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EDUC 590 - CHILDREN’S LITERATURE
Credits: Three
Cross-listed: See EDUC 390
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EDUC 592 - ADOLESCENT LITERATURE
Credits: Variable between 1 and 4
This course focuses on the reading and discussion of literature for
adolescents and young adults. Principles of selection and
adaptation to individual needs are emphasized.
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EDUC 596 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Credits: Variable between 1 and 4
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EDUC 597 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Credits: Variable between 1 and 4
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EDUC 600 - SPECIAL STUDIES IN EDUCATION
Credits: Variable between 1 and 3
Note: Open to graduate students only.
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EDUC 602 - INTERNSHIP IN TEACHER LEADERSHIP
Credits: Three
The internship places the student in a position to integrate
issues/content/skills from previous coursework. The student will
have broad opportunities to use the leadership skills learned
throughout the program. The internship experience is an intensive
experience placed with teacher-leader in a school setting during
summer or during the academic year.
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EDUC 610 - MORAL CLASSROOMS/MORAL SCHOOLS
Credits: Three
Effective teachers are aware of the local, state, and national
trends surrounding their classroom practice and consider carefully
how daily moments of classroom decision making affect the larger
dimensions of students’ lives. Issues surrounding the democratic,
moral, political, and ethical aspects of teaching as a profession
will be considered in terms of classroom and school practice.
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EDUC 611 - CULTURE, LANGUAGE AND LEARNERS
Credits: Three
Understanding the need to prepare students for participation in a
social/political democracy and the belief that all students must
have access to knowledge and learning opportunities that meet their
needs, participants will explore where culture, language and
learning intersect as they develop culturally responsive
classrooms. Explore the dynamics of cross-cultural interactions and
strategies for advocating and collaborating on behalf of students
from diverse economic, cultural, and language backgrounds through
school/home partnerships.
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EDUC 614 - ADVANCED ANALYSIS OF INSTRUCTION
Credits: Variable between 1 and 4
Using video tape analysis, reflection and peer review, students
explore their own practice in-depth, reexamining learning theory
and the use of multiple instructional strategies, including the use
of technology in the classroom. Classroom strategies to advance
learning and management will be the focus.
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EDUC 615 - CURRICULUM & INSTRUCTION OF GIFTED
Credits: Three
This course focuses on the development of curriculum for gifted
learners grades K-12. The identification of a diverse population
and evaluation of these students is also covered.
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EDUC 616 - DIFFERENTIATING FOR ALL LEARNERS
Credits: Three
Students learn to focus on the essential components of a subject,
examine and attend to student differences, use assessment data
diagnostically, and modify the content, processes and products of a
classroom so as to impact individual student learning.
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EDUC 617 - PSYCHOLOGY OF THE GIFTED
Credits: Three
This course focuses on the emotional and social needs of gifted
students grades K-12. Topics covered are self esteem, gifted
identification, qualities of a gifted teacher, twice exceptional
gifted, underachievement, gifted parents, diversity and gender
issues.
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EDUC 618 - DEVELOPMENTAL STAGES
Credits: Three
This course focuses on human development from birth through
adulthood with emphasis on theory followed by application to the
classroom. Cognitive, social, psychological and physical
development are studied in an integrated approach.
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EDUC 619 - EDUCATOR AS ACTION RESEARCHER
Credits: Three
Students will explore research and inquiry models and quantitative
and qualitative data analysis. Students will investigate the
inquiry methods of case study, student work sampling, collaborative
research, critical friends analysis and action research, becoming
comfortable with reading and criticizing research.
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EDUC 620 - HOW PEOPLE LEARN
Credits: Three
The purpose of this course is to familiarize students with research
and theories about the psychology of learning and to relate these
areas to the classroom. Of particular importance are areas of
cognitive, developmental and behavioral psychology.
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EDUC 623 - EXPLORATIONS INTO CONTENT TEACHING
Credits: Three
With a mentor teacher/facilitator, educators as individuals will
explore questions, structures, and technologies in a
discipline/content field so as to increase professional expertise
in the content they need to teach. Teachers will develop a plan for
ongoing learning in their content area.
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EDUC 625 - CURRICULUM THEORY & DEVELOPMENT
Credits: Variable between 1 and 3
This course explores curricular issues affecting the classroom
teacher with emphasis upon application to their own teaching
situations. Analysis and critique of the curriculum development
process, current curricular practice, and assumptions guiding the
teachers choices in curriculum are discussed.
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EDUC 626 - ADOLESCENT DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES
Credits: Three
Designed for teachers, counselors, parents or anyone who works with
adolescents, this course explores the seemingly contradictory,
bizarre and counterproductive behavior of the adolescent child.
Through discussions, readings and interaction with adolescents,
participants analyze developmental issues and develop strategies of
understanding and working to meet the needs of these youngsters.
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EDUC 627 - SURVEY OF GIFTED & TALENTED EDUC
Credits: Three
This course provides participants with the foundations of gifted
programming. Students study program models both in theory and in
practice. Students learn the steps for planning their own gifted
education program.
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EDUC 629 - CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING
Credits: Three
Course participants are introduced to the characteristics of the
creative individual, myths about creativity and aspects of the
creative process. Students learn methods for using the creative
process integrated into the different school disciplines.
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EDUC 630 - REACHING ALL LEARNERS THROUGH ARTS
Credits: Variable between 1 and 3
This is an intensive course for elementary and middle/junior high
school teachers, designed to integrate the arts into the core
curriculum. This arts education program is conducted by Metro
Theater Company in partnership with Maryville.
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EDUC 631 - ADVANCED SEMINAR IN THE ARTS
Credits: Variable between 1 and 3
After examining the role of the arts in education, this course
gives teachers the opportunity to further explore the connections
between Goodlads agenda for democracy and a comprehensive approach
to the arts. Teachers have the opportunity to not only explore arts
integration, but to tie it more closely to the individual and
school goals.
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EDUC 632 - SEMINAR: RACE, GENDER, CULTURE
Credits: Three
This course presents an in-depth look at issues of race, gender,
culture and their profound effects on students and on the school as
a social system.
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EDUC 634 - PRACTICUM LITERACY ASSESSMENT 1
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: EDUC 652, EDUC 654
Corequisite: EDUC 635
The purpose of this practicum is to assist teachers in learning the
strategies necessary to take on the role of the reading specialist
in an elementary setting. The two major roles of the reading
specialist will be emphasized: a) the role of literacy teacher who
can diagnose and remediate the literacy problems of children at all
levels and b) the role of literacy coach who can coach other
teachers.
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EDUC 635 - PRACTICUM IN LITERACY ASSESSMENT II
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: EDUC 634, EDUC 652, EDUC 654
Corequisite: EDUC 634
This course will normally be taken concurrently with EDUC 634 and
will focus on work with middle school or high school students. The
purpose of this practicum is to assist teachers in learning the
strategies necessary to take on the role of the reading specialist.
The two major roles of the reading specialist will be emphasized:
a) the role of literacy teacher who can diagnose and remediate the
literacy problems of children and b) the role of literacy coach who
can coach other teachers.
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EDUC 641 - INVESTIGATING ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
Credits: Three
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EDUC 642 - CITIZENSHIP/ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSE
Credits: Three
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EDUC 645 - SECONDARY SCHOOL IN TODAY’S SOCIETY
Credits: Three
Corequisite: EDUC 646
Students will explore the history and current purposes of public
secondary schools and the school systems of the United States,
focusing upon the diversity and complexity of American society. The
place of the schools in the fashioning of an informed citizenry
will be examined. A study of the ways in which secondary
curriculum, school organization, control and governance of
education, and the nature of teaching and learning produce many
tensions will be studied in light of the school settings in which
students are placed.
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EDUC 646 - SECONDARY TEACHING STRATEGIES
Credits: Three
Corequisite: EDUC 645
Based upon knowledge of the purposes of school and the development
of adolescents, students in field placements reflect on methods of
teaching, learning and assessment appropriate for various contents
and settings. Students will create lessons and units in their
content area.
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EDUC 647 - SECONDARY INTERNSHIP I
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: EDUC 646
In conjunction with the coursework in methods of teaching reading
and methods of teaching the content areas, students will spend an
extended time in a secondary setting teaching lessons, gaining
feedback, and improving effectiveness in teaching diverse high
school students.
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EDUC 648 - SECONDARY INTERNSHIP II
Credits: six
Prerequisite: EDUC 647
Students engage in a full semesters internship in public school. Every aspect of teaching, assessment and other teaching responsibilities will be implemented. Students will prepare lesson plans, participate in biweekly seminars, reflect through journaling, and complete a student work sampling study.
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EDUC 649 - SECONDARY PRACTICUM/SEMINAR
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: EDUC 648
In this course, students will reflect upon and analyze professional
teaching experiences encountered throughout their program. The
seminar will assist students in assessing their own teaching
effectiveness and setting goals for future professional
development. The course contents professional issues will focus
around the four strands of school and society, teacher development,
curriculum and instruction, and research.
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EDUC 650 - LITERACY AND LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
Credits: Three
This course will include theory, research, and effective practice
for facilitating first and second language acquisition for students
K-12. The course will include language acquisition for students
with physical, psychological, and cognitive disabilities. The focus
will be on interrelationship between language development and the
teaching of literacy strategies.
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EDUC 651 - DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY FOR LITERACY
Credits: Three
This course is designed for prospective literacy specialists at the
upper elementary, middle school and high school levels. Candidates
will learn to assess struggling adolescent readers and writers and
develop appropriate literacy strategies for students in the special
reading classroom. Candidates will learn strategies for the
behavior management of adolescents and they will learn how to coach
content area teachers.
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EDUC 652 - LITERACY ASSESSMENT AND INTERVENTION
Credits: Three
Students will learn how to use and interpret informal and
norm-referenced assessment instruments with students who have
various literacy problems. Students will learn how to provide
appropriate instruction in phonemic awareness, phonics, word
analysis, vocabulary, spelling, fluency, comprehension,
metacognition, and writing strategies for struggling readers and
writers (K-5 grade).
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EDUC 653 - LITERATURE AND LITERACY
Credits: Three
Students will focus on the appropriate use of literature in
literacy development from early childhood to high school. Special
emphasis will be given to the reading/writing connection.
Candidates will develop a content-based integrated literature unit
of study for a classroom teacher that includes technology.
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EDUC 654 - COLLABORATIVE RESPONSIBILITY FOR LITERACY
Credits: Three
One major focal point is the development of coaching skills by the
reading specialist in working with school professionals. Special
emphasis will be given to counseling with parents that have diverse
backgrounds (i.e., ELL). This course will include the
interpretation of individual intelligence tests to parents.
Candidates will learn how to apply behavior management strategies
in the special reading classroom.
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EDUC 655 - ADMIN & SUPERVISION FOR LIT PROGRAMS
Credits: Three
This course will help teachers develop skills as a literacy coach
and leader at the building and district level. Candidates will
learn to use data to revise school literacy programs and then plan
professional development for teachers. Candidates will also develop
counseling skills in working with parents of struggling readers.
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EDUC 658 - PARTNERS: ASSESSMENT AND CURRICULUM
Credits: Three
This course focuses on the development of curriculum and its
assessment including test construction. Alternative, authentic
methods of assessment will be explored.
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EDUC 659 - PSYCHOLOGICAL-EDUCATIONAL TESTING
Credits: Three
This course introduces various educational and psychological tests
with special emphasis on the administration and interpretation of
individual intelligence tests.
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EDUC 660 - EARLY CHILDHOOD CURRICULUM
Credits: Three
This course introduces early childhood curriculum and methods with
particular emphasis upon Project Construct. Course con- tent
explores constructivist theory and its relationship and application
to developmentally appropriate curriculum for the assessment of
children pre-K through grade three. Other current early childhood
methods such as Reggio Emiglia also will be discussed.
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EDUC 661 - EARLY CHILDHOOD ASSESSMENT
Credits: Three
Students will study the basic concepts of test construction,
assessment and the categories of instruments used in screening and
diagnosing learning and other aspects of early childhood
development. The course prepares students to identify tests and
assessment procedures and to evaluate them for adequacy and
appropriateness.
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EDUC 662 - INTEGRATED CURRICULUM
Credits: Three
Content-specific learning is not how children have come to an
initial understanding of their environment. Learning for the young
child involves not only parts, but a constructed whole. Using
knowledge of child development, teachers will learn to formulate
early childhood curriculum and instruction that is based upon
developmental theories of learning.
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EDUC 663 - EARLY CHILDHOOD INTERNSHIP
Credits: ix
Prerequisite: EDUC 403
Students will engage in supervised experiences with diverse
children between the ages of 3 and grade three. This internship
will provide opportunity for advanced experience in planning,
teaching and assessing the growth of children in an early childhood
setting after a regular student teaching experience.
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EDUC 664 - ISSUES IN EARLY CHILDHOOD
Credits: Three
This course focuses on the problems and issues facing the early
childhood professional. Students will identify issues of national
concern, identify significant elements of the problem or issues,
and strategies which may be used to rectify the concerns, so as to
advocate for reasonable change in early childhood practices.
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EDUC 665 - FAMILY SYSTEMS/ISSUES
Credits: Three
Through readings, outside speakers and on-site visits, students
become aware of various strategies and resources available to the
teacher in working with young children and diverse families.
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EDUC 666 - EARLY INTERVENTION
Credits: Three
This course provides information and experiences in seeing,
assessing, and collaboratively implementing a developmentally and
individually appropriate program to promote the development of a
young child with disabilities within an early childhood setting.
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EDUC 672 - METHODS OF TEACHING SECOND LANG LEARNERS
Credits: Three
This course focuses on pedagogical strategies, tools, resources and
activities that can enable Pre-K-12 ESL students to improve their
English proficiency in reading, writing, listening and speaking.
Participants learn to plan methods for the ESL classroom.
Communication of the purpose and legal issues of ESL education to
colleagues, parents and the community is also covered.
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EDUC 680 - CREATING TEACHER PORTFOLIOS
Credits: Variable between 3 and 6
Students learn to use portfolios as a vehicle for reflecting upon
their work with pupils but also on their own growth and development
as a teacher. Learn about National Board certification and begin
planning a teacher portfolio.
Note: Teachers pursuing NBPTS certification may take this course for 6 hours of credit.
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EDUC 690 - PRACTICUM IN EDUCATION
Credits: Variable between 2 and 6
Students supervise children, young adults or, as appropriate,
adults. These experiences are arranged on an individual basis in
order to complement other aspects of the students program. An
analytical journal, paper or other mode of evaluation is required.
Note: Permission of instructor is required.
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EDUC 691 - INFANT/TODDLER PRACTICUM
Credits: 1
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EDUC 692 - PRACTICUM IN GIFTED EDUCATION
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: EDUC 615, EDUC 617 or EDUC 627
Teachers will participate in a supervised practicum in a
state-approved gifted program for children.
Note: Permission of the instructor is required.
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EDUC 695 - APPLIED RESEARCH
Credits: Three
Students review current literature and formulate a design for their
masters project.
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EDUC 696 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Credits: Variable between 1 and 4
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EDUC 697 - SPECIAL STUDIES
Credits: Variable between 1 and 4
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EDUC 699 - CAPSTONE EXPERIENCE
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: EDUC 619
The capstone is intended to be a culminating revisit of the ideas
and experiences from the masters program. Candidates will
investigate a professionally meaningful question, issue,
perspective or generative topic, reading and designing and/or
implementing an action step on the question. Candidates will engage
classmates in a 30-45 minute seminar dialogue about the topic.
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ENGL 101 - COMPOSITION: THEME WRITING
Credits: Three
A course developing skills in writing clear, correct sentences and developing an essay.
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ENGL 104 - COMPOSITION: THE ESSAY
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C-
This course furthers the work of ENGL 101, emphasizing the writing and careful editing of argumentative essays and of various types of expository essays. The major course project is a research paper.
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ENGL 108 - MINORITY VOICES: AMERICAN LIT
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C-
Students develop an appreciation of the literary contributions of minority Americans, primarily of Chinese, African, Puerto Rican, Japanese, Mexican, and Native American heritage.
Cross-listed: See ENGL 308; HUM 108/308
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ENGL 109 - SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C-
This course studies major authors and works from the Puritan era to the present.
Cross-listed: See ENGL 309
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ENGL 110 - THE AMERICAN NOVEL
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or ENGL 104 or ENGL 204H; Minimum grade C-
This course studies classic and contemporary American novels.
Cross-listed: See ENGL 310
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ENGL 114 - FAIRY TALE IN LITERATURE AND FILM
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C-
This course will discuss the origin and history of the Central and
East European fairy tale. The course reading will include original
fairy tales (such as Grimms’ Fairy Tales) and dramatic, fictional,
poetic, and cinematic adaptations of representative tales from the
tradition.
Cross-listed: See ENGL 314
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ENGL 118 - LIT FORMS: FABLE-FILM
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL-101; Minimum grade C-
The course explains the art of storytelling through an analysis of narrative techniques in fiction, drama and film.
Cross-listed: See ENGL 318, HUM 118, HUM 318
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ENGL 119 - SURVEY OF WOMEN’S LIT
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C-
A study of the English and American traditions of literature by women. The course focuses on literary analysis and appreciation of fiction, poetry, memoirs, essays, and drama by classical and contemporary authors. The roles of women as authors and as characters will be considered within their historical and literary contexts.
Cross-listed: See ENGL 319; WS 119/319
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ENGL 200H - SUPERHEROES IN LIT AND CULTURE
Credits: Four
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Membership in Bascom Honors Program
This course will look at the rise and evolution of one of 20th
Century America’s most prevalent figures, the superhero. Students
will examine the philosophical and cultural problems that costumed
heroes provoke by looking at the recent wave of superhero novels,
films, and academic analyses, as well as by looking at comics and
graphic novels.
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ENGL 202H - FAIRY TALE IN LIT & FILM
Credits: Four
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Membership in Bascom Honors Program
This course will discuss the origin and history of the Central and
East European fairy tale. The course reading will be made up of the
original fairy tales (such as Grimms’ Fairy Tales) and dramatic,
fictional, poetic, and cinematic adaptations of representative
tales from the tradition.
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ENGL 203H - ORIGINS OF CHILDREN’S LIT
Credits: Four
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Membership in Bascom Honors Program
In this course students explore the history of childhood and how
that history gave rise to a tradition of children’s literature in
England and America.
Cross-listed: See HUM 203H
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ENGL 204H - WRITING & AMERICAN RHETORIC
Credits: Four
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Membership in Bascom Honors Program
This course develops students’ skills in writing expository and
argumentative essays and speeches. Students examine the American
rhetorical tradition in texts ranging from sermons of the Great
Awakening to recent Presidential addresses and write arguments
demonstrating their own knowledge of rhetorical strategies.
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ENGL 205 - WRITING ABOUT LITERATURE
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101, ENGL 104, ENGL 204H; Minimum grade C-
Students develop skills in analyzing fiction, poetry, and drama.
Note: This course may count toward the writing minor.
Cross-listed: See ENGL 305
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ENGL 207 - CREATIVE WRITING
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 104 or ENGL 204H
A course to develop skills in creative writing, particularly in writing fiction and poetry. Strategies of style, techniques of narrative writing, and forms of poetry are examined.
Cross-listed: See ENGL 307
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ENGL 209H - RELIGIOUS ISSUES IN LITERATURE
Credits: Four
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program
Students will examine and respond to literature from various
cultural perspectives in order to understand and appreciate the
role of religious issues in that literature, particularly the
relationship between religion and cultural identity, cultural
conflict, tradition, and questions about faith.
Cross-listed: See REL 209H
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ENGL 211 - RITES OF PASSAGE IN AMERICAN LIT
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C-
Students read novels and short stories that focus on the passages
from youth to adulthood and from innocence to experience.
Cross-listed: See ENGL 311
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ENGL 212H - MONSTERS IN FILM AND LITERATURE
Credits: Four
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program
This course will look at influential modern works such as Bram
Stoker’s Dracula and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, recent
revisionism by writers such as Anne Rice and Octavia Butler, and a
few of the many monster movies. Students will consider the
language, structure, origins, contexts, and implications of the
stories.
Cross-listed: See HUM 212H
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ENGL 213 - THEMES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C-
Each course focuses upon a major theme in American literature; for example, American Identity.
Cross-listed: See ENGL 313
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ENGL 213H - WAR IN LITERATURE AND FILM
Credits: Four
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program
In this course students will study poetry, drama, fiction, art, and
film from throughout the world which address many aspects of war
and its repercussions and effects on the family, culture and the
larger civilization.
Cross-listed: See HUM 213H
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ENGL 214H - CONSPIRACY IN LITERATURE/FILM
Credits: Four
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program
This class will closely examine recent (1968-present) American
novels and films in order to understand the conventions and
contemporary appeal of the conspiracy narrative. The class will
take an interdisciplinary approach: novels may include Thomas
Pynchon’s Crying of Lot 49, Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo, Margaret
Atwood’s Bodily Harm, Don DeLillo’s Libra, Chang-Rae Lee’s Native
Speaker, and Chuck Palahniuk’s Fight Club. In addition, films may
include The Parallax View, The Manchurian Candidate, The Matrix,
The Truman Show, and The Stepford Wives.
Cross-listed: See HUM 214H
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ENGL 215 - CONTEMP AMER FICT/NON-FICT
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C-
This course analyzes and appreciates selected works of contemporary American fiction and non-fiction.
Cross-listed: See ENGL 315
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ENGL 215H - TOLKIEN: MEDIEVAL AND MODERN
Credits: Four
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program
In this course students will explore Tolkien as a medievalist and a
modern writer. They will study and discuss The Lord of the Rings,
Silmarillion, Adventures of Tom Bombadil, Leaf by Niggle, and On
Fairy Stories, as well as the medieval texts Beowulf, the Elder
Edda, and the Saga of the Volsungs.
Cross-listed: See HUM 215H
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ENGL 221 - SHAKESPEARE
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or ENGL 104 or ENGL 204H; Minimum grade C-
Students will study in detail the dramatic and literary values of representative comedies, tragedies, histories and romances.
Cross-listed: See ENGL 321
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ENGL 222H - THE MYSTERY OF LANGUAGE
Credits: Four
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program
We speak and write every day, and yet language remains one of the
greatest mysteries of our existence. Is it language that
distinguishes humans from animals? Is it possible to trace the
origins of human language? What is the relationship between speech
and silence? Between language and experience? Between words and
images? Between original and translation? What are the limits of
language? Can we even define what language is? This
interdisciplinary course will explore the mythological,
philosophical, theological, linguistic, and literary dimensions of
these and similar questions. Our readings will span 2500 years of
reflections on language, from the Bible and Plato to contemporary
inquiries. Along the way, we will encounter philosophers such as
Nietzsche, Wittgenstein, and Heidegger, poets such as T.S. Eliot
and Emily Dickinson, medieval mystics and modern linguists, and
many other writers wrestling with the enigma of language.
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ENGL 223 - American Literature 1945-present
Credits: 3
Prerequisite: Take ENGL 101; minimum grade C-
This class will examine some of the major authors and literary movements in America after WWII, decade by decade, in order to read them closely, consider their timeliness and timelessness, compare the ways in which literature has maintained and defied previous conventions, and discuss how different kinds of outsiders established their voices. We will likely include short fiction by Flannery O’Connor and Sherman Alexie, novels by Ken Kesey, Toni Morrison, and Don DeLillo, memoir by Maxine Hong Kingston, and drama by Tony Kushner; poetry will likely include the Beats, Confessional poetry, and the Black Arts Movement, with an in-depth look at the work of contemporary poet Sharon Olds.
Cross-listed: ENGL 323
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ENGL 223H - LANDSCAPE IN AMERICAN LIT AND ART
Credits: Four
Prerequisite: Membership in Bascom Honors Program
The course will consider portrayals of natural and urban landscapes
in American Literature and Art and what these portrayals tell us
about American national identity, the American character, regional
differences, and attitudes toward place and the natural world.
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ENGL 243 - REL ISSUES IN LIT
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C-
This course studies religious issues as treated in literature.
Cross-listed: See ENGL 343
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ENGL 257 - WORLD LITERATURE
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101, ENGL 104 or ENGL 204H; Minimum grade C-
Students analyze literature from Asia, Africa and Latin America.
Cross-listed: See ENGL 357
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ENGL 270 - SURVEY WESTERN THEATRE
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101, ENGL 104 or ENGL-204H
A study of theatre from the ancient Greeks to the present. Students read and discuss plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Shakespeare, Moliere, Wycherly, Ibsen, Wilde, Chekhov, Williams, Miller, Pinter and others.
Cross-listed: See ENGL 370
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ENGL 288 - GREEK/ROMAN MYTH IN ART AND LIT
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C-
Mythology will be studied in primary sources (such as the works of Homer, Hesiod, Ovid, Virgil and the Greek dramatists). Its influence upon Western literature and art from the Middle Ages to the modern period will be considered.
Cross-listed: See ENGL 388; HUM 288/388
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ENGL 296 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Credits: Variable between 1 and 4
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
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ENGL 297 - SPECIAL STUDIES
Credits: Variable between 1 and 4
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum Grade C-
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ENGL 300 - COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C-
A study of the elements, processes and operations of human communication systems through sound and written symbols, this course facilitates the understanding of one’s language and the learning of foreign languages.
Cross-listed: See HUM 300
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ENGL 303 - READING/WRITING POETRY
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C-
The principal aim of this course is to develop in students a love
for the art and craft of poetry. Students read, write, and
interpret poetry orally. Elements of prosody are covered and oral
performance is stressed.
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ENGL 304 - GRAMMAR AND STYLE
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 104, 104F or 204H; Minimum grade C-
In this class students examine the many choices they have in developing their own voice and their own style in their writing. Students learn a variety of sentence patterns to make their writing more precise and more powerful. As students gain a comprehensive understanding of grammar, they use that knowledge to choose effective rhetorical patterns for their writing.
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ENGL 305 - WRITING ABOUT LIT
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C-
Students develop skills in analyzing fiction, poetry, and drama.
Note: This course may count toward the writing minor.
Cross-listed: See ENGL 205
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ENGL 306 - ADVANCED WRITING WORKSHOP
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 104 or ENGL 204H; Minimum grade C-
In this course, students develop their skills as professional writers. Topics for essays and articles are chosen from the students major fields of study or areas of interest. The focus is on developing writing skills through a consideration of styles of writing, strategies of argumentation, and resources for research.
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ENGL 307 - CREATIVE WRITING
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 104 or ENGL 204H
A course to develop skills in creative writing, particularly in writing fiction and poetry. Strategies of style, techniques of narrative writing, and forms of poetry are examined.
Cross-listed: See ENGL 207
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ENGL 308 - MINORITY VOICES: AMERICAN LIT
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C-
Students develop an appreciation of the literary contributions of minority Americans, primarily of Chinese, African, Puerto Rican, Japanese, Mexican, and Native American heritage.
Cross-listed: See ENGL 108, HUM 108/308
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ENGL 309 - SURVEY OF AMERICAN LIT
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C-
This course studies major authors and works from the Puritan era to the present.
Cross-listed: See ENGL 109
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ENGL 310 - THE AMERICAN NOVEL
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101 or ENGL 104 or ENGL 204H; Minimum grade C-
This course studies classic and contemporary American novels.
Cross-listed: See ENGL 110
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ENGL 311 - RITES OF PASSAGE IN AMERICAN LIT
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C-
Students read novels, short stories, poems, and essays that focus on the passages from youth to adulthood and from innocence to experience.
Cross-listed: See ENGL 211
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ENGL 312 - HISTORY OF LITERARY CRITICISM
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C-
A study of the development of literary criticism in the western intellectual tradition, the course examines the distinction between criticism concerned primarily with form and criticism concerning itself with evaluation.
Note: English majors may take this course as a capstone course.
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ENGL 313 - THEMES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Credits: Three
Prerequisite: ENGL 101; Minimum grade C-
Each course focuses upon a major theme in American literature; for example, “American Identity.”
Cross-listed: See ENGL 213
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