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2012-2013 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
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Courses

 

Engineering Science
  

  • ET 111 - Introduction to Engineering Technology


    1 credit(s)
    Introduction to the profession of engineering technology and the skills, attitudes, and techniques needed by engineering technology students. A familiarization with the University and CETA is included, particularly an exploration of available opportunities for enhancing the education of engineering technology students. Required of all full-time technology freshmen. Pass/No Pass. One lecture hour.


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  • ET 180 - Independent Studies


    1–4 credit(s)
    An independent study may be elected when a field of interest to the student is not covered in the curriculum, or when departure from the traditional arrangement of classroom and course structure seems appropriate. The topic varies from semester to semester in accordance with the needs of the student. The contents of this course are to be determined under the close supervision of a faculty member with the approval of the department chair.
    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and chair of department in which student is matriculated.


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  • ET 200 - Engineering Technology Internships


    1–3 credit(s)
    Work experience in an engineering technology industry/business setting under the supervision of the director of CETA internship programs and the academic advisor. Objectives and evaluation criteria set by a learning contract with the Office of Experiential Education and Student Employment in the Career Center are required. A maximum of 6 credits may be taken as an internship. The number of these credits that may be used as a professional or unrestricted elective, but not as a technical specialty, is to be decided by the academic advisor. Grading is Pass/No Pass.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing, except by agreement with the academic advisor, and a minimum of 2.5 GPA.


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  • ET 280 - Independent Studies


    1–4 credit(s)
    An independent study may be elected when a field of interest to the student is not covered in the curriculum, or when departure from the traditional arrangement of classroom and course structure seems appropriate. The topic varies from semester to semester in accordance with the needs of the student. The contents of this course are to be determined under the close supervision of a faculty member with the approval of the department chair.
    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and chair of department in which student is matriculated.


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  • ET 300 - Engineering Technology Internships


    1–3 credit(s)
    Work experience in an engineering technology industry/business setting under the supervision of the director of CETA internship programs and the academic advisor. Objectives and evaluation criteria set by a learning contract with the Office of Experiential Education and Student Employment in the Career Center are required. A maximum of 6 credits may be taken as an internship. The number of these credits that may be used as a professional or unrestricted elective, but not as a technical specialty, is to be decided by the academic advisor. Grading is Pass/No Pass.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing, except by agreement with the academic advisor, and a minimum of 2.5 GPA.


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  • ET 380 - Independent Studies


    1–4 credit(s)
    An independent study may be elected when a field of interest to the student is not covered in the curriculum, or when departure from the traditional arrangement of classroom and course structure seems appropriate. The topic varies from semester to semester in accordance with the needs of the student. The contents of this course are to be determined under the close supervision of a faculty member with the approval of the department chair.
    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and chair of department in which student is matriculated.


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  • ET 400 - Engineering Technology Internships


    1–3 credit(s)
    Work experience in an engineering technology industry/business setting under the supervision of the director of CETA internship programs and the academic advisor. Objectives and evaluation criteria set by a learning contract with the Office of Experiential Education and Student Employment in the Career Center are required. A maximum of 6 credits may be taken as an internship. The number of these credits that may be used as a professional or unrestricted elective, but not as a technical specialty, is to be decided by the academic advisor. Grading is Pass/No Pass.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing, except by agreement with the academic advisor, and a minimum of 2.5 GPA.


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  • ET 480 - Independent Studies


    1–4 credit(s)
    An independent study may be elected when a field of interest to the student is not covered in the curriculum, or when departure from the traditional arrangement of classroom and course structure seems appropriate. The topic varies from semester to semester in accordance with the needs of the student. The contents of this course are to be determined under the close supervision of a faculty member with the approval of the department chair.
    Prerequisite(s): Permission of instructor and chair of department in which student is matriculated.


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English
  

English and English Literature: Hillyer
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

English Language Institute
  

  • ESL 051 - English as a Second Language— Low Intermediate


    noncredit credit(s)
    This course is intended for students to develop basic language proficiency in reading, writing, listening, and speaking that will enable them to progress to more advanced courses in the ELI program in preparation for academic studies. Students read a variety of short texts and write well organized paragraphs. Through group work, students improve fluency and understanding of spoken English discourse, understand and utilize patterns of organization in writing, and develop reading speed while maintaining comprehension.
    Prerequisite(s): TOEFL score of 390/90–450/133 or permission of the instructor.


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  • ESL 052 - English as a Second Language— High Intermediate


    noncredit credit(s)
    This course is designed for students to increase and develop English-language proficiency. Various texts are introduced to help students develop strategies for reading for understanding of main ideas, details, and vocabulary. Course work helps students read more quickly and understand the writer’s ideas more easily. Students study particular grammatical structures, practice them in various activities, and apply them to specific communication and written tasks. The course helps students to speak and write with more confidence and fewer grammatical mistakes and teaches strategies for improving grammar outside of class.
    Prerequisite(s): TOEFL scores of 451/134–499/172 and/or successful completion of ESL 051 .


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  • ESL 053 - English as a Second Language— Advanced


    noncredit credit(s)
    The purpose of this course is to help students attain mastery of the English language in order to achieve academic success at the university level. Students build strategies for improving reading speed and comprehension while improving vocabulary. They focus on the structure of American English as it is used for reading, writing, and speaking, especially in an academic context. Students listen to lectures and take notes, give oral presentations, and participate in group discussions. Focus is on several forms of academic writing: journal, summary, and essay writing. Scholarly reports or research papers are also introduced.
    Prerequisite(s): TOEFL score of 500/173–549/212 and/or successful completion of ESL 052 .


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  • ESL 054 - English as a Second Language— Graduate Composition


    noncredit credit(s)
    This course is designed to prepare students for the written and oral tasks required in advanced academic study. A variety of strategies for working through the writing process, complex structuralpatterns, summaries, and analysis of information from outside sources are addressed. Students develop skill in oral communication through small-group discussions and both informal and formal oral presentations. English pronunciation, stress, and intonation are developed within the context of presentations.
    Prerequisite(s): Graduate level, TOEFL score of 550, and TWE less than 4.5.


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  • ESL 153 - English as a Second Language— Advanced


    3 credit(s)
    The purpose of this course is to help students attain mastery of the English language in order to achieve academic success at the university level. Students build strategies for improving reading speed and comprehension while improving vocabulary.They focus on the structure of American English as it is used for reading, writing, and speaking, especially in an academic context. Students listen to lectures and take notes, give oral presentations, and participate in group discussions. Focus is on several forms of academic writing: journal, summary, essay writing; scholarly reports or research papers are also introduced. Final assessment is in the form of a portfolio for review and the TOEFL exam, on which a student must achieve a grade of 550.
    Prerequisite(s): TOEFL score of 500/173– 549/212 and/or successful completion of ESL 052 .


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English: Surveys of Literature
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

English: American Literature
  

  • ENG 305 - African American Women Writers

    Course Cross-listed with GS 305 /AFS 305 
    3 credit(s)
    This course has as its premise that the work of contemporary African American women writers—such as Toni Morrison, Alice Walker, Gloria Naylor, Paule Marshall, and Sherley Anne Williams—can be Interpreted in the context of an identifiable literary tradition with sources in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The course will look at the construction of this tradition in terms of specific literary themes and techniques, from “signifying” to communities of women that have been theorized by feminist and African American scholars.
    Prerequisite(s): GS 100 ; and either one 200-level literature course, or AFS 110  or AFS 111 ; or permission of instructor.


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  • ENG 325 - American Jewish Novel

    Course Cross-listed with JS 325 
    3 credit(s)
    A study of some of the major contributions to American Jewish literature since the turn of the century by American Jewish novelists. These include, among others, Gold’s Jews without Money, Cahan’s The Rise of David Levinsky, Anzia Yezierska’s Bread Givers, and a novel each by Malamud, Bellow, Roth, Potok, Doctorow, Ozick, and Chernin.
    Prerequisite(s): Any 200-level literature course or permission of the instructor.


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English: English Literature
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

  • ENG 420 - British Drama, 1660–1830

    Course Cross-listed with DRA 420 
    3 credit(s)
    A study of British drama between the Restoration and the Victorian era. Emphasis on changes in theatre practice (the appearance of women on the stage, the Licensing Act, spectacle), on controversies about the morality and purpose of the theatrical arts, and on the emergence of new dramatic genres (libertine comedy, she-tragedy, bourgeois tragedy, farce, comic opera, sentimental comedy, closet drama). Playwrights may include Dryden, Congreve, Behn, Wycherley, Rowe, Centlivre, Fielding, Gay, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Inchbald, Baillie, and Byron.
    Prerequisite(s): Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.


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  • ENG 432 - Rebellion to Restoration: 17th-Century British Literature


    3 credit(s)
    Reading and discussion of such writers as Shakespeare, Bacon, Donne, Jonson, Wroth, Herbert, Lanyer, Hobbes, Milton, Marvell, Philips, Dryden, Behn, and Bunyan against the background of the enormous social, political, religious, and economic turmoil England experienced between 1600 and 1700.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or permission of instructor. Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.


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  • ENG 437 - Eighteenth-Century British Novel


    3 credit(s)
    A study of the emergence and development of the novel in 18th-century Britain, with particular attention to writers such as Behn, Defoe, Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, and Austen. Emphasis on the novel’s relationship to other literary forms and on its negotiation of gender and class issues.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing or permission of instructor. Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor.


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  • ENG 438 - The Romantic Movement in Britain


    3 credit(s)
    Detailed study of the poetry and prose of such writers as Blake, Wollstonecraft, Coleridge, Austen, the Wordsworths, Byron, the Shelleys, and Keats. Emphasis on the relations of these writers to the literary, social, political, and philosophical issues of their day, such as the role of the poet and the language appropriate to poetry, revolution, social justice, the transformative power of the imagination, and women’s education.
    Prerequisite(s): Any 200-level literature course or permission of instructor. Comparative Literature


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English: Comparative Literature
  
  

  • ENG 316 - Yiddish Literature in Translation II

    Course Cross-listed with ML 316 /JS 316 
    3 credit(s)
    This course will continue the study of literary forms established by Seforim, Aleichem, and Peretz (The Realistic, The Ironic, The Parodic, etc.), as they appear in the world of such writers as Pinski, Spector, Asch, Reisen, Weissenber, Schneour, Shapiro, Kulback, I. J. Singer, Opatoshu, Bergelson, Glatstein, Grade. Also, we will concentrate on what are called Yenne Velt stories: those of Jewish fantasy and occult. Proverbs, folk tales, songs, and poems will introduce each meeting.
    Prerequisite(s): Any 200-level literature course or permission of the instructor.


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  • ENG 319 - The 19th-Century Heroine

    Course Cross-listed with GS 319 
    3 credit(s)
    A look at the 19th-century literature that centers on women. The course examines the characterization of female protagonists as products of a particular culture and a writer’s own personal artistic vision, particularly as these relate to concepts of the heroic. A variety of writers and genres is studied, including classic novels, travel writing, working class, and sentimental fictions.
    Prerequisite(s): GS 100  or a 200-level literature course, or permission of instructor.


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  • ENG 324W - Modern European-Jewish Literature

    Course Cross-listed with ML 324W /JS 324W /REL 324W 
    3 credit(s) Writing-Intensive
    This class explores the relationship between the Jewish Enlightenment (Haskalah) and the development of modern Hebrew and Yiddish literature. The readings and class discussions examine shifting conceptions of Jewish identity; contested notions of Diaspora, Exile, and Home; the relationship between Jewish politics and art; and the tension between the particularity of the national experience and the universality of the Jew. Readings by masters of 19th- and 20th-century European Jewish fiction include S. Y. Abramovitch (Mendele Mocher Seforim), known as the “grandfather” of Yiddish literature; Sholem Aleichem’s humorous tales of Eastern Europe; the folk stories of Y. L. Peretz; Kafka’s modernist parables; Isaac Babel’s passionate narratives of the Russian revolution; I. B. Singer’s tales of demons and sinners; and others. This course fulfills the writing-intensive guideline and literature requirements for the Judaic studies major.


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  • ENG 328 - Studies in Women’s Writings

    Course Cross-listed with GS 328 
    3 credit(s)
    An analysis of the range and complexity of women’s literary output, including topics like the historical development of women’s writing, the literary achievements of a single author or a group of authors, theoretical issues pertinent to women’s literary creation, and issues of female creativity. Topics vary from semester to semester.
    Prerequisite(s): Any 200-level literature course and GS 100, or permission of instructor.


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  • ENG 343 - Medieval Literature in Translation


    3 credit(s)
    Reading and discussion of major narrative works of the Middle Ages, in modern English translations, illustrating the varying treatments of important recurrent themes: representative texts such as Beowulf, The Phoenix, The Song of Roland, The Romance of the Rose, Niebelungenlied, Njal’s Saga, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Pearl.
    Prerequisite(s): Any 200-level literature course or permission of the instructor.


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  • ENG 370 - Gay and Lesbian Literature

    Course Cross-listed with GS 370 
    3 credit(s)
    There is little consensus as to what exactly counts as gay and lesbian literature, whether it is literature by gays and lesbians, literature about gay and lesbian characters and themes, or literature that gay and lesbian people read. This course examines literature that might be considered part of a gay and lesbian “canon” and contemporary works that reveal current directions of gay and lesbian writing.
    Prerequisite(s): Any 200-level literature course and GS 100 , or permission of instructor.


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English: Literary Criticism
  
  

English: Creative Writing
  

  • ENG 225W - Introduction to Creative Writing


    3 credit(s) Writing-Intensive
    A workshop course that introduces students to basic techniques in the writing of short fiction, poetry, drama, and autobiography. Weekly assignments focus on developing skill in such elements of creative writing as character development, plot, dialogue, metaphor and image, versification, among others. Reading of both student work and published work will provide a basis for discussion and practice of technique in this course. Completion of this course enables students to register for upper-division writing seminars in fiction, poetry, playwriting, and the personal essay.
    Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing or permission of instructor.


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  • ENG 313W - Playwriting

    Course Cross-listed with DRA 313W 
    3 credit(s) Writing-Intensive
    This course offers the opportunity to experiment with playwriting techniques in a workshop environment. The basic components of playwriting are taught, focusing particularly on character, dialogue, and plot. Students analyze plays from the standpoint of structure and take the opportunity to view and discuss local live performances. Seminars involve the workshop testing of student writing, focusing on further development of the work. It is intended that weekly writing exercises will culminate in a longer piece of work performed in a series of rehearsed readings.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 225W  or DRA 160 , or permission of instructor.


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  • ENG 333W - Studies in Creative Writing


    3 credit(s) Writing-Intensive
    Upper-level studies in a variety of creative writing practices. Upper-level studies include the use of forms in poetry, experimental structures in fiction and essays, and the study of thematic and technical development of longer pieces in all genres. Since the subject varies from semester to semester, this course may be elected for credit more than once with the permission of department chair.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 225W .


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  • ENG 415W - Advanced Poetry Workshop


    3 credit(s) Writing-Intensive
    An intensive, graduate-style writing workshop for advanced poetry writers, particularly those preparing a portfolio with which to apply to graduate programs in creative writing and those seeking publication in literary journals. Emphasis is on writing and revising poems and on in-depth workshop response to peer work. In addition to the practical study of poetry writing, the course includes significant focus on a chronologically organized exploration of theories of poetry, beginning with the 16th century. Admission to the course requires the submission of a poetry sample (five pages) to the instructor or the director of creative writing.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 225W , ENG 310W , and permission of the instructor.


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  • ENG 425W - Advanced Fiction Workshop


    3 credit(s) Writing-Intensive
    This workshop is an intensive, graduate-style writing workshop for advanced fiction writers, particularly those who are preparing a portfolio with which to apply to graduate school in creative writing and those ready to seek publication in literary journals. Emphasis is on writing and revising short stories and on in-depth workshop response to stories written by others in the group. Students admitted to the class should expect to submit a new draft of a story every other week and to prepare written responses to stories by others for each class meeting. Research and discussion of current literary journals and publications therein are included. Submission of at least one piece to a literary journal by the end of the course is required. Admission to this course requires the submission of a fiction writing sample (5–10 pages) to the instructor or the director of creative writing.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 225W , ENG 311W , and permission of the instructor.


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  • ENG 462 - Literary Editing and Publishing: Aerie Internship


    3 credit(s)
    Offered in the fall semester, a survey of current literary magazine publishing and contemporary literary magazines, as well as application of such publishing practices in a supervised in-house internship with a magazine, Aerie. Includes solicitation of creative work, reading and ranking submissions, compilation of a collection for publication, and editing and proofreading the collection.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 225W , ENG 226W , and permission of the instructor.


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English: Film Studies
  
  
  

English: Language Studies
  
  
  

  • ENG 452 - History of the English Language


    3 credit(s)
    The history and development of the English language, Indo-European origins, the evolution of the language from the earliest periods to the present. Studies in etymology, phonetics, and historical linguistics, with supplementary readings illustrating the language through its successive stages of development.
    Prerequisite(s): Any 200-level literature course or permission of the instructor. Special Courses


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