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ENG 302 - Advanced Composition
3 Credits
A course for students whose writing is adequate, but who wish to
develop greater effectiveness and individuality in writing
expository prose.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 304 - Literary Criticism
3 Credits
Designed to develop skills in critical thinking through
interpretation and evaluation, this course will study in several
theoretical contexts, drawn mainly from Modernist and Contemporary
trends in critical theory.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing and ENG 204 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 310 - Literature of Medieval England
3 Credits
Readings in translation of literature from Beowulf to Malory,
including epic, romance, dream vision, fable, fabliau, and the
lyric.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 312 - Seventeenth-Century Prose and Poetry
3 Credits
Survey of English non-dramatic literature from Ben Jonson through
John Bunyan.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 313 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
3 Credits
A survey of the major British writers and literary movements of the
restoration and eighteenth century.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 315 - British Romantic Writers
3 Credits
Study of the major figures of the Romantic period in English
literature; emphasis on their philosophy and artistry and on the
society in which they lived.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 316 - British Victorian Writers
3 Credits
Major literary figures of the Victorian Age in England studied
against the background of their era.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 319 - Shakespeare: An Introduction
3 Credits
An introduction to the poetic and dramatic writings of William
Shakespeare, with readings in his sonnets, narrative poetry, and
the three major genres of his drama.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 321 - The Eighteenth-Century English Novel
3 Credits
A study of the origin and development of the novel in England from
the beginnings through Austen.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 322 - Nineteenth-Century English Novel
3 Credits
A study of the growth and development of the English novel from
Scott through Hardy.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 323 - Twentieth-Century British Fiction
3 Credits
Study of major twentieth century British fiction.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 325 - Chaucer
3 Credits
The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde studied against the
back- ground of the later Middle Ages; emphasis on the narrative
technique of the poet. Oral interpretation of the Middle English
originals.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 326 - Shakespeare: Histories and Comedies
Please contact the department for information on this course.
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ENG 327 - Shakespeare: Tragedies
Please contact the department for information on this course.
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ENG 328 - Milton
3 Credits
Representative verse and prose of Milton studied against the
background of the English Renaissance.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 331 - American Romanticism
3 Credits
Study of the romantic movement in American literature in the
nineteenth century.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 332 - The Development of Realism and Naturalism in American Literature
3 Credits
A study of the development of realism and naturalism in American
literature.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 333 - Twentieth-Century American Literature
3 Credits
Important American writers from World War I to the present.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 337 - Topics in American Ethnic Literature
3 Credits
This course introduces students to the major representative
writers, themes and aesthetics of one of the major ethnic
literatures in the United States, for example, Black-American,
Jewish-American, Native American.Note: This course may be taken more than once if the topic is different.
Prerequisite: ENG 237 or nine hours of English courses or junior
standing.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 338 - Contemporary Literature of the Islamic World
Please contact department for information on this course.
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 340 - Modern American Drama
3 Credits
Study of twentieth century American drama.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 342 - The Nineteenth-Century American Novel
3 Credits
Development of the American novel from beginning to 1900.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 343 - The Twentieth-Century American Novel
3 Credits
Development of the American novel from 1900 to the present.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 344 - Twentieth-Century American Poetry to 1945
Please contact the department for information on this course.
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ENG 347 - Contemporary Native American Literature
3 Credits
An in-depth study of aspect(s) of Native American literatures. The
course will explore issues of identity, authenticity,
representation, textuality, and discourse as they are played with
and played out in Contemporary Native American literatures.
Prerequisite: junior standing or nine hours of lower division
English courses.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 349 - Writers of the Beat Generation
3 Credits
A history of the literary phenomenon known as the Beat Generation.
Major texts by its best-known writers (Burroughs, Kerouac,
Ginsberg, Corso, Ferlinghetti, Snyder) will be examined as well as
select works by lesser-known figures (Herbert Huncke, Bob Kaufman,
Diane DiPrima, Alexander Trocchi, Jack Micheline). Significant
attention will be given to tracing and recognizing the
dissemination of Beat literature and culture throughout successive
generations of artists, writers and musicians.
Prerequisite: nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 350 - Modern Drama
3 Credits
Study of American, British and Continental drama since Ibsen.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 351 - American Poetry Since 1945
3 Credits
Study of American poetry since World War II.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 352 - The Bible and Literature in English
3 Credits
Students will read the Bible in English and explore its influence
on English literature. They will learn to recognize Biblical
allusions and interpret their significance in literary works.
Prerequisite: ENG 225, 226, 235, and 236 or nine hours of 100- or
200- level English courses or junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 357 - Black Women Writers
3 Credits
This course will examine major works of black women writers of the
African diaspora. Post-colonialism, feminism, and critical race
perspectives are a few of the orientations explored through the
works of black women writes in Africa and the Americas.
Prerequisite: Completion of Human Diversity General Education
requirement and nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Fall
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 360 - Literature in a Global Context
3 Credits
This course will introduce students to a variety of literary texts
from around the world and situate those texts in their cultural,
historical, and literary contexts. Although not strictly
post-Colonial in emphasis, the course will focus primarily on
non-Western literature.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or nine hours of English credit.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 363 - Short Story Masterpieces
3 Credits
A detailed analysis of the modern short story form, devoting
particular attention to the literary problems of conceptualization,
textualism, and theme in masterpieces of American and continental
short stories.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 365 - Junior Seminar: Author
3 Credits
An intensive introduction to the study of authorship organized
around questions of authority and institution, cannon, law,
signature and property, history and biography. Focused study on a
single author, including selected works, biography, correspondence,
etc.
Prerequisite: ENG 265 or 304 or instructor permission.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 366 - Literary Criticism
Please contact department for information on this course.
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 367 - Literature and Psychology
3 Credits
An interdisciplinary approach to the study of literature through
selected readings in literature psychology, and psychological
criticism of literature.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 369 - Reader and Text
3 Credits
This is a course that addresses issues such as the sources of
validity or authority in interpretation.
Prerequisite: ENG 204 and junior standing or instructor
permission.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 370 - Women in Literature
3 Credits
A focus on literature by and about women. Applying techniques of
literary analysis to works in several genres, students will
concentrate on acquiring more sophisticated interpretive skills
while at the same time examining literature from a feminist
perspective.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing. sophomore standing.
When Offered: Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 371 - Postmodernism
3 Credits
The course consists of readings of theoretical, critical and
historiographical texts on postmodernism as well as critical
engagements with works of art, literature, music, film, and video,
considered postmodern. The course, then, is conceived as an
extended inquiry into the meanings of ‘modernity’ and
‘postmodernity’.
Prerequisite: junior standing or instructor permission.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 373 - Theories of Language
3 Credits
A survey and analysis of recent theories of language as the ground
of literature, including reading, writing, speaking, and
understanding. The course will examine the interplay between
language and the issues of class, culture, gender, race, and
childhood that affect our use of languages.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or nine hours of ENG credit or
completion of LIN 100.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 374 - History and Development of the English Language
3 Credits
Historical backgrounds of the English language, growth of
vocabulary, and development of linguistics standards and usage.
Prerequisite: ENG 271 or equivalent and nine hours of lower
division English courses or junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 375 - Theories of Diverse Sexuality
3 Credits
This course examines the contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual,
transgendered and transexual studies to literature, art, politics
and culture as well as many of the intellectual issues that
surround controversies about non-normative human sexuality.
Prerequisite: completion of all Basic Skills requirements and
Knowledge Foundation courses or permission of the instructor and
upper division standing. Nine hours of lower division English
courses or junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009This course is cross-listed with:
(ART 375)
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ENG 380 - Narratives of Identity
3 Credits
This course uses narratives that define individuals and their
relationships to a larger world. It utilizes approaches from
different disciplines to investigate ways a personality or
individual consciousness can be defined.
Prerequisite: Junior standing or instructor permission.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 381 - Narrative Theory
3 Credits
This course offers a theoretical examination of narrative and the
various literary components and critical values associated with
narrative. It concentrates on investigating key theoretical and
critical statements that have helped define the way narrative is
perceived. It also offers an opportunity to examine different
examples of narrative by applying theoretical narrative principles
to specific texts.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 382 - Modern African Literature
Please contact the department for information on this course.
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ENG 383 - Caribbean Literature
3 Credits
This course is intended to introduce the student to the range of
genres and types of literature indigenous to the Caribbean as well
to the range of different cultural, literary, and historical
influences that help shape that literature.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of English courses.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 385 - Children’s Literature
3 Credits
Study of literature for children from beginning to present.
Emphasis on literary merits rather than methodology.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 386 - The Cinema
3 Credits
The history and development of the cinematic art.
Prerequisite: Nine hours of lower division English courses or
junior standing.
When Offered: Fall
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 387 - Vision and Textuality
3 Credits
The course is a study of historical, political and theoretical
relations of vision and the visual arts to writing, both literary
and nonliterary.
Prerequisite: junior standing or instructor permission.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 388 - Film Genre
3 Credits
A history and analysis of film genre. The course will examine the
notion of film genre as distinct from other notions of genre, in
particular, literary genre. Special attention will be paid to
horror, melodrama, film noir, musicals, science fiction, and teen
pics.
Prerequisite: Prerequisites; nine cr of lower division English courses, Junior
standing or completion of ENG 386.
When Offered: Fall
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 389 - Documentary Traditions
3 Credits
Intensive study of documentary traditions in film, video and new
media. The course will examine different approaches to documentary,
including ethnographic film, the social documentary and guerrilla
media. It will also provide historical and geopolitical frames for
examining the politics of documentary.
Prerequisite: ENG 286, and nine hours of lower division English
courses or junior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 390 - Images of Native Americans in Film
3 Credits
This is a course in the cinematic representations of Native
Americans. Significant attention will be paid to the relationship
between those representations and the construction of America and
American identity.
Prerequisite: Completion of Knowledge Foundation and Human
Diversity categories in the General Education program or six hours
of NAS credit or nine hours of English credit; upper-division
standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009This course is cross-listed with:
(NAS 390)
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ENG 395 - Specialized Studies
3 Credits
Course in specialized literary topics, with emphasis on the
development of analytical and interpretive skills.Note: May be offered in more than one section with different content, and
may be repeated for credit if content is not the same.
Prerequisite: completion of General Education Humanities sequence
in English or a major in English.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 399 - Independent Study
1 to 6 Credits
Note: A total of only six hours in independent study may be credited
toward the major in English. Writing Arts credit given.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 426 - Shakespearean Contexts
3 Credits
This course reads selected works by Shakespeare in relation to
changing historical, theatrical, and film contexts.
Prerequisite: Twelve hours of 300-level English courses, or senior
standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 427 - Shakespeare and Interpretive Theories
3 Credits
This course studies a selection of Shakespeare’s writings in light
of recent theoretical discussions and their applications in
literary criticism.
Prerequisite: Twelve hours of 300-level English courses, or senior
standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 443 - Critical Response/Critical Reputation: William Faulkner
3 Credits
This course examines issues surrounding the formation of the canon
of American literature, using as a primary example the status of
William Faulkner in that canon. Students read a selection of
Faulkner’s work, the evolving critical responses to that work which
ultimately created Faulkner’s reputation as America’s preeminent
twentieth-century fiction writer, and the recent variety of
critical response to Faulkner, reflecting varied critical stances.Note: It is recommended that students enrolling in this course have taken
ENG 366 and at least two other 300-level English courses, including
one in American literature.
Prerequisite: ENG 204 and twelve hours of 300-level English courses
or senior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 465 - Seminar in Advanced Literary Study
3 Credits
A comprehensive review of the problems confronting the literary
scholar, with emphasis on the theory and methodology of literary
study.
Prerequisite: twelve hours of 300-level English courses, or senior
standing.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 467 - Psychoanalytic Interpretive Theories
3 Credits
This course examines the writings of Freud and Lacan so students
can read, use, and critically examine psychoanalytic ideas.
Prerequisite: ENG 204 and twelve hours of 300-level English courses
or senior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 470 - Feminist Theory
3 Credits
This course explores feminist theory as it centers on women,
women’s points of view, the cultural spaces women inhabit, and how
they inhabit them. It also discusses feminist theories of value and
nature in the context of the global village.
Prerequisite: twelve hours of 300- or 400-level courses and junior
standing, or instructor permission and coordinator of Women’s
Studies minor.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 486 - World Cinema
3 Credits
A history and examination of, as well as an engagement with, cinema
as a global phenomenon. The course will explore the idea, effects
and institutions of many different cinemas, growing in different
parts of the world, as these constitute both a single, global
phenomenon and a set of independent existences and resistances.
Prerequisite: nine credits of lower division English courses,
junior standing or completion of ENG 386.
When Offered: Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 487 - Advanced Study in Film Theory
3 Credits
Seminar devoted to intensive study of a particular film theorist, a
particular theoretical problem, or a particular theory.
Prerequisite: ENG 286 and 386 and twelve hours of 300-level
English courses or senior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 488 - Auteur Studies
3 Credits
Intensive study of the history and theory of “auteurism” from its
inception in 1954 to the present. Comparative study of two major
film and/or new media “authors”.
Prerequisite: ENG 286 and 386 and twelve hours of 300-level
English courses or senior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 489 - Women and Screen Studies
3 Credits
Intensive study of the relationships between women and visual
media, including film, television and new media. The course will
introduce students to the major feminist approaches to screen
studies, including theories of spectatorship, cultural histories of
reception, and feminist analysis of representation.
Prerequisite: ENG 286 and twelve hours of 300- level English
courses or senior standing.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ENG 499 - Independent Study
1 to 6 Credits
Note: A total of only six hours in independent study may be credited
toward the major in English. Writing Arts credit given.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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ESC 363 - Great Lakes Environmental Issues
3 Credits
An interdisciplinary course focused on the interactions of
biological, geological, hydrological, and environmental components
of the Great Lakes ecosystems utilizing specific examples from
south eastern Lake Ontario, its tributaries, and adjacent coastal
plain. Environmental degradation and its impacts on society and
culture will be examined.Note: Course includes field trips, computer activities, and short writing
assignments.
Prerequisite: completion of Basic Skills and Knowledge Foundations
courses and upper division status, or permission of the instructor.
When Offered: Fall
Catalog Year: 2008-2009This course is cross-listed with:
(BIO 363)
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ESC 481 - Earth Science Field Camp
Please contact department for information on this course.
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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FIN 325 - Corporate Finance
3 Credits
An introduction to the theory and practice of corporate financial
decision making. Topics include: capital investment decisions,
capital structure and financing decisions, working capital
management, and planning. The emphasis is on the allocation of
corporate resources in the context of corporate strategic policy.
Prerequisite: ACC 202, ECO 101 and 200 and MAT 158.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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FIN 354 - Investments
3 Credits
This course uses a basic set of financial and economic principles
to describe the theory and practice of investment decision making.
Financial market opportunities, market prices, and the preferences
of participants, are used to analyze the theory of choice, the
efficiency of capital markets, and the valuation and pricing of
securities. The emphasis is on the practical application of the
modern theory of finance to investment decisions.
Prerequisite: FIN 325 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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FIN 391 - Real Estate Law and Finance
Please contact department for information on this course.
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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FIN 425 - Topic in Finance
3 Credits
An intensive and comprehensive analysis of selected topics in
Finance. Topics may include risk and insurance, real estate
finance, commercial bank management, and others.Note: This course may be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: FIN 325.
When Offered: Irregular
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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FIN 426 - Multinational Financial Management
3 Credits
This course is an examination of the modern concepts and techniques
of financial decision making applied by firms engaged in more than
one national market. Special emphasis will be given to
multinational investment and financing decisions, the management of
international risk, working capital management, international trade
finance, and international taxation.
Prerequisite: FIN 325.
When Offered: Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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FIN 427 - Management of Financial Institutions
3 Credits
This course uses modern finance theory to study the specific
management problems facing financial intermediaries such as banks,
savings institutions, insurance companies and pension funds. Topics
covered include asset and liability management, the pricing of
services, the management of risk, funding of assets, capital
adequacy and regulation.
Prerequisite: FIN 325.
When Offered: Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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FIN 428 - Applied Financial Management
3 Credits
This is an advanced corporate finance course with an emphasis on
integrating theory and practice. Topics such as capital budgeting,
risk analysis, capital structure, dividend policy and working
capital management are discussed using textbooks, journal articles,
case studies and computer simulations.
Prerequisite: FIN 325.
When Offered: Fall
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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FIN 454 - Financial Options and Futures
3 Credits
In this course, recent financial innovations such as
exchange-traded stock options, futures contracts, and other
derivative securities will be examined in depth. The course will
focus on the uses of these securities, the markets in which they
are traded, the strategies employed in trading them, and their
valuation.
Prerequisite: FIN 325 and 354.
When Offered: Fall
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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FRE 101 - Elementary French
3 Credits
Preparation of students without previous knowledge of French in the
fundamentals of conversation, reading, and composition.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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FRE 102 - Continuing Elementary French
3 Credits
Continuation of French 101. Fundamentals of conversation, reading,
and composition.
Prerequisite: FRE 101 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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FRE 201 - Intermediate French
3 Credits
Review of basic grammar and introduction of more advanced
structures; intermediate level conversation, reading, and
composition.
Prerequisite: FRE 102 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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FRE 202 - Continuing Intermediate French
3 Credits
Continuation of French 201. Review of basic grammar and
introduction of more advanced structures; intermediate level
conversation, reading, and composition.
Prerequisite: FRE 201 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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FRE 301 - Advanced French A
3 Credits
Advanced-level conversation, reading, and composition, with special
emphasis on more complex grammatical structures.
Prerequisite: FRE 202 or equivalent.
When Offered: Fall
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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FRE 302 - Advanced French B
3 Credits
Continuation of French 301. Advanced-level conversation, reading,
and composition, with special emphasis on more complex grammatical
structures.
Prerequisite: FRE 301 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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FRE 310 - Business French
3 Credits
Students will be introduced to the spoken and written language of
business in the French-speaking world in a variety of contexts
through audio and visual as well as print media. The basic
terminology of business and economics will be stressed, and
students will be given “hands-on” experience in simulated business
situations.
Prerequisite: FRE 301 and 302 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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FRE 320 - French Phonetics
3 Credits
French articulatory phonetics from a modern structural point of
view. Thorough presentation and intensive practical drill of all
aspects of French pronunciation. Approximately one-half of
classroom time will be devoted to laboratory drill. Special
attention to individual pronunciation problems.
Prerequisite: FRE 202 or equivalent.
When Offered: Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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FRE 350 - Survey of French Literature
3 Credits
General view of literary and cultural aspects of French tradition
from its origins to the present. First semester: from the origins
to the end of the eighteenth century. Second semester: nineteenth
century through the contemporary period.
Prerequisite: FRE 301 and 302, or instructor permission.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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FRE 351 - Survey of French Literature
3 Credits
General view of literary and cultural aspects of French tradition
from its origins to the present. First semester: from the origins
to the end of the eighteenth century. Second semester: nineteenth
century through the contemporary period.
Prerequisite: FRE 301 and 302, or instructor permission.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
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FRE 371 - Nineteenth Century French Literature
Please contact department for information on this course.
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FRE 413 - French Literature and Thought in the 18th Century
3 Credits
Development of French literary and philosophical thought in the Age
of the Enlightenment.
Prerequisite: FRE 350 and 351, or instructor permission.
When Offered: Irregular
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FRE 417 - The French Novel
Please contact department for information on this course.
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FRE 425 - 20th Century French Theatre
3 Credits
A study of the principal aspects of French dramatic literature from
the founding of the Theatre Libre of Antoine to the present day.
Prerequisite: Prerequisites. FRE 350 and 351, or instructor permission.
When Offered: Irregular
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FRE 448 - French Novel of the Twentieth Century
Please contact department for information on this course.
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FRE 495 - Seminar
1 to 6 Credits
Not intended to be a fixed course, but rather an opportunity to
focus on various limited subjects and to treat them in some depth.
Prerequisite: FRE 350, 351 and instructor permission.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
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FRE 499 - Independent Study
1 to 6 Credits
Course for advanced seniors who wish to do independent study on a
particular author, work, or literary period. Students will read and
do research under the direction of a faculty member.
Prerequisite: senior standing and instructor permission.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
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GEG 100 - Introduction to Geography
3 Credits
An introduction to the basic concepts of physical and human geography. Geographic patterns of human-environment relations are emphasized.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
Catalog Year: 2008-2009
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GEO 100 - Physical Geology
3 Credits
An introduction to the natural physical processes that operate at
or near the earth’s surface. Topics include: earth materials,
volcanism, weathering, fluvial processes, glaciation, metamorphism,
earthquakes, mountain building, and plate tectonics.Note: Field trip fee required for some sections.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
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GEO 100L - Physical Geology Laboratory
1 Credit
Laboratory to accompany GEO 100.Note: Required of Geology majors and Earth Science concentrators.
Required field trip; fee required. Optional for all other students.
When Offered: Fall, Spring
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GEO 200 - Historical Geology
3 Credits
Study of the evolution of the Earth, with special attention to the
geological development of North America. Emphasis on the evolution
of life on the planet. Exercises in the methods and techniques of
geological interpretation.Note: Field trip; fee required.
Prerequisite: GEO 100 or OCE 100; GEO 100L is recommended.
When Offered: Spring
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GEO 200L - Historical Geology Laboratory
1 Credit
A course to accompany GEO 200. Execution of laboratory exercises
designed to enable the student to make the types of geological
interpretations upon which the physical and biological histories of
the earth are based.Note: Field trip; fee required.
Prerequisite: GEO 100 or OCE 100 and GEO 100L.
When Offered: Spring
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GEO 301 - Environmental Geology for Majors
4 Credits
Focuses on geologic hazards (including prediction and mitigation),
mineral and energy resources (including the geologic context of
commercial ore and hydrocarbon deposits, their extraction and use),
and environmental issues (including air and water pollution and
remediation, and global climate change).
Prerequisite: GEO 100 and 100L. (Lecture and 3 hours laboratory
per week.)
When Offered: Irregular
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GEO 306 - Science, Pseudoscience and Fraud
3 Credits
A multi-disciplinary course derived in equal parts from
understanding natural phenomena in terms of basic science,
unmasking the profound nature of scientific principles and applying
them to everyday life. The course will focus on uncovering topics
that are ‘messy’ and intellectually complex rather than ones that
have ‘right answers’ or are contrived ‘cook book’ experiments.
Sub-themes in the course will allow students to experience a
scientist’s sense of triumph through rational thinking by exposing
specious arguments (pseudoscience) and charlatans (frauds), such as
Creationism, Dowsing, Pyramid Power, Astrology, and Living
Dinosaurs.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing and the completion of Basic
Skills and Knowledge Foundation courses.
When Offered: Spring
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GEO 310 - Mineralogy
4 Credits
A study of minerals as naturally occurring crystalline compounds
whose understanding provides a basis for appreciating geological
processes and the Earth’s development.Note: Class and laboratory study. Required field trip; fee required.
Prerequisite: GEO 100 and CHE 111.
When Offered: Fall
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GEO 315 - Earth’s Fury
3 Credits
The study of natural and human-induced geological disasters including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, floods, and tsunamis, and the social and economic impact of these disasters including how they influence public, environmental and land-use management policy.Note: A field trip to evaluate a local geological hazard site is required. Required Fee.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing and successful completion of the Gen. Ed. Basic Skills and Knowledge Foundations courses or instructor permission.
When Offered: Fall
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