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ENG 104 - Advanced Reading
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course is designed to improve and develop the reading ability of students with limited English proficiency as it relates to critically analyzing academic texts.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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ENG 105 - Advanced Spoken English
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course is designed to improve and develop the speaking ability of students with limited English proficiency as it relates to interpersonal and small group communication.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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ENG 150 - Principles of Literary Representation
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This introductory course presents conceptions, methodologies, and materials fundamental to the discipline of literary study by focusing on the nature of representation in literary art.
Offered: Summer
Credit: 3
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ENG 160 - General Folklore
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
An examination of the various genres of folklore, folklore theories, history of folklore, scholarship, and collecting methods.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 195 - Specialized Studies
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Studies in literature or language to be determined as needs and interests of students and staff indicate.
Note: May be repeated for credit twice.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 204 - Writing About Literature
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
An introductory course in expository and critical writing about literary works.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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ENG 210 - Western Heritage I: Literature
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
The course introduces students to the works of acknowledged literary masters from the age of Homer to the beginnings of the Renaissance, selected to reflect varied genres, literary movements, and cultural back-grounds.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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ENG 211 - Western Heritage II: Literature
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
The course introduces students to the works of acknowledged literary masters from the Renaissance to the present, selected to reflect varied genres, literary movements, and cultural backgrounds.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 220 - Modern Culture and Media
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Relying upon each student’s familiarity with cultural forms (for example, in film, television, popular music and music videos, comic books, cartoons, advertisements, magazines, detective fiction, and romances), this course introduces students to the methods and interpretive strategies of literary studies.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3
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ENG 235 - American Literature from the Beginning to the Civil War
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Survey of the principal American writers from the beginning to Melville.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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ENG 236 - American Literature from the Civil War to the Present
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Survey of major American writers and periods from Whitman to the present.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 237 - Ethnicity and Cultural Difference in Literature
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course introduces students to the ethnic and minority literature of the United States and the emergent English-language literatures of the non-Western world. Readings in different genres will include examples that illustrate a variety of ethnic and cultural awareness and identity. Emphasis will be on these literatures since World War II.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 265 - Sophomore Seminar: Studies in Genre
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
An intensive introduction to the study of some of the conventions of literary genre, including genre theory. The course will undertake a comparative analysis of two specific genres, or kinds, of literary production’s for example, lyric and ballad, pastoral and allegory, encomium (formalized poems of praise) and satire. The study will place examples within their historical contexts and within the history of the conventional genre.
Prerequisite: ENG 204 or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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ENG 271 - Practical English Grammar
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
A study of the grammatical structure of contemporary standard American English.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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ENG 286 - Introduction to Cinema and Screen Studies
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
A critical introduction to the analysis, theory and history of moving images, from nineteenth-century investigations of afterimages and stroboscopy to cinema, television and new digital media.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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ENG 295 - Specialized Studies
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Topic course in English.
Note: Variable credit one to three, may be repeated two times for a total of six credits.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
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ENG 302 - Advanced Composition
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
A course for students whose writing is adequate, but who wish to develop greater effectiveness and individuality in writing expository prose.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 304 - Literary Criticism
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: ENG 204 and Sophomore Standing, or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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ENG 310 - Literature of Medieval England
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Readings in translation of literature from Beowulf to Malory, including epic, romance, dream vision, fable, fabliau, and the lyric.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 311 - Sixteenth-Century Prose and Poetry
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Preliminary background reading in the major figures of the Continental Renaissance with a survey of English non-dramatic literature from Skelton through Spenser.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 312 - Seventeenth-Century Prose and Poetry
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Survey of English non-dramatic literature from Ben Jonson through John Bunyan.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 313 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
A survey of the major British writers and literary movements of the restoration and eighteenth century.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 315 - British Romantic Writers
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 316 - British Victorian Writers
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Major literary figures of the Victorian Age in England studied against the background of their era.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 319 - Shakespeare: An Introduction
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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ENG 321 - The Eighteenth-Century English Novel
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
A study of the origin and development of the novel in England from the beginnings through Austen.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 322 - Nineteenth-Century English Novel
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
A study of the growth and development of the English novel from Scott through Hardy.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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ENG 323 - Twentieth-Century British Fiction
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Study of major twentieth century British fiction.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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ENG 324 - 20th Century British Poetry
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Study of major twentieth century British poetry through World War II.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 325 - Chaucer
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 326 - English Drama: City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
A survey of diverse play texts from the early 1600s, up to and including the anti-theatrical English civil war period of the 1640s. Examines popular comedies and tragedies as well as closet dramas and court masques. PREREQ: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 327 - English Drama: Satire and Empire
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Examines some of the most popular satirical comedies from the Restoration era of the 1660s to the late 1700s. The plays will be read in light of changing theatrical practices, evolving social relations and the advent of British imperialism. Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 328 - Milton
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Representative verse and prose of Milton studied against the background of the English Renaissance.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 331 - American Romanticism
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Study of the romantic movement in American literature in the nineteenth century.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 332 - The Development of Realism and Naturalism in American Literature
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
A study of the development of realism and naturalism in American literature.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 333 - Twentieth-Century American Literature
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Important American writers from World War I to the present.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 337 - Topics in American Ethnic Literature
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 340 - Modern American Drama
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Study of twentieth century American drama.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 342 - The Nineteenth-Century American Novel
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Development of the American novel from beginning to 1900.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 343 - The Twentieth-Century American Novel
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Development of the American novel from 1900 to the present.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 347 - Contemporary Native American Literature
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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ENG 349 - Writers of the Beat Generation
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 350 - Modern Drama
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Study of American, British and Continental drama since Ibsen.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 351 - American Poetry Since 1945
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Study of American poetry since World War II.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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ENG 357 - Black Women Writers
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 360 - Literature in a Global Context
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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ENG 361 - Literature of Travel, Migration, Diaspora
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Through studying literature produced by travellers, and migratory and diasporic people, this course explores the processes of globalisation, migration, identity change and cultural shifts. This is a semester course with optional travel abroad credits. Instructors may collaborate with faculty/students/university in a country linked to focus of syllabus.
Note: Repeatable for a total of 6 hours.
Prerequisite: ENG 204 and sophomore standing; or instructor permission
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 362 - Genre - History - Theory
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course will introduce students to genre as a historical and social formation, analyzing the relationship between generic emergence and historical shifts in technologies of production and transmission as well as the economic conditions that lead to certain forms of publication and reading.
Prerequisite: ENG 204 or HON 204.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 363 - Short Story Masterpieces
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 365 - Junior Seminar: Author
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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 ENG 304 either previously or concurrently; or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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ENG 367 - Literature and Psychology
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
An interdisciplinary approach to the study of literature through selected readings in literature psychology, and psychological criticism of literature.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 370 - Women in Literature
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 371 - Postmodernism
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 373 - Theories of Language
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Minimum sophomore standing OR LIN 100 or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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ENG 374 - History and Development of the English Language
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Historical backgrounds of the English language, growth of vocabulary, and development of linguistics standards and usage.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing OR or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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ENG 375 - Theories of Diverse Sexuality
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 376 - Science Fiction
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course examines the science fiction genre from the historical perspective by concentrating on key writers who established the generic purviews before 1950 and as an exercise in social, cultural, political, technical, and epistemological critique.
Prerequisite: HIS 100 or HIS 230 or ANT 111 or ANT 112 or ENG 210 or ENG 211
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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ENG 380 - Narratives of Identity
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 381 - Narrative Theory
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 382 - Modern African Literature
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
An introduction to the various genres of written African literature since World War II, with attention to the historical, political, social and cultural contexts from which this literature has emerged.
Prerequisite: ENG 237, or nine hours of English courses numbered 299 or lower, or junior standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 384 - Young Adult Literature
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course involves the study of current issues in the field of young adult (YA) literature. Emphasis will be on literary interpretation and analysis. It will provide a rationale and strategies for using YA literature to meet learning standards and to further social justice in schools and libraries.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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ENG 385 - Children’s Literature
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Study of literature for children from beginning to present. Emphasis on literary merits rather than methodology.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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ENG 386 - The Cinema
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
The history and development of the cinematic art.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing OR ENG 286.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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ENG 387 - Vision and Textuality
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
The course is a study of historical, political and theoretical relations of vision and the visual arts to writing, both literary and nonliterary.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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ENG 388 - Film Genre
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Minimum sophomore standing OR ENG 286.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3
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ENG 389 - Documentary Traditions
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Minimum sophomore standing OR ENG 286.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 390 - Images of Native Americans in Film
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
Equivalent Course: NAS 390
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 395 - Specialized Studies
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 396 - Literature Studies Pedagogies for Teaching Assistants
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course allows junior and senior English majors to become teaching assistants in English classes under the supervision of a literary studies faculty member. The course focuses on knowledge of English teaching pedagogies, presentation and public speaking; critical thinking; time management; agenda setting and course planning. Individual faculty mentors may ask for additional duties and responsibilities.
Note: Variable credit 1 to 3 hours, maximum credit allowed is six.
Prerequisite: Minimum upper division standing and instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
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ENG 426 - Shakespearean Contexts
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course reads selected works by Shakespeare in relation to changing historical, theatrical, and film contexts.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 427 - Shakespeare and Interpretive Theories
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course studies a selection of Shakespeare’s writings in light of recent theoretical discussions and their applications in literary criticism.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 443 - Critical Response/Critical Reputation: William Faulkner
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 465 - Seminar in Advanced Literary Study
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
A comprehensive review of the problems confronting the literary scholar, with emphasis on the theory and methodology of literary study.
Prerequisite: ENG 304 or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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ENG 470 - Feminist Theory
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 485 - Words in the World
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
A hands-on practicum for English majors seeking real-world experience in designing and implementing writing projects outside the classroom. Participants will undertake one or more writing and research projects for local businesses, civic, community or other organizations, in addition to creating a resume, working portfolio and final reflective essay.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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ENG 486 - World Cinema
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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.
Note: This course is repeatable.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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ENG 487 - Advanced Study in Film Theory
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Seminar devoted to intensive study of a particular film theorist, a particular theoretical problem, or a particular theory.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 488 - Auteur Studies
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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ENG 489 - Women and Screen Studies
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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FIN 325 - Corporate Finance
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
An introduction to the theory and practice of corporate financial decision making. Topics include financial statement analysis, capital markets, capital budgeting, capital structure and financing decisions and working capital management. The emphasis is on the allocation of corporate resources in the context of corporate strategic policy.
Prerequisite: ACC 202 or ACC 321; ECO 101 and ECO 200 or ECO 120; MAT 158 and upper division standing.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3
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FIN 340 - Financial Statement Analysis
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course develops the ability to analyze financial reports, with an emphasis on equity valuation. Selected financial accounting principles are studied in detail, and the implications for financial analysis are discussed. The purpose of this course is to prepare the finance major to use and interpret economic and accounting information that is essential in financial analysis and valuation.
Prerequisite: FIN 325
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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FIN 354 - Investments
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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 and minimum second semester junior standing.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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FIN 391 - Real Estate Finance
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course is designed to analyze real estate investing, including financing, and the structure and functioning of the mortgage and mortgage derivatives markets. Topics covered include the analysis of real estate as investments, residential mortgage and consumer credit financing, the relationship between government macro policies and credit, as well as techniques for evaluating expected price movements of real estate in the future. In addition, the course explores theoretical and technical approaches used to estimate the value of real estate.
Prerequisite: FIN 325
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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FIN 425 - Topics in Finance
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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 and minimum second semester junior standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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FIN 426 - Multinational Financial Management
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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 and minimum second semester junior standing.
Offered: Spring, Summer
Credit: 3
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FIN 427 - Management of Financial Institutions
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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 and minimum second semester junior standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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FIN 428 - Applied Financial Management
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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 and minimum second semester junior standing.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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FIN 430 - Portfolio Management
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course studies the applications of modern portfolio theory in the context of an increasingly complex financial system. Ethical issues comprise a large component of course material. Topics include how recent innovations in financial instruments and financial markets affect the traditional process of portfolio management.
Prerequisite: FIN 354
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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FIN 454 - Financial Options and Futures
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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 354 and minimum second semester junior standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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FRE 101 - Elementary French
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Preparation of students without previous knowledge of French in the fundamentals of conversation, reading, and composition.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3
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FRE 102 - Continuing Elementary French
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Continuation of French 101. Fundamentals of conversation, reading, and composition.
Prerequisite: FRE 101 or three years of transcripted high school French.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3
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FRE 201 - Intermediate French
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Review of basic grammar and introduction of more advanced structures; intermediate level conversation, reading, and composition.
Prerequisite: FRE 102 or four years of transcripted high school French.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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FRE 202 - Continuing Intermediate French
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Continuation of French 201. Review of basic grammar and introduction of more advanced structures; intermediate level conversation, reading, and composition.
Prerequisite: FRE 102 or four years of transcripted high school French.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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FRE 301 - Advanced French A
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Advanced-level conversation, reading, and composition, with special emphasis on more complex grammatical structures.
Prerequisite: FRE 201 OR 202, or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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FRE 302 - Advanced French B
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Continuation of French 301. Advanced-level conversation, reading, and composition, with special emphasis on more complex grammatical structures.
Prerequisite: FRE 201 OR 202, or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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FRE 303 - Advanced French: Culture, Communications, Commerce
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
Advanced-level conversation, reading and composition, with special emphasis on more complex grammatical structures, cultural and literary appreciation, and exposure to the language and culture of commerce.
Prerequisite: FRE 201 or 202
Credit: 3
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FRE 306 - French Writing and Composition
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
This course is an initiation to diverse French styles and techniques in reading and writing. Starting with the analysis of various texts, literary and non-literary, and genres, the students will systematically practice through specific models in order to learn writing in the target language.
Prerequisite: FRE 301 or 302, or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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FRE 310 - Business French
2017-2018 Catalog Year:
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 202 or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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