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EDUC 3365 - Field Experience 3
Credit Hours: 2
This course builds on cumulative experiences in previous field-based practica and is a semester long experience which must be completed in a Professional Development School / public school setting. The third clinical experience will allow the teacher candidate the opportunity to apply and reflect on his/her content area as well as pedagogical knowledge, skills, and dispositions in a classroom setting with a certified teacher. This experience will allow for immersion in the learning community so the teacher candidate can demonstrate proficiencies in the role for which s/he is preparing which include: assisting, tutoring, instruction and classroom management. The teacher candidate will identify and develop a focus, review the literature and explore the context for the action research project that will be implemented in the student teaching clinical experience.
Corequisite(s): EDUC 3340 & EDUC 3351
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EDUC 4484 - Residency 2: Student Teaching for Elementary
Credit Hours: 10
Full-time involvement in the teaching/learning process in a Professional Development School/public elementary school setting at the PreK-4/PreK-6 level is required for successful completion of this course. Residents will observe, assist, co-teach, co-plan, teach, and manage a classroom under the supervision of a cooperating public-school teacher and university supervisor.
Prerequisite(s): EDUC 3341
Corequisite(s): EDUC 4485 and EDUC 4486
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EDUC 4485 - Action Research
Credit Hours: 1
This course is taken concurrently with student teaching and involves completion of a capstone action research project to document impact on student learning. During this course, candidates will finalize a proposal for their project and implement their approved action research in the public school setting. At the completion of implementation, the teacher candidate will provide a final comprehensive analysis of the data, write and submit final reports, and prepare and present a professional presentation of the project to peers and faculty. It serves as the Teacher Performance Assessment required for certification and licensure.
Prerequisite(s): EDUC 3365
Corequisite(s): EDUC 4491 or EDUC 4496 , and EDUC 4486
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EDUC 4486 - Portfolio
Credit Hours: 1
This course is taken concurrently with student teaching and consists of creating a five-part portfolio which showcases the students’ best work based on the WV Teaching Standards. There is an emphasis on authentic artifacts that show evidence that the student can collect and select standard-based artifacts, and reflect on his/her professional growth in order to improve teaching practice and student learning. The teacher candidates will present the portfolio to peers and faculty.
Prerequisite(s): EDUC 3365
Corequisite(s): EDUC 4491 or EDUC 4496 , and EDUC 4485
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EDUC 4491 - Elementary Student Teaching
Credit Hours: 10
Full-time involvement in the teaching/learning process in a Professional Development School/public elementary school setting at the PreK-4/PreK-6 level is required for successful completion of this course. Student teachers will observe, assist, teach and manage a classroom under the supervision of a host public school teacher and college liaison.
Prerequisite(s): EDUC 3365
Corequisite(s): EDUC 4485 & EDUC 4486
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EDUC 4496 - Secondary Student Teaching
Credit Hours: 10
Full-time involvement in the teaching/learning process in a Professional Development School/public school setting at the PreK-Adult level is required for successful completion of this course. Student teachers will observe, assist, teach and manage a classroom under the supervision of a host public school teacher and college liaison.
Prerequisite(s): EDUC 3365
Corequisite(s): EDUC 4485 & EDUC 4486
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ELEC 1100 - Circuit Analysis I
Credit Hours: 3
Introduction to the concepts of voltage, current, resistance, capacitance and inductance. Also covered are Kirchoff’s Laws, with applications in basic DC-AC, series-parallel circuits. Basic electromechanical devices and transformers and three phase electrical circuits are studied.
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ELEC 1120 - AC/DC Electronics Analysis
Credit Hours: 3
This course introduces students to the concepts of measuring voltage, current, and resistance of various ac and dc circuits. Students will build electronic circuits on a breadboard using discrete and integrated circuit components. The student will be introduced to electronic instruments, such as the digital multimeter, oscilloscope, function generator, and power supplies utilized extensively in a lab setting. The student will learn how to use simulation software and make comparisons between theoretical and real-world results.
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ELEC 1199 - Special Topics in Electronics Engineering Technology
Credit Hours: 1-12
Studies in special selected topics, to be determined by the instructor and approved by the department chairperson. Credits earned will be applicable as free electives in degree and certificate programs.
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ELEC 2200 - Shop Practices
Credit Hours: 3
The student will learn to breadboard fundamental circuits, which is a building block for all subsequent lab based courses. Breadboarding will be accompanied with voltage, current, resistance measurements using a multimeter. An introduction to oscilloscopes and function generators is also included. Note: Extra costs are associated with this course, as the student will be purchasing equipment that will be used in several subsequent courses.
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ELEC 2210 - Circuit Analysis II
Credit Hours: 3
Continuation of ELEC 1100 , including the theory and application of circuit analysis theorems. Also covered are nonsinusoidal waveforms, three-phase circuits and the use of computers in solving problems.
Prerequisite(s): ELEC 1100
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ELEC 2225 - Electronic Devices
Credit Hours: 3
Devices studied will include diodes, transistors, Op Amps, PLL’s, and timers. The circuitry studied will include power supplies, basic amplifier types, power amplifiers, switching circuits, voltage regulators, comparators and active filters.
Prerequisite(s): ELEC 1100
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ELEC 2230 - Digital Electronics
Credit Hours: 3
Theory and experimentation with SSI, MSI, and LSI devices and systems, including gates, flip-flops, counters, decoders, timers, displays, memories, etc., and such systems as thermometers, tachometers, meters, etc.
Prerequisite(s): ELEC 1100
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ELEC 2240 - Industrial Electronics
Credit Hours: 3
Study of the operation of industrial power control systems, including power devices and control circuits. Power devices covered include relays, contactors, transistors, SCRs and TRIACs. Control circuits include UJTs, PUTs, DIACs, photo-devices, timers and control ICs.
Prerequisite(s): ELEC 2225
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ELEC 2250 - AC-DC Machinery and Controls
Credit Hours: 3
Practical aspects in the use and maintenance of AC-DC machinery and power distribution, including motors, generators, starters, speed controllers, breakers, transformers, etc.
Prerequisite(s): ELEC 1100
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ELEC 2260 - Communication Systems
Credit Hours: 3
Theory, operation, and maintenance of AVMA, FM, PM and digital communications systems.
Prerequisite(s): ELEC 2225
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ELEC 2270 - Microcomputers
Credit Hours: 3
Project-based learning using a multi-core microcontroller with A/D and D/A converters utilized and integrating an array of sensors, control high-speed stepper motors, and program a mini robot to navigate autonomously.
Prerequisite(s): ELEC 1100
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ELEC 2280 - Programmable Controllers
Credit Hours: 3
An introduction to programmable controllers and their application to sequential process control. Topics include basic operating characteristics, relays, timers, counters, sequencers, editing and online data control. Practical laboratory experiences will be provided in controller applications, programming, installation and maintenance.
Prerequisite(s): ELEC 2230
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ELEC 3300 - Advanced Linear Electronics
Credit Hours: 3
A study of linear devices including OP AMPS, comparators, timers, filters, voltage references and current references. The course will include analysis and design concepts covering a wide range of linear circuits. This course satisfies the general studies “teamwork” requirement.
Prerequisite(s): ELEC 2230
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ELEC 3310 - Advanced Microcomputer Systems
Credit Hours: 3
This course is a continuation of ELEC 2270 utilizing multiple microcontrollers. The student will develop a combination of hardware/software skills and problem solving abilities to create, control and monitor various systems.
Prerequisite(s): ELEC 2270
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ELEC 3360 - Communication Systems
Credit Hours: 3
Covers the elementary electronic communication concepts such as AM, FM, and digital modulation for radio and TV applications. Discusses the theory and operation of modern communication techniques including multiplexing, spread spectrum, wired and wireless networks, satellite communications, telemetry, and Internet.
Prerequisite(s): ELEC 2240
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ELEC 4401 - Senior Electronics Project I
Credit Hours: 4
Instructor-approved capstone project. This course will allow the student to pursue specialized interests and show that s/he can manage and complete an individual project. This is a two course sequence (along with ELEC 4402 ) where the student will select a project with faculty approval; design the project, and perform preliminary testing of the project. Project management techniques will be utilized throughout the course. Restrictions: Baccalaureate majors only.
Prerequisite(s): ELEC 3310
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ELEC 4402 - Senior Electronics Project II
Credit Hours: 3
Writing Intensive
This is a Writing Intensive Course coordinated with the technical development within ELEC 4401 . While completing ELEC 4401 capstone project; students will demonstrate, prepare and deliver an oral presentation, and submit a final report and presentation.
Prerequisite(s): ELEC 3310
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ELEC 4410 - Data Acquisition and Control Systems
Credit Hours: 4
Theory and use of data acquisition and control systems, including transducers, signal conditioning circuits, multiplexing, A/D and D/A converters, computers and control devices. Restrictions: Baccalaureate majors only.
Prerequisite(s): ELEC 3300
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ELEC 4420 - Advanced Automation Controller Systems
Credit Hours: 3
Advanced Programmable Logic Controller Course where the student will complete detailed applications for Allen-Bradley and Siemens PLC-HMI systems. This course is a combination of lecture and lab exercises to develop practical automation design applications.
Prerequisite(s): ELEC 2280
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ELEC 4998 - Undergraduate Research
Credit Hours: 0-6
Undergraduate research is an experiential learning activity that provides an opportunity for a student to engage in the scholarly activities of their major discipline under the guidance of a faculty mentor who will work in close partnership with each student in his or her formulation of a project, the development of a research strategy, and the assessment of a student’s progress. The primary goal is for each student scholar to conduct an inquiry or investigation that makes an original, intellectual or creative contribution to their discipline and which is shared in an appropriate venue.
Prerequisite(s): Instructor approval required
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ENGL 1101 - Written English I
Credit Hours: 3-4
This course offers process-oriented practice in drafting, revising, and editing texts. Students learn the principles of expository writing, thesis formulation, organization, paragraph development, audience analysis, appropriate diction, and sentence structure. The course also includes an introduction to reading for content in texts selected from across the disciplines. Following WV state mandates, students scoring below 18 on the English section of the ACT, 480 on the Critical Reading and Writing section of the SAT (since 2016), or 5 on the WritePlacer of ACCUPLACER, or the equivalent will be required to take an additional credit hour of supplemental instruction in English 1101, which will reinforce the skills necessary to generate college level essays. A “C” in English 1101 is a graduation requirement for all degrees. Course is transferable as general studies credit to all other state institutions of higher education in West Virginia for credit with the grade earned.
Transferable General Studies Course
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ENGL 1102 - Written English II
Credit Hours: 3
A continuation of Written English I that provides experience in analyzing and writing argument and persuasive prose. A central feature of the course is a library research project that is intended to develop familiarity with reference sources and skill in summarizing the diverse points of view of multiple sources. A “C” in English 1102 or English 1103 , as determined by the academic department, is a graduation requirement for all degrees. Course is transferable as general studies credit to all other state institutions of higher education in West Virginia for credit with the grade earned.
Prerequisite(s): A C or better in ENGL 1101
Transferable General Studies Course
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ENGL 1103 - Technical Report Writing
Credit Hours: 3
This course provides practice in writing expository documents and technical reports. In addition to scientific/technical reports and proposals, students also write business letters, memoranda, and other types of written communication common to the industrial and business worlds. A “C” in English 1102 is a graduation requirement for all degrees.
Prerequisite(s): A C or better in ENGL 1101
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ENGL 2007 - Shakespeare Road Trip
Credit Hours: 1
The Shakespeare Road Trip provides students with a critical introduction to productions of plays by Shakespeare and others. Fees for tickets and travel expenses will apply. This course may be repeated for credit
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1102
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ENGL 2220 - World Literature I: Origins to 1650
Credit Hours: 3
A survey of literary masterpieces from around the world. Readings will include religious texts (such as the Bible, the Koran and the writings of Confucius); the epic (Gilgamesh, Homer and Dante); poetry (Li Po, Ovid and Petrarch); drama (Sophocles, Shakespeare and non-Western traditions such as Japanese Noh theater); and narrative fiction (tales from The Thousand and One Nights, The Tale of Genji and Don Quixote). Course is transferable as general studies credit to all other state institutions of higher education in West Virginia for credit with the grade earned.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1103
Transferable General Studies Course
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ENGL 2221 - World Literature II: 1650 to the Present
Credit Hours: 3
English 2221 offers a study in literary masterpieces, some in translation, from around the world, including satire (works by authors such as Moliere, Swift and Voltaire); drama (K’ung Shan-Jen, Ibsen, Chekhov, and Al-Hakim); poetry (Basho, Keats, Dickinson, and Eliot); the short story (Flaubert, Ichiyo, Lu Xun, and Gordimer); and the novel (Yasunari, Achebe and Desai). Course is transferable as general studies credit to all other state institutions of higher education in West Virginia for credit with the grade earned.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1101 ENGL 1102
Transferable General Studies Course
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ENGL 2240 - Introduction to Literature: Prose, Poetry, and Drama
Credit Hours: 3
A survey of representative works in prose, poetry, and drama, accomplished through close reading, discussion, and written response.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1103
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ENGL 2251 - Introduction to Literary Studies
Credit Hours: 3
An introduction to the formal study of literature focusing on reading and interpretation of texts from a variety of analytical approaches. The course highlights the wide range of literary critical methodologies and challenges students to articulate and reflect upon their own critical assumptions. When Offered: Offered in the fall only
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ENGL 3301 - Theories of Language and their Application to English I
Credit Hours: 3
This course covers the linguistic subjects of syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics and pragmatics, which provide concepts and techniques for understanding languages, with special emphasis upon English. Topics will include descriptive versus prescriptive grammar, dialect and register, synchronic and diachronic language variation, the history of English, language acquisition, the leading theories of language, language theory and the art of composition. Required of all prospective teachers of English; to be taken before Clinical III.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1102
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ENGL 3302 - Theories of Language and their Application to English II
Credit Hours: 3
Continuation of ENGL 3301 , emphasizing practical applications to teaching writing and grammar in grades 5-12. Required of all prospective teachers of English; to be taken before Clinical III.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 3301
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ENGL 3303 - Survey of Amer Lit I: Beginnings to the 1850s
Credit Hours: 3
Writing Intensive
A study of American literary traditions, from the poets, diarists and chroniclers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the writers of imaginative and autobiographical prose and poetry of the early/mid 1800s.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2220
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ENGL 3304 - Survey of Amer Lit II: The 1850s to the Present
Credit Hours: 3
Writing Intensive
A study of America’s literary traditions from the 1850s to the present, including the poets, “local color” writers, naturalists and realists of the late 1800s; the experimental poetry and fiction of the early 1900s; the major dramatists; and a large sampling of the writers from the last half of the century.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2221
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ENGL 3313 - Survey of British Literature I.
Credit Hours: 3
Writing Intensive
This course offers a study of British literature beginning with Beowulf and continuing through the eighteenth century, including Chaucer, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Swift, and Pope. Recent recovery of female writers such as Lanyer, Cavendish, Whitney, and Behn and scholarship on them is also reflected in the design of the course.
Prerequisite(s): English 2220
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ENGL 3314 - Survey of British Literature II
Credit Hours: 3
Writing Intensive
This course offers a study of British literature from the early Romantic period through the present day, including such writers as Blake, Wordsworth, Austen, Tennyson, Dickens, Yeats, Shaw, Woolf, Joyce, Eliot, Beckett, and Auden. The purpose of this course is to give students an overview of the major literary and historical movements in Britain and its colonies in the last two hundred years, while introducing students to a basic vocabulary of literary terms and critical theory.
Prerequisite(s): English 2221
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ENGL 3320 - Literary Criticism
Credit Hours: 3
A study of past and present critical methods and of the theoretical assumptions upon which they are based.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 3303 or ENGL 3313
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ENGL 3332 - Narrative and Descriptive Writing
Credit Hours: 3
Writing Intensive
Narrative and Descriptive Writing provides intensive practice in narrative and descriptive techniques in fictional, non-fictional, dramatic and poetic modes of writing. Utilizing a workshop format promotes reciprocity in the classroom between professor and students and among students. The course does not require experience in writing creatively but rather provides instruction and practice in the craft of writing. Students work in several creative modes for different audiences and purposes.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1102
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ENGL 3333 - Writing Non-Fiction
Credit Hours: 3
Writing Intensive
Study and practice of the various kinds of expository writing.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1102
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ENGL 3344 - Writing Poetry
Credit Hours: 3
Writing Intensive
A workshop-based, individual-centered course in which students examine the tradition of poetry and poetics and how their own interest in writing poems may work within and against that tradition. The emphasis is on writing, revising and presenting poems in workshop format and potentially professionally. Students will also read and respond to modern poems and essays on poetics. Students are advised to first take ENGL 3332 .
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1102
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ENGL 3345 - Writing Fiction
Credit Hours: 3
Writing Intensive
A workshop-based, individual-centered course in which students examine the tradition of fiction and how their own interest in writing stories may work within and against that tradition. The emphasis is on writing, revising and presenting stories in workshop format and potentially professionally. Students will also read and respond to modern stories and essays on fiction. Students are advised to first take ENGL 3332 .
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1102
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ENGL 3349 - Advanced Technical Communication
Credit Hours: 3
Writing Intensive
This course places special emphasis on the preparation and implementation of the extensive, formal report in business, industry and public service organizations. As such, it will feature an introduction and orientation to source materials for advanced technical research and presentation, and it will also address the use of technical language for informed and uninformed audiences.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1102 or ENGL 1103
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ENGL 3354 - Children’s Literature
Credit Hours: 3
This course seeks to acquaint students with a number of major works in the field of children’s literature, while providing approaches to appreciate and evaluate such texts. When Offered: Offered Fall semester only
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1101
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ENGL 3355 - Young Adult Literature
Credit Hours: 3
This course seeks to acquaint students with a number of major works in the field of young adult literature, while providing approaches to appreciate and evaluate such texts.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2220 or ENGL 2221 or ENGL 2230 or ENGL 2231
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ENGL 3356 - Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Magical Realism
Credit Hours: 3
This course seeks to acquaint students with a number of major works of highly imaginative literature by such writers as George MacDonald, J.R.R. Tolkien, H. P. Lovecraft, Angela Carter, Ray Bradbury, Philip K. Dick, Franz Kafka, Gabriel Marquez, Salman Rushdie, and Jorge Luis Borges. While providing approaches to appreciate and evaluate such texts, the course will also address cultural/literary assumptions about the value of fantasy, both in fiction and in human development.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2220 or ENGL 2221 or ENGL 2230 or ENGL 2231
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ENGL 3361 - American Romanticism
Credit Hours: 3
This course studies the works of three or four writers most closely associated with nineteenth-century American Romanticism. Among the writers who may be chosen for study are Irving, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 3303
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ENGL 3362 - American Realism and Naturalism
Credit Hours: 3
This course offers a study of the work of four or five realist and naturalist writers and the intellectual and historical context in which they worked. Such writers may include James, Twain, Crane, Dreiser, Norris, Howells, Cather, Wharton, Chopin, Jewett, and Garland.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 3304
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ENGL 3363 - The American Novel
Credit Hours: 3
This course traces the development of the American novel from the late eighteenth century to the present. Important American novels will be analyzed in a chronological sequence.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 3304 or ENGL 3304
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ENGL 3364 - Appalachian Literature
Credit Hours: 3
This course identifies and analyzes representative examples of writers and their literature (poetry and prose) that have grown out of the Appalachian Region. Major emphasis is placed on the cultural, historical, geographical, and social elements that have influenced the themes and points of view of the literature. Selected nonprint (film) interpretations of both the region and its literature are a part of the course content and serve as important learning strategies for projecting the tone and atmosphere of the region and in establishing, and reinforcing, its stereotypes and imagery both inside and outside the region.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2221
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ENGL 3365 - American Modernism
Credit Hours: 3
This course will examine the artistic and literary movements in the early 20th century that continue to shape ideas of literature, reading, art, and taste. With attention to the avant-garde, readings will include high-modernists like Eliot, Hemingway, and Pound, as well as those writers less obviously participating in the aesthetic directives posed by the era.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 3304
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ENGL 3366 - Contemporary Literature
Credit Hours: 3
This course examines the ways in which visual and written texts have illustrated shifts in political and linguistic thought since midcentury. Students will need patience and a good sense of humor and must be prepared to encounter assaults to their most precious assumptions with an open mind. The graphic novel, performance art, experimental poetry, and other hybrid texts will be studied alongside familiar literary forms revised for current concerns.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 3304 or ENGL 3314
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ENGL 3370 - Literature of the Middle Ages
Credit Hours: 3
This course presents a study of English and continental European literature of the Middle Ages. Genres covered include the chronicle, romance, fabliau, beast fable, lyric, saint’s legend and drama.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 3313
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ENGL 3373 - Chaucer
Credit Hours: 3
Our primary objective is to read and understand Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales in the language in which he wrote. We will learn a bit about the Middle Ages in general, and we will learn that the study of a great medieval poet may teach us something about ourselves.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 3313
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ENGL 3374 - Shakespeare
Credit Hours: 3
Writing Intensive
A study of Shakespeare’s poetry and plays.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 3313
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ENGL 3375 - Later Renaissance British Literature
Credit Hours: 3
A study of British literature and culture during a century of great change. From the death of Elizabeth I to the Civil War, from the Interregnum to the Restoration, from England’s national boundaries to its explorations and colonialist origins, we will survey poets, their protgs, and their subjects; the drama as it shifts from court masque to city comedy, from boys playing women to women taking to the stage and writing for the stage; the rise of women taking up the pen in support of their faith, their families, and themselves. Our major figure for the period is John Milton.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 3313
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ENGL 3377 - Literature of the Enlightenment
Credit Hours: 3
This course examines social and intellectual developments of the European Enlightenment through writers representing the perspectives of both the “Ancients” (such as Dryden, Behn, Pope, and Swift) and the “Moderns” (such as Congreve, Defoe, Haywood, and Voltaire).
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 3313
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ENGL 3378 - British Romanticism
Credit Hours: 3
A concentrated study of the works of such writers as Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley and Keats.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 3314
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ENGL 3379 - Literature of the Victorian Period
Credit Hours: 3
A concentrated study of the works of such writers as Tennyson, Browning, Rossetti, Arnold, Swinburne, Mill, Ruskin and Carlyle.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 3314
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ENGL 3380 - Twentieth-Century British Literature
Credit Hours: 3
A study of the major texts in 20th-century British literature that reflect the cultural, social and literary issues of the time. Among the writers who may be studied are poets, from Yeats and Eliot to Heaney and Larkin, playwrights such as Beckett and Stoppard and fiction writers, from Joyce and Waugh to Fowles and Drabble.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 3314
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ENGL 3381 - The British Novel
Credit Hours: 3
A historical and critical study of significant British novels of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 3313 or ENGL 3314
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ENGL 3382 - The World Novel
Credit Hours: 3
This course offers a study of the enduring accomplishments of the novelists of Europe, Latin America, and other regions. Novels to be read may include those of Cervantes in the 1600s; Voltaire and Goethe in the 1700s, Flaubert, Tolstoy, and Dostoevsky in the 1800s; and Kafka, Camus, Kundera, and Marquez in the 1900s.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2220
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ENGL 3383 - Epic Tradition
Credit Hours: 3
In this course we will study the evolving epic tradition, covering 4000+ years of history, and draw our reading selections from a wide range of places, cultures, and perspectives. Our focus will be on the canonical western tradition (Homer, Virgil, Milton, et. al.) but we will also make forays into the literatures of the Near East, India, and Africa.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2220 or ENGL 2221
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ENGL 3385 - The Arthurian Tradition
Credit Hours: 3
This course surveys Arthurian literature from its 12th-century origins to the present day. It will include analysis of the archaeological evidence for a historical Arthur, as well as the Celtic background from which the legends spring.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1102
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ENGL 3386 - The Bible as Literature
Credit Hours: 3
This course focuses on the literary history, interpretation and genres of the Bible, as well as significant biblical tropes, metaphors and narratives.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2220 or ENGL 2221 or ENGL 2230 or ENGL 2231
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ENGL 3387 - Folk Literature
Credit Hours: 3
This course is an analysis of the components and genres of oral folk literature through poetry (the folk song, ballad and instrumentation), narrative (myths, legends, folktales, fables, morals, anecdotes, personal narratives and other forms of folk narrative), and language (verbal lore, such as dialect/accent, beliefs and superstitions, proverbs, sayings, riddles and jokes) within the contextual process of perpetuation (storytelling) and preservation (collecting and motifing). Emphasis will be placed on the Appalachian cultural perspective. A field study will be part of the course. Same Course As: FOLK 3300
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2220
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ENGL 3388 - Women’s Literature
Credit Hours: 3
A study of classic texts in women’s literature, including works by writers such as Aphra Behn, Jane Austen, Kate Chopin, Virginia Woolf, and Amy Lowell. Students will also study works by contemporary female writers, representing American, British, and other world literatures.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2220 or ENGL 2221 or ENGL 2230 or ENGL 2231
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ENGL 3389 - Minority Literature
Credit Hours: 3
A study of writers and forms traditionally omitted from the American literary canon, this course tracks the writing of people unacknowledged by conventional versions of American history with attention to their experimentation with literary genre and disciplinary boundaries.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2220 or ENGL 2221 or ENGL 2230 or ENGL 2231
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ENGL 3390 - Modern Drama
Credit Hours: 3
This course examines world drama from the nineteenth-century to the present.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2221
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ENGL 3391 - The Short Story
Credit Hours: 3
This course offers a critical study of this art form based upon the work of authors from around the world. Course is transferable as general studies credit to all other state institutions of higher education in West Virginia for credit with the grade earned.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2221
Transferable General Studies Course
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ENGL 3392 - Contemporary Poetry
Credit Hours: 3
This course focuses on roughly ten poets from around the world whose works have been published in the last thirty years. Discussions of poetic movements and strategies shaped by and influencing the writers and their audiences accompany study of the primary texts.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2221
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ENGL 3393 - Southern Literature
Credit Hours: 3
This course offers a study of representative Southern authors and works from colonial times to the present, emphasizing characteristically Southern themes and the diverse points of view that have made up the American South, including those of women, African-Americans, and other minorities. The experience of defeat and experience of colonization are studied. Included are such figures as Harris, Chesnutt, Twain, Chopin, Hurston, Toomer, Wolfe, Faulkner, Welty, Ransom, and O’Connor.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 3303 or ENGL 3304
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ENGL 3394 - The Art of the Motion Picture
Credit Hours: 3
A course designed to trace the evolution of the motion picture from its beginnings to the achievements of the present. Such aspects of the film as genre (the western, the horror film), techniques (sound, editing, photography), themes (forbidden knowledge, vengeance), and character types (cops, comics, crooks) will be considered. Although this course is intended for serious students of the verbal and visual arts, it is also designed to accommodate (as an elective) interested students who are avid filmgoers and desire to improve their appreciation of the films they see.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2220 or ENGL 2221 or ENGL 2230 or ENGL 2231
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ENGL 3395 - Journeys in Comparative Mythology
Credit Hours: 3
A cross-cultural study of cosmic myth, investigating explanations offered by various peoples to questions that have been asked since the dawn of time. The course includes mythological traditions such as Greco-Roman, Norse, Mesopotamian, African, Celtic, Indian, Chinese, South American and Native American.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2220
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ENGL 3396 - Literature and Film
Credit Hours: 3
By comparing literary texts to cinematic versions of those texts, this class explores the differences between the modes of verbal and visual representation. The selection of texts will focus on an author or theme selected by the professor, such as Shakespeare, Jane Austen, London, the Western Hero, or Desiring Women.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 2220 or ENGL 2221 or ENGL 2230 or ENGL 2231
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ENGL 3399 - Special Topics in English
Credit Hours: 1-12
Studies in special selected topics, to be determined by the instructor and approved by the chairperson. Credits earned will be applicable as free electives in degree and certificate programs.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 1102
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ENGL 4400 - Senior Seminar
Credit Hours: 3
This advanced course will introduce English majors to the rigors of graduate-level work. The subject matter, which will vary, will be tightly focused on a specific area of study. Students will use advanced research skills and demonstrate a thorough understanding of the relevant scholarship in the field. Because the subject matter will change from semester to semester, this course may be taken more than once.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 3320
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ENGL 4401 - Creative Writing Capstone
Credit Hours: 3
Students will read, reflect upon, and discuss works by diverse writers in poetry or
prose along with higher-level craft articles, with an emphasis on reading as writers.
Students will also write in their chosen genre and in criticism.
Prerequisite(s): Instructor Permission
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ENGL 4431 - Methods and Materials in Teaching English
Credit Hours: 3
Study and practice in the techniques of teaching the fundamentals of grammar, mechanics, composition and the varied types of literature; taken as part of the Initial Performance Practicum.
Prerequisite(s): ENGL 3355 and ENGL 3374
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ENGL 4441 - Independent Study
Credit Hours: 1-4
Intensive study in the work of one or more significant authors. Subject area to be suggested by the student and approved by the instructor. The student may conduct an independent investigation in an area of interest and represent the results in one or more research papers.
Prerequisite(s): Instructor approval required
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ENGL 4489 - Writing for Literary Conferences
Credit Hours: 1
This course prepares students for presenting their literary papers at academic conferences.
Prerequisite(s): Instructor approval required
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ENGL 4491 - Writing Internship
Credit Hours: 3
Writing internships allow students to apply their communication (verbal and written) and critical thinking skills in writing for business and non-profit organizations. This course may be repeated for credit
Prerequisite(s): A GPA of 325 and completion of 18 hours toward the English major are required Instructor approval required
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ENGL 4998 - Undergraduate Research
Credit Hours: 0-6
Undergraduate research is an experiential learning activity that provides an opportunity for a student to engage in the scholarly activities of their major discipline under the guidance of a faculty mentor who will work in close partnership with each student in his or her formulation of a project, the development of a research strategy, and the assessment of a student’s progress. The primary goal is for each student scholar to conduct an inquiry or investigation that makes an original, intellectual or creative contribution to their discipline and which is shared in an appropriate venue. This course may be repeated for credit Restrictions: Sophomore-Senior Level
Prerequisite(s): Instructor approval required
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English as a Second Language *Registration restricted to ESL students only.
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ESLG 0051 - Elementary Academic Reading
Credit Hours: 3
In the class, students develop and practice it in context. Reading as a central means of processing forms and ideas will help establish academic skills of critical thinking in English. The skills of prediction, the comprehension of main ideas and details, and the importance of inferences are all required. In addition, students will become familiar with parts of speech, prefixes, suffixes, and roots as aids in understanding new vocabulary. Repeatable
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ESLG 0052 - Elementary Composition
Credit Hours: 3
Students develop sentence, paragraph, and essay writing skills. Students focus on learning grammatical structures and use this knowledge within the writing context. Students also develop strategies to improve their organizational skills and to expand and practice new vocabulary. Repeatable
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ESLG 0053 - Elementary Speaking and Listening
Credit Hours: 3
This course introduces international students to a variety of speaking and listening exercises that will improve their academic success in the university setting. Each week, a new topic or subject will be introduced and discussed informally in a classroom discussion. Every two weeks, students will be assigned additional speaking assignments to continue more-in-depth formal discussions or presentations on the assigned topics. Repeatable
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ESLG 0054 - Elementary Grammar Studies
Credit Hours: 3
This is a beginning level content-based grammar course designed for students who are preparing to enter American colleges and universities. The class will focus on improving English grammar through listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities. Additionally, some emphasis will be placed on Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) grammar. Repeatable
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ESLG 0055 - Elementary Vocabulary and Pronunciation
Credit Hours: 3
This course focuses on the ability to express oneself clearly, with maximum comprehensibility. Students practice the important skills of pronunciation stress, vowel reduction, length, phonetics, rhythm, timing, and intonation. Vocabulary development, facility with idiomatic expressions, and thematic coherence are emphasized. Each participant’s particular needs are evaluated regularly as part of the course, and strategies for improvement are provided through daily assignments, drills, presentations, listening practice, discussion, and peer-evaluations. Repeatable
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ESLG 0056 - Elementary TOEFL Strategies
Credit Hours: 3
This course provides international students with a better grasp of English to help them succeed in the TOEFL. The course focuses on techniques related to various sections of the TOEFL. The class aims to prepare for the test so that they will have language skills and the familiarity with the university setting to be successful at the University.
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ESLG 0057 - Elementary American Culture
Credit Hours: 3
This course assists new and experienced ESL students in achieving a positive experience of study in a new culture. Class topics in American culture focus on the practical aspects of day-to-day life in the United States. Repeatable
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ESLG 0061 - Intermediate Academic Reading
Credit Hours: 3
Students develop skills in prediction, comprehension of main ideas and details, and inferences. Reading comprehension activities include, in addition to writing and texts, independent, small-group, and whole class activities. Both short reading passages and more extensive texts, such as abridged novels, provide sustained practice and content. Repeatable
Prerequisite(s): ESLG 0051
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ESLG 0062 - Intermediate Composition
Credit Hours: 3
Students develop sentence, paragraph, and essay writing skills necessary to write a coherent effective academic essay. These skills include the development of organization skills, expansion of vocabulary, and grammatical structures. Students will are assigned in-class and out-of-class reading and writing activities. Repeatable
Prerequisite(s): ESLG 0052
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ESLG 0063 - Intermediate Speaking and Listening
Credit Hours: 3
This course builds on ESLG 0053 to help students improve their speaking and listening abilities in English. The course continues the informal discussion of topics and the speaking assignments students were introduced to in ESLG 0053 . Repeatable
Prerequisite(s): ESLG 0053
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ESLG 0064 - Intermediate Grammar Studies
Credit Hours: 3
This content-based grammar course, designed for students who are preparing to enter American colleges and universities, builds on ESLG 0054 . The class centers on deepening students’ grasp of English grammar through listening, speaking, reading, and writing activities. Students are introduced to complexity, such as the perfect tenses. Additionally, students focus on TOEFL grammar. Repeatable
Prerequisite(s): ESLG 0054
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ESLG 0065 - Intermediate Vocabulary and Pronunciation
Credit Hours: 3
This course develops the spoken communication skills necessary for college-level study. Students improve the important skills of pronunciation - stress, vowel reduction, length, phonetics, rhythm, timing, and intonation. Vocabulary studies build upon those from ESLG 0055 . Speaking topics are designed to allow students to apply the content, language, grammar, and style they have practiced in their texts and cassettes. Repeatable
Prerequisite(s): ESLG 0055
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ESLG 0066 - Intermediate TOEFL Strategies
Credit Hours: 3
This course continues the building of skills begun in ESLG 0056 to prepare international students for TOEFL. The course strengths the techniques students learned in ESLG 0056 for TOEFL. The class aims to consolidate students’ language skills so that they will be successful at the University. Repeatable
Prerequisite(s): ESLG 0056
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ESLG 0067 - Intermediate American Culture
Credit Hours: 3
This course builds on ESLG 0057 to help new and experienced ESL students become more comfortable with American culture focus. Topics focus on the psychosocial aspects of coping with a new culture and language. Repeatable
Prerequisite(s): ESLG 0057
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