2016-2017 Academic Catalog

Sep 22, 2024

2016-2017 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

Courses at Furman are typically identified by codes separated into three distinct parts. The first segment designates the academic subject of the course, the second component relates to the level of instruction, and the final element (when displayed) assists with the identification of the meeting times and location for individual course sections.

Credit bearing undergraduate courses typically are numbered between 100 and 599, graduate instruction is typically numbered between 600 and 999, while zero credit experiences frequently have numbers between 001 and 099. Undergraduates can further expect courses numbers to reflect:

100-299	introductory courses, geared to freshmen and sophomores
300-499	advanced courses, designed for majors and other students with appropriate background and/or prerequisites
500-599	individualized instruction, including internships, research, independent study, and music performance studies

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Education
	EDU-233 Science Inquiry Skills for Grades K-8 A laboratory course designed to develop inquiry skills such as observation, measurement, communication, and investigation design. May Experience ONLY. 2 credits.
	EDU-234 Learning and Senior Citizens Issues in aging and adult development are examined through study and intergenerational dialogue. Includes daily readings and interactions with senior citizens and includes engagement with professionals and agencies in the Greenville community whose products and services directly serve those of aging and older adults. May Experience ONLY. 2 credits.
	EDU-260 What Makes a Great Teacher An examination of teachers in challenging work conditions with a focus on what factors make a teacher “great.” Particular attention will be paid to teachers working with students living in poverty. May Experience ONLY. 2 credits. May Experience ONLY. 2 credits.
	EDU-265 International Perspectives on Public Edu cation In-depth focus on the issues, philosophy, history, and cultural differences of public education from an international perspective. Comparison of the educational system in the United States with other nations, focusing on the country visited. May be repeated once with change of country. May be repeated once with change of country. May Experience ONLY. 2 credits.
	EDU-305 Arts Integration in Elementary Grades Prerequisite: EDU-111 or EDU-120 Knowledge and understanding of visual and performing arts connected within and across the arts disciplines and other disciplines to allow teachers to engage elementary students in using the arts as tools for communication, inquiry, and assessment. Theories pertaining to the ways in which children learn each of the arts, active practice of each of the arts, and corresponding strategies for teaching children the skills and concepts related to performance and integration of the arts into elementary classrooms and curricula. Off-campus fieldwork required. 4 credits.
	EDU-330 Literacy Foundations and Instruction in Grades PK-3 Prerequisite: EDU-111 and EDU-120 Study of early literacy reading and writing instruction and the role of the teacher as a decision-maker. Content will focus on integrating reading, writing, speaking, and listening processes across the curriculum. Major emphasis will be placed on children146s literature and its effective presentation in the classroom. Twenty hours of off-campus fieldwork at a local public school required. 4 credits.
	EDU-331 Literacy Processes and Instruction in Grades 2-6 Prerequisite: EDU-111 and EDU-120 Reading and writing instruction in the elementary grades emphasizing the development of critical thinking and metacognitive skills. Content will focus on integrating communication processes in the content areas; children146s literature and its effective presentation in the classroom; and the role of the teacher as a reflective practitioner. Twenty hours of off-campus fieldwork at a local public school required. 4 credits.
	EDU-332 Social Studies in Grades PK-6 Prerequisite: EDU-111 and EDU-120 Knowledge of the elementary and middle school social studies curriculum, teaching strategies and materials, and field-based application in area. 4 credits.
	EDU-333 Science in Grades PK-6 Prerequisite: EDU-111 and EDU-120 Knowledge of the elementary and middle school science curriculum, teaching strategies and materials, and field-based application in area schools. 4 credits.
	EDU-335 Organization and Curriculum in Middle Schools Prerequisite: EDU-221 Developmental tasks of middle school students; organization and sequence of the instructional program; staff characteristics, patterns, services, home-school-community relations; management and evaluation of middle schools. Twenty hours of off-campus fieldwork at a local public school required. 4 credits.
	EDU-338 Reading and Responding to Children’s Lit erature Exploration of a wide variety of genres of children’s literature to become more knowledgeable in the ability to select, read, and respond to children’s literature. Development of expertise in using children’s literature for aesthetic, personal, social, and critical purposes, and examination of the ways readers interact with texts and each other to make meaning while reading and discussing texts. May Experience ONLY. 2 credits.
	EDU-350 Curriculum and Methods for Teaching Grades 9-12 Prerequisite: EDU-221 Various ways of organizing the curriculum in the secondary school, a comparison of traditional and nontraditional teaching methods, principles of learning, classroom organization, planning units and formal and informal evaluation. 2 credits.
	EDU-430 Assessment for Instructional Planning Prerequisite: EDU-221 Introduction to the processes of assessment and the use of assessment information to develop appropriate educational programs for all students in grades PK-6. Review and practices of assessment tools to plan instruction in all areas. Focus will be on students’ literacy and numeracy development. May only be enrolled as a part of the Senior Block. May only be enrolled as a part of the Senior Block. 3 credits.
	EDU-431 Diverse School Cultures: Teaching, Learning and Managment Prerequisite: EDU-221 Deepens understanding of diversity in elementary and middle school cultures. Classroom and school communities that embrace diversity studied through analysis of attributes and practices of successful educators. Instructional and management strategies that encourage learning, sensitivity and socialization developed through integrated clinical and field experiences. May only be enrolled as a part of the Senior Block. May only be enrolled as a part of the Senior Block. 3 credits.
	EDU-432 Integrating Curriculum and Technology Prerequisite: EDU-221 Provides background for integrating instruction and technology across curriculum. In field-based teams, candidates explore models/theories of curriculum integration and use the thematic approach to unit development. Focus on developing connections across disciplines of science, social studies, mathematics, language arts, and related arts. May only be enrolled as a part of the Senior Block. May only be enrolled as a part of the Senior Block. 3 credits.
	EDU-433 Foundations of Literacy Instruction Prerequisite: EDU-350 For preservice secondary and language certifiers enrolled in the senior block, this course provides an overview of literacy education, focusing on the cognitive, linguistic, motivational, and social foundations of literacy processes and instruction, evidence-based trends, and assessment. 3 credits.
	EDU-434 Content Literacy Strategies and Modifications for Diverse Learners Prerequisite: EDU-350 For preservice candidates enrolled in the senior block and music education interns, this course introduces strategies and practices that facilitate learning in content areas. Educational, cultural, and linguistics considerations for modifying instruction of diverse learners will be presented. 3 credits.
	EDU-451 Literature for Young Adults Prerequisite: EDU-221 Content of the literature program in the secondary school and methods of teaching poetry, short stories, traditional literature and young adult novels. 4 credits.
	EDU-452 Teaching English Grades 9-12 Prerequisite: EDU-221 Should be enrolled senior year concurrently with EDU-350 (ED-50). Explores two of the major components in the secondary school English curriculum: language and composition. Emphasis placed on teaching the writing process. Examines strategies needed to learn from text materials included in the English classroom. 4 credits.
	EDU-453 Teaching Social Studies Grades 9-12 Prerequisite: EDU-221 Should be enrolled senior year concurrently with EDU-350 . Provides in-depth investigation of the methods associated with teaching social studies on the secondary level. Special emphasis placed on how the social sciences differ from other disciplines, and how differences affect curricular and pedagogical strategies. 4 credits.
	EDU-454 Teaching Science in Grades 9-12 Prerequisite: EDU-221 Should be enrolled senior year concurrently with EDU-350 . Teacher candidates become reflective practitioners developing and delivering quality science curriculum. Covered are laboratory safety, instructional strategies, inquiry learning and the learning cycle, curriculum models emphasizing integration, performance assessment, resource evaluation focusing on technology, and field experiences in area schools. 4 credits.
	EDU-455 Teaching Math in Grades 9-12 Prerequisite: EDU-221 and MTH-160 or MTH-360 Teacher candidates become reflective practitioners in the development and delivery of a well-designed standards-based mathematics curriculum. Topics include mathematics curriculum in the secondary school, instructional strategies, performance assessment and resource evaluation focusing on technology. Students are expected to participate in field work in local mathematics classrooms. Students are expected to participate in field work in local mathematics classrooms. Should be enrolled senior year concurrently with EDU-350 . 4 credits.
	EDU-460 Critical Issues in Secondary Education Prerequisite: EDU-221 Designed for senior level secondary and PK-12 language teacher candidates in conjunction with EDU-350, 472, and an appropriate subject-specific methods course. Provides candidates with opportunities to examine significant issues in secondary schools including: classroom management techniques, reading and writing in the content area, and educational technology. 2 credits.
	EDU-464 Critique of Science Education Literature Examines selected topics in the methodological and philosophical foundations of science education. Topics include nature of science inquiry, context of science, nature of learner, teaching and learning, curriculum, student assessment, and professional practice. 4 credits.
	EDU-465 Informal Science Education Practicum Prerequisite: EDU-464 Provides students opportunity to apply theory and evidence-based practices in informal learning settings such as museums, zoos, aquariums, or state parks under the supervision of faculty. 4 credits.
	EDU-470 Practicum in Teaching Prerequisite: EDU-221 Designed for senior level teacher candidates. Provides opportunities to apply theory and evidence-based practice in the classroom under the supervision of Furman faculty and mentorship of master teacher. May only be enrolled as a part of the Senior Block. 4 credits.
	EDU-472 Practicum: Secondary Teaching Prerequisite: EDU-221 Provides candidates with opportunities to apply theory and evidence-based practice in the classroom under the supervision of Furman faculty and mentorship of a master teacher. May only be enrolled as a part of the Senior Block. 4 credits.
	EDU-501 Independent Study A project whose objectives and activities are designed by the student, approved by a faculty member who directs the project and by the department chair, and evaluated by a committee of three department members. Variable credit.
	EDU-503 Non-Teaching Internship Variable credit.
	EDU-505 Teaching Internship Prerequisite: completion of major requirements in music Education Required of candidates intending to teach. Intern is placed with a mentor teacher in the subject area of prospective certification. Full-time teaching responsibilities assumed over time. Intern attends weekly seminars. Variable credit.
English
	ENG-111 Texts and Meaning GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) An introduction to the study of the structures and methods by which texts create and convey meaning. Texts and approaches will be determined by individual instructors, but all emphasize reflective, critical reading, as well as text-centered discussions and written assignments. 4 credits.
	ENG-150 Interpretive Strategies GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Addressing issues and questions specific to literary and cultural analysis and in the process exploring various interpretive strategies through which ideas of the literary and of literary study are engaged. The content and perspective of this course will vary according to instructor. Students will read primary theoretical texts, and will write about how theories of literature might inform ways of reading prose, poetry, drama, and/or film. By the end of the term, students should have a sense of how over the years critical debate has shaped the many practices of reading literature. 4 credits.
	ENG-210 Advanced Composition Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Instruction and practice in writing, analyzing, and evaluating narrative, descriptive, expository, and argumentative essays. 4 credits.
	ENG-211 Professional Communication Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Development of effective written and oral communication skills, critical thinking, research strategies, collaboration, and professional and ethical behavior in workplace environments. Job search and interviewing strategies will also be covered. 4 credits.
	ENG-212 Journalism Principles and Practice Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Addresses the role of newspapers in society, the strategies for reporting and writing news, and the ethical and legal ramifications of newspaper reporting. 4 credits.
	ENG-213 Investigative Reporting Completion of an investigative project for publication, including choosing an area of study, interviewing and assembling and retention of pertinent documents. Revelatory reporting will be written, packaged with photographs and graphics and published. May Experience ONLY. 2 credits.
	ENG-214 Immersion Journalism: Reading As Writers GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of a fascinating branch of nonfiction writing. Texts may include works by Tom Wolfe, Barbara Ehrenreich, Edward Abbey, Karsten Heur and Susan Orlean. Students will read as writers, scour the texts for craft and style tactics and critique class members’ essays. 4 credits.
	ENG-215 Writing for Film and Television Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Skills used in dramatic writing for visual media, with special focus on film and television conducted as a workshop on how to write feature films and various types of television drama scripts. 4 credits.
	ENG-220 Writing Poems Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Emphasizes awareness and proficiency in the craft of poetry. Students should be prepared to write frequently, to duplicate their work for discussion, and to comment upon their classmates’ work. 4 credits.
	ENG-221 Writing Fiction Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Emphasizes awareness and proficiency in the craft of prose fiction. Students should be prepared to write frequently, to duplicate their work for discussion, and to comment upon their classmates146 work. 4 credits.
	ENG-223 Writing Nonfiction Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar This course will develop students’ proficiency in the craft of nonfiction. Students will do writing exercises, discuss published work, explore prose techniques, and critique their classmates’ work. 4 credits.
	ENG-225 Writing with Writers Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Supervised by a prominent writer, students will work on their own creative projects. The genre (prose fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry) will change from year to year. May Experience ONLY. 2 credits.
	ENG-227 Making Comics: Form and Craft = Product Learn how comics (or sequential art, or graphic novels) use both image and text, but operate in ways that differ from either prose or single-image pieces of art. Study the conjunction of image and text for dynamic storytelling. Write and make the images for at least four book projects. No prior experience with art or writing required. May Experience ONLY. 2 credits.
	ENG-239 Art of Travel Writing Introduction to history, society and culture of specific travel destination. Exploration of art of travel writing including reading and analyzing travel essays as models for their own writing. Required for students participating in travel writing May Experience in a given year. 2 credits.
	ENG-242 Environmental Writing GER: NE (Humans and the Natural Environment) and TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Focus on works commonly considered major examples of environmental writing and examine the theoretical/critical considerations involved in reading these works. Writers include: James Fenimore Cooper, Henry David Thoreau, John Muir, Mary Austin, Aldo Leopold, Rachel Carson, and Barry Lopez will be read and discussed. Theoretical problems such as the relation of writing to lived experience and the justice of emphasizing all life over human life will help focus discussions. Class participation demonstrating considered familiarity with assigned reading will be required, as will written work demonstrating thoughtful command of issues raised by the course. 4 credits.
	ENG-243 Fantasy and Science Fiction GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Exploration of how race, colonialism, gender, science, the sacred, and the human inform our fantasies about other worlds and times. May trace dialogue between contemporary fantasy/science fiction and literature of other periods. 4 credits.
	ENG-251 Medieval Arthurian Literature GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of the earliest tales of King Arthur and his knights. Course focuses on medieval European literature but may include one contemporary version. Authors include Chrien de Troyes, the Gawain poet, Malory, and others. 4 credits.
	ENG-253 Altered States in Victorian Literature GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar taking a broad interpretation of the phrase “altered states,” this course examines Victorian literary works depicting states of mind that defy, transcend, or exceed notions of “normal” psychic functioning as defined by nineteenth-century culture and particularly science. 4 credits.
	ENG-301 Late 14th Century English Literature GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of literature by poets and mystics of Ricardian England, with an emphasis on interpreting these texts in light of their medieval social and philosophical context. A substantial part of this course is devoted to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales. 4 credits.
	ENG-302 Literature of Early Modern Britain GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: Any first year writing seminar A study of literature written during the reigns of the Tudors and the early Stuart monarchs when England began to develop a distinct cultural identity. Emphasis is on poetry and prose. 4 credits.
	ENG-303 Early Modern Drama GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Major works from the golden age of English drama. Shakespeare and/or Shakespeare along with work by his contemporaries, Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Middleton, Ford, and others. 4 credits.
	ENG-304 English Literature of Restoration and 18th Century GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Survey of English literature and culture from the Restoration of Charles II in 1660 to the creation of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1801. Covers a range of literary genres, such as drama, satiric poetry, travel narratives, periodical essays, and novels. Students will examine the historical, social, political, and intellectual backgrounds for these texts, including the declining influence of court culture, the construction of a colonial market economy, discourses of slavery and abolition, and considerations of gender and marriage. Authors studied include: Rochester, Behn, Pope, Equiano, and others. 4 credits.
	ENG-305 British Romantic Literature GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The major writers and some less well-known figures from the period 1790-1830: the poets Blake Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, P. B. Shelley, and Keats; the novelists Austen and Scott; the essayists Hazlitt, Lamb, and De Quincey; and others like Mary Shelley, Godwin, and Clare. Introduction to both literary and critical writing of the period as well as to the current critical and theoretical issues, mainly rhetorical and historical, that engagement with these writers entails. 4 credits.
	ENG-306 Victorian Literature and Culture GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of Victorian fiction, poetry, and prose with an emphasis on major social, cultural, and political concerns and debates in nineteenth-century Britain: industrialization and modernization, ideologies of class and gender, evolutionary theory and religious ambivalence, new developments in aesthetic theory and literary form. Authors studied include: Carlyle, Ruskin, Dickens, Eliot, Browning, Tennyson, Pater, Morris, and Wilde. 4 credits.
	ENG-307 Literature Before Print GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Medieval English literature. Exploring the differences between the way medieval people read–their experience of reading and their training as interpreters of texts–and the way we read today. The complexity and variance of texts created in a pre-print world. Introducrion to canonical and non-canonical texts of the medieval English period, with a focus on the question of what it meant to read in the Middle Ages. 4 credits.
	ENG-308 Renaissance Epic GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The nature and purpose of the epic in the European Renaissance through a close study of Dante146s Divine Comedy, Ariosto146s Orlando Furioso, Spenser146s Faerie Queene, and Milton146s Paradise Lost. Renaissance theories of allegory and genre and the cultural work of these epics are explored. 4 credits.
	ENG-309 Nature in South Asian Literature GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) and WC (World Cultures) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Introduction to the genre of the pastoral as evidenced in writings about South Asia, both by ?Western? and ?indigenous? authors either visiting or domiciled in the Indian subcontinent. An array of literary texts of different kinds written in different eras will be considered to help students understand the transformations in the genre (including its parody and subversion) in response to cultural and political developments. Secondary texts will also help construct an appropriate interpretive framework for the primary texts. 4 credits.
	ENG-310 Studies in Fictional Histories GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar How does literature shape the ways in which one imagines historical figures, national events, or remote geographies? How do partially fictionalized reconstructions of experience influence historical understanding? This course theorizes the often porous borders between history and fiction. Students will examine archival material, historical documents, and theoretical studies alongside fictional works that do not simply reimagine the past but profoundly recast national histories. 4 credits.
	ENG-311 Early American Literature GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of American literature from the colonial period through Cooper. Focusing on major works by Franklin, Brown, and Cooper, considering such forms as the sermon, diary, captivity narrative, and spiritual biography. 4 credits.
	ENG-312 Emerson to Dickinson GER: UQ (Ultimate Questions) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of American literature from Emerson through Dickinson. Focusing on such writers as Douglass, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, Stowe, Whitman, consideration of how these writers worry over the possibility of living well through their considerations of such concerns as their relationships to creation, to God, to evil, to readers too busy to give letters157 their time, and to an expanding, divided federation compromised by a constitution that allows promotes slavery and disenfranchises women. 4 credits.
	ENG-320 Eighteenth Century Novel GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Novels are so familiar that it is hard to believe that there was ever at time when they did not exist. However, in Shakespeare’s day, there was not yet a novel in the modern sense, while a bit over a century later the novel was the most widely-read of non-religious literary forms. In this course we will explore the changes–in literacy, class structure, international relations, gender norms, print culture, language, and religion–that this new genre reflected. Authors covered may include Behn, Manley, Defoe, Haywood, Swift, Lennox, Fielding, Richardson, Collier, Burney, Goldsmith, Radcliffe, and Austen. 4 credits.
	ENG-321 Victorian Novel GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The Victorian novel viewed through the lens of both nineteenth-century and modern theories of the novel. Works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Thomas Hardy and others will be examined from the perspective of Victorian literary culture and the work of critics such as Mikhail Bakhtin, Georg Lukas, Walter Benjamin, Ian Watt, Fredric Jameson, and Franco Moretti. 4 credits.
	ENG-322 Modern British Novel GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of the novel in the British Isles and Empire from 1900 to 1960. Focus on realism, modernism, colonialism, war, and social change. Major writers studied include: Conrad, Joyce, Woolf, Forster, Lawrence, Durrell, Greene, and Lessing. Readings will include literary history, criticism, and theory of the modern novel. 4 credits.
	ENG-323 Global Novel Since 1960 GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The contemporary novel from the British Isles, the Caribbean, Canada, Australia, South Asia, and Africa. Focus on postmodernism, postcolonialism, and transnationalism from 1960 to the present. The writers studied include: Naipaul, Rushdie, Ondaatje, Emecheta, Gordimer, McEwan, Atwood, Carey, and Kincaid. Readings will include theory and criticism. 4 credits.
	ENG-325 Global Issues in Literature GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) and WC (World Cultures) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of postcolonial responses to and re-authoring of different Western literary canons, including examples from drama, fiction and poetry. Study of literary practices from diverse postcolonial locations (Africa and the Caribbean) to enable understanding of how through literary adaptations and oppositional writings third world writers respond to writings from Europe and America. 4 credits.
	ENG-331 American Novel to World War I GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Examination of the development of the American novel through its adaptations of such sub-genres as the Gothic novel, the historical romance, the social protest novel, the picaresque novel, the realistic novel of manners, and the naturalistic novel. Authors might include Cooper, Hawthorne, Stowe, James, Twain, Norris, Chopin, and Cather. 4 credits.
	ENG-332 American Novel Since World War I GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: Any first year writing seminar Examination of modern and post-modern novels, emphasizing how these works reflect cultural assumptions about social class, race, ethnicity, gender roles, politics, technology, religion, art and entertainment. Authors include: Anderson, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Hurston, Malamud, Kesey, Walker, and Tan. 4 credits.
	ENG-340 Early Modern Drama Major works from the golden age of English drama. Shakespeare and/or Shakespeare along with work by his contemporaries, Marlowe, Jonson, Webster, Middleton, Ford, and others. 4 credits.
	ENG-342 Drama in London GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of drama from the West and elsewhere in performance primarily on stage in London but also in other locations around the British Isles. Attention paid to the conditions of theatre in the present and at the time the drama was first produced. Offered only in conjunction with study away experience conducted in the British Isles. 4 credits.
	ENG-343 Drama at Stratford-upon-Avon GER: VP (Visual and Performing Arts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Offered only as part of the fall term in the British Isles program. Study of the drama being performed in London and Stratford-upon-Avon by the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre and others. 4 credits.
	ENG-345 Travel Study in the British Isles Texts and culture in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Specific topics will change from year to year. 4 credits.
	ENG-351 Modern Poetry GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Works by at least a half-dozen prominent poets will be read, analyzed, and evaluated. Although prosody, poetic theory, and the development of modernism will be covered, major emphasis will be on the aesthetic qualities of individual poems and the distinctive sensibilities of individual poets. 4 credits.
	ENG-352 Experimental Poetries Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Introduction to different kinds of British and American poetries and poetics of the 20th century: some that reaffirm the well-known persona-centered lyric in various guises, and others that question the notions of expressivity and authenticity to redefine the lyric through a relatively more pronounced linguistic experimentation. 4 credits.
	ENG-355 Religious Poetry in English GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Selected religious poets writing in English in the Christian tradition, from the seventeenth century to the present. Special attention to the function of metaphor in rendering religious experience. 4 credits.
	ENG-361 History of English Language GER: HB (Empirical Study of Human Behavior) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Survey of the internal history of English, reviewing Indo-European and Germanic background and studying the development of phonology, morphology, and syntax from Old English to Modern English. 4 credits.
	ENG-362 English Language: How It Works GER: HB (Empirical Study of Human Behavior) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Introduction to basic English linguistics. The difference between prescriptive grammar (the rules we learn in school) and descriptive grammar (the linguistic rules that native speakers of a language have learned). Discussion of the main divisions of linguistics, focusing on the phonology, morphology, and syntax of Edited American English. Study of the ways other dialects, in particular, Southern American English and African American Vernacular English, differ from the standard and exploration of the implications of linguistics on social and educational policy 4 credits.
	ENG-365 New Approaches to Conservatism GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Rather than defining the term, this course focuses on appreciating the diversity of thought collected under “conservatism.” Starting with a challenge to the notion that conservatism is simply the uncritical acceptance of tradition. Consideration of Edmund Burke and the diversity, inconsistency, and divergent tendencies of, often contradictory ideas sometimes considered synonymous including: conservatism,traditionalism, moderation, centrism, classical liberalism and libertarianism, right-wing politics, and reactionary resentment. 4 credits.
	ENG-367 South Asian Travel Writing Introduction to the various texts that show both how South Asian cultures have figured in the Western imagination and also how South Asians themselves have dealt with questions of identity, selfhood, and otherness through travel. 4 credits.
	ENG-368 Film and Visual Culture in South Asia GER: VP (Visual and Performing Arts) and WC (World Cultures) South Asian cinemas and visual culture through analyzing films, film studios, film archives, library and other visual and performative art forms such as architecture, painting, cinema billboards, advertising, public spaces, design, fashion, photography, dance and theatre. 4 credits
	ENG-369 Gender in South Asian Literature and Film GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) and WC (World Cultures) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Introduction to the various debates over the representations of masculinity and femininity as these categories intersect with other forms of identity and belonging such as caste/class, nation, race, and sexuality through the reading of literary and filmic texts. 4 credits.
	ENG-371 Mystery and Detective Fiction GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of mystery fiction and its offshoots (detective, suspense, spy) in English and translation. Possible writers: Shakespeare, Walpole, Poe, Hammett, Mankell. Critical perspectives may include narrative studies, gender criticism, Marxist criticism. 4 credits.
	ENG-372 Studies in Short Fiction GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Stories to be discussed are selected from a variety of historical periods and cultural perspectives. Writers might include Hawthorne, Scott, James, Lawrence, Joyce, Trevor, and Munro. 4 credits.
	ENG-373 Medical and Scientific Culture in Film Examining the intertwined ways in which scientific/medical imaging (such as X-ray, MRI, and PET scans) and popular forms of visual culture (film, fine art, novels) conceive of and display the body’s surface and interior. Exploring the role that medical/scientific forms of visual culture play in constructing notions of gender, sexuality, disability, race. 4 credits.
	ENG-374 Stardom and Identity GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Exploring the historical development of the Hollywood star system and the complex role stars play in American film and culture. Focusing on representative classic and contemporary film 147stars,148157 and analyzing how stars are produced by the studio system and its remnants in the contemporary Hollywood dream factory and remade in the cultural imaginary. 4 credits.
	ENG-375 Screening Film Noir GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Examination of distinctive stylistic and thematic features of film noir as it emerged in its classic period and as it returns in contemporary American cinema. The course will also consider the ?noir anxiety? that emerges around identity as it relates to historical trauma, sexual roles, race and ethnicity ? and do so with an eye toward assessing the critical social commentary offered by both classic and contemporary noir cinema. 4 credits.
	ENG-376 Shakespeare on Film GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of Shakespeare’s plays on film or in production if live performances occur during semester the course is taught. Shakespeare’s written texts may be studied, but focus will be on the artistry of the cinema or theater in revealing Shakespeare for modern audiences. 4 credits.
	ENG-377 Studies in the Essay GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The essay as a genre, beginning with work from early practitioners such as Montaigne, Hazlitt, Lamb, and Shonagon, and tracing its development to the dynamic form we see in contemporary work. Students will read both American and international writers and discuss works on the basis of both thematic and formal qualities. 4 credits.
	ENG-401 Studies in Chaucer GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The poetry of Chaucer, in Middle English, including some early poems, Troilus and Criseyde, and substantial selections from The Canterbury Tales. Special attention to the development of Chaucer146s narrative art, his invention of the Chaucerian persona, and his relevance to postmodern thought, conceived as his self-consciousness about the use of language and his ambivalence about the value of literary art. 4 credits.
	ENG-402 Shakespeare The plays of William Shakespeare studied primarily in their historical and theatrical contexts. Attention also paid to Shakespeare’s role in producing modern cultural awareness in the English speaking world and beyond. Appropriate for majors and non-majors. 4 credits.
	ENG-403 Faulkner GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Chronological study of the development of Faulkner’s art from FLAGS IN THE DUST to GO DOWN, MOSES. Attention paid to the concept of Yoknapatawpa County and to the various innovative narrative techniques Faulkner employed. 4 credits.
	ENG-404 Major Figures in Early Modern British Literature GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Study of works written by major authors in the reigns of the Tudors and the Stuarts. Authors include: Sidney, Spenser, Wroth, Marlowe, Jonson, Milton, or the major lyric poets. Focus on major works in their entirety written by single authors except in the case of the lyric poets. 4 credits.
	ENG-405 Gothic Literature GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Examining literature that evokes terror and horror, explores the possibility of supernatural forces, portrays mental disintegration, transgresses social, political, and moral norms, and exposes cultural anxieties and oppression. Topics and texts may vary. Topics and texts may vary. 4 credits.
	ENG-406 Religious Poetry in English Selected religious poets writing in English in the Christian tradition, from the seventeenth century to the present. Special attention to the function of metaphor in rendering religious experience. 4 credits.
	ENG-411 Satire GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Readings in satirical literature of all genres and many periods, with an emphasis on satire of the early eighteenth and the late twentieth centuries. Some attention to satire in forms other than literature. Focus on function, method, characteristics, and problems of the satirical mode. 4 credits.
	ENG-412 Autobiography GER: UQ (Ultimate Questions) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Topics include formal/theoretical discussions that stress spiritual and moral concerns, exploring contrast with other forms such as biography and memoir, and the study of specific sub-genres. Film adaptation or autobiographical film may also be considered. Alternating versions will include either an American emphasis or a global emphasis. 4 credits.
	ENG-415 Studies in Contemporary American Literature GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Readings in American literature from 1950 to the present, with emphasis on what might make this recent writing different from what came before, or 147postmodern148 in terms of aesthetics and cultural context. May address fiction, drama and poetry or concentrate on a single genre. 4 credits.
	ENG-417 Experimental Poetries Introduction to different kinds of British and American poetries and poetics of the 20th century: some that reaffirm the well-known persona-centered lyric in various guises, and others that question the notions of expressivity and authenticity to redefine the lyric through a relatively more pronounced linguistic experimentation. 4 credits.
	ENG-418 Shakespeare’s Europe and England’s Renaissance GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The influence of important classical and Renaissance European writers on the literature and drama of Shakespeare’s England. Topics vary, but may include the impact of authors such as Dante, Ovid, Montaigne, Petrarch, and others on Donne, Herbert, Marlowe, Milton, Shakespeare, Spenser, and their peers. 4 credits.
	ENG-420 Animals in Medieval Literature and Culture GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar Explores medieval literature about animals, humans’ historical relationships with other animals, philosophical discussions of the idea of “the animal,” and connections between medieval views of animals and modern ecological issues. 4 credits.
	ENG-422 Literature of the South GER: TA (Critical, Analytical Interpretation of Texts) Prerequisite: any first year writing seminar The dialogue about race, class, and gender that takes place between writers such as Faulkner, Warren, Gaines, Welty, O’Connor, Walker, and Allison. 4 credits.

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Course Descriptions

EDU-233 Science Inquiry Skills for Grades K-8

EDU-234 Learning and Senior Citizens

EDU-260 What Makes a Great Teacher

EDU-265 International Perspectives on Public Edu cation

EDU-305 Arts Integration in Elementary Grades

EDU-330 Literacy Foundations and Instruction in Grades PK-3

EDU-331 Literacy Processes and Instruction in Grades 2-6

EDU-332 Social Studies in Grades PK-6

EDU-333 Science in Grades PK-6

EDU-335 Organization and Curriculum in Middle Schools

EDU-338 Reading and Responding to Children’s Lit erature

EDU-350 Curriculum and Methods for Teaching Grades 9-12

EDU-430 Assessment for Instructional Planning

EDU-431 Diverse School Cultures: Teaching, Learning and Managment

EDU-432 Integrating Curriculum and Technology

EDU-433 Foundations of Literacy Instruction

EDU-434 Content Literacy Strategies and Modifications for Diverse Learners

EDU-451 Literature for Young Adults

EDU-452 Teaching English Grades 9-12

EDU-453 Teaching Social Studies Grades 9-12

EDU-454 Teaching Science in Grades 9-12

EDU-455 Teaching Math in Grades 9-12

EDU-460 Critical Issues in Secondary Education

EDU-464 Critique of Science Education Literature

EDU-465 Informal Science Education Practicum

EDU-470 Practicum in Teaching

EDU-472 Practicum: Secondary Teaching

EDU-501 Independent Study

EDU-503 Non-Teaching Internship

EDU-505 Teaching Internship

ENG-111 Texts and Meaning

ENG-150 Interpretive Strategies

ENG-210 Advanced Composition

ENG-211 Professional Communication

ENG-212 Journalism Principles and Practice

ENG-213 Investigative Reporting

ENG-214 Immersion Journalism: Reading As Writers

ENG-215 Writing for Film and Television

ENG-220 Writing Poems

ENG-221 Writing Fiction

ENG-223 Writing Nonfiction

ENG-225 Writing with Writers

ENG-227 Making Comics: Form and Craft = Product

ENG-239 Art of Travel Writing

ENG-242 Environmental Writing

ENG-243 Fantasy and Science Fiction

ENG-251 Medieval Arthurian Literature

ENG-253 Altered States in Victorian Literature

ENG-301 Late 14th Century English Literature

ENG-302 Literature of Early Modern Britain

ENG-303 Early Modern Drama

ENG-304 English Literature of Restoration and 18th Century

ENG-305 British Romantic Literature

ENG-306 Victorian Literature and Culture

ENG-307 Literature Before Print

ENG-308 Renaissance Epic

ENG-309 Nature in South Asian Literature

ENG-310 Studies in Fictional Histories

ENG-311 Early American Literature

ENG-312 Emerson to Dickinson

ENG-320 Eighteenth Century Novel

ENG-321 Victorian Novel

ENG-322 Modern British Novel

ENG-323 Global Novel Since 1960

ENG-325 Global Issues in Literature

ENG-331 American Novel to World War I

ENG-332 American Novel Since World War I

ENG-340 Early Modern Drama

ENG-342 Drama in London

ENG-343 Drama at Stratford-upon-Avon

ENG-345 Travel Study in the British Isles

ENG-351 Modern Poetry

ENG-352 Experimental Poetries

ENG-355 Religious Poetry in English

ENG-361 History of English Language

ENG-362 English Language: How It Works

ENG-365 New Approaches to Conservatism

ENG-367 South Asian Travel Writing

ENG-368 Film and Visual Culture in South Asia