Jun 17, 2024  
2021-22 Graduate Catalog 
    
2021-22 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


NOTE: Certain courses and programs require the use and/or handling of hazardous materials or equipment. Students are expected to follow all safety instructions and to take the required safety precautions including, but not limited to, the use of personal protection equipment (PPE) during the course or program to prevent incidences of injury to self or other students.

 

Engineering Technology

  
  
  
  • ET 6650 - Embedded Microprocessor Design

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite ET 4660 or consent of instructor. Topics include basics of embedded microprocessor systems, introduction to field programmable gate arrays (FPGA), integrated software environment (ISE), embedded development kit (EDK) CAD software, and the architecture and features of the MicroBlaze soft-core. Two hours lecture and three hours laboratory.


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  • ET 6700 - Analytical Methods in Engineering Technology

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisites: MATH 1530, 1910, and 1920; graduate standing. Survey of essential mathematical skills and their applications in engineering technology. Applications of algebra, calculus, differential equations, linear algebra, numerical analysis, data analysis, statistics, vector analysis, and other topics with specific reference to concepts in an engineering technology curriculum. Symbolic mathematical computer software will be used throughout the course.


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  • ET 6710 - Current and Future Trends in Engineering and Technology

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing. The latest advancements and practices in various engineering and technology fields. Selected topics may include computers and electronics, networking and telecommunication, instrumentation, lasers, automation and robotics, manufacturing and rapid prototyping, bioengineering and biotechnology, and renewable energy sources. Takes a student-centered, hands-on learning approach and focuses on understanding new technologies and how technology is used in the industry. Research projects will provide appropriate experience and accommodate individual’s interest.


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  • ET 6740 - Engineering Technology Internship

    3 credit hours
    Opportunity for students to gain practical experience in their particular field of interest within the engineering technology or occupational health and safety industries. Student will be evaluated by graduate faculty (with input from his/her supervisor) and a final report will be submitted by the student detailing the internship experience.


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  • ET 6810 - Engineering Management Theory and Application

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Theories, concepts, and applications from the engineering management body of knowledge (EMBOK) for technical, healthcare, and service industries. EMBOK topics covered defined in the American Society for Engineering Management (ASEM) Guide to the EMBOK and include leadership in technical, healthcare, and service industries; strategic planning in a technical environment; financial resource management in the technical environment; technical project management; operations and supply chain management; technical managers’ role in marketing and sales; legal issues in engineering management; professional ethics and responsibilities in a technical environment; product and process development; systems engineering; technical management of research and development; and sustainability engineering.


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  • ET 6870 - Engineering Management Systems

    3 credit hours
    Prerequisite: Graduate standing. Advanced topics related to engineering management systems with a focus on innovation implementation for technical products, technical processes, and for business models in a technical environment. Implementation strategies integrating current and emerging technologies into manufacturing, health care and service industries. Components needed for the construction of new venture business plans to create new technology businesses and jobs.


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  • ET 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. Student must contact 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.


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English

  
  
  
  
  • ENGL 6001 - Introduction to Graduate Study: Bibliography and Research

    3 credit hours
    Scholarship and professionalism in the various fields of English: the nature, scope, and ethics of professional pursuits; traditional and innovative methods; the definition and solution of research problems; the production of scholarship in literature, language, and rhetoric and composition. Required of all master’s students enrolling in English.


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  • ENGL 6105 - 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 work, The Faerie Queene.


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  • ENGL 6201 - Studies in 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.


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  • ENGL 6205 - 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.


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  • ENGL 6711 - 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.


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  • ENGL 6861 - 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.


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  • ENGL 6913 - Directed Portfolio

    1 to 6 credit hours
    Prerequisites: 27 hours of M.A. coursework and permission of the director of graduate studies. An individually supervised, unified collection of multiple components that includes intensive revision of a paper or papers from previous coursework and other elements to be determined by the portfolio director to demonstrate an appropriate breadth of knowledge and sophistication of writing. Normally 3 credit hours in one semester; may be repeated only once.


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  • ENGL 7001 - Introduction to Graduate Study: Bibliography and Research

    3 credit hours
    Scholarship and professionalism in the various fields of English: the nature, scope, and ethics of professional pursuits; traditional and innovative methods; the definition and solution of research problems; the production of scholarship in literature, language, and rhetoric and composition. Required of all doctoral students enrolling in English.


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  • ENGL 7105 - 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 Queene.


    Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes

    Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes


  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  • ENGL 7201 - Studies in 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.


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  • ENGL 7205 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes

    Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes


  
  
  
  
 

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