May 18, 2024

2014-15 Graduate Catalog

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English
	ENGL 6510 - History of Rhetoric: Early Modern to Contemporary 3 credit hours An examination of major theorists and themes, including literary and pedagogical implications, from early modern period to the present. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6520 - Essentials of Linguistics 3 credit hours Major linguistic approaches to the study of language-dominant trends and current issues in linguistics; the phonological, morphological, and syntactic structure of the English language. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6525 - Special Topics in the History of the English Language 3 credit hours Advanced study of various aspects of the English language from its beginnings in Proto-Indo-European to the present day (writing systems, Indo-European, phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon, stylistics, semantics, etc.). Subject will vary with instructor. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6530 - Studies in Composition and Rhetoric 3 credit hours An introduction to the intellectual foundations of composition studies focusing on influential theories as well as the field’s intellectual and disciplinary history. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6535 - Special Topics in Composition and Rhetoric 3 credit hours Intensive examination of themes, periods, figures, and texts in composition and/or rhetoric. Subject will vary with instructor. May be taken for multiple credit up to 9 hours. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6540 - Middle Tennessee Writing Project (MTWP) Summer Institute 3 credit hours Reserved for invited participants in the Middle Tennessee Writing Project. Acquaints students with composition and pedagogical theories, practices for the teaching of writing, methods of research and presentation, development of writing resources including grant writing, various genres of writing and writing response, and publishing. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6550 - Writing Center Theory 3 credit hours Examines the theoretical and practical components of writing center work, including collaborative, composition, learning, writing center, and postmodern theories. Open to all graduate students. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6560 - Seminar in Teaching Composition 3 credit hours Open only to first-year teaching assistants or with consent of instructor. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6570 - Practicum in Composition Methodology 3 credit hours In-depth study of how composition theory and research inform methodology. Topics covered vary according to interests of instructor and students. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6590 - Seminar in Teaching of Literature 3 credit hours Recommended for second-year teaching assistants and others interested in teaching literature. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6620 - Directed Reading and Research 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Permission of the director of graduate studies. Individually supervised reading and research either in a historical period of English or American literature or in a major literary genre. Students may take no more than three directed reading courses. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6630 - Directed Creative Writing 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Permission of the director of graduate studies in English. Individually supervised writing project in fiction, poetry writing, playwriting, or creative nonfiction. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6640 - Thesis Research 1 to 6 credit hours Selection of a research problem, review of pertinent literature, collection and analysis of data, and composition of thesis. Once enrolled, student should register for at least one credit hour of master’s research each semester until completion. S/U grading. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6650 - Special Topics in Popular Culture Studies 3 credit hours A theme, genre, period, text, or artist in one or more popular cultural media. Subject will vary each time the course is taught. May be taken for multiple credit up to 9 hours. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6660 - Introduction to Graduate Study: Bibliography and Research 3 credit hours Literary scholarship: its nature and scope; traditional and modern methods; the definition and solution of research problems; the production of literary scholarship. Required of all master’s students enrolling in English. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6700 - Studies in Folklore 3 credit hours Study of folklore with focus on the history of the discipline. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6710 - Special Topics in Folklore 3 credit hours Selected area of folklore: folk narrative, folklore and literature, folk song, folk religion, proverb, or folklore of a particular group. May be taken for multiple credit up to 9 hours. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6750 - Film Studies 3 credit hours Covers such topics as the film text, adaptation, narratology, genres, ideology, authorship, theory, history, schools, movements, national cinemas, and film audiences. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6760 - Special Topics in Film Studies 3 credit hours Examines a theme, genre, director, period, school or movement, national cinema, etc. Subject will vary each time course is taught. May be taken for multiple credit up to 9 hours. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6999 - Comprehensive Examination and Preparation 1 credit hours Open only to students who are not enrolled in any other graduate course and who will take the master’s comprehensive examination during the term. The student must contact the graduate advisor during the first two weeks of the term for specifics regarding the details of this comprehensive examination preparatory course. Credit may not be applied to degree requirements. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7000 - Poetry Workshop 3 credit hours A rigorous writing course to develop the advanced writer’s use of point-of-view, tone, rhythm, meter, line, and stanza. Practice in both the spontaneity of composition and the deliberate, disciplined work of revision. Examination, through poems and essays by relevant authors, of the movements, forms, and possibilities of contemporary poetry. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7010 - Old English Language and Literature 3 credit hours Prerequisite for ENGL 6020 /ENGL 7020 , Beowulf. Introduction to Old English language (grammar, phonology, syntax, and vocabulary) and literature (poetry and prose) and to the historical and cultural background of the Anglo-Saxon period. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7020 - Beowulf 3 credit hours Prerequisite: ENGL 6010 /ENGL 7010 . Intensive line-by-line study of Beowulf in Old English, with special emphasis on its sources and analogues, significant criticism, and current dating studies of the poem. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7030 - Chaucer Seminar 3 credit hours Close study of Chaucer’s major and minor works in Middle English, with attention to Chaucer’s historical and cultural context (including his sources) and to significant scholarly criticism. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7040 - Medieval English Literature 3 credit hours A study of Middle English literary types (in poetry, prose, and drama) and of the major authors and texts of the Middle English period. Includes study of Middle English dialects. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7050 - Studies in Early English Drama, Excluding Shakespeare: 900-1642 3 credit hours The origin and development of English drama, emphasizing Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and the contributions of Shakespeare’s contemporaries and successors. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7110 - Spenser Seminar 3 credit hours Seeks to develop an understanding of individual works in Edmund Spenser’s oeuvre and some sense of their place in the larger cultural systems of the sixteenth century. Philosophical meditations, pastoral eclogues, shorter poems are engaged fully to consider Spenser’s range and engagement with lyric forms, as well as complete study of his major works, The Faerie Quenne. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7120 - Studies in Sixteenth-Century English Prose and Poetry 3 credit hours Considers works of prose, fiction, romance, and poetry of the sixteenth-century to investigate changing vocabularies, genres, and literary practices that emerge in the Renaissance in response to various cultural, social, and historical pressures. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7130 - Studies in Seventeenth-Century English Prose and Poetry 3 credit hours Selected nondramatic literature of the century, with primary emphasis on the seventeenth century before the Restoration. Included are Donne, Herbert, and the metaphysical poets and Jonson and the Cavalier poets. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7140 - Studies in Milton 3 credit hours The major poetry of John Milton, including “Lycidas,” Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, and Paradise Regained. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7150 - Studies in Shakespeare 3 credit hours Shakespeare’s poems and plays, emphasizing poetic and dramatic techniques in his works and critical reaction to those works. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7200 - Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature 3 credit hours Designed to give students a definite critical knowledge of the major literary works of Restoration and eighteenth-century England, 1660-1800. Course may focus on either drama, poetry, or prose or a combination. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7210 - Studies in English Romanticism: Wordsworth and Coleridge 3 credit hours Covers the major lyrical and narrative poetry of Wordsworth and Coleridge as well as select prose, e.g., Wordsworth’s Preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads and Coleridge’s Biogaphia Literaria. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7220 - Studies in English Romanticism: Shelley, Byron, and Keats 3 credit hours Covers the major lyrical, narrative, and dramatic poetry of the three principal younger generation Romantics as well as select prose, e.g., Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry and Keats’s letters. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7230 - Major British Writers 3 credit hours An in-depth study of one, two, or three British writers. Course varies according to interests of instructor and students. May be taken for multiple credit up to 6 hours. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7270 - Studies in Victorian Literature 3 credit hours Intellectual backgrounds of the Victorian period; major prose writers: Macaulay, Carlyle, Newman, Mill, Ruskin, Arnold, Pater; major poets: Tennyson, Browning, Arnold. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7290 - Modern British Literature 3 credit hours Intellectual backgrounds of modern British literature; major novelists: Forster, Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence; major poets: Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Thomas; selected minor writers. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7295 - Literature for Adolescents 3 credit hours Survey of literature written for adolescents, including history, contemporary trends, and critical issues in the field. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7300 - History of Children’s Literature 3 credit hours History of British and American literature for children and analysis of issues in the field. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7305 - Special Topics in Children’s and Adolescent Literature 3 credit hours Selected genre, period, ethnicity, tradition, or literary focus on children’s and/or young adult literature. Subject will vary with instructor. May be taken for multiple credit up to 9 hours. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7310 - Popular Culture Studies 3 credit hours Major trends and significant debates in the development of popular culture theory and criticism. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7320 - Postcolonial Literature and Theory 3 credit hours Introduces postcolonial studies through an exploration of seminal literary and critical writings in the field. Primary focus on the critical thought and discursive practices that define postcolonial discourse and their application to literature that engages issues of colonialism, its aftermath, and other forms of imperialism. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7330 - Major American Writers 3 credit hours An in-depth study of one, two, or three American writers. Course varies according to interests of instructor and students. May be taken for multiple credit up to 6 hours. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7340 - African American Literature 3 credit hours An in-depth study of the African American literary tradition with emphasis on significant authors, genres, texts, and contexts. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7350 - History of Criticism 3 credit hours Examines significant critical movements in Western literature from classical times into the twenty-first century. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7360 - Studies in Southern Literature 3 credit hours Themes, theories, movements, and types of literature produced in the American South with particular emphasis on selected authors and texts. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7370 - Satire 3 credit hours Satire as a distinct genre, emphasizing its continuity in Western literature from antiquity to the present; representative works from four periods: ancient, medieval and Renaissance, eighteenth century, and modern; prose, poetry, and drama. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7380 - Contemporary Critical Theory 3 credit hours Covers major critical trends in literary theory since 1965, including feminist, Marxist, structuralist, and deconstructive approaches to literature. Students explore background and implications of these theories and analyze selected works of literature in light of these approaches. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7390 - Reading Postmodernism 3 credit hours Theoretical discourse which works to define the cultural mindset known as postmodernism. Theories examined will be applied to examples of postmodern literature, film, and/or television. Topics emphasized include the instability of social and cultural categories, the dissolving boundaries between high and low culture and art, and the subversion of realist narrative strategies. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7400 - American Literature to 1800 3 credit hours Surveys literature associated with the discovery and colonization of America from the first recorded European encounters with the New World until just after the founding of the United States. The readings represent a rich variety of genres (reports, letters, poetry, histories, journals/diaries, autobiographies, sermons, novels, slave/captivity narratives, trickster tales, drama, etc.) in accordance with the broad definition of literature characteristic of the period. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7410 - Studies in American Literature: 1800-1860 3 credit hours Surveys literature associated with the Romantic period in American literary history, from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the 1860’s. Writing across a variety of genres including essays, short stories, poetry, novels, and slave narratives. Authors of this era answered the calls that had been made since the nation was founded for an artistically sophisticated and distinctive national literature. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7420 - Studies in American Literature: 1860-1910 3 credit hours Covers the development of American literature from roughly the Civil War to World War I, including the rise of realism, naturalism, regionalism, and local color. Considers historical and cultural contexts. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7430 - Studies in American Literature: 1910-1950 3 credit hours Covers the rise of American modernism, including experiments in fiction, drama, and verse; considers the phenomenon of expatriation, the radical visions of the depression decade, and the literary experience of the two world wars. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7450 - Contemporary Women’s Literature 3 credit hours Study of recent women writers with emphasis on the relationship between literature and the social and political status of women. Addresses diverse writers and issues of difference among women, including race, class, ethnicity, nationality, sexuality, and other determinants of individual and group identity. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7455 - Special Topics in Women’s Literature 3 credit hours Study of selected women authors with a focus on the way women’s voices contribute to literary discourse. Subject will vary with instructor. May be taken for multiple credit up to 9 hours. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7460 - Studies in Contemporary Drama 3 credit hours The development of world drama from 1950 to the present with attention to related criticism and theory. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7470 - Studies in Narratology 3 credit hours Examines modern and contemporary theories of narrative (modernist, rhetorical, structuralist, dialogical) with particular application to selected authors and texts. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7480 - Studies in Contemporary Literature 3 credit hours Intellectual backgrounds of contemporary literature; significant developments in fiction, nonfictional prose, poetry, and drama. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7490 - Studies in the Novel 3 credit hours The novel as a literary genre may be approached from a variety of perspectives, including generic, historical, theoretical, or single-author approaches. Course varies according to interests of instructor and students. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7500 - Selected Topics in Literature and Language 3 credit hours A specialized field of literary or linguistic inquiry, its bibliography, critical problems, and probable solutions. Topics vary with the professor assigned to the course. May be taken for multiple credit up to 9 hours. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7505 - History of Rhetoric: Ancient to Renaissance 3 credit hours An examination of the major theorists and themes, including literary and pedagogical implications, from the ancient period to the Renaissance. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7510 - History of Rhetoric: Early Modern to Contemporary 3 credit hours An examination of major theorists and themes, including literary and pedagogical implications, from early modern period to the present. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7520 - Essentials of Linguistics 3 credit hours Major linguistic approaches to the study of language-dominant trends and current issues in linguistics; the phonological, morphological, and syntactic structure of the English language. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7525 - Special Topics in the History of the English Language 3 credit hours Advanced study of various aspects of the English language from its beginnings in Proto-Indo-European to the present day (writing systems, Indo-European, phonology, morphology, syntax, lexicon, stylistics, semantics, etc.). Subject will vary with instructor. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7530 - Studies in Composition and Rhetoric 3 credit hours An introduction to the intellectual foundations of composition studies focusing on influential theories as well as the field’s intellectual and disciplinary history. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7535 - Special Topics in Composition and Rhetoric 3 credit hours Intensive examination of themes, periods, figures, and texts in composition and/or rhetoric. Subject will vary with instructor. May be taken for multiple credit up to 9 hours. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7540 - Middle Tennessee Writing Project (MTWP) Summer Institute 3 credit hours Reserved for invited participants in the Middle Tennessee Writing Project. Acquaints students with composition and pedagogical theories, practices for the teaching of writing, methods of research and presentation, development of writing resources including grant writing, various genres of writing and writing response, and publishing. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7550 - Writing Center Theory 3 credit hours Examines the theoretical and practical components of writing center work, including collaborative, composition, learning, writing center, and postmodern theories. Open to all graduate students. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7560 - Seminar in Teaching Composition 3 credit hours Open only to first-year teaching assistants or with consent of instructor. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7570 - Practicum in Composition Methodology 3 credit hours In-depth study of how composition theory and research inform methodology. Topics covered vary according to interests of instructor and students. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7590 - Seminar in Teaching of Literature 3 credit hours Recommended for second-year teaching assistants and others interested in teaching literature. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7600 - Internship 3 credit hours Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7610 - Internship 3 credit hours Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7620 - Directed Reading and Research 3 credit hours Prerequisite: Permission of the director of graduate studies. Individually supervised reading and research either in a historical period of English or American literature or in a major literary genre. Students may take no more than three directed reading courses. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7640 - Dissertation Research 1 to 6 credit hours Selection of a research problem, review of pertinent literature, collection and analysis of data, and composition of dissertation. Once enrolled, student should register for at least one credit hour of doctoral research each semester until completion. S/U grading. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7650 - Special Topics in Popular Culture Studies 3 credit hours A theme, genre, period, text, or artist in one or more popular cultural media. Subject will vary each time the course is taught. May be taken for multiple credit up to 9 hours. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7660 - Introduction to Graduate Study: Bibliography and Research 3 credit hours Literary scholarship: its nature and scope; traditional and modern methods; the definition and solution of research problems; the production of literary scholarship. Required of all master’s students enrolling in English. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7700 - Studies in Folklore 3 credit hours Study of folklore with focus on the history of the discipline. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7710 - Special Topics in Folklore 3 credit hours Selected area of folklore: folk narrative, folklore and literature, folk song, folk religion, proverb, or folklore of a particular group. May be taken for multiple credit up to 9 hours. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7750 - Film Studies 3 credit hours Covers such topics as the film text, adaptation, narratology, genres, ideology, authorship, theory, history, schools, movements, national cinemas, and film audiences. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7760 - Special Topics in Film Studies 3 credit hours Examines a theme, genre, director, period, school or movement, national cinema, etc. Subject will vary each time course is taught. May be taken for multiple credit up to 9 hours. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7999 - Preliminary Examination and Preparation 1 credit hours Open only to students who are not enrolled in any other graduate course and who will take the master’s comprehensive examination during the term. The student must contact the graduate advisor during the first two weeks of the term for specifics regarding the details of this comprehensive examination preparatory course. Credit may not be applied to degree requirements. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
Entrepreneurship
	BCEN 6935 - Entrepreneurship 3 credit hours Issues related to starting and growing a business. Focuses primarily on the development and management of a new venture, including developing the business plan. Addresses issues faced by entrepreneurs and explores relationships among various elements of the business plan to optimize performance. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
Environmental Science and Technology
	EST 5770 - Pollution Control Technology 3 credit hours Introduces air, noise, solid waste, and water pollution control technology. Legislative regulations and equality standards, pollution types and sources, detection and analysis instruments, and treatment principles and practices. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	EST 5780 - Air, Solids, and Noise Pollution Technology 3 credit hours Prerequisites: 8 hours each chemistry, biology, and physics or permission of instructor. Introduces air, noise, solid, and hazardous waste pollution technology, including legislative regulations and quality standards: sources, detection, and analysis instrumentation and practices, and treatment and abatement principles, equipment, and practices. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	EST 5810 - Energy and the Environment 3 credit hours Introduces sources and methods of energy production and classifications of energy usages with emphasis on usage trends, energy conservation strategies, and alternate energy utilization. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	EST 5820 - Solar Building Design 3 credit hours Introduces environmental and economic impact of solar energy for residential and light industrial construction including topics such as day lighting, passive solar design, and hot water heating. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	EST 5840 - Energy Auditing 3 credit hours Introduces types of energy consumption and classifications of energy usages. Emphasis on conservation strategies and total management for residential and industrial plants. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	EST 5870 - Passive Solar Design 3 credit hours Introduces passive solar techniques in the construction of residential and light industrial structures. Includes day lighting, passive solar design, methods, and system integration. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
Exercise Science
	EXSC 5000 - Strength, Conditioning, and Human Performance 3 credit hours Prerequisites: Anatomy, physiology, kinesiology, and weight training or permission of instructor. Theories and principles of strength training and conditioning and techniques used to become a certified strength and conditioning specialist or personal trainer. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	EXSC 5240 - Principles of Exercise Prescription and Assessment 3 credit hours Prerequisites: EXSC 4810 and 4830; PHED 4910. Application of knowledge gained to practical situations; develop proficiency in using equipment and skills to evaluate an individual’s health risks and fitness. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	EXSC 5965 - Aquatic Exercise and Therapeutic Techniques 3 credit hours (Same as ATHT 5965 /REC 5965 .) Examines the various uses of the aquatic environment to develop, maintain, and improve physical performance with practical development of skills and techniques and aquatic exercise programming. Combines both didactic and laboratory activities in an experiential learning environment. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	EXSC 6640 - Thesis Research 1 to 6 credit hours (Same as HLTH 6640 /PHED 6640 /LSM 6640 .) Selection of a research problem, review of pertinent literature, collection and analysis of data, and composition of thesis. Once enrolled, student should register for at least one credit hour of master’s research each semester until completion. S/U grading. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	EXSC 6650 - Exercise Physiology 3 credit hours Principles of exercise physiology. Acute responses and chronic adaptations of the body to physical activity, exercise, and sports participation and their impact on homeostasis examined. Physiological systems examined in detail. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	EXSC 6750 - Exercise Physiology for the Child and Adolescent 3 credit hours Prerequisite: EXSC 4830 or EXSC 6650 . Review, analysis, and synthesis of current knowledge and literature about the exercise responses of children. Emphasis on understanding the influence of physical growth and measurement on the mechanisms which underlie the developing functional capacities of the exercising child and adolescent. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	EXSC 6800 - Environmental Exercise Physiology 3 credit hours Prerequisite: EXSC 6650 . Examines how the human body responds and adapts to diverse forms of environmental stress during exercise. Emphasis on delineating the mechanisms which underlie immediate responses and long-term adaptations that humans make while exercising under various environmental conditions. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	EXSC 6810 - Cardiovascular Exercise Physiology 3 credit hours Prerequisite: EXSC 6650 . Overview of the physiological and biophysical mechanisms underlying cardiac function. Neurochemical properties of the myocardial cell, the physiological basis of cardiac muscle function, and the overall performance of the intact heart during exercise. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	EXSC 6830 - Laboratory Techniques in Exercise Science 3 credit hours Laboratory experiences in testing, evaluating, and reporting in exercise science. Measurement theory related to validity and reliability of assessments addressed. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	EXSC 6840 - Advanced Principles of Exercise Prescription and Assessment 3 credit hours Prerequisite: EXSC 4240 or equivalent. Provides theoretical and laboratory learning experiences for health risk appraisal, cardiovascular evaluation, and exercise prescription for healthy people and special populations. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes
	EXSC 6850 - Physical Activity, Exercise, and Disease 3 credit hours Prerequisite: EXSC 6650 or equivalent. In-depth survey and synthesis of the research literature examining historical and recent trends in physical activity participation and the health-related aspects of exercise, physical activity, and physical fitness. Physiological mechanisms underlying the positive effects of physical activity and exercise on risk reduction for disease identified and explored. Behavioral and environmental determinants of physical activity and regular participation in exercise reviewed. Click here for the Spring 2024 Schedule of Classes

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Courses

ENGL 6510 - History of Rhetoric: Early Modern to Contemporary

ENGL 6520 - Essentials of Linguistics

ENGL 6525 - Special Topics in the History of the English Language

ENGL 6530 - Studies in Composition and Rhetoric

ENGL 6535 - Special Topics in Composition and Rhetoric

ENGL 6540 - Middle Tennessee Writing Project (MTWP) Summer Institute

ENGL 6550 - Writing Center Theory

ENGL 6560 - Seminar in Teaching Composition

ENGL 6570 - Practicum in Composition Methodology

ENGL 6590 - Seminar in Teaching of Literature

ENGL 6620 - Directed Reading and Research

ENGL 6630 - Directed Creative Writing

ENGL 6640 - Thesis Research

ENGL 6650 - Special Topics in Popular Culture Studies

ENGL 6660 - Introduction to Graduate Study: Bibliography and Research

ENGL 6700 - Studies in Folklore

ENGL 6710 - Special Topics in Folklore

ENGL 6750 - Film Studies

ENGL 6760 - Special Topics in Film Studies

ENGL 6999 - Comprehensive Examination and Preparation

ENGL 7000 - Poetry Workshop

ENGL 7010 - Old English Language and Literature

ENGL 7020 - Beowulf

ENGL 7030 - Chaucer Seminar

ENGL 7040 - Medieval English Literature

ENGL 7050 - Studies in Early English Drama, Excluding Shakespeare: 900-1642

ENGL 7110 - Spenser Seminar

ENGL 7120 - Studies in Sixteenth-Century English Prose and Poetry

ENGL 7130 - Studies in Seventeenth-Century English Prose and Poetry

ENGL 7140 - Studies in Milton

ENGL 7150 - Studies in Shakespeare

ENGL 7200 - Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

ENGL 7210 - Studies in English Romanticism: Wordsworth and Coleridge

ENGL 7220 - Studies in English Romanticism: Shelley, Byron, and Keats

ENGL 7230 - Major British Writers

ENGL 7270 - Studies in Victorian Literature

ENGL 7290 - Modern British Literature

ENGL 7295 - Literature for Adolescents

ENGL 7300 - History of Children’s Literature

ENGL 7305 - Special Topics in Children’s and Adolescent Literature

ENGL 7310 - Popular Culture Studies

ENGL 7320 - Postcolonial Literature and Theory

ENGL 7330 - Major American Writers

ENGL 7340 - African American Literature

ENGL 7350 - History of Criticism

ENGL 7360 - Studies in Southern Literature

ENGL 7370 - Satire

ENGL 7380 - Contemporary Critical Theory

ENGL 7390 - Reading Postmodernism

ENGL 7400 - American Literature to 1800

ENGL 7410 - Studies in American Literature: 1800-1860

ENGL 7420 - Studies in American Literature: 1860-1910

ENGL 7430 - Studies in American Literature: 1910-1950

ENGL 7450 - Contemporary Women’s Literature

ENGL 7455 - Special Topics in Women’s Literature

ENGL 7460 - Studies in Contemporary Drama

ENGL 7470 - Studies in Narratology

ENGL 7480 - Studies in Contemporary Literature

ENGL 7490 - Studies in the Novel

ENGL 7500 - Selected Topics in Literature and Language

ENGL 7505 - History of Rhetoric: Ancient to Renaissance

ENGL 7510 - History of Rhetoric: Early Modern to Contemporary

ENGL 7520 - Essentials of Linguistics

ENGL 7525 - Special Topics in the History of the English Language

ENGL 7530 - Studies in Composition and Rhetoric

ENGL 7535 - Special Topics in Composition and Rhetoric

ENGL 7540 - Middle Tennessee Writing Project (MTWP) Summer Institute

ENGL 7550 - Writing Center Theory

ENGL 7560 - Seminar in Teaching Composition

ENGL 7570 - Practicum in Composition Methodology

ENGL 7590 - Seminar in Teaching of Literature

ENGL 7600 - Internship

ENGL 7610 - Internship

ENGL 7620 - Directed Reading and Research

ENGL 7640 - Dissertation Research

ENGL 7650 - Special Topics in Popular Culture Studies

ENGL 7660 - Introduction to Graduate Study: Bibliography and Research

ENGL 7700 - Studies in Folklore

ENGL 7710 - Special Topics in Folklore