May 20, 2024  
2009-2010 Graduate Catalog 
    
2009-2010 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Elementary Education (322)

  
  • ELED 524 - Teaching for Creative Thinking and Expression

    3 Credit Hours
    Creativity of teacher and development of student creativity. Development of creative potential across academic curriculum. Creative problem solving and methods for development of creative potential.
  
  • ELED 527 - Elementary School Curriculum

    3 Credit Hours
    Examination, evaluation and application of curriculum designs in elementary school. Trends and issues which affect elementary education.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ELED 528 - Teaching Language Arts Elementary and Middle School

    3 Credit Hours
    Recent trends and current materials and methods in teaching elementary language arts (except reading).
    Recommended Background: Course in language arts or consent of instructor.
  
  • ELED 550 - Assessment and Correction of Language Arts Difficulties

    3 Credit Hours
    Procedures and materials for diagnosing and correcting language arts difficulties; analysis of children’s work.
    Recommended Background: At least one language arts course or consent of instructor.
  
  • ELED 566 - Curriculum for Early Childhood Education (K-3)

    3 Credit Hours
    Theoretical foundations and current research in content and skill areas of curriculum for Kindergarten-Grade 3; application to local school setting.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 9 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ELED 567 - Application of Theory in Early Childhood Education (K-3)

    3 Credit Hours
    Principles and practices from selected theoretical orientations.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Recommended Background: Course in early childhood education or consent of instructor.
  
  • ELED 584 - Seminar in Early Childhood Education

    3 Credit Hours
    Analysis of research and theory in early childhood education; educative process of young children.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Recommended Background: Course in early childhood education.
  
  • ELED 606 - Research in Elementary Education

    3 Credit Hours
    Analysis of research in elementary education with application to classroom teaching.
    Recommended Background: Research course.
  
  • ELED 650 - Advanced Studies in Early Childhood Education

    3 Credit Hours
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Recommended Background: 2 graduate courses in early childhood education.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ELED 651 - Advanced Studies in Elementary School Language Arts

    3 Credit Hours
    Selected issues in elementary school language arts.
    Recommended Background: Graduate course in elementary school language arts or consent of instructor.

Engineering Management (328)

  
  • ENMG 500 - Thesis

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
  
  • ENMG 501 - Capstone Project

    3-6 Credit Hours
    Application-oriented project to show competence in major academic area.
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Comment(s): Requires enrollment in engineering management.
  
  • ENMG 502 - Registration for Use of Facilities

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Required for the student not otherwise registered during any semester when student uses university facilities and/or faculty time before degree is completed.
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
    Credit Restriction: May not be used toward degree requirements.
  
  • ENMG 532 - Productivity and Quality Engineering

    3 Credit Hours
    Productivity and quality measures defined and used to analyze current competitive position of important sectors of American industry with respect to national and international competition. Study of management theorists and systems which promote or inhibit productivity or quality improvements.
  
  • ENMG 533 - Theory and Practice of Engineering Management

    3 Credit Hours
    Principles of engineering management, including: business and organization design, culture, leadership, marketing and competition in global economy, motivation and performance management, empowerment, organizational behavior, and diversity. Systems thinking, learning organizations, and systems dynamics modeling. Principle application to work settings and case studies.
  
  • ENMG 534 - Financial Management for Engineering Managers

    3 Credit Hours
    Financial and managerial accounting in engineering and technology management. Transaction recording, financial statements, ratios and analysis, activity-based accounting, and standard practices for costing, budgeting, assessment, and control.
  
  • ENMG 535 - Management of Technology

    3 Credit Hours
    Creativity and innovation; incorporation of advanced technology equipment; application of systems thinking; new methods in business and manufacturing organizations; justifying technology; assimilating and managing change; changing management roles; and impacts of new technologies.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 538 and Industrial Engineering 518.
  
  • ENMG 536 - Project Management

    3 Credit Hours
    Development and management of engineering and technology projects. Project proposal preparation; resource and cost estimating; and project planning, organizing, and controlling: network diagrams and other techniques. Role of project manager: team building, conflict resolution, and contract negotiations. Discussion of typical problems and alternative solutions. Case studies and student projects.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 537 or consent of instructor.
  
  • ENMG 537 - Analytical Methods for Engineering Managers

    3 Credit Hours
    Survey of management analysis and control systems through industrial engineering techniques. Qualitative and quantitative systems: methods analysis, work measurement, incentive systems, wage and salary development, production and inventory control, facility layout, linear programming, and applied operations research techniques.
    Credit Restriction: No credit for student with undergraduate degrees in industrial engineering.
  
  • ENMG 538 - New Venture Formation

    3 Credit Hours
    Factors other than mechanical or chemical which enter into successful establishment of manufacturing or service enterprise. Organizational and financial planning and evaluation. Cost and location studies and market analysis to determine commercial feasibility of new ventures.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 539.
  
  • ENMG 539 - Strategic Management in Technical Organizations

    3 Credit Hours
    Strategic planning process and strategic management in practice; corporate vision and mission; product, market, organizational, and financial strategies; external factors; commercialization of new technologies; and competition and beyond.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 553 and Industrial Engineering 518 or consent of instructor.
  
  • ENMG 540 - Labor Relations

    3 Credit Hours
    Negotiation and administration of labor agreements. Survey of historical, legal, and structural environments that influence collective bargaining process. Collective bargaining simulation.
  
  • ENMG 541 - Managing Change and Improvement in Technical Organizations

    3 Credit Hours
    Current topics, theories, and applications for managing change and innovation for performance improvement in organizations. Multi-initiative approaches: quality management, organizational effectiveness, employee empowerment, performance measurement, and application of statistical tools and techniques. Self-assessment and Baldrige criteria for performance excellence. Change agent, team building, and leadership issues. Case studies.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 516.
  
  • ENMG 542 - Design of Experiments for Engineering Managers

    3 Credit Hours
    Methodology for experiments in product, service, and process improvements. Factorial experiments, screening designs, variance reduction, and other selected topics for engineering managers. Taguchi philosophy and concepts. Optimization and response surface methods. Case studies.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): Industrial Engineering 516.
  
  • ENMG 543 - Legal and Ethical Aspects of Engineering Management

    3 Credit Hours
    Legal aspects imposed by government and ethical considerations in engineering practice. Selected readings, lecture, discussion, and student presentations. Current topics from government and industry.
  
  • ENMG 595 - Special Topics in Engineering Management

    3 Credit Hours
    Problems and topics relevant to current issues in the field.
    Repeatability: May be repeated if topic differs. Maximum 6 hours.
  
  • ENMG 600 - Doctoral Research and Dissertation

    3-15 Credit Hours
    Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
  
  • ENMG 691 - Advanced Topics in Engineering Management

    3 Credit Hours
    Forum to study advanced topics individually or in groups.
    Repeatability: May be repeated if topic differs. Maximum 6 hours.

Engineering Science (335)

  
  • ENSC 500 - Thesis

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
  
  • ENSC 502 - Registration for Use of Facilities

    1-15 Credit Hours
    Required for the student not otherwise registered during any semester when student uses university facilities and/or faculty time before degree is completed.
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
    Credit Restriction: May not be used toward degree requirements.
  
  • ENSC 527 - Fracture Mechanics

    3 Credit Hours
    Mechanisms of fracture and crack growth; stress analysis; crack tip plastic zone; energy principles in fracture mechanics; fatigue-crack initiation and propagation; fracture mechanic design and fatigue life prediction. Analytical, numerical, and experimental methods for determination of stress intensity factors. Current topics in fracture mechanics.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ENSC 529 - Fatigue of Engineering Materials

    3 Credit Hours
    Fatigue life prediction, crack initiation, crack propagation. Variable amplitude loading, multi-axial loading, environmental fatigue, creep fatigue, metallurgical and microstructural variables, fractography, non-metals.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ENSC 533 - Dynamics

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Mechanical Engineering 533.)

  
  • ENSC 534 - Mechanical Vibrations

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Mechanical Engineering 534.)

  
  • ENSC 539 - Continuum Mechanics

    3 Credit Hours
    Cartesian tensors, transformation laws, basic continuum mechanics concepts; stress, strain, deformation, constitutive equations. Conservation laws for mass, momentum, energy. Applications in solid and fluid mechanics.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 539; Biomedical Engineering 539; Mechanical Engineering 539.)

  
  • ENSC 541 - Fluid Mechanics I

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Mechanical Engineering 541.)

  
  • ENSC 542 - Fluid Mechanics II

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Mechanical Engineering 542.)

  
  • ENSC 551 - Finite Elements for Engineering Applications

    3 Credit Hours
    Modern computational theory applied to conservation principles across the engineering sciences. Weak forms, extremization, boundary conditions, discrete implementation via finite element, finite difference, finite volume methods. Asymptotic error estimates, accuracy, convergence, stability. Linear problem applications in 1, 2 and 3 dimensions, extensions to non-linearity, non-smooth data, unsteady, spectral analysis techniques, coupled equation systems. Computer projects in heat transfer, structural mechanics, mechanical vibrations, fluid mechanics, heat/mass transport.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 571; Biomedical Engineering 561; Mechanical Engineering 561.)

    Comment(s): Bachelor’s degree in engineering or natural science required.
  
  • ENSC 552 - Computational Fluid-Thermal Systems

    3 Credit Hours
    Modern approximation theory applied to incompressible-thermal flows. Navier-Stokes equations, well-posedness, boundary conditions, non-dimensional groups, conjugate heat transfer, algebraic/differential closure models for turbulence. Weak forms, extremization, finite element/finite volume discrete implementations, a priori error estimates, accuracy, convergence, stability. Numerical linear algebra, sparse matrix methods. Applications in boundary layers, streamfunction-vorticity, pressure projection, free-surface, pseudo-compressibility completion theories. Solution-adaptive h- and r-meshing, optimal solution estimates. Augmentation theories for stability, numerical diffusion, Fourier spectral analyses, optimal forms. Computer projects.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 572; Biomedical Engineering 562; Mechanical Engineering 562.)

    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 551.
  
  • ENSC 553 - Computational Solid Mechanics

    3 Credit Hours
    Finite element techniques in structural mechanics and linear elasticity. Energy method and weak form formulations; isoparametric elements, numerical quadrature. Equation solving, matrix iteration techniques. Applications in beams, plates and shells; use of representative commercial finite element software.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 573; Mechanical Engineering 563.)

    Recommended Background: Mechanical Engineering 321 or equivalent.
  
  • ENSC 559 - Advanced Mechanics of Materials I

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Mechanical Engineering 559.)

  
  • ENSC 566 - Optical Engineering I

    3 Credit Hours
    Wave optics; scalar diffraction theory; introduction to Fourier optics; ray or geometric optics; lens, mirror, gratings; paraxial design methods; introduction to aberrations.
  
  • ENSC 567 - Optical Engineering II

    3 Credit Hours
    Statistical optics; spontaneous and induced emission: black and gray body radiation; incoherent, partial and totally coherent radiation; mutual coherence function; detectors; radiometry.
    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 566.
  
  • ENSC 571 - Biomechanics of Hard and Soft Tissue

    3 Credit Hours
    Introduction to terminology, physiology, and analytical methods for mechanics of living tissue. Continuum mechanics analysis of hard and soft issue, biological fluid flows. Flow properties of blood, rheology of blood in micro vessels; bioviscoelasticity of fluids and solids, mechanical properties of blood vessels; skeletal, heart and smooth muscle; bone and cartilage. Research paper.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Biomedical Engineering 571.)

  
  • ENSC 577 - Neural Networks in Engineering

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Nuclear Engineering 577.)

  
  • ENSC 578 - Fuzzy Systems in Engineering

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Nuclear Engineering 578.)

  
  • ENSC 581 - Special Topics in Engineering Mechanics

    3 Credit Hours
    Mechanics problems related to recent developments.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.
  
  • ENSC 586 - Green Engineering

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering 586.)

  
  • ENSC 595 - Seminar

    1 Credit Hours
    All phases of engineering science, reports on current research at UTK and UTSI.
    Grading Restriction: Satisfactory/No Credit grading only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 20 hours.
  
  • ENSC 600 - Doctoral Research and Dissertation

    3-15 Credit Hours
    Grading Restriction: P/NP only.
    Repeatability: May be repeated.
  
  • ENSC 645 - Theory of Turbulence

    3 Credit Hours
    Mathematical foundations for turbulent flow characterization, energy spectra, Kolmogorov hypothesis, eddy cascade structure, turbulent diffusion concept. Time averaging, Reynolds stress tensor, similarity solutions, algebraic and differential turbulence closure models. Space filtering, large eddy simulation (LES) theory, various filter concepts, approximations, Fourier transforms, Reynolds stress tensor extensions. Smagorinsky, multi-scale, Gaussian closure models for unsteady time-accurate LES CFD. Applications in external and internal flows. Computer projects.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 645.)

    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 552.
  
  • ENSC 651 - Advanced Topics in Computational Fluid Dynamics

    3 Credit Hours
    Modern approximation theory for Euler and Navier-Stokes conservation systems, compressible flow, hyperbolic forms, boundary conditions. Weak forms, extremization, finite element/finite volume/flux vector discrete implementations, a priori error estimates, accuracy, convergence, stability. Numerical linear algebra, approximate factorization, sparse matrix methods. Dissipation, Fourier spectral analysis, smooth and non-smooth solutions.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 661; Mechanical Engineering 651.)

    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 552.
  
  • ENSC 652 - Advanced Computational Fluid Dynamics Practice

    3 Credit Hours
    Applications of modern CFD theory and code practice for Euler and Navier-Stokes conservation systems. Computer projects in incompressible/compressible flow, viscous, turbulent, reacting and/or inviscid/potential subsonic to hypersonic flows.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Aerospace Engineering 662; Mechanical Engineering 652.)

    (DE) Prerequisite(s): 645 and 651.
  
  • ENSC 657 - Computational Mechanics Seminar

    1 Credit Hours
    Current developments in computational fluid/thermal/structural mechanics.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 20 hours.
    Comment(s): For departmental thesis students only.
  
  • ENSC 659 - Advanced Mechanics of Materials II

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Mechanical Engineering 659.)

  
  • ENSC 671 - Advanced Topics in Applied Artificial Intelligence

    3 Credit Hours
    Cross-listed: (See Nuclear Engineering 671.)

  
  • ENSC 681 - Advanced Topics in Engineering Mechanics

    3 Credit Hours
    Advanced problems in mechanics, group or individually.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
    Registration Permission: Consent of instructor.

English (339)

  
  • ENGL 401 - Medieval Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Reading and analysis of a selection of literary works from the Old and Middle English period, as well as some continental texts; most will be read in modern English translation, and no previous knowledge of Middle English is required.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Medieval Studies 405.)

  
  • ENGL 402 - Chaucer

    3 Credit Hours
    Reading and analysis of the Canterbury Tales and Troylus and Criseyde in Middle English.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Medieval Studies 406.)

  
  • ENGL 403 - Introduction to Middle English

    3 Credit Hours
    Survey of the language and literature of England from the 12th through the 15th centuries. Reading of prose works and shorter poetry will be done in Middle English with special attention paid to grammar, style, dialect, and language change. The class will explore the culture of medieval England through critical essays, histories, and supplementary texts in translation.
  
  • ENGL 404 - Shakespeare I: Early Plays

    3 Credit Hours
    Shakespeare’s dramatic achievement before 1601. Reading and discussion of selected plays from romantic comedies, including Twelfth Night; English histories, including Henry IV; and early tragedy, including Hamlet.
  
  • ENGL 405 - Shakespeare II: Later Plays

    3 Credit Hours
    Shakespeare’s dramatic achievement between 1601 and 1613. Reading and discussion of selected plays from great tragedies, including Othello; problem plays, including Measure for Measure; and dramatic romances, including The Tempest.
  
  • ENGL 406 - Renaissance Drama

    3 Credit Hours
    English theatre between 1590 and 1640. Representative plays by Shakespeare’s contemporaries - Marlowe, Webster, and Jonson.
  
  • ENGL 409 - Spenser and his Contemporaries

    3 Credit Hours
    Principal achievements in prose and poetry of 16th-century authors - Spenser, Wyatt, Marlowe, More, Sidney, and Bacon.
  
  • ENGL 410 - Milton, Donne and their Contemporaries

    3 Credit Hours
    Principal achievements in prose and poetry of the first two-thirds of the 17th-century. Poetry of Milton, Donne, Marvell. Prose of Browne, Bacon, and Walton.
  
  • ENGL 411 - Literature of the Restoration and Early 18th-Century: Dryden to Pope

    3 Credit Hours
    Survey of English literature and culture from 1660 to 1745.
  
  • ENGL 412 - Literature of Later 18th-Century: Johnson to Burns

    3 Credit Hours
    Survey of English literature and culture from 1745 to 1800.
  
  • ENGL 413 - Restoration and 18th-Century Genres and Modes

    3 Credit Hours
    Study of one major genre or literary mode such as drama, novel, poetry, nonfiction, prose, satire, romance, or epic written between 1660 and 1800.
    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
  
  • ENGL 414 - Romantic Poetry and Prose I

    3 Credit Hours
    Emphasis on Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Blake; with readings from Lamb, De Quincey, and other prose writers.
  
  • ENGL 415 - Romantic Poetry and Prose II

    3 Credit Hours
    Emphasis on Keats, Shelley and Byron; with readings from Hazlitt, Peacock, and other prose writers.
  
  • ENGL 416 - Early Victorian Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    May include poetry by Tennyson and the Brownings; prose by Carlyle, Newman, and Mill.
  
  • ENGL 419 - Later Victorian Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    May include poetry by the Pre-Raphaelites, Arnold, Hopkins, and Hardy; prose by Arnold, Ruskin, and Carroll; plays by Gilbert and Wilde.
  
  • ENGL 420 - The 19th-Century British Novel

    3 Credit Hours
    Major novelists from Scott to Hardy.
  
  • ENGL 421 - Modern British Novel

    3 Credit Hours
    Authors such as Joyce and Woolf through contemporary British fiction writers.
  
  • ENGL 422 - Women Writers in Britain

    3 Credit Hours
    Emphasis on the literary consciousness and works of women writers in Britain. Course content will vary. Authors covered may include Marie de France, Margery Kempe, Aemilia Lanyer, Elizabeth Cary, Aphra Behn, Frances Burney, Mary Wollstonecraft, Mary Shelley, George Eliot, Virginia Woolf, and Doris Lessing.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Women’s Studies 422.)

    Repeatability: May be repeated. Maximum 6 hours.
  
  • ENGL 423 - Colonial and Post-Colonial Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Emphasis on historical and theoretical methodologies for reading colonial and post-colonial literature.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with instructor’s consent. Maximum 6 hours.
  
  • ENGL 431 - Early American Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    From the earliest texts to 1830, including exploration and discovery, Native American, colonial, revolutionary, and early national works.
  
  • ENGL 432 - American Romanticism and Transcendentalism

    3 Credit Hours
    Prose and poetry of the American Renaissance from 1830 to the end of the Civil War. Includes writers such as Cooper, Emerson, Fuller, Poe, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, Douglass, Jacobs, Whitman, and Dickinson.
  
  • ENGL 433 - American Realism and Naturalism

    3 Credit Hours
    Literature from the time of the Civil War to World War I. Includes writers such as Alcott, Twain, Howells, James, Jewett, Harper, Crane, Norris, and Wharton.
  
  • ENGL 434 - Modern American Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    World War I to the present.
  
  • ENGL 435 - American Novel before 1900

    3 Credit Hours
    Traces the development of the American novel from the late 18th to the late 19th centuries. Includes such writers as Rowson, Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne, Melville, Stowe, James, Twain, and Dreiser.
  
  • ENGL 436 - Modern American Novel

    3 Credit Hours
    Authors such as Faulkner, Steinbeck, Welty.
  
  • ENGL 441 - Southern Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Southern writing from colonial period into the 20th-century, including frontier humorists, local color writers, and the Southern Literary Renaissance.
  
  • ENGL 442 - American Humor

    3 Credit Hours
    Development of American humor from the early 19th-century into the 20th-century, with particular emphasis on Mark Twain.
    Cross-listed: (Same as American Studies 442.)

  
  • ENGL 443 - Topics in Black Literature

    3 Credit Hours
    Content varies according to particular genres, authors, or theories from 1845 to present, including Langston Hughes and the Harlem Renaissance, Richard Wright and Gwendolyn Brooks, writing by black women, international black literature in English, and black American autobiography.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Africana Studies 443.)

  
  • ENGL 451 - Modern British and American Poetry

    3 Credit Hours
    Formal, cultural, and thematic movements in 20th-century British and American poetry published before 1950. Includes such writers as Yeats, Frost, Eliot, Pound, Williams, Moore, Stevens, Stein, Hughes, and Auden.
  
  • ENGL 452 - Modern Drama

    3 Credit Hours
    Survey of British, American, and international drama from 1880 to the end of World War II. Includes such playwrights as Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw, Synge, O’Neill, Glaspell, Treadwell, Hughes, Pirandello, Brecht, and Wilder.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Comparative Literature 452.)

  
  • ENGL 453 - Contemporary Drama

    3 Credit Hours
    Survey of British, American, and international drama since World War II. Includes such playwrights as Williams, Miller, Beckett, Drrenmatt, Stoppard, Churchill, Shepard, Mamet, Shange, Wilson, Friel, Maponya, Highway, and Kushner.
  
  • ENGL 454 - 20th-Century International Novel

    3 Credit Hours
    Fiction in English translation from such writers as Kafka and Camus through contemporary authors.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Comparative Literature 454.)

  
  • ENGL 455 - Persuasive Writing

    3 Credit Hours
    Focuses on writing and analyzing persuasive texts in public, private, and academic contexts.
    Recommended Background: 355.
  
  • ENGL 456 - Contemporary Fiction/Narrative

    3 Credit Hours
    Formal, literary-historical, and thematic movements in post-World War II British and American fiction and international fiction in translation. Focus on postmodern novels and short stories written after 1945, but readings may include some newly influential narrative forms such as the graphic novel, hypertext and digital fiction and the nonfiction novel.
  
  • ENGL 459 - Contemporary Poetry

    3 Credit Hours
    Formal, cultural, and thematic movements in poetry published since 1950. Includes such writers as Lowell, Bishop, Brooks, Ginsberg, Plath, Larkin, Ashbery, Heaney, Baraka, and Walcott.
  
  • ENGL 460 - Technical Editing

    3 Credit Hours
    Editing technical material for publication. Principles of style, format, graphics, layout, and production management.
    Recommended Background: 360.
  
  • ENGL 462 - Writing for Publication

    3 Credit Hours
    Principles and practices of writing for publication. Dissertations, theses, articles, and reports in science and technology.
    Recommended Background: 360.
  
  • ENGL 463 - Advanced Poetry Writing

    3 Credit Hours
    Development of skills acquired in basic poetry-writing course.
    Recommended Background: 363.
  
  • ENGL 464 - Advanced Fiction Writing

    3 Credit Hours
    Development of skills acquired in basic fiction-writing course.
    Recommended Background: 365.
  
  • ENGL 466 - Writing, Layout, and Production of Technical Documents

    3 Credit Hours
    Principles of design for desktop publishing. Production of various documents to be incorporated into a professional portfolio.
    Recommended Background: 360.
  
  • ENGL 470 - Special Topics in Rhetoric

    3 Credit Hours
    Topics vary.
    Repeatability: May be repeated with consent of department. Maximum 6 hours.
    Recommended Background: 355.
  
  • ENGL 471 - Sociolinguistics

    3 Credit Hours
    Language in relation to societies. Theoretical and empirical study of language variation in individuals (style-shifting) and among social, cultural, and national/international groups.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Linguistics 471.)

    Recommended Background: 371 or 372 or Linguistics 200 or consent of instructor.
  
  • ENGL 472 - American English

    3 Credit Hours
    Phonological, morphological, and syntactic characteristics of major social and regional varieties of American English, with attention to their origins, functions, and implications for cultural pluralism.
    Cross-listed: (Same as Linguistics 472.)

    Recommended Background: 371 or 372 or Linguistics 200.
 

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