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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [Archived Catalog]

Courses


 

Economics

  
  • ECO 396 - TA in Economics


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    This course gives students the opportunity to learn about how college level courses are run, to practice peer instruction, and reflect on effective pedagogies and how learning happens. Students will assist faculty as teaching assistants in a specific economics course, running review sessions and holding office hours for tutoring, attending class to assist with in-class activities, and assisting with examination proctoring. Through these activities, students improve their content understanding, consider best practices in course management, and reflect on the learning process overall.

    Note: May be repeated for total of six credits.
    Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing, ECO 101 and 200, cumulative GPA of 3.0 or higher and instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  
  • ECO 399 - Independent Study


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    Individual readings and research projects under the direct supervision of a member of the economics staff.

    Note: Variable credit zero to 12, may be repeated fives times for a total of 12 credits.
    Prerequisite: A minimum of nine hours in economics, upper division standing, minimum 3.0 GPA and permission of the department.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
  
  • ECO 405 - Seminar in Economic Theory and Policy


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    A survey of select topics in advanced microeconomic and macroeconomic theory.

    Prerequisite: ECO 300 and 301, or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  
  • ECO 409 - Mathematical Economics Problem Seminar


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    A seminar for advanced students who wish to apply in detail particular aspects of applied mathematical economics. Emphasis is on in-depth analysis on such problems as mathematical applications of macroeconomic theory, microeconomic theory and economic dynamics.

    Note: Not open for math credit for math majors or secondary education math concentrations.
    Prerequisite: ECO 101 and 200 and either MAT 208 OR 210, or instructor permission.
    Equivalent Course: MAT 409
    Offered: Spring
    Credit: 3
  
  • ECO 498 - Internship in Economics


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    A course for upper division students who wish to undertake a semester long internship designed to provide a pre-professional experiential learning opportunity related to the theory and practice of economics. Students will work full or part time in a position which provides an opportunity to apply knowledge acquired in the classroom in an approved internship setting.

    Note: The credits received from this course will not satisfy economic elective requirements. Variable credit zero to 12, may be repeated for total of 12 credits.
    Prerequisite: Completion of sixty (60) semester hours of academic course work; a minimum overall grade point average of 2.5; approval of the internship position by the faculty sponsor and departmental approval; and acceptance into the EXCEL Program.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
  
  • ECO 499 - Independent Study in Economics


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    Individual study in the field of economics under the direct supervision of a department faculty member.

    Note: Variable credit zero to twelve, may be repeatable for a total of 12 credits.
    Prerequisite: A minimum of fifteen hours in economics, a minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0 and instructor approval.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3

Education

  
  • DASA 1020 - DASA Training


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    Training in harassment, bullying, and discrimination prevention and intervention: Dignity for All Students Act. A six-hour workshop in compliance with Part 52 and Part 80 of the Commissioners’ Regulations.

    Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
    Credit: 0
  
  • EDU 101 - Introduction to College Level Learning


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    This course is designed specifically to give students the academic perspective, tools, and strategies appropriate to the college-level challenges they will face.  Students will have the opportunity to practice and demonstrate skills including but not limited to: priority management, note taking, learning styles, test taking, reading and writing.  These skills will be presented in class with an emphasis on self-reflection and awareness.

    Offered: Fall
    Credit: 3
  
  • EDU 104 - Strategy Instruction in the Disciplines


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    This course is designed to complement a specific content area course taught by a particular instructor. Students who elect this course will develop learning strategies to enhance their success in the companion course.

    Offered: Not on a regular basis
  
  • EDU 114 - Comparative and International Education: Non-Western Perspectives


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    The purpose of this course is to evaluate the role of education across global boundaries by addressing interrelationships among culture, economics, and politics as they relate to the processes of schooling and pedagogical practices. We will consider how education influences global change through discussions of educational policies and practices, pedagogies, curriculum standards, and accountability measures utilized in different countries.

    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  
  • EDU 200 - Critical Thinking: Schools, Homes, and Communities


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    This course engages students in critical inquiry in the context of education issues involving the home and community in relationship with schools and learning.

    Offered: Fall
    Credit: 3
  
  • EDU 204 - Training: College Level Tutors


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    Note: This course is a prerequisite to apply to be an EOP Summer Program Peer Leader. Variable credit one to three, not repeatable.
    Offered: Spring
    Credit: 3
  
  • EDU 210 - History of Education in the United States Since 1865


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    This course explores the development of relationships between public schools and the social, political, cultural, and economic climate of US communities since 1865.  We will focus on how school conditions, curriculum, and pedagogical practice have interacted with the development of the US since the Civil War.

    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  
  • EDU 300 - Elected Field Experience


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    A highly individualized classroom teaching experience of shorter duration than student teaching. The College student is placed in a classroom within a school to which the student has access in the city of Oswego or a neighboring community.

    Note: The student may earn zero to three credit hours of academic credit. Repeatable for a total of three credits.  Twenty-five hours of classroom time is equivalent to one hour of college credit.
    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 0 to 3
  
  • EDU 301 - Schooling, Pedagogy, and Social Justice


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    This course guides candidates to explore the roles individuals and groups play shaping the dynamic relationship between schools and society. We pay particular attention to issues of social/cultural difference and dominance, and how framing of these issues influences schooling conditions, curriculum, and pedagogical practice. We also consider the converse of how school practices influence understanding of social/cultural difference and dominance (e.g., race, class, gender, disability, and sexuality). We use historical and contemporary examples to illuminate how the answers to the following questions change over time and space: What is the purpose of schooling? How does the institution of schooling in the United States influence individuals. How do cultural groups and/or communities influence U.S. schooling?

    Prerequisite: Minimum second semester sophomore standing; or instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  
  • EDU 303 - Field Placement I: Observation and Participation


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    This is the first of the required field-based experiences in the undergraduate education programs.

    Note: Requires admission to Childhood, Adolescence or TESOL major. Candidates are required to attend and participate at a school setting for a minimum of 25 clock hours; they will observe and participate to help them better understand educational issues at local, state, and national levels.
    Prerequisite: Minimum second semester sophomore standing and EDU 301 taken concurrently or previously; or instructor permission
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 1
  
  • EDU 305 - Topics in Education


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    Topics in Education.

    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  
  • EDU 380 - Culturally Relevant Teaching


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    Culturally relevant teaching combines an examination of the cultural and socioeconomic influences on teaching and learning with a commitment to challenging social (and educational )injustice. In this course, candidates make use of common experiences to examine the social/cultural (and political and economic) characteristics of educational settings. Candidates examine social structures of race, class, gender (dis)ability, and sexuality which create dominate and subordinate groups, privileging some and denying opportunity to others.

    Note: Candidates identify obvious and subtle individual, institutional , and cultural actions that perpetuate social structures.
    Prerequisite: EDU 301.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  
  • EDU 381 - Schools and Urban Society


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    This course will guide candidates in critical inquiry regarding schooling within the social context of an urban setting. Through a combination of study and practical experience in an urban school setting, candidates will gain an understanding of contextual, personal, and pedagogical issues related to teaching in an urban school.

    Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
    Offered: Summer
    Credit: 3
  
  • EDU 382 - Schools in Global Context


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    This course will guide candidates in critical inquiry regarding schooling in an international context.  Through a combination of study and practical experiences in school settings abroad, candidates will gain an understanding of comparative contextual, personal, and pedagogical issues related to teaching and learning in urban and rural schools in a global context.

    Prerequisite: EDU 301; or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  
  • EDU 383 - Teaching English Language Learners Across the Curriculum


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    This course develops essential understandings of the backgrounds and the linguistic, educational, emotional, social and cultural needs of English language learners (ELLs). Teacher candidates learn methods and techniques proven effective for the instruction and assessment of ELLs. The course is designed for those in the Childhood or Adolescence Education program.

    Prerequisite: EDU 301
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  
  • EDU 430 - Professionalism & Social Justice Seminar


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    This course will examine professionalism through a social justice lens. This course will be completed through observation, research and analysis in the student teaching classroom followed by presentation about teaching for social justice at a professional conference.

    Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 2
  
  • SSE 200 - Basic Concepts in Social Studies


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    This course is divided into two components. The first component sets out to explore the nature and meaning of social studies education and the 5 core disciplines (Economics, Geography, History, Political Science, Civics (Sociology/Anthropology) that make up holistic social studies education. Students will focus on grade level appropriate understanding and integration of social studies as a phenomenon. Assignments will be guided by standards from the National Council for the Social Studies (NCSS) and 2014 New York Learning Standards. We will explore democratic citizenship education, inquiry skills, as well as critical thinking and problem solving.
     

    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  
  • SSHS 1020 - Safe Schools, Healthy Students


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    Approved by the SUNY Oswego School of Education; Safe Schools, Healthy Students is a web-based workshop designed to fulfill New York State Education Department (NYSED) requirements for teacher education candidates applying for certification after February 1, 2004. This professional development (non-credit) workshop is available through SUNY Oswego’s Division of Extended Learning and Open SUNY. From home or a campus computer lab, you will be able to work conveniently at your own pace using the Blackboard course management system.
    Workshop topics include:

        Child Abuse Recognition and Reporting
        School Violence Prevention and Intervention (SAVE)
        Fire and Arson Prevention
        Highway Safety and Traffic Regulations and School Safety Patrols
        Child Abduction Prevention
        Prevention of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Drug Abuse

    Successful completion of this course will allow you to take the competency exam, which is offered on a regularly scheduled basis. A passing score is required for SUNY Oswego to confirm on your transcript to the New York State Department of Education that you have completed the appropriate training. Safe Schools, Healthy Students will be offered at least six times per calendar year.

    Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
    Credit: 0


Electrical and Computer Engineering

  
  • ECE 101 - Introduction to Engineering


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    Introduces engineering profession fundamentals and problem-solving methods including complex numbers-based techniques. Topics include the description of engineering disciplines, functions of the engineer, professionalism, ethics, problem-solving and representation of technical information, estimation and approximations, analysis and design.

    Prerequisite: MAT 210 concurrent or previously
    Offered: Spring
    Credit: 3
  
  • ECE 211 - Electric Circuits


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    An introduction to the analysis and design of linear electric circuits. Topics include resistive circuits, energy-storage elements, control sources, operational amplifiers, power and three-phase circuits, transformers, DC and AC operation of circuits, measurement and simulation techniques.

    Note: This course includes a laboratory component.
    Prerequisite: ECE 101 and MAT 210.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 4
  
  • ECE 233 - Signals and Systems


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    This course studies continuous- and discrete-time signals and systems, properties and operation of linear time-invariant systems, Sampling Theorem, and applications of convolution. Time- and frequency-domain analysis of signals and systems, Fourier series, Laplace, Fourier, and z-transforms and their application to LTI systems will also be studied.

    Note: This course includes a laboratory component.
    Prerequisite: ECE 211 and MAT 220.
    Offered: Spring
    Credit: 4
  
  • ECE 271 - Digital Systems


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    A hands-on introduction to Boolean algebra, binary arithmetic, logic gates and digital circuit analysis and design. Covers combinational and sequential logic, circuit simplification methods, analysis, simulation, and design techniques and tools for computer. This course is taught in studio format and includes a laboratory component.

    Prerequisite: CSC 212
    Offered: Fall
    Credit: 4
  
  • ECE 314 - Microelectronic Circuits


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    A hands-on approach to electronic circuits analysis, design, and development. Including diode circuits, bipolar junction transistor and field-effect transistor circuits biasing, transistor models for DC and AC operation, computer analysis, simulation, and design of microelectronic circuits. This course is taught in studio format.

    Prerequisite: ECE 211, or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 4
  
  • ECE 321 - Power Circuits and Systems


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    The course provides an introduction of the principles of power circuits and systems. It covers three-phase circuits, phasors, Wye-Delta connections, transformers, AC/DC machines, transmission lines, power system representation, power flow studies.

    Prerequisite: ECE 211 and PHY 213; or instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring.
    Credit: 4
  
  • ECE 335 - Digital Signal Processing


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    A continuation of ECE 233, emphasizing digital signal acquisition, processing and design techniques for Finite Impulse Response (FIR) and Infinite Impulse Response filters. Statistical methods, techniques for the treatment of digital signals and the design of digital filters are covered. Labs based on several DSP application projects.

    Prerequisite: ECE 233, or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  
  • ECE 344 - Electromagnetics


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    Course examines static and dynamic electromagnetic field theory and applications, electrostatics, magneto-statics, Maxwell’s equations, energy flow, electromagnetic waves, plane waves, boundary conditions, transmission lines, and engineering applications.

    Prerequisite: ECE 211 and MAT 240; or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  
  • ECE 365 - Control Systems


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    A hands-on instruction for the analysis and design of linear control systems with emphasis on system performance evaluation, stability, and compensation. Stability analysis methods, poles and zeros, Routh-Hurwitz criterion, root locus analysis and design methods, frequency domain analysis and design methods. This course is taught in studio format.

    Prerequisite: ECE 233 and MAT 249.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 4
  
  • ECE 375 - Microprocessor Applications


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    Hands-on instruction in microprocessors, microcontrollers, their organization, their programming, and their applications in embedded control systems. Includes machine language, instruction sets, assembly language programming, design of microcontroller systems in device control applications, interfacing sensors and actuators, and hardware/software codesign. This course is taught in studio format.

    Prerequisite: CSC 222 or ECE 271, or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 4
  
  • ECE 388 - Humanoid Robitics


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    A study of robotics applied to the anlysis, design, and function of humanoid robots.  This course teaches teh structure and programming of multi-limb robotic mechanisms through computer simulations and actual robot programming.

    Prerequisite: CSC 212, and MAT 240 or MAT 249
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  
  • ECE 396 - ECE Mentorship


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    This course allows students to engage in peer-to-peer learning and teaching by participating in an organized tutoring activity assisting freshmen and sophomore level students in entry-level electrical and computer engineering courses and labs.

    Note: One credit course may be repeated for a total of three credits. Must be an ECE major.
    Prerequisite: Upper division standing and department chair approval.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 1
  
  • ECE 401 - ECE Seminar


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    A series of lectures and presentations of direct relevance to the practice of electrical and computer engineering.  Students will give presentations and attend lectures from invited practicing engineers, faculty, and other experts on technological innovations, ethics and professionalism, global or contemporary issues or engineering events, licensure requirements, and other topics of interest.

    Prerequisite: Senior standing; or instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall
    Credit: 1
  
  • ECE 416 - Advanced Electronics


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    Instruction in: operational amplifiers, frequency and time-domain responses, feedback theory, wideband multistage amplifiers, introduction to filter theory, active filter design and implementation. Instruction will be in a studio format.

    Prerequisite: ECE 314 or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 4
  
  • ECE 421 - Power Electronics


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    The course provides an introduction to the broad area of power electronics, which includes the overview of power electronics devices, the principles of analysis and control of basic power electronic circuits (DC/DC converters, single and three-phase rectifiers (AC/DC), and DC/AC inverters), and their advanced applications in renewable energy systems, motor drives, and power supplies, as well as design, modeling and simulation of power electronic circuits.

    Prerequisite: ECE 314 and ECE 321.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 4
  
  • ECE 454 - Communications Systems


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    A hands-on instruction in the operation, analysis and design of analog and digital communications systems. Including amplitude and frequency modulation, time and frequency division multiplexing, noise effects and filtering in communication systems, and efficient data transmission techniques. This course is taught in studio format, four credit hours, six contact hours.

    Prerequisite: ECE 233 and MAT 249; or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 4
  
  • ECE 455 - Wireless Communications


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    The course covers the fundamental concepts of wireless communications, cellular networks and wireless propagation models. Topics include modern wireless communication systems, cellular concepts, large-scale and small-scale radio propagation models, modulation methods and multiple access techniques.

    Prerequisite: ECE 233 and MAT 249
    Equivalent Course: ECE 281
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  
  • ECE 463 - Elements of Robotics


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    An introduction to Robotics through the study of robot manipulators, robot mathematical modeling using the Denavit-Hartenberg parameters, kinematics, dynamics, visualization and motion control.

    Prerequisite: MAT 249; or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  
  • ECE 472 - Advanced Digital Systems


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    Advanced digital circuit design techniques using: Complex programmable logic devices (CPLD, hardware programming techniques and languages. This is a hands-on introduction to VHDL and HDL-based design methods, fast prototyping, hardware/software co-design and embedded applications with experimentation on a Field Programmable Gate Array and CPLD educational board.

    Prerequisite: ECE 375
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 4
  
  • ECE 475 - Computer Architecture


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    A hands-on coverage of hardware and software interactions in modern computer systems. This course includes computer organization and design, modern computer building blocks, busing and memory organization, performance improving techniques, architectures, memory caching, pipelining. Assembly and machine language, data path and control unit design will also be discussed.

    Prerequisite: ECE 271 or CSC 222
    Offered: Spring.
    Credit: 4
  
  • ECE 491 - Capstone Design Proposal


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    A preparatory course for the ECE capstone project. Students are assigned to a faculty supervisor as they engage in the selection of a suitable capstone design project topic, industry sponsor if any, to conduct preliminary research and design procedures to satisfy their capstone design requirement. Students will be encouraged to work in multidisciplinary teams. At the conclusion of the class, students must produce, present, and defend a design proposal to the ECE faculty for approval.

    Prerequisite: ECE 375 and 314
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 1
  
  • ECE 492 - Capstone Design


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    A continuation of ECE 491. Students work in teams under a faculty supervisor and, whenever possible, an industry sponsor representative, to design, develop and produce an electrical or computer device or method that combines hardware and software as needed to produce a solution to a well-identified problem or need. The capstone project serves as a demonstration that students have acquired the ability to function as engineering professionals by integrating all their combined engineering knowledge and skills in the development and prototype production of an engineering project of industrial caliber.

    Prerequisite: ECE 491
    Offered: Fall and Spring.
    Credit: 4
  
  • ECE 499 - Independent Study


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    Independent study in Electrical Computer Engineering.

    Note: Variable credit 1 to 12, repeatable up to 12 hours.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.

English

  
  • ENG 101 - Composition I


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    A course designed to develop fundamental writing skills, especially for those students with little experience in writing. The course emphasizes sentence, paragraph, and essay structure as well as standard American conventions of grammar, punctuation and spelling.

    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  
  • ENG 102 - Composition II


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    A composition course designed to instruct the student in rhetorical modes and the basic techniques of expository prose, in critical reading, and in research methods.

    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  
  • ENG 103 - Advanced Listening Comprehension


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    This course is designed to improve and develop the listening comprehension of students with limited English proficiency as it relates to comprehending lectures and taking notes.

    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  
  • ENG 104 - Advanced Reading


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 105 - Advanced Spoken English


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 150 - Principles of Literary Representation


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 160 - General Folklore


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 195 - Specialized Studies


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 204 - Writing About Literature


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    An introductory course in expository and critical writing about literary works.

    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  
  • ENG 210 - Western Heritage I: Literature


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 211 - Western Heritage II: Literature


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 220 - Modern Culture and Media


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 235 - American Literature from the Beginning to the Civil War


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    Survey of the principal American writers from the beginning to Melville.

    Offered: Fall
    Credit: 3
  
  • ENG 236 - American Literature from the Civil War to the Present


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    Survey of major American writers and periods from Whitman to the present.

    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  
  • ENG 237 - Ethnicity and Cultural Difference in Literature


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 238 - Introduction to Latina/o/x Cultural Expressions


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    This course examines Latina/o/x literary—among other forms of—cultural expressions. It introduces students to scholarly debates and artistic artifacts produced by Latinas/os/xs in the U.S.

    Prerequisite: ENG 102.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  
  • ENG 265 - Sophomore Seminar: Studies in Genre


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 271 - Practical English Grammar


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    A study of the grammatical structure of contemporary standard American English.

    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  
  • ENG 286 - Introduction to Cinema and Screen Studies


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 295 - Specialized Studies


    2018-2019 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.
  
  • ENG 302 - Advanced Composition


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 304 - Literary Criticism


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 310 - Literature of Medieval England


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 311 - Sixteenth-Century Prose and Poetry


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 312 - Seventeenth-Century Prose and Poetry


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 313 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 315 - British Romantic Writers


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 316 - British Victorian Writers


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 319 - Shakespeare: An Introduction


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 321 - The Eighteenth-Century English Novel


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 322 - Nineteenth-Century English Novel


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 323 - Twentieth-Century British Fiction


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    Study of major twentieth century British fiction.

    Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing; or instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall
    Credit: 3
  
  • ENG 325 - Chaucer


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 326 - English Drama: City Comedy and Revenge Tragedy


    2018-2019 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.

    Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  
  • ENG 327 - English Drama: Satire and Empire


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 328 - Milton


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 331 - American Romanticism


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 332 - The Development of Realism and Naturalism in American Literature


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 333 - Twentieth-Century American Literature


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 337 - Topics in American Ethnic Literature


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 340 - Modern American Drama


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    Study of twentieth century American drama.

    Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  
  • ENG 342 - The Nineteenth-Century American Novel


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 343 - The Twentieth-Century American Novel


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    Development of the American novel from 1900 to the present.

    Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis
    Credit: 3
  
  • ENG 347 - Contemporary Native American Literature


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 349 - Writers of the Beat Generation


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 350 - Modern Drama


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 351 - American Poetry Since 1945


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    Study of American poetry since World War II.

    Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
    Offered: Fall, Spring
    Credit: 3
  
  • ENG 356 - Latina Writings and Theories


    2018-2019 Catalog Year:

    This course explores Latina writings from the 19th century forward. It examines a variety of genres, including fiction and theatre, and key theoretical texts from the latter half of the 20th century forward.

    Prerequisite: ENG 102 and minimum sophomore standing.
    Offered: Not on a regular basis.
    Credit: 3
  
  • ENG 357 - Black Women Writers


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 360 - Literature in a Global Context


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 361 - Literature of Travel, Migration, Diaspora


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 362 - Genre - History - Theory


    2018-2019 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
  
  • ENG 363 - Short Story Masterpieces


    2018-2019 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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