Sep 27, 2024  
2016-17 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2016-17 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


 

Engineering Technology

  
  • 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 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: ENGR 2120  or 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.


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  • ENGL 3007 - Writing and the Literary Imagination

    3 credit hours
    Focuses on the relationship between literature, the imagination and culture, Uses different types of writing and reading to develop students’ ability to think critically about literature. Required of English minors.


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  • ENGL 3010 - British Literature I: Beginnings to 1700

    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 beginnings to the end of the seventeenth century. 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: 1700-1918

    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 1700 to 1918 with some reference to earlier and later works. 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 .) Prerequisites: Completion of 1000-level English and 2000-level literature requirements with a grade of C- or better. 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 major or minor requirements. May not be repeated for major credit. Pass/Fail grading.


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  • ENGL 3605 - Applied Writing

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Develops reading and writing strategies for examining individual writing processes and solving writing problems posed in university studies across the disciplines: essays, reports, reviews, analyses, memos, proposals. May not be used toward the English major, English minor, or Writing minor.


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  • ENGL 3620 - Professional Writing

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Completion of English and literature General Education requirements; ENGL 1020  or ENGL 3605  with a B or better. A specialized composition course for students planning to enter the professional workplace, including industry, science, and government. Collaborative practice in the discourse and conventions of professional and technical writing: employment packages, memoranda, instructions, proposals, and reports.


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  • ENGL 3630 - Essay Writing Workshop

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Complete of English and literature General Education requirements;   or   with a B or better. Through a process-based workshop approach students will be provided the opportunity to improve their ability to write essays for different purposes. Explores the cross-disciplinary nature of essay writing as it engages students in practical exercises in written communication.


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  • ENGL 3645 - Fiction Writing

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better and permission of instructor. A specialized seminar in which students study and create works of fiction.


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  • ENGL 3655 - Poetry Writing

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better and permission of instructor. A specialized seminar in which students study and create poetry.


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  • ENGL 3665 - Play Writing

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better and permission of instructor. A specialized writing course focusing on the appreciation and realization of the dramatic form.


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  • ENGL 3690 - Individualized Writing Project

    1 credit hour
    Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better and permission of instructor. A small-group writing tutorial which allows work on a major writing project from any major or field of interest. Does not count for the English major or minor without advisor approval. Pass/Fail depending on attendance, participation, and progress. May be repeated twice for a total of three (3) credits.


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  • ENGL 3720 - Early Women Writers

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. An introduction to British/American/world literature by women through the eighteenth century.


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  • ENGL 3725 - Nineteenth-Century Women Writers

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Examines works by British and American writers in the context of a female literary tradition. Writers studied may include Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Emily Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, George Eliot, Christina Rossetti, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Emily Dickinson.


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  • ENGL 3730 - Twentieth-Century Women Writers

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Literature of major women writers of the period. Divided by genre and primarily includes the fiction, poetry, and drama of British and American women.


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  • ENGL 3735 - Black Women as Writers

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A survey of black women’s literary expressions and the historical and sociocultural factors that shape these women’s artistic sensibilities and thematic concerns. Emphasis will be given to U.S. women writers.


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  • ENGL 3740 - Children’s Literature

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A survey of literature for children based on wide reading in the field.


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  • ENGL 3745 - Literature for Adolescents

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Surveys literature for adolescents, historical and contemporary; analysis of contemporary issues in the field. Required for English majors seeking teacher licensure.


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  • ENGL 3755 - Folk/Fairy Tales, Legends, Myths, Ancient Stories

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Introduces folk/fairy tales, myths, epics, legends, and verse from a variety of languages, cultures, ethnic groups, and historical periods.


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  • ENGL 3760 - Introduction to Folklore

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C-  or better. Traditional lore and culture (literature, ballads, beliefs, materials) with primary attention to the American scene.


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  • ENGL 3810 - British Popular Culture

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A cultural survey of Great Britain since 1945, including history, music, film, and literature.


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  • ENGL 3815 - Survey of Popular Culture

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. An overview of literature and media reflecting the mass culture of America from 1900 to the present: westerns, mysteries, science fiction, popular music, film, and television.


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  • ENGL 3825 - Contemporary Satire

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a C- or better. Uses prose fiction, poetry, film, and popular culture artistic expressions such as song lyrics and TV to explore the wide variety of modes in which satire is expressed in modern and contemporary culture.


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  • ENGL 3840 - Science Fiction

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. The science fiction genre, emphasizing significant themes, recurrent images and conventions, and historical and cultural context.


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  • ENGL 3850 - Literature and Film

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. The relationship between literature and film with emphasis on narration, characterization, point of view, and setting.


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  • ENGL 3860 - Film Genre

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. One or more groups of films linked through narrative, stylistic, and/or thematic characteristics.


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  • ENGL 3870 - Film History

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. History of world film from its inception through the 1990s.


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  • ENGL 3885 - Topics in Gender and Film

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. A selected subject or focus within gender and film studies. Topic will vary each time course is taught. Possible topics include representation of women in film, history of gender representation in film, women directors; Hollywood and gender; queer film studies; gender and international cinema; gender, race, and Hollywood, etc. May be repeated up to four times with different topics.


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  • ENGL 4110 - Chaucer: Canterbury Tales

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. An intensive study of The Canterbury Tales and the background out of which they were written.


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  • ENGL 4130 - Shakespeare: The Sixteenth-Century Plays

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


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  • ENGL 4140 - Shakespeare: The Seventeenth-Century Plays

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Focuses on the second half of Shakespeare’s career. The works 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 4180 - Milton

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. An intensive study of Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes, “Lycidas,” Areopagitica, and the minor poetry.


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  • ENGL 4230 - Selected British Writers after the Restoration

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Focuses on the work of at most three authors in a cultural and literary context. Specific authors will vary. May be repeated for up to six credits.


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  • ENGL 4240 - Modern British Literature

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Poetry, fiction, and nonfiction written in Britain from approximately 1910 to 1939. Representative works of major British writers in the context of contemporary social and literary history.


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  • ENGL 4270 - Contemporary British and Commonwealth Literature

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Contemporary British and Commonwealth novels in the context of social and literary history.


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  • ENGL 4310 - The American Renaissance

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. American Romanticism in the selected writings of Emerson, Whitman, Thoreau, Hawthorne, and Melville.


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  • ENGL 4320 - Selected American Writers

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Focuses on the work of at most three American authors in a cultural and literary context. Specific authors will vary.


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  • ENGL 4410 - Literary Criticism

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Critical theories: Classical, Neoclassical, Romantic, and Modern. Practical criticism: the technical analysis of poetry and prose.


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  • ENGL 4425 - Backgrounds of Modern Literature

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Readings in the intellectual history of modern literature. Selected literary figures, major aesthetic movements, and pivotal ideas of modern Western culture, including Marx, Darwin, Nietzsche, Freud, Sartre. Course divided by themes representing disciplines or modes of thought.


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  • ENGL 4500 - Methods of Teaching Secondary English

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better; YOED 3000  or YOED 3500  or equivalent and permission of department. An intensive study of both grammar and composition for the teacher, the writer, and the editor: writing, analyzing, and judging composition. Required for English majors seeking teacher licensure.


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  • ENGL 4510 - Modern English Grammar and Usage

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Traditional English grammar and the principles upon which grammatical analysis is based. Satisfies teacher licensure grammar requirement.


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  • ENGL 4520 - The Structure of English

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of 1000- and 2000-level English requirements with a grade of C- or better. Structure of modern English and overview of current syntactic theories.


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