours of academic coursework, including ENGL 1010 . A special elective course in which the student, under the supervision of an English Department faculty member and a partnering teacher in a community school, serves as an intern in a secondary school classroom. Students may not use this course to satisfy English major or minor requirements.
     


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  • ENGL 3000 - Introduction to Literary Studies

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. An introduction to the study of literature. Focus on strategies for sophisticated reading, literary genres, literary criticism and research. Required for English majors and minors.


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  • ENGL 3010 - British Literature I: Beginnings to the Restoration

    3 credit hours
    Open only to English majors. Prerequisite: ENGL 3000  with a grade of C- or better. Building on knowledge acquired in ENGL 3000, applies the procedures and practices of literary study to the study of British literature from its beginnings to the restoration. Emphasis on the literary tradition, genres, major figures, and relevant critical and theoretical approaches. Required for English majors.



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  • ENGL 3020 - British Literature II: Restoration to the Present

    3 credit hours
    Open only to English majors. Prerequisite: ENGL 3000  with a grade of C- or better. Building on knowledge acquired in ENGL 3000, applies the procedures and practices of literary study to the study of British literature from the Restoration to the present. Emphasis on literary tradition, genres, major figures, and relevant critical and theoretical approaches. Required for English majors.



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  • ENGL 3030 - American Literature: Colonial Era to the Present

    3 credit hours
    Open only to English majors. Prerequisite: ENGL 3000  with a grade of C- or better. Building on knowledge acquired in ENGL 3000, applies the procedures and practices of literary study to the study of American literature from colonial times to the present. Emphasis on the literary tradition, genres, major figures, and relevant critical and theoretical approaches. Required for English majors.



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  • ENGL 3110 - English Literature: The Medieval Period

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A reading of selected works from Old English literature, especially Beowulf, and Middle English literature, with emphasis on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur and medieval drama.


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  • ENGL 3120 - English Literature: The Sixteenth Century

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Readings in the major authors (More, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson, Donne) and genres (prose fiction, romance, epic, sonnet, lyric). Effects of cultural, political, and religious influences on the literature.


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  • ENGL 3130 - English Literature: The Seventeenth Century

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Readings in the major authors (Bacon, Jonson, Donne, Herbert, Herrick, Marvell, Crashaw, Vaughan, Milton) and genres (essay, epic, lyric, sermon). Effects of cultural, political, and religious influences on the literature.


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  • ENGL 3135 - Introduction to Shakespeare

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000- level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Focuses on Shakespeare’s major plays which will be considered both as products of their author’s time and as enduring cultural artifacts. Special attention will be given to Shakespeare’s development as a dramatist and to his depiction of character, theme, and imagery.


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  • ENGL 3210 - English Literature: Restoration and Eighteenth Century

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Emphasizing writings which reflected or influenced historical and literary developments 1660-1800.


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  • ENGL 3220 - English Literature: 1790-1850

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A definition of English Romanticism and a study of works–mainly poems–by Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.


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  • ENGL 3230 - English Literature: The Victorian Period

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. The literature of England, 1830-1900. Emphasis on poetry and the novel.


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  • ENGL 3300 - Native American Literature

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Introduces oral and written literature of native America in its cultural, historical, and aesthetic contexts, with special emphasis on fiction, poetry, and autobiography.


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  • ENGL 3305 - Early American Literature

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A survey of American literature from the first European encounters with the New World to the beginning of the nineteenth century.


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  • ENGL 3310 - Nineteenth-Century American Literature

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Survey of American literature from Washington Irving to Henry James. Concentration on Romanticism, Realism, Naturalism, Pragmatism. Selected novels.


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  • ENGL 3320 - Twentieth-Century American Literature

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Survey of American literature from Theodore Dreiser to the present. Concentration on major authors. Selected novels.


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  • ENGL 3330 - Southern Literature

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Early and modern Southern writers. Emphasis on the period 1920-present.


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  • ENGL 3340 - African American Literature

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Defines and traces the development and transformations of the African American literary tradition. Emphasis on analysis of historical, literary, philosophical, and cultural contexts.


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  • ENGL 3350 - The American Short Story in Context

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Traces development of the short story from Poe and Irving to the experimental writers of the 1970s. Intensive reading of American writers with some exposure to British and continental authors. Critical essays on short story form.


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  • ENGL 3360 - Multicultural Literature of the United States

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Writers, genres, and criticism in Native American, African American, Hispanic American, and Asian American literatures.


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  • ENGL 3365 - Hispanic Writers in American Literature

    3 credit hours
    (Same as HUM 3365 .) Acquaints students with the literary works of Hispanic Americans writing in English. Emphasis on analysis of the intersection of cultures and traditions and the formation of Hispanic American identity.


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  • ENGL 3370 - Modern American Poetry

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A survey of the lives, times, and works of the major American poets since 1860: Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Stevens, Williams, Pound, Moore, Eliot, Crane, Hughes, Bishop, Lowell, Plath.


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  • ENGL 3400 - European Literature to 1400

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Selections from Greek and Roman literature and Dante; emphasis on epic, drama, mythology; comparison of values commended by our literary ancestors.


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  • ENGL 3410 - Classical Mythology

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Survey of the major myths and legends of the classical world with an emphasis on Greek mythology.


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  • ENGL 3420 - European Literature: 1400-1800

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Survey of continental literature (in translation) of the Renaissance, Neoclassical, and Enlightenment periods. Emphasis on Rabelais, Cervantes, Moliere, and Voltaire.


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  • ENGL 3430 - Modern European Literature

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Survey of continental literature (in translation) from 1800 to the present, including Goethe, Flaubert, Tolstoy, Ibsen, and Mann.


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  • ENGL 3440 - The Bible as Literature

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Origin and nature of the Bible; cultural and historical backgrounds, influence on English language and literature; history of texts and canon; major religious and philosophical concepts and literary features.


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  • ENGL 3450 - Studies in Narrative

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level  English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Examines the chronological and/or thematic development of at least two different types of narrative, representing at least two different continents.


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  • ENGL 3510 - English Grammar and Usage for Educators

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Introduction to English grammar and usage, English varieties, and grammatical analysis. Fulfills the grammar and usage requirement for English majors seeking teacher licensure.
     


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  • ENGL 3570 - Introduction to Linguistics

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Anatomy of sound production, levels of structure in language: phonological (sound), morphological (meaningful segments), syntactic (interrelation of words in a sentence). Various meanings of language.


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  • ENGL 3580 - Teaching Internship

    1 credit hour
    Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better; admission to teacher education and permission of internship director. Students, under supervision of English Department faculty members and partnering teachers in community schools, serve as interns in secondary school classrooms. May not be used to satisfy English minor requirements. May not be repeated for major credit. Pass/Fail grading.


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