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3.00 Credits
This course explores the African American literary tradition from its beginnings in the 18th century to the present day. Students cover a variety of genres, periods, and topics, including the slave narrative, local color and regionalist fiction, the Harlem Renaissance, and the Black Arts movement. Along the way, they consider recurring aesthetic and political questions that continue to shape African American writing. Representative writers include Frederick Douglass, Phillis Wheatley, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Toni Morrison. 3 semester hours
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Students examine significant figures and movements in American poetry written after 1945, including work from the Fugitives, the Beats, the Black Mountain School, African- American writers, the New York School, and others. Writers covered include Robert Creeley, Rita Dove, Denise Levertov, Allen Ginsberg, Frank O'Hara, and Adrienne Rich. The course provides a strong introduction to developments in American poetry over the last 50 years. Satisfies one post-1800 literature requirement for the English major. 3 semester hours
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Astudy of the eclectic manifestations, literary and philosophical, in American letters from 1914 to the present. Writers studied range from O'Neill, Hemingway, and Eliot to Plath, Baldwin, and Ginsberg. Satisfies one post-1800 literature requirement for the English major. 3 semester hours
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An in-depth study of the career of a single author, or the careers of a small group of authors, writing after 1800, with emphasis on selected works and their literary, political, social, and biographical contexts. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
Students work six to eight hours a week in communications offices (advertising agency, newspaper, radio, television, etc.) to acquire practical experience under supervision of professionals in the field; students attend a seminar once a week to exchange expertise, and write a final report on their experiences. Students should consult with the instructor before the beginning of the semester. 3 semester hours
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Offered in the fall semester only. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
Independent English study and research: individual investigation of a problem in literature or a closely related topic may be arranged by a student and professor. May be taken no more than once as part of the English major. A cumulative grade-point average of 3.25 is required. 3 semester hours
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3.00 Credits
Independent research with a faculty member on a topic of mutual interest. Credit is granted only to students who function as unpaid undergraduate research assistants, working with a faculty member on research in the professor's area of expertise. Prerequisite: Consent of instructor. Optional course. 1-3 semester hours
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2.00 Credits
An introduction to engineering techniques, experimentation, data analysis, modeling, graphics, and technical writing. Ethics and professionalism are also covered. Team projects are included. Lab exercises are drawn from the four major disciplines of engineering. This is a writing-enriched course. One lecture and one twohour lab per week. 2 semester hours
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2.00 Credits
An introductory course in structured computer programming and its use in solving engineering problems. The emphasis is on the logical analysis of problems and the formulations leading to solutions. One lecture and one two-hour lab per week. 2 semester hours
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