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 6620 - Methods of Research
3credit hoursIntroduces Master of Science students to scholarly research principles and to thesis formats for research reporting. A problem is researched and written up in thesis proposal format.
1 to 6credit hoursPrerequisite: ET 6620. 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.
3credit hoursPrerequisite 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.
ET 6700 - Analytical Methods in Engineering Technology
3credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
ET 6710 - Current and Future Trends in Engineering and Technology
3credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
ET 6720 - Innovative and Renewable Energy Sources and Technologies
3credit hoursPrerequisite: Graduate standing. In-depth coverage of current and future renewable energy sources and energy conversion technologies and efficiency and storage technologies. Environmental, economic, and security impacts are covered.
3credit hoursPrerequisites: MATH 1910 and ET 3602 or equivalent. Basic process control concepts and theory. Analog and digital signal conditioning. Sensors and controllers. Controller principles and control-loop characteristics. Process control applications.
3credit hoursOpportunity 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.
ET 6810 - Engineering Management Theory and Application
3credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3credit hoursPrerequisite: 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.
3credit hoursIndependent investigation and report of a problem in engineering technology. Designed to meet the particular needs of the students; pursued under the direction of a department faculty member.
3credit hoursIndependent investigation and report of a problem in engineering technology. Designed to meet the particular needs of the students; pursued under the direction of a department faculty member.
ET 6999 - Comprehensive Examination and Preparation
1credit hoursOpen 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.
3credit hoursTraces the development of the English language from cuneiform writing systems and Semitic and Phoenician syllabaries through Greek and Latin contributions, Old and Middle English, and Modern English.
ENGL 5540 - Approaches to Teaching ESL Grammar and Writing
3credit hoursPrerequisite: ENGL 4510/ENGL 5510. A survey of the background and basic methods needed to teach English grammar and composition to students for whom English is a second language. Emphasizes understanding the problems nonnative speakers face and developing techniques for helping nonnative speakers express themselves in written English.
ENGL 6001 - Introduction to Graduate Study: Bibliography and Research
3credit hoursScholarship 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.
3credit hoursIntroduction 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.
3credit hoursPrerequisite: ENGL 6011. 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.
ENGL 6021 - Middle English Language and Literature
3credit hoursA 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.
3credit hoursClose 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.
ENGL 6051 - Studies in Early English Drama, Excluding Shakespeare: 990-1642
3credit hoursAdvanced study of the origin and development of English drama, emphasizing Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and the contributions of Shakespeare’s contemporaries and successors.
ENGL 6101 - Studies in Sixteenth-Century English Prose and Poetry
3credit hoursConsiders 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.
3credit hoursSeeks 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.
ENGL 6111 - Studies in Seventeenth-Century English Prose and Poetry
3credit hoursSelected 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.
3credit hoursAdvanced study of Shakespeare’s poems and plays, emphasizing poetic and dramatic techniques in his works and critical reaction to those works.
ENGL 6131 - Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
3credit hoursDesigned 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.
ENGL 6141 - Studies in English Romanticism: Wordsworth and Coleridge
3credit hoursCovers 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 Biographia Literaria.
ENGL 6145 - Studies in English Romanticism: Shelley, Byron, and Keats
3credit hoursCovers 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.
3credit hoursIntellectual backgrounds of modern British literature; major novelists: Forster, Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence; major poets: Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Thomas; selected minor writers.
3credit hoursAn 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.
ENGL 6201 - Studies in American Literature to 1800
3credit hoursSurveys 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.
ENGL 6205 - Studies in American Literature: 1800-1860
3credit hoursSurveys 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.
ENGL 6211 - Studies in American Literature: 1860-1910
3credit hoursCovers 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.
ENGL 6215 - Studies in American Literature: 1910-1950
3credit hoursCovers 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.
3credit hoursThemes, theories, movements, and types of literature produced in the American South with particular emphasis on selected authors and texts.
3credit hoursAn in-depth study of two or three American writers. Course varies according to interests of instructor and students. May be taken for multiple credit up to 6 hours.
3credit hoursIntroduces 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.
3credit hoursStudy 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.
ENGL 6515 - Topics in Children’s and Adolescent Literature
3credit hoursSelected 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.
ENGL 6555 - Special Topics in Popular Culture Studies
3credit hoursA 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.
3credit hoursCovers such topics as the film text, adaptation, narratology, genres, ideology, authorship, theory, history, schools, movements, national cinemas, and film audiences.
3credit hoursExamines 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.
3credit hoursSelected 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.
3credit hoursThe 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.
3credit hoursSatire 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.
ENGL 6611 - Special Topics in Literature and Language
3credit hoursA 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.
1 to 6credit hoursSelection 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.
3credit hoursMajor linguistic approaches to the study of language-dominant trends and current issues in linguistics; the phonological, morphological, and syntactic structure of the English language.
ENGL 6655 - Special Topics in the History of the English Language
3credit hoursAdvanced 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.
3credit hoursCovers 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.
3credit hoursTheoretical 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.
3credit hoursExamines modern and contemporary theories of narrative (modernist, rhetorical, structuralist, dialogical) with particular application to selected authors and texts.
ENGL 6801 - History of Rhetoric: Ancient to Renaissance
3credit hoursAn examination of the major theorists and themes, including literary and pedagogical implications, from the ancient period to the Renaissance.
3credit hoursAn introduction to the intellectual foundations of composition studies focusing on influential theories as well as the field’s intellectual and disciplinary history.
ENGL 6815 - Special Topics in Composition and Rhetoric
3credit hoursIntensive 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.
3credit hoursIn-depth study of how composition theory and research inform methodology. Topics covered vary according to interests of instructor and students.
3credit hoursExamines the theoretical and practical components of writing center work, including collaborative, composition, learning, writing center, and postmodern theories. Open to all graduate students.
ENGL 6861 - Middle Tennessee Writing Project (MTWP) Summer Institute
3credit hoursReserved 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.
3credit hoursA 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.
3credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of the director of graduate studies. Individually supervised reading and research in an area of English. Students may apply no more than two directed reading courses toward their degree requirements.
3credit hoursPrerequisite: Permission of the director of graduate studies in English. Individually supervised writing project in fiction, poetry writing, playwriting, or creative nonfiction.
3credit hoursPrerequisite: ENGL 6001 with a grade of B or better. A student-designed course of readings constructed in consultation with faculty in preparation for writing a thesis.
1 to 6credit hoursPrerequisites: 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.
ENGL 7001 - Introduction to Graduate Study: Bibliography and Research
3credit hoursScholarship 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.
3credit hoursIntroduction 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.
3credit hoursPrerequisite: ENGL 7011. 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.
ENGL 7021 - Middle English Language and Literature
3credit hoursA 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.
3credit hoursClose 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.
ENGL 7051 - Studies in Early English Drama, Excluding Shakespeare: 900-1642
3credit hoursAdvanced study of the origin and development of English drama, emphasizing Elizabethan and Jacobean drama and the contributions of Shakespeare’s contemporaries and successors.
ENGL 7101 - Studies in Sixteenth-Century English Prose and Poetry
3credit hoursConsiders 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.
3credit hoursSeeks 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.
ENGL 7111 - Studies in Seventeenth-Century English Prose and Poetry
3credit hoursSelected 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.
3credit hoursAdvanced study of Shakespeare’s poems and plays, emphasizing poetic and dramatic techniques in his works and critical reaction to those works.
ENGL 7131 - Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
3credit hoursDesigned 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.
ENGL 7141 - Studies in English Romanticism: Wordsworth and Coleridge
3credit hoursCovers 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.
ENGL 7145 - Studies in English Romanticism: Shelley, Byron, and Keats
3credit hoursCovers 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.
3credit hoursIntellectual backgrounds of modern British literature; major novelists: Forster, Woolf, Joyce, Lawrence; major poets: Yeats, Eliot, Auden, Thomas; selected minor writers.
3credit hoursAn 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.
ENGL 7201 - Studies in American Literature to 1800
3credit hoursSurveys 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.
ENGL 7205 - Studies in American Literature: 1800-1860
3credit hoursSurveys 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.
ENGL 7211 - Studies in American Literature: 1860-1910
3credit hoursCovers 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.
ENGL 7215 - Studies in American Literature: 1910-1950
3credit hoursCovers 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.
3credit hoursThemes, theories, movements, and types of literature produced in the American South with particular emphasis on selected authors and texts.