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ECO 127 - Comparative Economic Systems
Study of the philosophic and ideological basis of economic systems, how they solve various economic problems, and the current state of these systems. Attention will be focused on the variations in modern economic systems: capitalist, state capitalist, market socialist, socialist, and traditional. Individual countries will be used as case studies for analysis of these various economic systems.
3 credits
Spring 2015
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ECO 161 - International Economic Problems
BUS 161
Survey of current problems covering international trade, international finance, the relations between technologically advanced and less-developed nations, and various international institutions. Focus on current issues of international economic policy.
3 credits
Fall
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ECO 221 - Labor Economics
(BUS 221 )
A study of the political economy of labor market demand and supply, the labor process and the philosophic foundations of various theories of labor. The course surveys the historical and current problems of labor organization and unions as well as the impact of race, gender and class on labor and income distribution.
Prerequisite: ECO 120
3 credits
Fall
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ECO 222 - Statistics
(BUS 222 )
Collection and tabulation of statistical data. Simple correlation and regression analysis. Probability. Random variables. Normal distribution. Sampling and sampling distributions. Statistical inference. Use of Microsoft Excel, a spreadsheet program, integrated into the course.
Prerequisite: MAT 113 or MAT 200
This course is applicable to the liberal arts requirements of the curriculum.
3 credits
Fall and Spring
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ECO 223 - Money and Banking
(BUS 223 )
The roles of money and credit, financial markets and institutions, and central banking in the U.S. economy. The banking system and its relationship with the Federal Reserve System, as well as international banking issues and problems, will also be analyzed and explored.
Prerequisite: ECO 120
3 credits
Spring
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ECO 226 - Microeconomics
(BUS 226 )
Marginal analysis of demand and supply, the individual firm, and market microstructure. Consumer behavior and producer behavior. Alternative models of price determination and profit maximation. The relation between input and output markets.
Prerequisite: ECO 120
This course is applicable to the liberal arts requirements of the curriculum.
3 credits
Fall and Spring
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ECO 278 - Economic Geography
Geographic distribution of the economic activities of production, distribution, and exchange of goods and services. Particular attention is given to the location of economic activity as a function of unequal factor endowment.
3 credits
Fall and Spring
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ECO 328 - History of Economic Thought
A survey of the development of economic theory; issues and problems of the classical economists; Marx’s critique of classical political economy; the roots of contemporary schools of thought. Selected primary readings are integrated into the course. Emphasis will be placed upon analysis of the relationship between value and price.
Prerequisite: ECO 120
3 credits
Fall 2014
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ECO 359 - Independent Study in Economics
An opportunity for students to do advanced work in a specialized area in Economics. Students will work with an Economics faculty member in studying and analyzing economic issues and topics of interest. Open to juniors and seniors with departmental approval.
Prerequisites: ECO 120 and ECO 226
3 credits
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ECO 370 - Special Topics in Economics
This course will include economic issues, developments or problems not covered in depth in the regular course offerings. It will enable students to take advantage of faculty expertise in diverse areas which are of interest to both faculty and students. With departmental approval
3 credits
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ECO 400 - Seminar in Economics
Seminar student selects jointly with instructor an economic topic to be researched; findings are reported in a formal paper; weekly meetings with instructor.
Prerequisites: at least 12 credits in the social sciences, and approval of the department.
3 credits
Spring
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English CO-CURRICULAR WORKSHOP IN YEARBOOK may be offered for academic credit in accordance with the policy that “students may earn 1/2 credit per semester for a total of two credits toward the degree for participation in co-curricular activities approved for credit by the faculty.” Consult the Moderator of the Yearbook. |
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ENG 102 - Basic Writing Skills
Geared to the needs of the professional, this course is an introduction to the basic principles of effective writing. Special attention is given to spelling, punctuation, tenses, cases, agreement, subordination, categorization, and modification. Idiomatic expression, vocabulary development, dictionary skills, sentence structure, and paragraph construction are stressed. Competence in all these areas is required.
This course is applicable to the liberal arts requirements of the curriculum.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Not offered in Patchogue.
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ENG 102L - Basic Writing Skills Lab
Based on the result of an applicant’s writing sample, certain candidates will be required to take a three-hour weekly lab in addition to ENG 102 .
No grade/0 credit.
Not offered in Patchogue
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ENG 103 - Writing for Effective Communication
Analysis and application of the principles of effective writing. Skill development in the performance of various writing tasks. Research techniques also implemented.
This course is applicable to the liberal arts requirements of the curriculum.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall
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ENG 105 - Creative Writing
Introduction to creative writing: various exercises in prose fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and playwriting; opportunity to develop skill in gothic style, fantasy, and humor.
Prerequisite: ENG 103 or written permission of the chairperson.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Spring 2014
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ENG 106 - Dramatic And Visual Writing
A course in script-writing designed to give students an opportunity to develop skill in the writing of short and/or long works for stage and/or screen. Students will also be expected to read work in progress and criticize each other’s writing in class.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Spring 2013
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ENG 107 - Fiction Writing
A course in advanced writing designed to give students an opportunity to develop skill in the writing of the short story. Students will also be expected to read work in progress and criticize each other’s writing in class.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall 2013
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ENG 108 - Journalism
Designed to introduce students to the principles of journalistic writing, the basic elements and issues of news stories, and the expository and investigative techniques essential for successful communication in the mode.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 109 - Analytical Writing
Emphasis on increasing student skill in the use of logical progression, clarity, analysis, and illustration in writing. Attention to grammar, sentence and paragraph structures, punctuation, and usage as backdrop to effective exposition, argumentation, and editing of written material.
Prerequisite: ENG 103 or equivalent.
This course is applicable to the liberal arts requirements of the curriculum.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 110 - Communication for Professionals
This course is designed to provide students with communication theories and proficiencies needed in professional organizations. Students will study the structural principles of this type of communication and its specialized writing techniques and formats, strengthen critical and editing skills, polish grammar and vocabulary, examine verbal and non-verbal communication modes, develop expertise in speaking and listening effectively.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 111 - The Language of Film
A study of what is probably the most current and most popular form of communication. Film lectures will center on the history and development of film as an art form; class sessions will also include the viewing of selected short and feature films as well as discussion and written evaluation.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 112 - Classical Literature
(CLA 122 )
A study of the human experience as reflected in the classic texts of East and West. Contributors to this study and to the foundations of culture are the authors of the Bhagavid Gita, Gilgamesh, and other eastern luminaries as well as Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Virgil. This course may be credited to Classics or English.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Spring 2014
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ENG 113 - Introduction to Drama
Reading and discussion of plays representative of the richness in varying cultures and periods of World Drama designed to ask and answer the question: “What is the underlying, basic notion of the dramatic form?’’
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 114 - Introduction To Poetry
A study of selected poems which embody the varieties of cultural experience. Poetic techniques will be examined in the work of diverse voices such as Rios, Lord, Giovanni, Angelou, and Brooks.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 115 - The Short Story
Definition, characteristics, developmental history, and stylistic trends of the short story as a literary form in different cultural traditions. Reading and interpretation of representative modern short stories both in English and in translation.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 117 - The New York Scene in Literature
A study of the extraordinarily diverse New York “scene,” from the 19th century to now, as reported and reflected in texts set in and around the environs of New York City. Works of authors like Irving, Whitman, Melville, James, Wharton, O. Henry, Crane, Cather, Fitzgerald, Runyon, Hurston, Cahan, Yezierska, Larsen, Powell, E.B. White, Frank O’Hara, Ellison, Capote, Baldwin, Morrison, Roth, DeLillo, Hijuelos, Chang-Rae Lee, and Colson Whitehead are included.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits
Fall and Spring
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ENG 119 - A Rainbow of Voices
This course explores the ethnic richness which characterizes American literary history. Emphasis is placed on African-American, Native-American, and Asian-American literature, as well as on the Chicano and Puerto-Rican contributions to this complex and yet closely woven tapestry.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Spring 2014
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ENG 123 - Fictional Narrative
An introductory survey of fictional narrative as exemplified in the novel and short story. Salient examples of each genre will be read and discussed.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Only offered at off site locations.
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ENG 124 - Poetry And Drama
An introductory survey of poetic and dramatic forms. Exemplars will be chosen from diverse periods in literary history.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Only offered at off site locations.
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ENG 125 - An Introduction to Magazine Writing
This course will focus on longer-length, non-fiction articles; it is not a course in creative writing. Students will read and analyze articles in mainstream consumer and trade publications, receiving feedback from professional freelance writers. Included are tips for breaking into the field of freelance writing, as well as the different types of rights pertinent to authors and publishers. Covered also are the writing of query letters, the formal proposal of article ideas, source lists, and the conducting of interviews. Course may not be used for the core curriculum.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall 2013
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ENG 140 - Miracles and Massacres
(SPN 140 )
“Miracles and Massacres: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in Early English and Spanish Literature,” examines ethnic, racial and religious identity as represented in English and Spanish literature of the 12-16th centuries. In addition to enduring questions of conflict, diversity, and cross-cultural exchange, the course explores political and social relations among the religious communities particular to the medieval world and the Renaissance. The course includes an active online component and culminates with a study abroad experience in southern Spain.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits
Spring 2014
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ENG 199 - Supervised Internship
Designed to give professional experience in a business organization whose activities require the communication and research skills developed by English majors. The student is expected to work 100 hours with or without remuneration during the internship, keep a log, and submit a paper applying the skills developed in various English courses to the internship assignment. A member of the English faculty will supervise the internship and will receive and consider the evaluations made by a representative of the business in assessing student performance.
1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 201 - Introduction to Reading Literature Critically
This course helps students to develop skills for the close reading of literature, including poetry, drama, and novels. Every section introduces students to essential literary terms and critical vocabulary, aiming to equip students with the skills and knowledge needed for success in the major. Both in-class discussions and student essays will provide opportunities for students to formulate original and analytic interpretations of the primary readings. This course approaches readingm writing, and thinking as interdependent skills that ground the interpretive process. Required of all Majors as soon as possible after the major is declared.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 202 - Literature and the Writing Process
This course extends the process of English composition by introducing students to literary genres and methods of writing essays in relation to them. Students will read poetry, drama, and fiction as part of the course content. As a writing-intensive course, students will produce regular informal journal assignments, short essays, and one research paper. Required of all concentrates by the end of their junior year.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 203 - Advanced Expository Writing
This course is designed to provide students an opportunity to develop critical voices in expository writing. Emphasis is placed on the academic writing process, organizational patterns and development of rhetoric. Students will be able to create coherent writing whose purpose is to inform and explain. instructors will also help students to understand and employ the basic elements of persuasive argument writing. This course includes a research component.
Prerequisite: ENG 103
1 semester. 3 credits.
Fall, Summer.
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ENG 211 - Film/Media Genre
Focused study of the history, criticism, and theory of genre (Westerns, gangster films, musicals, melodramas, science-fiction films, etc.) as the concept relates to film and media then and now. Approaches will vary among studies of Hollywood and of other selected national cinemas, periods, movements, and filmmakers.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 212 - Film/Media Authorship
Focused study of the history, criticism, and theory of authorship as the concept relates to film and media then and now. Approaches will vary among studies of the processes of adaptation and/or the work of creative figures (directors, writers, producers, stars, etc.) within Hollywood and other selected national cinemas, periods, and movements.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Spring 2014, 2015
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ENG 213 - Film/Media and Society
Focused study of the history, criticism, and theory of film and media as social practices, with an emphasis on historical contexts and cultural ideologies, then and now. Approaches will vary among studies of Hollywood and other selected national cinemas, periods, movements, and filmmakers.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 214 - Film/Media Form
Focused study of the narrative, dramatic, and poetic formal practices of film and media, with an emphasis on analyzing storytelling style among Hollywood and other selected national cinemas, periods, movements, and filmmakers.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 218 - Medieval Imaginations
(FORMERLY Medieval Literature)
This course provides an inclusive introduction to medieval literatures and cultures, surveying a range of texts and topics that situate medieval English literature within its global context. Readings will include Middle English literature as well as translations from Anglo-Saxon, Arabic, and European literatures produced between 500 and 1500AD. The instructor will focus the syllabus around major genres, questions, problems, or themes at his/her discretion.
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Spring 2014
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ENG 219 - Literature of the English Renaissance
Nondramatic literature of the English Renaissance as exhibited in the more important works in verse and prose of such representative writers as More, Sidney, Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare.
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 221 - Seventeenth Century Literature
The prose and poetry of the seventeenth century with religious, political, and social backgrounds; the Puritan, the Cavalier, and the Metaphysical writers of the century; the Restoration and its literature.
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Spring 2014
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ENG 222 - The Age of Johnson
The prose and poetry of the eighteenth century with political and social backgrounds from the time of Pope through the days of Dr. Johnson; discussion of the beginnings of romanticism.
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Spring
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ENG 233 - Prose and Poetry of the English Romantic Movement
A study of the works, including poetry and prose, of the six major Romantic poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats.
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall 2014
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ENG 237 - Modern American Drama
A study of the major American dramatists of the twentieth century. Students will read approximately one play per week, with screenings of adaptations as assigned by the instructor.
3 hours per week 1 semester 3 credits.
Spring 2014
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ENG 238 - Modern European Drama
A study of the development of modern European drama from Ibsen to the Theater of the Absurd.
3 hours per week 1 semester 3 credits.
Spring 2014
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ENG 243 - Nineteenth Century British Novel
A study of the major nineteenth century novelists from Jane Austen to George Eliot.
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall 2014
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ENG 245 - Modern British Novel
Beginning with Thomas Hardy, this course will explore the many and developing facets of the modern British novel. The novelists’ interest in experimental techniques of continental fiction will also be addressed.
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits
Spring
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ENG 253 - Modern Poetry
Detailed analysis of Eliot, Frost, Yeats, and Stevens with emphasis (shifting) on such poets as: Berryman, Brooks, Hughes, Larkin, Heaney, Moore, Sexton, Williams and others.
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Spring 2014
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ENG 255 - Comedy
This course will survey the richness of American and European comedy from ancient Greek and Roman drama through Theater of the Absurd to the contemporary television sitcom. Students will read, interpret, and apply theories of comedy from Aristotle to Henri Bergson to Larry David. Readings may include: Aristophanes, Plautus, Shakespeare, Moliere, Wilde, Synge, Beckett, Ionesco (and others).
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 256 - The Bible as Literature
A study of the historical development of the Bible; literary analysis of selections from the Old Testament with emphasis on poetic and narrative elements.
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 259 - Modern American Novel
An examination of the new fictional techniques and thematic concerns of the American novel beginning with Henry James and including such writers as: Wharton, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Dreiser, Lewis, Ellison, Wright, Momaday, and Morrison.
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Spring 2014
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ENG 261 - African American Literature
A study of the contributions of the African-American community to the literature of the United States. The course will include folktales, the lyrics of spirituals, gospel and jazz compositions, slave narratives, works from the Harlem Renaissance and works of major writers such as Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Alice Walker.
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall 2014
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ENG 262 - Resonant Voices
This course will introduce students to a range of writers representing the more contemporaneous international literary scene. It is intended to expand and deepen their knowledge of figures and genres outside the traditional canons of American and British literature. Longer and more sophisticated works of such diverse authors as the following will be studied: Chinua Achebe, Jorge Luis Borges, Nadine Gordimer, Tato Laviera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, V.S. Naipaul, Wole Soyinka, Derec Walcott, Naguib Mahfouz (and others).
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Spring 2014
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ENG 265 - Literature and the Environment
This course will survey important writings on nature and introduce students to “eco-criticism,” an approach to literature that emphasizes a study of the role of place and environment in the expression of important literary themes. Major authors of study may include Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Ursula Le Guin, N. Scott Momaday, Leslie Marmon Silko, Rachel Carson, and Derek Walcott.
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 278 - Brooklyn Voices
Brooklyn’s literary history is as diverse and dynamic as the borough itself. Brooklyn writers and writing about Brooklyn demonstrate this borough’s consistent vibrancy and singular place in the literary history of America and the world. This course will feature short pieces from a diverse array of writers, as well as longer representative works, also featuring work from writers visiting the SJC Brooklyn campus in its Brooklyn Voices reading series.
1 semester. 3 credits.
Brooklyn Campus.
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ENG 292 - Survey of British Literature I
This course surveys British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the Renaissance and considers the changing status of the vernacular, the Reformation, and the problem of periodization, among other literary historical issues. This intense journey through canonical literature promises to surprise not only with lovely verse and stirring imagery, but also by questioning and querying everything from what it means to be human to the authority of the written word itself. Required of all majors.
3 hours per week 1 semester 3 credits
Fall and Spring
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ENG 293 - Survey in British Literature II
This course surveys British literature from the 17th century through the present day, addressing major movements in literature and culture such as Enlightenment, Romanticism, the rise of the novel, Victorianism, and literary Modernism. This exciting voyage through canonical literature will delight and surprise with exquisite language and challenging concepts.
3 hours per week 1 semester 3 credits
Fall and Spring
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ENG 294 - Survey in American Literature from Beginnings to 1865
A detailed consideration of the diverse components of American literature from its beginnings to the Civil War. Required of all majors and concentrates.
3 hours per week 1 semester 3 credits
Fall and Spring
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ENG 295 - Survey in American Literature Since 1865
A detailed consideration of the diverse components of American literature from the Civil War to the present.
3 hours per week 1 semester 3 credits
Fall and Spring
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ENG 300 - Scholarly Writing about Literature
Introduction to the techniques of written textual analysis, including the role of literary theory in the production of scholarly writing. Required of English majors by the end of their junior year. This course is only open to English majors, minors and concentrates.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 303 - Continental Masterworks
An examination of acclaimed masterpieces (in translation) from Western literary traditions other than the English. Selected from the following: Song of Roland, Dante’s Comedy and other works, Boccaccio’s Decameron, Erasmus’ Praise of Folly, Cervantes’ Don Quixote, Voltaire’s Candide.
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Spring 2014
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ENG 305 - Chaucer
This course focuses on the writings of Geoffrey Chaucer and covers enduring themes and issues in Chaucer criticism, such as class, religion, politics, love, England, internationalism, and the authority of the vernacular.
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Spring 2014
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ENG 320 - Milton
Reading and interpretation of Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, together with Milton’s minor poems and selections from his prose. Class discussions and reports suggested by the study.
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week. 1 semester. 3 credits.
Spring.
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ENG 332 - Shakespeare
Reading and interpretation of some of Shakespeare’s best-loved and most widely known works; study of the types of Shakespeare’s plays, structure and character development, major themes.
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 358 - American Renaissance
This course will include a study of the major fiction, non-fiction, and poetry of American writers from 1820–1890, the period of romanticism, transcendentalism, nationalism, abolitionism, and realism.
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 359 - American Literature, 1890–1945
This course will include a study of the major fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama of American writers from the period of realism, naturalism, industrialism, immigration, World War I, modernism, the jazz age, the Depression, and World War II.
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 360 - American Literature Since 1945
This course will include a study of the major fiction, non-fiction, poetry, and drama of American writers from World War II to the contemporary era.
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 370 - Selected Themes or Topics of Literary Interest
This course deals with literary issues, developments, or problems not covered in depth in the regular course offerings. It enables students to take advantage of faculty expertise in diverse and mutually interesting areas. Recent offerings have showcased (or will highlight) such topics as: “African-American Women Writers,” “Out of Africa & India: Modern English Literature,” “The Immigrant Voice in America,” “The African-American Literary Consciousness,” “Thomas Malory and the Emergence of King Arthur in Medieval Literary Types.”
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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ENG 414 - Middle English Literature
This course explores Middle English literature beyond the works of Geoffrey Chaucer. Readings will be in the original language; and students will learn to analyze Middle English closely and carefully. Individual instructors may tailor this course to examine a variety of genres, themes, or topics, including but not limited to: Alliterative Verse, Arthurian Literature, Dream Visions, Literature of Dissent, Middle English Drama, Middle English Romance, and the Piers Plowman Tradition.
Prerequisite: ENG 218 or ENG 305, or department permission
3 hours per week 1 semester 3 credits
Spring 2014
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ENG 420 - Senior Seminar in Film/ Media Studies
An advanced level seminar addressing complex issues in film/media. Courses will be generally rooted in theory, but may also involve intensive research in film/media history.
Prerequisite: Any English Department Film/Media course.
1 semester. 3 credits.
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ENG 430 - Senior Seminar: Jane Austen
This course will look at all six of Austen’s novels in order to analyze Austen’s innovations in the writing of a realist novel; we will examine her language, style and structure, her use of pastiche and parody, irony. We will examine her literary influences, the Gothic novel, Romanticism, and we will look at her biography and the historical context of her works, particularly the French Revolution. We will try to answer the questions, why are her works alive and well, frequently filmed, frequently updated?
1 semester. 3 credits.
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ENG 434 - Victorian Prose & Poetry
A study of representative Victorian poets and prose writers, such as Tennyson, Browning, Mill, Arnold, Newman and Hopkins; current social and intellectual movements with relation to the literature of the period.
Prerequisite: a 100-level literature course
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall 2013
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ENG 450 - Senior Seminar: Comparative Authors
This course offers an opportunity to study two authors in depth. These authors may share a common cultural heritage (e.g. Ellison and Morrison), have similar themes in their work ( e.g. Hawthorne and Faulkner), or demonstrate an influence of one upon the other (e.g. Whitman and Ginsberg). NOTE: Students may repeat this course if topics are different.
1 semester. 3 credits.
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ENG 460 - Senior Seminar: Kate Chopin, Edith Wharton and Willa Cather
A comparative study of the fiction of three major American authors whose work transformed the possibilities and point of view of literary realism.
1 semester. 3 credits.
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ENG 462 - Senior Seminar: Eugene O’Neill
A study of at least a dozen plays tracing the development of America’s first major dramatist.
1 semester. 3 credits.
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ENG 465 - Senior Seminar: The American Confessional Poets
A close study of the major poets associated with “confessional” writing, where the poet is perceived as speaking differently from his/her life, the stereotyped “tortured soul.” One important question will consider is how this perception has often clouded critical perceptions of these poets, and how we might be able to step back and look at the artistry in their greatest works. Poets to be closely studies include: Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, W.D. Snodgrass, and John Berryman.
1 semester. 3 credits.
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ENG 468 - Senior Seminar: Contemporary Native American Literature
A study of the work of contemporary Native American authors, such as N. Scott Momaday, Luci Tapahonso, David Ortiz, Joy Harjo, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, Louise Eldrich, and Sherman Alexie. This literature draws on Native American oral tradition to explore the historical ongoing “cultural contact” between Native and European identities, seeking to create works that resist and renew.
1 semester. 3 credits.
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ENG 487 - The Senior Thesis
A focused, research-oriented project. Its product is the senior thesis. Required of English majors in their senior year.
Mentored, independent study 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall only
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FRE 151 - Elementary I
A communicative approach to the fundamentals of the French language with emphasis on listening comprehension, speaking, and cultural awareness. This course, along with FRE 152 , is designed to enable students to communicate in French in everyday situations. For students who have no previous knowledge of French.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall
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FRE 152 - Elementary II
A continuation of FRE 151 with increasing emphasis on oral communication, grammatical structures, reading, writing, and appreciation of French culture. Open to students who have completed FRE 151 or its equivalent.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Spring
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FRE 201 - Intermediate I
This course seeks to develop intermediate-level communication skills in French. Students will improve their proficiency in speaking, reading, and writing French through interactive activities in the classroom and study of more advanced grammatical structures, vocabulary, and idiomatic expressions. In addition, students will acquire the linguistic and cultural insights which come with the study of a new language. Open to students who have completed FRE 152 or its equivalent.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall
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FRE 202 - Intermediate French II
A continuation of FRE 201 . In this course, students will communicate in French on a variety of topics from personal to literary to global. Knowledge of linguistic structures and cultural understanding will be deepened and expanded. Critical thinking, problem-solving skills, and cultural comparisons will be developed.
Prerequisite: FRE 201
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Spring
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FRE 211 - French Readings I
Readings and discussions based on French texts. Review of the language through literature, civilization, and the contemporary scene.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
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FRE 212 - French Readings II
Advanced readings and discussions based on French texts. Continued study of the language through literature, civilization, and the contemporary scene.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
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GS 110 - Portfolio and Career Development Seminar
A course designed to facilitate the assessment of prior learning for the purpose of composing and constructing an experiential portfolio. The assessment process consists of individualized exercises designed to help the student idenify acquired skills and competencies and culminates in relating these to coursework as well as to career goals. Emphasis is placed on career planning, exploration, and development. This course is required of all students seeking prior experiential learning assessment credit. Students must take the GS 110 Portfolio and Career Development Seminar before their last semester. In order to register for the Seminar, students must be fully matriculated, have earned 36 credits towaqrd their program at St. Joseph’s or elsewhere, have attained a 2.5 index, have met with a P.E.L.A. advisor, and have obtained the advi8sor’s written approval. (See camp0us based registration procedures for application deadlines.) The P.E.L.A. Coordinator reserves the right to limit students’ programs during the semester in which the students are enrolled in the Seminar.
3 hours a week, 1 semester, 3 credits. Pass/No Credit
ENG 103 , approval of P.E.L.A. coordinator
3 credits
$250.00
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GS 111 - Experiential Portfolio Seminar
This course is designed to facilitate the assessment of prior learning for the purposes of composing and constructing an experiential portfolio as professional narrative. Emphasis will be placed on an exploration of the theoretical foundations of prior experiential learning for the adult student. Students must take GS 111 before their last semester. In order to register for the Seminar, students must be fully matriculated, have earned 36 credits toward their degree at St. Joseph’s or elsewhere, have attained at 2.5 index, have met with a PELA advisor, and have obtained the advisor’s written approval.
Prerequisite: ENG 103 , approval of P.E.L.A. coordinator.
1 hour a week 1 semester 1 credit. Pass/No Credit
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GS 111L - Experiential Portfolio Seminar
This course is designed to facilitate the assessment of prior learning for the purposes of composing and constructing an experiential portfolio as professional narrative. Emphasis will be placed on an exploration of the theoretical foundations of prior experiential learning for the adult student. Students must take GS 111 before their last semester. In order to register for the Seminar, students must be fully matriculated, have earned 36 credits toward their degree at St. Joseph’s or elsewhere, have attained at 2.5 index, have met with a PELA advisor, and have obtained the advisor’s written approval.
Prerequisite: ENG 103 , approval of P.E.L.A. coordinator.
1 hour a week 1 semester 0 Credit
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GS 260 - Diversity And Sensitivity in the Workplace
This course is designed to explore the various unique differences among individuals and groups in our society and in the workplace; so that we will become culturally aware and respectful of these human differences. The students will learn how to identify personal prejudice and misinformation, enhance individual ability to effect change on the personal, interpersonal and cultural level and develop analytical and problem solving skills to understand and to deal constructively with problems that arise from cultural diversity or other types of differences. Students may not earn more than 5 credits by taking HA, HS or GS one credit courses. Three one-credit options are not equivalent to a three credit course, and cannot be applied to the requirement of major electives.
This course is applicable to the liberal arts requirements of the curriculum.
1 hour a week 1 semester 1 credit.
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GS 261 - Disabilities in Society and the Workplace
This course explores the treatment of individuals with disabilities throughout history. It examines the attitudes, perceptions and emotional reactions toward disabilities, and how these may contribute toward marginalizing this population. It looks at the development of educational and employment rights, and reviews how technological adaptations have reduced barriers to full integration into society. Students may not earn more than 5 credits by taking HA, HS or GS one credit courses. Three one-credit options are not equivalent to a three credit course, and cannot be applied to the requirement of major electives.
This course is applicable to the liberal arts requirements of the curriculum.
1 hour a week 1 semester 1 credit.
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GS 398 - Becoming/CollegeLevelLearner
This course is designed for adults who have pursued a non-traditional route to college. Its primary goals are to introduce students to the demands of academic rigor at the post-secondary level, help students develop strategies for balancing those expectations with the demands of everyday life and to make explicit the connections between acquiring college level abilities and achieving their personal and professional goals.
3 credits
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GS 400 - Adults in Transition
Designed for adults, this seminar has two interrelated goals: 1) to provide the opportunity for self-exploration and understanding, and 2) to support the development of a life, career, and educational plan. Selected readings and exercises will focus on adult issues such as adult development through the life cycle, transitions, career exploration and development, life pattern differences between men and women, values and the creation of meaningful, realistic personal goals. Pass/No Credit.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
Fall and Spring
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GS 401 - Problem Solving for Professionals
This course focuses on the methodology of problem solving. Emphasis is placed on the application of various problem-solving models to life experience problems as well as to professional problems. Students will be asked to contribute problems from their own experience for analysis.
This course is applicable to the liberal arts requirements of the curriculum.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
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GS 402 - Critical Thinking for Professionals
The goal of this course is to teach students the analytical skills necessary for the assessment and evaluation of arguments, reports, newspaper articles, and editorials as well as the application of these skills to the decision- making process attending their professional activities.
This course is applicable to the liberal arts requirements of the curriculum.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
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GS 404 - Administration and the Liberal Arts
(HA 404 )
This course, designed for management and health administration majors, focuses on the relationship between the liberal arts and the issues related to administration. With perspectives provided by the social sciences and the arts and humanities, this course explores the rise of the management dynamic; the growth of technology and industrial power; administrative styles; the effect of corporate and organizational life on the individual and society; the conflict between power and responsibility. (Suggested antecedent course: BUS 100 or HA 481 )
This course is applicable to the liberal arts requirements of the curriculum.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
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GS 406 - Community Service-Learning
This course is designed to provide students wilth the opportunity to engage in academic community service while reflecting on their experiences. Students will explore service-learning theory and civic engagement through class discussion and online forums. Together, the class will learn the processes of social change, community empowerment, and intervention strategies to remedy relevant social justice issues. An important focus of the course is on improving cultural sensitivity and fostering socioeconomic understanding. Current topics will be presented and analyzed in the context of service-learning.
This course is applicable to the liberal arts requirements of the curriculum.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
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GS 423 - Principles of Training and Staff Development
(HA 423 )
This course provides a survey of the methods used in the training and career development of employees in the service of individual and organizational effectiveness. Central to the course is its focus on planning, designing, and implementing an overall training and development effort for an organization.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
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GS 424 - Training and Development Techniques
(CHA 424 )
This course focuses on conducting a specific training and development program, including developing a needs analysis, creating program objectives, selecting an appropriate teaching methodology, identifying instructional aids, and developing an evaluation instrument.
3 hours a week 1 semester 3 credits.
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GS 427 - Special Topics
This course provides students with the opportunity to participate in a focused exploration of a current topic pertaining to their field. Students may not earn more than 5 credits by taking CHA 426 or GS 427. Three one-credit options are not equivalent to a three-credit course, and cannot be applied to the requirement of major electives.
1 hour a week 1 semester 1 credit.
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GS 468 - Practicum in Training and Staff Development
(CHA 468 )
A supervised internship in training and staff development is made available to students on an individual basis. Approval required. Placements are arranged by students and instructor. Prerequisites: Required courses for the Certificate in Training and Staff Development.
Hours to be arranged. Typically no evenings or weekends. 3 credits.
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