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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Fall, Spring An introduction to design of devices and structures created by humans. Discussion of the design process with links to laws of science that underpin the devices. The development of problem-solving skills is embedded in the student design projects. (2 hours lecture, 2 hours laboratory.) The course is designed to promote the development of student competency in the oral presentation of technical information. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: Credit received for either ENGG 15 or ENGG 9A or TPP 15.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Fall, Spring Systems of linear equations, row operations, Gauss Jordan reduction, matrix algebra, inversion, determinants, eigenvalues and eigenvectors, solutions of linear ODEs, algebra of the complex plane, polar representation and DeMoivre's theorem, the complex exponential and logarithmic functions, Fourier Series, the solution of the heat and wave equations by Fourier Series, Bessel functions and applications. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: MATH 73 or higher. Same as MATH 143. (Formerly MATH 143 & 144.)
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Fall, Spring Study of Geoffrey Chaucer's most important poem, a varied and surprising picture of English life and values in the Middle Ages. Topics include the development of the idea of the individual, faith versus skepticism, and the social implications of age, race, and gender. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: WSC 1 and 2. Open only to students who have fulfilled the Writing Proficiency Exam requirement.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically This course deals with the significant work of Irish poets writing in English during the modern period. The course begins with the work of W.B. Yeats, who was writing at a critical moment in Irish history, and who exercised an influence on world literature. The study of texts by Yeats and other prominent Irish poets, such as Seamus Heaney, enables students to develop an understanding of both the nature of an aesthetic work and the critical tools that can be brought to its appreciation. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: WSC 1 and 2. Same as IRE 113.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the sonnets and selected comedies, histories, and tragedies (including Hamlet) from the first half of Shakespeare’s career. Attention is given to close readings, the social, political, and cultural conditions of the age, and to the theatrical heritage of the plays. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: ENGL 1 and 2. Open only to students who have fulfilled the Writing Proficiency Exam requirement. Credit given for this course or New College HDG 1, not both. SSII 60569: M-Th, 11 a.m.-1:15 p.m., Alter, 17 Gallon Wing
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Spring The development and variety of the novel form from its beginnings in the 18th century through the 19th century, the great age of the novel. Representative of the major novelistic traditions of those centuries in England, America, France, and Russia, examples studied may include such works as Tom Jones, Frankenstein, Jane Eyre, Moby Dick, Madame Bovary, and The Brothers Karamazov. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: WSC 1 and 2. Open only to students who have fulfilled the Writing Proficiency Exam requirement.
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Comedy is a dramatic structure in which the reversal of fortune goes from bad to good, and moves toward the resolution of social conflicts through recognition, union, and reunion. For Shakespeare, this means the formation of a new society out of a flawed one, through the institutions of class and marriage. This class will trace that idea through several of Shakespeare’s so-called “Comedies” written at various points in his career, with an eye toward investigating both the “romantic” and “anti-romantic” interpretations of these works.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Introduces selected African novelists of the 20th century such as Chinua Achebe, Sembene Ousmane, Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Bessie Head, Buchi Emecheta and Solomon Mutswairo. Analysis of African literary themes, such as traditional and modern conflicts, resistance to colonialism, effects of independence, neocolonial dilemmas and images of the African woman. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: Open only to students who have fulfilled the Writing Proficiency Exam requirement. Same as AFST 139.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Fall, Spring The growth of African American literature from the Harlem Renaissance to the present. Such topics as migration, African heritage, protest, vernacular, and gender. Writers include Hughes, Hurston, Wright, Brooks, Ellison, Baldwin, Baraka, Walker, Morrison, and Wilson. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: WSC 1 and 2. Open only to students who have fulfilled the Writing Proficiency Exam requirement. Same as AFST 141.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Fall, Spring A study of the origins and development of an American literary tradition from the Colonial period to the Civil War in the poetry, prose, and fiction of such writers as Bradstreet, Wheatley, Franklin, Hawthorne, Dickinson, Douglass, and Melville. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: WSC 1 and 2. Open only to students who have fulfilled the Writing Proficiency Exam requirement. Credit given for this course or ENGL 51, not both.
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