Jun 26, 2024

2021-22 Graduate Catalog

2021-22 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Engineering Technology
	ET 6620 - Methods of Research 3 credit hours Introduces 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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ET 6640 - Thesis Research 1 to 6 credit hours Prerequisite: 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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ET 6720 - Innovative and Renewable Energy Sources and Technologies 3 credit hours Prerequisite: 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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ET 6730 - Process Control 3 credit hours Prerequisites: 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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ET 6910 - Problems in Engineering Technology 3 credit hours Independent 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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ET 6920 - Problems in Engineering Technology 3 credit hours Independent 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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
English
	ENGL 5510 - Modern English Grammar and Usage 3 credit hours Historical development of the theory and practice of modern English grammar and usage. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 5530 - History of the English Language 3 credit hours Traces 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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 5540 - Approaches to Teaching ESL Grammar and Writing 3 credit hours Prerequisite: 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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6011 - Old English Language and Literature 3 credit hours 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6015 - Beowulf 3 credit hours Prerequisite: 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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6021 - Middle English Language and 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6025 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6051 - Studies in Early English Drama, Excluding Shakespeare: 990-1642 3 credit hours Advanced study of 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6101 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6111 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6115 - Studies in Shakespeare 3 credit hours Advanced study of Shakespeare’s poems and plays, emphasizing poetic and dramatic techniques in his works and critical reaction to those works. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6121 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6131 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6141 - 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 Biographia Literaria. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6145 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6151 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6161 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6171 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6211 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6215 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6221 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6225 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6231 - Major American Writers 3 credit hours An 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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6301 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6401 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6405 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6415 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6511 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6515 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6521 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6551 - Popular Culture Studies 3 credit hours Major trends and significant debates in the development of popular culture theory and criticism. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6555 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6561 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6565 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6571 - Studies in Folklore 3 credit hours Study of folklore with focus on the history of the discipline. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6575 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6601 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6605 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6611 - Special 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6651 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6655 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6701 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6705 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6715 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6801 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6805 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6811 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6815 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6821 - Seminar in Teaching Composition 3 credit hours Open only to first-year teaching assistants or with consent of instructor. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6825 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6851 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6871 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6881 - Seminar in Teaching of Literature 3 credit hours Recommended for second-year teaching assistants and others interested in teaching literature. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6901 - Directed Reading and Research 3 credit hours Prerequisite: 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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6905 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 6909 - Masters’ Readings 3 credit hours Prerequisite: 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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7011 - Old English Language and Literature 3 credit hours 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7015 - Beowulf 3 credit hours Prerequisite: 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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7021 - Middle English Language and 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7025 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7051 - Studies in Early English Drama, Excluding Shakespeare: 900-1642 3 credit hours Advanced study of 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7101 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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 7111 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7115 - Studies in Shakespeare 3 credit hours Advanced study of Shakespeare’s poems and plays, emphasizing poetic and dramatic techniques in his works and critical reaction to those works. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7121 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7131 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7141 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7145 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7151 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7161 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7171 - 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 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. Click here for the Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	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
	ENGL 7211 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7215 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7221 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes
	ENGL 7225 - 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 Summer 2024 Schedule of Classes Click here for the Fall 2024 Schedule of Classes

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Courses

ET 6620 - Methods of Research

ET 6640 - Thesis Research

ET 6650 - Embedded Microprocessor Design

ET 6700 - Analytical Methods in Engineering Technology

ET 6710 - Current and Future Trends in Engineering and Technology

ET 6720 - Innovative and Renewable Energy Sources and Technologies

ET 6730 - Process Control

ET 6740 - Engineering Technology Internship

ET 6810 - Engineering Management Theory and Application

ET 6870 - Engineering Management Systems

ET 6910 - Problems in Engineering Technology

ET 6920 - Problems in Engineering Technology

ET 6999 - Comprehensive Examination and Preparation

ENGL 5510 - Modern English Grammar and Usage

ENGL 5530 - History of the English Language

ENGL 5540 - Approaches to Teaching ESL Grammar and Writing

ENGL 6001 - Introduction to Graduate Study: Bibliography and Research

ENGL 6011 - Old English Language and Literature

ENGL 6015 - Beowulf

ENGL 6021 - Middle English Language and Literature

ENGL 6025 - Chaucer Seminar

ENGL 6051 - Studies in Early English Drama, Excluding Shakespeare: 990-1642

ENGL 6101 - Studies in Sixteenth-Century English Prose and Poetry

ENGL 6105 - Spenser Seminar

ENGL 6111 - Studies in Seventeenth-Century English Prose and Poetry

ENGL 6115 - Studies in Shakespeare

ENGL 6121 - Studies in Milton

ENGL 6131 - Studies in Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature

ENGL 6141 - Studies in English Romanticism: Wordsworth and Coleridge

ENGL 6145 - Studies in English Romanticism: Shelley, Byron, and Keats

ENGL 6151 - Studies in Victorian Literature

ENGL 6161 - Modern British Literature

ENGL 6171 - Major British Writers

ENGL 6201 - Studies in American Literature to 1800

ENGL 6205 - Studies in American Literature: 1800-1860

ENGL 6211 - Studies in American Literature: 1860-1910

ENGL 6215 - Studies in American Literature: 1910-1950

ENGL 6221 - African American Literature

ENGL 6225 - Studies in Southern Literature

ENGL 6231 - Major American Writers

ENGL 6301 - Postcolonial Literature and Theory

ENGL 6401 - Studies in Contemporary Literature

ENGL 6405 - Studies in Contemporary Drama

ENGL 6415 - Special Topics in Women’s Literature

ENGL 6511 - History of Children’s Literature

ENGL 6515 - Topics in Children’s and Adolescent Literature

ENGL 6521 - Literature for Adolescents

ENGL 6551 - Popular Culture Studies

ENGL 6555 - Special Topics in Popular Culture Studies

ENGL 6561 - Film Studies

ENGL 6565 - Special Topics in Film Studies

ENGL 6571 - Studies in Folklore

ENGL 6575 - Special Topics in Folklore

ENGL 6601 - Studies in the Novel

ENGL 6605 - Satire

ENGL 6611 - Special Topics in Literature and Language

ENGL 6640 - Thesis Research

ENGL 6651 - Essentials of Linguistics

ENGL 6655 - Special Topics in the History of the English Language

ENGL 6701 - History of Criticism

ENGL 6705 - Contemporary Critical Theory

ENGL 6711 - Reading Postmodernism

ENGL 6715 - Studies in Narratology

ENGL 6801 - History of Rhetoric: Ancient to Renaissance

ENGL 6805 - History of Rhetoric: Early Modern to Contemporary

ENGL 6811 - Studies in Composition and Rhetoric

ENGL 6815 - Special Topics in Composition and Rhetoric

ENGL 6821 - Seminar in Teaching Composition

ENGL 6825 - Practicum in Composition Methodology

ENGL 6851 - Writing Center Theory

ENGL 6861 - Middle Tennessee Writing Project (MTWP) Summer Institute

ENGL 6871 - Poetry Workshop

ENGL 6881 - Seminar in Teaching of Literature

ENGL 6901 - Directed Reading and Research

ENGL 6905 - Directed Creative Writing

ENGL 6909 - Masters’ Readings

ENGL 6913 - Directed Portfolio

ENGL 7001 - Introduction to Graduate Study: Bibliography and Research

ENGL 7011 - Old English Language and Literature