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A study of basic principles, classroom practices, and curriculum trends in secondary school biology. Evaluating, selecting, and preparing materials for teaching biology. Laboratory methods for individual and group experiments and the organization of materials for classroom use. Technology assisted. Offered in conjunction with the Biology department. Planning, supervision, and guidance are provided jointly by the Biology and Education departments. Prerequisites: AED 301 and ED 402. 3 credits. Spring semester; day.
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Study of basic principles, classroom practices, and curriculum trends in secondary school chemistry. Evaluating, selecting, and preparing materials for teaching chemistry. Laboratory methods for individual and group experiments, and the organization of materials for classroom use. Technology assisted. Offered in conjunction with the Chemistry department. Planning, supervision, and guidance are provided jointly by the Chemistry and Education departments. Prerequisites: AED 301 and ED 402. 3 credits. Spring semester; day.
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This course begins with the declaration from the U.S. Constitution that: "All men are created equal." The struggle to live up tothis ideal has been a major preoccupation of American literature. In this course, we explore a wide variety of texts that focus on the experiences of racism, diversity, and the struggle for equality. Prerequisite: WRI 1100. 3 credits. Spring 2009.
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This course explores how male and female identity is constructed and represented in a wide variety of American texts. We explore the changing ideals of manhood and femininity in an attempt to uncover how these texts present both "acceptable" and marginalizedgender roles. Prerequisite: WRI 1100. 3 credits. Spring 2010.
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Is the American Dream a myth? From the optimism of Benjamin Franklin to present-day corporate greed, this course investigates various manifestations of the American search for freedom from poverty, self-sufficiency, and social mobility. Prerequisite: WRI 1100. 3 credits. Spring 2008.
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While the term "Manifest Destiny" was not officially coined until1845, the idea surrounding it has driven and haunted the American imagination from the early settlement days. This course surveys texts which exhibit the American Manifest Destiny tendency to see the nation's progress and development as ordained by God's providence. We also pay close attention to voices marginalized by the push of exploration, expansion, and exploitation. Prerequisite: WRI 1100 and AML 2110, 2120 or 2130. 3 credits. Fall 2009.
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This course surveys war literature from the colonial battles of King Philip's War to recent conflicts such as Vietnam. Special attention is paid to the writings of the Civil War in shaping the American Identity. Prerequisites: WRI 1100 and AML 2110, 2120, or 2130. 3 credits. Fall 2010.
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Perhaps nothing so typifies the American sense of identity as the love of nature and wide open spaces. Yet the U.S. is also undeniably a nation of go-getters, captivated by the fast pace of urban life and the promises of industrial capitalism. This course looks at the different constructions of the urban and rural experiences in American Literature and the ways both have defined our ideas of American identity. Prerequisites: WRI 1100 and AML 2110, 2120 or 2130. 3 credits. Fall 2008.
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The course surveys literature of the early republic, from the American Revolution in the late 18th century to the American Renaissance. Poems, pamphlets, novels, slave narratives, autobiographies, domestic fiction, travel narratives, and short stories are selected. Key writers may include Jefferson, Brockden Brown, Franklin, Lewis and Clark, Rowson, Foster, Equiano, Wheatley, Crevecouer, Audobon, Bartram, Apess, Child, Cooper, and Irving. Prerequisite: WRI 1100. 3 credits. Fall 2008.
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This course surveys arguably the richest period in American literary history, the American Renaissance (1830-65), which features Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Whitman, Douglass, Fuller, Stowe, and Jacobs. Key topics include slavery and race, gender, capitalist economy, literary treatments of religion, and the development of a distinctly American style. Prerequisite: WRI 1100. 3 credits. Fall 2009.
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