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2020-2021 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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Education Leadership |
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EDLDRS 797 - Special Topics
1 - 6 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This advanced course offers intensive study of selected topics in the field of educational leadership. Course content and credits vary according to topic and are announced before the advanced pre-registration period.
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EDLDRS 891 - Dissertation Seminar
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This seminar is designed to assist students in developing research ideas, writing their research plan, preparing a dissertation proposal and forming a dissertation committee. Satisfactory completion of the seminar requires submission of a dissertation proposal acceptable to the instructor and the chair of the student’s dissertation committee.
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EDLDRS 892 - Dissertation Seminar II
2 Credit(s) | |
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This seminar follows Dissertation Seminar 891, providing structured support as students gather data, research and analyze their dissertation topics; write the dissertation; prepare for its defense; and submit the final dissertation.
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EDLDRS 893 - Dissertation Seminar
2 Credit(s) | |
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This seminar follow Dissertation Seminar 891, providing structured support as students gather data, research and analyze their dissertation topics; write the dissertation; prepare for its defense; and submit the final dissertation.
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EDLDRS 899 - Dissertation Research
1 - 9 Credit(s) | |
Description:
Research conducted under the supervision of faculty and the dissertation committee leading to the presentation of a doctoral dissertation.
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Education and Administration |
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ADM G 601 - Organizational Analysis
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course examines a selected number of the most important concepts comprising organizational theory and relates them to the structure and operational management of educational institutions. Field experience is a required component of the course.
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ADM G 603 - Organizational Change
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
Principles and practices drawn from behavioral science theory are employed as means of studying the processes of change and renewal in educational organizations. Field experience is a required component of the course.
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ADM G 610 - Research Design
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course introduces quantitative and qualitative methods of research and evaluation to help educational administrators use data for school improvement. Emphasis is laid on question formulation, data analysis, observation and inquiry, and interview and questionnaire design. Field experience is a required component of the course.
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ADM G 611 - Using Data
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
The purpose of the “Using Data” module is to ensure that teachers have a solid understanding of assessment literacy and that they can use that foundation to help their peers strengthen their capacity for data-based decision-making. The secondary goal of this work is to support teachers to find greater satisfaction in the teacher leadership roles they hold, opportunities which offer advancement but do not lead them out of the classroom. Course participants will gain the knowledge, skills, resources and tools to use data on teaching, learning and school culture; quantitative and qualitative data; and using data for monitoring and evaluation progress as well as to inform decision -making.
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ADM G 613 - Personnel: Administration, Supervision and Evaluation
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course examines staff development and supervisory approaches that can assist in the creation of improved teaching-learning climates in classrooms. Field experience is a required component of the course.
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ADM G 621 - Curriculum: Theories, Development, and Evaluation
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
Beginning with an examination of the definition of curriculum from multiple perspectives, this course focuses on the interrelationships among curriculum, instruction, and assessment. Participants examine the implications for curriculum development and evaluation of the research on cognition and of alternative approaches to assessment. Field experience is a required part of the course.
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ADM G 622 - Curriculum: Status, Issues, and Trends
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
While meaningful change happens at the local school level, national standards and state curriculum frameworks influence local reform efforts by establishing “world class” standards for student achievement. This course draws both on research on how children learn and on the standards movement that defines what children need to know and be able to do. Field experience is a required component of the course.
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ADM G 627 - Legal Issues In Educ
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
Current legal concepts and practices concerning the rights, liabilities, duties, and responsibilities of all personnel employed by public schools and school systems are explored. Particular attention is given to these matters as they pertain to those who are, or aspire to be, administrators or supervisors.
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ADM G 632 - Facility Design and Fiscal Management
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course explores three related areas. The first is the process of design, construction, and equipping of school facilities to meet the needs of a given community. Second, the course focuses on topics related to fiscal management: strategic planning, analysis of resources, and developing a budget through an integrated approach to school management. Finally, the course examines legal issues pertaining to facility and fiscal concerns. Field experience is a required component of the course.
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ADM G 646 - Leadership Development
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
Concepts drawn from the behavioral sciences are used as a basis for leadership skill development. Participants engage in a series of leadership strategies in simulated situations which will enable them to better understand, predict, and modify their own behavior and that of others in organizational settings.
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ADM G 655 - Advanced Seminar in Supervision
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
Both traditional and contemporary practices of supervising teachers and related support staff in educational settings are examined in the light of municipal budgets, collective bargaining positions, legal rights, and other such factors generally perceived as playing significant roles in the supervisory process.
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ADM G 656 - Supporting Instruction
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
The purpose of the Supporting Instruction course is to ensure that teachers have a solid understanding of adult learning principles and can use that foundation to help their peers strengthen their instructional practice as they simultaneously work on their own practice. The secondary goal of this work is to support teachers to find greater satisfaction in the teacher leadership roles they hold, opportunities which offer advancement but do not lead them out of the classroom.
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ADM G 670 - Special Education Law for PreK-12 School Leaders
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course addresses the accountability requirements of the most recent federal and state legislation in regards to educating students with disabilities aged 3-22 along with the associated federal and state regulations and court decisions. Students will explore the variety of supports students with disabilities require in order to receive Free Appropriate Public Education (FAPE) including assistive technology and related services. The critical roles school leaders play in the implementation of current best practices in parental engagement, inclusion, universal design for instruction, transition services, and the importance of providing a continuum of educational services for students with disabilities will be explored. The course is designed for aspiring school principals, directors of special education and other PreK-12 administrators. Field work is a required component.
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ADM G 686 - Internship I Ed Adm
1.5 - 3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
A laboratory course providing practical experience in educational administration on a part-time basis, with special focus on the role of the principal/assistant principal, the supervisor/director, or the administrator of special education. This course combines field experience in an appropriate setting with a seminar focused on relevant issues and concerns. It is designed for part-time students who are able to devoted ten hours per week over a 15-week span to administrative or supervisor duties and responsibilities.
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ADM G 687 - Practicum II in Educational Administration
1.5 - 3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
A continuation of ADM G 686, which must be taken within two years of completing ADM G 686.
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ADM G 691 - Advanced Seminar in Administration
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
Through group discussions, this course explores the major features of important issues facing school systems today and the implications of these issues for individuals in school leadership roles.
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ADM G 693 - Shared Leadership
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
The purpose of the “Shared Leadership” module is to ensure that teachers have a solid understanding of the relationship between their teacher leadership roles, the system of distributed leadership within their schools, and district reform; and to support them to strengthen the skills they need to boost their effectiveness in their teacher leadership roles. Course participants will have the knowledge, skills, resources and tools to participate productively and lead in shared leadership structures in all the ways their teacher leadership role requires. This may include, for example, facilitating efficient meetings, supporting effective communication, supporting adult learning, strengthening school culture, monitoring and evaluation progress, and facilitation shared decision-making.
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ADM G 696 - Research Project
1 - 6 Credit(s) | |
Description:
In close consultation with a staff member, students undertake a research project treating an actual problem or concern in an educational institution.
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ADM G 697 - Special Topics in Educational Administration
1 - 6 Credit(s) | |
Description:
An advanced course offering intensive study of selected topics in educational administration. Course content varies according to the topic and will be announced prior to the advance pre-registration period.
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English |
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ENGL 600 - Studies in Criticism
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
Study of the nature and function of literature, the terms and methods of analysis and evaluation of literature, and the various approaches possible in the criticism of literature.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
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ENGL 601 - Studies in Poetry
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
Studies of poetry movements, individual poets, or particular formal or thematic topics in poetry. Topics have included: Contemporary Women Poets,Seamus Heaney, Elizabeth Bishop.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
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ENGL 602 - Studies in Fiction
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
Studies in the nature of prose fiction and its major kinds; topics in the history and sociology of narrative fiction, such as the working class novel, the short story, the prose romance, the historical novel; and studies of representative British and American types in international contexts.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
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ENGL 603 - Studies in Drama
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
A course for those who want a broad view of the sweep of Western drama, offering a study of the art of drama as it has evolved from classical Greece. Representative plays are drawn from various periods (medieval, Renaissance, Augustan, romantic, and modern) and from the major modes (tragedy, comedy, farce, realism, expressionism, and the absurdist and social theater). Selected critical works are also considered.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
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ENGL 605 - Studies in Literature and Film
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course examines the relationship between fiction and film, examining issues of representation, adaptation, narrative, composition, and cultural construction. Students will explore how these verbal and visual genres connect by asking questions such as: How does storytelling operate in each genre? How does each genre rely on narrative structures such as causality and chronology? How does film develop and change literary elements such as symbolism? How does literature and film create an audience that knows its conventions? This course addresses topics such as modern life as created by fiction and film, and internationalism in contemporary British fiction and film.
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ENGL 607 - The History of the Book
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course will examine the book as an artifact, exploring its manuscript, print, and digital forms, students will engage with the questions asked by “history of the book” scholarship by working with rare books at area libraries and archives. By literally getting their hands dirty by working with old, new, hyper, and rare texts, students will ask how historical changes in the book’s form connect to larger cultural changes. For example, what happened when printing press technology made books inexpensive and readily available to a buying public? The course will also analyze the way “history of the book” studies are being transformed due to the digital reproduction of archival materials. What does it mean to interact with a rare book online? In addition, as the course examines rare books and manuscripts, students will uncover the role of the literary scholar and his/her ability to shape the form given to the literary work. What happens to a rare book when it is edited for publication?
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ENGL 608 - Introduction to Critical and Research Methods
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course introduces the beginning graduate student to research strategies, provides an introduction to bibliographic, textual, and a range of critical methods, contrasting, for instance, the historical method with new historicism. The aim is to explore the kinds of interpretations each critical method enables and limits. This course also explores literature, literary scholarship, and teaching as material practices and explores the consequences of different ways of conceiving of those practices. (Course offered in the fall only.)
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
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ENGL 610 - The Teaching of Composition
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course defines the role of composition in the English curriculum in both college and secondary schools; develops a philosophy of language as a foundation for a method of composing; studies psychological and linguistic aspects of the composing process. The course is offered once each year.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
015158:1
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ENGL 611 - The Teaching of Literature
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course develops a theory and practice for the teaching of literature, applicable to both secondary and post-secondary education. The class reads, discusses, and analyzes sample presentations on literary texts in a variety of genres. The course serves teachers, prospective teachers, and non-teachers who seek an introduction to literature from pedagogical points of view.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
016108:1
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ENGL 613 - Teaching English with Technology
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course explores the potential uses of technology in the teaching of classes in English Studies. It situates this work within disciplinary pedagogical theory as it relates to the traditional areas of English Studies–composition, literature, and language.
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ENGL 619 - Bestial Philosophy: Critical Animal Studies
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
The classical and medieval bestiary was an encyclopedic account of species, their attributes, and in medieval Bestiarum vocabulum, their moral meaning in God’s book of the world. Animal Studies began in opposition to allegorical readings as such (including anthropomorphized and anthropocentric renderings of the animal) as a differential perspective on the self-other relation. Today, however, with the Posthuman Turn, Animal Studies connects speculative philosophies such as Object-Oriented Ontology with older forms of speculative thought, and queries the Anthropocene and its limits (as in Thing Theory), at the same time that it opens a return to a spiritually-infused understanding of the world in the Spinozan sense. In considering what we’ll call a ‘bestial philosophy,’ we’ll focus on why literary writers have long been fascinated by animals’ world experience as an alternative to the anthropocentric and logocentric universe of our own construction. Animals stand in for a range of sentient life that philosophers such as Spinoza and writers such as Kafka have assumed has been interacting with us and without us all along. We will take a set of representative literary texts and read them in conjunction with a genealogy of sorts of philosophical and theoretical texts in order to understand what Animal Studies has been (both Continental and American strains) and what it is becoming in light of new understandings and sentientism.
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ENGL 621 - Literary Theory Today
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
What is “literary theory” and why should it matter? Pursuing a rigorous course of readings and writings, this course will seek to answer these related questions by introducing graduate students to several traditions of twentieth and twenty-first century thought that have been of fundamental importance to the study of literature. Literary theory has made possible a much broader and richer encounter with texts of all kinds, from novels, poems, and plays to films, media, and the visual arts; this course seeks to understand how and why literary theory encourages new experiences and understandings of texts.
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ENGL 622 - Ecocriticism: Environmental Criticism and Literature
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
Ecocriticism is an emerging branch of literary criticism concerned with the relationships between literature and the physical world. This course will explore how theoretical understandings of the environment can be brought to literature of the environment. In the seminar students will develop a critical vocabulary and range of methodologies for discussing such topics as: the cultural construction of nature; the poetics and politics of nature writing; land as readable text; the idea of wilderness; land as economic and spiritual resource; Native American literature; “green” pedagogy; sense of place; nature and community; gender and nature; ecofeminism; and the relationship of natural science and nature writing.
039504:1
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ENGL 623 - The Nature of Narrative
3 Credit(s) | |
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This course explores a variety of ways in which modern and contemporary fiction challenge traditional narrative forms. While comparative study of experimentation is the course’s main concern, it also examines theories of narration (narratology) as these illuminate the art, reception, and ideologies of twentieth-century fiction.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
016122:1
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ENGL 624 - Language of Film
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This theory-based study in the “languages” of film, American and international, concerns the ways films signify. Emphasizing the crafting of films more than any particular thematic content, it explores mise-en-scene, framing, lighting, editing, camera work, sound, editing, genre, and acting as these mediate film narratives an , so, comprise their discourses. The course also explores structures of film narration as they relate to literary narration; it includes contextual consideration of history and ideology as these interact with film production and reception. Primary texts will include readings in literary and film theory, films and film excerpts, and literature.
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ENGL 628 - Comparative Studies of Two Writers
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
A comparative study of two major American, British, or postcolonial writers. The pairing of two writers provides a comparison of works that present affinities and oppositions in social context or theme so as to pose theoretically interesting questions for discussion, critical analysis, and further research.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
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ENGL 631 - Medieval to Renaissance Literature
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
A course in the transition from medieval to Renaissance literature. A study of the transition in prose from homiletic writings and the romances through Elyot, Ascham, and Lyly; in lyric and narrative verse from Chaucer and the Scottish Chaucerians through Sidney; and in drama from the morality and mystery plays through Hamlet.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
016124:1
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ENGL 633 - Shakespeare
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course considers Shakespeare’s dramatic art as an art of coaching an audience (and readers) in how to respond to and understand his make-believes. Multiple plotting, recurring situation, contrasts and parallels in character and character relations (especially the use of theatricalizing characters who stage plays within the play), patterns of figurative language, repetition of visual effects these and other such “structures” will be considered as means whereby Shakespeare coaxes and coaches the perception of his audience, shapes the participation of mind and feeling, and especially, prepares audiences for comic or tragic outcomes. The plays are studied in the light of ongoing critical and/or theoretical debates.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
016127:1
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ENGL 634 - Elizabethan and Jacobean Literature
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
The seminar focuses attention on a select number of English Renaissance works, representing various literary genres, ranging from the age of Elizabeth through the Jacobean era into the Caroline period. Writers such as Shakespeare, Spenser, Sidney, Elizabeth I (and other woman writers), Marlowe, Jonson, Drayton, Daniel, Donne, Marvell, Webster, Marston, Middleton, Ford, Chapman, and Milton are studied in the light of 1) modern critical and scholarly approaches to Renaissance themes and styles, 2) literary manifestations of Neoplatonism, Neostoicism, and political theory, and 3) parallels with developments in the graphic arts (emblem literature, visualized mythology, and the movement toward mannerist and baroque forms). Although the seminar concentrates on a select number of texts, it also provides an overview of the English literary Renaissance and its connections with the continental Renaissance. In short, the seminar serves as both a general grounding in and a specialized study of a major literary period.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
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ENGL 641 - Studies in Romanticism
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course examines the different literary movements that make up the Romantic Period (generally 1780-1832). It offers a comparative study of canonical Romantic Period writers and those writers who raised other kinds of questions. In so doing, it explores what it was like to live and write in the culture of this period and asks: What are the stresses on literary production, and what are the terms of aesthetic, subjective, and imagistic difference between male and female writers?
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
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ENGL 642 - Victorian Literature
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
Studies in the careers and works of major authors such as Carlyle, Tennyson, Dickens, George Eliot, Ruskin, and Wilde, with brief excursions into the works of others. Major themes include the relations of art and society and the problems of faith and doubt, science, and imagination.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
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ENGL 646 - Literature and Society
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
A study of literature with special reference to its social and historical circumstances and of the theoretical questions raised by such a perspective.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
016142:1
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ENGL 648 - Modernism in Literature
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
“On or about December 1910,” Virginia Woolf wrote, “human nature changed.” This course examines the trans-Atlantic modernism(s) that arose in the early twentieth century in response to the epochal shifts that Woolf described. We will read poetry, prose, and theory by American and British modernists such as Woolf, Stein, Joyce, Eliot, Faulkner, Toomer, Lawrence, Williams, H.D., and Hurston in the context of historical, political, social, and scientific changes as well as in the context of the cultural changes-in art, music, film, architecture-that surrounded and influenced their aesthetic projects.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
016144:1
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ENGL 650 - Colonial American Literature
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This seminar closely examines texts composed by colonial American women and men who - through their writings - tried to understand their contemporaries and themselves during two periods of cultural change: the Puritan 17th century and the revolutionary 18th century. Included are works by such authors as Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Sarah Kemble Knight, Phillis Wheatley, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Hector St. John de Crevecoeur.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
016147:1
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ENGL 651 - Nineteenth Century American Literature
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
The nineteenth century brought unprecedented growth and change to the United States. Industry, immigration, urbanization, the Civil War, social justice movement, the end of slavery, and reconstruction marked the country’s move from nascent republic to international power. American writers grappled with these changes as they contributed to the development of a national literature: a literature that would, in Walt Whitman’s words, be both transcendent and new. This course will consider both canonized and less familiar texts of the period through a variety of approaches, topics, and themes.
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ENGL 653 - Major American Novelists
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
An in-depth study of two or three American novelists, considered comparatively. Possible authors to be studied include Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, James, Wharton, Chopin, Cather, Dreiser, Faulkner, Hemingway, Ellison, Morrison.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
016150:1
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ENGL 654 - Modern American Fiction
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This is a course in the study of significant works of American fiction written in the last century, mostly before WW II. The course discusses major American modernists, such as James, Wharton, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Toomer, Faulkner, Hurston, as well as the critical and cultural contexts in which these works appeared. The focus is on the establishment of American fiction as a major literary form during an era of social flux, economic dislocation, and foreign wars.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
016151:1
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ENGL 655 - The Harlem Renaissance
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This seminar will examine some of the major literary works of the Harlem Renaissance (also known as the New Negro movement), which flourished between the end of the World War I and the 1929 stock market crash. We will consider how the texts interact with one another thematically, politically, and aesthetically; how architects of the movement defined the New Negro and her/his are; and how contemporary critics have reconstructed the Harlem Renaissance as a major American literary period. Through the study of African-American modernism, this seminar will explore its larger implications for literary studies: the role of literature and other cultural expressions in realizing and representing “imagined communities,” in resisting and reinforcing political and social discourses, and in reflecting its own potentials and limitations in defining a social self. Authors will include W.E.B Du Bois, Jessie Redmon Fauset, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Nella Larsen, and Claude Mckay.
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ENGL 659 - Women’s Literature
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
In the context of unprecedented discussion of sexual assault and women’s authority in the public sphere, feminist questions wield a new vitality and significance. Imaginative literature has long been a forum for women to intervene in political discourse, well before they had the vote, and in some cases, before they were liberated from slavery. This course provides both a survey of women’s literature as well an introduction to key developments in feminist theory. From sentimental fiction to graphic novels, we will consider how women writers contend with the pressures of heteronormativity, the problems and pleasures of embodiment, and the anxieties of authorship itself. We will examine how female experience cannot be disentangled from considerations of racial difference or economic stratification, and we will ask: what, if anything, unifies this tradition of literature, and how might feminist methodology offer a way of reading and grappling with the various forms of subjugation that structure contemporary life.
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ENGL 663 - Revolutionary Romanticism
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
Who were the really revolutionary thinkers and writers in the “Age of Revolution,” as the Romantic Period is also known? To consider this questions, this course will understand revolution in the sense of a “family affair.” The Family unit was an operative ideological concept for very different kinds of revolutions, from the politics of liberation to the feminist revolution in education and social practices. Orienting this affair will be what we can call “the First Family” of revolutionary thought, which is not that of the French king and his famous queen Marie Antoinette, nor that of the mad George III and his politically rebellious son, later George IV, but that of the Godwin-Shelley Circle. The primary members of this circle are William Godwin, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley and Percy Bysshe Shelley (who came to study at Godwin’s feet and instead eloped with his daughter). Behind his family romance of “free love,” revolution, and theories of education lie the political thought of highly influential figures such as Rousseau, and the feminist politics of care, a contribution to the enduring problem of ethical action (best articulated for the Romantics by Spinoza). Both revolution and care as ethical action struggle against the increasingly dominant ideology of the aesthetic for this family that combines and traverses the standard period division into “first generation” and “second generation” Romantics. As we read our primary writers, we will bring in other thinkers and materials to provide both historical and literary contexts, genre contrasts, and contemporary interventions in these dramatic and self-dramatizing issues.
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ENGL 667 - Seminar for Tutors
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course teaches graduate students to tutor undergraduate students who are taking Freshman English 101 and 102 at UMass Boston. It features readings, writing, and discussion on the theoretical and practical issues one encounters in working as a composition tutor. Tutors learn to apply research about tutoring to the specific context of the undergraduate classroom, learning not only about tutoring goals and practices, but also about the UMass Boston Freshman English program’s philosophy and the UMass Boston undergraduate experience. This knowledge provides a foundation for further teaching at UMass Boston. All elements of the course combine to provide an intellectual framework for articulation and synthesis of, as well as reflection on, what is learned in the work experience of the tutor.
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ENGL 668 - Perspectives on Composition
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course involves the sustained study of significant theory, concept, issue, or method in composition, whether an historical survey or a timely twenty-first century debate. Such topics might include feminism, multimodality, or process. The selected topic will be examined through multiple theoretical, historical, political, and ethical lenses in order to trace the broader terrain of the field of composition.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
016164:1
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ENGL 669 - Writing Theories in Second Language Instruction
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course will consider the key issues in writing theory, research, and pedagogy as they are specifically related to writing in a second language. It will introduce students to the existing research and developing theories on the composing process and examine, critique, and evaluate current and traditional theories and practices by exploring the ways in which theory and research can be translated into instruction.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
000683:1
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ENGL 670 - Philosophy and the Composing Process
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
Current rhetorical theory emphasizing the process of composing has developed several models (e.g., pre-writing, writing, re-writing) which are nevertheless linear. But writers and teachers of writing need ways of apprehending the all-at-onceness of composition. This seminar offers opportunities to develop philosophical perspectives on perception and forming; language and the making of meaning; interpretation in reading and teaching. The course explores the pedagogical and practical implications of a broad range of theories of language and knowing by means of experimental writing and by the study of essays, letters, talks, and other materials by scientists, artists, and philosophers. This course is recommended for students choosing to concentrate in composition for the English MA, at or near the start of their programs.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
016165:1
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ENGL 672 - Research in Writing Studies
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This graduate seminar explores the ways that composition and rhetoric scholars make and support knowledge claims by investigating both research in the discipline and the methods and methodologies that undergird that research. Geared towards helping students generate research projects through an informed framing of inquiry, this course provides an introduction to epistemology in writing studies-an introduction that provides a framework for understanding how writing is and has been studied. This focus on knowledge-making is operationalized through a range of methods for conducting research on writing. Students will learn to critically read research publications in composition and rhetoric; they will also learn to develop and pursue their own research projects.
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ENGL 673 - Digital Writing
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
As writing increasingly moves from the printed page to the screen and beyond, writers have at their disposal a fuller range of expressive modes and means of communication, including but not limited to linear alphabetic text. This workshop/studio course invites students to explore these possibilities by experimenting with their writing in digital platforms. Students engage born-digital texts alongside of traditional print-based genres and consider the relationship between written, audio-visual and/or interactive modes. Classes include craft-based discussions, peer critiques, and hands-on instruction in media production software, which prepare students to produce their own creative digital texts through a series of independent writing projects. This course welcomes students from all backgrounds; no specialized technical skills are expected or required.
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ENGL 674 - Writing and Community
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This class explores the ‘public turn’ of literacy and composition studies - a movement that recognizes and engages with literate activity occurring beyond the academy: in community centers, in homes, in the streets, and in other alternative spaces for rhetorical education and literate practice. This course will prepare students to develop thoughtful pedagogies that engage with public writing and community literacy. To support and practice literacy research and activism outside of the university classroom, and to gain a deeper understanding of the intersections between literacy and composition studies. Whenever possible, a sustained engagement project with local community partners will serve as a touchstone of the course.
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ENGL 675 - Reading and Writing Poetry
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This is a graduate poetry workshop for both experienced writers and students with little poetry-writing experience. For more experienced writers, the concentration is on developing skills, with a chance to extend range by studying great poems in form and in free verse. For students newer to writing poetry, or students who simply wish to learn more about poetry, this is a chance to develop your skills from the inside, through studying poems by accomplished poets in various forms, including free verse, and through the actual practice of writing in these forms. The main work of the semester is writing poems, but there are assignments requiring a critical response to other poets.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
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ENGL 676 - Reading and Writing Fiction
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This is a graduate fiction workshop for both experienced writers and students with little fiction-writing experience. For more experienced writers, the concentration is on developing skills, with a chance to extend range by studying writers like Mary Gaitskill, Denis Johnson, Geoff Dyer, Lorrie Moore, Steven Millhauser, and Chuck Palahniuk. Fiction-writing assignments are connected to reading assignments.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate students in ENGL only
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ENGL 681 - Advanced Workshop in Poetry
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
An advanced poetry workshop in which students practice and improve the poetic skills they have already begun to develop by focusing on a pre-approved project for the semester. Class discussion focuses on student work, and individual conferences with the instructor are required. This course may be repeated twice for credit.
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ENGL 682 - Advanced Workshop in Fiction
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
An advanced fiction workshop in which students improve the writing skills they have already begun to develop by focusing on a pre-approved project for the semester. All students read contemporary fiction throughout the semester. Class discussion focuses on student work, and individual conferences with the instructor are required. This course may be repeated twice for credit.
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ENGL 683 - Literary Sites and Spaces
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course will engage students in literary “field work,” encouraging experiential learning at libraries, museums, archives, and writers’ homes and communities. The course creates opportunities for students to explore what happens when a literary text is connected to a literary site, including spaces of literary inspiration, production, reading, and preservation. Each course meeting will feature on-site learned in a literary space, with field trips, workshops, and assignments designed to give the group unique insights into the interpretive possibilities created by field-based research. By working outside of the classroom, students will place literature in new social and historical contexts, while also testing the latest theoretical understandings of literary history, literary and cultural geography, cultures of the book, and the history of the book.
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ENGL 689 - English Studies Workshop
1 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This one credit course meets in evening workshops held at regular intervals (every two weeks). The central goal of the English Studies Workshop is to engage MA students in an understanding of the latest developments in the field of English. The workshop sessions take a variety of forms, typically featuring a presentation led by a faculty member; they also include less traditional experiences, such as visits to area research libraries. The workshops encourage students to have an experiential engagement with English’s latest research, theoretical, pedagogical, creative, professional, and career trends, while also showing student show those trends inform the MA program.
Enrollment Requirements:
Masters student in English
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ENGL 690 - English Research Workshop
1 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This one credit course meets in evening workshops held at regular intervals (every two weeks). The central goal of the English Research Workshop is to prepare MA students for the final project. Research exercises will move student through the steps needed to create a successful final project, such as :formulating a viable research topic, locating an advisor, understanding research methodology, selecting models of research and writing in professional journals, compiling an annotated bibliography, and creating a research calendar. Students are strongly encouraged to take the English Research workshop in the year or semester before their final project work commences.
Enrollment Requirements:
Masters student in English
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ENGL 691 - Final Project in Composition
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course provides a structure for students working toward completion of the final exercise (capstone) requirement in composition. A project proposal is required and must be approved by the faculty supervisor of the project and by the Graduate Program Director. Paper plans and drafts are studied and critiqued in regular tutorial conferences with individual faculty supervisors, or examination materials and sample questions are analyzed. The final paper or examination is assessed by graduate faculty readers. Students must successfully complete the capstone essay or examination in order to receive the MA.
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ENGL 692 - Final Project in Creative Writing
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course provides a structure for students working toward completion of the final exercise (capstone) requirement in creative writing and supplements work done in creative writing workshops. A project proposal is required and must be approved by the faculty supervisor of the project, by the Director of Creative Writing, and by the Graduate Program Director. Drafts are studied and critiqued in regular tutorial conferences with individual faculty supervisors. The final manuscript is assessed by graduation faculty readers. Students must successfully complete the capstone project in order to receive the MA.
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ENGL 693 - Final Project in Literature
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
Provides a structure for students working toward completion of the final exercise (capstone) requirement in literature. A project proposal is required and must be approved by the faculty supervisor of the project and by the Graduate Program Director. Paper plans and drafts are studied and critiqued in regular tutorial conferences with individual faculty supervisors, or examination materials and sample questions are analyzed. The final paper or examination is assessed by graduate faculty readers. Students must successfully complete the capstone project in order to receive the MA.
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ENGL 694 - Graduate Internship in English
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
The Graduate Internship in English allows students to explore possible careers connected to and furthered by the postgraduate study of English. Internships take place within a wide variety of fields that feature an applied use of English, including publishing, marketing, publicity, professional writing, creative writing, library work, and non-profit administration. Internships can include experiences such as organizing rare books materials for a Boston area library, leading literacy workshops for a non-profit organization, or composing publicity materials in a corporate setting. The Graduate Internship affords students the opportunity to bring the ideas and skills learned in English MA courses to the workplace.
Enrollment Requirements:
Graduate student in English, at least six credits of coursework and permission of program director.
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ENGL 695 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s) | |
Description:
A comprehensive study of a particular area of literature, particular author, or specialized topic not offered in regular seminars. Consultation with the director of graduate studies is mandatory. Students arrange a project with a faculty member who approves a project proposal, providing a description or outline of the research and writing work to be undertaken and a bibliography of reading. The project must be approved by the Graduate Program Director. Project proposals must be submitted by the end of the semester previous to the one in which the study is to take place.
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ENGL 696 - Independent Study
1 - 6 Credit(s) | |
Description:
A comprehensive study of a particular area of literature, particular author, or specialized topic not offered in regular seminars. Consultation with the director of graduate studies is mandatory. Students arrange a project with a faculty member who approves a project proposal, providing a description or outline of the research and writing work to be undertaken and a bibliography of reading. The project must be approved by the Graduate Program Director. Project proposals must be submitted by the end of the semester previous to the one in which the study is to take place.
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ENGL 697 - Special Topics in Literature and Composition
1 - 6 Credit(s) | |
Description:
Experimental new graduate seminars on special subjects are frequently offered under this heading and are announced each semester prior to the advance pre-registration period.
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ENGL 698 - Intern Seminar
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This seminar is for both composition and literature interns during their intern semester. It involves a preliminary summer workshop and weekly meetings and classroom visits during the semester. The course is team-taught by the two internship supervisors, with students divided into a composition and a literature section according to their intern appointment. The seminar develops more fully the pedagogical and content material covered in ENGL 610 and 611. It involves collaborative work (particularly in designing a joint syllabus, reading list, and assignments for the undergraduate composition and literature sections to be taught by interns), classroom research, and reflective reports.
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ENGL 699 - Master of Art Thesis
6 Credit(s) | |
Description:
A substantial project of approximately 60 pages in literature, composition, or creative writing. Creative writing students will include a related analytical paper with their manuscript. A thesis proposal is required and must be approved by the student’s faculty supervisor of the thesis and by the Graduate Program Director. In the case of creative writing theses, approval by the Director of Creative Writing is also required. The student works under the supervision of a faculty thesis director in regular tutorial conferences. Students should begin working on their project a full semester before the semester in which the project is due. The thesis will be read by a committee of three graduate faculty members who will judge its suitability as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Arts degree. Finally, a thesis defense before the student’s committee and open to all members of the English Department will take place.
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ENVSCI 530 - Ecosystem Based Fishery Management
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
Intercampus Registration Course
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ENVSCI 555 - Introduction to Physical Oceanography
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
UMass Darthouth course
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ENVSCI 600 - Responsible Conduct in Research
1 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This first year graduate course will introduce students to the many aspects of scientific integrity and responsible conduct in research (RCR). We seek to provide a learning experience for students that will enable them to: 1. Develop and refine skills needed to solve problems involving relevant topic areas of responsible scientific conduct; 2. Be able to clearly articulate –both verbally and in writing –ethically and legally acceptable solutions to problems posed about scientific conduct; 3. Develop a positive attitude towards life long learning in the matters of scientific integrity and responsible research conduct.
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ENVSCI 601 - Introduction to Probability and Applied Statistics
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
The course will analyze basic probability theory, probability distributions useful for modeling environmental processes - including binomial, Poisson, exponential, normal, geometric, hypergeometric, Chi-square, F, and Student’s t - conditional probabilities & Bayes’ theorem, random variables, & expected values, the central limit theorem, and parameter estimation. The course focuses on software-based hypothesis testing including p-values & confidence limits, Monte Carlo simulations, Type I and II error & power, Student’s t tests and non-parametric alternatives, contigency tables & goodness-of-fit tests, regression, correlation, and one-way randomized block ANOVA. The course will make extensive use of programming software (e.g., Matlab or R). Calculus is a prerequisite.
Enrollment Requirements:
MATH 141 or MATH 146 or permission of instructor.
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ENVSCI 603 - Coasts and Communities I
4 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course defines and explores methods of linking critical disciplinary perspectives important to defining and solving environmental problems. The course will focus on the relation among natural and human systems in coastal regions of the world. Through the lens of climate change and urbanization this course will cover fundamental aspects on earth system interactions including hydrology, geology, geochemistry, physical oceanography, and ecology. This course is combination lecture and discussion. Students are required to register for both the lecture and a discussion section.
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ENVSCI 604 - Coasts and Communities II
4 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course explores human system interactions with the environment through the lens of climate change and urbanization. The course uses conceptual modeling and problem solving to explore the role of governance, business, and communities in the development and implementation of sustainable solutions to environmental problems.
Enrollment Requirements:
ENVSCI 603 or permission of instructor
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ENVSCI 607 - Introduction to Environmental Innovation Clinic
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course gives students a new set of tools for and experience in finding and developing innovative approaches for addressing environmental problems. The course explores various creativity methodologies and identifies, in collaboration with stakeholders, prospects for applying innovative strategies to address current environmental challenges.
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ENVSCI 611 - Applied Statistics
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course is designed to prepare students to design and analyze experiments and field studies using ANOVA (Analysis of Variance) and regression techniques, including generalized linear regression. Analyses will be performed using Matlab, SPSS/PASW or R. both online and in-person versions will use discussion boards extensively and 2-3 hours of virtual office hours will provide 1-on-1 help with computer analyses and statistical concepts.
Enrollment Requirements:
EEOS 601 or permission of instructor
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ENVSCI 613 - Oceans and Human Health
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
Over the last ten years, there has been a growing realization among both natural and social scientists that the oceans affect human health, and humans affect ocean health. Because of the complex and varied interactions between the oceans and humans, this new field is necessarily interdisciplinary, spanning the entire gamut from oceanography, toxicology, biological, physical, chemical and medical sciences, through engineering, epidemiology and public health, and on the social sciences, economics, and environmental policy and management. This course aims to introduce student sto the evolving interdisciplinary field of “oceans and Human Health.” Lectures will provide background information on human health, the physical environment, and oceanographic processes, presented through a case study approach that will demonstrate the inter-relationships among these three factors. The course will include such current topics as the impacts of global climate change, endocrine disruptors, harmful algal blooms (HSBs), toxic dinoflagellates, waterborne and foodborne diseases, and the importance of natural products from the ocean. Impacts (to both humans and the ocean) and remedies will be emphasized.
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ENVSCI 615 - Introduction to Environmental Health
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course introduces graduate students to key areas of environmental health including the physical, chemical, and biological hazards found in the environment and health risks associated with workplace and community exposure to them. Using the perspectives of the population and community, the course provides an opportunity to think creatively about solutions to the complex issues.
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ENVSCI 621 - Plankton Dynamics
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
The focus of the course will be on the dynamic processes and interactions between water column plankton (e.g., phytoplankton, zooplankton, bacteria, and protists) with regard to nutrient and energy exchange. The course will examine how changes in the water chemistry can affect biological processes and community composition and the impacts this has on marine resources and society. There will be a small field component to this course where students are exposed to and allowed to see the different plankton organisms along with being shown the basic methods for studying the different water-column plankton.
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ENVSCI 622 - Introduction to Zooplankton Ecology
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
Zooplankton can be called the cows of the sea. These animals range in size from 200 mm to .1 mm and are the food supply for many commercially important fish, whales, and other large animals. This course will examine the different classes and functional groups of marine zooplankton, with an emphasis on copepods and tunicates. Zooplankton morphology, physiology, ecology, and geographical distributions will be discussed in detail and related to larger environmental issues, e.g., global warming, eutrophication.
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ENVSCI 623L - Introduction to Geographic Information Systems
4 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course teaches the concepts, principles, approaches, techniques, and technologies of geographic information systems (GIS)The specific topics include essential elements of a GIS, hardware requirements and system integration, technologies and techniques for acquiring spatial data, spatial data models, data structures, data formats, database models, spatial analysis and modeling, cartographic design, implementation of a GIS, and environmental and socioeconomic applications. Hands-on exercises on ArcView are assigned each week. A term project on the use of a GIS in solving a specific environmental or socio-economic problem is required. EEOS 623L and UPCD 623L are the same course.
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ENVSCI 625 - Principles and Applications of Remote Sensing
4 Credit(s) | |
Description:
In this course, students learn the physical principles of remote sensing and become familiar with the capabilities and limitations of current and future remote-sensing systems. They also learn the techniques commonly used for interpreting aerial photographs, satellite remote-sensing data, and thermal and radar imagery, and gain practical lab experience in image interpretation. They are exposed to a wide variety of applications in environmental mapping and monitoring, natural resource management, urban and regional planning, and global change research.
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ENVSCI 629 - Advanced Topics in GIScience
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course is an advanced GIS graduate course focusing on quantitative methods in spatial analysis. It is meant to promote critical thinking and explore current technical advances in GIS. Students will examine GIS applications in detail, and gain “hands-on” experience with current spatial modeling software in an applied area. Students will also gain experience in planning and outlining an applied GIS project, learning the specific techniques required for the project, and advancing the project through to completion.
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ENVSCI 630 - Biological Oceanography
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
The course analyzes the processes governing the population dynamics of phytoplankton, zooplankton, and benthos. The course stresses the interaction between marine biology and relevant aspects of physical, chemical and geological oceanography. The course has a special emphasis on applied benthic ecology, especially the effects of pollution on the coastal zone. Other topics include the microphytobenthos, modeling competition, predation & benthic community structure, zooplankton grazing & predation, satellite remote sensing, and the effects of climate change on marine populations. Calculus recommended, but not required.
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ENVSCI 635 - Environmental Toxicology
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
The course will impart basic principles of environmental toxicology, focusing on toxicological assessment, types and mechanisms of toxicological response, the properties and effects of specific groups of toxicants released into the environment (e.g., PAH, PCB, pesticides, metals, dioxins/dibenzoofurans), and an overview of current issues facing the rather broad field of environmental toxicology. Toxicological responses will be discussed at all levels of biological organization, from the molecular/biochemical, cellular, and organismal up through the population, community, and ecosystem. Biochemical toxicology will be particularly emphasized with respect to toxicant absorption, internal partitioning/transport, metabolism/detoxification, sequestering, targeting, and elimination.
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ENVSCI 640 - The Chemistry of Natural Waters
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
A basic description of the chemistry of natural and especially marine waters designed to lay the foundation for more advanced course work. Emphasis will be on the chemical composition of natural waters and the identification of the important chemical, physical, and biological processes controlling their composition. A case study, emphasizing the multidisciplinary nature of these processes, will be given at the end of the course.
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ENVSCI 641 - The Geochemistry of a Habitable Planet
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
Geochemistry is a unique field integrating geology and chemistry to tell the story of a planet. In this class, we will use geochemistry to reconstruct the story of our Earth, a habitable planet. Along the way, we will explore principles in isotope geochronology, trace element geochemistry, aqueous chemistry, stable isotope geochemistry and chemical proxies in dynamic systems.
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ENVSCI 642 - Laboratory for the Geochemistry of a Habitable Planet
1 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course is designed to introduce the theory, applications, and operation of modern instrumental methods for geochemical analysis earth materials. The course aligns laboratory activities with ENVSCI 641 to reinforce key geochemical concepts through discovery. Students will be introduced to a wide spectrum of instrumental techniques and will gain an understanding of the analytical approach to problem solving.
Enrollment Requirements:
Co-requisite: ENVSCI 641
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ENVSCI 645 - Environmental Issues in the Horn of Africa
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course explores the environmental issues and associated political ecologies of the Horn of Africa. The course will explore the history of human-environment relations, paying particular attention to the exploitation of the natural environment during colonialism and patterns of extraction and trade set up during that time. The course will also explore the major debates concerning the development, governance, and valuation of the regions natural resources.
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ENVSCI 646 - Global Ecology
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course reveals key examples of the vast network of long distance ecological connections across the biosphere. Emphasizing a visual, interactive, and interdisciplinary approach, students explore the impacts of air currents, symbiosis, bacteria as global organism, biogenic depositions, algal interactions, and climate disruption. Students are also introduced to inspiring science-based grassroots and indigenous leaders around the world.
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ENVSCI 650 - Physical Oceanography
3 Credit(s) | |
Description:
This course introduces the physical processes active in the ocean environment, including coastal and estuarine regions, and investigates the connection between those processes and observed physical characteristics of the ocean. (Course offered in the fall only.)
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