An advanced British Literature course on a period, a theme, a genre, or one or more authors. See departmental listings for different offerings per semester. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours under different subtitles. Prerequisite ENG 330 Text and Context or consent of the instructor. Fulfills ENG Major 400-level course requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
An advanced American Literature course on a period, a theme, a genre, or one or more authors. See departmental listings for different offerings per semester. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours under different subtitles. Prerequisite ENG 330 Text and Context or consent of the instructor. Fulfills ENG Major 400-level course requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit.
An advanced undergraduate seminar in literature, film, or cultural study. Honors seminar topics will be announced the preceding year. Required for graduation with Departmental Honors in English. May be repeated up to 9 hours under different subtitles. Fulfills ENG Major 400-level course requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit. Prereq: ENG major; completion of premajor requirements and ENG 330; ENG major GPA of 3.5 or above. Enrollment limited to junior and senior ENG majors.
Seminar in American literature 1800-1860. Recent topics: Emerson and Melville; Hawthorne. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
Seminar in special topics in film, such as directors, genres, historical periods, film and literature, film theories, and film movements. Viewing of films outside of class is required. May be repeated under different subtitle to a maximum of nine credits.
This course will provide a foundation in the core ideas, theoretical concerns and practical approaches to environmental studies framed within the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. Students will study human interactions with the environment, both natural and built, and inter-human relations conditioned by local and global environmental factors. Students will obtain a basic conceptual and historical understanding of the nature and value of their local, regional, and global environment.
Literary, intellectual and social practices and theories of the French Enlightenment. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits under different subtitle.
This course offers an introduction to remote sensing technologies and their application to land use/land cover analysis, environmental monitoring, natural resources management, and urban planning. This course covers the fundamental remote sensing principles, overview of space/air born sensors/data, essential techniques for digital image processing, and applications particular related to diverse land surfaces such as vegetation, water, urban, and soil/bedrocks. Theoretical training and lab exercises are integrated components in this course.
Course provides a historically organized, thematically focused examination of pioneering works of feminist argument and analysis, creative writing, art, memoir, and politics. Theme and time-period vary according to instructor, but time-span covers at laest fifty years and content includes at least two national, ethnic, or geographical contexts. May be taken up to six credit hours under different subtitles.
This course provides students with in-depth knowledge of the United States in the first half of the 19th century. From the smoky factories of the Northeast to the blood-bought forests of the west and cotton kingdoms of the South, this course traces the growth of the young nation. Topics will include the Second War of Independence, the rise of Jacksonian democracy, conflict with Native Americans, slavery and slave resistance, reform, abolition, and the sectional crisis.
