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  • EDU 495 - Independent Study

    variable credits
    Conditions and hours to be arranged
    Individual study of additional areas needed for teacher certification, including methods in specific disciplines, reading, etc. Terms and hours will be arranged. Confer with appropriate members of the Education Department.
  

  • EDU 500 - Fundamentals of Teaching and Learning

    3 credits
    This course introduces potential teachers to the real world of teaching through an indepth, candid analysis of the teaching profession today. This interactive course will explore the challenges and rewards of teaching, study the history, philosopy, sociology, and politics of American education and focus on the current educational issues, trends, and reform movements (cooperative learning, teacher leadership, learning styles, multiple intelligences, etc…)  Students will complete 15 pre-practicum hours in a teaching and learning experience. Field Experience
    Up to 15 hours pre-practicum urban experience
  

  • EDU 503 - Teaching Science in Elementary School

    3 credits
    Prerequisites: EDU 500
    A content/methods course designed to integrate four important aspects of teaching science in the elementary school: becoming a reflective practitioner, gaining knowledge of oneself as a learner of science, gaining knowledge of oneself as a teacher of science, and gaining knowledge of children. This course prepares one to craft a science teaching practice that reflects current science educational research, philosophies, and methodologies.
  

  • EDU 504 - Teaching Language Arts and Social Studies in Elementary School

    3 credits
    Prerequisites: EDU 500
    Focuses on both language arts and social studies instruction in the elementary school.  This course builds upon how teachers can deepen children’s understanding of reading and writing, to support and engage children in using reading and writing in the content areas.  The course examines current research, methods, strategies and best practices.  Course readings will aid in the development of materials and provide scaffolding for the designing of curriculum units.
  

  • EDU 508 - Teaching Math in Elementary School

    3 credits
    Prerequisites: EDU 500
    Explores the changing modern mathematics curriculum. Topics include current issues, research, attitudes, and multiple learning strategies associated with the teaching and learning of elementary mathematics.
  

  • EDU 514 - Teaching Practicum or Teaching Practicum Equivalent —Elementary

    3 credits
    Prerequisites: All program coursework completed with B- or better in each course; 2.7 GPA; and passing score on the Communication and Literacy Skills Test, General Curriculum, and Foundations of Reading tests of the MTEL
    A fourteen-week full-time classroom experience under the direction of a university supervisor and supervising practitioner.  This course cannot be taken as an undergraduate. Field Experience
    Up to 25 hours pre-practicum
  

  • EDU 515 - Teaching Practicum Middle and Secondary

    3 credits
    Prerequisites: All program coursework completed with B- or better in each course; 2.7 GPA; and passing score on the Communication and Literacy Skills Test, and appropriate Content Area of the MTEL. This course cannot be taken as an undergraduate.
    A fourteen-week full-time classroom experience under the direction of university supervisor and supervising practitioners. Field Experience
    Up to 25 hours pre-practicum
  

  • EDU 520 - Teaching Reading in Elementary School

    3 credits
    Prerequisites: EDU 500
    The nature of literacy, its development, and its application in a diverse society. The course explores, through a variety of perspectives, how to teach reading and writing considering the lives and needs of children. Theory and application are linked to provide future teachers with the skills necessary to assist their students in finding vital meaning and uses in their lives for these and all other forms of communication.
  

  • EDU 525 - Reading in the Content Areas, Middle and High School

    3 credits
    Prerequisites: EDU 500
    Examination of the field of reading and how to incorporate the development of reading and comprehension skills into content areas in meaningful ways. This course is developed for students who are preparing to become teachers in content areas in middle and secondary schools.
  

  • EDU 526 - Contemporary High School Education

    3 credits
    Prerequisites: EDU 207, 527; EDU 527 may be taken concurrently; must be taken concurrently with EDU 515
    Equity, diversity, motivation, alternative assessment, multicultural education, and the social problems of adolescents. The course covers provisions for the inclusion of special-needs students, as mandated by state and federal legislation, and addresses outcome-based education and open-ended assessment. Extensive reading assignments, written reporting, action research varied assessments, and a demonstration project will prepare future teachers to meet exacting certification requirements and gain teaching competencies.
  

  • EDU 527 - Integrated Instructional Planning in Middle/High School

    3 credits
    Prerequisites: EDU 500
    Designed for prospective teachers in middle and high schools, an integrated approach to classroom curriculum and pedagogy will be employed.  Particular attention will be paid to diversified learning needs and styles of all students in planning, teaching and evaluation phases of pedagogy.  Development of teaching/learning plans, including unit and lesson construction, varied learning strategies, material construction, audio-visual, technology and classroom evaluation comprise the core of the course.

     

  

  • EDU 528 - Integrated Instructional Planning Elementary

    3 credits
    Prerequisites: EDU 500
    Designed for prospective teachers in elementary grades, an integrated approach to classroom curriculum and pedagogy will be employed.  Particular attention will be paid to diversified learning needs and styles of all students in planning, teaching and evalution phases of pedagogy.  Development of teaching/learning plans, incuding unit and lesson construction, varied learning strategies, material construction, audio-visual, technology and classroom evaluation comprise the core of the course.
  

  • EDU 529 - Integrated Content Methods, Elementary School

    3 credits
    Prerequisites: EDU 500
    Teaching of instructional strategies for the elementary classroom.  This course uses a variety of activities to help prospective teachers become prepared for teaching in ways that engage their students creatively.  Students integrate the information and skills gained in reading and language arts courses with content areas of mathematics, science, and social studies.  Students develop material and design curriculum units based on a thorough knowledge of the Massachusetts Curriculum Frameworks.
  

  • EDU 535 - Contemporary Middle School Issues

    3 credits
    Up to 25 hours pre-practicum
    Prerequisites: EDU 207, 527; EDU 527 may be taken concurrently; must be taken concurrently with EDU 515
    Designed for content integration, this course focusing on the major disciplines of the middle-school curriculum. Lectures and demonstration lessons presented by content specialists from the College of Arts and Sciences are coordinated by an education professor. Students are responsible for the development of content-based lesson planning aligned with the Massachusetts Frameworks along with extensive readings and research presentations focused on the middle-school curriculum and teaching.
  

  • EDU 547 - Teaching and Managing Inclusive Classroom

    3 credits
    Prerequisites: EDU 500
     

      Field Experience
    Up to 25 hours pre-practicum suburban experience

  

  • EDU 548 - Classroom Management for Mildly and Moderately Disabled Students in Inclusive Settings

    3 credits
    Prerequisites: EDU 500
    A comprehensive review of classroom management in teaching the mildly and moderately disabled. Theoretical models for understanding the behavior of children and youth, including Applied Behavior Analysis and Positive Behavior Support, along with evidence-based practices of effective management practices/procedures.  Case studies and research explore classroom management issues and trends in elementary, middle, and high schools.
  

  • EDU 549 - Diagnostic and Remedial Assessment for Students wih Moderate Disabilities

    3 credits
    Prerequisites: EDU 500
    Includes a review of eligible disabilities in state and federal legislation in order to develop and implement the course-required Individualized Education Plan.  Aso includes diagnostic tools, procedures, and forms and is correlated with local, state, ad federal agencies and school services.  Topics also include classroom monitoring, annual reviews, three year re-evaluations, remedial strategies and accommodations, modifying lesson development for specific classroom usage.  Research studies, including case studies, will complement the development of diagnostics and remedial techniques for the moderately-disabled.
  

  • EDU 550 - Language Acquisition and English Language Learners

    3 credits
    Prerequisites: EDU 500
    Language acquisition and variation within a social, cultural and political context will be examined through an integrated approach to curriculum and pedagogy.  Second Language Acquisition theories are explored through empirical research with the aim of allowing students to better comprehend patterns in language development.  Best practices in language teaching are highlighted.  Topics of study will include language identity/attitudes, language and power, language and representation, methodological approaches and best practices.
  

  • EDU 551 - Contemporary Issues and Challenges

    3 credits
    A variable-topics course for education topics of current interest. Recently offered topics include authentic assessment, leadership mentoring, and teaching and learning. Cross-listed as WMS 343
  

  • EDU 553 - Leadership and Supervision

    3 credits
    Prerequisites: EDU 500
  

  • EDU 610 - Developmental Language Arts

    3 credits
    Surveys methods of teaching the language arts which take into consideration elementary and middle school students’ needs and abilities. Emphasis will be on writing instruction.
  

  • EDU 611 - Developmental Reading

    3 credits
    A study of the cultural, social and psycho-linguistic principles, strategies and practices underlying reading and learning to read.
  

  • EDU 612 - Teaching Writing in the Elementary and Middle School

    3 credits
    A developmentally appropriate model to provide participants with the theory, the tools, and the support to create a writing program in their classrooms.
  

  • EDU 613 - Literature for the Elementary and Middle School Child

    3 credits
    Introduces methods of bringing literature to children grades K-8.
  

  • EDU 615 - Teaching Social Studies in Elementary and Middle/Secondary School

    3 credits
    Social studies as a tool to help young people develop the ability to make informed decisions for the public good as citizens of a culturally diverse, democratic society.
  

  • EGR 100 - Freshman Summer Institute

    3 credits
    An introduction to the skills and practices in engineering. This course encourages incoming and potential students to gain insight and experience in engineering by their participation in demonstrations and experiments from the engineering discipllines.
  

  • EGR 101 - Introduction to Applied Science and Engineering I

    2 credits S
    Corequisites: MTH 113
    An introduction to engineering and applied science that emphasizes development of engineering problem-solving skills through work on team projects in DC and AC circuits, electromagnetics, and computer measurement and control. The course applies calculus and physics problem solving skills to projects in the Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering disciplines. The course develops teamwork, written and oral communication skills, and uses computer tools (Electronic Workbench and MATLAB) for analysis and simulation.
  

  • EGR 102 - Introduction to Applied Science and Engineering II

    2 credits
    Prerequisites: MTH 111 or 113
    Corequisites: MTH 114 and PHY 111
    An introduction to engineering and applied science, which emphasizes development of problem-solving skills through teamwork on projects in engineering mechanics. The course applies calculus and physics to engineering problems, develops written and oral communication skills and uses computer tools for analysis and simulation.
  

  • EGR 131 - Introduction to Design

    1 credits
    0.5 hours lecture, 1.5 hours laboratory
    Covers computer-graphic design material and develops graphic communication skills.
  

  • EGR 157 - Science of Engineering

    3 credits S, O
    2 hours lecture, 1 hour laboratory
    Prerequisites: honors requirements (3.2 G.P.A. or by invitation)
    The scientific principles underlying the practice of various engineering disciplines. This honors-level course is for non-science and non-engineering majors. This honors-level course is for non-science and non-engineering majors.
  

  • EGR 203 - Environmental Geology

    3 credits S
    3 hours lecture
    A brief outline of earth’s development to the present and basic materials of geology-rocks, minerals, and geological processes. The course examines how geologic processes and hazards influence human activities, the geologic aspects of pollution and waste disposal problems, etc. Prior exposure to geology or college-level math or science is not necessary.
  

  • EGR 241 - Engineering Mechanics I: Statics

    3 credits
    3 hours lecture
    Prerequisites: PHY 111 or PHY 113, MTH 112 or MTH 114
    The first course in engineering mechanics, with two major objectives: first, to introduce the student to the science of engineering mechanics and second to introduce the student to the art of applying science to the solution of engineering problems. The specific vehicle or curriculum to accomplish these objectives will be a study of the statics of rigid bodies.
  

  • EGR 242 - Engineering Mechanics II: Dynamics

    3 credits
    3 hours lecture
    Prerequisites: EGR 241; MTH 112 or MTH 114
    A continuation of the study of mechanics initiated in EGR 241. Work and energy methods are emphasized. Motion in accelerating coordinate systems and dynamics of system particles lead to the discussion of rigid body dynamics in three dimensions. A number of examples of rigid body motion are discussed.
  

  • EGR 301 - Applied Engineering Mathematics

    3 credits
    3 hours lecture
    Prerequisites: MTH 212 or MNE 212
    Mathematical methods useful to all engineering students. They include: elements of linear algebra, matrices, eigenvalue problems, systems of ordinary differential equations, Fourier series, partial differential equations, probability theory, mathematical statistics, and a brief introduction to complex numbers.
  

  • ENL 100 - Basic English Review

    3 administrative credits
    This course develops rhetorical awareness and effectiveness, as well as fluency in standard English, through focus on essential features common to any writing situation (purpose, audience needs, content, organization, style and correctness) at the level of the paragraph and basic essay. Requires one hour per week in the Writing/Reading center in addition to three class hours. Preparation for ENL 101. Preparation for ENL 101. Administrative credits do not count towards the total credits required for graduation.
  

  • ENL 101 - Critical Writing and Reading I

    3 credits I & W, Tier 1
    Writing in a variety of modes for various purposes and audiences; writing to communicate and to learn in the humanities. Rhetorical choices and revision strategies will be studied. Students will develop skill in critical reading necessary for thinking and writing. English 101 and 102 satisfy the “Tier 1” requirements in Information/Computer Literacy and in Writing Skills.
  

  • ENL 102 - Critical Writing and Reading II

    3 credits I & W, Tier 1
    Prerequisites: Prerequisite: ENL 101
    A course designed to advance the rhetorical skills and understanding developed in ENL 101. Critical reading of various literary genres and analytic and argumentative writing assignments enhance the student’s awareness and use of effective language. English 101 and 102 satisfy the “Tier 1” requirements in Information/Computer Literacy and in Writing Skills.
  

  • ENL 196 - Directed Study

    3 credits
    Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor, department chairperson, and college dean
    Study under the supervision of a faculty member in an area covered in a regular course not currently being offered. Conditions and hours to be arranged.
  

  • ENL 200 - Studies in Literature

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A study of selected readings dealing with a special topic chosen by the instructor. Recent special topics include New England Literature, Children’s Literature, the Artist in Literature, Black Music and Black Literature. May be repeated with change of content. Cross-listed as AAS 200, LST 200
  

  • ENL 201 - Major British Writers

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL 102
    Exploration of British literature from medieval to modern times, focusing on about ten seminal texts by such writers as Chaucer, Malory, Spenser, Milton, Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Austen, Tennyson, Dickens, Joyce, Woolf, Rushdie, and others. Selections from their contemporaries present historical and cultural contexts and offer opportunities to compare views of the course’s unifying theme, which changes each semester.
  

  • ENL 202 - Major American Writers

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A study of selected works, from several genres, by outstanding American authors.
  

  • ENL 203 - Survey of World Literature I

    3 credits C, G
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A study of selected masterpieces from the Golden Age of Greece to the Renaissance.
  

  • ENL 204 - Survey of World Literature II

    3 credits C, G
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A study of selected masterpieces from the Renaissance to the present.
  

  • ENL 205 - Travel Literature

    3 credits C, G
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    Exploration of contemporary travel writing and the genre it represents, creative nonfiction. It treats the history, forms, and thematic concerns of travel literature and the nature of the “fourth genre” of creative nonfiction. In addition to reading travel literature, students explore a variety of contextual materials online, such as articles, interviews, podcasts, blogs, and videos. A passport to virtual travel, the course examines a wide range of ideas about the world and the ways we live in it and develops one’s sense of global geography.
  

  • ENL 206 - Detective Fiction

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A study of famous mystery, suspense, and detective fiction.
  

  • ENL 209 - The Bible as Literature

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    Readings from the Old and New Testament discussed in the context of the history of ideas, literary genres, the effectiveness of communication to the intended audience, and influences on other literature.
  

  • ENL 210 - Literature of the American West

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    An exploration of the myths and realities of the American West (west of the Mississippi) as they are reflected in literaturee.g., the cowboy, westward expansion, the Spanish conquistadors.
  

  • ENL 211 - The American Dream

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A study of the meaning of success as reflected in works ranging from those of Benjamin Franklin and Horatio Alger to the plays of Arthur Miller. Cross-listed as LST 211
  

  • ENL 216 - Comedy and Satire

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A study of the philosophy and psychology of literary and other forms of comedy and satire, including works by such writers as Aristophanes, Shakespeare, Swift, Voltaire, Wilde, Shaw, Waugh, Heller, Vonnegut, and others, as well as film artists such as Chaplin, Sellers, and Woody Allen.
  

  • ENL 217 - Greek Myth and Drama

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    An exploration of the role of myth in the creation of the plots of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes.
  

  • ENL 218 - Literature and Society

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A study of the relationship between the individual and society through readings in modern literature. Cross-listed as LST 218
  

  • ENL 223 - Fantasy Literature

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A study of fantasy as a genre, comparing other works with Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings trilogy.
  

  • ENL 224 - Jewish Literature

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A study of modern Jewish stories and novels with emphasis on such writers as Singer, Bellow, Wiesel, Malamud, and others. Cross-listed as JST 224
  

  • ENL 226 - Multicultural American Literature

    3 credits C, D
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A study of imaginative literature by writers representing the rich variety of racial, ethnic, religious, social, and regional groups in America. Specific focus of the course may vary depending on the instructor.
  

  • ENL 227 - Semiotics of Culture

    3 credits C, O
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    Introduces basic theories of communication and models of semiotic analysis. Topics include iconicity, proxemics, kinetics, and the multiple levels of decoding. Readings include analysis of common cultural artifact, verbal and visual media. Students will analyze popular myths and television and print advertising.
  

  • ENL 236 - Ancient World to the Renaissance

    3 credits C, G
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A study of the origins of English literature embedded in Biblical, Classical, and Medieval sources, with special emphasis on Homer, the Greek dramatists, Virgil, and Dante. Designed to help English majors understand the allusions that enrich English literature.
  

  • ENL 246 - Women Writers

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    When the subject matter is related to the minor: an examination of the relationship between the woman writer and her work through a study of literature by and about women. Cross-listed WMS 246, AAS 246
  

  • ENL 250 - Introduction to Poetry

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A course in the analysis of poetry showing how formalistic and thematic elements in the poem interact to create meaning through an examination of a variety of poetic forms.
  

  • ENL 251 - Introduction to the Short Story

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A consideration of short fiction to illustrate the history, range, and properties of the genre. The course treats such representative authors as Poe, Hawthorne, Tolstoy, Joyce, Faulkner, and other 19th and 20th century figures from a variety of national literatures.
  

  • ENL 252 - Introduction to the Novel

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A study of how to read and identify the various types of novels, coupled with an introduction to the history of the novel.
  

  • ENL 253 - Introduction to Drama

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    An introductory course in how to read and view a play, including instruction in the nature and methods of tragedy, comedy, melodrama, tragicomedy.
  

  • ENL 254 - Autobiographical Writing

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A course emphasizing the development of techniques of lifewriting through exercises in journal-keeping and autobiographical writing. The course includes readings in sample journals and autobiographies and study of autobiographical theory.
  

  • ENL 255 - Introduction to Film

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    Provides beginning students of film with a comprehensive view of its history, aesthetics, and critical terminology. Attention will also be paid to elementary film theory, to a comparison of film with other genres (especially drama and narration), and to representative works of such major figures in the artistic development of the genre as Chaplin, Renoir, Welles, Bergman, Hitchcock, and Kurosawa.
  

  • ENL 257 - Introduction to Rhetorical Studies

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102, English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor.
    Basic rhetorical theories and concepts developed in ancient Greece and Rome and practiced today. Students will read about classical theories and apply those theories in ongoing analyses of contemporary texts (verbal, visual, electronic); they will also apply those theories to a range of writing assignments, including but no limited to essays, letters, posters, brochures, and more.
  

  • ENL 258 - Literary Studies

    3 credits W, O
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A foundation course for all English majors, examining traditions and innovations in literature and in the study of literature in English. Students develop writing and research skills in the discipline and improve their knowledge of literary terms and forms, literary history and conventions, literary influence, and new and emerging forms and approaches. Genres studied include poetry, drama, fiction, and literary (creative) non-fiction. The course also examines key issues in the profession of literary studies, such as the development of departments of literature, canon formation, and the relationship of literary theory to literary practice.
  

  • ENL 259 - Critical Methods, Theory, and Practice

    3 credits I & W, Tier 2
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A foundation course for English majors in the literature concentration. Introduce students to literary criticism, as well as critical thinking and writing in English Studies. Emphasis in on the application of principles and methods of literary study to selected texts, which prepares students to examine and respond to texts from a variety of critical perspectives.
  

  • ENL 260 - Intermediate Composition

    3 credits C, W
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A course emphasizing the development of skill in organizing materials, the formation of a lively and concrete style and an authentic personal voice, and the growth of useful techniques in the arts of exposition, persuasion, and argumentation.
  

  • ENL 262 - Journalism I

    3 credits C, W
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    An exploration of the principles of journalism as applied in effective news writing and media reporting. Students develop skills in story design and structure, note-taking and story development, accuracy, balance, fairness, style, and writing technique. Legal and ethical issues are explored in detail as students develop and write local stories.
  

  • ENL 264 - Writing in the Sciences

    3 credits
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    An introduction to the writing and communications skills required in the sciences that include a study of scientific discourse communities. Students will read and analyze scientific texts, write papers and reports using the styles and conventions of particular scientific communities, and develop and deliver conference-style presentations.
  

  • ENL 265 - Business Communications

    3 credits W, O
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    An introduction to the communication skills required in business and industry which emphasizes writing and revising business reports and proposals, letters and memorandums and on preparing and presenting oral reports. Computer applications are included.
  

  • ENL 266 - Technical Communications

    3 credits W, O
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    An introduction to the many purposes, audiences, forms, and formats of technical documents and professional correspondence. Students practice writing and editing letters, memos, and reports to achieve worthwhile content, sensible organization, and readable style and learn techniques of audience-and-use analysis to adjust a message’s level of technicality to the needs and background of its audience. The course focuses throughout on writing as a deliberate process of deliberate decisions. Computer applications included.
  

  • ENL 267 - Creative Writing: Poetry

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    The study of contemporary techniques in the writing of poetry. Manuscripts are read and discussed in class and during individual conferences. Workshop format.
  

  • ENL 268 - Creative Writing: Fiction

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    Techniques of writing fiction. Manuscripts are read and discussed in class and during individual conferences. Workshop format.
  

  • ENL 269 - Creative Writing: Drama

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A study of the fundamental principles of dramaturgy. Manuscripts are read and discussed in class and during individual conferences. Workshop format.
  

  • ENL 271 - Oral Interpretation of Literature

    3 credits C, O
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    Study of and practice in the oral interpretation of literary works with heavy emphasis on acting and the Stanislavski method.
  

  • ENL 272 - Oral Interpretation of Literature II

    3 credits C, O
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    Study of and practice in the oral interpretation of literary works with heavy emphasis on acting and the Stanislavski method.
  

  • ENL 276 - Contemporary International Films

    3 credits C, G
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    An intensive study of outstanding international films with attention to the techniques of film criticism.
  

  • ENL 293 - Literature of the American South

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A study of such Southern writers as Faulkner, Wolfe, Warren, McCullers, O’Connor, Ellison, Ransom, Tate, and Tennessee Williams with the following questions in mind: What was the mood of the South which produced the 20th century renaissance? In what manner are the works related to or dependent on the writers’ Southern background? What is the relationship of Southern to American literature?
  

  • ENL 296 - Directed Study

    3 credits
    Conditions and hours to be arranged
    Prerequisites: Permission of the instructor, department chairperson, and college dean
    Study under the supervision of a faculty member in an area covered in a regular course not currently being offered.
  

  • ENL 298 - Experience Program

    variable credits
    Conditions and hours to be arranged
    Prerequisites: At least sophomore standing; permission of the instructor, department chairperson, and college dean
    Work experience at an elective level supervised for academic credit by a faculty member in an appropriate academic field. Conditions and hours to be arranged. For specific procedures and regulations, see section of catalogue on Other Learning Experiences. For specific procedures and regulations, see the section of catalogue on Other Learning Experiences. Graded CR/NC
  

  • ENL 299 - Introduction to Shakespeare

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A course designed primarily for non-English majors, which examines some of the typical plays of the greatest dramatist in the English language.
  

  • ENL 300 - Survey of British Literature I

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102, ENL 258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A study of British literature from Beowulf to 1798, with attention given to the cultural and historical context.
  

  • ENL 302 - Survey of British Literature II

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102, ENL258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A study of British literature from 1798 to the mid-20th Century, with attention given to cultural and historical context.
  

  • ENL 303 - Survey of American Literature I

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102, ENL258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A survey of American writing from the Colonial Period to the Civil War, with emphasis on the historical, cultural, and philosophical developments which parallel the development of an American literature.
  

  • ENL 304 - Survey of American Literature II

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102, ENL258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A continuation of ENL 303. A survey of American writing from the Civil War to the present, with some emphasis on historical, cultural, and philosophical developments in America during the period covered.
  

  • ENL 305 - Medieval Literature

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, , ENL258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    Explores seminal literature of the European Middle Ages in historical and cultural contexts, focusing on English Literature from the Anglo-Saxon period into the 15th century. Organized thematically as well as chronologically, the course looks at how texts represent and influence their times and how they participate in the development of enduring literary traditions.
  

  • ENL 307 - The English Renaissance

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102, ENL258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A chronological overview of the major literary works, themes, and genres of the English Renaissance from Caxton and the inception of printing through Milton and the last of the great Renaissance epics. The course focuses on the development of poetic genres and on representative prose forms. Writers studied include Spenser, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, Herbert, Vaughn, and Milton.
  

  • ENL 308 - The Enlightenment

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102, ENL258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A study of English Neo-classical and Pre-romantic writings by Dryden, Swift, Pope, Fielding, Johnson, Boswell, Goldsmith, and others.
  

  • ENL 309 - The Romantic Age

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102, ENL258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A survey of English literature from 1796-1832, stressing the major poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Keats. Includes some study of novels and personal essays.
  

  • ENL 314 - Colonial American Literature

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102, ENL258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A study of  17th and 18th-Century American literature from Captain John Smith through Benjamin Franklin with emphasis on the historical background and the various types of literature produced in the period.
  

  • ENL 318 - Chaucer

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102, ENL258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    Intensive and critical reading of Chaucer’s major writings with attention to his cultural context. This course is designed primarily for English majors.
  

  • ENL 319 - Shakespeare

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102, ENL258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    A careful reading of Shakespeare’s plays selected from the comedies, tragedies, and histories. The course explores Shakespeare’s development as a dramatist, the reasons for his reputation as the greatest poet in the language, and the manner in which his plays reflect Elizabethan custom, attitudes, and beliefs. Some outside readings required in Shakespearean criticism and in the background of the period.
  

  • ENL 320 - Major Author

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102, ENL258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    Intensive and critical reading of a major author with attention to cultural contexts. Selected author will vary and be identified each time the course is scheduled. Course may be repeated with change of author.
  

  • ENL 321 - The Golden Ages of Drama

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102, ENL258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    Representative plays from the most famous and most productive eras in the history of world drama - Fifth Century B.C. Greece, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the age of Molire, and the realistic and romantic drama of 19th century France and Germany.
  

  • ENL 326 - Studies in Modern Irish Literature and Culture

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102, ENL258; English Majors, Minors, Liberal Arts English Concentrations, or permission of instructor
    Development of Irish literature from the end of the 19th century through the first decades of the 20th century. Writers include Yeats, Joyce, Synge, O’Casey. The course examines the cultural, historical, and political background of Anglo-Irish relations.
  

  • ENL 328 - Survey of African-American Literature I

    three credits
    Survey of African-American Literature from colonial times to the turn of the twentieth century. Course surveys genres of poetry, slave narrative, fiction, essay, and drama with attention to the social, political, and cultural histories of African-Americans from slavery to freedom to Reconstruction. This course may also include sections on oral narratives (oral slave narratives, speeches, folktales, and sermons) and music (such as sorrow songs and spirituals). Cross-listed as AAS 328, WMS 328
  

  • ENL 329 - Survey of Aftrican-American Literature II

    three credits
    Survey of African American Literature from the turn of the twentieth century to the present. Course begins with the work of DuBois and Washington and continues through the Harlem Renaissance, the post-war period, the Black Arts Era, into the present, paying particular attention to the women writers who led the post-1970s Renaissance. Course examines all genres of literature and may also include sections on oral literature (such as spoken word poetry) and music (such as jazz, rap, and hip hop). Like the Survey of African American Literature I, this course pays particular attention to the social, political, intellectural, and cultural climate surrounding the literature. Cross-listed as AAS 329, WMS 329
  

  • ENL 333 - Modern British Poetry

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A study of the chief trends and the major poets and movements in modern British poetry.
  

  • ENL 335 - 20th-Century American Fiction 1900-1945

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A study of the 20th-century American novel including Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, West, and McCullers.
  

  • ENL 336 - 20th-Century American Fiction 1945-present

    3 credits C
    Prerequisites: ENL101, ENL102
    A study of significant fiction in America since the middle of the 20th-century, including Bellow, Ellison, Heller, Pynchon, LeGuin, Doctorow, Morrison, O’Brien, and others.
 

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