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Course Descriptions

 

Education
  

  • EDUC 642 - Assessment Interpretation and Planning in Education

    Theories, concepts, and methods of assessing physical, emotional, behavioral, academic, intellectual, and social development are discussed, with a specific focus on interpretation of results and data. The course also explores the process of developing and monitoring IEP goals and objectives/benchmarks. Assessing student needs related to assistive technology, current trends and assessment, information regarding collaboration with related service providers, and services provided by other agencies are discussed.

    Credits: 3
  

  • EDUC 645 - Autism Spectrum Disorders: Theory to Practice

    This course is designed to provide working education professional with insights into the application of evidence-based practices to support learners with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). Based on an understanding of theories of cognition related to ASD, professionals will learn the evidence-based practices that best support students with ASD and will receive guidance in implementing those strategies in a variety of educational settings.

    Credits: 3
  

  • EDUC 652 - Elementary Curriculum Development and Implementation

    This course, taken concurrently with a pre-practicum, presents students with an integrated approach to the teaching of social studies, science, and mathematics for the elementary school classroom. The course emphasizes the application of the MA Curriculum Frameworks and national standards. Current cognitive learning theory and instructional strategies are emphasized in the planning, instruction, and assessment of curriculum.

    Credits: 3
  

  • EDUC 655 - Higher Education in America

    This course provides an examination of the landmark historical events in the development of higher education in America and the implications thereof. Some description of circumstances in differing types of institutions is developed. Some limited treatment of legal, financial, and social complexities which have evolved in recent years is given.

    Credits: 3
  

  • EDUC 658 - Exceptional Learners: Context, Characteristics, and Legal Considerations

    This course provides an overview of the foundations of special education. State and federal legislation that regulates special education services provide a framework for exploring the development of appropriate educational programming for learners with exceptionality’s. Characteristics of learners with exceptionality’s and related evidence-based practices are discussed. Course content includes an examination of universal design for learning, assistive technology, transition planning, and collaboration in the context of special education.

    Credits: 3
  

  • EDUC 662 - Moderate Disabilities Practicum and Seminar

    This culminating experience gives teacher candidates the opportunity to plan, organize, and teach students with mild to moderate disabilities (grades PreK-8 or 5-12) under the direct supervision of a qualified supervising practitioner and program supervisor. The experience includes between 150-450 clock hours. A minimum of 300 clock hours is required for those seeking licensure as a Moderate Disabilities (PreK-8 or 5-12) teacher. A seminar taught by Springfield College faculty is included.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    All standards for practicum placement must be met including passing all required MTELs.



    Credits: 3-6
  

  • EDUC 663 - Middle School Practicum and Seminar

    This culminating experience gives teacher candidates the opportunity to plan, organize, and teach middle school students under the direct supervision of a qualified supervising practitioner and program supervisor. The experience includes between 150-450 clock hours. A minimum of 300 clock hours is required for those seeking licensure as a teacher at the middle school level. A seminar taught by Springfield College faculty is included.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    All standards for Practicum placement must be met including passing all required MTEL’s.



    Credits: 3-6
  

  • EDUC 664 - High School Practicum and Seminar

    This culminating experience gives teacher candidates the opportunity to plan, organize, and teach high school students under the direct supervision of a qualified supervising practitioner and program supervisor. The experience includes between 150-450 clock hours. A minimum of 300 clock hours is required for those seeking licensure as a teacher at the high school level. A seminar taught by Springfield College faculty is included.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    All standards for Practicum placement must be met including passing all required MTEL’s.



    Credits: 3-6
  

  • EDUC 667 - Early Childhood (PreK-K) Practicum and Seminar

    This culminating experience gives teacher candidates the opportunity to plan, organize, and teach students at the Early Childhood, grades PreK-K level under the direct supervision of a qualified supervising practitioner and program supervisor. Teacher candidates complete a minimum of 100 clock hours at the preschool level. (Either EDUC 667 or 669 must be in a setting that includes children with special needs.) A seminar taught by Springfield College faculty is included.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    All standards for Practicum placement must be met including passing all required MTEL’s.



    Credits: 1-3
  

  • EDUC 668 - Elementary (1-6) Practicum and Seminar

    This culminating experience gives teacher candidates the opportunity to plan, organize, and teach students at the elementary level (grades 1-6) under the direct supervision of a qualified supervising practitioner and program supervisor. The experience includes between 150-450 clock hours. A minimum of 300 clock hours is required for those seeking licensure as an Elementary (1-6) teacher. A seminar taught by Springfield College faculty is included.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    All standards for Practicum placement must be met including passing all required MTEL’s.



    Credits: 3-6
  

  • EDUC 669 - Early Childhood (1-2) Practicum and Seminar

    This culminating experience gives teacher candidates the opportunity to plan, organize, and teach students at the Early Childhood, grade 1-2 level under the direct supervision of a qualified supervising practitioner and program supervisor. Teacher candidates complete a minimum of 200 clock hours at the grade 1-2 level. (Either EDUC 667 or 669 must be in a setting that includes children with special needs.) A seminar taught by Springfield College faculty is included.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    All standards for Practicum placement must be met including passing all required MTEL’s.



    Credits: 1-3
  

  • EDUC 671 - Learning, Teaching, and Technology

    This course integrates technology with meaningful learning and teaching. The goal of this course is to demonstrate how technology helps to fulfill the new vision for learning and teaching described by state and national frameworks. The emphasis is on designing and implementing projects through technology that offer students the opportunity to construct new knowledge, develop collaboration skills, apply knowledge to new situations, and integrate subjects across the curriculum. Students will be expected to researchtechnology tools in practice and report onthem.

    Credits: 3
  

  • EDUC 673 - Teaching Exceptional Learners: Advanced Practices and Methods

    This course prepares teachers to use evidence-based practices to support students with moderate disabilities and achieving meaningful access to the general education curriculum. This discussion includes environmental considerations, assistive technology, transition planning, and differentiated instructional planning to meet the needs of learners. Emphasis is placed on embedding elements of the IEP (course of accommodations) and universally designed lessons and teaching academic, social, and behavioral skills to diverse learners.

    Credits: 3
  

  • EDUC 685 - Secondary Methods, Assessment and Pre-Practicum

    This course deepens students’ understanding of teaching and learning at the secondary level. The theoretical emphasis of the class focuses on learning and learning style theories. The practical emphasis focuses on when and how to implement specific teaching and assessment strategies to support the academic development of all students. The course includes a 45 hr. Pre-practicum.

    Credits: 3
  

  • EDUC 686 - Mathematics Curriculum Development and Implementation for Secondary Education

    The theoretical emphasis of this course focuses on current cognitive learning theory and differentiated instructional strategies for use in curriculum planning and assessment in a secondary mathematics classroom. The practical emphasis focuses on when and how to implement the strategies to support the academic development of all students. The course is grounded in the principles outlined in The Common Core State Standards for Mathematics.

    Credits: 3
  

  • EDUC 690 - Role of the Principal/Assistant Principal

    This course identifies those skills that are essential to effective principals and assistant principals. Among the topics and skill competencies to be examined are school organization, curricular needs, program and staff development, strategies for institutional change, fiscal management and budget concerns, and leadership styles.

    Credits: 3
  

  • EDUC 693 - Leadership in a Diverse Society

    This course, with tomorrow’s leaders in mind, examines appropriate and current leadership skills which will create effective organizations and builds a knowledge base of the multi-diversified groups and subgroups with whom an administrator (i.e. principal, assistant principal, supervisor, or curriculum specialist) must interact. Participants demonstrate the requisite skills that are necessary for effective leadership with diverse populations through the study of social justice issues in society.

    Credits: 3
  

  • EDUC 699 - Special Topics

    Special Topics

    Credits: 3

Emergency Medical Services Management
  

  • EMSM 114 - CPR, Health Care Provider

    The CPR course prepares the student to mitigate those situations resulting in foreign-body airway obstruction and sudden cardiac arrest in adults, infants, and children. The training includes manual, mechanical, and electronic techniques. Successful completion results in certification from the American Heart Association.

    Credits: 0.5
  

  • EMSM 115 - Emergency Medical Technician-Part I

    EMT Part I is the first semester of a two semester course to prepare the student forEMT Part II and ultimately for state andnational EMT certification. The courseincludes an introduction to Emergency Medical Services, patient assessment, patient airway management, and treatment of medicalemergencies.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    EMSM 114 - CPR, Health Care Provider 

    or

    AHA BLS Healthcare Provider certification.



    Credits: 4
  

  • EMSM 116 - Emergency Medical Technician - Part II

    EMT Part II is the second semester of a two semester courses to prepare the student for state and national EMT certification.The course includes trauma management, OB/GYNmanagement, pediatrics, and EMS ambulance operations and a clinical and fieldexperience.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    EMSM 115 - Emergency Medical Technician-Part I 



    Credits: 4
  

  • EMSM 135 - EMS Career Planning

    Lectures and discussions provide an overview of EMS systems, areas of specialization, legislative processes, and regulatory processes and problem solving. Students are required to study the issues in EMS and respond to them employing critical thinking.

    Credits: 3
  

  • EMSM 150 - EMT-Intermediate

    This course includes detailed patient assessment, advanced treatment of shock, pre-hospital intravenous therapy, endotracheal intubation and other advanced airway control measures.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    EMSM 115 - Emergency Medical Technician-Part I 

    or

    permission of the medical director.



    Credits: 4
  

  • EMSM 160 - EMT-Intermediate Clinical Affiliation

    This is a clinical practicum consisting of one half-semester of performing invasive procedures in local hospitals under the direct supervision of physicians, nurses, and technicians. Areas of affiliation include the emergency department, intravenous therapy team, respiratory therapy department, and the operating room. Students are required to document the successful completion of the following skills endotracheal intubations, intravenous insertions, and patient assessments. Documentation of clinical case studies is also required.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    CORI

    3.0 average in EMSM 150 - EMT-Intermediate 

    or

    permission of the medical director.



    Credits: 1.5
  

  • EMSM 186 - Intermediate Field Internship

    This course consists of one half-semester of pre-hospital care internship performing invasive procedures under the supervision of certified preceptors.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    EMSM 160 - EMT-Intermediate Clinical Affiliation 



    Credits: 1.5
  

  • EMSM 200 - EMT-Paramedic I

    This course begins the paramedic program and includes instruction in the roles and responsibilities of the paramedic, legal aspects of EMS, stress management, rescue and hazardous materials training, medical terminology, patient assessment, advanced airway management, pathophysiology and treatment of shock, burn trauma therapy, and pre-hospital pharmacology.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    EMSM 115 - Emergency Medical Technician-Part I 

    and

    permission of the instructor.



    Credits: 4
  

  • EMSM 201 - Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support

    This course provides a philosophic overview to prehospital trauma care, stressing the need to identify and consider the multisystem trauma patient as a unique entity with specific needs. The course also provides the prehospital provider with a specific body of knowledge related to the assessment and care of the trauma patient. Successful completion of the course results in certification at the provider level.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    EMSM 200 - EMT-Paramedic I 



    Credits: 1
  

  • EMSM 211 - Basic Cardiac Life Support Instructor

    The BCLS instructor course provides the student with the core training in skills and methodology to teach cardiac life support under the auspices of the American Heart Association. The course includes discussion of the methodologies of teaching in various cultural settings, and a teaching practicum with an experienced AHA-BCLS Instructor.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    EMSM 114 - CPR, Health Care Provider 



    Credits: 2
  

  • EMSM 225 - EMT-Paramedic II

    This course completes the didactic portion of the paramedic program. It includes recognition and treatment of endocrine emergencies, central nervous system disorders, the acute abdomen, anaphylaxis, alcoholism, environmental and behavioral emergencies, pediatric emergencies, and an all-program review.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    EMSM 200 - EMT-Paramedic I 



    Credits: 4
  

  • EMSM 249 - EMT-Paramedic III

    This course completes the didactic portion of the paramedic program. It includes recognition and treatment of endocrine emergencies, central nervous system disorders, the acute abdomen, anaphylaxis, alcoholism, environmental and behavioral emergencies, pediatric emergencies, and an all-program review.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    EMSM 225 - EMT-Paramedic II 



    Credits: 4
  

  • EMSM 251 - Advanced Cardiac Life Support

    This course prepares the student to mitigate those medical situations resulting in foreign body airway obstruction and sudden cardiac arrest in adults, infants, and children using manual, mechanical, pharmaceutical, and electronic therapies. Successful completion results in certification from the American Heart Association.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Completion of EMSM 200 - EMT-Paramedic I is strongly recommended.



    Credits: 1
  

  • EMSM 260 - Emergency Medical Technician Professional Enhancement

    This course is designed to provide a practice testing system for students who have completed a national standard curriculum EMT course and who wish to complete the National Registry of EMT’s cognitive certifying examination.

    Credits: 2
  

  • EMSM 301 - Pediatric Advanced Life Support

    This course prepares the student to recognize and treat foreign body airway obstruction and sudden cardiac arrest in infants and children using manual, mechanical, and electronic therapies. Successful completion results in certification from the American Heart Association.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    EMSM 249 - EMT-Paramedic III 



    Credits: 1
  

  • EMSM 302 - Pediatric Educ/Pre-Hosp Professional

    The Pediatric Education for PrehospitalProfessionals is designed to give prehospital professionals the education, skills, andconfidence they need to treatpediatric patients effectively at the highest prehospital level.

    Credits: 1
  

  • EMSM 325 - System Status Management

    This course uses the United States Department of Transportation’s emergency dispatcher standard curriculum to provide the knowledge, skills, and tools to deal with the general public when rendering emergency assistance by telephone. The course also provides students with the mechanisms to direct appropriate resources to the scene of an illness or injury.

    Credits: 2
  

  • EMSM 335 - Plan and Design of Emergency Vehicles and Facilities

    This course acquaints students with the process of planning and design of emergency medical services facilities and vehicles. A study of the managerial roles in this process is emphasized, as well as design technologies, safety, and maintenance. Select facilities and EMS vehicles are studied in detail.

    Credits: 2
  

  • EMSM 340 - EMS Continuing Education and EMT-Basic Refresher

    This course provides the basic refresher and continuing education requirements for recertification as an EMT-Basic.

    Credits: 2
  

  • EMSM 350 - EMT-Paramedic Clinical Affiliation

    In this course, students are required to document successful performance of invasive skills under the supervision and direction of licensed hospital personnel. Areas of affiliation include the emergency department, the intravenous therapy team, the operating room, labor and delivery, ICU/CCU, the psychiatric unit, and pediatrics.

    Credits: 4
  

  • EMSM 354 - Paramedical Clinical Concepts

    This course is designed to provide the student with a functional understanding of the continuum ofcare from the patient’s arrival through urgent or emergency care and admission to or discharge from the hospital. Areas of study include the Emergency Department, Intensive and Cardiac Care Units, Pediatrics and Labor and Delivery.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    EMSM 200 - EMT-Paramedic I 

    EMSM 225 - EMT-Paramedic II 

    EMSM 249 - EMT-Paramedic III 



    Credits: 3
  

  • EMSM 374 - Fundamentals of Search and Rescue

    FUNSAR is designed to prepare the student to participate in search and rescue as a member of a search team. The course covers topics such as visual human-tracking, survival, wilderness first aid, land navigation, search tactics, tactical aspects of the IncidentManagement System, and lost person behavior. Successful completion of the course results in certification from the National Association for Search and Rescue.

    Credits: 2
  

  • EMSM 375 - Search and Rescue Management

    This course provides skills and materials that include decision-making practice in determining missing person detectability and survivability, and statistical and topographic analysis of lost person behavior. Successful completion results in certification from the National Association for Search and Rescue.

    Credits: 3
  
  

  • EMSM 386 - EMT-Paramedic Field Internship

    Students are assigned to licensed advanced life support ambulance services and work under the direction of qualified paramedic preceptors. Procedures include field endotracheal intubation, intravenous therapy, intravenous drug administration, and advanced cardiac life support care.

    Credits: 4
  
  

  • EMSM 420 - EMS Management Senior Project

    This guided individual study is to be completed in the final semester of the senior year. Topics must be pertinent to one or more areas of emergency medical services and are selected with the counsel of the course instructor.

    Credits: 3
  
  
  

  • EMSM 486 - EMS Management Internship

    In this course, students complete supervised experience divided into two or more of the following EMS concentrations: operations management, systems implementation, regulation, legislation, and product research and development.

    Credits: 3

English
  

  • ENGL 100 - Writing Studio

    Writing studios are small support groups that provide supplemental instruction and assistance to students who need extra help meeting the requirements of ENGL 113 and ENGL 114. Through self-assessment and writing samples, identified students enroll for one credit along with regular enrollment in ENGL 113 and ENGL 114. Grades are determined by attendance, participation, and completion of assigned work. This course can be repeated once, for a total of 2 credits.

    Credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 113 - College Writing I

    This course provides instruction in the skills of written communication, including sentence structure, paragraph building, and the organization and development of expository essays. Students are introduced to strategies for critical reading, basic research methods, and documentation of sources. Computer-based writing is integral to the course.

    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 114 - College Writing II

    This course continues the work of College Writing I, but focuses on more complex expository and argumentative writing, critical textual analysis, and more sophisticated research strategies. Computer-based writing is integral to the course.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Currently: None

    We are proposing: ENGL 113: College Writing I



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 138 - Critical Thinking Through Literature

    This course uses current literature to illustrate alternative ways of thinking about the human condition and making sense of social issues. Discussion will compare and contrast students’ present experiences with personal, institutional and cultural structures, assumptions and norms with the perspectives introduced in the literature. Students explore views that are grounded in body, mind, emotion and spirit with the goal of clarifying and enhancing their own critical processes. The course involves structured experience, imagery, discussion, reading, writing and creative expression.

    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 143 - Contemporary American Literature

    This course examines literature dealing primarily with the social issues contemporaneous with various authors. The content is diverse, reflecting gender, race, class and cultural issues.

    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies

    This course is an introduction to the studyof literature. Students learn the essential tools of close reading and critical analysis of literature in its major genres: poetry,fiction, and drama. Students also becomefamiliar with a variety of interpretivetheories and methods in the study ofliterature, and apply several of thesemethods in their own literary analysis.

    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 209 - World Literature

    This course is a study and analysis of some of the greatest pieces of literature of the Western cultural heritage. Beginning with the literature of the Greeks (the epics, plays), it includes the literary genres of Italy, England, Germany, France, and America. At least eight to ten pieces of literature (including genres in addition to those above) are required reading.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 211 - Latinx Literature

    This course will focus on non-fiction, fiction, poetry, and dramatic literature by people who draw on the traditions of Spanish-, French-, and Portuguese-language cultures of the Americas, including people with origins in the Caribbean and North, Central, and South America. Readings may explore topics such as the role of “Manifest Destiny” in the production of Latino/a/x literature, modernity, the rise of Latino/a/x consciousness in the 1960s, race, gender, indigeneity, language choice, and the relationship between literary form and politics. No knowledge of a language other than English is required.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies   



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 215 - Readings in Literature

    This course includes readings which evaluate a variety of classical and contemporary pieces organized around a major theme, issue, genre, or event. The literature may be selected from any one or more writers or periods of the Eastern or Western worlds.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II   

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 216 - The Athlete in Literature

    This course undertakes an analysis of selected prose and poetry depicting the athlete as an individual and team member. Positive values and major issues of the sport experience are explored. Such writers as Virgil, Twain, Hemingway, Lardner, Schulberg, and others are studied for their themes and literary merit.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II   

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies   



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 217 - Sports, Gambling and the Media

    This course explores gambling as a cultural phenomenon in the United States, focusing particularly on the role of mass media in three major sports gambling scandals: the 1919 Black Sox, boxer Primo Carnera, and point-shaving in college basketball.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 218 - The Art of Telling a Love Story

    This course examines novels from varied literary traditions and analyzes how narrators arrange their fictional worlds, setting and place, and set in motion characters, dialogues, and descriptions to bring out multiple representations of relationship and love. In this course, students read translated novels of French authors: Balzac, Maupassant, Camus and Saint-Exupery. Critical thinking and writing under the overarching theme of love promotes an understanding of the novels in their cultural/historical contexts, which also leads to an appreciation of enduring human values.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 220 - Grammar and Usage

    This course examines rules of grammar and usage in writing. Recent trends in usage are given special consideration.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Currently ENGL 114 or ENGL 160 (this proposal is to remove all prerequisites)



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 225 - American Drama

    This course is a study of selectedplaywrights representing the development ofAmerican drama from the late nineteenthcentury through the present. Attention willbe paid to various forms of theatricalrepresentation, including realism, melodrama, expressionism, and the avant-garde.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  
  

  • ENGL 230 - Post-Colonial Literature

    Persons who have cultural ties to countries formerly ruled by colonial powers write post-colonial literature. This poetry, drama, and prose often describes how such persons are affected by both the legacy of colonialism, the systematic occupation and domination of one country by another, and decolonization, the process by which colonies become self-governing or independent. In addition, this literature often explores strategies former colonies have used to survive in a world dominated by global capitalism. This course examines post-colonial literature written in four regions of the world: Latin America and the Caribbean, Australia and Oceania, Asia, and Africa and the Middle East.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 231 - Tutoring in English

    This course gives student peer tutors some pointers on how to communicate grammar, syntax, and spelling rules to students for whom writing is difficult. The course also offers suggestions for helping students develop and organize content, follow directions for writing assignments, and deal with specific writing tasks, including the research paper.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Permission of the Writing Center Director.

     

    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 232 - Tutoring in English Practicum I

    This course is a practicum or internship as a peer tutor in the College Writing Center. Students tutor for a minimum of three contact hours per week throughout the semester. This course may be taken by Writing Center tutors with experience prior to the creation of ENGL 231.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Permission of the Writing Center Director.

    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 233 - Tutoring in English Practicum II

    This course is a practicum or internship as a peer tutor in the College Writing Center. Students tutor for a minimum of three contact hours per week throughout the semester. This course may be taken concurrently with ENGL 232.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    Permission of the Writing Center Director.

    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 1
  

  • ENGL 235 - English Internship

    This is an opportunity for students to use English skills in a professional setting. The internship can involve working off-campus such as in the communications department of a company or in publishing, and/or serving as editor-in-chief of the Alden Street Review or working with other campus organizations. No more than three credits of ENGL 235 can count toward the basic 39 credits of English required for the major.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 1-6
  
  

  • ENGL 241 - American Literature I

    This course focuses on a topic in American Literature prior to the Civil War (e.g., a literary movement, a focused historicalperiod, a group of authors, a genre, or a theme.)

    Prerequisites & Notes
    This course may be repeated (up to a total of 9 credit hours) if topics vary.

    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 242 - American Literature II

    This course focuses on a topic in American Literature in an era from the Civil War to the present (e.g., a literary movement, a focused historical period, a group ofauthors, a genre, or a theme.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    This course may be repeated (up to a total of 9 credit hours) if topics vary.

    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 245 - LGBTQ Literature

    This course examines literary works of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer communitiies. Students analyze novels, plays, poetry, film, essays, and/or graphic novels, and discuss the use of literature and other forms of artistic expression to explore LGBTQ experiences in relation to LGBTQ history, legal battles, identity struggles, activist and social justice movements, and other issues.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 246 - American Short Story

    This course examines the historical significance and the artistic achievement of classic works of American short fiction from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries alongside the work of new and emerging voices in contemporary U.S. literature. The course aims to help students become more effective readers and critical writers.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies   



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 250 - Literature and the Law

    This course examines literary texts that focus on the law, crime, detectives, courtroom drama, legal themes, and related ethical issues. The literary periods, genres, and texts covered may vary by instructor.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    N/A



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 251 - African American Literature I

    This course traces African American self-expression in autobiographical and imaginative forms from 1760 to the 1930’s, noting the educational, social, economic, political, and legal limitations within which, or against which, they were produced.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 252 - African American Literature II

    This course presents African American literature from the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920’s through the contemporary period, tying literary movements and text to music, visual art, folklore, history, and socio-political contexts from which they spring.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II   

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 261 - British Literature I

    This course focuses on a topic in earlyBritish literature from the beginnings to the Enlightenment (e.g., a literary movement, afocused historical period, a group ofauthors, a genre, or a theme).

    In selected semesters, as noted in the course offerings information, the course will focus on the literature of the Middle Ages and will include an optional trip over Spring Break to London and York, England, to visit medieval sites.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    This course may be repeated (up to a total of 9 credits) if topics vary.

    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 262 - British Literature II

    This course focuses on a topic in Britishliterature from the Romantic period to the present. Possible topics include the study of a literary movement, afocused historical period, a group ofauthors, a genre, or a theme.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    This course may be repeated (up to a total of 9 credits) if topics vary.

    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 270 - Nature and Environmental Writers

    This course is a literature course with atheme; it introduces the student to aselection of nature and environmentalwriters. The class examines nature writingas a unique form of writing. There are many themes to examine within this genre-how wehumans find our “place” in nature and whatthat means to us, how science relates toliterature and art, the complex relationship between wildness and civilization, as well as spiritual issues and environmental issues and responsibilities.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  
  

  • ENGL 274 - Asian American Literature

    This course examines novels, short stories,poetry, essays, and political texts written by Asian Americans. Students will attend to the form, content and context of the readings in order to develop their critical thinking skills in relation to a number of issues,themes, and concepts which emerge out of and in relation to Asian American literature and the American racial context; exclusion, group identity, community individualism, racial identity, and immigration.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 275 - Women and Literature

    In this course, students read literature written by women and study the literary tradition and critical reception of women writers. Particular emphasis is placed on the cultural position of women in the United States, emphasizing racial, ethnic, and class diversity.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 276 - Men in Literature

    This course studies the dialogic relationship between various men, embodying differentmasculinities and literature. The studyconsists of two components: first, anexploration of men’s literacy and literature and second, a service-learning project thataims to create a male-positive learningexperience of men’s literacy for service-providers and clients.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  
  

  • ENGL 303 - Business and Professional Speaking

    Individuals learn rhetorical techniques for effective speaking in the workplace in the context of their respective future careers. Students are required to make several effective oral presentations, proposals, informative lectures or briefings, progress reports, summaries, evaluations, budget reviews, etc. Participation in mock interviews and staff meetings and proper use of visual aids and equipment to enhance presentations are stressed.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 305 - Writing for the Professions

    This course involves the practice and study of selected types of discourse employed inprofessional writing situations, preparingstudents for different systems of writing in their professional lives. Examples from the writing of workplace professionals areanalyzed and used as models to demonstratethe transition from academic to professional writing.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 306 - Reading and Writing Poetry

    This course is intended to develop students’ skills in the writing of poetry. Students are expected to submit several written assignments during the course of the term, to read and respond to the poetry of professional poets, to prepare detailed and close peer evaluations, and to submit a significant portfolio of writing at the end of the semester. This course will run primarily as a creative writing workshop.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 307 - Writing and Reading Fiction

    This course develops students’ skills in the writing and reading of fiction. Students submit several written assignments during the course of the term, read and respond to short stories and novels by published writers, prepare detailed and close peer evaluations, and submit a significant portfolio of writing at the end of the semester. This course is run primarily as a creative writing workshop.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 308 - Writing and Reading Creative Non-Fiction

    This course develops students’ skills in the writing and reading of creative non-fiction. Students submit several written assignments during the course of the term, read and respond to short stories and novels by published writers, prepare detailed and close peer evaluations, and submit a significant portfolio of writing at the end of the semester. This course is run primarily as a creative writing workshop.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  
  

  • ENGL 330 - Early Modern English Literature

    This course focuses on a topic in the Early Modern Period (1485-1660) of English literature (e.g., a literary movement, author(s), a genre or form, or a theme).

    Prerequisites & Notes
    This course may be repeated (up to a total of 9 credits) if topics vary.

    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  
  
  

  • ENGL 343 - Film as a Narrative Art

    Narrative films such as On the Waterfront, All the King’s Men, and Requiem for a Heavyweight are studied and discussed in terms of character, theme, structure, and style. Similarities between cinematic technique and the adaptation of material from literature to film are explored.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 349 - Modern American Poetry

    This course is a survey from Dickinson to such poets as Frost, Stevens, Wilbur, and Silko. Modern poetic forms, diction, and content are emphasized. The course reflects the diversity of modern American poetry and its relevance to contemporary literary movements.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 350 - Modern American Novel

    This course explores ideas of modernism and post-modernism in American novels, considering ideas of moderism as both an era of literature and a style of writing.  What makes a piece of writing “modern” or “post-modern”?  How do we know?  Who decides?  We will discuss the idea of “the Great American Novel” and how marginalized writers are often excluded from consideration in that debate.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 352 - American Realism and Naturalism

    This course focuses on the literary genre, criticism, and cultural context of America from 1865 to 1914. The course includes a study of the works of the following writers: Howells, Whitman, Twain, James, Harte, Garland, London, Norris, and Crane.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 353 - American Romanticism

    This course focuses on the literary works of key nineteenth century authors in the American Romantic movement: Irving, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. Romantic themes of individualism, imagination, and intuition are stressed.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 356 - Readings in the English Novel I

    This course traces the rise and development of the English novel from the early eighteenth century until the mid-nineteenth century. Included in this examination are the evolution of narrative voice and structure, point of view, theme, and ideology.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
  

  • ENGL 357 - Readings in the English Novel II

    This course traces the development of the English novel from the mid-Victorian period through the middle of the twentieth century, focusing particularly on the modernist and postmodernist movements and their influence on narrative voice, point of view, structure, theme, and ideology. Authors included are Eliot, Gissing, Hardy, Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, Burgess, Sillitoe, and Golding.

    Prerequisites & Notes
    ENGL 114 - College Writing II  

    or

    ENGL 160 - Introduction to Literary Studies  



    Credits: 3
 

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