2018-2019 University Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ENGR 220 - Engineering Dynamics
Prerequisites: ENGR 110 and ENGR 210
Corequisite: MATH 214
Topics include: kinematics and dynamics of particles and rigid bodies in plane motion; work-energy and impulse-momentum principles.
3 credits
Spring
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ENGR 240 - Circuit Theory and Lab
Prerequisites: ENGR 115
Corequisite: MATH 317 and PHYS 202
This course deals with the analysis of DC and AC electric circuits. Students will learn basic laws, analysis techniques, and circuit theorems. This course has an integrated laboratory experience that reinforces classroom content with hands-on experiments. The course also makes extensive use of computer-tools for circuit analysis.
4 credits
Fall
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ENGR 260 - Engineering Electronics and Lab
Prerequisites: ENGR 240
Topics include: semiconductor materials and devices; energy bands and conduction phenomena in semiconductors; PN junction diodes; power supply design; design and analysis of single-stage transistor amplifiers; small signal modeling and frequency response of transistor amplifiers. Laboratory experiments in electronics.
4 credits
Spring
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ENGR 270 - Digital Systems Design and Lab
Prerequisites: MATH 221 or permission of the instructor
Introduction to design and analysis of digital circuits. Students will learn the basics of number representation and conversion, Boolean algebra, combinational circuit design and optimization techniques, sequential circuit design techniques, and application of digital systems. The course examines register transfer level design, systems level CPU design and specification, data and control path design, and basics of digital systems design using CAD. Students will participate in a weekly laboratory where they will apply techniques developed in class to the design and implementation of small systems.
4 credits
Fall
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ENGR 300 - Mechanics of Materials and Lab
Prerequisites: ENGR 210
Emphasizes stresses and strains due to axial bending and torsional loading; shear and bending moment diagrams; combined stresses; Mohr’s circle; deformations and deflections.
4 credits
Spring
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ENGR 305 - Fluid Mechanics and Lab
Prerequisites: ENGR 210
Investigates the properties and behaviors of fluids; hydrostatic forces and the basic equations governing fluid motion; principles of conservation of mass, energy and momentum; flow in open channels and pipes; compressible and incompressible flows.
4 credits
Spring
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ENGR 310 - Materials Science
Prerequisites: CHEM 192 and ENGR 300
Study of mechanical and physical properties of metallic and nonmetallic materials with emphasis on the relationship between structure and properties. Phase diagrams, engineering alloys, electrical properties, plastics, and ceramic materials.
3 credits
Spring
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ENGR 313 - Structural Analysis
Prerequisites: ENGR 300
Considers design loads and combinations; shear and bending moment diagrams; determinate trusses, beams, frames cables, and arches; deflection by direct and geometric methods; simple indeterminate structures analysis by classic methods.
3 credits
Fall
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ENGR 320 - Environmental Engineering
Prerequisites: MATH 214 and CHEM 192
Provides an in-depth examination of the state of the environment and its interrelationship with the practice of engineering. Topics include: the interrelationships of energy, ecosystems, and the environment; mechanisms of environmental degradation; and, pollution and control of air and water resources.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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ENGR 330 - Thermodynamics
Prerequisites: MATH 214
Examines the transformation of heat into mechanical energy. Properties of ideal gases, steam and other mediums are discussed in the context of thermodynamic processes. The development and application of the first and second laws of thermodynamics are investigated. Power cycles, to include the Rankine, Otto, Diesel, and Brayton cycles, as well as the Vapor Compression Refrigeration cycle are presented in depth. Psychrometric analysis and total air conditioning are also examined.
3 credits
Fall
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ENGR 332 - Machine Design
Prerequisites: ENGR 300
Applies engineering mechanics to the design of mechanical components and systems. Topics include stress, deflection, and buckling analysis; static, impact, fatigue, and surface failure theories; heuristic and formal methods for mechanical synthesis; fits and tolerances; fastening and joining techniques; as well as the analysis and specification of common machine elements such as screws, springs, bearings, gears, shafts, and belts.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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ENGR 335 - Engineering Economic Analysis
Prerequisites: CIS 101, CNST 116 or ENGR 115
This course provides the student with a working knowledge of the economic factors affecting different types of engineering decisions. In addition, students will become proficient in using a range of analytical approaches and modern computer tools for evaluating and analyzing engineering projects. Topics covered include the time value of money, equivalence and equivalence calculations, cash flow analysis, evaluation of replacement and retirement alternatives, uncertainty and risk analysis, sensitivity analysis, inflation and interest rate calculations, capital budgeting cost/benefit analysis and tax accounting.
3 credits
Fall
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ENGR 337 - Finite Element Analysis
Prerequisites: ENGR 300 and MATH 214
Fundamental finite element formulation and its applications to civil and mechanical engineering problems; emphasis on one and two dimensional element types, mathematical concepts, numerical integration techniques, shape functions, triangle and rectangle elements; algorithm development using MATLAB.
3 credits
Alternate Fall
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ENGR 340 - Sustainable Energy Systems
Prerequisites: MATH 214 and PHYS 201
This course will examine, in-depth, sustainable energy sources. Topics to be studied will be chosen by the instructor from the following: solar, wind, biofuels, hydropower, and others. The basic science and technology pertaining to each topic studied will be presented along with design and implementation considerations. Environmental problems associated with energy systems will be briefly examined. Software tools will be used to assess the performance of the different energy systems.
3 credits
Spring
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ENGR 350 - Theory and Design of Mechanical Measurements
Prerequisites: ENGR 300
Explores both theory and practice behind making measurements. Topics covered in various levels of detail include: measurement methods, characteristics of signals, measurement system behavior, probability and statistics, uncertainty analysis, analog electrical measurements and devices, computerized data acquisition, temperature measurements, pressure and velocity measurements, flow measurement and strain measurement. Students will also learn how to use LabVIEW Software.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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ENGR 360 - Signals and Systems
Prerequisites: None
Corequisite: ENGR 240 and MATH 317
This course deals with signals, systems, and transforms from the theoretical mathematical foundation to the practical implementation in circuits and computer programs. Students will explore time-domain and frequency domain analysis of systems and signals, and will employ computer tools for system analysis. This course serves as the bridge between Circuits and more advanced classes such as Digital Signal Processing and Dynamic Modeling and Control.
3 credits
Spring
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ENGR 370 - Microprocessors
Prerequisites: ENGR 270
This course deals with the electrical and physical design, construction and working of a microprocessor. Topics include chipsets and motherboards, memory hierarchy, processor and technology roadmaps, cache organization, CMOS technology, lithography and CMOS physical design.
3 credits
Spring
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ENGR 401 - Engineering Senior Seminar
Prerequisites: Senior standing or permission of the instructor
This seminar will meet once each week and will include all seniors majoring in engineering. Topics pertaining to the practice of engineering will be covered, including engineering ethics, professional licensure, graduate education, and business practices and procedures. Speakers will be drawn from the business, government and academic communities.
1 credits
Fall
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ENGR 405 - Air Pollution and Control
Prerequisites: CHEM 192 or consent of instructor
Detailed study of the status of air pollution, atmospheric physics and chemistry, and methodologies of pollution control. Topics include emissions from stationary and mobile sources, air quality standards, major pollutants, chemical behavior of pollutants on animals and plants, design of pollution control equipment, and air dispersion modeling.
3 credits
Spring
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ENGR 407 - Solid and Hazardous Waste Management
Prerequisites: CHEM 192 or consent of instructor
Addresses environmental consequences of and control processes of solid and hazardous wastes. Topics include domestic solid wastes collection and disposal, sludge treatment, landfill methods, classification and characteristics of hazardous wastes, toxicology, hydrochemical models, remedial control of sites, surface controls, groundwater controls and direct treatment methods, disposal of treated sludge and toxic wastes, recycling methods, resource recovery, radioactive and biomedical wastes.
3 credits
Fall
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ENGR 409 - Structural Design
Prerequisites: ENGR 313
Presents an integrated design approach to structures. Design in wood, steel, and concrete covered. Topics include: loads, load factors and design loads on structures, conceptual designs according to ASD and LRFD. Use of the current codes and standards to design essential wood, steel, concrete elements.
3 credits
Spring
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ENGR 412 - Water Resources Engineering and Lab
Prerequisites: ENGR 305 or permission of instructor
Considers hydrologic aspects of water availability from surface and groundwater sources. Flood flow analysis, surface and groundwater supply, transmission and distribution systems including pumping.
4 credits
Fall
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ENGR 413 - Advanced Structural Analysis
Prerequisites: ENGR 313
Considers deflection by energy methods; flexibility and stiffness approaches to higher order indeterminate structures; matrix and finite element analyses of beams, trusses and frames; applications to high rises, long span bridges, plates, shells and space frames; computer based analyses.
3 credits
Fall
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ENGR 414 - Geotechnical Engineering and Lab
Prerequisites: ENGR 300
Addresses soil as a foundation for structures and as a material of construction. Topics include: soil gradation, classification, physical and mechanical properties, soil compaction, stress description, consolidation, and shear strength. Includes design of footings for stability and settlement.
4 credits
Fall
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ENGR 415 - Water and Wastewater Treatment
Prerequisites: None
Corequisite: ENGR 320
In-depth coverage of physical, chemical, and biological processes used in drinking water and wastewater treatment both for domestic and industrial wastes. Topics include treatment processes such as coagulation/flocculation, sedimentation, aeration, activated sludge, filtration, adsorption, sludge digestion, and disinfection. Topics also include innovative techniques such as wetlands, facultative ponds, and wastewater reuse. Experimental analysis is performed with respect to parameters involved in the operations and processes of water and wastewater treatment systems.
3 credits
Spring
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ENGR 418 - Construction Engineering
Prerequisites: MATH 315
This course provides students with an introduction to the construction industry and the role of civil engineering in construction. Areas covered include construction management fundamentals such as project scheduling, project control, estimating, and construction contracts. Also covered are topics in civil engineering related to construction, including material characteristics and testing, earthwork operations, formwork, foundations, and temporary structures. Also discussed are issues related to the overall industry, such as safety, quality, and productivity.
3 credits
Fall
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ENGR 420 - Transportation Engineering
Prerequisites: ENGR 300
This course provides students with an introduction to the principles of transportation engineering with a focus on highway engineering and traffic analysis. Areas covered include: vertical and horizontal alignment, curve fundamentals and design, principles and design of flexible and rigid pavement, binder grading systems, traffic flow theory, queuing theory, and simulation for traffic modeling.
3 credits
Spring
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ENGR 424 - Digital Signal Processing
Prerequisites: MATH 317 and ENGR 360 or COMSC 210
Analysis and design of digital systems using difference equations, the Z-transform, and the Discrete Fourier Transform. Course provides an introduction to digital filter design and computer vision techniques. Course makes extensive use of computer-aided simulations, analysis, and design techniques.
3 credits
Spring
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ENGR 430 - Special Topics in Engineering
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor
Selected topics determined by student needs and/or the availability of appropriate instruction.
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ENGR 431 - Mechanical Vibrations
Prerequisites: ENGR 220 and MATH 317
A study of periodic motion in single and multiple degrees of freedom systems with and without damping. Free, forced, and transient vibrations. Vibration instrumentation.
3 credits
Fall
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ENGR 432 - Manufacturing and Assembly
Prerequisites: ENGR 305 and ENGR 433 and MATH 315
Introduction to manufacturing processes and systems, including machining, injection molding, sheet metal forming, casting, and assembly. Applies engineering science to model manufacturing phenomena. Emphasizes Design for Manufacture and Assembly, including cost estimation and tolerance analysis.
3 credits
Annually
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ENGR 433 - Heat Transfer
Prerequisites: ENGR 330
Corequisite: ENGR 305 and MATH 317
The study of the three modes of heat transfer: conduction, convection and radiation. Both steady and transient systems are presented. Special topics include extended surfaces, lumped heat capacitance and approximate and numerical methods. Heat exchanger performance and design techniques are presented.
3 credits
Spring
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ENGR 437 - Acoustics
Prerequisites: MATH 317
Corequisite: ENGR 305
This course will investigate various aspects of acoustics, but begins with a general review of vibrations. A broad introduction to acoustics will be covered including modeling the propagation of plane and spherical waves in media and their interaction with boundaries, simple resonant systems such as pipes and Helmholtz resonators, and simple sources. Several applied acoustics topics will be covered as well, such as acoustic levitation, room acoustics, loudspeaker design, outdoor sound propagation, underwater sound propagation, ultrasound imaging/high intensity focused ultrasound and sonoluminescence.
3 credits
Spring
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ENGR 442 - Biomechanics
Prerequisites: ENGR 220 and ENGR 300
Applications of engineering mechanics to musculoskeletal problems such as human movement, orthopedic injury, fracture fixation, and artificial joints. Topics may include: indeterminate force systems, anisotropy, viscoelasticity, composite beam theory, beam on elastic foundation theory, shear lag, torsion of non-circular sections, Hertz contact theory, tribology, and biomaterials.
3 credits
Spring, Alternate years
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ENGR 445 - Dynamic Modeling and Control
Prerequisites: ENGR 240 and MATH 317
Analysis and design of linear time-invariant control systems using frequency and time domain techniques. Course makes extensive use of computer-aided simulation, analysis and design techniques.
3 credits
Spring
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ENGR 450 - Mechatronics
Prerequisites: None
Pre- or Co-requisite: ENGR 240 or COMSC 210
Mechatronics is the synergistic combination of mechanical engineering, electrical engineering and software engineering. Course topics include mechanics, electronic sensing and actuation, and software design for real-time control. Students will program small electromechanical robots to perform a specified task autonomously. “Mechatronics” is a portmanteau of “mechanics” and “electronics.”
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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ENGR 460 - Electromagnetic Theory
Prerequisites: None
Pre- or Co-requisite: MATH 214 and PHYS 202
The study of electrostatics, magnetostatics, and time-varying magnetic fields and the analysis of transmission lines, motors, generators, transformers, and other electric machines. Introduces applications of vector calculus and linear algebra.
3 credits
Fall
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ENGR 490 - Engineering Design I
Prerequisites: Senior standing or permission of the instructor
This course provides experience in the integration of math, science, engineering and computer science principles into a comprehensive engineering client-based design project. Open-ended problems emphasizing a multidisciplinary approach to total system design providing multiple paths to a number of feasible and acceptable solutions that meet the stated performance requirements. Design teams are required to generate alternatives, make practical approximations, perform appropriate analysis to support the technical feasibility of the design and make decisions leading to an optimized system design.
3 credits
Fall
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ENGR 492 - Engineering Design II
Prerequisites: ENGR 490
A continuation of Engineering Design I, students will be expected to develop a working prototype. Working closely with a faculty advisor, student teams will conduct periodic review presentations for their client ensuring the design meets the clients’ needs and expectations. The course objectives include the delivery of a successful project to the client by the end of the semester.
3 credits
Spring
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English as a Second Language |
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ELI 401 - Academic Preparation (Listening/Speaking)
Prerequisites: None
Focuses on strengthening and improving listening and speaking skills needed for full participation in college-level academic courses. Enhances the ability to listen, take notes, conduct interviews, participate in discussion, and give presentations. Vocabulary development and pronunciation are addressed.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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ELI 402 - Advanced ESL Reading for Interdisciplinary Core
Prerequisites: None
Provides reading practice and applies strategies for efficient reading and writing including vocabulary development, drawing on the content of an Interdisciplinary Core course. Extensive reading including course assignments and discussion build fluency, reinforce conceptual learning, and build confidence with academic texts.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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ELI 403 - Advanced Composition
Prerequisites: None
Focuses on strengthening and improving skills in using complex English grammar and college-level writing. Vocabulary development, critical thinking skills, and learning to build sound arguments are addressed through selected reading and discussion. Intensive in-class composition practice and individual work with the instructor and tutors provides additional feedback.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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English Literature |
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ENG 100 - Introduction to Literature
Prerequisites: Enrollment in or successful completion of WTNG 102
Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core Concentration
Through the study of poetry, short fiction, novel, drama, creative nonfiction, and film, students identify literary elements including plot, character, theme, imagery, and acquire critical vocabulary. This introductory course emphasizes active, responsive reading; close, attentive textual analysis; and lively class discussion. Because the course also emphasizes the importance of writing as an extension of reading, students learn how writing deepens understanding and how both reading and writing are part of a coherent, rich experience.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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ENG 110 - Serpents, Swords, and Symbols
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core Concentration
How did we get to this point? What is the genesis of our current relationship with the environment? Has our current situation always reflected that relationship? Using the natural world as a point of departure, students learn the universal language of symbols from ancient cultures to the present as they document and assess the evolution of the relation between human beings and the natural world, once perceived as reciprocal and interdependent, now distinct and isolated. Students analyze interdisciplinary and cross-cultural literary and visual works that address environment and place and the evolution of the relations between the human and non-human both directly (in non-fiction and natural history) and indirectly (in literature and film). In investigating both visual and written artifacts, students also learn the historical context for the shifts in literary attitudes toward the environment from around the world and across time.
3 credits
Annually
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ENG 199 - The Prof. John Howard Birss Memorial Lecture Text
Prerequisites: None
Does not fulfill a course requirement for the English Major, Minor or Core Concentration
This course affords students of all majors the opportunity to receive academic credit for reading, discussing, and writing about literary texts selected for the annual John Howard Birss Memorial Lecture. Previously selected texts include Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, Elie Wiesel’s Night, Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird. This course will include a discussion of the text in its historical context and will require completion of an end of semester project that may be entered in the annual FCAS Birss Memorial Lecture. Essay/Creative Project competition. This is a variable topics course. The course, but not the topic, may be repeated for credit.
1 credits
Fall, Spring
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ENG 210 - Myth, Fantasy, and the Imagination
Prerequisites: WTNG 102
Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core Concentration
Students begin by identifying archetypes, including the heroic ideal, found in folk tales and fairy tales from around the world. Students investigate how and why many of the same universal concerns inform and are interpreted by the famous epic narratives the ancients called “Wisdom Literature;” the Iliad and the Odyssey; and classical mythology. The other readings may include Tolkien’s The Hobbit or portions of The Lord of the Rings, the ancient Mesopotamian The Epic of Gilgamesh, or Virgil’s Aeneid.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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ENG 220 - Literary Analysis
Prerequisites: ENG 100 (or CW 210 and CW 220 ) and enrollment in or completion of a 200-level WTNG course
Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core Concentration
Literary competence includes an understanding of the conventions that govern professional literary criticism, lifelong habits of analysis, judgment, and the development of critical acumen (i.e., an understanding of genre, an awareness of literary history as a context, an understanding of critical theory and the interpretation of literature in concept and in practice, and the development of advanced research skills). To develop these competencies, this course practices close reading across a range of critical theories, including Feminism, Deconstructionism, Post Colonialism, Marxism, Lesbian, Gay and Queer Theory, African American Criticism and Cultural Studies. Students will also discuss the impact of cultural diversity (e.g., race, class, and gender) on literary criticism while developing an understanding of the way that literary texts both reflect and project cultural ideologies. The final paper in this course will model the processes and standards used in Senior Thesis I & II.
3 credits
Fall
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ENG 240 - Early American Literature: Pre-Columbus Through the Civil War
Prerequisites: WTNG 102
Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core Concentration
This survey course begins with Native American literary expressions and concludes with the literature of the Civil War. The course covers exploration narratives of the 15th and 16th centuries, American colonial writing, the literature of the new American republic, and the literary efforts of the 19th century romantics. The course concludes with abolitionist writing and the literature of the Civil War. The reading list includes Christopher Columbus, Anne Bradstreet, Mary Rowlandson, Benjamin Franklin, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Frederick Douglass, and What Whitman.
3 credits
Fall
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ENG 260 - American Realism, Naturalism and Modernism
Prerequisites: WTNG 102
Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core Concentration
This survey course begins with the American realists and naturalists of the post-Civil War era and continues through 1950. The course includes writers of the Lost Generation, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Southern Literary Renaissance. Authors covered include: Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Henry James, Kate Chopin, Stephen Crane, Robert Frost, Ernest Hemingway, Richard Wright, and William Faulkner.
3 credits
Spring
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ENG 270 - British Literature I: From Beowulf to Gothic Literature
Prerequisites: WTNG 102
Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core Concentration
This course surveys British literature from Beowulf to the late 18th century. It provides a sense of literary history, as well as an understanding of socio-cultural ideologies (e.g., religion, gender, class, human relationships) and historical events that are both reflected and projected by texts read within canonical “periods” (e.g., the world of Old English, Restoration Drama, the Enlightenment, and the Gothic.) It covers a variety of genres, but (for obvious reasons) the focus is weighted toward poetry. This course requires a heavy reading load in both primary texts and cultural backgrounds. Authors will include the Beowulf poet, Chaucer, Sidney, Donne, Milton, Pope, Johnson, selected Romantic poets, and a Gothic novelist.
3 credits
Fall
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ENG 290 - British Literature II: From Romanticism to Modernism
Prerequisites: WTNG 102
Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core Concentration
This course surveys “British” literature from the late 18th century to WWII. It provides a sense of literary history, as well as an understanding of socio-cultural ideologies and historical events that these texts both reflect and project (e.g., an increasingly commercialized literary marketplace, urbanization, the competing ideologies of gender equality and separate spheres, Darwinian science, British imperialism, and the emergence of the post-colonial consciousness). Students gain an overview of the various canonical “periods” and movements that shape the study of British literature (e.g., the rise of the novel, Victorian, and Modern literature). This course carries a heavy reading load in both primary texts and cultural backgrounds. Authors include Goldsmith, Austen, Gaskell, both Eliots, Joyce, Woolf, and Wilde.
3 credits
Spring
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ENG 299 - Special Topics in English Literature
Prerequisites: Enrollment in or successful completion of WTNG 102 (C- or higher)
Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core Concentration.
In this course, students explore special literary topics in seminar fashion. Although the course focuses on primary texts, students are exposed to literary criticism by reading critical articles and composing annotated bibliographies. Topics may include Shakespeare Recycled, the Detective Novel, the Romance Novel, Sports and Literature, and Non-Western Classics This is a variable topics course. The course, but not the topic, may be repeated for credit.
3 credits
Fall
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ENG 300 - British Literature III: The Post War Novel
Prerequisites: ENG 100 (or CW 210 and CW 220 ) and 200 or 300 level WTNG course
Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core Concentration
This course considers the late 20th-century/early 21st-century British novel and examines closely a number of key issues that shaped, as well as continue to affect, postwar British literature and culture, such as the movement from empire to post-colonialism; the “new internationalism” in British literature; and the role of the most prestigious literary award in Britain, the Man Booker Prize. In reading comparatively a number of 20th- and 21st-century “British” novels, we will also pay particular attention to the continuously shifting dynamics between the notions of “British,” “English,” “international,” and “global/world” as reflected in the stories told, the ways in which they are told, and in the different works’ fate in the literary marketplace.
3 credits
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ENG 301 - Contemporary American Literature
Prerequisites: ENG 100 (or CW 210 and CW 220 ) and 200 or 300 level WTNG course
Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core Concentration
Examines American fiction, poetry, drama, and creative nonfiction of the last half of the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries. This course devotes considerable attention to the literary contributions of contemporary women, African Americans, Native Americans, and other groups outside the American literary mainstream.
3 credits
Spring
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ENG 320 - Studies in Global Literatures
Prerequisites: ENG 100 (or CW 210 and CW 220 ) and 200 or 300 level WTNG course
Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core Concentration
This course introduces students to a non-Anglophone literary tradition via texts in translation from one or more of the global literatures listed below. The course develops student awareness of the diversity as well as the commonality at the heart of all stories and peoples, expands an understanding of our place in the global community and literary tradition, and deepens appreciation for a text’s ability to both reflect and project culture. Possible topics include literatures of: Africa, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Canada, The Caribbean, Eastern and Western Europe, The South Pacific, Latin America. This is a variable topics course. The course, but not the topic, may be repeated for credit.
3 credits
Alternate Years
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ENG 350 - Shakespeare
Prerequisites: ENG 100 (or CW 210 and CW 220 ) and 200 or 300 level WTNG course
Fulfills a course requirement in the English Literature Core Concentration
This course is not for passive readers. Shakespeare wrote for the stage, for live performance. Each week, while students concentrate on reading closely the playwright’s written word, they also transform their classroom into his stage, collectively bringing his words to life. But Shakespeare’s art, catholic in nature and scope, is also a historic reservoir, providing students a rich opportunity to explore the social, political, religious, scientific, and historical conditions that underpin his works. Students investigate Renaissance England’s daily life-from bearbaiting to feasting to sumptuary laws-and its political machinations and religious teachings–from rancorous kings and “tavern diplomacy” to man’s new relationship with God.
3 credits
Fall
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ENG 351 - Shakespeare on Film
Prerequisites: ENG 100 (or CW 210 and CW 220 ) and 200 or 300 level WTNG course. This course may not substitute for ENG 350
This course focuses on film adaptations of William Shakespeare’s plays that “translate” the dramas into cinematic language. Because this is a Shakespeare course, students read a selection of plays, study their language and structures, and discuss them as dramatic literature. Because this is a film course, students study Shakespeare filmic adaptations from different historical periods and cultures in terms of camera technique, directorial choices, film history, and the times and places in which they were produced. Students read a history play, a comedy, one or two tragedies, and a romance and then study the filmic interpretations of those works by some of the most famous (and not so famous) directors (e.g., Zeffirelli, Wells, Kurosawa, Luhrmann, Branagh). This intertextual study helps students to appreciate the richness of Shakespeare’s texts and how they present multiple possibilities to those who interpret them.
3 credits
Spring
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ENG 360 - Studies in Ethnic American Literature
Prerequisites: ENG 100 (or CW 210 and CW 220 ) and 200 or 300 level WTNG course
Focuses on the literary contributions of racial and ethnic groups within American culture. Possible topics may include the literatures of: African Americans, Asian Americans, Jewish Americans, Latino Americans, Middle Eastern Americans, Native Americans. This is a variable topics course. The course, but not the topic, may be repeated for credit.
3 credits
Alternate Years
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ENG 430 - Special Topics in Literature: Themes, Authors, Works
Prerequisites: ENG 100 (or CW 210 and CW 220 ) and 200 or 300 level WTNG course
In these upper-level seminars, students engage fully in discussions and presentations. Offerings address one or more of the following emphases: studies in genre, period, theme, author, or single work. Topics include but are not limited to the following: American literature of the 1960s; The American Legend; Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales; Contemporary American Women Writers; The Bible and Literature; Edwardian Fiction: Fact and Fiction; Truman Capote’s Work; George Eliot and the Brontes; James Joyce’s Ulysses; Literature of the Civil War; the Medieval Romance; Literary Film Adaptations; The Southern American Renaissance; and J.R.R. Tolkien. This is a variable topics course. The course, but not the topic, may be repeated for credit.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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ENG 470 - Advanced Literary Theory
Prerequisites: ENG 220 and 200 or 300 level WTNG course
Students read seminal texts of literary theory from Plato to Donna J. Harroway. The first part of the course focuses on classical texts of literary theory. Authors are likely to include Plato, Aristotle, Horace, and Sir Phillip Sidney and Hume. The second part of the course focuses on contemporary theorists, such as Marx, Althusser, Said, Spivak, Bhabha, Derrida, Bourdieu, and Harroway. Students produce a professional quality final paper working directly with one or more theorists.
3 credits
Alternate Spring
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ENG 480 - Senior Thesis I
Prerequisites: ENG 220 , a 200 level WTNG course, and senior standing or consent of instructor
This course, but not the topic may be repeated for required or elective credit. In order to count for the senior thesis requirement for English Literature majors, the topic in this course must match the topic in ENG 481. This course is essentially a reading seminar: the first semester of the English majors’ capstone course sequence emphasizes applications of literary theory through intensive analysis of primary works, research into pertinent criticism, and the delivery of a substantial oral presentation. Students’ course work culminates in a formal thesis proposal with an extended bibliography. This course, but not the topic, may be repeated for either required or elective credit.
3 credits
Spring
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ENG 481 - Senior Thesis II
Prerequisites: Successful completion (C or higher) of ENG 480
In the second semester of the Senior Seminar, each student writes a substantial thesis of publishable quality based upon readings explored in ENG 480 . Primarily a writing seminar, students meet individually with the professor each week to advance the draft through the writing process. Students present abstracts of their final papers at a public colloquium.
3 credits
Fall
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Environmental Science |
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NATSC 103 - Earth Systems Science and Lab
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Environmental Science Core Concentration
One of the foundation courses in Environmental Science, Earth Systems, focuses on the physical processes that shape Earth’s surfaces. Topics vary from the basics for rocks and minerals, to streams, groundwater and desert landforms. Students will learn to read and interpret topographic and geologic maps. The laboratory component is project orientated with students completing multiweek investigations culminating in a self-designed research project.
4 credits
Fall
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NATSC 105 - Earth and Physical Science for Elementary Education and Lab
Prerequisites: None
This course is designed as a foundation in the Earth and physical sciences for future elementary school teachers. The goal of this course is for future teachers to gain a better understanding of major principles and processes so that they will be more comfortable with and proficient in teaching physical and Earth science in the elementary classroom. As such, this course focuses on science content and not science pedagogy. Topics include the following: matter and motion, light and sound, the solar system and basic astronomy, the solid Earth including Plate Tectonic Theory, and the fluid Earth’s atmospheres and oceans. The laboratory reinforces the concepts of the class and provides students with a hands-on, inquiry-based introduction to the process of science.
4 credits
Spring
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NATSC 203 - Humans, Environmental Change and Sustainability
Prerequisites: BIO 104
Fulfills a course requirement in the Environmental Science Core Concentration
This course examines the effects of human populations and sociocultural variables on contemporary environmental changes at global and local scales with an emphasis on the sustainable use and management of natural resources and ecosystem services. Topics covered include human demographics, land use and land cover change, energy generation and use, agricultural production, biodiversity loss, water management, pollution and global climate change. These topics will be discussed in an interdisciplinary context to emphasize interrelationships among the economic, political, philosophical and ecological dimensions of environmental change and the sustainability of human populations and ecosystems.
3 credits
Fall
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NATSC 204 - Principles of Oceanography
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Marine Biology Core Concentration
This course provides an introduction to the four interrelated disciplines (biology, chemistry, geology and physics) that make up the science of oceanography. Through this course, students come to understand the complex characteristics and dynamic processes of the world’s ocean.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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NATSC 226 - Forensic Science and Lab
Prerequisites: Enrollment in Biology, Criminal Justice or Legal Studies major; or consent of instructor
Investigates the relationship of the crime laboratory to the criminal justice system. Students learn the services provided by a crime lab; the scientific and legal constraints placed upon criminalists; the theory and practice of collecting, preserving, and analyzing of physical evidence. Laboratory experiences include analysis of microscopic evidence; identification and individualization of physical and chemical objects; development of latent fingerprints; rolling and classification of fingerprints; some instrumental analysis; and thin layer and paper chromatography.
4 credits
Fall, Spring
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NATSC 232 - Scientific Research Diving
Prerequisites: Basic Open Water Diving Certification
Note: This certification can be obtained at any dive shop (e.g. East Bay Dive Center) or through courses offered by the Roger Williams Scuba club. Students can register during normal registration in the Spring and the requisite just needs to be met before class begins in the Fall.
Dive Accident Insurance - suggest DAN Insurance
AAUS scientific diving medical examination/physical - The form to fulfill this requirement will be supplied to
the students upon registration and they just need to bring it to their primary care doctor or an urgent care
center to have it filled out and signed. Students can register during normal registration in the Spring and the
requisite just needs to be met before class begins in the Fall.
The research diving course is a field-based course that gives students the training and knowledge for conducting research underwater. The course will cover popular methodologies used underwater as well as advanced training techniques. Upon successful completion of this course, the student will have acquired the scientific diving qualification to 30 feet per the American Academy of Underwater Sciences standards.
4 credits
Fall
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NATSC 301 - Marine Resource Management
Prerequisites: NATSC 103 or NATSC 204 ; or consent of instructor
Fulfills a course requirement in the Environmental Science Core Concentration Fulfills a Marine Biology elective in the Applied category
Concepts and methods for the allocation, management and utilization of marine resources. Emphasis will be placed on biological, chemical, and geological resources in coastal and near-shore water of New England.
3 credits
Alternate Fall
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NATSC 305 - Marine Geology
Prerequisites: NATSC 103 or NATSC 204 ; or consent of instructor.
Fulfills a course requirement in the Environmental Science Core Concentration
An introduction to geology and marine geology emphasizing our current understanding of plate tectonics and the importance of paleoceanography in the study of global climate change.
3 credits
Alternate Fall
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NATSC 310 - Biogeochemical Cycling
Prerequisites: NATSC 103 , NATSC 204 , CHEM 192
Fulfills a course requirement in the Environmental Science Core Concentration
Biogeochemical cycling combines the disciplines of biology, geology and chemistry to investigate the movement of important elements (such as Carbon, Nitrogen, and Phosphorous) through the atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere. The course begins with evidence for and discussion of the evolution of the early Earth, from initial differentiation to the rise of oxygenic photosynthesis. Topics include, rock weathering and the release of nutrients for the biosphere, the role of life beneath Earth’s surface, the nature of biogeochemical reservoirs (e.g. carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and oceans) and the mechanisms of exchange between those reservoirs.
3 credits
Alternate Spring
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NATSC 315 - Meteorology and Climatology
Prerequisites: NATSC 103 , NATSC 204 and MATH 136
Fulfills a course requirement in the Environmental Science Core Concentration
An introduction to weather and climate. Meteorological topics include the structure and composition of the atmosphere, cloud formation, fronts and severe storms and the reading and interpretation of weather maps. Also discussed are climate patterns, such as El Nino, climate forcing mechanisms and the evolution of Earth’s climate on time scales up to several million years.
3 credits
Alternate Spring
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NATSC 333 - Environmental Monitoring and Analysis and Lab
Prerequisites: BIO 103 or, BIO 104 or NATSC 204 and MATH 124 or MATH 315
Fulfills a course requirement in the Environmental Science Core Concentration
Investigates how to measure and evaluate the health and function of an ecosystem. To this end, a series of lectures/discussions examine how to design, analyze and critique ecological experiments and sampling programs. These lectures are accompanied by studies in the laboratory and field where students will participate, hands-on, in designing, carrying out and analyzing real experiments and sampling programs.
4 credits
Alternate Fall
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NATSC 375 - Soil Ecology and Lab
Cross-Listed with: BIO 375
Prerequisites: BIO 104 , and one of BIO 240 , BIO 320 or BIO 360 ; or consent of instructor
Fulfills a course requirement in the Biology Core Concentration Fulfills a course requirement in the Environmental Science Core Concentration
This course serves as an in-depth exploration of soils as unique habitats for life with a focus on understanding variables that affect the abundance, diversity and interactions of terrestrial organisms and, in turn, their influence on soli physicochemical properties, biochemical cycles and other variables that impact the well-being and sustainability of human societies (e.g. agricultural production, clean water availability) Topics to be covered include soil food webs, microbial ecology, soil aggregate formation, carbon and nitrogen cycling, relationships between soils and aboveground ecology, and the effects of human activities on soil biodiversity. During laboratory sessions, students will explore the basic biology of soil organisms, conduct research projects, and learn methods for sampling soils and soil organisms in the field.
4 credits
Alternate Fall
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NATSC 401 - Environmental Toxicology and Lab
Prerequisites: CHEM 301 and BIO 200 or BIO 390 ; or consent of instructor
Fulfills a course requirement in the Environmental Science Core Concentration
Fundamentals and principles of toxicology including absorption, distribution, metabolism and excretion of toxic chemicals in mammalian systems. The course will investigate the molecular mechanisms, cellular targets, and biological consequences of exposure to toxic agents. It will also cover the molecular mechanisms, toxic action, risk assessment and regulatory procedures.
4 credits
Alternate Spring
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NATSC 430 - Topics in Environmental Science
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Fulfills a course requirement in the Environmental Science Core Concentration
Advanced-level topics of importance in environmental science, determined by interest of the students in consultation with faculty. This course may be repeated for credit, but students may not study the same subject more than once.
1-4 credits
Fall, Spring
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NATSC 430L - Topics in Environmental Science Lab
Prerequisites: Consent of instructor
Fulfills a course requirement in the Environmental Science Core Concentration
Advanced-level topics of importance in environmental science, determined by interest of the students in consultation with faculty. This course may be repeated for credit, but students may not study the same subject more than once.
1-4 credits
Fall, Spring
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NATSC 450 - Research in Environmental Sciences
Prerequisites: None
Original independent research in the environmental sciences. Project chosen in consultation with a research advisor. May be repeated for credit.
1-3 credits
Offered on demand
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NATSC 451 - Senior Thesis
Prerequisites: Prior departmental approval of a research proposal, 3.3 GPA, and NATSC 450
This course serves as a capstone experience for outstanding students in the major. Working closely with a faculty mentor, students engage in original research on a topic of their choice. The research may involve laboratory experiments, field work, or computer simulations. This course provides experience in designing and conducting experiments, critically analyzing data, reviewing published scientific literature, and communicating scientific information. The culmination of the course is a formal written thesis and a public oral presentation.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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NATSC 469 - Environmental Internship
Prerequisites: None
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FILM 101 - Introduction to Film Studies
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Film Studies minor.
This course provides an introduction to the development of film forms, styles, and theories providing a basic aesthetic and social understanding of film as both a mode of communication and a means of artistic expression. It explores the interrelationship of visual design, motion, editing, and thematic significance, helping students develop the foundational skills with which to interpret and articulate the myriad ways in which films create meaning, and elicit responses within viewers. The ultimate objective of the course is for students to become acquainted with a variety of film forms/styles, while developing the basic skills necessary to analyze and evaluate the cinematic presentations.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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FILM 200 - Global History of Film
Prerequisites: FILM 101 - Introduction to Film Studies or consent of instructor.
This is a survey course that introduces students to the major developments in global film history. The course examines moments in film history that are particularly relevant to the medium’s development as an aesthetic form, industrial product, and cultural practice. The overall focus of the course is on how a variety of national film industries, movements and styles not only developed separately, but influenced one another, making an array of important contributions to what is quickly becoming a truly “Global” film culture.
3 credits
Annually
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FILM 270 - Documentary Film
Prerequisites: FILM 101 or consent of instructor
Fulfills a course requirement for the Film Studies Minor.
Documentary Film will examine critical and theoretical approaches to the documentary genre. Through a historical survey of documentary and ethnographic film, this course explores documentary theory, aesthetics, and ethics. Topics include early cinema, World War II propaganda, cinema verité, radical documentary, the essay film, counter-ethnographies, and contemporary mixed forms such as documentary films in journalism, anthropology, biography, historical restoration and personal statement. Students will gain an understanding of cinema theory and its language.
3 credits
Fall
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FILM 299 - Special Topics in Film Studies
Prerequisites: FILM 101 or consent of instructor
Examines topics in Film Studies suitable for first and second year level, initiated by student demand, interest of instructor, or timeliness of offering. The course, but not the topic may be repeated for credit.
(1-3 credits variable) credits
Special offering
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FILM 300 - Film Theory & Criticism
Prerequisites: FILM 101 or consent of instructor
In this course, students will analyze how filmmakers use sound and image to tell stories on screen examine various aspects of film practice through theories appropriate for the discipline. This course acquaints students with Film Theory while developing the basic skills necessary to analyze and evaluate cinematic presentations through various theoretical lenses.
3 credits
Alternate years
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FILM 350 - Directors & Style
Prerequisites: FILM 101 or consent of instructor
This variable topic course discusses the vision, the style and the body of work of cinema directors within the context of their time, history and culture. The course, but not the topic, may be repeated for credit.
3 credits
Alternate years
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FILM 351 - Film Genres
Prerequisites: FILM 101 or consent of instructor
This variable topic course discusses cinema culture, history and style embedded in “genres” such as “film noir,” biography, mystery, etc. The course, but not the topic, may be repeated for credit.
3 credits
Alternate years
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FILM 352 - From Page to Screen
Prerequisites: FILM 101 or consent of instructor
This variable topic course discusses the adaptation of written works, including stage productions, to the screen. The course, but not the topic, may be repeated for credit.
3 credits
Special offering
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FILM 353 - Cinema in a Cultural Context
Prerequisites: FILM 101 or consent of instructor
This variable topic course discusses the world cinematic experience and film production originating in specific cultures. The course, but not the topic, may be repeated for credit.
3 credits
Special offering
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FILM 400 - Curation and Festival Production
Prerequisites: FILM 101 or consent of instructor
This course examines critical and theoretical approaches to Media Curating within the wider realms of cultural practice and exhibitions. The course will provide students with an understanding of the organizations and people who conceive, create and distribute video, film, print, interactive and new technology within the framework of the entertainment promotion landscape while demonstrating how advertising, publicity, promotion, research and overall marketing campaigns are created in the context of a film festival production.
3 credits
Spring
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FILM 430 - Advanced Topics in Film Studies
Prerequisites: Fulfills a requirement in the Film Studies minor
This is a variable topic special offering course that emphasizes film topics not regularly offered by the University. The variety of topics may include, but is not limited to: film history, film criticism, distinguished persons in film, and film in a cultural or literary context. The course, but not the topic, may be repeated for credit.
1-4 credits
Special Offering
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FNCE 301 - Financial Management
Prerequisites: ACCTG 201 , MATH 141 or equivalent
Application of financial theory, tools and methods to financial decision-making in the firm.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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FNCE 305 - Risk Management and Insurance
Prerequisites: None
Pre- or Co-requisite: FNCE 301 Minimum grade C, T
Develops an understanding and appreciation of fundamental insurance principles. Topics include a study of risk, risk management, rating and contract elements. Course material concentrates on personal insurance lines, including life and casualty.
3 credits
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FNCE 325 - Principles of Investments
Prerequisites: FNCE 301 passed with a grade of C or higher
Survey of investment risks and rewards, the operation of the securities business, and an introduction to the problems of qualitative and quantitative analysis and portfolio selection.
3 credits
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FNCE 327 - Personal Financial Planning
Prerequisites: None
Corequisite: FNCE 301
This course focuses on the concepts, tools and applications of retirement and estate planning. Students are introduced to the logic of financial planning for retirement and/or estate purposes. Various financial needs such as retirement income, health and insurance protection, dependent protection projections, etc. are forecast and analyzed. Investment vehicles are utilized to develop a financial plan to meet the forecast needs. Pension contributions, Social Security, Medicare/Medicaid implications are examined and incorporated into the planning process.
3 credits
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FNCE 330 - Bank Management
Prerequisites: None
Corequisite: FNCE 301
Study of the financial management of commercial banks and other selected institutions, emphasizing their role in the money and capital markets through funds acquisitions, investments and credit extensions.
3 credits
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FNCE 350 - Financial Statement Analysis
Prerequisites: ACCTG 201 , FNCE 301 and MATH 141
This course applies methods of fundamental analysis in a series of class exercises, cases, and assignments involving listed companies. Through the analysis of financial statements, we examine models of shareholder value such as residual earnings, abnormal earnings growth, and discounted cash flow approaches to valuation, among others, and ask which one will give us an edge.
3 credits
Spring
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FNCE 360 - International Finance
Prerequisites: FNCE 301 passed with a grade of C or higher
The course is an introduction to international financial management. It includes an introduction to the economic theories of international trade and an analysis of exchange rate behavior and other factors important to managing multi-country cash flows and financing of multinational corporations. Capital budgeting decisions of the firm in the global environment are examined, as are hedging techniques and financial operations in foreign exchange and multinational markets.
3 credits
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FNCE 380 - Principles of Technical Analysis
Prerequisites: FNCE 325 or consent of instructor
This course focuses on the study of short-term and long-term decision making in the context of portfolio management using the basic principles of technical analysis. Incorporating the latest financial platforms in the Center for Advanced Financial Education, students will achieve a deep understanding of charting techniques to make better buy/sell decisions in security markets, while applying this knowledge to portfolio and risk analysis.
3 credits
Summer, Winter
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FNCE 401 - Advanced Financial Management
Prerequisites: FNCE 301 passed with a grade of C or higher
The advanced application of financial theory, tools and methods to financial decision-making in the firm. This course examines financial theories and concepts in practical situations to develop analytical skills and judgment ability in solving financial problems of business firms in both domestic and international settings.
3 credits
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