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EDU 568 Distance Education and Hybrid Technologies
3 credits
This course introduces students to the operation of distributed educational technologies, including the development and delivery of asynchronous and synchronous mediated and stand-alone communication technologies, including distance learning.
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EDU 575 Human Development
3 credits
An in-depth study of growth and development as it relates to elementary-aged students, this course explores current research and recent developments in educational psychology.
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EDU 576 Masters Project
6 credits
This course is designed to be a practical hands-on culminating experience to the special education specialization of the masters program. It is designed to be a flexible yet rigorous course.
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EDU 577 Field
0 credit
All graduate education majors seeking certification must independently propose and then deliver a set of projects related to the needs of a community classroom or another setting that serves students they will eventually teach (e.g., a group home, a preschool, etc.). Students must complete a minimum of twenty five (25) hours observing veteran classroom teachers and participating in their classrooms.
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EDU 578 Student Teaching
12 credits
The culminating activity of the university’s graduate education program for candidates seeking certification is the student teaching experience. This experience places students (all majors) in classroom situations where they complete their development as teachers by demonstrating their abilities to fully function as classroom teachers. Student teachers spend the first half of the student teaching semester in one setting and the second half in another. In each placement, student teachers work under the guidance and supervision of master teachers and university supervisors.
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EDU 581 Seminar in Elementary Education
3 credits
Current issues and trends in elementary education are addressed.
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EDU 582 Observation and Practice
0-3 credits
Elementary specialization participants are expected to log 100 hours observing and participating in elementary classrooms. Specific objectives must be met and students must maintain journals.
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EDU 585 Special Topics
Variable credit
The graduate education program features a series of 1-, 2-, and 3-credit courses, which deal with special topics of interest to teachers. They are taught by respected and expert adjunct faculty who are leaders in their communities and/or schools. A few special topics are scheduled each semester and several are available during the summer term. Most special topics may be used as electives within the graduate education program. Special topics courses have included: Integrating Learning Systems College Programs for Disabled Students Integrating Technology in the Classroom Religion in Public Schools The Federal Education Agenda Characteristics of Excellence Sensitive Issues in Sexuality Multicultural Education: Heritage Curriculum Integration Curriculum Censorship in the Arts Multicultural Education: Literature in High School Curriculum of the Future Curriculum Update: State Requirements Education in Japan The Self-Study Process Ethics in Education Adaptations for Exceptional Students/Secondary Parents’/Students’ Rights in Special Education Preparing Students for Post- Secondary Education
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EDU 590 Basic Methods in Elementary Education
3 credits
This course focuses on the structure and process of elementary education and highlights effective and efficient teaching methods and materials, which may be used in elementary education. This course is designed for currently certified, albeit not elementary, teachers.
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EDU 595 Professional Contribution
3 credits
This course allows students the opportunity to implement major curriculum projects by conducting and formally and publicly presenting their professional contributions.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 565
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EDU 599 Independent Study
Variable credit
This course allows students to conduct independent investigations of specific topics of interest and/or to complete a school-based project. They are planned, implemented, and evaluated with the assistance of a mentor appointed by Misericordia University. A contract learning format is used.
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EDU 620 Restructuring Schools and Classrooms
3 credits
This course assists teachers and administrators to develop a knowledge of research, motivation, theories, and successful initiatives involved in the school reform effort.
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EDU 621 Strategies for Improving Instruction
3 credits
This course examines strategies teachers need to implement more flexible, creative approaches to instruction found in schools and classrooms implementing restructuring to create 21st century classrooms.
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EDU 622 Linking Assessment to Improved Instruction
3 credits
This course describes what changes in assessment mean for schools trying to restructure and meet new state and national performance standards.
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EDU 623 Teaching to New State and National Standards
3 credits
This course reviews current state and national performance and curriculum standards, shares findings from policy makers on making instructional decisions in local schools, and allows participants to develop implementation strategies in their curricular areas.
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EDU 624 Enhancing School Climate
3 credits
This course presents research-based strategies that create a positive school climate, improve leadership and collaboration, and enhance individual effectiveness and resiliency to organizational change.
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EDU 625 Technical Applications in Schools
3 credits
This course explores the promise an assortment of technologies hold for teaching to diverse learners, reaching equity, and teaching to high standards in heterogeneous classrooms.
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EDU 626 Advanced Technological Applications
3 credits
This course enables participants to perform advanced functions including creating directories, performing back up procedures, restoring files, creating batch files, and performing multitasking through windows applications. Spreadsheet and data based tools as well as PowerPoint are integrated.
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EDU 627 Integrating CAI into the Curriculum
3 credits
This course enables students to use the more popular computer assisted instructional programs and integrated learning systems (Jostens, CCC, IBM’s TLC, etc.) in both classroom and laboratory settings.
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EDU 628 Integrating Desktop Publishing
3 credits
This course prepares students to develop the understandings and skills necessary to use desktop publishing programs such as Works, Word, WordPerfect, Publisher, and related applications.
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EDU 629 Web Page Development and HTML
3 credits
This course prepares students to become competent in the design and construction of Web Pages using HTML authoring language.
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EDU 630 Design and Delivery of Distance Learning Programs
3 credits
This course familiarizes students with the uses of satellite technology, interactive video conferencing, and other distance learning strategies for use in the 21st century classroom.
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EDU 641 Foundations of Language and Literacy
3 credits
Provides students with the fundamental concepts of literacy. It examines the research and historical perspectives, methodologies, and theories of language literacy acquisition and development. Students will demonstrate an understanding of best practices in the teaching of language and literacy, including the needs of diverse learners from K-12.
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EDU 642 Word Study
3 credits
Participants will learn instructional approaches, including those that develop word level knowledge, fluency, and vocabulary strategies for K-12 students.
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EDU 645 Diagnosis, Assessment, and Remediation of Literacy Difficulties
3 credits
Examines how to assess students, monitor students’ progress, and provide effective classroom instruction. Students will identify and administer various reading inventories, tests, and procedures used in K-12 schools. Various models of effective classroom reading instruction will be reviewed and students will use assessment results to prepare a case study.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 641 , EDU 642 , EDU 647 , EDU 648 , EDU 649 , EDU 650
Corequisite(s): EDU 645A Reading Specialist Internship
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EDU 645A Reading Specialist Internship
0 credits
Students complete 100 hours of supervised field experience at the elementary, middle, and high school level by participating in summer programs.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 641 , EDU 642 , EDU 647 , EDU 648 , EDU 649 , EDU 650
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EDU 646 Data-driven Instruction
3 credits
Prepares students to understand, administer, and interpret assessment information. Students will learn how to use this knowledge to improve the achievement of diverse learners, including ELLs and students with IEPs, through the analysis of specific student data profiles obtained from assessment sources.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 641 , EDU 642 , EDU 647 , EDU 648 , EDU 649 , EDU 650
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EDU 647 Reading and Writing for English Language Learners
3 credits
Provides an introduction to research and theories that describe the reading/writing process in first and second languages. Students will focus on developing effective teaching and assessment approaches to support literacy development of ELLs in grades K-12.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 641
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EDU 648 Special Education and the Reading Specialist
3 credits
Prepares the reading specialist to provide support to the special educator in the preparation and delivery of research-based instructional strategies, interventions, and assessments in order to ensure the development of proficient reading skills in exceptional students in K-12.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 641
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EDU 649 The Reading and Writing Connection
3 credits
Candidates use intermediate children’s literature and appropriate models of fiction and non-fiction to develop a plan for improving a pupil’s case study writing sample. Children’s literature, non-fiction and fiction text, when used for this purpose, provides models of text organization, descriptive words, and imagery the domains of writing that children often need to use to improve their own writing.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 641
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EDU 650 Reading in the Content Area
3 credits
Prepares students to utilize instructional strategies and techniques that best facilitate academic learning for all learners across the content areas. Students will engage in an in-depth examination of effective instructional practices for teaching content area vocabulary and concepts through a variety of research-based study strategies.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 641
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EDU 651 Reading Leadership
3 credits
In collaboration with other professionals, students will develop and implement a reading program for the remediation of reading in the school age population. Students will assess, diagnose, and remediate children with reading difficulties using word study, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension/metacognition strategies.
Prerequisite(s): EDU 641
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ENG 120 Theatre Production
1 credit
The preparation and presentation of productions including rehearsal, performance, stage management, scenery production, constructing properties, lighting, sound, costumes, programs, box office, publicity, etc. May be repeated for credit. Cross registration with FA 120
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ENG 150 Introduction to Literature
3 credits
This course introduces students to literature through the study of poetry, drama, and fiction. Emphasis will be on critical reading/interpretation of and writing about literary texts with special attention paid to conventions of genre, symbolism, and devices such as metaphor, irony, and allusion.
(Fall 2015 and later)
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ENG 151 University Writing Seminar
3 credits
This course introduces and develops skills and abilities fundamental to proficient academic writing. This course emphasizes the critical reading and the summary, synthesis, and analysis of primary materials in specific social and historical contexts.
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ENG 205 Beginning Acting
3 credits
Analysis and experience of dramatic literature through performance. Emphasis is placed on building a basic performance vocabulary and technique, and developing confidence and critical thinking skills. Cross registration with FA 200
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ENG 207 British Literature
3 credits
This course introduces students to readings in British literature from Shakespeare to the present day. Emphasis is placed on the ways in which specific works reflect changing values and intellectual movements.
Lecture: 3 hours.
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ENG 208 African American Literature
3 credits
This course examines the major African American authors in America, how their texts reflect their sense of identity, and how these texts fit into larger frameworks of American literature. The course also investigates the cultural history behind these works and issues such as stereotyping. Students who previously completed ENG 108: African American Literature may only take ENG 208 for the purposes of grade replacement, and may not receive credit for both ENG 108 and ENG 208.
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ENG 216 Italy in Literature and Film
3 credits
This course seeks to construct the Italian imaginary or “social imaginary,” that is, a set of values, traditions, institutions, and symbols that are generally shared by the groups that have inhabited the Italian peninsula in medieval, early modern, and modern times. It is taught only as a Study Abroad course in Italy and examines both literature and films that reflect the culture of early modern and modern Italian civilization.
Prerequisite(s): One prior English Core course for students entering the University prior to Summer 2012; ENG 151 for students entering in Summer 2012 or later.
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ENG 219 Modern World Literature
3 credits
This course focuses on the literatures of modern cultures other than those of Western Europe or North America. Works and authors are discussed in relation to their native cultures and in relation to the ways in which the literature reveals cultural and historical assumptions different from our own. May not be taken for credit if credit was previously received for ENG 109: Modern World Literature.
(Fall 2015 and late)
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ENG 223 Ethnic American Literatures
3 credits
This course surveys literature by ethnic American writers—including but not limited to African American, Asian American, Chicano/a and Native American authors—from the early/colonial period to the present. In this course, students will examine these literatures for how they negotiate the position(s) of ethnic individuals and/or communities within the United States. Students will also identify major discourses of U.S. multi-ethnic literature (for example, the melting pot, conflict/resistance, assimilation, etc.) and analyze how individual works and authors reflect, challenge, and transcend these discourses.
(Fall 2015 and later)
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ENG 224 Women Writers
3 credits
Women Writers is an in-depth study of women writers from the nineteenth- and twentieth centuries, focusing on contextualizing their works within a cultural, historical, and political framework.
(Fall 2015 and later)
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ENG 225 Disability in Literature
3 credits
This course is designed to explore literary texts and films from across the globe that address disabilities of various kinds (physical, mental, social). Some of the questions we shall consider include: how has the definition of “disability” shifted in recent years? What, then, is “normal”? Is the very term “disability” problematic? How does disability further impact other social constructs such as race, gender and socio-economic status? In order to investigate these issues, we shall begin the course with the lexicon of disability and subsequently approach texts from the following perspectives: patient perspective; family perspective; disability due to trauma (including war/political strife); and resiliency and self-efficacy.
(Spring 2016 and later)
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ENG 245 British Literature I
3 credits
This course is a survey of British literature from its origins to the Romantic period. This course will examine major literary periods, the historical and cultural contexts of those periods, and the intersections and cross-currents of literary movements, styles, and forms.
(Fall 2015 and later)
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ENG 246 British Literature II
3 credits
This course is a survey of British literature from the Romantic period to the present day. This course will examine major literary periods, the historical and cultural contexts of those periods, and the intersections and cross-currents of literary movements, styles, and forms.
(Spring 2016 and later)
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ENG 247 American Literature I
3 credits
This course is an introduction to American literature through 1865 from its early roots in the colonial era to the forming of our nation deep into American Romanticism and the beginning of Realism/Naturalism. This course will examine major literary periods, the historical and cultural contexts of those periods, and the intersections and cross-currents of literary movements, styles, and forms.
(Fall 2015 and later)
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ENG 248 American Literature II
3 credits
This course is an introduction to American literature from 1865 to the present. This course will examine major literary periods (naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism), the historical and cultural contexts of those periods, and the intersections and cross-currents of literary movements, styles, and forms.
(Spring 2016 and later)
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ENG 249 European Fiction
3 credits
This course introduces students to important figures in the tradition of modern European fiction. Authors may include Stendhal, Goethe, Balzac, Flaubert, Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Lampedusa, Beckett, Camus, and Calvino. Students will be introduced to conventions of realism and the romance tradition, as well as the intellectual, social, and historical backgrounds of the modern centuries.
(Fall 2015 and later)
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ENG 300 Classics of Western Literature
3 credits
A study of the major works that have influenced Western writers, with emphasis on the characteristics of different types of literature and cultural backgrounds. Readings include works by Homer, Dante, and Goethe.
Prerequisite(s): Literature core
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ENG 301 Teaching Writing
3 credits
This course offers practice in writing short essays and in responding to the writing of others. Review of grammar and sentence construction is included as needed.
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ENG 302 Myth and Symbol
3 credits
This course surveys texts that focus on a major literary symbol or myth across time and genre, and examines how these devices have provided continuity for authors from different centuries, and how they have changed in response to cultural changes. Examples include the underworld, the journey, the knight, and the machine.
Prerequisite(s): Literature core
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ENG 303 Advanced Expository Writing
3 credits
Advanced practice in writing clear prose using various modes of exposition, with an emphasis upon developing and improving style. Students who previously completed ENG 203: Advanced Expository Writing may only take ENG 303 for the purposes of grade replacement, and may not receive credit for both ENG 203 and ENG 303.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the English Core
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ENG 305 Literature and Medicine
3 credits
This course explores the intersection between literature and medicine in three key arenas: the patient, the practitioner, and the public. The course focuses on issues of social justice and human dignity and considers how literature represents, engages with, and challenges medical language, narrative, and diagnosis.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the English Core
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ENG 310 Introduction to Literary Studies
3 credits
This course serves as an introduction to the English major and the study of literature, with an emphasis on the skills and background needed to engage with texts as critics. The course will develop students’ close-reading skills in tandem with introducing them to literary theory and its application to texts. The course will advance students understanding of genre, including genre-specific terms and tools. At the end of this course, students will have the background and skills necessary to embark on a more advanced study of literature.
Prerequisite(s): English major or minor status
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ENG 316 Shakespeare
3 credits
Introduces the student to Shakespeare through a careful reading and analysis of two or more genres of Shakespearean drama in seven or eight of the major plays. A number of approaches may be taken to the plays, such as their dramaturgy and structural composition, as well as the intellectual and social background of Shakespeare’s age. Students who previously completed ENG 215: Shakespeare may only take ENG 316 for the purposes of grade replacement, and may not receive credit for both ENG 215 and ENG 316.
Prerequisite(s): Literature core
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ENG 317 Theatre in Performance
3 credits
Examination of dramatic texts in performance and the history of dramatic production in a variety of cultures. Main focus is on Western traditions, but some Eastern traditions are included. Students who previously completed ENG 220: Theatre in Performance may only take ENG 317 for the purposes of grade replacement, and may not receive credit for both ENG 220 and ENG 317.
Prerequisite(s): Literature core
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ENG 318 The Study of Language
3 credits
An introduction to the phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax of English. Approaches include both an overview of the development of English from the perspective of historical linguistics and an analysis of English from the perspective of structural linguistics. Topics covered include the IPA phonetic system, Indo-European roots of English, borrowings into English, traditional and transformational grammar, and dialect.
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ENG 319 Early American Literature
3 credits
This course will explore the development of literature in Colonial America and the Early Republic, covering a period of time from the early 17th century to the early 19th century. Readings will encompass primary texts in poetry, nonfiction, autobiography, and novels, as well as secondary critical readings or historical contexts that will help us situate the literature of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of English core requirements
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ENG 320 19th Century American Literature
3 credits
A survey of major 19th century American authors in the Romantic and Realist traditions, with special attention to cultural backgrounds.
Prerequisite(s): Literature core
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ENG 321 20th Century American Literature
3 credits
A study of American novelists, poets, and dramatists of the 20th century. This course will cover works and authors from the early decades and naturalism, to modernism and postmodernism, and beyond, with attention paid to cultural background that influenced American writers and literature.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of English core requirements
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ENG 325 Feature and Magazine Writing
3 credits
Cross-listed with COM 325 Practice in writing longer articles suitable for both newspaper and magazine publishing.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 103 or two writing-intensive courses
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ENG 339 Technical Writing
3 credits
Technique and practice in writing basic technical reports. Guidelines for scientific reporting, memoranda, progress reports, and formal documents.
Prerequisite(s): Two writing-intensive courses or ENG 103
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ENG 341 Imaginative Writing
3-6 credits
Practice and development of writing skills in poetry, fiction, and drama. The course will be conducted as a workshop.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 103 or two writing-intensive courses
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ENG 343 Writing for Media
3 credits
Basic communication technique with an emphasis on news values, reporting, and writing.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 103 or two writing-intensive courses
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ENG 345 Fiction Writing
3 credits
A workshop in the writing of short fiction. Students will analyze the techniques of story writers, write their own original stories, and take part in class critiques of drafts.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 341 or permission of instructor
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ENG 347 17th Century Literature
3-6 credits
Intensive study of one or more selected authors, genres or movements, including such topics as Cavalier and Metaphysical poetry, the Age of Milton, religious poetry and prose, and the epic. May be repeated once on a different topic.
Prerequisite(s): Literature core
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ENG 350 Medieval and Renaissance Literature
3-6 credits
Intensive study of a number of authors from the late medieval and Renaissance periods in European literature. Topics for each offering will be specified in advance, but may include Renaissance humanism and the imitation of classical literary models, the development of the lyric, medieval and Renaissance traditions of allegory, or the literary expression of dissent in medieval and Renaissance literature. May be repeated once on a different topic.
Prerequisite(s): Literature core
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ENG 351 Restoration and 18th Century Literature
3 credits
Intensive study of authors, genres, and movements between 1660 and 1800, including restoration drama, the mock-epic, satire, and the beginning of the novel. Literary works are discussed in the context of political events such as the Puritan Revolution and its aftermath, and social changes, especially the increasing importance of the middle class.
Prerequisite(s): Literature core
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ENG 352 19th Century British Literature
3 credits
Intensive study of the literature of the Romantic and Victorian periods. Emphasis is placed on the historical and cultural contexts of the French and Industrial Revolutions, and their influence on major Romantic poets and Victorian poets and novelists.
Prerequisite(s): Literature core
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ENG 353 20th Century British Literature
3 credits
Intensive study of selected 20th century authors and movements. Covers major modernist figures such as Eliot and Joyce, and relates them to changes in 20th-century society. Also covers postmodernism in poetry and fiction.
Prerequisite(s): Literature core
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ENG 354 Russian Literature
3 credits
A survey of the most important Russian writers of narrative poetry and fiction in the 19th century, from about 1825 to 1905. Emphasis will be placed on ways in which the literature reflects both European literary influence and specifically Russian history, culture and ideas.
Prerequisite(s): Literature core
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ENG 355 British Romanticism
3 credits
This course is an in-depth study of British literature from 1832-1901; emphasis is placed on aesthetic developments, thematic concerns of race, class, and gender, and the historical and cultural contexts of the Industrial Revolution, the expanding Empire, and evolution.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the English core
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ENG 361 Race and Graphic Narrative in the Post-War United States
3 credits
This course examines the representation of race and ethnicity in the United States from the end of World War II though today. Through the examination of a variety of graphic formats (narratives, films, television, etc.), students will deepen their knowledge of how race and ethnicity have been represented and analyze the strengths and weaknesses of those representations, through the use of primary and secondary evidence. Students will also draw connections between these texts and contemporary U.S. culture and society. May not be taken if the student has already completed HIS 432 .
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the English Core.
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ENG 362 Fairy and Folk Tales
3 credits
An examination of the development of fairy and folk tales from the Italian Renaissance through the literary fairy tale of late 17th century France to 19th and 20th century examples of the genre. Emphasis will be placed on the cultural circumstances that produced the tales and the consequent views of their function in society.
Prerequisite(s): Literature core
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ENG 370 The Craft of Poetry
3 credits
The Craft of Poetry will explore the fundamentals to poetic forms. Focus will be on the close reading of form and content and the writing of poetry.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the English core
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ENG 371 The Craft of Fiction
3 credits
This course will explore the fundamentals to fictional forms. Focus will be on the close reading of form and content and the writing of fiction.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the English core
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ENG 372 The Craft of Drama
3 credits
This course will explore the fundamentals to dramatic forms. Focus will be on the close reading of form and content and the writing of drama.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the English core
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ENG 401 Major Author(s)
3 credits
Intensive study of one author, or of two authors who are profitably studied in relation to one another. Focus will be on primary texts and on secondary works that explore the social, political, and intellectual backgrounds of the author(s), as well as on the biographical background. The course may be taken more than once, provided that each iteration focuses on a different figure or figures.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the English core
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ENG 415 Selected Studies in Literature
3 credits
Intensive study of a specific author, period, genre, literary circle, or topic. Topics vary quite broadly and frequently contain interdisciplinary components; students may also request areas for study.
Prerequisite(s): Literature core
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ENG 418 The Study of Language
3 credits
An introduction to the phonology, morphology, lexicon, and syntax of English. Approaches include both an overview of the development of English from the perspective of historical linguistics and an analysis of English from the perspective of structural linguistics. Topics covered include the IPA phonetic system, Indo-European roots of English, borrowings into English, traditional and transformational grammar, and dialect. May not be taken if the student already received credit for ENG 318 .
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ENG 420 Senior Seminar
3 credits
Students engage in a semester-long research project while also acquiring some knowledge of advanced literary criticism and critical theory. Texts will vary depending on instructor. Must be taken if ENG 450 (Senior Thesis) is not chosen.
Prerequisite(s): Senior English major status
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ENG 440 Advanced Literary Theory
3 credits
Students engage in a semester-long research project while also acquiring some knowledge of advanced literary criticism and critical theory. Texts will vary depending on instructor. Must be taken if ENG 450 (Senior Thesis) is not chosen. May not be taken if the student already received credit for ENG 420 .
Prerequisite(s): Senior English major status
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ENG 450 Senior Thesis
3 credits
Students will write an independently chosen critical or creative thesis under the careful supervision of a faculty mentor. For critical theses, students will master all the phases of the research process, including the gathering of research from traditional and electronic bibliographical sources, standard systems of bibliographical citation, and organization of a developed and original argument. For creative theses, students will master all phases of the creative process, including drafting, work-shopping, and revising based on their faculty mentor’s feedback. This course may be taken twice for a total of six credits toward the degree if the student is completing both the English major and the Creative Writing minor.
Prerequisite(s): ENG Core. Students may only complete a creative thesis if they are on the major’s writing track or completing either track in the Writing Minor.
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ENG 470 Internship
3-12 credits
Academic study combined with work experience in the community at newspapers, radio and TV stations, public relations offices, and other media outlets requiring good communication skills.
Prerequisite(s): ENG 103, 203, or three writing-intensive courses
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ENG 480 Independent Study
1-6 credits
Special investigation of a selected literary topic. English majors only.
Prerequisite(s): Literature core
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HPE 201 Personal Training I
3 credits
This course will cover fitness goals and workouts, cardiovascular training equipment, free weight and fixed weight strength training equipment, basic American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and testing protocols including circumference measurements, skinfolds, and fitness evaluations and interpretation of charts in the classroom and LCCC Fitness Center. At the completion of the course, students will have the opportunity to test for certification as a Personal Trainer Level I through the ACSM organization through a computer implemented examination for a separate fee of $150.
Offered at Luzerne County Community College
Lecture: 3 hours
Prerequisite(s): HPE 128 or BIO 211
Active major in Health Science, Exercise Science specialization
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FA 103 Fundamentals of Drawing and Composition
3 credits
Fundamentals of Drawing & Composition is an introductory studio drawing course with emphasis on learning to see and developing basic drawing skills using various media by employing fundamental design and composition concepts. In addition to technical skills, an exploration of creative thinking, problem solving, and critical analysis will be studied. During the semester, students will explore different drawing techniques and media. Students will be encouraged to develop an expression of individual style.
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FA 124 Fundamentals of Painting
3 credits
This introductory studio course focuses on the basic techniques and materials of painting, employing a wide range of painting media and subject matter. Topics include basic color theory, materials, development of both representational and abstract approaches, and strategies for intuitive, individual response to subject matter and materials in directed assignments.
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FA 133 Fine Art Photography
3 credits
This course provides an introduction to the theory and application of photography as a fine art. Basic digital photographic skills and techniques are emphasized. Primary emphasis on the place of photography in art history, current art theory, and issues in photographic representation. This course requires the use of a laptop computer and appropriate software.
Pre-/Corequisite(s): FA 103 or FA 124
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FA 152 Ceramics I
3 credits
The intent of this course is to gain understanding and to recognize and appreciate the nature of clay and the processes used in working with the medium. The course will concentrate on the basic techniques of creating forms in clay through hand-building and the use of the wheel. Techniques of pinching, molding and slab will be employed to create a variety of projects. Students are expected to bring a sense of creativity and a level of enthusiasm that will compliment the technical skills that will be learned, and are required to use patience and an innate sense of design to produce objects that are sophisticated, neat, well thought and creative.
Pre-/Corequisite(s): FA 103 or FA 124
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FA 158 Sculpture I
3 credits
This course is an introduction to sculptural approaches in a variety of media including the traditional and experimental. The aim of this course is to enable students to explore sculptural processes through the body and space, considering visual aesthetics. Students will be required to produce a new body of work and to talk and write about it. Emphasis will be on the integration of studio practice and critical thought.
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FA 190 Printmaking
3 credits
Students will learn techniques of fine art printmaking, e.g. relief printing, monotype, intaglio, collagraph and collage. This course covers the distinctive nature of printmaking including: tools, inks, paper, plate preparation, registration, printing processes and qualities of prints e.g overlays, transparency, offset, and multiple images. The goal is for students to gain the skills and confidence to produce multiple images by hand printing and on a press while exploring personal visual expression. Hand printmaking techniques will engage the student with problem solving in drawing, design and color. Topics may include editions, suites and designation systems. Class sessions will comprise independent and collaborative printing and, lecture, demonstrations, discussion, and critique. Students will be introduced to the work of artists and the history/tradition of fine art prints.
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FA 203 Subjects and Symbols
3 credits
The arts are filled with obscure ideas, symbols and metaphors that can often be very difficult for the non-initiated to access or understand. This course will explore what is essentially the psychology of art itself, through the use of symbolism, metaphor and archetypes. Through the basic study of signs, or semiotics, students will develop an understanding of the meaning artists, and society, impart to the works themselves.
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FA 204 Beauty and Ugliness
3 credits
What is art? Why is some art considered beautiful? Or ugly? What are the criteria for judging art? This course will explore, and attempt to answer, these questions through the theories that define the arts, with close examination of specific works from both Western and non-Western cultures, from the ancient to contemporary eras.
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