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2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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ENGIN 103 - Introduction to Engineering
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Via team projects and discussions, students will discover the tools of engineering design, data analysis and modeling, estimations, spreadsheets, oral presentations, logbook, written reports, web page building, movies making, graphical programming, teamwork, leadership, project management, and problem-solving skills. Not only for prospective engineering students, also for those seeking important skills to succeed in college and/or the job market.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Natural Sciences
015190:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 104 - Introduction to Electrical and Computer Engineering
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Students will work in teams to build and test electrical circuits and to explore the basics of signal processing and data modeling. The essentials of computer programming are introduced using languages such as LabVIEW and Matlab with the goal of enabling students to use the computer effectively in subsequent courses. Students will develop codes in computer languages such as LabVIEW and Matlab to analyze circuits and to design and apply digital filters. Teamwork, logbook, presentations, and report writing are integral components of the course. No previous programming experience is required.
Enrollment Requirements:
Students in computer engineering, electrical engineering, and engineering physics only
037808:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 202 - Statics (Mechanical Engineering)
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A vector treatment of the equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies. Topics include: vector algebra, forces, moments, couples, equations of equilibrium, free-body diagrams, graphical techniques, constraints, structures and mechanisms, friction, centroids and moments of inertia, the method of virtual work. (Course offered in the fall only.)
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: PHYSIC 113
015196:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 211L - Engineering Mathematics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In this course students will learn important math concepts and techniques they will need to study engineering topics such as circuit analysis, signal processing, electromagnetic fields and wavers, etc. Topics include complex numbers and functions. Laplace transform, Fourier series and transform, first and second order differential equations, partial differential equations, vector differential calculus, matrix algebra, and probability and statistics. For each of these topics, engineering applications will be emphasized, and when appropriate, numerical solutions will be introduced.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: MATH 141
038411:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 221 - Strength of Materials I
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Notions of stress, strain and Mohr’s circle; tension; shear and torsion; plane stress and plane strain; moments of inertia. Shear force and bending moment diagrams. Depletion of beams; indeterminate beams; Castigliano’s principle; plastic bending of beams. Mechanical properties of materials. (Course offered in the spring only.)
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 202
015200:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 222 - Dynamics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A vector treatment of dynamics. Kinematics of a particle in two and three dimensions. Dynamics of a particle; momentum, moment of momentum, and work-energy. Rigid bodies in plane motion; kinematics and dynamics. Relative motion. (Course offered in the spring only.)
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 202
015201:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 231 - Circuit Analysis I
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Mathematical models for circuit elements, basic circuit laws, techniques for writing and solving circuit equations. Circuit theorems, operational amplifiers, first- and second-order circuits. Numerical methods of circuit analysis.
Enrollment Requirements:
Pre- or corequisite: PHYSIC 114
000731:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 232 - Circuit Analysis II
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Analysis of AC circuits using phasors, mutual inductance and the dot convention, ideal transformers, power analysis, balanced three-phase circuits, frequency response and Bode plots, transfer functions, and application of Laplace and Fourier transforms in circuit analysis. Students use PSPICE to check their results.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 231
000730:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 241 - Digital Systems with Lab
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Concepts of digital measurement, counting, timing and switching, basic logic concepts, basic theorems in Boolean algebra, manipulation of logic statements, binary information gates, application of logic gates, flip-flops and multivibrators, counters, registers and readouts, and other combinational and sequential circuits. Note: When this course is not being offered, students may instead take PHYSIC 392 (Digital Electronics with Lab).
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 231 or permission of instructor
015207:1
4 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 246 - Computer Organization and Assembly Language
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Introduction to the organization of general-purpose computers and assembly language programming. Topics include: fundamentals of CPU design, Instruction Set Architectures (ISA) design, number systems and computer arithmetic, datapath and controller abstraction and design, parallelism and pipelines, hierarchical memory design and operation, input/output systems and storage, and assembly language programming.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: CS 109 or CS 110
040859:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 263 - Engineering Thermodynamics
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The objective of the science of thermodynamics is to describe the state of matter and its interactions with surrounding s in terms of macroscopic properties such as temperature, pressure, etc. The course will introduce the fundamentals of science of classical thermodynamics. Historical perspectives on the evolution of this field and its gradual development into a modern branch of science will be presented. Upon successful completion of the course, students are expected to be capable of applying the First and the Second Laws of thermodynamics to the analyze the performance and efficiency of pumps, compressors, turbines, nozzles, diffusers, and other engineering systems.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: PHYSIC 114 and PHYSIC 182
040865:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 271 - Circuit Lab I
1 Credit(s) | Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introductory electrical measurements and linear circuit analysis laboratory to accompany ENGIN 231 (Circuit Analysis I). Topics include voltage and current division in resistive networks, circuit theorems, operational amplifiers, first- and second-order circuits, power transfer, capacitors and inductors.
Enrollment Requirements:
Corequisite: ENGIN 231
000729:1
1 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 272 - Circuit Lab II
1 Credit(s) | Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An electrical measurements laboratory to accompany ENGIN 232 (Circuit Analysis II). Topics include ac power and phase measurements, frequency response, transformers, Laplace and Fourier analysis.
Enrollment Requirements:
Corequisite: ENGIN 232
000728:1
1 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 321 - Signals and Systems
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The concepts of signals and systems arise in all areas of technology, e.g. signal processing. This course provides an introduction to the analysis of linear systems in the time- and frequency-domain, e.g. what is the output of a system if we know the input and the impulse response function or the transfer function of the system, how to characterize a system by stimulating it and measuring the output signals. Students will learn about the input/output differential or difference equation, the convolution theorem and its applications, the continuous- and discrete-time Fourier and Laplace transforms, and how to use Matlab in solving problems.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: ENGIN 232 and MATH 242
015230:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 322 - Probability and Random Processes
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to probabilistic description (via the probability density function or distribution function) and statistical description (via the ensemble average, variance, etc.) of random signals as applied to the analysis of linear systems. Other topics include conditional probability, statistical independence, correlation, sampling theory, confidence intervals, hypothesis testing, stationary and ergodic processes, auto-correlation and cross-correlation functions, spectral density, and their interconnections.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 321
032234:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 331 - Fields & Waves
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The course will cover topics including vector analysis, electrostatic fields in vacuum and material media, stationary currents in conducting media, magnetostatic fields in vacuum and material media, Maxwell’s equations and time-dependent electric and magnetic fields, electromagnetic waves and radiation, transmission lines, wave guides, and applications.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: PHYSIC 114 and MATH 242 and 310
038410:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 332 - Fields and Waves II
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This is a second course in Fields and Waves, which covers time-harmonic wave propagation in transmission lines, in free space, in waveguides, at interfaces and in waveguides. The course focuses on the application of electromagnetic analysis techniques to engineering problems.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 331
039221:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 341 - Advanced Digital Design
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The course will cover topics including tools and methodologies for top-down design of complex digital systems. Important topics include minimization, mixed logic, algorithmic state machines, microprogrammed controllers, creating and using a gold model, data and control path design, and data movement and routing via buses. Design methodologies covered include managing the design process from concept to implementation, gold model validation, and introduction to design flow. A hardware description language is used extensively to demonstrate models and methodologies, and is also used in design exercises and projects.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 241
039055:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 346 - Microcontrollers
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A hands-on approach to microprocessor and peripheral system programming, I/O interfacing, and soft and real-time interrupt management, using a mixture of assembly and higher-level programming languages.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: ENGIN 241 and CS 240 or permission of instructor
039056:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 351 - Fundamentals of Semiconductor Devices
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The course will cover topics including semiconductor materials, basic device physics, pn-junctions, metal-semiconductor junctions, and both bipolar and metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) transistors.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 365 or permission of instructor
038847:1
3 Credit(s) |
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3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 365 - Electronics I with Lab
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A brief introduction to semiconductor physics, leading to physical characteristics of pn junction diodes, bipolar junction transistors, and field effect transistors. Circuit models for diodes, transistors and operational amplifiers and their use in practical circuits. Analysis of linear circuits based on application of circuit models of devices and circuit theory. Note: When this course is not being offered, students may instead take PHYSIC 391 (Basic Electronics with Lab).
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: ENGIN 232 and MATH 242
015225:1
4 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 366 - Electronics II with Lab
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Laboratory |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Continuation of ENGIN 365. Differential, operational amplifiers and applications, transistor amplifiers at very high frequencies, direct-coupled and band-pass, small- and large-signal, feedback amplifiers; and oscillators. Active filters, waveform generation including Schmitt trigger, multiplexers, A/D and D/A converters. Circuit design employing IC operational amplifiers, discrete devices, SPICE. An electronic design project constitutes a major part of the course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 365
015235:1
4 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 421 - Radar Systems
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This is a course for electrical engineering majors providing an introduction to radar systems, signal processing, and applications. Topics covered during lecture include: description of radar architecture and components; common radar applications; choice of operation parameters, mathematical models for radar signals and scattering, review of Fourier Transform properties, application of Fourier transform to range compression and Doppler processing, emphasis on special topics such as police speed radar and SAR image formation. Laboratory work will include Matlab processing of experimental radar data.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 321
040864:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 435 - Antenna Design
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This is a course for electrical engineering majors in antenna design and applications. Topics covered include: how radiation works; common antenna types; antenna design techniques and rules of thumb; physical laws that limit realizable performance; antenna metrics; and antenna performance in a system.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 331
039220:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 441 - Embedded Systems
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course covers fundamentals of embedded systems: architecture, programming, design, and interfacing. Topics include processors and hardware for embedded systems, embedded programming and real time operating systems. The course will cover technologies and methods using computer Aided Design (CAD) design tools for implementation of complex digital systems using Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). It provides advanced methods of digital circuit design, specification, synthesis, implementation and prototyping.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 341
039057:1
3 Credit(s) |
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3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 446 - Computer Architecture Design
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An introduction to computer architectures; analysis and design of computer subsystems including central processing units, memories and input/output subsystems; important concepts include datapaths, computer arithmetic, instruction cycles, pipelining, virtual and cache memories, direct memory access and controller design.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites:
039058:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 451 - Semiconductor Device Design, Simulation and Fabrication
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This hands-on course will cover topics including design, simulation, fabrication, and characterization of basic semiconductor devices made of either silicon or compound III-V semiconductors as well as the fabrication methods needed to produce such devices.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 351
039215:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 471 - RF/Microwave Circuits
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is the first of a two course sequence on modern microwave engineering. This course will cover primarily passive circuit design and analysis, specifically: transmission line theory and waveguides, microwave network analysis, impedance matching and tuning, power dividers and couplers, microwave resonators, and microwave filters. This course will utilize computer-aided design (CAD) tools as well as a microwave laboratory experience for assignments and team projects.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisites: ENGIN 232 and ENGIN 272 and ENGIN 331
038848:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 478 - Independent Study
1 - 3 Credit(s) | Independent Study |
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
Study of an engineering topic or work on a research project by a student or group of students under faculty supervision on subjects not currently offered in a regularly scheduled course.
Enrollment Requirements:
Instructor consent
039216:1
1 - 3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 491 - Senior Design Project I
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
ENGIN 491, Senior Design Project I is the first semester of the two-part, two-semester Senior Design Project sequence (ENGIN 491/492 ) designed to help students prepare to make the transition to the Engineering workplace. During the first semester (ENGIN 491), students work in project teams to create a design solution to an engineering problem, and use their technical writing and presentation skills to produce a project plan and design report.
Enrollment Requirements:
Instructor consent
037603:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGIN 492 - Senior Design Project II
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
ENGIN 492, Senior Design Project II is the second semester of the two-part, two-semester Senior Design Project sequence (ENGIN 491 /492) designed to help students prepare to make the transition to the engineering workplace. As a continuation of ENGIN 491 , during the second semester (ENGIN 492), students work in project teams to implement the design solution to an engineering problem that they came up with in ENGIN 491 , and continue to practice their technical writing skills to produce final reports as well as technical manuals for their device/software, in addition to presenting their products and/or findings to a group of panelists consisting of people as potential customers.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGIN 491
037604:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 101 - Composition I
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Composition I is an introductory course in critical reading and writing that prepares students for working with the complex texts and ideas they will find in their college studies. Composition I teaches students to discover and shape their own perspectives in dialogue with challenging readings. Through carefully sequenced assignments, students are guided through various processes for constructing academic essays that may include journal writing, glossing texts, discussing student papers in class, peer reviewing, and especially revising. Readings and materials vary from section to section. Note: English 101 satisfies the first half of the College’s first-year writing requirements.
Enrollment Requirements:
Degree students only
015103:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 110 - Reading Like a Writer
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Students will learn to understand, use, and refine the techniques used by creative writers. Through weekly readings and discussion, students will become acquainted with how individual works of literature produce their effects, focusing not so much on what a piece means, but how meaning is made. Classic and contemporary examples of the genres of poetry and fiction will be studies with the goal of understanding the ways writers imagine elements of language, structure, and process to create a fully developed work. Class work will include in-class writing, examinations, creative-writing assignments, and attendance at one poetry or fiction reading during the semester with the goal of producing a final portfolio of creative work.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
038428:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 120 - What to Read: Life-Changing Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
If students could gather English professors in a room and find out what novels, stories, poets, and films they find most exciting, what would the students learn? This course offers an introduction to literature written in English, from medieval England to the present, exploring how literature inspires a deeper understanding of the self, others, and society. A team of English professors explain what literary works they have found to be most meaningful and important, offering students the opportunity to experience the life-changing power of literature. The text and the lecturer change every week, while students participate in a weekly discussion section. Lectures, discussions and writing assignments cultivate skills of active and open-ended interpretation, literary analysis, conceptual thinking, and the investigation of varied cultural forms.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
038429:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 123 - Adaptations: Literature, Film, and Beyond
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is open to anyone interested in how stories get told in different ways. It is an introduction to thinking about literary forms in relation to narratives, so that we can learn to see the craft necessary for authors to transform a well-known poem into a novel, or a play into another play, or a novel into a film. We will also learn some of the basic elements of Adaptation Studies to learn how scholars think about adaptations and how they revivify narrative, returning readers to older literary texts in new ways.
040696:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 124 - Science Fiction: Cross-Cultural Perspectives
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Science Fiction has been one of the most popular genres of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, extending from a niche literary market into film, television, comics and even music. Given its cultural pervasiveness, in many ways, science fiction has become the key touchstone for popular culture. In this course, we will chart the development of science fiction as a distinct popular cultural form, paying particular attention to its defining characteristics. As such, we’ll study a wide range of themes and issues central to science fiction literature: early narratives that champion a scientific sense of wonder and possibility alongside others that articulate fears of technological destruction; the development of the “first-contact” narrative that imagines meetings between humans and aliens both positively and negatively; the alternating hopes and fears that characterize utopias and dystopias; the dreams of an elsewhere captured in intergalactic space operas; imaginative conceptions of temporality in time travel and alternative history narratives; and the development of cyberpunk and its focus on the integration of humans with cybernetic technology and the development of artificial intelligence. Alongside the exploration of science fiction as a recognizable set of familiar narratives, we’ll also study how these narratives relate to their own historical and cultural moments, expressing particular hopes and fears, anxieties and desires. Readings will mainly be short stories that we’ll supplement with some critical essays about the history and aesthetics of science fiction.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
040697:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 125 - From Crime to Sci-Fi: Popular Literary Genres
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the popular literary genres we use to categorize literature, including crime and detective fiction, science fiction, horror, action-adventure, western, and romance. Students in the course will address the thought-provoking questions raised by the different genre formulas that define literature: Why do we categorize literature into these different types? Do these different types limit or expand the reading experience? Do these different genres require a repetition of plot or do they encourage plot innovation? Students will define each genre’s key characteristics and historical development. Students will investigate what genre reveals about today’s popular reading and writing experience.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts | Diversity Area: United States
038430:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 126 - Young Adult Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Young adult fiction is a booming segment of the book publishing industry. This course investigates why, in our increasingly sophisticated storytelling culture, we turn to novels that are supposedly aimed at a “younger” audience. What attracts readers of all ages to young adult literature? We will examine how these novels use well-known plot structures and literary devices to create compellingly artistic stories. We will also examine how young adult literature tackles difficult topics, such as race, class, gender, and sexuality, in stories that mange to be both accessible and deeply thought provoking in their portrayals of diversity. Although this class features young adult literature, it has a heavy reading load and a fast-paced reading schedule.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts | Diversity Area: United States
038431:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 130 - Vikings!: The Literature of Scandinavia, Medieval and Postmodern
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In this class we will take a critical look at popular portrayals of Vikings in film, television, literature, and comics by familiarizing ourselves with actual medieval texts about Vikings and the Viking Age. We will read (in English translations) from the famous Icelandic Sagas of Vikings as well as from poetry that memorializes warrior-kings and tells of dragon slayings. But we will also consider writings about the Vikings from cultures that fell victim to their raids and invasions, including the great Old English poem Beowulf. We will thus be able to critically compare contemporary uses and portrayals of the Vikings with the medieval sources, and will even trace some of the sources for the narratives of Tolkien’s famous Lord of the Rings. Our study of Viking Literatures will be also rooted in their various historical contexts, which will give us a more complex understanding of a society and its very rich literary and artistic traditions than many popular portrayals. These literatures will offer us fascinating insights into the society of the Vikings and their Anglo-Saxon victims, including elements of religion, gender and sexuality, economy, technologies of violence, and government. We will have to take on some very difficult questions about how and why texts both then and now represent violence as we equip ourselves to better understand Viking Literatures, but there will also be much to surprise and to delight in these rich cultural forms.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
040032:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 135 - American Stories
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course asks essential question about American literature: What does it mean to be American? How do we tell stories about who we are? Have those stories remained the same or have we changes? How do we define ourselves over time? Students in “American Stories” will encounter the classic and contemporary narratives that define American literature and culture. From Benjamin Franklin to Junot Diaz, students will read across genres, historical periods, and perspectives. Themes might include the mythology of the American Dream, particularly the American emphasis on individualism, and the place of the U.S. in global context. In addition to attending lectures, students will write brief weekly reflections and participate in discussion sections.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
038432:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 200 - Introduction to Literary Studies
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces students to the practice of literary studies, with a particular emphasis on the skills involved in close reading and analytical writing. Through an exploration of fiction, drama, and poetry, students will develop the capacity to consider texts in their historical and cultural contexts as well as to apply a range of critical frameworks. Ultimately, this course will equip students with a set of tools for interpretation and techniques for writing effectively about literature that will serve them throughout the English major.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
015414:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 201 - Five British Authors
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Representative works by five of the most important writers from the fourteenth to the nineteenth century, studied as introductions to philosophical and humanistic studies, explored as reflecting and shaping the leading ideas, assumptions, and values of their ages. Works by Chaucer, Shakespeare, and other authors such as Milton, Swift, and Austen, with films and background lectures on the philosophical and historical contexts of the works and their authors. Instruction in analytical reading and writing is provided.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or ENGL 102
015109:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 202 - Six American Authors
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The achievements of American literature in articulating the American mind is illustrated by works from some well-known American writers-Thoreau, Dickinson, Faulkner, for example-as well as from those who deserve to be better known, such as William Wells Brown, Kate Chopin, Zora Neale Hurston.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101
015111:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 203 - Writing Craft/Context/Design
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces students to rhetorical, literary, and critical approaches to studying and producing writing as they play out across a range of contexts–in print and digital media, in the workplace, in journalistic and artistic venues, and in academic settings. The course will also pay attention to the role of editing and publishing in text production. Framing writing in terms of genre, purpose, audience, and compositional practice, the course will introduce students to aspects of writing that span different situations: collaborative writing, visual and verbal design, and research practices. Other topics include learning about the range of career opportunities in English studies and primary and secondary research methods.
039364:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 210 - Introduction to Creative Writing
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides an introduction to the arts through the medium of creative writing. The course focuses on writing stories and poems, as well as reading fiction and poetry. Additional genres of writing may be introduced. Student writing is submitted weekly and discussed in class. Students are encouraged to explore issues of literary form, style, and voice, developing creativity and experiencing the importance of artistic expression. Not experience in creative writing is required.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
000726:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 211 - Creative Writing: Poetry
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides an introduction to the writing of poetry for students who may or may not have had prior experience. Students read poetry as a basis for learning to write it, and class discussion focuses both on assigned readings and on student work. Student writing is submitted weekly and is strengthened through in-class workshops, revision exercises, and portfolio compilations. Individual conferences with the instructor are required. Students are encouraged to explore issues of poetic form and content, developing knowledge about poetry while developing creative, analytical, and artistic skills.
015484:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 212 - Creative Writing: Fiction
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides an introduction to the writing of fiction for students who may or may not have had prior experience. Students read fiction as a basis for learning to write it, and class discussion focuses both on assigned readings and on student work. Student writing is submitted weekly and is strengthened through in-class workshops, revision exercises, and portfolio compilations. Individual conferences with the instructor are required. Students are encouraged to explore prose fiction’s form and content, developing knowledge about fiction while developing creative, analytical, and artistic skills.
015494:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 216 - Reading and Writing Journalism
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This introductory course provides students with a foundation in the art of journalism with an emphasis on critical reading and writing. Throughout the semester, students read classic and contemporary works by prize-winning journalists and produce and analytical responses that consider these works with respect to critical debates in the field–questions of objectivity, representation, reporting methods, and the public interest. Using these writers as models, the course covers principles of style, structure, audience, and genre, as well as the legal and ethical frameworks that govern the journalistic profession. Through guided writing assignments, students are invited to try their hand at a range of journalistic genres, such as news reporting, profiles, and editorials. This course welcomes students of all levels; no previous experience in journalism is expected or required.
039365:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 223 - Latino/Latina/Latinx Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course will offer a survey of Latino/a/x literary voices drawn from the Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Cuban, and other Latin American migrations to the U.S. In addition to encountering a range of genres, students in this course will explore concepts, such as the bilingual self; the barrio vs. the borderland; immigrant autobiography; and the construction of ethnic American literature itself.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
040592:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 225 - Graphic Novels
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers an introduction to the study of image and text through an analysis of selected graphic novels. The course investigates a fascinating range of relationships between images and words, as well as the roles these relationships play in our language and in our ways of thinking about story-telling, truth, memory, identity, and power.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
038433:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 226 - Storytelling: Myth to Media
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines an essential human activity: storytelling. What makes a story a story? How has the art of storytelling evolved across time and technologies? Why do we still rely on storytelling today - why haven’t we moved beyond it? Instead of leaving storytelling behind, we seem to enjoy telling increasingly complex stories (whether in books, film, on TV or via audio), using technology to make the experience of stories even more immersive, and moving storytelling into other realms such as marketing. Why is the power of storytelling stronger than ever? How do emerging media invite us to imaging what a story can be or do? By reading a wide variety of myths, folktales, short stories, novels, plays, graphic novels, and online stories, this course examines how stories connect us across time periods and diverse cultures. We will also explore the artistic shape and movement of narrative across oral, visual, and interactive forms. In addition to experiencing cutting-edge digital storytelling, this course investigates the roots of storytelling in oral cultures and how we are returning to that form through public storytelling.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
040033:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 230 - King Arthur
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the narrative of “England’s greatest king” through the comparative study of media (manuscript, print, film, and television) and genres (poems, novels, screenplays). Students will examine how the Arthur legend contributes to our understanding of the humanities and literary production. Topics to be explored include the human fascination for quest-narratives, the transnational contexts shaping popular mythology, and the interpretation of cultural and religious symbols in the humanities.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
038434:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 235 - African-American Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A survey of works by African-Americans with attention to the interaction of musical, oral and literary forms in Black expression, slave songs, blues lyrics, sermons, and works by Hughes, Wright, Baraka, and others.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: United States
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101
015540:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 242 - Grammar for Every Writer
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Good writing is impossible without grammar. From art history to zoology, from politics to publishing, every discipline and profession relics on the invisible rules of grammar. This course is for writers and readers of every type, whether you feel like you missed learning about grammar and now want to know what it is all about, or whether you arc an advanced student of English language and writing. We will learn about grammatical rules and norms, but we will also learn about how grammar develops, changes and performs rhetorical functions in relation to region, gender, socioeconomic and political forces, and ethnicity.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
040698:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 245 - Global Voices
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course provides a critical introduction to literature written in what has become arguable the globe’s primary language of commerce, government, law, and education. The course examines fiction writers, playwrights, and poets from locations outside England and North America who have claimed the English language as their own and used it with energy and creative verve. Readings will survey works in English from Africa, Asia, and Australia, among other places, with attention o their heterogeneity and complexity. Key topics include identity, nationalism, gender, feminisms, memory, conflict, exile, nostalgia, postcoloniality, and citizenship.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
038436:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 248 - Utopia/Dystopia Across Culture
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Visions of Utopia represent the desire for a better, more just society. They engage the free-play of the political imagination as a form of wish-fulfillment and social daydreaming in order to extrapolate better worlds from the less than perfect present worlds of specific societies. As the negative reflection of utopian desire, dystopias similarly interrogate their societies, magnifying and exacerbating troubling political and social injustices. In this course, we will first trace the development of utopian/dystopian thought and its historical origins in literature and philosophy. From here, we will examine contemporary manifestations of utopia/dystopia in diverse societies in a variety of different mediums (including film, music, graphic novels and literature, as well as religious writings, legal and political documents, and philosophical works). We’ll focus on interpreting these utopian and dystopian texts as particular instantiations of cultural work in different societies in response to specific historical and political conditions. In keeping with this cross-cultural approach, the course will engage with a range of modern utopian/dystopian texts from at least four broad perspectives: African, American, European, and Afrofuturist-diasporic. These perspectives will allow us to analyze how utopian and dystopian works are always positioned at the border between defining a particular culture at a particular moment in time (how the writers of the text perceive their culture, its faults, its possibilities) and cultural change (the utopia or dystopia that this culture may transform or harden into given these traits). That is, despite a pretense towards universalism, utopias and dystopias are always about particular wish fulfillments rooted in localized, existing socio-cultural-political conditions. They are always raced, classed, and gendered, revealing issues of cultural conflict within their given local cultural determinations. Given these conditions, students will learn to think through the ethnocentric problems of utopian/dystopian cultural production: that one person’s utopia is another’s dystopia, as well as how the utopian tradition has attempted to work through this problem in its own formal transformations.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
040699:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 249 - Animal Lit
3 Credit(s) | Lecture | Graded or pass/fail
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Animal Studies is a fairly recent development in literary studies that asks critical questions about how animals are represented and imagined in both literary and non-literary texts, thereby challenging our traditional ways of defining the boundary between humans and animals. Questions that the course may consider include: What are animals thinking? Do they dream, reason, theorize? They communicate to each other, but can they talk, and can we talk with them? Or is this a human dream and animals have their own dreams that we can’t access? Is there a larger question of beingness here we can think about? Are animals different for us according to whether we love them or fear them, ride them or eat them? We will be reading a series of texts that will help us raise questions about the animal as ‘the other,’ whether companion-other or feared-other, and about what it means as a writer to try to speak for animal being and the nonhuman generally.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
040700:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 250 - The Monstrous Imagination in Literature
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Literature not only creates monsters, but seems to enjoy the imaginative leap needed to make “real” the obviously unreal monster. Why does literature uses its imaginative power its ability to move beyond reality & to envision figures that are non-human, abnormal, or uncivilized and are disturbing, disruptive, or horrific in form? If we examine these figures closely, one of the things that makes them both very human and very monstrous is their imaginative excess: they often have an imagination that is out of control, overly-rebellious or engaged in too-powerful thinking. Thus, this class argues that literature uses the figure of the monster to question the benefits, powers, and downfalls of the imagination. By asking you to question why the imagination creates monsters, this class asks you to question the nature of the imagination itself; especially the imagination that creates and reads literature.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
035504:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 258 - Introduction to World Cinema
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Discussion |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers an introduction to the study of world cinema as form of artistic and cultural expression. Together we will acquire and develop a greater understanding of and more informed appreciation for international film, learning to interpret, analyze, and reflect on this important global art from. This course will emphasize several ways of approaching world cinema; its creation within a cultural context; its representation of diverse peoples and their values, beliefs, and ideals; its depiction of events-past, present, and future; its use of clearly-defined cinematic techniques; its narrative or storytelling structure; its connection to specific film genres; its place in the trajectory of film history; its reflection on larger themes of the human condition. This course will also explore the place of film in contemporary world culture. How does international cinema provide a means of understanding other cultures? What function does film have: is it an art, entertainment, or profit-making product? Does film offer an escape from reality, a critique of reality, or a heightened experience of reality?
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: World Cultures | Diversity Area: International
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101
035505:1
4 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 259 - Sexuality in Literature & Film
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers an introduction to sexuality studies through an interdisciplinary approach to literature and film produced in English. Attention will be paid to the way that different cultures have thought and talked about sexuality, as well as how they have experienced and performed it. Key concepts include gender socialization, social constructionism, performance theory, and the disciplining of bodies and sexual desire.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
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3 Credit(s) |
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3 Credit(s) |
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3 Credit(s) |
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3 Credit(s) |
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3 Credit(s) |
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3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 284 - Language, Literacy and Community
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course is designed to be taken in conjunction with ENGL 285 . It provides theoretical and practical foundations for teaching second language adult literacy. Course work considers participants’ own language/literacy acquisition processes and practice as tutors. The course focuses on learner-centered approaches to teaching adult ESL/literacy.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 101
016351:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 285 - Tutor Training: ESL
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course emphasizes the theoretical and practical issues in the teaching of ESL, thus providing tutors with a framework with which to view their own teaching and observation experiences. Readings and discussions address materials development, instructional techniques, and textbook evaluation. Open only to UMass Boston ESL tutors.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 102
015579:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 292 - Cinema, Sex, and Censorship
4 Credit(s) | Lecture and Discussion |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course introduces students to the history of sex in American cinema by tracing the history of the representation of sex and sexuality from early cinema and the vaudeville tradition to contemporary engagements with queerness, non-normative desires, and artificial intelligence. Students will examine key moments in film history related to sex and censorship, including the scandals of pre-code Hollywood, the rise of the Hays Codes, the development of underground and the exploitation cinemas, and the emergence of the Motion Picture Rating System, as well a range of issues related to sexuality and desire, including same-sex desire, repression, sexual violence, the AIDS crisis, and sex and technology. Students will watch both mainstream, commercial films and smaller, independent art films, as well as B-movies and low budget films, to examine how sex and sexuality have been represented and censored across the broad spectrum of American cinema. This course will occur on the schedule on a rotating and irregular basis.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities | Diversity Area: United States
040435:1
4 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 300 - Intermediate Creative Writing Workshop
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A creative writing workshop for students who have some experience in the writing of poetry, fiction, or drama. Class discussion focuses on student work, and individual conferences with the instructor are required.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
015612:1
3 Credit(s) |
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3 Credit(s) |
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3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 303 - Advanced Special Topics in Creative Writing
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course offers students the opportunity to pursue specialized work in creative writing at the advanced level; these topics vary from semester to semester. Possible offerings include courses on novel writing, hybrid courses requiring creative and critical writing, courses on experimental poetry writing, or courses on travel writing.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 210 or ENGL 211 or ENGL 212 or ENGL 300
040270:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 306 - Advanced Nonfiction Writing
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit up to 2 times/6 credits
Description:
For serious writers in various nonfictional modes, such as description, narration, expository or informative writing, and written argument. While there is some emphasis on the philosophy of composition, everything read and discussed has a practical as well as a theoretical function. Sections of this course taught by different instructors vary in emphasis from the composing process to techniques of the new journalism, to technical writing, writing for prelaw students, techniques of research for the long paper and report. But all are conducted in small classes or workshops, all are concerned with informative or argumentative writing for advanced students, and all require the permission of the instructor for enrollment.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
015619:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 307 - Journalism and Media Writing
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course prepares advanced students to explore careers in writing and reporting for print and online media. Students consider contemporary journalistic texts by professional reporters, columnists, and bloggers and develop their own writing for a range of publication platforms and audiences. The course covers the fundamentals of journalistic craft, from methods for story development–including interviewing, observation, and web-based research–to style, ethics, and genre conventions. Throughout the semester, students draft and revise a series of independent writing and reporting projects on real-world people and events, ranging from news articles and magazine features to blogs and reviews. Students learn strategies for pitching stories to editors and preparing their writing for local, campus, or online publication. Different sections of this course may focus on specialized branches or genres of journalism, such as community journalism or arts journalism. This course welcomes both emerging and experienced writers, regardless of previous journalism experience.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202 or ENGL 203
032946:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 308 - Professional Editing
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
An intensive workshop in developing effective prose style for various kinds of writing, including reports, essays, and theses. Instruction covers advanced grammar, usage, editing, and proofreading, with special attention to problems of expression and style arising from complex ideas and argumentative logic. In conjunction with ENGL 307 , this course provides a strong preparation for editors and writers in all settings.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
015627:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 309 - Multimedia Authoring
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
In this hybrid digital workshop and studio course, students learn principles of media production, storytelling, and design across a range of audio-visual and web-based platforms. Through focused readings and discussions on documentary, design, and digital aesthetics, students examine creative works by professional artists and media producers and participate in regular critiques of students-made work. Classes include hands-on instruction in image-, audio-, and video-editing techniques and web design basics in a project-based, collaborative learning environment. Throughout the semester, students propose, edit, author, and design a series of original multimedia projects and produce a professional portfolio website of their creative work. This course welcomes students from all backgrounds; no previous experience with digital media production is expected or required.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202 or ENGL 203
039366:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 310 - Literature and Journalism
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores how “fictional” literature and “factual” journalism influence each other’s form and content. covering major developments in nineteenth- and twentieth-century American literature in relation to innovations in newspaper culture, the course will examine how a work’s material form and appearance shape its meaning. The course will investigate how literature and journalism share writing styles, such as sensationalism, and publishing modes, such as serialization. The course will also connect literary and journalistic writing to issues of gender, politics, and ethics.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: Humanities
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
038687:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 311 - How to Write Like a Film Critic
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores both the history and the practice of film criticism, from popular genres like the movie review and blog post, to more academically oriented modes such as analytical essays and theoretical articles. To help develop their skills as film critics, students will watch a broad range of films and read and respond to the work of pioneering critics. The bulk of the course, however, will be dedicated to writing, workshopping and revising film criticism as students write a series of reviews and a longer analytical essay. As such this course focuses on film criticism as part of a larger conversation about art, media, and journalism and helps students practice their skills as film critics writing for a range of different audiences.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202 or ENGL 203 or CINE 101 or CINE 201 or CINE 202
040189:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 312 - Digital Culture and Composition
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course centers on the changing relationships among digital texts and different domains of life - including personal, work, education, and public spheres. Course readings and discussions focus on two central questions: first, how do digital texts change the way we read, analyze, interpret, and compose? Second, what are the implications of these changes? To address these questions, students study the historical aspects of and theoretical approaches to the study of digital culture, focusing on the connections between reading, writing, writing, and technology. Additionally, coursework requires students to develop their ability to compose digital texts while thinking critically about those texts. Students will consider how textuality is related to changes in media, and what those changes mean for personal, professional, and community life.
039491:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 315 - New Wave Cinemas: Global Filmmaking in the 1960s
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course focuses on the new cinemas that emerged around the world in the postwar period, including the French, Italian, Czech, and Japanese new waves, New German, New American, and New Latin American cinema, and Britain’s Angry Young Men. The course explores how these various new waves opposed classical cinema, the tensions between realist and experimental film styles, and the possibilities of cinema as a tool to promote political change. At the same time, it traces the shared thematic concerns of new wave cinema during this period, including youth culture, sexuality, political dissent, nihilism, and emergent global culture.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202 or CINE 101 or CINE 201 or CINE 202
040177:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 316 - Cult Cinema
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course explores the history of cult film in America and its relationship to the mainstream industry and other fringe cinemas. The course focuses particularly on the way that cult cinema challenges our ideas of quality, taste, and acceptability. At the same time, it explores questions related to cult audiences, exhibition spaces (drive-ins, art house theaters, midnight movies) fandom and cinephilia, and cult film nostalgia.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202 or CINE 101 or CINE 201 or CINE 202
040178:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 317 - American Independent Cinema
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
This course examines the history of independent filmmaking in America, from its origins in the independent production companies of the studio era through to contemporary independent movements, including New American Cinema, Black Independent Cinema, New Queer Cinema, the Sundance Kids, and Mumblecore. this course also explores issues related to production and distribution, including the role of film festivals, the development of digital technology, and fan cultures.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202 or CINE 101 or CINE 201 or CINE 202
040202:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 320 - Memoir and Autobiography
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A study of various kinds of American autobiography-such as spiritual autobiography and freedom narratives-from colonial to modern times, with attention to European forerunners from Augustine to Rousseau. Texts vary by semester, selected from such authors as Edwards, Franklin, Thoreau, Douglass, Jacobs, Moody, Washington, and Henry Adams, and more recent works by Hellman, Wright, Malcolm X, and Kingston.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
015644:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 324 - Short Story
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A study of the short story, chiefly as a genre of this century. The course traces its development from nineteenth century origins, concentrating its reading on such American and Irish writers as Welty, O’Connor, Cheever, Lavin, Joyce, Hemingway, Montague, and considering as well the statements made by short story writers on the poetics of short fiction.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
015123:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 326 - Stage and Page: Drama Before 1642
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A study of English drama before and during Shakespeare’s career emphasizing the development of comedy and tragedy as form and idea, this course provides a setting for the study of Shakespeare. Readings include selected episodes from the mystery cycles, a morality play, and works by such playwrights as Marlowe, Kyd, Tourneur, Webster, Greene, Dekker, Jonson, Beaumont, as well as a comedy and a tragedy of Shakespeare.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
015667:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 327 - Stage and Page: Drama, 1660-1900
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A study of drama in English since the reopening of the theaters at the Restoration of 1660. The development of comedy of manners from Wycherly and Congreve through Sheridan to Wilde and Shaw, and of tragedy from the early eighteenth century through the romantic era, through Ibsen and his followers, to the early twentieth century.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
015673:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 328 - Stage and Page: Drama, 1900-Today
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
A study of 20th century American and British drama, including works in translation by influential playwrights abroad. Attention to themes, forms, styles, staging, and performance. Works by such authors as Ibsen, O’Neill, Williams, Miller, Brecht, Beckett, Genet, Hansberry, August Wilson, Kushner, and Hwang.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
015676:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 329 - Narrative in the Novel and Film
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Emphasizing formal and stylistic renditions of 20th- and 21st-century narrative art, this course focuses on experimental aspects of fiction and film. The storytelling structures of fiction and film are compared through close attention to written texts, visual and graphic media, and critical readings. Materials include fiction by authors such as Woolf, Faulkner, and Coetzee, and films by directors such as Eisenstein, DeSica, and Resnais.
Course Attribute(s):
Diversity Area: International
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
035425:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 331 - Satire
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Readings from the classical period of satire. Aristophanes, Horace, and others raise issues about the nature, functions, and techniques of satire, its relations to intellectual attitudes, social criticism, and literary forms. Variations on the classical patterns and the role of satire in contemporary culture are seen in a range of later satiric works.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
015684:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 332 - Comedy
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
Comic literature from different cultures and periods, ancient through modern, illustrates the recurrence of different comic modes: satire, irony, romantic comedy, comedy of manners, and comedy of the absurd. Essays about theories of comedy aid students in evaluating the literature and forming their own ideas about the nature of comedy.
Course Attribute(s):
Distribution Area: The Arts
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
015126:1
3 Credit(s) |
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ENGL 333 - Tragedy
3 Credit(s) | Lecture |
Course can be counted for credit once
Description:
The course explores both the changing and the enduring aspects of tragedy by examining tragedic works of different ages, from ancient Greece to modern times. Readings may include such works as Oedipus, Thyestes, Dr. Faustus, Macbeth, The White Devil, King Lear, Samson Agonistes, Desire Under the Elms, Death of a Salesman, and Glengarry Glen Ross examined alongside theories about the definition of tragedy, the nature of tragic action, the tragic hero, the tragic times, for example. Students are encouraged to evaluate concepts of tragedy based on class readings, formulating their own ideas about this important form of drama.
Enrollment Requirements:
Prerequisite: ENGL 200 or ENGL 201 or ENGL 202
015127:1
3 Credit(s) |
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