Apr 19, 2024  
Undergraduate Catalog 2018-2019 
    
Undergraduate Catalog 2018-2019 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Liberal Studies

  
  • LIS 3780 Aesthetics


    3 Hours

    Courses that encourage students to appreciate the variety of the world’s art forms and to promote critical thinking through the development of value judgments.

  
  • LIS 3790 Aesthetics


    3 Hours

    Courses that encourage students to appreciate the variety of the world’s art forms and to promote critical thinking through the development of value judgments.

  
  • LIS 4015 Liberal Studies Capstone Seminar


    1 Hours

    In consultation with a faculty mentor, each Liberal Studies student will complete a project demonstrating the extent to which goals established upon entering the program have been achieved.

  
  • LIS 4200 General Topics


    3 Hours

    Features courses that blend critical thinking, analytical or scientific reasoning, problem-solving skills, general communication skills, and the embrace of multidisciplinary and multicultural perspectives.

  
  • LIS 4210 General Topics


    3 Hours

    Features courses that blend critical thinking, analytical or scientific reasoning, problem-solving skills, general communication skills, and the embrace of multidisciplinary and multicultural perspectives.

  
  • LIS 4220 General Topics


    3 Hours

    Features courses that blend critical thinking, analytical or scientific reasoning, problem-solving skills, general communication skills, and the embrace of multidisciplinary and multicultural perspectives.

  
  • LIS 4230 General Topics


    3 Hours

    Features courses that blend critical thinking, analytical or scientific reasoning, problem-solving skills, general communication skills, and the embrace of multidisciplinary and multicultural perspectives.

  
  • LIS 4240 General Topics


    3 Hours

    Features courses that blend critical thinking, analytical or scientific reasoning, problem-solving skills, general communication skills, and the embrace of multidisciplinary and multicultural perspectives.

  
  • LIS 4250 General Topics


    3 Hours

    Features courses that blend critical thinking, analytical or scientific reasoning, problem-solving skills, general communication skills, and the embrace of multidisciplinary and multicultural perspectives.

  
  • LIS 4260 General Topics


    3 Hours

    Features courses that blend critical thinking, analytical or scientific reasoning, problem-solving skills, general communication skills, and the embrace of multidisciplinary and multicultural perspectives.

  
  • LIS 4270 General Topics


    3 Hours

    Features courses that blend critical thinking, analytical or scientific reasoning, problem-solving skills, general communication skills, and the embrace of multidisciplinary and multicultural perspectives.

  
  • LIS 4280 General Topics


    3 Hours

    Features courses that blend critical thinking, analytical or scientific reasoning, problem-solving skills, general communication skills, and the embrace of multidisciplinary and multicultural perspectives.

  
  • LIS 4290 General Topics


    3 Hours

    Features courses that blend critical thinking, analytical or scientific reasoning, problem-solving skills, general communication skills, and the embrace of multidisciplinary and multicultural perspectives.

  
  • LIS 4300 Personal Development


    3 Hours

    Features topics that are designed to foster specific skills. For example, a course in creative writing or a course in the History of Baseball would augment a student’s personal storehouse of knowledge.

  
  • LIS 4310 Personal Development


    3 Hours

    Features topics that are designed to foster specific skills. For example, a course in creative writing or a course in the History of Baseball would augment a student’s personal storehouse of knowledge.

  
  • LIS 4320 Personal Development


    3 Hours

    Features topics that are designed to foster specific skills. For example, a course in creative writing or a course in the History of Baseball would augment a student’s personal storehouse of knowledge.

  
  • LIS 4330 Personal Development


    3 Hours

    Features topics that are designed to foster specific skills. For example, a course in creative writing or a course in the History of Baseball would augment a student’s personal storehouse of knowledge.

  
  • LIS 4340 Personal Development


    3 Hours

    Features topics that are designed to foster specific skills. For example, a course in creative writing or a course in the History of Baseball would augment a student’s personal storehouse of knowledge.

  
  • LIS 4350 Personal Development


    3 Hours

    Features topics that are designed to foster specific skills. For example, a course in creative writing or a course in the History of Baseball would augment a student’s personal storehouse of knowledge.

  
  • LIS 4360 Personal Development


    3 Hours

    Features topics that are designed to foster specific skills. For example, a course in creative writing or a course in the History of Baseball would augment a student’s personal storehouse of knowledge.

  
  • LIS 4370 Personal Development


    3 Hours

    Features topics that are designed to foster specific skills. For example, a course in creative writing or a course in the History of Baseball would augment a student’s personal storehouse of knowledge.

  
  • LIS 4380 Personal Development


    3 Hours

    Features topics that are designed to foster specific skills. For example, a course in creative writing or a course in the History of Baseball would augment a student’s personal storehouse of knowledge.

  
  • LIS 4390 Personal Development


    3 Hours

    Features topics that are designed to foster specific skills. For example, a course in creative writing or a course in the History of Baseball would augment a student’s personal storehouse of knowledge.

  
  • LIS 4400 Professional Development


    3 Hours

    Features topics that move beyond the development of individual skills and would be more easily associated with broader workplace or career issues. A course in developing leadership skills, for instance, or one in Speaking for Business would fall under the rubric of Professional Development.

  
  • LIS 4410 Professional Development


    3 Hours

    Features topics that move beyond the development of individual skills and would be more easily associated with broader workplace or career issues. A course in developing leadership skills, for instance, or one in Speaking for Business would fall under the rubric of Professional Development.

  
  • LIS 4420 Professional Development


    3 Hours

    Features topics that move beyond the development of individual skills and would be more easily associated with broader workplace or career issues. A course in developing leadership skills, for instance, or one in Speaking for Business would fall under the rubric of Professional Development.

  
  • LIS 4430 Professional Development


    3 Hours

    Features topics that move beyond the development of individual skills and would be more easily associated with broader workplace or career issues. A course in developing leadership skills, for instance, or one in Speaking for Business would fall under the rubric of Professional Development.

  
  • LIS 4440 Professional Development


    3 Hours

    Features topics that move beyond the development of individual skills and would be more easily associated with broader workplace or career issues. A course in developing leadership skills, for instance, or one in Speaking for Business would fall under the rubric of Professional Development.

  
  • LIS 4450 Professional Development


    3 Hours

    Features topics that move beyond the development of individual skills and would be more easily associated with broader workplace or career issues. A course in developing leadership skills, for instance, or one in Speaking for Business would fall under the rubric of Professional Development.

  
  • LIS 4460 Professional Development


    3 Hours

    Features topics that move beyond the development of individual skills and would be more easily associated with broader workplace or career issues. A course in developing leadership skills, for instance, or one in Speaking for Business would fall under the rubric of Professional Development.

  
  • LIS 4470 Professional Development


    3 Hours

    Features topics that move beyond the development of individual skills and would be more easily associated with broader workplace or career issues. A course in developing leadership skills, for instance, or one in Speaking for Business would fall under the rubric of Professional Development.

  
  • LIS 4480 Professional Development


    3 Hours

    Features topics that move beyond the development of individual skills and would be more easily associated with broader workplace or career issues. A course in developing leadership skills, for instance, or one in Speaking for Business would fall under the rubric of Professional Development.

  
  • LIS 4490 Professional Development


    3 Hours

    Features topics that move beyond the development of individual skills and would be more easily associated with broader workplace or career issues. A course in developing leadership skills, for instance, or one in Speaking for Business would fall under the rubric of Professional Development.

  
  • LIS 4500 Valuing


    3 Hours

    Features courses that allow students to explore the range of moral and ethical decisions that underscore human behavior. Students will be encouraged to recognize different value and social systems and to accept responsibility for their actions.

  
  • LIS 4510 Valuing


    3 Hours

    Features courses that allow students to explore the range of moral and ethical decisions that underscore human behavior. Students will be encouraged to recognize different value and social systems and to accept responsibility for their actions.

  
  • LIS 4520 Valuing


    3 Hours

    Features courses that allow students to explore the range of moral and ethical decisions that underscore human behavior. Students will be encouraged to recognize different value and social systems and to accept responsibility for their actions.

  
  • LIS 4530 Valuing


    3 Hours

    Features courses that allow students to explore the range of moral and ethical decisions that underscore human behavior. Students will be encouraged to recognize different value and social systems and to accept responsibility for their actions.

  
  • LIS 4540 Valuing


    3 Hours

    Features courses that allow students to explore the range of moral and ethical decisions that underscore human behavior. Students will be encouraged to recognize different value and social systems and to accept responsibility for their actions.

  
  • LIS 4550 Valuing


    3 Hours

    Features courses that allow students to explore the range of moral and ethical decisions that underscore human behavior. Students will be encouraged to recognize different value and social systems and to accept responsibility for their actions.

  
  • LIS 4560 Valuing


    3 Hours

    Features courses that allow students to explore the range of moral and ethical decisions that underscore human behavior. Students will be encouraged to recognize different value and social systems and to accept responsibility for their actions.

  
  • LIS 4570 Valuing


    3 Hours

    Features courses that allow students to explore the range of moral and ethical decisions that underscore human behavior. Students will be encouraged to recognize different value and social systems and to accept responsibility for their actions.

  
  • LIS 4580 Valuing


    3 Hours

    Features courses that allow students to explore the range of moral and ethical decisions that underscore human behavior. Students will be encouraged to recognize different value and social systems and to accept responsibility for their actions.

  
  • LIS 4590 Valuing


    3 Hours

    Features courses that allow students to explore the range of moral and ethical decisions that underscore human behavior. Students will be encouraged to recognize different value and social systems and to accept responsibility for their actions.

  
  • LIS 4600 Alternative Perspectives


    3 Hours

    Features courses designed to offer fresh scholarly views on classic academic topics as well as innovative contemporary issues. Interdisciplinary courses may be featured under this category and other special topics.

  
  • LIS 4610 Alternative Perspectives


    3 Hours

    Features courses designed to offer fresh scholarly views on classic academic topics as well as innovative contemporary issues. Interdisciplinary courses may be featured under this category and other special topics.

  
  • LIS 4620 Alternative Perspectives


    3 Hours

    Features courses designed to offer fresh scholarly views on classic academic topics as well as innovative contemporary issues. Interdisciplinary courses may be featured under this category and other special topics.

  
  • LIS 4630 Alternative Perspectives


    3 Hours

    Features courses designed to offer fresh scholarly views on classic academic topics as well as innovative contemporary issues. Interdisciplinary courses may be featured under this category and other special topics.

  
  • LIS 4640 Alternative Perspectives


    3 Hours

    Features courses designed to offer fresh scholarly views on classic academic topics as well as innovative contemporary issues. Interdisciplinary courses may be featured under this category and other special topics.

  
  • LIS 4650 Alternative Perspectives


    3 Hours

    Features courses designed to offer fresh scholarly views on classic academic topics as well as innovative contemporary issues. Interdisciplinary courses may be featured under this category and other special topics.

  
  • LIS 4660 Alternative Perspectives


    3 Hours

    Features courses designed to offer fresh scholarly views on classic academic topics as well as innovative contemporary issues. Interdisciplinary courses may be featured under this category and other special topics.

  
  • LIS 4680 Alternative Perspectives


    3 Hours

    Features courses designed to offer fresh scholarly views on classic academic topics as well as innovative contemporary issues. Interdisciplinary courses may be featured under this category and other special topics.

  
  • LIS 4690 Alternative Perspectives


    3 Hours

    Features courses designed to offer fresh scholarly views on classic academic topics as well as innovative contemporary issues. Interdisciplinary courses may be featured under this category and other special topics.

  
  • LIS 4700 Aesthetics


    3 Hours

    Courses that encourage students to appreciate the variety of the world’s art forms and to promote critical thinking through the development of value judgments.

  
  • LIS 4710 Aesthetics


    3 Hours

    Courses that encourage students to appreciate the variety of the world’s art forms and to promote critical thinking through the development of value judgments.

  
  • LIS 4720 Aesthetics


    3 Hours

    Courses that encourage students to appreciate the variety of the world’s art forms and to promote critical thinking through the development of value judgments.

  
  • LIS 4730 Aesthetics


    3 Hours

    Courses that encourage students to appreciate the variety of the world’s art forms and to promote critical thinking through the development of value judgments.

  
  • LIS 4740 Aesthetics


    3 Hours

    Courses that encourage students to appreciate the variety of the world’s art forms and to promote critical thinking through the development of value judgments.

  
  • LIS 4750 Aesthetics


    3 Hours

    Courses that encourage students to appreciate the variety of the world’s art forms and to promote critical thinking through the development of value judgments.

  
  • LIS 4760 Aesthetics


    3 Hours

    Courses that encourage students to appreciate the variety of the world’s art forms and to promote critical thinking through the development of value judgments.

  
  • LIS 4770 Aesthetics


    3 Hours

    Courses that encourage students to appreciate the variety of the world’s art forms and to promote critical thinking through the development of value judgments.

  
  • LIS 4780 Aesthetics


    3 Hours

    Courses that encourage students to appreciate the variety of the world’s art forms and to promote critical thinking through the development of value judgments.

  
  • LIS 4790 Aesthetics


    3 Hours

    Courses that encourage students to appreciate the variety of the world’s art forms and to promote critical thinking through the development of value judgments.


Literary Studies

  
  • ENL 1990 Special Studies


    1-3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 

    Gen. Ed. Designation: GS (G - Global Studies).
  
  • ENL 2110 British Literature I


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    A survey of representative works through the 18th century in the first semester. The second semester studies the literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.

    Gen. Ed. Designation: GS (G - Global Studies).
  
  • ENL 2120 British Literature II


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    A survey of representative works through the 18th century in the first semester. The second semester studies the literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.

    Gen. Ed. Designation: GS (G - Global Studies).
  
  • ENL 2210 American Literature I


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 

    The first semester surveys representative works from the colonial period to the Civil War. The second semester includes readings from the Civil War to the present.

  
  • ENL 2220 American Literature II


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    The first semester surveys representative works from the colonial period to the Civil War. The second semester includes readings from the Civil War to the present.

  
  • ENL 2310 European Literature I


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    In the first semester, a study of masterworks of the ancient world, the medieval world, and the Renaissance. In the second semester, a study of masterworks of neo-classicism, romanticism, realism, and the twentieth century, excluding Anglo-American literature.

    Gen. Ed. Designation: GS (G - Global Studies).
  
  • ENL 2320 European Literature II


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 

    In the first semester, a study of masterworks of the ancient world, the medieval world, and the Renaissance. In the second semester, a study of masterworks of neo-classicism, romanticism, realism, and the twentieth century, excluding Anglo-American literature.

    Gen. Ed. Designation: GS (G - Global Studies).
  
  • ENL 2330 World Literature I


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    In the first semester, this course presents important works of literature of the world from their earliest beginnings to 1650. Content may vary, but these courses establish a historical perspective while seeking to encourage both comparative perspective and common ground among works from European tradition and several non-Western cultures. Each semester may be taken independently of the other.

    Gen. Ed. Designation: GS (G - Global Studies).
  
  • ENL 2340 World Literature II


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    In the first semester, this course presents important works of literature of the world from their earliest beginnings to 1650. Content may vary, but these courses establish a historical perspective while seeking to encourage both comparative perspective and common ground among works from European tradition and several non-Western cultures. Each semester may be taken independently of the other.

    Gen. Ed. Designation: GS (G - Global Studies).
  
  • ENL 2400 Literature Survey Special Topics


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 

    This writing-intensive survey course involves literature from periods and/or countries of origin which extend beyond the delineations of our traditional survey courses, combining the study of literature in a historical/cultural context with a focused refinement of writing skills developed in Freshman Composition. Students may repeat this course, under different topics, once, for a total of six (6) hours credit.

  
  • ENL 2990 Special Studies


    1-3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    Gen. Ed. Designation: GS (G - Global Studies).
  
  • ENL 3300 Classical Mythology


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    (See CLA 3300  for course description.)

  
  • ENL 3310 Special Topics in Classical Literature


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    (See CLA 3310  for course description.)

  
  • ENL 3440 Teaching English as a Foreign Language


    1-3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 ; and permission of instructor.

    This course will examine the various strategies in the teaching of EFL as well as review English syntax and pronunciation. Does not count for English or language majors or minors, or fulfill general education humanities requirement.

  
  • ENL 3500 History of the Language and Linguistics


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    Traces the development of English from Anglo-Saxon to modern English in the context of history, linguistic theory, and the Indo-European family of languages.

  
  • ENL 3520 Special Topics in Medieval Literature


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 

    An in-depth study of subjects relative to medieval literature, British and Continental. Possible topics include allegory, Arthurian romance, Old English poetry, religious drama. One topic will be chosen for focus each time the course is offered.

  
  • ENL 3540 Chaucer


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    A survey of Chaucer’s major works and selected shorter poems in the philosophical and historical setting of the Middle Ages.

  
  • ENL 3600 Special Topics in Early Modern British Literature


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    An in-depth study of sixteenth and seventeenth century writers. Each offering of the course will focus on a specific topic; topics may include for example, a genre, a limited historical period, an interdisciplinary topic, a single writer such as Spenser or Milton.

  
  • ENL 3620 Shakespeare: Representative Plays


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    Traces the development of Shakespeare’s career through the study of representative tragedies, histories, comedies, and romances.

    Gen. Ed. Designation: GS (G - Global Studies).
  
  • ENL 3660 Restoration and Eighteenth-Century English Literature


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    A study of poetry, drama, and non-fictional prose of Restoration and Eighteenth-Century England, with emphasis on Dryden, Pope, Swift, and Johnson, and with attention to concurrent trends in music, art, philosophy, and social history.

  
  • ENL 3720 Romanticism in England


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    Covers the transition from neo-classicism to Romanticism, with emphasis on Burns, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats.

  
  • ENL 3740 Victorian Literature


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    Traces major developments of the Victorian Age as background for the study of writers from Carlyle to Yeats, with special emphasis on Tennyson, Arnold and Browning.

    Gen. Ed. Designation: GS (G - Global Studies).
  
  • ENL 3760 The Novel


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    Each offering of this course will focus on a specific topic related to the development of the novel.

  
  • ENL 3800 Special Topics in World Literature


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    Required of all English majors. Intensive study of non-western literature through exploration of a theme, genre, and/or culture.

    Gen. Ed. Designation: GS (G - Global Studies).
  
  • ENL 3810 Folklore Studies


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 

    This course examines folklore methodologies and genres. Seminar topics may include ethnographic research (fieldwork) and the study of folk groups; folk narratives (fairy tales, legends, etc.); folk ballads and poetry; customs and rituals; folklore and literature.

  
  • ENL 3840 Twentieth Century Poetry


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    Significant trends in twentieth century poetry will be explored through the study of primarily British and/or American poets.

  
  • ENL 3850 The Short Story


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    This course considers the modern short story and short narrative fiction from Poe to the present, including numerous texts and authors from non-Anglo-American literatures and cultures.

    Gen. Ed. Designation: GS (G - Global Studies).
  
  • ENL 3860 Modern Fiction


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    A study of major works in fiction, mostly in British and American literature of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

    Gen. Ed. Designation: GS (G - Global Studies).
  
  • ENL 3870 Ethnicity and Literature


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 

    This course will probe the impact of ethnic difference on literature by studying representative texts from a variety of ethnic groups.

  
  • ENL 3880 Gender Studies.


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    An introduction to the ways in which femininity and/or masculinity have been represented in literature and constructed in culture. Individual offerings of this course may focus on specific eras and nationalities and/or on particular issues in the study of gender and sexuality.

  
  • ENL 3890 African-American Literature


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    Reviews the contribution made by African-American authors, canvassing the traditions from slave narratives to contemporary works.

  
  • ENL 3900 Introduction to Literary Criticism


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    Explores various critical approaches to literature, past and present.

  
  • ENL 3910 Early American Literature


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    Studies of authors and/or major literary and cultural trends from the first explorations of America through the revolution and early national period.

  
  • ENL 3920 American Renaissance


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    A study of the major American writers of the mid-nineteenth century, including Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Thoreau, and Whitman.

  
  • ENL 3930 American Realism


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    This course examines the development of Realism (and Naturalism) in American fiction, focusing on major writers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

  
  • ENL 3940 American Southern Literature


    3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    Deals with fiction, and perhaps some poetry of the modern South. Authors may include Faulkner, Porter, O’Connor, Welty, Percy, Price, Tyler, Taylor, and Mason, among others.

  
  • ENL 3960 Religion and Literature


    3 Hours

    This course will examine the relationship of religion to literature in a variety of historical and cultural settings by studying representative texts of a particular author, time period, theme, or genre.

  
  • ENL 3990 Special Studies


    1-3 Hours

    Prerequisites: ENG 1010 .

    Gen. Ed. Designation: GS (G - Global Studies).
 

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