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ELEM 335 - Math for 21st Century K-6 Teaching Candidates
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course provides students with foundational knowledge and understanding of school mathematics. Content will include common mathematical knowledge, problem solving, reasoning and proof, number sense, numerical operations, spatial sense, patterns, relationships and functions, and algebraic thinking.
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ELEM 400 - Teaching Communication Skills in K-6
Credit Hours: 6
Lecture Hours: 6
Lab Hours: 0
This course is designed to give an introduction to the basics of reading instruction with emphasis on emergent reading, the initial stages of reading development, and primary and intermediate reading programs. Also, it is designed to encourage critical study of current practices, teaching methodologies, strategies, and resources for teaching language arts in the elementary school. Course requirements include a practicum in a partner elementary school classroom.
Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education
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ELEM 401 - Teaching Math and Science in K-6
Credit Hours: 6
Lecture Hours: 6
Lab Hours: 0
In this course, K-6 teacher candidates develop their understanding of mathematical conventions and process skills as well as the principles of scientific inquiry. Emphasis is placed on the use of best practices that promote integrative teaching and inquiry based learning, such as problem solving, reasoning, communication, connection, representation, and debating issues involving science and technology from a global perspective.
Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education
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ELEM 402 - Teaching Social Sciences, Humanities, and the Arts in K-6
Credit Hours: 6
Lecture Hours: 6
Lab Hours: 0
This course enables K-6 teacher candidates to develop teaching approaches that help students to develop global literacy and critical thinking skills. The course focuses on the creation of interdisciplinary lessons and units that integrate the social sciences, humanities, and the arts in ways that enhance classroom instruction and student learning.
Prerequisite: Admission to Teacher Education
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ELEM 451 - Classroom Management for Elementary Teachers
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
An introduction to the strategies for facilitating learning through effective classroom management, parent counseling, and guidance strategies for the elementary classroom. This course helps elementary pre-service and in-service teachers develop systematic strategies and techniques for effectively leading students to cooperate with the teacher and each other, and to be on task and engaged in planned learning activities. Field experience is required. (Fall, Spring).
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ELEM 471 - Elementary and Birth-Kindergarten Teacher Internship
Credit Hours: 12
Lecture Hours: 12
Lab Hours: 0
An internship in the public schools providing prospective elementary education professionals with opportunities to observe professionals in the classroom, to plan and deliver instruction under supervision, to participate in professional development activities, and to engage in other activities expected of regular in-service teachers.
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ELEM 491 - Elementary and Birth-Kindergarten Professional Seminar
Credit Hours: 2
Lecture Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 0
A series of seminars on selected teacher education topics, to include teaching strategies, knowledge, skills, abilities, and documentation needed for the initial teaching year, and preparation for the assessments required for North Carolina licensure.
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ENGL 108 - English Grammar and Usage
Credit Hours: 4
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 2
This course introduces students to issues of grammar and usage within an integrated literacy program that includes reading, writing and speaking. Standard grammatical and rhetorical conventions are examined to assess their current significance for acceptable social expression, especially in academic prose.
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ENGL 110 - English Composition I
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A course designed to give extensive practice in the writing process, with emphasis on expository forms appropriate to everyday personal, business, and academic writing. When taken for 4 credits, two lab hours are included.
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ENGL 120 - English Composition II
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A course that continues practice in the composing process, with emphasis on argumentation and research. The course involves gathering, analyzing, and documenting information from secondary sources. When taken for 4 credit hours, two lab hours are included.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110
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ENGL 211 - World Literature I
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A study of major works of the Ancient World, the Middle Ages, and the Renaissance, focusing on representative genres.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110
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ENGL 212 - World Literature II
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A comparative study of major works of the Enlightenment, the Romantic Age, the period of Realism and Naturalism, and the Modern World.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110
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ENGL 220 - African-American Literature I
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
An historical and critical exploration of African American writers’ contributions to American fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, beginning with writers of the 1700s and continuing through 1900.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110
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ENGL 222 - History of the English Language
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
An historical study of the nature of the language from its beginnings to the present.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110
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ENGL 223 - African-American Literature II
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A continuation of an historical and critical exploration of African American writers’ contributions to American fiction, poetry, drama, and non-fiction, beginning with the 1900s and proceeding to the present.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110
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ENGL 230 - Introduction to Linguistics
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
An introduction to the inductive method of studying language, exploring the phonological, morphological, and syntactical aspects of language, dialectical variations, graphemics, sound, spelling, linguistic changes, bilingualism, field linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, uses of linguistics, and related topics.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110
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ENGL 231 - Advanced Grammar
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A reinforcement of students’ skills in grammatical analysis, focusing on the major theories of grammar and on the study of language acquisition in light of current research.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110
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ENGL 232 - Introduction to Film and Visual Literacy
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course will introduce students to basic concepts in film and other visual media such as video and Internet imaging. The course introduces students to formal vocabulary and methodology for developing the ability to consider visual texts critically. Through understanding and application of the basic concepts of film language, students will learn how elements such as editing, lighting, and composition within the frame, cinematography, and sound combine to constitute filmic discourse. In order to understand development in these categories, consideration will be given to film history.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110
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ENGL 233 - Hip Hop: Poetry, Politics, and Pop Culture
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course draws connections between rap, oral traditions, and African American poetry. The course also explores hip hop’s intersection with commerce, social policy, ethics, and civic engagement. Students will read articles, watch videos, and listen to podcasts addressing not only artistry, but also such issues as censorship, sexism, obscenity, social responsibility, and race politics in the U.S. as they relate to hip hop culture. Students will write essays, reports, and raps, and will also engage in service learning projects.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110
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ENGL 240 - Introduction to Literature
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
An introduction to the major genres of literature, with intensive work in developing the critical skills of reading, evaluating, and interpreting literary works and in writing critical papers about literature.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110
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ENGL 241 - Writing With Style
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
The study and practice of techniques used in traditional genres and emerging media, with emphasis on developing and adapting patterns of arrangement and stylistic techniques to particular audiences or for particular effects, as well as foundations of analyzing and incorporating visual and narrative rhetorical strategies.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110
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ENGL 250 - Women in Literature
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course examines the roles of women in literature as characters readers, and writers. Included in the readings are short stories, novels, novellas, essays, poetry, and drama, all by women and about women. The course will provide a historical overview of women’s writing and will focus on the challenges of women writing, the creation and treatment of women’s lives in literature, the form and content of women’s writing, and the literary and feminist theories that discuss women’s place in history and society by investigating the evolving conditions of women. Also the course examines how women represent themselves and what their expectations and hopes are for their own and daughters’ futures.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110
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ENGL 253 - Images of Women
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course introduces students to traditional and nontraditional images of women as they have appeared in film, music, art, and literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries. This course will encourage students to interrogate images of women in the popular culture of the present day.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110
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ENGL 260 - North Carolina Writers
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A study of literature by writers who are from or have settled in North Carolina. The course draws from a range of novelists, playwrights, poets, and short story writers to engage students in a study of voices from across North Carolina who question, reflect, and define what it means to be North Carolinian.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110
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ENGL 271 - Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course will introduce students to contemporary trends in literary theory and criticism against the historical background, which contemporary theory is often a reaction against.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110
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ENGL 300 - Children’s Literature
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
An introduction to works of children’s literature from a variety of ethnic origins and genres including folklore, myths, epics, biographies, fiction, poetry, and informational books.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120
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ENGL 301 - Adolescent Literature
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A study of literature for and about the adolescent, examining reading programs and approaches to literature genres and modes characteristic of the literature, and essential elements of literary works for the adolescent.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120
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ENGL 310 - Introduction to Folklore
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
An introduction to the forms, aesthetic characteristics, and social contents of oral literatures and folk traditions, folktales, legends, myths, folksongs, proverbs, riddles, customs, and beliefs.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120
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ENGL 311 - English Literature I
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A survey of the literature of England from the Anglo-Saxon period through the eighteenth century. Requirement for English majors.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120
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ENGL 312 - English Literature II
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A continuation of the survey of English literature, extending from the Romantic period to the present. Requirement for English majors.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120
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ENGL 320 - The Renaissance
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A study of the prose and poetry of representative authors of the Renaissance, including dramatists other than Shakespeare.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120
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ENGL 321 - American Literature I
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A survey of the major writers of America from the earliest efforts at colonization through the Civil War.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120
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ENGL 322 - American Literature II
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A survey of the major writers of America from the Civil War to the present. Requirement for English majors.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120
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ENGL 323 - Literature of the Bible
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A literary overview of the Bible, with major emphases on the stylistic and formal influences of the Bible in world literature.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120
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ENGL 330 - The Seventeenth Century
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A survey of the metaphysical poets.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120
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ENGL 331 - American English Dialects
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A study of dialectical variations in American English, emphasizing the reasons for historical, regional, and social variations in American English.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120
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ENGL 335 - Issues in Professional Writing
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This foundation course engages students in applying rhetorical principles, research methods, analytical skills, and technologies to problem-based writing projects that model communications challenges faced by professional writers in complex, real-world settings. Students will consider political, cultural, ethical, and practical issues relevant to professional writing.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120
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ENGL 340 - Short Prose Fiction
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A study of representative modern British, American, and continental writers of the short story and the short novel, with emphasis upon the techniques of the genre. Course offered as needed.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120
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ENGL 341 - Advanced Composition
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A study of rhetorical strategies, sentence combining, editing, logic and persuasion, diction, usage, and research methods.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120
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ENGL 342 - Creative Writing
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
An introduction to various forms of modern fiction and poetry, with opportunities for the creation of original poetry and fiction.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120
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ENGL 343 - Teaching and Tutoring Writing
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A study of composition as a discipline and current issues in the field of teaching and tutoring writing in secondary school English classes. This course emphasizes effective teaching strategies for high school English composition.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120
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ENGL 344 - Business and Professional Writing
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course explores the principle of effective writing in business and administration with special focus on the elements of mechanics, organization, technical style, and documentation. Students will learn various forms of writing commonly used in business communications, such as business letters, memorandums, reports and proposals. The course emphasizes clarity, conciseness, organization, format, style, tone, and correctness.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120
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ENGL 345 - Technical Writing
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course explores effective writing in technical genres, with a focus on adjusting content, organization and style for various audiences including peer, managerial, and lay audiences. Students will examine and produce various technical documents, such as instructions or manuals and reports, and engage in usability testing and revisions of documents.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120
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ENGL 346 - Creative Nonfiction Workshop
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course will introduce students to the art and craft of writing creative nonfiction for publication. Students will focus on three subgenres within the discipline: reportage (editorial writing), the personal essay, and travel writing. The course is conducted as a workshop; thus, students will submit drafts of their work to their classmates, receive verbal and written feedback, and revise accordingly. Towards the end of the course, students will develop a portfolio of their work for grading and submit at least one revised work to a journal or magazine for publication.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120
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ENGL 347 - Writing Children’s Literature
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course will provide students with an understanding of how to write for children in different literary genres and with an opportunity to create written manuscripts for children. The course will also consider issues and trends in the children’s publishing industry.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120
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ENGL 350 - Modern Poetry
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A study of British and American poetry from Whitman, Dickinson, and Hardy to the present, with emphasis on the major poets of the twentieth century.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120
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ENGL 360 - Modern Drama
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A survey of works of major playwrights from lbsen and Strindberg to contemporaries such as Pinter and Stoppard.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120
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ENGL 370 - Junior Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Directed study on special topics in English conducted by members of the department.
Prerequisite: Junior standing
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ENGL 380 - Legal Studies Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course helps students to develop their skills in logical reasoning, reading comprehension, and analytical reasoning. Students in the seminar will focus on preparing for a career in law. Completion of this course requires successful participation in out of class workshops.
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ENGL 381 - Legal Writing
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course helps students to develop writing skills and familiarize themselves with writing conventions associated with the legal profession. Students in the course will prepare case briefs, analyze statutes, and develop effective strategies for reading, commenting on, and citing legal documents.
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ENGL 401 - Chaucer
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A course on The Canterbury Tales and on other works selected from the Chaucer canon, with consideration of literary, social, religious and philosophical backgrounds of the time.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120 and Junior Standing
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ENGL 411 - Shakespeare
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A study of selected major Shakespearean dramas, including comedies, histories, and tragedies, and of Shakespeare’s development as a dramatist. Requirement for English majors.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120 and Junior Standing
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ENGL 412 - Eighteenth Century
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A survey of the major English writers from the Restoration - the age of Dryden, of Pope, and of Johnson to the beginning of Romanticism and a study of the rise of the English novel in the eighteenth century.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120 and Junior Standing
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ENGL 420 - Portfolio Development
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course emphasizes the analysis and production of professional reports and presentations. Students will read, analyze, format for printing and transmission, draft, revise and edit reports in multiple formats, for multiple audiences, and for flexible purposes.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120 and Junior Standing
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ENGL 431 - The Novel
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A study of the novel as a literary mode with emphasis on selected major works.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120 and Junior Standing
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ENGL 432 - Romantic Poetry and Prose
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A study of the major British Romantics, with an examination of representative works by Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats in their cultural and critical contexts.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120 and Junior Standing
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ENGL 470 - Senior Capstone Course
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Directed study on special topics in English conducted by members of the Department.
Prerequisite: Senior Standing
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ENGL 480 - Internship
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Supervised practical experience in a professional setting.
Prerequisite: ENGL 110 and ENGL 120 and Senior Standing
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Engineering |
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ENGR 101 - Introduction to Engineering and Problem Solving
Credit Hours: 1
Lecture Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 0
This course provides general information on engineering disciplines, common engineering practices, the engineering profession and history, engineering education, engineering design, engineering ethics and engineering opportunities from the instructor and/or invited speakers. Preliminary work on a design project will be undertaken by student teams.
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ENGR 102 - Introduction to Engineering Graphics
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course introduces the students to skills of effective communication through engineering drawing. Topics include drawing instruments, lettering, geometric drawing, freehand sketching, orthographic projection, CAD systems, and examples of actual engineering drawings.
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ENGR 103 - Introduction to Computing Environments
Credit Hours: 1
Lecture Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 0
This course introduces the students to the computing environments that enable engineering students to get familiar to the hardware/software used in performing computer related tasks. Topics include: basic operation of the computer operating systems; office application tools; engineering application tools; and web page creation. The course will emphasize the computing environment in the field of engineering computation so the students are ready when they transfer to the engineering departments of participating universities.
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ENGR 201 - Engineering Statics
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Basic concepts of forces in equilibrium are introduced. Distributed forces, frictional forces are discussed. Inertial properties are analyzed in application to machines, structures, and systems.
Prerequisite: PHYS 121 and MATH 242 (may be taken concurrently)
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ENGR 202 - Engineering Dynamics
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
An introduction to kinematics of particles in rectangular, cylindrical, and curvilinear coordinate systems; energy and momentum methods for particles; kinetics of systems of particles; kinematics and kinetics of rigid bodies in two or three dimensions; motion relative to rotating coordinate systems.
Prerequisite: MATH 242 and ENGR 201
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ENGR 204 - Properties of Engineering Materials
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course is an introduction to the fundamental physical principles governing the structure and constitution of metallic and nonmetallic materials and the relationship among these principles and the mechanical, physical, and chemical properties of engineering materials. The influence of the atomic the and grain structure of structural materials on mechanical properties will be considered. The effects of mechanical and heat treatments on structure and properties of materials are examined. Fatigue and creep of materials, fracture toughness, mechanical and non-destructive evaluation, environmental effects are studied. This course also addresses design considerations as well as characteristics of metals, ceramics, polymers and composites.
Prerequisite: CHEM 141 and CHEM 142 and CHEM 161 and CHEM 162 and PHYS 121
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ENGR 206 - Probability and Statistics for Engineers
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course is a calculus based introduction to probability and statistics with emphasis on Monte Carlo simulation and graphical display of data on computer workstations. Statistical methods include point and interval estimation of population parameters and curve surface fitting (regression analysis). The principles of experimental design and statistical process control are introduced.
Prerequisite: MATH 241
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ENGR 214 - Solid Mechanics
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Concepts and theories of internal force, stress, strain, and strength of structural elements under static loading conditions. Constitutive behavior for linear elastic structures is discussed. Deflection and stress analysis procedures for bars, beams, and shafts will be considered. Introduction to matrix, analysis of structures will be made.
Prerequisite: MATH 242 and ENGR 201 and ENGR 204 (may be taken concurrently)
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Entrepreneurship |
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ENTR 100 - Entrepreneurial Thinking
Credit Hours: 2
Lecture Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 0
This course provides an introduction on how to think and act entrepreneurially. The course examines how creative and innovative thinking along with initiative allow the student to see and seize opportunities. This course also takes the approach that everyone (not just those who want to start businesses or enterprises) can benefit from understanding and applying an entrepreneurial mindset to any situation that demands change in their lives.
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ENTR 300 - Entrepreneurial Discovery and Creativity
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course will promote entrepreneurial thinking and explore a variety of problem solving approaches. Students will experience what it means to fully engage their brains to discover the patterns that produce breakthrough ideas. This course will explore the creative process and help students identify their own creative problem-solving styles.
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ENTR 301 - Entrepreneurship and New Venture Creation
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Using applied economics and business principles, this course focuses on issues that face entrepreneurs who start new enterprises or create new ventures within existing firms. The topics covered in the course include the evaluation of new venture ideas; the planning, formulation and implementation of strategies for creating new ventures and finally the evaluation of economic conditions and the financing of new ventures. This course is cross listed with ECON 301 .
Prerequisite: ECON 212 and ACCT 211
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ENTR 303 - Entrepreneurial Strategy and Opportunity Analysis
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course provides a foundation for the analysis of entrepreneurial opportunities. The course reviews a variety of strategic considerations derived from managerial economics, industrial organization and entrepreneurial finance in the context of specific entrepreneurship cases. This course is cross listed with ECON 303 .
Prerequisite: ACCT 211 and ECON 212
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ENTR 312 - Entrepreneurial Marketing
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course clarifies key marketing concepts, methods, and strategic issues relevant for start-up and early-stage entrepreneurs. Topics addressed include: (1) Marketing issues facing entrepreneurs today; (2) Identification and evaluation of marketing opportunities; (3) Achieving competitive advantages given limited marketing resources, and (4) Major marketing/sales tools that are useful in an entrepreneurial setting. This course is cross listed with MKTG 312 .
Prerequisite: MKTG 311
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ENTR 415 - Entrepreneurial Finance
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course will help students to develop the understanding and skills necessary to become more effective stewards of their small business finances. This course integrates all aspects of planning using finances in a person’s small business. It incorporates the preparation of a financial plan for a small business that involves the preparation of balance sheets, income statements, sources of financial resources and the various forms of business ownership. Various techniques and tools will be reviewed, as will the understanding of income tax laws and their impact on small business. This course is cross listed with FINC 415 .
Prerequisite: FINC 311
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ETCE 101 - Foundations of Ethics and Civic Engagement
Credit Hours: 1
Lecture Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 0
This course provides an introductory foundation for students’ orientation to civic engagement, social action, and the relationship between learning and engaged citizenship. The course also introduces students to the contexts, issues, skills, and experiences of citizenship and civic leadership in a democratic society. Finally, the course assists students with developing students’ readiness to accept personal and social responsibility, as well as their preparation for responsible citizenship.
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ETCE 102 - Intermediate Ethics and Civic Engagement in Action
Credit Hours: 1
Lecture Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 0
This course builds upon the foundation of students’ orientation to civic engagement, social action, and the relationship between learning and engaged citizenship developed in ETCE 101 . The focus of this course is to introduce students to the contexts, issues, skills, and experiences of citizenship and civic leadership in a democratic society. Finally, the course assists students with developing students’ readiness to accept personal and social responsibility, as well as their preparation for responsible citizenship.
Prerequisite: ETCE 101 or instructor permission
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ETCE 103 - Advanced Ethics and Civic Engagement in Action
Credit Hours: 1
Lecture Hours: 1
Lab Hours: 0
This course builds upon the foundation of students’ orientation to civic engagement, social action, and the relationship between learning and engaged citizenship developed in ETCE 101 . The course also builds upon ETCE 102 ’s introduction of students to the contexts, issues, skills, and experiences of citizenship and civic leadership in a democratic society. The focus of this course is to assist with developing students’ readiness to accept personal and social responsibility, as well as their preparation for responsible citizenship.
Prerequisite: ETCE 102 or instructor permission
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ETCE 200 - Ethics and Civic Engagement in Action
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course provides a foundation for students’ orientation to civic engagement, social action, and the relationship between learning and engaged citizenship. The course also introduces students to the contexts, issues, skills, and experiences of citizenship and civic leadership in a democratic society. Finally, the course assists students with developing students’ readiness to accept personal and social responsibility as well as their preparation for responsible citizenship.
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FESA 322 - Fire Investigations
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A course intended to provide the student with advanced technical knowledge on rules of law, fire scene analysis, fire behavior, evidence collection and preservation, scene documentation, case preparation and testifying. Open to Fire and Emergency Services Administration majors only.
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FESA 345 - Firefighter Fitness and Wellness
Credit Hours: 2
Lecture Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 0
This course is applied in nature and is directed at enhancing the physical and mental health of the participant through the application and understanding of the cardio-muscular fitness requirements of the modern firefighter. It also provides an overview of the ramifications of emergency worker stress and potential coping strategies that can be utilized to cope with work induced stress. This course will enable the participant to design a personal and/or work-team fitness regime. Open to Fire and Emergency Services Administration majors only.
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FESA 350 - Fire Prevention Organization and Management
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course examines the factors that shape fire risk and the tools for fire prevention, including risk reduction education; codes and standards; inspection and plans review; fire investigation; research; master planning; various types of influences; and strategies. Open to Fire and Emergency Services Administration Majors only.
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FESA 360 - Applied Fire Service Ethics
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Ethics in the provision of fire, rescue, and emergency medical services are challenging and complex. No other government services are granted the same degree of public trust. This course increases student proficiency in making ethical decisions in the provision of emergency service. Students will discover how to consider problems in terms of their ethical implications. Students will also learn a model for making ethical decisions. Open to Fire and Emergency Services Administration majors only.
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FESA 377 - Fire-Related Human Behavior
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
An exploration of the dynamics of human behavior in fire incidents. The functions and implementation of prevention practices, program, codes, and ordinances are stressed. The concepts of risk, personal invulnerability, role, and group dynamics are examined in relation to design aspects of buildings and mitigation of the effects of fire on modern society. Discussion deals with proper ways of conducting post-fire interviews and emphasizes the psychological effects of communications during emergencies. Open to Fire and Emergency Servijces Administration majors only.
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FESA 390 - Fire Dynamics
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course is an examination of the dynamics within the context of firefighting and its application to fire situations. Course includes the examination of fire, including combustion, flame spread, flashover, and smoke movement; applications to building codes; large-loss fires; and fire modeling through a consideration of the physics and chemistry of fire and combustion. Open to Fire and Emergency Services Administration majors only.
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FESA 400 - Political and Legal Foundations of Fire Protection
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
An examination of the legal, political, and social aspects of the government’s role in public safety, including the American legal system, fire department operations, employment and personnel issues, fire officials’ roles, and legislative and political influence. Open to Fire and Emergency Services Administration majors only.
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FESA 402 - Managerial Issues in an All Hazards Environment
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course examines regulatory issues, hazard analysis, multiagency contingency planning, response personnel, multiagency response resources, agency policies, procedures and implementation, public education and emergency information systems, health and safety, command post dynamics, strategic and tactical considerations, recovery and termination procedures, and program evaluation. Open to Fire and Emergency Services Administration majors only.
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FESA 412 - Advanced Fire Administration
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course examines organizational and leadership tools for fire service administrators, including community approaches to administration, core skills, planning and implementation, leading change, and community management. Open to Fire and Emergency Services Administration majors only.
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FESA 421 - Incendiary Fire Analysis and Investigation
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course examines technical, investigative, legal, and managerial approaches to the arson problem, including principles of incendiary fire analysis and detection, environmental and psychological factors of arson, gang-related arson, legal considerations and trial preparations, managing the fire investigation unit, intervention and mitigation strategies, and shaping the future. Open to Fire and Emergency Services Administration majors only.
Prerequisite: FESA 322 or permission of program director
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FESA 422 - Applications of Fire Research
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
An examination of the rationale for conducting fire research, various fire protection research activities, and research applications, including fire test standards and codes, structural fire safety, automatic detection and suppression, life safety, and firefighter health and safety. Open to Fire and Emergency Services Administration majors only.
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FESA 430 - Fire Service Personnel Administration
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
Basic and advanced concepts and processes of designing, implementing, and administering the personnel functions of fire service organizations. Emphasis is placed on human resource planning, job classification, job analysis, equal opportunity organizations and resources, affirmative action, recruitment, retention, development, performance evaluation, and assessment centers. Open to Fire and Emergency Services Administration majors only.
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FESA 440 - Fire Service Organizational Dynamics
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
An exploration and examination of organizational dynamics, including organization culture as it applies to the American fire service. Knowledge gained through this course will assist the fire service administrator in solving complex organizational challenges. The focus will be on the many varieties of theories about public organizations; the consideration of the relationship between theory and practice; and the development of a coherent, integrated understanding of fire service organizations. Open to Fire and Emergency Services Administration majors only.
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FESA 441 - Topics in Fire Department Management
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A course designed to cover contemporary topics of interest in the area of fire department administration. Open to Fire and Emergency Services Administration majors only.
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FESA 455 - Community Risk Reduction for Fire and Emergency Services
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course provides a theoretical framework for the understanding of the ethical, social, organizational, political, and legal components of community risk reduction, as well as a methodology for the development of a comprehensive community risk reduction plan. Open to Fire and Emergency Services Administration majors only.
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FESA 490 - Fire Service Internship
Credit Hours: 6
Lecture Hours: 0
Lab Hours: 0
An experience that offers an opportunity to apply content learned in the classroom to complete a project in management or investigation in the workplace. Open to Fire and Emergency Services Administration majors only.
Prerequisite: Completion of a majority of Core Curriculum requirements and permission of program director.
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FINC 100 - Financial Literacy
Credit Hours: 2
Lecture Hours: 2
Lab Hours: 0
This course examines basic financial terms and concepts and is designed to provide students with some of the skills and knowledge that they need to manage their finances and be informed consumers. Topics covered include savings, credit and debt; budgeting; student loans; credit cards; insurance; buying a car; your first house, etc.
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FINC 311 - Principles of Finance
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A course in basic financial management, including the study of the nature of financial management, financial analysis, working capital management, and long-term investment decisions.
Prerequisite: ACCT 211 and (ECON 211 or ECON 212 )
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FINC 320 - Financial Management
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A continuation of FINC 311 emphasizing the use of analytical tools dealing with capital budgeting, capital structure, dividend policy, cost of capital with consideration of long-term financing, expansion, and problems of small businesses in connection with decision-making techniques.
Prerequisite: FINC 311
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FINC 323 - Money, Banking, and Monetary Policy
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A formal examination of the role of money, banking, and financial institutions, as well as rudimentary discussion of monetary policy issues in the domestic and international economies. This course is cross listed with ECON 322 .
Prerequisite: ECON 211 and ECON 212 and MATH 123
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FINC 330 - Personal Finance
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A study of problems of money management, with special attention to credit borrowing, saving and funds allocation among stocks, bonds, insurance, property, and mutual investment companies.
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FINC 336 - Healthcare Finance
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
This course focuses on the financial assessment, acquisition, allocation, and control of financial aspects of health care organizations. Topics include application of financial management principles to the unique decision-making in healthcare industry, budgeting processes, cost allocation, fees structure, and management control process.
Prerequisite: FINC 311
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FINC 340 - Risk Management and Insurance
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A focus on the identification, analysis, and measurement of potential losses and on the alternative methods of managing them, with risk management being treated broadly and insurance treated in depth as a method of risk transfer.
Prerequisite: FINC 311
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FINC 350 - Real Estate
Credit Hours: 3
Lecture Hours: 3
Lab Hours: 0
A presentation of the fundamental economic aspects of real property, with special attention to the changing character of the urban economy and its effect on land values and land utilization.
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