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Course Descriptions

Course descriptions are listed on the following pages, alphabetically and by course prefix. The four letter prefix identifies subject area and the three numbers that follow identify the particular course. The  numbers in parenthesis indicate the number of lecture and lab hours per week, assuming a typical 15-week semester.

The description of each course indicates its credit value which determines the tuition charge and the number of credits available toward the requirements for a degree.
 

 
 

Dance
  

  • DANC 291 - Dance Cooperative Education I

    (1,2) 3 Credits
    Cooperative Education Approval Form Required. See Department Co-op Coordinator.
    Cooperative Education is the integration of classroom study with specific planned periods of learning through employment to gain practical experience. The course utilizes a seminar approach with performance based activities and individual student objectives which are job related and employer evaluated.


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Diesel Technology
  

  • DSTC 101 - Principles of Diesel Engines

    (2,3) 3 Credits
    A study of construction nomenclature, the purpose of parts and principles of diesel engines. Laboratory work will encompass the disassembling, inspecting, assembling and testing of diesel engines. Emphasis will be placed on inspection of parts and failure analysis.


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  • DSTC 103 - Diesel Theory, Service & Maintenance

    (2,3) 3 Credits
    A study of diesel theory linked with a general coverage of maintenance procedures and practices develops a general understanding of the diesel engine. This course leads to the development of a proper periodic service procedure, including test and repairs. An emphasis will be placed on lube, cooling, intake and exhaust systems.


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  • DSTC 104 - Diesel Brake Systems

    (2,3) 3 Credits
    Air brake systems are covered, including the 121 system and air disc brakes. Laboratory practice develops the knowledge and understanding required to maintain or replace most braking systems.


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  • DSTC 201 - Diesel Starting & Electrical Systems

    (2,3) 3 Credits
    Provides instruction in basic electricity. The student learns how to use a voltmeter, ammeter and ohmmeter. Students study batteries and battery testing, diesel starters, starter switches and series parallel switches. This course also covers charging, lighting and engine safety control circuits. Skills in trouble-shooting the electrical system are developed with the use of modern testing equipment.


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  • DSTC 202 - Diesel Diagnosis

    (2,3) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): 22 credit hours in Diesel Technology.
    Provides instruction and practice in diesel engine tune-up and troubleshooting and procedures. Inspection of diesel engine parts and failure analysis. The student learns how to diagnose problems in the cooling, oil, exhaust, air brake and drive train systems.


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  • DSTC 207 - Transmissions & Clutches

    (2,3) 3 Credits
    Students receive classroom instruction and practical experience in servicing and replacing clutches, truck transmissions, Detroit Allison Automatics, drive shafts, power dividers and rear assemblies.


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  • DSTC 210 - Hydraulics

    (2,3) 3 Credits
    The study of basic hydraulics terms, symbols and circuits, including hydraulic pumps, valves, cylinders, oils, filters and accumulators. Students also become familiar with testing the hydraulic system.


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Early Childhood Education
  

  • ECHD 173 - Early Childhood Curriculum

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    This course focuses on the development of curriculum based on the needs of children 2-6 years old. Emphasis is placed on selecting and organizing equipment and materials that are basic to preschool programs. The process of planning in response to developmental levels of children will develop a personal file of teaching ideas, activities and resource aids. Opportunities will be provided for students to explore and construct materials, which will be used in their work with children.


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  • ECHD 181 - Child Growth and Development

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    This course studies human growth and development from conception through age 10, examining major theories as they relate to physical, cognitive, social and emotional growth.


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  • ECHD 183 - Math & Science for Young Children

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    This course identifies and classifies the major Mathematical and Science concepts and topics considered in teaching the young child. Emphasis is placed on planning Math and Science activities that encourage thinking, exploring, discovering and problem solving. Each concept is exemplified by hands-on experiences.


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  • ECHD 184 - Teaching Language Arts to Young Children

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    This course explores the development of language and ways in which parents and teachers can stimulate and encourage language development. Emphasis is placed on the young child’s expressions and the creation and use of materials and activities to stimulate listening, speaking, reading and writing skills in young children. This course addresses language arts issues from birth through age 10. This course is not intended for transfer. Offered in the fall semester.


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  • ECHD 185 - Infant and Toddler Programs

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): There are no prerequisites required for this course.
    This course presents an overview of the various theories of development from pre-birth through 36 months of age. Guidelines for developmental group care of children from infancy to thirty-six months of age will be explored in relation to appropriate care of young children in center or family-based childcare settings. Issues involving health, safety and nutrition, education and advocacy will be covered This course will provide perspective or current caregivers and administrators with practical applications for enhancing all areas of development in infants and toddlers. Offered in the spring semester.


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  • ECHD 194 - Music, Movement and Art for the Young Child

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    This course defines the stages of development in children’s creative abilities. Students will participate in and develop a collection of music, movement, and art activities appropriate for young children. Various teaching methods and techniques will be presented.


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  • ECHD 195 - Nutrition, Health & Safety for Preschool Children

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Health and safety are the primary concerns of parents and child care providers. The National Association for the Education of Young Child recommends that childcare professionals demonstrate competency in the 5 standards produced by the NAEYC. New Jersey State Department of Human Services requires education and training in health and safety for Group Teacher Certification. Nutrition, Health and Safety will meet the need stated by the core curriculum in the Early Childhood Education Program. Offered in the spring semester.


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  • ECHD 213 - Children’s Literature

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    This course is designed to provide students with a foundation in children’s literature and literacy processes and to develop and deepen students’ appreciation of children’s literature as a legitimate literary form by surveying the multifaceted world of children’s books. Throughout the course, concepts and strategies will be highlighted that help to cultivate children’s love of and response to literature. Children’s literature will be presented within the context of developing literacy and encouraging the integration of literature across the curriculum. The course addresses children’s literature issues from birth through age 10.


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  • ECHD 255 - Foundations of Early Childhood Education

    (3,1) 3 Credits
    This course examines the historical and philosophical foundations of Early Childhood Education, pre-school through third grade. Current trends in primary education will be reviewed and evaluated with a focus on the public school system. Issues affecting the role of the early childhood teacher, including an overview of the profession, classroom management, teaching strategies related to the growth and development of the primary aged child, planning and assessment will be explored.


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  • ECHD 280 - Field Experience in Multicultural ECE Settings

    (2,3) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ECHD 255 - Foundations of Early Childhood Education .
    This course provides opportunities for observation, analysis, and guided interaction within varied educational settings. Students are assigned to observe and perform specific teaching duties determined by the cooperating teacher in varied educational settings, elementary through high school. Psychological, philosophical and historic educational theories are analyzed in the light of current practices that students will observe, research or apply. Connections are made between the field experiences and 1) historical educational practices, 2) philosophically-based educational theories, and 3) psychologically-based educational practices. 30 hours of assigned field observation will be required over the course of the semester. Students must be available at least one morning per week.


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  • ECHD 290 - Early Childhood Education Cooperative Education

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Corequisite(s): Cooperative Education Approval Form Required. See Department Co-op Coordinator.
    Cooperative Education is the integration of classroom study with specific planned periods of learning through employment to gain practical experience. The course utilizes a seminar approach with performance based activities and individual student objectives which are job related and employer evaluated.


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Economics
  

  • ECON 101 - Macroeconomics

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Macroeconomics examines how all of the players in a market fit together into a complete economy.  Students will investigate the foundations of economic theory to determine ways to correct various economic problems.  Issues such as unemployment, economic growth and resource allocation are also examined.


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  • ECON 101H - Macroeconomics - Honors

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): GPA of 3.5 or permission of instructor.
    This course introduces students to the foundations of economic theory and will cover issues such as unemployment, economic growth, and inflation. This Honors course, however, will also examine such topics as the macroeconomic effects of international trade in more detail than the regular course. Moreover, it will look into the cutting edge idea that continual economic growth might not only be unfeasible, but also intrinsically undesirable; that is, the class will examine the possibilities for stopping economic growth and at the same time improving material well-being even by conventional standards.


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  • ECON 102 - Microeconomics

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ECON 101 - Macroeconomics .
    Microeconomics investigates the economy from the perspective of individual players in the market. Individual consumer behavior is examined to determine how individual demand decisions are made. Business behavior is examined to determine how individual decisions are made under various market structures. The course also explores the issues of marginal analysis, elasticity of demand, profit maximization and cost analysis. Extensive use of graphs to analyze various issues should be expected.


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  • ECON 210 - Money and Banking

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ECON 101 - Macroeconomics .
    This course explores the practical aspects of money and banking within the economy.  Emphasis is given to the changing role of financial institutions as well as new financial instruments.  Topics will include money creation, the Federal Reserve, economic stabilization using monetary and fiscal policy as well as the creation of different international monetary systems and their impact on the global economy.


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Education
  

  • EDUC 112 - Classroom Management

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    This course will present an array of decision-making options that guide educators in thinking about how to approach particular classroom management situations and choose from a range of options designed to prevent, cope with, and solve a variety of problems. Attention will be provided to management issues in the three central areas of: 1)room and materials, 2) curriculum, and 3) student behavior. A variety of theoretical perspectives, each supported with cases taken from actual classrooms, give students many choices in how to handle issues that may arise in their own classrooms.


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  • EDUC 230 - Education Field Experience

    (2,3) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): EDUC 212 - Foundations of Education .
    This course provides opportunities for the observation, analysis, and guided interaction of the teaching/learning experience within middle and/or secondary educational settings. Students are assigned to observe and perform specific teaching duties within a variety of public school settings. Psychological, philosophical and historic educational theories are analyzed in light of current best practices as they occur in contemporary classrooms. Students are required to complete 30 hours of assigned field observation over the course of the semester.


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Emergency Services
  

  • FIRE 101 - Introduction to Emergency Services

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    This course provides an overview to fire protection and emergency services; career opportunities in fire protection and related fields; culture and history of emergency services; fire loss analysis; organization and function of public and private fire protection services; fire departments as part of local government; laws and regulations affecting the fire service; fire service nomenclature; specific fire protection functions; basic fire chemistry and physics; introduction to fire protection systems; introduction to fire strategy and tactics; life safety initiatives. This course will be taught at the Somerset County Emergency Services Training Academy.


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  • FIRE 102 - Principles of Fire Prevention

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    This course provides fundamental information regarding the history and philosophy of fire prevention, organization and operation of a fire prevention bureau, use of fire codes, identification and correction of fire hazards, and the relationships of fire prevention with built-in fire protection systems, fire investigation, and fire and life-safety education. This course will be taught at the Somerset County Emergency Services Training Academy.


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  • FIRE 104 - Fire Officer I

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): FIRE 101 - Introduction to Emergency Services .
    The Fire Officer Series is designed to build the skills necessary to be an effective fire service leader. The Fire Officer I course is the first course in the series and is designed for firefighters who aspire to the position of company officer. The course is designed to meet the educational and time requirements of NFPA1021, Standard for Fire Officer Professional Qualifications, 2003 Edition, for Fire Officer I and N.J.A.C. 5:73-8.2. Qualifications for Fire Officer I. Students who successfully complete the course may be eligible to take the NJ State Fire Officer I certification test. This course will be taught at the Somerset County Emergency Services Training Academy.


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  • FIRE 105 - Fire Officer II

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): FIRE 104 - Fire Officer I .
    The Fire Officer Series is designed to build the skills necessary to be an effective fire service leader. The Fire Officer II program builds upon the concepts presented in the Fire Officer I program. The Fire Officer II program is designed to build the leadership skills of the company officer involved in administrative and operational issues at the company and/or organizational level. The course is designed to meet the educational and time requirements of NFPA 1021, Standard for Fire Officer Professional Qualifications, 2003 Edition, for Fire Officer II and N.J. A.C. 5:73- 8.2 for Fire Officer II. Students who successfully complete the course may be eligible to take the NJ State Fire Officer II certification test. This course will be taught at the Somerset County Emergency Services Training Academy.


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  • FIRE 201 - Building Construction for Fire Prevention

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): FIRE 101 - Introduction to Emergency Services .
    This course provides the components of building construction that relate to fire and life safety. The focus of this course is on firefighter safety. The elements of construction and design of structures are shown to be key factors when inspecting buildings, preplanning fire operations, and operating at emergencies. This course will be taught at the Somerset County Emergency Services Training Academy.


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Engineering
  

  • ENGR 105 - Introduction to Engineering

    (2,0) 1 Credit
    This course is designed to help students to develop skills as: communication, time management, group work. Lectures are supported by films and guest speakers to expose students to different engineering disciplines and functions. Students will be introduced to all campus resources and services.


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  • ENGR 107 - Engineering Graphics

    (1,3) 2 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): MATH 030 - Intermediate Algebra  and High School Geometry.
    This course is a basic introduction to the techniques of engineering graphics designed to develop an ability to visualize, analyze, and understand engineering drawings and designs, and to develop skill and accuracy in producing drawings. The application of computer graphics using AutoCAD will be an integrated part of the course.


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  • ENGR 108 - Introduction to Computing for Engineers and Scientists

    (2,2) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): MATH 112 - Precalculus I  , or equivalent.
    This is a one semester course intended to introduce engineering and science majors to the main features of MATLAB and its application to engineering and scientific problem-solving. Topics include an introduction to programming in MATLAB, including matrix operations, functions, arrays, loops and structures, working with data files and plotting. Students can apply this knowledge to learning other programming languages, such as C, Object-Oriented Programming, Fortran, BASIC and Pascal. The Honors Option is available for this course. Offered in the spring semester.


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  • ENGR 111 - Introduction to Circuit Analysis

    (3,2) 4 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): PHYS 151 - Engineering Physics II  and MATH 152 - Calculus II .
    This is an introductory course in circuit theory for engineering majors. It includes introduction to DC and AC electrical principles with stress on different circuit analysis methods. Use of Ohm’s law, Kirchoff’s laws, network theorems for resistive, capacitive and inductive networks - Phasors and Phasor diagrams for AC circuits introduced with real and reactive power and maximum power transfer studies with application to Single and Three Phase circuits and Ideal transformers. Appropriate experiments are run concurrently with lectures. Offered in the spring semester.


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  • ENGR 201 - Introduction to Materials Science and Engineering

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Corequisite(s): CHEM 104 - General Chemistry II 
    This course introduces the student to theory and application of engineering materials. Topics explore the relations between the properties, microstructure, and behavior during use of metals, polymers, ceramics, and composite materials. Useful applications and limitations of those materials are presented, and means of modifying their properties are discussed.


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Engineering Technology
  

  • ENTC 110 - Electricity and Robotics

    (2,2) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): MATH 030 - Intermediate Algebra .
    Corequisite(s): CISY 102 - Computer Literacy .
    This course teaches the fundamentals of electricity, electric control, and introduces the student to robot operations and programming. Topics in electricity include AC and DC, basic circuit analysis, inductance and capacitance, Ohm’s Law, Kirchoff’s Laws, power, ideal transformers, basic control logic and ladder diagrams. A laboratory scale industrial robot is used to teach robot operations, robot programming and the design of robotic applications. Subject matter is presented in both a lecture and laboratory environment.


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  • ENTC 111 - CAD/CAM Processes

    (3,3) 4 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): MATH 030 - Intermediate Algebra .
    Corequisite(s): CISY 102 - Computer Literacy .
    This course covers fundamentals of computer aided drafting (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM). Subjects to covered will be technical drawing, multi-views, electrical and pneumatic schematics, sections, isometrics, introduction to 3D, and facilities layout (architectural plans). AutoCAD 2000 or higher will be used. The student will progress from CAD to CAM-Mill processing. Fabrication techniques will be demonstrated on a laboratory CNC milling machine. This course will provide the student with an understanding of the manufacturing process from concept through design, to the end product.


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English
  

  • ENGL 050 - Introduction to College Reading and Composition I

    (6,0) 6 Non-Credits
    Prerequisite(s): Appropriate score on placement test.
    Reading and Composition I is an intensive developmental course designed to provide students with the foundations needed for academic reading and writing.  In this integrated reading and writing course students develop a range of strategies for reading different kinds of texts and will practice the stages of the writing process with special attention given to paragraph organization and sentence structure. This six-credit class meets for six hours each week: three hours in a traditional classroom and three hours in a computer lab.
     


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  • ENGL 060 - Introduction to College Reading and Composition II

    (4,0) 4 Non-Credits
    Prerequisite(s): Grade of C in ENGL 050 - Introduction to College Reading and Composition I  or appropriate score on placement test.
    Introduction to College Reading and Composition II is an intensive developmental course designed to provide students with the foundations needed for academic reading and writing.  In this integrated reading and writing course students continue to develop a range of more advanced strategies for reading different kinds of texts and will practice the stages of the writing process with special attention given to essay organization and sentence structure.  This four-credit class meets for four hours each week: two hours in a traditional classroom and two hours in a computer lab. This four credit class meets for four hours each week: two hours in a traditional classroom and two hours in a computer lab.


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  • ENGL 070 - English Composition I Workshop

    (3,0) 3 Non-Credits
    Prerequisite(s): Grade of B in ENGL 050 - Introduction to College Reading and Composition I  or ENGL 060 - Introduction to College Reading and Composition II  or appropriate score on placement test.
    Corequisite(s): Each section of this course is linked to a single section of ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    Each section of this course is linked to a single section of English 111.  English Composition I Workshop is linked to English Composition I and is designed to enhance that course for students who need support in reading/writing. It takes place in a word processing lab where students are coached in structured ways to use the computer as a tool to improve reading and writing skills with an emphasis on process. The combined English Composition I and English Composition I Workshop sections allow students to work on English Composition I reading and writing assignments in a way that is paced, encourages full comprehension of the reading, and provides guidance during revision.


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  • ENGL 111H - English Composition I Honors: Composition & Controversy

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): Minimum requrements for   placement, minimum grade-point average of 3.5 from high school or previous college, and/or permission of the instructor.
    Like all sections of English Composition I, English Composition I Honors focuses on the development of greater fluency and greater control of language and the conventions of grammar and mechanics. The emphasis is on argumentative essays, critical analysis, and analytical integration of readings. A research paper is required. This Honors level course also emphasizes complex and controversial issues as vehicles for writing argumentatively and persuasively. The course focuses on an understanding of opposing points of view, the critical analysis of those views, and the development of persuasive responses to them.


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  • ENGL 112 - English Composition II

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s):   .
    English Composition II is the second in a two-course composition sequence that continues to expand and refine analytical writing and critical reading skills. Students produce a series of documented essays based on a range of fiction and non-fiction sources, focusing on the challenges posed by writing longer essays and using advanced research techniques.


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  • ENGL 112H - English Composition II Honors: Text & Analysis

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): A grade of A in ENGL 111 - English Composition I  with a minimum GPA of 3.5 or permission of the instructor.
    English Composition II Honors is a second-semester composition course that continues to refine the writing skills learned in English Composition I, including fluency, coherence, organization, and control of grammar and mechanics. The course focuses on analysis and synthesis of texts, finer points of writing style, and responsible researching skills. Students write a series of documented essays in comparative, analytical, and persuasive modes. A variety of texts serves as the springboard for written and oral analysis as students continue to strengthen and refine their analytical skills through careful examination of readings.


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  • ENGL 201 - Introduction to Literature

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    Introduction to Literature examines selected essays and works of poetry, fiction, and drama in ways that encourage more in-depth analytical and critical reading skills. Open to majors and nonmajors, the course is designed for students who desire an introduction to literary study. The course encourages students to utilize careful textual analysis, to explore thematic connections among and between texts, and to recognize and apply literary terminology in class discussions, papers and examinations.


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  • ENGL 202 - Introduction to Literary Theory and Criticism

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    This course introduces students to the theoretical foundation for much of contemporary literary and cultural studies. Throughout the course students will apply literary theory to a wide variety of literary texts. In order to understand the ways that literary theory is informed by the disciplines of history, psychology, and philosophy, students will study major critical approaches such as Structuralism, Postmodernism, Ethnic and Race Studies, Psychological Criticism, New Historicism, and Gender Studies. The course is recommended for students who are considering becoming English majors and for all students who want to know more about literary interpretation.


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  • ENGL 205 - Language, Mind and Society

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    Language, Mind, and Society introduces students to the field of linguistics, which is the study of language and how people use it. The course is organized around four topics: spoken language (conversations, gender differences in speech habits, children’s talk), written language (the history of writing and our alphabet, how we read), the varieties of English (the history of English, English dialects, language and prejudice), and language theory (the structure of language, the nature of meaning). Students record and analyze examples of everyday language.


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  • ENGL 206 - Law & Literature

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    This course will examine attitudes towards the law, legal authority, and legal representatives in selected works of poetry, fiction, and drama from various cultures. The course highlights literary depictions of legal themes and legal personae, examining how various authors employ literature to validate, question, censure and/or criticize aspects of the law and the role of legal figures. The course promotes a thoughtful examination of why authors use legal themes as a vehicle for expression.


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  • ENGL 207 - Global Patterns of Racism

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    This team-taught course draws on texts in the social sciences, in history, and literature to survey the causes and manifestations of racism in diverse cultures, as well as proactive responses to it. The course will focus on racism in western and nonwestern cultures. Case studies will include – but not be limited to – European colonialism, slavery, social Darwinism and eugenics, apartheid and segregation, anti-Semitism, and contemporary conflicts like Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. This course satisfies general education requirements in humanities, literature, or social sciences. It cannot be used as the sole social science course in a degree program that has only one social science course requirement.


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  • ENGL 211 - Masterpieces of Early World Literature

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    In this literature course the class reads early works from East Asia, India, the ancient Near East, and classical Greece. The emphasis is on understanding the philosophical and cultural context in which the literary works are embedded. Students encounter and examine world views and values quite different from those commonly held in the United States today. Among the topics discussed are mythology, religion, and the nature of the hero.


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  • ENGL 212 - World Literature Since the Renaissance

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    Students in World Literature Since the Renaissance read representative works of great literature from the Romantic period to the present in the forms of novels, poems, and plays from around the world. Authors come from Europe, the Americas, India, Russia, and Africa. The class may confront such questions as the following: What is the relationship between literature and history? What is the role of the individual in a world with shifting beliefs in God or the gods? In addition, the class may examine the possible biases that make us unable (or less able) to appreciate literature from cultures not our own.


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  • ENGL 212H - World Literature since the Renaissance - Honors

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 English Composition I  and a minimum G.P.A. of 3.5, or permission of the instructor.
    Like the regular section of “World Literature since the Renaissance,” this course examines major works of world literature, including novels, poems and plays, from the seventeenth century through the present and explores significant time periods and diverse cultures from around the world.  The course is interdisciplinary, connecting primary texts to literary movements, historical events, sociological issues, and biographical information.  The Honors version of this course requires more in-depth and independent interdisciplinary research, highlighting the relationship of literature to other disciplines.  The research project encourages students to form their own vision of global diversity and cultural integration as a frame for this interdisciplinary, independent scholarship.  The analysis of primary texts, together with secondary source material and shared research projects, will foster intensive intellectual discussion, a deeper interpretation of assigned texts, and appreciation for the nuances of scholarly writing and interdisciplinary synthesis. 


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  • ENGL 213 - Autobiography

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    This course will define a genre of writing known as autobiography and highlight the ways in which writers have infused their work with an autobiographical perspective, both acknowledged or less directly stated. The approach will be interdisciplinary, uniting literary study with historical and cultural perspectives that will foster an appreciation for the ways in which an author’s life, time period, and culture are integrated with her or his writing. Authors as diverse as Yukio Mishima, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Maxine Hong Kingston and James Baldwin will be examined. The course will feature readings from fiction, nonfiction, poetry and drama.


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  • ENGL 214 - Race in American Literature and Popular Culture

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    This course examines the social construction of race in the U.S. through the lens of American literature and popular culture. It focuses on key moments in American history, from pre-colonial America to the present, to explore how racial categories have been created and re-created. Students will analyze the evolution of these racial categories, like white, black, Asian, Latino, and Native American, while exploring how racial groups are pitted against each other and how categories like gender, class, and sexuality intersect with race. Readings from a range of disciplines will provide students with the historical and social context necessary to analyze cultural texts, like novels, short stories, advertisements, films, political cartoons, TV shows, songs, and speeches.


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  • ENGL 221 - American Literature: Colonial through the Civil War

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    This course examines the diverse literature of early America, such as Native American literature, the literature of exploration and settlement, slave narratives, abolitionist and suffrage literature, Enlightenment writing, Transcendentalist writing, and Gothic literature. Authors may include Anne Bradstreet, Washington Irving, Mary Rowlandson, Jonathan Edwards, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Edgar Allan Poe, Thomas Jefferson, Harriet Jacobs, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Thoreau, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, and Emily Dickinson. Students consider such issues as class, race, religion, and gender through the texts. The Honors Option is available for this course.


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  • ENGL 221H - American Literature: Colonial through the Civil War - Honors

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): GPA of 3.5 or permission of instructor.
    The influence of the earliest American writers evident in modern attitudes toward everything from the environment to Medicare. This course draws lines from the first days of our country to the pages of today’s newspaper. The approach is interdisciplinary, with readings in history and culture augmenting more traditional literature and criticism. Students read classic American writers such as Emerson, Douglass and Dickinson, as well as explorers, soldiers, homemakers, slaves, and politicians. Students examine Puritan commentaries on the Salem witch trials, then look at the trials from the perspectives of history and psychology. Hawthorne’s “Scarlet Letter” is examined through the lens of contemporary critical approaches, including feminist criticism, reader-response criticism, and deconstruction.


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  • ENGL 222 - American Literature: Post Civil War to the Present

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    American Literature: Post Civil War to the Present begins with the writers of the late 19th century and ends with contemporary literature. Writers may include Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Stephen Crane, W.E.B. DuBois, Charlotte Perkins Gillman, Kate Chopin, Ernest Hemingway, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, Arthur Miller, Robert Frost, William Faulkner, Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Sylvia Plath, Allen Ginsberg, Raymond Carver, and Toni Morrison. Students study contemporary American issues as they read about social rebellion and social conformity, about the dilemmas that women have faced and those that men have experienced, about the struggles of African Americans against racism, and about changes over the last century in private relationships and the family.


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  • ENGL 222H - American Literature: Post Civil War to the Present - Honors

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I  and a minimum GPA of 3.5 or permission of the instructor.
    Like the regular section of the course, American Literature: Post Civil War to the Present Honors begins with the writers of the late 19th century and ends with contemporary literature. Students study contemporary American issues as they read about social rebellion and social conformity, about the dilemmas that women have faced and those that men have experienced, about the struggles of African Americans against racism, and about changes over the last century in private relationships and the family. In contrast to the regular section of the course, Honors students construct their own cross-disciplinary research projects drawing on a variety of texts including, but not limited to, literature, the print media, music, art, architecture, and film.


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  • ENGL 223 - Ethnic Writers in America

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    This course explores the connections between ethnic identity, literature, and culture in the United States. Focus will be representation of life stories and cultural experiences by writers from selected and differing ethnic communities and pasts, including literature by members of “old” and “new” ethnic groups in the United States: African Americans, Asian Americans, Native Americans, Latinos/as, white ethnics and others. Students will be defining this genre of writing, looking at themes such as the following: ethnic and racial stereotypes; ethnicity and gender; assimilation versus cultural heritage and memory; “translating” experiences into a new culture and language; responses to myths about immigration and other national narratives such as the American Dream.


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  • ENGL 224 - The Short Story

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    The course traces the evolution of the short story, from ancient roots in oral narratives, myths, legends, folk and fairy tales, but focuses primarily on its modern form, as expressed by writers of diverse cultures. Writers such as Nikolai Gogol, Anton Chekov, Katherine Mansfield, James Baldwin, Ernest Hemingway, Raymond Carver, Bobbie Ann Mason, Yukio Mishima, and Bernard Malamud may be featured. Students analyze and write about the works and explore the basic components of the genre.


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  • ENGL 226 - Introduction to Poetry

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    This course will help students to understand both the craft and the art of poetry; how poems are made and why they are valuable. Texts will range from ancient Eastern scriptures to the newest work of young American poets, from limericks to epics, from song lyrics to verse drama. The focus, however, will always be on language, form, and meaning. Students can expect, therefore, to gain not only a knowledge of the nature, history, and variety of poetry but also greater skill, insight, and pleasure as readers, writers and thinkers.


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  • ENGL 227 - Science Fiction

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    This course is a survey of the science fiction genre from literary and theoretical points of view. The course will draw on stories, novels and films that call special attention to science fiction’s concern with such social phenomena as overpopulation, pollution, increased technology, and mind control.


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  • ENGL 228 - Psychology & Literature

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I  and PSYC 103 - Introduction to Psychology  or permission of instructors.
    Psychology and Literature is a team-taught course that examines novels, plays, short stories, fairy tales and poems through the lens of psychology. Works by authors such as William Shakespeare, Arthur Miller, Fyodor Dostoevsky and J.D. Salinger may be studied from the perspectives of psychologists such as Sigmund Freud, B.F. Skinner, Erik Erikson, Carl Rogers and Carol Gilligan. This course is taught by two instructors (one from Psychology and one from English) and may be taken for either Psychology or English credit, but not both.


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  • ENGL 231 - African-American Literature

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    African American Literature surveys the literature of African Americans from Colonial times through the present including the Colonial Period, the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Aesthetics, and the Neo-Realism movement. In order to understand the oral and written traditions, students read a variety of types of texts such as folktales, spirituals, short stories and novels. Students also read contemporary literary criticism by African American and non- African American theorists.


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  • ENGL 233 - Shakespeare

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    This course is a study of the works of Shakespeare through reading in a selection of history, comedy, tragedy and problem plays as well as selected minor works. In addition to the literary aspects of the plays, students study the staging conventions of Elizabethan England and explore the social and historical context in which the plays were written and first performed.


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  • ENGL 233H - Shakespeare - Honors

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): GPA of 3.5 or permission of instructor.
    In spite of the unprecedented degree and rate of change in our times, Shakespeare provides modern readers across the globe a universal touchstone of constancy. We recognize his models of human contrariness; we identify with the power of pathos and magic and madness of characters both centuries old and contemporary. The unifying focus of the course is on the characteristics that make Shakespeare’s language such an effective and enduring medium of meaning. Students use diverse critical perspectives as they read a variety of Shakespeare’s texts, including selected sonnets; representative tragic, comic, and historical plays; and the often-neglected “problem plays”- “Measure for Measure”, and “Troilus and Cressida”. Students may also view one or more performances of plays and do an in-depth study of any additional play using online research.


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  • ENGL 234 - The Literature of Comedy

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    A study of the nature and value of comic forms and traditions, from basic elements such as puns and jokes to significant works of comic vision in literature, the arts, and popular culture. The course will consider, for example, the differences between verbal and visual comedy, such as Groucho and Harpo. The course will nourish a broader, deeper, subtler awareness of the ways in which comedy expresses and sustains the human spirit.


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  • ENGL 235 - English Literature: Middle Ages through the 18th Century

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    A chronological study of English literature through the 18th century including authors such as Chaucer, Kempe, More, Shakespeare, Donne, Montagu, Swift and Behn. Students will examine the authors’ ideas and the development of literary forms in a historical context. Religion, politics, gender roles, science and philosophy are discussed in terms of their impact on these writers. The Honors Option is available for this course.


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  • ENGL 236 - English Literature: Romantic Period to the Present

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    A chronological study of English literature since the 18th century including authors such as Keats, Austen, Yeats, Woolf, Joyce, and Lessing. Students will examine the authors’ ideas and the development of literary forms in a historical context involving Darwinism, Industrialism, women’s issues, and World Wars I and II.


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  • ENGL 237 - Shakespeare on Page and Screen

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    Shakespeare on the Page and on the Screen is an interdisciplinary, team-taught course that studies plays of William Shakespeare from both literary and cinematic perspectives. Students will read selected comedies, tragedies, and histories by Shakespeare in conjunction with exemplary film versions of these plays, both classic (by directors like Laurence Olivier and Orson Welles) and recent (by directors like Kenneth Branagh and Trevor Nunn). The themes explored in this course include: poetic language and cinematic language, Shakespearean imagery on the page and on the screen, and Shakespeare in a modern, multicultural context. Students who complete this course will have a fuller understanding and appreciation of Shakespeare’s plays and the medium that most frequently delivers him to audiences today. Students may take this course for credit in English or Film Studies. Students who take this course for credit in English cannot also get credit for ENGL-233.


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  • ENGL 247 - Rhetoric and Writing Studies

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    The course looks at the way language works in different contexts, for different purposes, and from diverse disciplinary perspectives. Historically, rhetoric was considered to be the foundation on which critical thinking, effective communication, and self-knowledge was built. In contemporary rhetoric, culture and media are part of this foundation. This course will explore primary texts in the form of literature, film, scientific discourse, journalism, political propaganda as well as secondary sources within the disciplines of rhetoric and writing studies. The course serves students interested in English, education, journalism, communications, film studies, and other liberal arts and social science programs of study.


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  • ENGL 248H - Creative Writing I - Honors

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): GPA of 3.5 or permission of instructor.
    Designed for students who have a genuine interest in developing their imaginative writing abilities in both fiction and poetry, this course will be conducted as a workshop whose primary purpose is to evaluate student manuscripts. Class time will, in addition, be spent discussing the techniques and sensibilities of various contemporary poets and fiction writers. Students will be expected to distinguish between sentiment and sentimentality, between popular and “literary” fiction, between poetry and light verse, between “raw” experience and experience which has been artistically transformed. Thirty pages of fiction, 15 full pages of poetry (or some combination of the two) and a 3-5 page analytical paper will comprise the minimum writing requirements for the course.


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  • ENGL 250 - Technical Writing and Communication

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    Technical Writing and Communication is designed for students majoring in science, engineering, or other technical fields. The course will provide students with an overview of the technical writing and communication field and students will complete assignments that reflect the kinds of writing tasks they will be expected to perform in their fields.


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  • ENGL 259 - History and Literature of the Vietnam War

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    This interdisciplinary course will examine both the history and the literature of the Vietnam War. It explores both the antecedents of the war, in terms of European colonialism, Vietnamese nationalism, and American foreign policy, as well as pivotal moments such as the gulf of Tonkin Resolution of 1964 and the Tet Offensive of 1968. It will study the history of the war, the literature born out of this war and the relationships between this literature and this conflict. Finally, it will consider the war’s legacy: its consequences and lessons, and the relevance of this legacy today. Students may take this course for credit in English or History.


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  • ENGL 262 - Drama

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    A study of forms and types of dramatic expression through reading plays, viewing films, and listening to recorded plays, the course encourages students to explore types of dramatic expression from works performed in ancient Greece through those performed in modern New York City. In addition to the literary aspects of plays, students also learn about the historical development of the theatre.


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  • ENGL 263 - Business Writing and Management Communications

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    Business Writing and Management Communication skills are vital to career success. This course provides Business Writing instruction with a public speaking component. Students work in teams to prepare formal consulting reports on global communication solutions for multi-national corporations. The course features lessons in professional writing, such as resumes, business letters, memos, proposals and short and long reports; career development exercises; oral presentations; and international/cross-cultural business communication activities.


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  • ENGL 281 - The Modern Novel

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    The course traces the evolution of the novel from the late nineteenth century to the present focusing on its response to modernity, especially in terms of changing social conditions caused by modern technology and new notions of the mind, time and language. Writers such as Joseph Conrad, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, and Toni Morrison may be featured. Students analyze and write about the works and explore the basic components of the genre.


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  • ENGL 282 - The Victorian Novel

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    This course will examine the evolution and scope of the Victorian novel, from its literary antecedents in the late eighteenth/early nineteenth centuries, to its successors in the modern era. It will progress from a study of what makes a novel quintessentially “Victorian” into an examination of the ways in which various authors utilize Victorian attitudes and sensibilities to enhance a particular theme or ideology, criticize a prevailing belief or precept, and/or convey a cautionary warning.


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  • ENGL 290 - Women in Literature

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    This course explores how women’s roles have been traditionally defined in literature and how writers have questioned, resisted, and/or subverted these traditional notions of gender and sexuality. Assigned texts may include novels, memoirs, poetry, and film, from a variety of cultural and historical contexts. The course will analyze themes such as voice, identity, empowerment, family, violence, the body, and the intersections between gender, race, class, and sexual orientation.


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  • ENGL 291 - Masculinity in Literature

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    This course explores literature that has questioned, resisted, and/or subverted traditional notions of masculinity. Assigned texts may include novels, memoirs, poetry, film, and studies of historical/cultural contexts. The course will analyze themes such as identity, independence, competition, violence, and the intersections between gender, race, class, and sexual orientation.


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  • ENGL 299 - Special Topics in Literature

    (3,0) 3 Credits
    Prerequisite(s): ENGL 111 - English Composition I .
    The course provides an opportunity for specialized literary study of different topics from semester to semester. Special Topics in Literature may be a certain literary theme, a time period, a genre, a single author or group of authors, specific regional or national literature, or other topics defined by the current instructor. The course is a literature elective. Students should refer to the English Department’s Elective Course Description each semester to determine that semester’s special topic.


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  • ESLS 001 - Preparation for English Language Studies

    (6,0) 6 Non-Credits
    Prerequisite(s): Pre-level 1 score on the placement test.
    This course is an introduction to English language studies and presents rudimentary English grammar, its structures and rules of use, as well as basic English speaking, listening, reading and writing skills. Students will practice English language in a variety of contexts through controlled and communicative activities leading to increased fluency. This course is intended for students who are not native speakers of English and who have little or no formal experience with English language and who receive a “pre- Level I” score on the ACT/Compass ESL Placement Test. For billing purposes, this course is considered 6 credits. Credit for this course does not apply to credit hours earned, grade point average, or graduation requirements.


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  • ESLS 023 - Academic English Reading and Writing I

    (6,0) 6 Non-Credits
    Prerequisite(s): Placement test score within the designated range or successful completion of ESLS 022 - Introduction to ESLS II .
    Academic English Reading and Writing Level I is the first of a five-part series of ESL courses designed to prepare students for reading and writing at the college level. The course emphasizes the use of academic vocabulary use in writing and the development of academic reading skills such as learning vocabulary in context and critical thinking, dictionary use and basic information technology. Students at Level I write simple descriptive, expository, and argumentative paragraphs with focus on sentence level accuracy, parts of speech, the development of topic sentences, and standard punctuation. Level I students practice reading both intensively for analysis and extensively at a high beginning level. Credit for this course does not apply to credit hours earned, grade point average, or graduation requirements.


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  • ESLS 024 - Academic English Reading and Writing II

    (6,0) 6 Non-Credits
    Prerequisite(s): Placement test score within the designated range for this course or successful completion of ESLS 023 - Academic English Reading and Writing I .
    Academic English Reading and Writing Level II is the second in a five-part series of ESL courses designed to prepare students fro reading and writing at the college level. Reading and writing are taught as related processes, and the course emphasizes vocabulary development, dictionary use, critical thinking, and information technology. Students at Level II read both intensively for analysis to develop vocabulary and other focused reading skills and extensively for comprehension and analysis. Credit for this course does not apply to credit hours earned, grade point average, or graduation requirements.


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  • ESLS 025 - Academic English Reading and Writing III

    (6,0) 6 Non-Credits
    Prerequisite(s): Placement test score within the designated range for this course or successful completion of ESLS 024 - Academic English Reading and Writing II .
    Academic English Reading and Writing Level III is the third in a five-part series of ESL courses designed to prepare students for reading and writing at the college level. Reading and writing are taught as related processes, and the course emphasizes vocabulary development, dictionary use, critical thinking, and information technology. Students at Level III write essays of three paragraphs in various genres. In addition, students at Level III read both intensively for comprehension and analysis. Credit for this course does not apply to credit hours earned, grade point average, or graduation requirements.


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  • ESLS 026 - Academic English Reading and Writing IV

    (6,0) 6 Non-Credits
    Prerequisite(s): Placement test score within the designated range for this course or successful completion of ESLS 025 - Academic English Reading and Writing III .
    Academic English Reading and Writing Level IV is the fourth in a five-part series of ESL courses designed to prepare students for reading and writing at the college level. Reading and writing are taught as related processes, and the course emphasizes vocabulary development, dictionary use, critical thinking, and information technology. Students at Level IV write essays of four paragraphs in various genres. In addition, students at Level IV read both intensively for analysis to develop vocabulary and other focused reading skills and extensively for comprehension and analysis. Credit for this course does not apply to credit hours earned, grade point average, or graduation requirements.


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  • ESLS 033 - Academic English Grammar I

    (3,0) 3 Non-Credits
    Prerequisite(s): Placement test score within the designated range or successful completion of ESLS 022 - Introduction to ESLS II .
    This course presents intermediate-level English grammar, its structure and rules of use. Students will practice English grammar in a variety of academic contexts through controlled, communicative activities and short writings that oblige students to use the desired structures. Credit for this course does not apply to credit hours earned, grade point average, or graduation requirements.


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