College Catalog 2017-2018 ARCHIVED CATALOG
Course Descriptions
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EDUC 508 - Single Subject Curriculum & Pedagogy I
This course is designed to introduce teacher candidates to curriculum planning and assessment. This course will engage candidates in thinking about the decision-making process surrounding what and how we teach, as well as how we monitor student learning. Topics include: California subject matter standards, formative and summative assessment strategies, and curriculum analysis. Fieldwork required.
Pre-req: EDUC 501 ; Graduate standing only
Cross-listed with EDUC 408
3 credits
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EDUC 509 - Single Subject Curriculum & Pedagogy II
Advanced instructional planning and teaching methods for Single Subject candidates in core academic subject areas, with separate course sections for candidates in the areas of (1) English or history-social sciences and (2) mathematics or science. Focuses on appropriate subject-matter-specific methods for planning and teaching a comprehensive, program that enables students to achieve state-adopted academic content standards. Topics for candidates in all subject areas include supporting English language learners, responding to student diversity, developing a wide repertoire of teaching methods, and effectively using instructional resources including technology. Fieldwork required.
Pre-req: EDUC 401 /EDUC 501 , EDUC 403 /EDUC 503 , EDUC 404 /EDUC 504 , EDUC 406 /EDUC 506 , and EDUC 508 ; Graduate standing only
Cross-listed with EDUC 409
409 credits
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EDUC 510 - Working with Special Populations I
For elementary and secondary preliminary credential candidates, this course provides an introduction to working with special needs students in the general education classroom. Topics include State and Federal laws pertaining to exceptional populations; referral and Individualized Educational Program (IEP) processes; assessment of the learning and language abilities of special population students with special needs. Topics include the major categories of disabilities, differentiated teaching strategies, and appropriate instructional materials and technologies for working with special-needs students in general education classrooms. Fieldwork required.
Pre-req: EDUC 501 ; Graduate standing only
Cross-listed with EDUC 410
2 credits
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EDUC 520 - Student Teaching
Carefully planned and supervised teaching experiences in school programs and grade levels selected by the department to meet requirements for either the California Preliminary Multiple Subject or California Preliminary Single Subject Teaching Credential. Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
Pre-req: Credential Standing
Co-req: EDUC 521
6 or 12 credits
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EDUC 521 - Professional Development Seminar: Education Specialist
A professional development seminar for traditional and intern student teachers, this course emphasizes (1) continued professional growth through reflection on one’s teaching practices and (2) developing understanding of EDUC 520 . May be repeated for credit
Co-req: EDUC 520
1 credits
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EDUC 526 - Movement & Elementary School Physical Education
The biological, psychological, and sociological interpretations of play and physical education. Fundamentals of teaching movement at the preschool and elementary level. Includes laboratory experience.
3 credits
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EDUC 529 - Introduction to Exceptional Learners
This course consists of an examination of typical and atypical human development from the prenatal stage through adulthood. Developmental stages and their implications for learning are explored along with developmental abnormalities associated with various disabilities and risk factors. Instructional planning that is appropriate to individual student needs will be discussed and candidates will learn how to create an educational environment that is conducive to learning and development. Content will include cultural and environmental factors which impact development. Candidates will also learn how to communicate and collaborate with families regarding the implications od disability for developmental progression. Fieldwork required.
2 credits
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EDUC 530 - Foundations in Special Education
In this course, students are presented with theory, program concepts and teaching practices related to the implementation of special education services for students with disabilities and their families. Foundational knowledge on the identification of disabilities, service delivery models and the legislative framework that mandates key special education practices is provided. Additional emphasis is placed on the communication, consultation and collaboration skills useful in forming productive partnerships with families, school, personnel and community service providers. Factors impacting student well-being and the importance of universal precautions are also explored class readings and course assignments are integrated within this class to establish the connection from special education theory to practice culminating in the development of a personal philosophy of special education. Elements of this course require internet use.
Pre-req: Credential Standing
3 credits
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EDUC 531 - Assessment of Students with Exceptionalities
Examines formal and informal assessments designed to effectively evaluate the needs and strengths of students with disabilities for the purpose of making informed instructional decisions. Emphasis is placed on cultural and linguistic considerations for appropriate assessment administration and the use of different approaches to assess developmental, academic, behavioral, social, communication, and life skills of students while engaging in progress monitoring. Fieldwork required.
Pre-req: EDUC 430 or 530.
3 credits
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EDUC 532 - Case Management and Assistive Tech
In this course, candidates will examine the communication and collaboration skills necessary for effective case managements and transition planning for individuals with exceptionalities. Topics include self-determination and the planning, implementation, and assessment of transitional experiences across the life-span. The legalities associated with the IFSP/IEP/Transitional planning process are explored and candidates learn how to design instruction that is aligned with IEP goals and objectives and supports students’ ability to access the core curriculum. Assistive technology is explored as a tool to facilitate communication, curriculum access, and skill development of students with exceptionalities. Fieldwork required.
Pre-req: EDUC 530
2 credits
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EDUC 533 - Creating Positive Classroom Management and Behavior Systems
Provides Education Specialist candidates with the knowledge necessary to design and implement classroom management systems, as well as academic and social skills instruction, which are proactive and support positive behavior in all students, including those with exceptionalities. Topics include the development of positive behavior support plans based on results obtained from functional behavior assessments, laws and regulations associated with the promotion of positive and self-regulatory behavior. Fieldwork required.
Pre-req: EDUC 530
3 credits
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EDUC 534 - Characteristics and Instructional Practices for Students with Mild/Moderate Disabilities
Begins with an overview of the characteristics of students with mild/moderate disabilities and the implications of these characteristics for effective service delivery. Candidates will gain knowledge of evidence based practices in the areas of mathematics, reading, speaking, written language, and listening which are designed to ensure access to the general curriculum across settings. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of differentiated instruction and appropriate use of accommodations and modifications. Fieldwork required.
Pre-req: EDUC 530
3 credits
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EDUC 535A - Educating Students with Autism Spectrum Disorders
This course intends to provide class participants with an overview of characteristics, etiology, and prevalence of autism spectrum disorders. An additional aim of this course is to supply participants with the knowledge and skills necessary to support the learning of children with autism spectrum disorders including instructional strategies, classroom organization, and teaming with families and professionals.
Pre-req: EDUC 530 may be taken concurrently
3 credits
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EDUC 535B - Practicum in Autism Spectrum Disorders
This practicum and attached seminar will provide candidates with the opportunity to implement evidence-based practices with students diagnosed with the autism spectrum. Candidates will also engage in progress monitoring and the selection and administration of appropriate assessment measures. The seminar will extend candidate understanding of the service delivery options available to students with Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Pre-req: EDUC 535A may be taken concurrently
2 credits
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EDUC 536 - Characteristics and Instructional Practices for Moderate to Severe Disabilities
This course will provide a knowledge base and opportunities for Candidates to develop and prepare to implement instruction strategies and programs to meet the needs of students with moderate/severe disabilities. Emphasis will be placed on the importance of assessing and developing student profiles of unique strengths and needs, learning characteristics and styles, and behavioral needs for the development of effective programs aligned with evidenced based strategies for intervention and support. Fieldwork required.
Pre-req: EDUC 530 may be taken concurrently
3 credits
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EDUC 540 - Broadoaks Graduate Teaching Internship
Pre-req: Graduate standing required
0 or 3 credits
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EDUC 541 - Advanced Broadoaks Teaching Internship
Pre-req: Graduate standing required
0 or 3 credits
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EDUC 545 - Advanced Internship: Community-Based Education
This course enables students to understand the principles and practices of community-based education through both participation and academic study. A supervised teaching internship at the Fifth Dimension community-based education program is required. Students integrate their internship experience with (a) study of the psychological theories and research and philosophical perspectives that underlie the design of the Fifth Dimension and similar community-based learning programs and (b) examination of how these design principles are instantiated in the organization, curriculum, and pedagogy of community-based educational programs. Issues that arise in creating and sustaining such programs will also be considered. Visits to observe alternative community-based educational programs are often included. May be repeated for up to 8 credits
Pre-req: Instructor Permission
0 to 2 credits
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EDUC 575 - Computers in Education
Introduction to the role of computers in education. Considers curriculum implications and instruction uses. Review of educational software. Considers classroom and laboratory procedures. Required for all Professional Clear Credential.
Pre-req: EDUC 402 or EDUC 403
3 credits
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EDUC 580 - Instructional Development & Technology
For those pursuing the California Professional Multiple Subject or Professional Single Subject Teaching Credential (Level II), this course is taught through both (1) face-to-face sessions in a computer-equipped classroom and (2) online interaction using a variety of computer-based collaborative tools (enriched “chat room” environment, threaded discussion groups, web postings, and others). Includes a self-study to identify areas for instructional improvement that both the candidate and the school site share and development of plan to improve the use of computer-based technology in the area(s) identified in self-study.
3 credits
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EDUC 590 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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EDUC 591 - Support Teacher Training
The purpose of this professional development course is to prepare experienced teachers to serve as support teachers to assist junior colleagues working toward a California Professional Clear Credential and a Master of Arts degree through Whittier’s Fifth-year of Study Program. Participants must hold a valid California Clear Teaching Credential, a Master of Arts degree, and be currently employed in an elementary or secondary school setting.
Pre-req: Instructor permission
1 credits
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EDUC 593 - Advanced Study of Teaching Special Populations
This advanced course is designed to (1) cover Standard 2 of the Standards of Quality and Effectiveness for Advanced Course Work for the Multiple Subject and Single Subject Professional Clear Teaching Credential (September 25, 2003); (2) create opportunities to apply skills and abilities in the Required Elements for Standard 2 in real-world settings; and (3) examine contemporary theories and research that inform pedagogical practices for working with students with a variety of social and educational needs in general education classrooms. The course also incorporates key concepts and skills from Standards 1 (health), 3 (technology), 15 (academic content and subject-specific pedagogy), and 17 (supporting equity, diversity, and access to the core curriculum). The course fulfills a requirement for the Clear Professional Credential and counts toward the Master of Arts degree. Students must hold a valid California Preliminary Teaching Credential, hold or be working toward a Master of Arts degree, and be currently teaching in an elementary or secondary-school classroom.
Pre-req: Instructor permission
1 to 3 credits
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EDUC 594 - Advanced Study of Teaching & Learning
This year-long course is designed for teachers in schools with a Cooperation Agreements with Whittier College who wish to earn a Clear Credential. Each student will collaborate with a Whittier College-approved Support Teacher and also be supervised by course instructor(s) from Whittier College. The course includes a series of six modules, with one module devoted to each of the CTC standards for a S.B. 2042 Fifth Year of Study Program. The primary purpose of the course is to help students demonstrate and document their ability to satisfy Required Elements for all six standards within the context their daily teaching assignment. May be repeated until all Required Elements have been met up to a maximum of 12 credits
Pre-req: Instructor permission
1 to 12 credits
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EDUC 595 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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EDUC 599 - Induction: Advanced Study in Pedagogy
May be repeated up to 12 credits
Pre-req: Instructor permission
1 to 12 credits
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EDUC 605 - Introduction Education Inquiry
Overview of quantitative, qualitative, and applied research approaches to educational inquiry, with a focus on critiquing research, writing a literature review, and designing a research plan.
Pre-req: Instructor permission
4 credits
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EDUC 606 - Educational Inquiry Practicum
Continuation of EDUC 605 with implementation of research plan. Includes collecting and analyzing data, and formal presentation of results at a Graduate Research Symposium.
Pre-req: EDUC 605 ; Instructor permission
4 credits
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EDUC 615 - Research with Children
Students will learn research methods and participate in a research study with school age children. May be repeated for credit
0 to 2 credits
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EDUC 690 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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EDUC 695 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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English |
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ENGL 110 - Exploring Literature
An introductory course in the study of literature (topic to be determined by the individual instructor). This course is designed to prepare students for advanced study of literature at the college level, is offered only in the Fall semester, and is open to first-year students and transfers only. It does not fulfill the COM2 writing intensive requirement, but it does count as the gateway/prerequisite for more advanced ENGL courses.
Pre-req: Open only to Freshman
3 credits
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ENGL 190 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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ENGL 201 - Introduction to Journalism
The fundamentals of writing for a newspaper; introduction to the profession of journalism; problems of reporting, editing and publishing.
3 credits
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ENGL 202 - Writing Short Fiction
By writing short stories and critiquing those of peers and published writers, students learn in workshops and conferences to analyze the problems of writing of short fiction. Service Learning Course.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 203 - Writing Poetry
An introduction to poetry writing, focusing on form and technique. Workshops, outside readings, visits by established poets. Service Learning Course.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 204 - Playwriting Workshop
The Playwriting Workshop is meant to sharpen student’s creative writing skills and to teach them the elements of playwriting and character development. Through the reading of one-act plays and writing exercises, students will learn the craft of playwriting. They will write scenes, learn how to thoughtfully critique each other’s work, and create their own one-act plays.
3 credits
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ENGL 220 - Major British Writers to 1785
A team-taught introduction to major writers in British literature to 1785, with particular emphasis on their historical and thematic contexts.
Pre-req: ENGL 120
3 credits
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ENGL 221 - Major British & American Writers from 1660
A team-taught introduction to major writers in British and American literature from 1660, with particular emphasis on their historical and thematic contexts.
Pre-req: ENGL 220
3 credits
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ENGL 222 - Literature of the Bible
A study of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament, with an emphasis on biblical texts both as literature in their own right and as sources for other literature, art, and music.
Cross-listed with REL 216
3 credits
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ENGL 270 - Transcultural Literature
An examination of fiction, poetry, or drama in an increasingly interconnected world, where geographic and national boundaries have become inadequate to categorize literary movements. Topics may include globalization, mobility, cosmopolitanism, and flexible citizenship in the works of authors such as Salman Rushdie, Jumpa Lahiri, Orhan Pamuk, Chimamanda Adichie and Frank Chin.
3 credits
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ENGL 290 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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ENGL 295 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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ENGL 304 - Literary Translation Workshop
A class in the art and craft of literary translation. Students will read about critical, theoretical, and practical approaches to the translation of literature, develop and define their own ethics and esthetics of the interesting and troubled act of translation, and finally express their esthetic theories in the form first of a manifesto and later of a translator’s preface or afterward to their final project. All students should come to the first class with a reading knowledge of a foreign language, and with a tentative final project in mind, but it will not be expected that all will share the same languages. Students may translate prose or poetry. A prior creative writing workshop is recommended.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 305 - Screenwriting
An introduction to writing aspects for films, including artistic and professional aspects of the trade. Workshops, readings, and writing exercises will lead toward a full-length screenplay.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 306 - Creative Nonfiction
Some of America’s most storied writers work in a genre called, somewhat paradoxically, creative nonfiction. Ever since Truman Capote published the first ‘nonfiction novel’ about the murders of the Clutter family in 1965, the art of presenting facts has cut a major swath across American letters. After Capote and Normal Mailer, a group of writers in the ‘60s and ‘70s found that writing about America’s riotous transformations demanded something other than newspapers’ conventionally dispassionate tone. Joan Didion, Hunter S. Thompson, Gay Talese, Michael Herr and Tom Wolfe wrote about hippies, rock and roll and the Vietnam War and changed the way the culture understood journalism. A variety of contemporary writers like John McPhee, Jon Krakauer, Dave Eggers, Anne Fadiman and Katherine Boo have continued to explore the power and boundaries of nonfiction, covering everything from extremist religious cults to poverty in India to the natural history of oranges. Using the format tools of the best literary fiction - structure, point of view - literary nonfiction brings the full force and grace of the language to bear on narratives carved from observed truth. This class will cover a discussion of journalistic standards and ethics, an introduction to the practice of literary journalism and a survey of some of the important writers in the field.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 308 - Screenwriting: The Television Pilot
This class will introduce students to writing for television, with a focus on creating the first episode of an original television series. From HBOs Game of Thrones to Amazons Transparent, the range of whats possible in this format is wide. We will work on pitches, loglines, outlines, breaking story and finally writing the entire pilot. We will cover acts, structure and other conventions of the industry. Students will be expected to write and polish either a half-hour comedy or a one-hour drama script, with a focus on creating pilots that are, in fact, first episodes in longer narrative arcs (story engine).
3 credits
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ENGL 310 - Linguistics
A study of the sounds, forms, structure, and meanings of human language, alongside the biological and social forces that shape its use and control its evolution over time.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 311 - History of the English Language
A study of the origins of English and its dialects, and of the historical, social, and linguistic forces that shaped its evolution from Prehistoric Germanic through Old English, Middle English, and Modern English.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 319 - Early Modern Drama
An examination of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century drama in the context of early modern culture and the emergence of the professional theater as a site for social critique. Featured playwrights may include Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Ben Johnson, Thomas Middleton, Philip Massinger, Elizabeth Cary, Thomas Dekker, John Webster, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 320 - Literature of Medieval Europe
A survey of the main trends and genres of literature in Europe from the Fall of Rome (c. 500) to the Protestant Reformation (c. 1500). Most texts (coming from Italy, France and Germany, as well as from England) will be read in translation.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 or ENGL 120 or ENGL 220
3 credits
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ENGL 321 - British Literature 700-1500
A survey of major genres and works of the British Isles to the close of the Middle Ages. Readings include Beowulf, The Canterbury Tales, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, The Second Shepherd’s Play, and the Morte d’Arthur. Except for Middle English texts, work will be read in translation.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 322 - Heroes, Gods, and Gurus
This seminar explores the Mahabharata, a massively long epic poem originating in India. It is a “living” epic, with deep and profound ritual, social, theological, and political reverberations continuing up to the present day, in both South and Southeast Asia. Filled with multi-layered narratives about various heroes, gods, and gurus, what is this epic as a religious text? Is it an argument about time, eternity, and salvation? Does it present an argument for the presence of the divine in the day-to-day flow of life? An argument for the proper relations of law, action, and political order? Does it tell us something about the construction of social identity? About the nature of the world and cosmos as such? These and many other questions dominate the focus of this course.
Cross-listed with REL 313
3 credits
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ENGL 323 - Dante
A close reading (in translation) of Dante’s Divine Comedy in the context both of his Vita Nuova and of various historical and literary movements of his time.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , or ENGL 220
3 credits
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ENGL 324 - Chaucer
A close reading of The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, in Middle English and with their medieval background.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 325 - Literature of the English Renaissance
A survey of literature from sixteenth- and seventeenth-century England, focusing especially on various strains of Renaissance Humanism-including works by Petrarch, Castiglione, Wyatt, the Sidney circle, Spenser, Shakespeare, Southwell, Donne, Wroth, Philips, Herbert, Herrick, Marvell and Milton.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , or ENGL 220
3 credits
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ENGL 326 - Topics in Shakespeare
Thematic study of Shakespeare’s works and/or adaptations of Shakespearean drama, reflecting current trends in Shakespeare Studies. Topics may include Postcolonial Shakespeares, Hamlet and its Afterlives, Shakespeare in American Life, and Shakespearean Collaborations.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , ENGL 221 , THEA 150 or THEA 272
3 credits
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ENGL 327 - Reading Renaissance Poetry
A survey of early modern English poetry by both men and women – as well as its Italian influences – from the reign of Henry VIII through the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, this course will consider Petrarch and Italian Petrarchans, as well as Wyatt and Surrey, Spenser, Sidney and Wroth, Shakespeare, Donne, Lanyer, Philips, Herbert, Herrick, Milton, Dryden, and Finch.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 or ENGL 120 and/or ENGL 220
3 credits
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ENGL 328 - Shakespeare
A close examination of the selected major and minor plays through the perspectives of close reading, historicism and performance.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 or ENGL 120 or ENGL 220 or ENGL 221 or THEA 272.
Cross-listed with THEA 328
3 credits
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ENGL 329 - Milton
An examination of John Milton’s poetry and major prose in its biographical and historical context, culminating in a close reading of Paradise Lost.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 and/or ENGL 220 .
Cross-listed with REL 357
3 credits
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ENGL 330 - British Literature 1640-1789
A survey of British literature of the English Civil Wars, Restoration, and eighteenth century, with particular attention to its social context. Special emphasis is given to Dryden, Defoe, Pope, Fielding, and Johnson, as well as to the numerous women writing during the period.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , and/or ENGL 220 .
3 credits
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ENGL 331 - Rise of the Novel
The pioneers of the novel in English: Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, and Sterne.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 332 - 19th-Century English Novel
Major nineteenth-century novels, selected from the works of Austen, Dickens, Thackeray, the Brontes, Eliot, and Hardy.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 333 - Jane Austen in Context
An intensive study of several Austen novels in terms of historical context, formal innovations, and cultural resonances. Readings may also include works by Austen’s literary influences, contemporaries, and heirs.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 335 - Victorian Poetry
Survey of British poetry from 1830 to 1900, emphasizing the formation and influence of the Victorian doctrine of “separate spheres” and the later development of the scientific classifications of sexuality.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 336 - The European Novel
Selected European novels of the 19th century, with particular emphasis on Russian fiction.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 337 - Gothic Fiction
British Gothic fiction from its eighteenth century origins through nineteenth century works such as Frankenstein, Dracula, and Woman in White. Topics will include the Imperial Gothic, feminist psychoanalytic criticism and queer theory.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 350 - Modern Drama
A survey of modern dramatic works from the 1870s to the 1960s, from naturalism to the Theater of the Absurd.
Pre-req: THEA 150, ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 352 - The Modern British Novel
An examination of British novels from 1900 through the 1940s, with an emphasis on modernism and such novelists as Conrad, Woolf, Joyce, Ford, Forster, Lawrence, and Orwell.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 353 - James Joyce
Irish nationalism and Irish renaissance; emphasis on Yeats, Joyce, Synge, and O’Casey.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 354 - Late Twentieth-Century British Fiction
A study of British literature and culture since 1950, and of the relationship between literature and national identity in the period.
Pre-req: THEA 150, ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 355 - Contemporary Drama
A study of key figures and movements in drama and performance art since the 1950s.
Pre-req: THEA 150, ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 356 - Twenty-First-Century British Fiction
A study of British literature and culture since 1950, and of the relationship between literature and national identity in the period.
3 credits
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ENGL 358 - Postcolonial Novel
Novels, with some short fiction and essays, about many aspects of colonialism, with particular focus on the British Empire.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 361 - American Romanticism
The major writers of the literary movement known as “transcendentalism” and the response to them. Such writers as Emerson, Thoreau, Fuller, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Douglass, Whitman, Dickinson, Whittier, Longfellow, and Bryant will be considered.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 362 - American Realism & Naturalism
The major writers of the last half of the nineteenth century to World War I, with emphasis on the two movements of the course title. Such writers as Stowe, Twain, Howells, Crane, James, Norris, London, Chopin, Gilman, Wharton, and Adams will be considered.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 363 - Modern American Novel
The modernist movement in the American novel from World War I to 1950. Such writers as Cather, Faulkner, Hemingway, Dos Passos, Hurston, Dreiser, Welty, Stein, Steinbeck, Lewis, Fitzgerald, Hammett, and Chandler will be considered.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 364 - Modern American Poetry
Poets of the modernist era in America, such as Williams, Stevens, Eliot, and Moore. May include some contemporaneous British poets (i.e. Yeats) and American precursors (i.e. Dickinson and Whitman).
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 365 - Hemingway and Eliot
Close reading of major works by Ernest Hemingway and T.S. Eliot, with attention to literary form, ethical situations, and world views.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 or 4 credits
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ENGL 370 - Contemporary American Fiction
A course in American fiction from the late 20th century through the present, with an emphasis on how to distinguish major movements in the period and how print fiction relates to other forms of culture. Pre-req: ENGL 110 or 120 or 220 or 221.
Pre-req: ENGL 110, ENGL 120, ENGL 220, or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 371 - Contemporary American Poetry
Readings in American poetry from post-World War II to the present. May include some contemporaneous world poetry.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 373 - African-American Literary Tradition
An examination of the development of the African-American literary tradition. Among the writers and topics which may be considered are slave narratives, the oral tradition, Wheatley, Douglass, the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes, Hurston, Baldwin, Wright, Ellison, Walker, Angelou, and Morrison.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 374 - Asian-American Literature
A course in contemporary Asian-American fiction, poetry, and drama, with an emphasis on immigrant history and on media images of Asian-Americans.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 or 4 credits
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ENGL 375 - Chicano/Chicana Literature
A survey of Mexican-American literature in various genres, with particular attention to its place within the wider cultural conversation that is American literature. Topics may include the Mexican American Southwest, the Chicano/Chicana Movement of the 1960s, contemporary Chicano & Chicana , and transitional literature.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
Cross-listed with ENGL 275
3 credits
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ENGL 377 - Autobiography & the American Culture
Examination of autobiography as a particularly American genre. Consideration of the theory and history of the genre. Emphasis on autobiography as a literary expression of a variety of literary, historical, and cultural concerns.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 380 - Digital Labor: Race, Gender, and Technology Literature and Film
An upper level interdisciplinary course in the study of literature and media focusing on technology, gender, and labor. This course will give students a foundation in Marxist, feminist, and media theory. Major texts will include non-fiction literature, novels, science fiction, and speculative fiction. In addition, students will view and examine fictional and non-fiction films about technology and computation. Pre-req: One 200-level PHIL or GEN course, or ENGL 110 or 120 or 220 or 221. Suggested: Junior standing or higher.
Pre-req: One 200-level PHIL or GEN course, or ENGL 110 or 120 or 220 or 221
Cross-listed with GEN 380
3 credits
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ENGL 381 - Discourses of Desire: Love & Gender from Plato to Kundera
Representation of romantic love by both men and women form the Song of Songs and Plato’s Symposium, through the Middle Ages and Renaissance, to the end of the twentieth century.
Pre-req: ENGL 110, ENGL 120 and/or ENGL 220.
Cross-listed with GWS 381
3 credits
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ENGL 382 - History of Literary Criticism
Major approaches and critical assumptions in the history of literary criticism; special attention to critical movements since 1930.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 383 - Asian Literature
Masterpieces, ancient and modern, of Asian literature-including philosophical writings, poetry, drama, short stories, and novels-from classics such as the Analects of Confucius to contemporaries such as Kobo Abe and Bharati Mukherjee. This class will focus on two or three of the following areas: India, China, Japan, and the Middle East.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 384 - Robin Hood Through the Ages
An intensive study of over 600 years of Robin Hood materials, from the earliest medieval ballads and chronicles through later plays and novels to modern films. The course investigates how each age has reinvented the character to address its own concerns.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
4 credits
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ENGL 385 - Celtic Literature
This course offers an overview of Irish, Welsh, Scottish, Cornish, Manx, and Breton literary traditions. Beginning with the ancient texts of the Tain and the Mabinogian, this survey will finish with an exploration of present-day Celtic literature.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 387 - Science Fiction
A reading and viewing of science fiction from H.G. Wells to Octavia Butler in historical, thematic, stylistic, and socio-political terms.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 or 4 credits
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ENGL 388 - Travel Writing
An introduction to writing and reading about travel. Students write their own travel narratives, read recent and historical travel literature, and consider the cultural impact of various forms of travel.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
3 credits
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ENGL 389 - Lord of the Rings: JRR Tolkien
An in-depth study of Tolkien’s stories and of the medieval works that influenced them. Readings include The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Hobbit, The Silmarillion, and shorter Tolkien works such as Farmer Giles of Ham, alongside influences such as Beowulf, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Snorri Sturlusson’s Edda, The Saga of the Volsungs, and selections from Chaucer, The Kalevala, and the Arthurian legends. We will also delve into Humphrey Carpenter’s biography of Tolkien as well as short lessons in the languages of Finnish and Elvish.
Pre-req: ENGL 110 , ENGL 120 , ENGL 220 , or ENGL 221
4 credits
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ENGL 390 - Selected Topics
May be repeated for credit
1 to 4 credits
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ENGL 395 - Independent Study
Credit and time arranged. May be repeated for credit.
1 to 4 credits
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