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Education
  

  • EDUC 4815B - Student Teaching: Planning and Assessment

    (4) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Student Teaching
    Co-requisite: EDUC 4800  and EDUC 4815A 
    This is one of 2 linked capstone courses for students pursuing a degree in teacher education. It is designed to be taken along with EDUC 4815A  , Student Teaching: Professional Practices. This course is a semester-long full-time teaching experience in a school setting, under the supervision of a qualified classroom teacher and college faculty. Candidates will transition from collaborative planning and teaching to full-time teaching responsibility. Candidates will be expected to assume all of the classroom responsibilities of the supervising teacher, as well as extra duty assignments. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate effective instructional planning for student mastery of rigorous content and differentiation as needed, as well as utilization of assessment strategies to maximize student achievement and inform instructional decisions.
  

  • EDUC 4825A - Student Teaching: Professional Practices

    (4) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Student Teaching
    Co-requisite: EDUC 4800  and EDUC 4825B 
    This is one of 2 linked capstone courses for students pursuing a degree in teacher education. It is designed to be taken along with EDUC 4825B , Student Teaching: Planning and Assessment. This course is a semester-long full-time teaching experience in a school setting, under the supervision of a qualified classroom teacher and college faculty. Candidates will transition from collaborative planning and teaching to full-time teaching responsibility. Candidates will be expected to assume all of the classroom responsibilities of the supervising teacher, as well as extra duty assignments. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate professionalism, and effective use of instructional strategies, as well as provision of a positive and academically challenging learning environment for all students.
  

  • EDUC 4825B - Student Teaching: Planning and Assessment

    (4) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Student Teaching
    Co-requisite: EDUC 4800  and EDUC 4825A 
    This is one of 2 linked capstone courses for students pursuing a degree in teacher education. It is designed to be taken along with EDUC 4825A  Student Teaching: Professional Practices. This course is a semester-long full-time teaching experience in a school setting, under the supervision of a qualified classroom teacher and college faculty. Candidates will transition from collaborative planning and teaching to full-time teaching responsibility. Candidates will be expected to assume all of the classroom responsibilities of the supervising teacher, as well as extra duty assignments. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate effective instructional planning for student mastery of rigorous content and differentiation as needed, as well as utilization of assessment strategies to maximize student achievement and inform instructional decisions.
  

  • EDUC 4835A - Student Teaching: Professional Practices

    (4) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Student Teaching
    Co-requisite: EDUC 4800  and EDUC 4835B 
    This is one of 2 linked capstone courses for students pursuing a degree in teacher education. It is designed to be taken along with EDUC 4835B , Student Teaching: Planning and Assessment. This course is a semester-long full-time teaching experience in a school setting, under the supervision of a qualified classroom teacher and college faculty. Candidates will transition from collaborative planning and teaching to full-time teaching responsibility. Candidates will be expected to assume all of the classroom responsibilities of the supervising teacher, as well as extra duty assignments. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate professionalism, and effective use of instructional strategies, as well as provision of a positive and academically challenging learning environment for all students.
  

  • EDUC 4835B - Student Teaching: Planning & Assessment

    (4) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Student Teaching
    Co-requisite: EDUC 4800  and EDUC 4835A 
    This is one of 2 linked capstone courses for student pursuing a degree in teacher education. It is designed to be taken along with EDUC 4835A , Student Teaching: Professional Practices. This course is a semester long full-time experience in a school under the supervision of a qualified classroom teacher and college faculty. Candidates will be expected to assume all of the classroom responsibilities of the supervising teacher, as well as extra duty assignments. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate effective instructional planning for student mastery of rigorous content and differentiation as needed, as well as utilization of assessment strategies to maximize student achievement and inform instructional decisions.
  

  • EDUC 4845A - Student Teaching: Professional Practices

    (4) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Student Teaching
    Co-requisite: EDUC 4800  and EDUC 4845B 
    This is one of 2 linked capstone courses for students pursuing a degree in teacher education. It is designed to be taken along with EDUC 4845B , Student Teaching: Planning and Assessment. This course is a semester long full-time teaching experience in a school setting, under the supervision of a qualified classroom teacher and college faculty. Candidates will transition from collaborative planning and teaching to full-time teaching responsibility. Candidates will be expected to assume all of the classroom responsibilities of the supervising teacher, as well as extra duty assignments. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate professionalism, and effective use of instructional strategies, as well as provision of a positive and academically challenging learning environment for all students.
  

  • EDUC 4845B - Student Teaching: Planning and Assessment

    (4) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Student Teaching
    Co-requisite: EDUC 4800  and EDUC 4845A 
    This is one of 2 linked capstone courses for student pursuing a degree in teacher education. It is designed to be taken along with EDUC 4845A , Student Teaching: Professional Practices. This course is a semester long full-time experience in a school under the supervision of a qualified classroom teacher and college faculty. Candidates will be expected to assume all of the classroom responsibilities of the supervising teacher, as well as extra duty assignments. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate effective instructional planning for student mastery of rigorous content and differentiation as needed, as well as utilization of assessment strategies to maximize student achievement and inform instructional decisions
  

  • EDUC 4855A - Student Teaching: Professional Practices

    (4) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite:  Admission to Student Teaching
    Co-requisite: EDUC 4800  and EDUC 4855B  
    This is one of 2 linked capstone courses for student pursuing a degree in teacher education. It is designed to be taken along with EDUC 4855B  Student Teaching: Planning and Assessment. This course is a semester long full-time teaching experience in a school setting, under the supervision of a qualified classroom teacher and college faculty. Candidates will transition from collaborative planning and teaching to full-time teaching responsibility. Candidates will be expected to assume all of the classroom responsibilities of the supervising teacher, as well as extra duty assignments. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate professionalism, and effective use of instructional strategies, as well as provision of a positive and academically challenging learning environment for all students.
  

  • EDUC 4855B - Student Teaching: Planning and Assessment

    (4) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Student Teaching
    Co-requisite: EDUC 4800  and EDUC 4855A  
    This is one of 2 linked capstone courses for student pursuing a degree in teacher education. It is designed to be taken along with EDUC 4855A , Student Teaching: Professional Practices. This course is a semester long full-time experience in a school under the supervision of a qualified classroom teacher and college faculty. Candidates will be expected to assume all of the classroom responsibilities of the supervising teacher, as well as extra duty assignments. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate effective instructional planning for student mastery of rigorous content and differentiation as needed, as well as utilization of assessment strategies to maximize student achievement and inform instructional decisions
  

  • EDUC 4865A - Student Teaching: Professional Practices

    (4) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Student Teaching
    Co-requisite: EDUC 4800  and EDUC 4865B  
    This is one of 2 linked capstone courses for student pursuing a degree in teacher education. It is designed to be taken along with EDUC 4865B  Student Teaching: Planning and Assessment. This course is a semester long full-time teaching experience in a school setting, under the supervision of a qualified classroom teacher and college faculty. Candidates will transition from collaborative planning and teaching to full-time teaching responsibility. Candidates will be expected to assume all of the classroom responsibilities of the supervising teacher, as well as extra duty assignments. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate professionalism, and effective use of instructional strategies, as well as provision of a positive and academically challenging learning environment for all students.
  

  • EDUC 4865B - Student Teaching: Planning and Assessment

    (4) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Student Teaching
    Co-requisite: EDUC 4800  and EDUC 4865A 
    This is one of 2 linked capstone courses for student pursuing a degree in teacher education. It is designed to be taken along with EDUC 4865A , Student Teaching: Professional Practices. This course is a semester long full-time experience in a school under the supervision of a qualified classroom teacher and college faculty. Candidates will be expected to assume all of the classroom responsibilities of the supervising teacher, as well as extra duty assignments. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate effective instructional planning for student mastery of rigorous content and differentiation as needed, as well as utilization of assessment strategies to maximize student achievement and inform instructional decisions
  

  • EDUC 4875A - Student Teaching: Professional Practices

    (4) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Student Teaching
    Co-requisite: EDUC 4800  and EDUC 4875B 
    This is one of 2 linked capstone courses for students pursuing a degree in teacher education. It is designed to be taken along with EDUC 4875B , Student Teaching: Planning and Assessment. This course is a semester long full-time teaching experience in a school setting, under the supervision of a qualified classroom teacher and college faculty. Candidates will transition from collaborative planning and teaching to full-time teaching responsibility. Candidates will be expected to assume all of the classroom responsibilities of the supervising teacher, as well as extra duty assignments. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate professionalism, and effective use of instructional strategies, as well as provision of a positive and academically challenging learning environment for all students.
  

  • EDUC 4875B - Student Teaching: Planning & Assessment

    (4) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Student Teaching
    Co-requisite: EDUC 4800  and EDUC 4875A 
    This is one of 2 linked capstone courses for students pursuing a degree in teacher education. It is designed to be taken along with EDUC 4875A , Student Teaching: Professional Practices. This course is a semester long full time teaching experience in a school setting, under the supervision of a qualified classroom teacher and college faculty. Candidates will be expected to assume all of the classroom responsibilities of the supervising teacher, as well as extra duty assignments. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate effective instructional planning for student mastery of rigorous content and differentiation as needed, as well as utilization of assessment strategies to maximize student achievement and inform instructional decisions.

English
  

  • ENGL 0989 - Foundations for English Composition

    (3) Credit Hours
    Foundations for English Composition prepares students for college-level reading and writing. Using paired reading and writing assignments that help students work with concepts in context, students will build competency in recognizing, comprehending and using appropriate grammar, vocabulary, punctuation, and structure in sentences, paragraphs and essays.
  

  • ENGL 0999 - Support for English Composition

    (2) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 0989 
    A course in the writing of essays, focusing on expanding the paragraph into an essay, ordering ideas and using transitional devices. Grammar and usage within the composition is emphasized. *Institutional load credit only.
  

  • ENGL 1101 - English Composition I

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Accuplacer placement scores or SAT/ACT Scores
    A composition course focusing on skills required for effective writing in a variety of contexts, with emphasis on exposition, analysis and argumentation and also including introductory use of a variety of research skills.
  

  • ENGL 1101H - English Composition I Honors

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Accuplacer placement scores or SAT/ACT Scores
    Co-requisite: Enrollment in the GGC First Year Honors Experience or Honors Program; or permission of the Dean of Liberal Arts and the Director of the GGC Honors Program.
    English 1101-H is a composition course focusing on the skills required for effective oral and written communication in a variety of contexts with emphasis on exposition, analysis, and argument, and including introductory research skills. This course offers an integrated educational experience providing you with opportunities where applicable to explore the meanings of and develop abilities related to the four core values espoused by the college and our Honors Programs: leadership, creativity, service, and scholarship. In part, this means that English 1101-H consistently will challenge you and offer you learning opportunities that fully support the College’s Vision and Mission via the promotion of a dynamic learning community.
  

  • ENGL 1102 - English Composition II

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1101 
    A composition course that develops writing skills beyond the levels of proficiency required by ENGL 1101  that emphasizes interpretation and evaluation and that incorporates a variety of more advanced research methods.
  

  • ENGL 1102H - English Composition II Honors

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1101  with a grade of C or higher; or the equivalent in AP or CLEP credit awarded.
    Co-requisite: Enrollment in the GGC Honors Programs; or, permission of the Dean of Liberal Arts and the Director of the GGC Honors Programs.
    English 1102 Honors is a composition course that develops writing skills beyond the levels of proficiency required by ENGL 1101 , that emphasizes interpretation and evaluation, and that incorporates a variety of more advanced research methods. This course offers an integrated educational experience providing you with opportunities where applicable to explore the meanings of and develop abilities related to the four core values espoused by the college and our Honors Programs: leadership, creativity, service, and scholarship. In part, this means that English 1102-H consistently will challenge you and offer you learning opportunities that fully support the College’s Vision and Mission via the promotion of a dynamic learning community.
  

  • ENGL 2050 - Modern English Grammar

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  with a grade of “C” of better
    This course exposes students to the rhetorical study of modern English grammar with an emphasis on how purpose, context, and style influence writers’ grammatical choices. Through a systematic study of sentence structure, language use and function, and the principles that organize the English language, students will refine their skills at analyzing written texts, as well as improving their overall composing processes by recognizing how their grammatical choices affect their readers.

     

    Note:  If this course was taken at the 3000-level previously it may not be counted in Area F and will only be counted once.

  

  • ENGL 2110 - World Literature

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    A survey of important works of world literature.
  

  • ENGL 2111 - World Literature I

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 
    A survey of important works of world literature from ancient times through the mid-seventeenth century.
  

  • ENGL 2112 - World Literature II

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 
    A survey of important works of world literature from the mid-seventeenth century to the present.
  

  • ENGL 2120 - British Literature

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 
    A survey of important works of British literature.
  

  • ENGL 2121 - British Literature I

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 
    A survey of important works of British literature from the Old English period through the neoclassical age.
  

  • ENGL 2122 - British Literature II

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 
    A survey of important works of British literature from the Romantic era to the present.
  

  • ENGL 2130 - American Literature

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 
    A survey of important works of American literature.
  

  • ENGL 2131 - American Literature I

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 
    A survey of American literature from the pre-colonial age to the mid-nineteenth century.
  

  • ENGL 2132 - American Literature II

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102 
    A survey of American literature from the mid-nineteenth century to the present.
  

  • ENGL 2150 - Introduction to Poetry and Poetics

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  with a grade of “C” or better.
    This courses will help students learn to appreciate, understand, analyze, discuss, interpret, and above all enjoy poetry-historically the primary mode of literary (and even pre-literary) endeavor across all cultures and very much alive in such genres as slam poetry and hip-hop. Students will study the elements of poetry-diction, tone, speaker, situation and setting, figurative language, symbol, sound, structure, and form -reading works from a variety of poetic periods, forms, and styles, both in English and in translation. In so doing, students will develop valuable skills as close readers, careful evaluators, and creative interpreters of complex texts. By exploring the variety and intricacy of poems from diverse cultures and periods, students will learn to understand and to command the power of language. While students’ individual writing will represent an important aspect of the course, work in class will often be collaborative and will focus on reading, interpreting, performing, and discussing poetry.
  

  • ENGL 2801 - Introduction to Rhetorical Studies

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  with a grade of “C” or higher
    This course introduces Writing and Rhetoric majors to the major terms, issues, and approaches in the theory and practice of rhetoric. This course will help student define rhetoric in both historical and contemporary contexts understand frameworks useful for the analysis of texts, develop a keen awareness of the rhetorical situation, and articulate the relationships among rhetoric, democracy and power.
  

  • ENGL 3000 - English Content Methods

    (4) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education and successful completion of EDUC 3300  and EDUC 3350 . Students must also have successfully completed ENGL 1102  and at least one 2000 level ENGL literature survey with a grade of C or higher.
    This course will focus on methods for implementing student-centered instruction in English. Special Emphasis will be placed on the particular ways of knowing associated with the study of English and incorporating these ways of knowing into learning activities for secondary students. Candidates will design, implement and assess learning activities for secondary students. A field component accompanies this course.
  

  • ENGL 3001 - Introduction to English Studies

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  with a grade of “C” or better
    This course introduces students to the reading, writing, critical thinking, and research skills required for advanced study in English and for the enhanced appreciation of literature. Topics include literary history, theory, and criticism, literary genres, literary and rhetorical analysis, social context, and aesthetic experience. In addition to reading primary literary texts, students will read secondary texts dealing with a range of critical and theoretical approaches to literature: textual, historical, biographical, moral, philosophical, formalist, feminist, psychoanalytical, archetypal, Marxist, New Historical, post-colonial, rhetorical, cultural, structural, and post-structural.
  

  • ENGL 3040 - Introduction to Language and Linguistics

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  and sophomore status
    This course examines language characteristics, development, variation and change, attitudes and uses. Topics will include but not be limited to phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, onomastics, orthography, language acquisition, dialects and the history of the English language. This course has application to literature, rhetoric and language arts.
  

  • ENGL 3070 - Principles of Technical and Professional Editing

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102  with a “C” or better.
    This course is designed to introduce students to principles and practical applications of technical and professional editing in business/industry, non-profit, technical, scientific and government settings. It will focus on the crucial role editors play in the communication of information as they develop objectives for editing, work with and substantially improve texts and visuals in both print and electronic contexts, and establish and maintain relationships with authors and other involved in the production of documents. Because editors must often be responsible for a document from planning through production, layout and document design are also considered, as well as contemporary production processes. It will include copy marking, copyediting, and comprehensive editing. Legal issues of copyright are also included. Students will read scholarly and popular work related to workplace practices of editors.
  

  • ENGL 3100 - Studies in Transatlantic Literature

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2111 , ENGL 2112 , ENGL 2120 , ENGL 2121 , ENGL 2122 , ENGL 2130 , ENGL 2131  or ENGL 2132  with a grade of “C” or better
    ENGL 3100 provides students with the opportunity to examine canonical and non-canonical texts from as early as the sixteenth century to the present and acknowledges the important contributions to the transatlantic discourse of historically marginalized authors and groups by placing them in conversation with each other and with their canonical counterparts. The juxtaposition facilitates deeper study and greater understanding of the transnational connections between time periods, genres, and major themes in literature from the sixteenth century onward. Student who successful complete this course will: Demonstrate understanding of diverse cultural traditions and contexts, and literary genres and styles of transatlantic literature; Analyze literary productions of the transatlantic world; Recognize the relevance of literature to political, social, and global perspectives with emphasis on cultural and historical correspondences between regions of the transatlantic world; Participate in cultural events and activities related to transatlantic literature and the arts.
  

  • ENGL 3222 - Literature and the Disciplines

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 1102  and one 2000-level English with a grade of “C” or higher ( ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2111 , ENGL 2112 , ENGL 2120 , ENGL 2121 , ENGL 2122 , ENGL 2130 , ENGL 2131  or ENGL 2132 ) and sophomore status
    This course is premised on the concept that in our increasingly interconnected world, literature and other disciplines offer multiple points of intersection, engagement and investment.  The course implements a key feature of the liberal arts paradigm; the insistence that two seemingly dichotomous fields are not only related but are part of a multi-directional, multicultural, multisectoral conversation.  The particular discipline under investigation will be chosen each semester by the teaching faculty member.  Possibilities include, but are not limied to, Literature and Science, Literature and the Law, Literature and Film, and Literature and Religion.
  

  • ENGL 3250 - Studies in Women’s Literature

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102  and (ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2111 , ENGL 2112 , ENGL 2120 , ENGL 2121 , ENGL 2122 , ENGL 2130 , ENGL 2131  or ENGL 2132 ) with a grade of “C” or better or by permission of instructor
    This course will acquaint students with the vast richness of women’s literature. Students will read, interpret and write about a variety of prose, poetry and drama written by women. Students will gain deeper insights into women’s issues and experiences and the cultures that have influenced them-through engagement with women’s literature, questioning and understanding the complexities of identity and text formations. Students will not only consider the element of gender and its implications, but also examine other pertinent issues including class, ethnicity and sexuality and their roles in shaping the texts and our understanding of them.
  

  • ENGL 3330 - Studies in the American Renaissance

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102  and (ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2111 , ENGL 2112 , ENGL 2120 , ENGL 2121 , ENGL 2122 , ENGL 2130 , ENGL 2131  or ENGL 2132 ) with a grade of “C” or better or by permission of instructor
    An exploration of American writing from the Early Republic through 1880: this course will study writers across a range of genres, origins and regions who first gave the United States its literary voice. Students will consider the historical, political, aesthetic and cultural aspects of works that may come from social and political movements, popular fiction, religious history and literary history.
  

  • ENGL 3331 - Major Movements in American Literature I

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102  and (ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2111 , ENGL 2112 , ENGL 2120 , ENGL 2121 , ENGL 2122 , ENGL 2130 , ENGL 2131  or ENGL 2132 ) with a grade of “C” or better or by permission of instructor
    This course will explore key texts, authors, and literary movements in America before WW1. The coverage will include colonial and early national works by writers such as Edwards, Wheatley, and Franklin; major figures from the mid-nineteenth century including the Transcendentalists, Douglass, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, and Dickinson; and include important works from Realism and Naturalism, such as Twain, Howells, DuBois, Norris and Wharton.
  

  • ENGL 3332 - Major Movements in American Literature II

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102  and (ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2111 , ENGL 2112 , ENGL 2120 , ENGL 2121 , ENGL 2122 , ENGL 2130 , ENGL 2131  or ENGL 2132 ) with a grade of “C” or better or by permission of instructor
    This course will provide a study of key texts, authors, and literary movements in America after WW1. The coverage will include the Lost Generation and the Harlem Renaissance, including, but not limited to, writers such as Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Cullen, Hurston and Hughes; major poets from the twentieth century like Stevens, Williams, Plath, Frost, Lowell, Ginsberg, Moore, Brooks, and Rich; and conclude with important works from Modernism and Postmodernism such as Faulkner, O’Neill, Albee, Miller, Morrison, Vonnegut and Pynchon.
  

  • ENGL 3343 - Studies in African American Literature

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102  and (ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2111 , ENGL 2112 , ENGL 2120 , ENGL 2121 , ENGL 2122 , ENGL 2130 , ENGL 2131  or ENGL 2132 ) with a grade of “C” or better or by permission of instructor
    This course examines texts that reflect varied African-American life experiences and considers their engagement with the rest of the American/World literary tradition. Students will study fictional and non-fictional works to explore the racial, gender, social, cultural and political constructions that have historically figured into African Americans’ literary imagination and informed their material conditions. Students will also learn the conventions, terms and movements that will enable them to engage critically with African American literary expression
  

  • ENGL 3350 - Ancient and Medieval Literature

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102  and (ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2111 , ENGL 2112 , ENGL 2120 , ENGL 2121 , ENGL 2122 , ENGL 2130 , ENGL 2131  or ENGL 2132 ) with a grade of “C” or better or by permission of instructor
    This course surveys a wide range of Western and Eastern Literatures written between the time period extending from the Ancient Middle East through Ancient Greece and Rome, China’s Early and Middle Periods, India’s Golden Age, Islam’s Golden Age and Medieval India and Europe. Representative works from these periods may include Gilgamesh, the Old and New Testaments, The Iliad and the Odyssey, the Confucian Analects, the Bhagavad-Gita, The Aeneid, the Koran, The Divine Comedy, The Decameron, Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales.
  

  • ENGL 3435 - Movements in 19th-Century British Literature

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 2122  or ENGL 2122  with a C or better and sophomore status Successful completion of ENGL 1102  and (ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2111 , ENGL 2112 , ENGL 2120 , ENGL 2121 , ENGL 2122 , ENGL 2130 , ENGL 2131  or ENGL 2132 ) with a grade of “C” or better or by permission of instructor
    In this course, students will learn about key movements and genres in nineteenth-century British literature and culture: Romanticism, the gothic, industrialization, sensation fiction, realism, “the woman question,” decadence, empire, crime fiction, and naturalism. Considering texts chronologically, we will explore ways in which these movements and genres are not separate but overlap, influence, and comment upon each other. Reading poems, essays, short stories, a play, and novels, we will examine various aspects of social and literary change in Britain across the span of Queen Victoria’s reign.
  

  • ENGL 3436 - Victorian Literature

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102  and (ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2111 , ENGL 2112 , ENGL 2120 , ENGL 2121 , ENGL 2122 , ENGL 2130 , ENGL 2131  or ENGL 2132 ) with a grade of “C” or better or by permission of instructor
    This course will cover major texts, authors and themes of the British Victorian Period. Students will engage with authors such as Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson, the Bronte sisters and Oscar Wilde. Genres may include novels in a range of modes (e.g. realist, detective and gothic fiction), poetry, short stories, nonfiction and drama. In addition to examining major cultural influences, for example Romanticism, the Industrial Revolution and British Imperialism, students will consider the legacies of the Victorian era.
  

  • ENGL 3437 - Twentieth-Century British Literature

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102  and (ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2111 , ENGL 2112 , ENGL 2120 , ENGL 2121 , ENGL 2122 , ENGL 2130 , ENGL 2131  or ENGL 2132  ) with a grade of “C” or better or by permission of instructor
    This course is designed to expose students to the literature produced in England throughout the 20th century. Students will encounter writing from pre- to High- to post-modernism, from the height to the fall of the British Empire, and from before, during, and after World Wars I and II. Course readings will expose students to the dominant themes, literary techniques, and historical realities that influenced British writing throughout the century. Furthermore, the course will contextual the British experience through the larger lens of the cultural and political climates within and around England. Course material will be comprised of poetry, fiction, and drama that span the time period and the various perspectives, forces, and movements that shaped it. In so doing, the course will enable students to think about literary texts as both artistic productions and historical artifacts, capable of illuminating the broad history of humanistic inquiry and the specific realities that inform that inquiry. Authors may include Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, E.M. Forster, George Orwell, W.B. Yeats, H.D., Zadie Smith, Salman Rushdie, Hanif Kureshi, Samuel Beckett, Stevie Smith, Seamus Heaney, Julian Barnes, Ian McEwan, and Pat Barker.
  

  • ENGL 3450 - Renaissance Literature

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102  and (ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2111 , ENGL 2112 , ENGL 2120 , ENGL 2121 , ENGL 2122 , ENGL 2130 , ENGL 2131  or ENGL 2132 ) with a grade of “C” or better or by permission of instructor
    This course explores the major authors of the Western world and the genres, themes and movements reflected in their works during the period from approximately the 15th to the 17th centuries. We will explore the literature of the period in the contexts of intellectual, historical, scientific and cultural developments such as the rise of humanism, the Reformation, metaphysics and scientific empiricism. Authors studied may include Ficino, Picco della Mirandola, Erasmus. Machiavelli, More, Bacon, Cervantes, Rabelais, Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, Jonson, Descartes, Donne, Marlowe, Webster and Milton.
  

  • ENGL 3505 - The Novel

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102  and (ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2111 , ENGL 2112 , ENGL 2120 , ENGL 2121 , ENGL 2122 , ENGL 2130 , ENGL 2131  or ENGL 2132 ) with a grade of “C” or better OR permission of instructor
    The Novel: This course examines the novel as a genre form, the sociological, historical, and cultural conditions that gave rise to the novel, and the manners in which the novel has responded to, reacted against, and even shaped historical conditions in Western culture over the past four centuries.
  

  • ENGL 3600 - Advanced Composition

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  and Sophomore Status
    This course builds upon writing skills acquired in ENGL 1101  and ENGL 1102  and enables students to engage in advanced techniques central to effective and sophisticated writing. It includes workshops and in depth study of writing as a process, with an emphasis on the conventions of discourse situations, invention, revision, editorial skills and document formatting.
  

  • ENGL 3700 - The Rhetoric of Politics and Elections

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102  with a grade of “C” or better
    This course examines the intersection of rhetoric and the political process with specific attention to the way in which context and history, along with gender and race, mediated by rhetorical practices produce a specific politics. It directly addresses the crucial role an educated citizenry plays in the development and maintenance of a healthy and well-functioning democracy by inviting students to critically think and write about the relationship between politics, diversity and the discursive processes, both verbal and visual, that shape political outcomes, especially in the electoral process.
  

  • ENGL 3800 - Introduction to Creative Writing

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  and sophomore status
    Introductory study and practice writing original poetry and fiction via selected readings in poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction that model methods and genres. Students will engage in workshops in which they plan, write, critique and revise their own and others’ writing in these genres.
  

  • ENGL 3822 - Creative Writing Workshop: Fiction

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102  and ENGL 3800  with a grade of C or higher
    This course expands on the techniques of fiction writing, focusing on various narrative elements such as story structure, characterization, point of view, narrative distance, theme and revision. By reading and discussing published fiction, students will learn some of the elements and decisions that make up literary fiction and work at applying this learning to their own writing. Students will also learn to critique each other’s work in workshops and revise their work.
  

  • ENGL 3825 - Theories and Practice in Peer Tutoring

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 1102  with a grade of B or higher and faculty recommendation
    This course is designed to provide English majors with a theoretical background in and practical strategies for assisting student writers in one-to-one conferencing. Students will explore texts on writing pedagogies and theory in order to gain insight into writing processes and the practices of effective writing instruction. This course has two parts: reading and writing formally about writing center discourse and completing an experiential learning component in which students engage in tutoring. At the conclusion of this course, students will develop an original research project tailored to their individual interests, utilizing primary and secondary research skills. In consultation with a faculty mentor, this course may count toward the internship requirement in English.
  

  • ENGL 3832 - Creative Writing Workshop: Poetry

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion with a “C” or better of ENGL 3800 
    This course teaches students to analyze and apply basic creative writing techniques-such as form, meter, rhyme, imagery, theme, and symbolism-to their own works of poetry as well to the critique of others’ writing I workshops. The course will include discussion on the craft of poetry writing, close reading of published authors, and workshop sessions in which class participants will read, analyze, evaluate and discuss classmates’ work. Special emphasis is placed on the idea of writing as process and revision.
  

  • ENGL 3842 - Creative Writing Workshop: Scripts

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Success completion of both ENGL 1102  and ENGL 3800  with a grade of “C” or higher or with permission of instructor
    Students will study the fundamentals of dramatic writing. This course provides students with the history, theory, and practical skills necessary to complete dramatic analysis and original scripts with peer and instructor feedback. The course will include crafting dramatic writing, the interpretation of dramatic literature, participation in writing exercises, and workshop sessions. Students will read, analyze, evaluate, and discuss classmates’ work as well as that of published authors. Special emphasis is placed on the idea that the interpretation and criticism of dramatic writing is a necessary part of the creative process.
  

  • ENGL 3850 - History of Rhetoric

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102  and ENGL 2801  with a grade of “C” or higher and sophomore status.
    This course will introduce students to the history of rhetorical principles from the ancient Greeks and Romans through the present with a focus on a changing and dynamic definition of rhetoric. Students will have an opportunity to read primary works, conduct research on some aspect of rhetoric, and apply persuasive techniques they learn.
  

  • ENGL 3857 - Technical Writing and Communication Practices

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1101  & ENGL 1102  with grades of C or higher
    This course teaches the major concepts and basic forms of workplace communication, document design and professional etiquette necessary for students to succeed as professionals in their chosen fields. This course strives to make students better competitors in the workplace by teaching them to be better communicators in efficiency-driven environments.
  

  • ENGL 3866 - Introduction to Professions in Writing

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1101  and ENGL 1102  with grades of “C” or higher and sophomore status
    This course provides an overview of a range of the possible professions in writing, supported by in-class presentations by invited speakers who will provide insight into their work and workplace through talk, examples, and class discussion. Assignments for the course will involve reflective and exploratory writing in and about the various genres presented, and emphasis will be placed on rhetorical variation. The writing professions explored in class may include activist writing, college teaching in rhetoric and composition, community writing, computers and writing, editing, environmental writing, free-lance writing, grant writing, literary journalism, magazine writing, new media writing, nonfiction writing, professional writing, marketing and advertising, publicity, publishing, medical writing, science writing, teaching English as a second language, screenwriting, teaching writing in public schools, technical writing, writing about technology, writing for nonprofits, and/or others.
  

  • ENGL 3870 - Basic News Writing and Reporting

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 1102  with a grade of C or higher and sophomore status.
    Basic news writing in a variety of media; the principles of journalistic writing and the fundamentals and techniques of news reporting and ethics. Practical assignments with laboratory exercises. Emphasis on news gathering and reporting techniques, utilization of news databases and the writing of various types of stories developed from beats and sources.
  

  • ENGL 3880 - Writing and Digital Media

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1101  & ENGL 1102  with grades of C or higher
    This course focuses on how to adapt writing strategies and processes to the needs and demands of online readership. Students will consider the roles played by linking and intertextuality in online discourse, engage in multiple writing modalities including video & image, perform rhetorical analyses of digital texts, consider rhetorical & ethical issues relevant to online writing and learn strategies for developing usable and readable online texts.
  

  • ENGL 3890 - Rhetorical Criticism

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102  and ENGL 2801  with a C or higher.
    Rhetorical Criticism concentrates on the rhetorical analysis, interpretation and evaluation of written texts with emphasis on major developments in rhetorical criticism in the twentieth century. The course will provide students with intensive practice in writing rhetorical analyses.
  

  • ENGL 3900 - Theories and Practice in Teaching Writing

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Success of ENGL 1102  with a C or better or by Permission of Instructor
    Theories and Practice in Teaching Writing is designed to provide English majors, specifically those who would like to teach, with a theoretical background in Composition Studies as well as with pedagogical approaches to the teaching of writing. This course provides an introduction to the major theoretical movements and names in the recognized discipline of Composition Studies over the last fifty years. It also discusses the relationship between Composition Studies and other disciplines.
  

  • ENGL 4000 - English Experiential/Service Learning

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Submission of required materials prior to semester of enrollment (see English 4000 manual); approval of the student mentor in the major and the ENGL 4000 coordinator/instructor; and minimum 60 hours of college-level credit completed.
    English 4000 provides students with learning experiences tailored to their interests and affords them opportunities to learn about careers and gain practical experience through the completion of applied internships and experiential/service learning projects. Students will be placed in internship or service/experiential learning positions where they apply knowledge and skills from the field of English related to the concentrations they are pursuing in real-world contexts. Prior to semester of enrollment students must submit required materials (see English 4000 manual); receive approval of the student mentor in the major and the ENGL 4000 coordinator/instructor; and complete a minimum of 60 hours of college-level credit.
  

  • ENGL 4200 - Special Topics, English

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of ENGL 1102  with a grade of C or higher; additional prerequisites to be announced based on topic of study.
    Topics and prerequisites to be announced. Focused study of a problem, question, issue, or specialized subject. A variety of courses is offered every semester; courses may focus on widely varying topics. May be repeated for credit if topic varies.
  

  • ENGL 4210 - Selected Authors

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102  with a grade of “C” or better and completion of at least one 3000 level ENGL class with a grade of “C” or better OR permission of instructor.
    This course is an intensive exploration of the works and lives of one or two selected authors in historical and cultural context. *Course specific description provided by instructing faculty* Course may be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENGL 4410 - Studies in Restoration and Neoclassical Literature

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102  and (ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2111 , ENGL 2112 , ENGL 2120 , ENGL 2121 , ENGL 2122 , ENGL 2130 , ENGL 2131  or ENGL 2132 ) with a grade of “C” or better or by permission of instructor
    The Restoration and Neo-Classical periods were marked by dramatic shifts in the intellectual landscape of Western Europe. Political systems, religious traditions and cultural conventions were giving way before revolutions in theology, philosophy and science, the rise of literacy and the expansion of national power across a transatlantic sphere of influence. Against this backdrop this course examines the works reflective of (and in some cases responsible for) these transformations from authors such as Milton, Bunyan, Dryden, Behn, Swift, Locke, Pope, Defoe, Samuel Johnson, Descartes, Moliere, de Sade, Edwards, Paine and Franklin.
  

  • ENGL 4412 - Studies in Shakespeare

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102  and (ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2111 , ENGL 2112 , ENGL 2120 , ENGL 2121 , ENGL 2122 , ENGL 2130 , ENGL 2131  or ENGL 2132 ) with a grade of “C” or better or by permission of instructor
    A study of selected comedies, histories, tragedies, and/or romances representative of Shakespeare’s dramatic work. May include one or more critical or theoretical frameworks as determined by the instructor.
  

  • ENGL 4620 - Studies in Modern Poetry

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102  and (ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2111 , ENGL 2112 , ENGL 2120 , ENGL 2121 , ENGL 2122 , ENGL 2130 , ENGL 2131  or ENGL 2132 ) with a grade of “C” or better or by permission of instructor
    Studies in Modern Poetry and Poetics considers creative and critical work by such major authors as Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Butler Yeats, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Edna St. Vincent Millay, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), William Carlos Williams, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, Robert Frost, Louis Zukofsky, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, W. H. Auden, Rabindranath Tagore, and others.
  

  • ENGL 4630 - Studies in Modern Fiction

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  and completion of one 2000 level literature survey
    This course introduces the key elements of modern fiction (history, authorial techniques, major/minor authors and theories) that provide students with the necessary tools to read, think and write critically about the genre.
  

  • ENGL 4720 - American Realism and Naturalism

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102  and (ENGL 2110 , ENGL 2111 , ENGL 2112 , ENGL 2120 , ENGL 2121 , ENGL 2122 , ENGL 2130 , ENGL 2131  or ENGL 2132 ) with a grade of “C” or better or by permission of instructor
    Popularly, aesthetically and philosophically considered, realism and naturalism dominated American literature of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Yet these hugely influential literary modes were notable as much for their popularity and indebtedness to American consumer culture as for their ambivalence towards American popular culture, consumerism and the very act of literary representation itself. This course traces these aesthetic and social ambivalences in works from authors such as Stowe, Howells, Twain, Henry James, Wharton, Jewett, Chesnutt, Dreiser and Norris.
  

  • ENGL 4850 - Senior Seminar

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of the GGC General Education Core Areas A-F and successful completion of no fewer than 18 credits hours of upper-level
    The senior seminar is a forum where rising seniors can confer with one another about their English experiences, develop their own and collaborate upon one another’s major capstone projects and receive faculty guidance and feedback on their work, as well as on their post-graduate vocational, professional, or academic goals.
  

  • ENGL 4860 - Visual Rhetoric

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102  and ENGL 2801  with grades of C or higher
    A course in how images affect the values, attitudes, beliefs and actions of audiences. Through the development of literacy in visual rhetoric, it builds on the deep tradition in rhetoric of supporting the role of a well-educated citizenry in maintaining a vital democracy.
  

  • ENGL 4875 - Applied Journalism

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 3870  or special permission from the instructor
    This course applies basic news writing and reporting skills to the specific “beats” common to many journalists by asking students to produce new content in a format that simulates the high-paced, deadline-oriented work associated with daily or weekly publications. Depending on the instructor, these beats could include local news reporting-the courts, the police, the planning board, local politics, school board, and high school sports-or more feature-bases reporting like food, music, theatre, and the arts and entertainment. In a classroom environment that emphasized experiential learning, students will work in small teams to source stories, write copy, and copy edit. The course will work toward publication of student reporting in real news and media outlets in the second half of the semester.
  

  • ENGL 4880 - Digital Rhetoric

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of ENGL 1102  and ENGL 2801  with a grade of “C” or better
    This course is a study of the relationship between digital technologies and rhetoric. Working from a survey of the history of human-computer interaction and a survey of classical and modern rhetoric, the course considers the myriad ways that textuality, community, and identity are shaped by digital technologies. Course topics may include social media, digital identities, the impact of multiple modalities on discourse, the impact of digital media on our understandings of social and political issues, virtual and augmented reality, genres like internet memes and games, and theories of copyright and remix. Students will be expected to compose expository and research driven texts in digital environments, and to consider the political, economic, social, and cultural impacts of digital technologies.

English for Academic Purpose
  

  • EAP 0988 - EAP Foundations for College Reading

    (4) Credit Hours
    This course is designed for non-native English speaking students. Students use pre-college level and college level materials to develop academic reading skills necessary for success in college level coursework. Students will demonstrate understanding of academic written material and respond critically to readings in class discussions and in writing. *Institutional load credit only.
  

  • EAP 0989 - EAP Foundations for English Composition

    (4) Credit Hours
    This course is designed for non-native English speaking students. Students use pre-college and college level materials to develop academic writing skills necessary for success in college level coursework in English. The focus of this course is on writing paragraphs and short essays using correct grammatical structures of English. *Institutional load credit only.”
  

  • EAP 0999 - EAP Support for English Composition

    (2) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: All students enrolled in EAP 0999 must have a primary language other than English.  Placement is based on successful completion of EAP 0988 an 0989 or an appropriate English Placement Index (EPI)
    Co-requisite: ENGL 1101*
    EAP 0999 is a course in the writing of essays, focusing on expanding the paragraph into an essay, ordering ideas and using transitional devices.  Grammar and usag within the composition is emphasized.  “Institutional load credit only.”

English Literature and Language
  

  • ELAN 3000 - Language, Literacy and Culture

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: READ 3200 , READ 3600 , READ 3800 
    This course introduces social and cultural theories of language, language acquisition, literacy teaching and learning as they relate to the education of culturally and linguistically diverse students. The course will include pedagogies and practices that effectively support all students in the development of language, literacy and content while affirming students’ cultural identities and validating their personal histories. Candidates will explore oral language development, with special emphasis on linguistic variation and cultural diversity and the literacy development of multilingual/multi-dialectical students. Candidates will also examine classroom instruction, environments and discourse practices informed by linguistic and cultural theories. Candidates will also develop intercultural awareness by analyzing their own cultural rules, values, and biases, by engaging in communication and collaboration with persons from cultures different than theirs. Finally, student ill develop practices that support them to recognize the intellectual and emotional dimensions of more than one worldview.

Environmental Science: Natural Science
  

  • ESNS 1101K - Introduction to Environmental Science: Natural Science

    (4) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MATH 0999 ; ENGL 0999  
    This course is an introduction to the science of the natural environment. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to 1. Describe and apply the basic principles of biology and physical science, including chemistry and earth science, as they relate to environmental science; 2. Describe the physical, chemical, and biological processes of the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere; 3. Describe the scientific understanding of global environmental change, including global climate change, and discuss the implications and possible remediation of those changes; 4. Discuss environmental problems and their solutions in a natural science context; and 5. Communicate effectively regarding environmental science topics in oral and written form using appropriate scientific terminology.
  

  • ESNS 4900 - Capstone Interdisciplinary Research

    (4) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of Area F requirements, ESSS 3020  and BIOL 3500K  
    This course will integrate the various disciplinary components of the Environmental Science degree program with a faculty-supervised Environmental Capstone Project. Under supervision of the instructor, students will design and execute problem-based, environmental/sustainability. Students will implement scientific methodology to investigate a question of interest through data collection and analysis with the interaction of faculty and local professionals. Students will also develop interpersonal and persuasive writing skills.

Environmental Science: Social Science
  

  • ESSS 1102 - Introduction to Environmental Science: Social Science

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 0999  and MATH 0999  or equivalent
    This course is an introduction to the ways that people interact with their environment. Various social, cultural, legal and political perspectives on the environment are considered. Upon completion of this course, students will have demonstrated ability to: 1. Communicate environmental science issues to various audiences in both written and oral form. 2. Apply social scientific research methods and techniques to address environmental issues. 3. Demonstrate critical thinking and analytical problem solving skills related to political or social environmental issues. 4. Communicate the sociocultural and ethical issues connected to environmental matters. 5. Demonstrate knowledge of the legal, economic, and political frameworks involving environmental policymaking.
  

  • ESSS 3010 - Environmental Ethics

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102  
    This course provides an introduction to the major ethical theories, thinkers, and issues in environmental ethics. Environmental Ethics studies the relationship between humans and our natural environment. This course will examine key philosophical arguments regarding the moral status of humans, animals and the natural environment and the relationship between these.
  

  • ESSS 3020 - Environmental Law

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ENGL 1102    with a grade of C or better
    Cross-listed with: POLS 3020  
    This course examines the principal federal environmental statutes and related legal authorities. Additional emphasis is given to variation in state law. The course also examines the environmental rulemaking process by administrative agencies. Finally, attention is given to administrative and judicial enforcement and adjudication.
  

  • ESSS 4900 - Capstone Interdisciplinary Research

    (4) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of ESSS Area F requirements, ESSS 3020  and BIOL 3500K  
    This course will integrate the various disciplinary components of the Environmental Science degree program with a faculty-supervised Environmental Capstone Project. Under supervision of the instructor, students will design and execute problem-based, environmental/sustainability project to address environmental issues associated with local and regional environmental protection and sustainability. Students will implement scientific methodology to investigate a question of interest through data collection and analysis with the interaction of faculty and local professionals. Student will also develop interpersonal and persuasive writing skills.

Exercise Science
  

  • EXSC 3000 - Introduction to Exercise Science & Wellness Promotion

    (3) Credit Hours
    Co-requisite: BIOL 2451K  or BIOL 3010K 
    An introduction to the field of exercise science and wellness promotion. Emphasis is placed upon learning about the various sub-disciplines related to exercise science and wellness promotion as well as study the basic physiological concepts and principles that relate to exercise and physical activity in the general population. Course outcomes are: 1) Demonstrate knowledge of the philosophical and historical foundations of the field of exercise science and wellness promotion. 2) Develop an understanding of basic exercise science and wellness concepts and how these concepts can be applied to promote health, fitness, and wellness in the general population. 3) Recognize and define the various exercise science and wellness promotion sub-disciplines and how they relate to career options. 4) Demonstrate knowledge of current issues and future directions of exercise science and wellness promotion.
  

  • EXSC 3101K - Exercise Physiology

    (4) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BIOL 2452K  or BIOL 3010K  and BIOL 3020K ; and BIOL 2516K  or BIOL 3400K 
    Focuses on alterations in body systems and organs during physical activity with emphasis on metabolic, cardiorespiratory and body composition parameters. Laboratory experiences employing physiological principles during active participation in exercise are also included. Upon completion of this course, students will: (1) Describe the role of bioenergetics as it relates to exercise. (2) Describe the production of energy during exercise and the changing factors that govern its control. (3) Explain the role of the endocrine, cardiovascular, respiratory, muscular and nervous systems in exercise. (4) Explain the adaptations that take place within the body as a result of chronic physical training and detraining. (5) Explain the influence of the environment on exercise and performance. (6) Apply the principles of exercise physiology to training for specific outcomes such as fitness or performance. (7) Demonstrate proficiency with laboratory equipment and tests.
  

  • EXSC 3150 - Resistance Training Applications

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BIOL 2451K  and BIOL 2452K  
    Co-requisite: EXSC 3000 
    Students who have successfully completed the course will: 1) Demonstrate proper form and technique of various resistance training modalities and equipment, 2) identify and correct biochemical errors in exercise form technique, 3) select appropriate resistance training exercises and prescription variables according to training status, health condition, or movement limitations, and 4) design a progressive resistance training program applicable to various populations for the purpose of rehabilitation, general fitness , or athletic conditioning. In addition students will be prepared for national certification exams.
  

  • EXSC 3200 - Psychosocial Aspects of Health and Wellness

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: PHED 1101 , PSYC 1102 , MATH 2000 
    An introduction to theory and research of psychological processes that influence human performance in numerous movement settings including sport, exercise and rehabilitation.
  

  • EXSC 3350 - Community Wellness

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: EXSC 3200  
    EXSC 3350 serves as an overview of community wellness programs. Students will be exposed to various health issues within community subgroups and the analysis of the interrelationship of the political, social, and economic dimensions of community wellness, as well as cultural diversity issues within domestic and global contexts will be discussed. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: 1) Explain characteristics of community health agencies and organizations including roles of different types of agencies (e.g., federal, state, local governments, for-profit, non-profit) in wellness promotion. 2) Explain the role of various key community figures including the community wellness educator as part of the solution to community wellness problems. 3) Identify current trends in preventive wellness. 4) Examine key multicultural health issues and identify factors that contribute and resources that address these issues. 5) Identify barriers faced by different communities attempting to achieve healthy lifestyles. 6) Identify and describe various resources that can be utilized in the design, development and implementation of community wellness education efforts taking into account cultural and social diversity. 7) Describe and evaluate examples of community wellness programs 8) Develop a community needs assessment for a cultural group including relevant community resources, cultural impact, and sustainability to meet the identified needs.
  

  • EXSC 3500K - Biomechanics

    (4) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BIOL 2451K  or BIOL 3010K , PHYS 1111K  or PHYS 2211K 
    Application of mechanical principles to anatomical concepts relevant to human movement analysis, muscular control of movement, and injury mechanism across the lifespan and human movement situations (e.g., performance, training, rehabilitation, injury prevention, etc.). Application of functional anatomy and tissue biomechanics occurring during various movements through laboratory activities. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: 1. Describe the structure and function of the human musculoskeletal systems as they relate to human movement 2. Describe the anatomical structure and mechanical properties of biological tissues as they relate to risk of injury and healing 3. Evaluate movement technique using a movement analysis model 4. Apply biomechanical principles (kinematics and kinetics) to human movements (e.g. performance, training, rehabilitation, injury prevention, etc.) 5. Evaluate the mechanics of exercises and activities as they affect the human tissues. 6. Apply mechanical principles related to internal tissue loading to improving tissue structure and function and to injury prevention in various populations.
  

  • EXSC 3700 - Human Motor Learning and Control

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: EXSC 3000 ; MATH 2000 
    An examination of the motor control and learning area, including neural and mechanical systems underlying motor behavior and application of theoretical concepts to instructional and clinical settings. Upon completion of this course, students will: (1) Describe the strengths and weaknesses of the prominent theories of motor control and learning in describing important characteristics of human action (2) Describe the cognitive and neuromotor processes involved in the planning and execution of goal-directed actions (3) Identify the variables that do and those that do not influence the learning of movement skills (4) Describe a number of practice, or training methods that a practitioner can use to promote better transfer of learning, long-term retention and recall of movement skills (5) Describe the various types of and frequency with which augmented feedback can be used to facilitate the learning of movement skills (6) Demonstrate how different types of underlying pathologies within the human system influence how movements are controlled, coordinated and learned.
  

  • EXSC 3800 - Nutrition in Health and Exercise

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BIOL 2451K  and BIOL 2452K  or BIOL 3010K  and BIOL 3020K 
    EXSC 3800 is an in depth look at the dietary and metabolic factors which may lead to enhanced human performance. Special attention will be devoted to the role macronutrients (carbohydrates, fats, protein and water) have on meeting the energy and nutrient needs for improved health and exercise outcomes. Additional attention will be invested in examining the role in which micronutrients and ergogenic aids may contribute to performance, as well as the effect of eating disorders, the female athlete triad, and additional special populations (e.g., individuals with diabetes, cardiovascular disease, etc.) have on human health and human performance. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: 1. Describe the role of bioenergetics as it relates to exercise and/or physical activity. 2. Apply the energy requirements for specific exercise and/or physical activity. 3. Understand the governing principles concerning nutritional needs for special populations. 4. Understand the dietary and hydration requirements needed for peak human performance. 5. Recognize the link between nutritional intake and optimal performance. 6. Describe and discuss relevant theories regarding weight loss and weight gain. 7. Prepare diets for various types of athletes, athletic teams, and non-athletes. 8. Comprehend the role of ergogenics in human performance.
  

  • EXSC 4000 - Physical Dimensions of Aging

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BIOL 2452K  and EXSC 3000  or permission of instructor
    This course will examine the scientific evidence concerning the relationship between level of physical activity and physical, mental and psychosocial well-being during aging. Specifically, the course will address “usual” changes that occur during aging, changes related to inactive lifestyle (especially functional mobility and health declines), the positive effects of an active lifestyle on successful again and the prevention of disease and disability and the use of functional assessments and exercise prescription for healthy and frail older adults. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: describe current demographic trends, health, disability and disease status of older adults; demonstrate knowledge of the physiological, biological and psychosocial theories of aging for development and implementation of physical activity programs for healthy and frail older adults; describe individual differences in physical aging; premature. Usual and successful; explain “usual” age-related changes to the body composition, cardiorespiratory, musculoskeletal, nervous system and sensory system; describe physiological, psychosocial and functional changes related to inactivity; describe the role of physical activity in increased health span, general well-being and decreased diseases/disability; demonstrate use of functional performance assessment and exercise prescription for healthy and frail older adults.
  

  • EXSC 4100K - Testing and Prescription of Exercise

    (4) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: EXSC 3101K  
    This course serves as a capstone class providing students with the opportunity to demonstrate accumulated knowledge from core Exercise Science courses in the practical application of clinical Exercise Science. Students will learn how to appropriately utilize the American College of Sports Medicine’s (ACSM) guidelines to test and interpret cardiovascular, metabolic, hemodynamics and musculoskeletal capabilities with the intention of accurately assessing and prescribing proper physical activity for the maintenance of health, rehabilitation and/or fitness outcomes.

    Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: 1) Demonstrate competence in understanding the principles of exercise physiology (i.e., bioenergetics, exercise and cardiovascular physiology, resting and exercise metabolism and endocrine function); 2) Demonstrate an understanding of the program standards for the American College of Sports Medicine; 3) Demonstrate competence in performing and interpreting standardized field and clinical evaluations of the following health and physical fitness components: body composition, aerobic and anaerobic capacity, flexibility, hemodynamics and metabolism; 4)Demonstrate competence in prescribing safe and appropriate exercise for the maintenance and control of cardiovascular function, as well as prevention and rehabilitation of cardiovascular disease using various methods (i.e., metabolic equations, anthropomorphic measurements and graded exercise testing); 5) Demonstrate competence in interpreting general health and medical information and clinical and field assessments of cardiovascular and musculoskeletal health, so as to prescribe safe and appropriate exercises for rehabilitation and maintenance of health; and 6) Demonstrate competence in writing scientific summaries of pertinent peer reviewed materials and collected data utilizing the American Psychological Association (APA) format.

  

  • EXSC 4150 - Principles of Strength and Conditioning

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BIOL 2451K  and BIOL 2452K 
    Co-requisite: EXSC 3101K 
    This course examines the scientific principles of athletic conditioning and explores advanced methods and techniques associated with general and sport specific athletic skills. Major topics will include athletic conditioning of both aerobic and anaerobic systems, performance testing procedures, and sport-specific program design. The course is also designed as a preparatory course for the NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist exam. Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: 1) demonstrate an in-depth knowledge of exercise physiology as it related to training athletes, with emphasis on neuromuscular and bioenergetics adaptations, 2) demonstrate and apply athletic testing procedures in order to evaluate physiological parameters associated with athletic performance, 3) apply the principles of exercise specificity to the planning of training regimens that are appropriate for specific sports, 4) design sport-specific training regimens including appropriate use of periodization strategies, and 5) relate special considerations (such as nutrition, weight management, environmental parameters, and ergogenic aids) in the training of athletes to performance outcome. Students who previously took Advanced Methods of Strength and Conditioning will not receive credit for this course.
  

  • EXSC 4200 - Epidemiology and Physical Activity

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BIOL 2451K  and BIOL 2452K , EXSC 3000 
    This course examines the methods of epidemiology and the relationship between physical activity (PA) and disease, especially chronic disease. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: 1) Describe contemporary trends in the prevalence rates of leading risk factors of morbidity and mortality in the U.S. 2) Identify behavioral correlates of the major causes of morbidity and mortality in developed nations (e.g., USA) as opposed to underdeveloped nations (e.g., Afghanistan), and explain how behaviors such as physical activity interact with other known health risk factors to promote health and prevent disease. 3) Describe the methods of epidemiology and the criteria for establishing causality for health risk factors. 4) Describe and discuss major epidemiological evidence that shows an association between habitual behaviors, especially physical activity, with morbidity and mortality. 5) Identify and discuss the disease-specific benefits and risks of physical activity with cardiovascular disease, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis, cancer and immunity, anxiety and depression. 6) Designate and discuss biologically plausible mechanisms whereby physiological adaptations to physical activity might reduce risks for disease or improve quality of life.
  

  • EXSC 4300 - Worksite Health Promotion

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: EXSC 3000 , EXSC 3200 
    This course will examine the rationale, philosophy and justification for developing health promotion programs in the workplace. Essential program components including design, planning, marketing, implementation and evaluation will be analyzed. Employee health risks will be identified, along with behavior change concepts and related program intervention strategies. Further, ergonomic issues will be explored to determine how they contribute to worksite musculoskeletal injuries. Strategies that can minimize human error, injuries, discomfort and dissatisfaction will also be discussed. In addition, career preparation and opportunities will be addressed. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: (1) Describe the potential benefits of worksite health promotion programs for employers and employees. (2)Describe the relationship between lifestyle behaviors and various health risks. (3) Describe common musculoskeletal worksite injuries and the anatomical & physiological factors which either prevent or contribute to those injuries. (4) Demonstrate ergonomic testing of a worksite and make appropriate recommendations to reduce risk of injury (5) Describe how health promotion programs are designed, implemented and evaluated in the workplace.
  

  • EXSC 4400 - Wellness Promotion Program Planning

    (4) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: EXSC 3350 
    EXSC 4400 serves as a capstone class providing students with the opportunity to demonstrate accumulated knowledge from core Exercise Science/Wellness courses in the practical application of Wellness Promotion. Students will learn appropriate skills necessary for planning, implementing, and evaluating health promotion program for a specific priority population. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to 1) apply theories and models commonly used in wellness promotion program planning 2) demonstrate ability to retrieve and analyze data to conduct a needs assessment 3) demonstrate the ability to create a wellness program based on a needs assessment including rationale, goals, objectives, intervention, and appropriate evaluation methods 4) advocate for a wellness issue through various means.
  

  • EXSC 4410 - General Medical Conditions in the Active Population

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BIOL 2452K  or BIOL 3020K 
    This is an upper level undergraduate course in various techniques and skills of athletic training. This includes the application of anatomy knowledge in your development of evaluation techniques of injuries and illness common to athletes and other individuals. Skills include interviewing clients as well as inspection, auscultation, and palpation. Each student will demonstrate appropriate moral and ethical standards as related to examining another individual. In order to meet the standard set forth in the 5th edition of the Athletic Training Education Competencies and align with future accreditation by The Commission of Accreditation of Athletic Training Education the following objectives must be met to successfully complete this course. Upon completion of this course, students should be able to: 1) Identify components of a health and family history; 2) Demonstrate ability to obtain vitals such as upper/lower extremity pulses, blood pressure, respirations, and temperature; 3) Demonstrate appropriate use of the otoscope; 4) Demonstrate appropriate auscultation of the heart; 5) Demonstrate appropriate auscultation of the lungs; 6) Demonstrate appropriate auscultation of the bowels; 7) Identify components of the self-breast exam; 8) Identify components of the self-testicular exam; 9) Identify components of the Tanner’s Stages of Development; 10) Demonstrate the ability to complete a neurological examination; 11) Demonstrate the ability to complete a cranial nerve examination.
  

  • EXSC 4420 - Rehabilitation Techniques in Sports Medicine

    (3) Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BIOL 2452K  or BIOL 3020K 
    This course is an investigation and analysis of current trends in rehabilitation, muscle testing, and evaluation. Upon completion of this course students will be able to: Plan and implement a comprehensive rehabilitation and reconditioning program for injuries/illness sustained by athletes.
 

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