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2018-2019 Greensburg Campus Catalog
University of Pittsburgh Greensburg
   
2018-2019 Greensburg Campus Catalog 
    
 
  Apr 20, 2024
 
2018-2019 Greensburg Campus Catalog [Archived Catalog]

Course Information


Special Courses

Pitt-Greensburg offers a variety of special courses that students may use to enhance their educational experience. The special courses include independent studies, internships, excellence courses, study abroad courses, and capstone courses. Most of the special courses are optional, but for some majors (e.g. criminal justice) an internship is required, and the capstone course is required of all majors.

An independent study allows a student to explore a topic for which no course is available at Pitt-Greensburg or extend the exploration of a topic begun in a regular course. To arrange for an independent study, a student must find a faculty sponsor and work with the sponsor to develop a course plan. Independent study courses are available in every department. See an advisor for more details.

Internships allow students to earn credits toward graduation while gaining on-the-job experience in their majors. An internship is required in some majors (e.g. criminal justice and the journalism track in English writing), but it is available as an elective in most majors. Students are expected to find their own internship opportunities, but faculty advisors and the Office of Career Services may be aware of employers looking for interns and can provide suggestions about seeking an internship. Some departments ask students to complete an internship application. See a faculty advisor for more information.

Pitt-Greensburg students have an opportunity to study abroad in a country/region of their choice. Academic credits are earned while abroad and will transfer directly back into the student’s academic degree requirements. See the study abroad coordinator for more information.

As part of the new Pitt-Greensburg curriculum that took effect in fall 1999, every Pitt-Greensburg student must complete a senior seminar or a senior project as a capstone to the work in the major program. The faculty views the capstone course as a significant enhancement to the UPG degree program because it provides students with the opportunity to bring together the themes and skills of the major. Capstone work typically involves research and both written and oral reports.

Departmental Course Listings

Please note, when searching courses by Catalog Number, an asterisk (*) can be used to return mass results. For instance a Catalog Number search of ” 1* ” can be entered, returning all 1000-level courses.

 

English Literature

  
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    ENGLIT 0450 - UPG EXCHG: INTRO HISPANIC LIT


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The study abroad office has approved the general agreement of collaboration between the university of Pittsburgh at Greensburg and the Universidad de Guanajuato in which faculty and students will be exchanged.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0500 - INTRODUCTION TO CRITICAL READING


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course studies three to five significant literary works in conjunction with influential criticism on each text. Students explore the uses and limits of different critical methods. The course seeks to develop a critical understanding of both classic literary texts and dominant modes of reading as changing cultural practices.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0511 - HISTORICAL BACKGROUNDS OF ENGLISH LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course surveys the major development in English social and political history, concentrating on those that had the greatest impact on the development of English literature.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0550 - INTRODUCTION TO POPULAR CULTURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course covers texts from American mass culture-popular fiction, advertising, popular music, television, etc. It will explore methods of analyzing these texts, discovering what these products have in common and what distinguishes them from other cultural artifacts.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0570 - AMERICAN LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This first course in American literature explores the characteristic features of writings from the colonial period to the present. It emphasizes the interaction between literary texts and their social contexts, and examines the emergence of a national literature.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0580 - INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will focus on a number of Shakespeare’s major plays from all phases of his career. Class discussion will consider the historical context of the plays, their characterization, theatrical technique, imagery, language and themes. Every attempt will be made to see the plays both as poems and as dramatic events.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0590 - FORMATIVE MASTERPIECES


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will study in some detail eight or nine of those masterpieces which form the largest part of what we now regard as the Western tradition of literature. The works chosen will come from various genres—epic poetry, drama, the novel, and satire. They will span the centuries from the classical periods of ancient Greece and Rome through the Renaissance and into the nineteenth century.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0597 - BIBLE AS LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This introductory course acquaints students with what is in the bible and provides background information drawn from various disciplines about the elements and issues that give it its distinctive character. Attention is necessarily given to its religious perspectives, since they govern the nature and point of view of the biblical narratives, but no specific religious view is urged.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0625 - DETECTIVE FICTION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course examines detective fiction in terms of its history, its social meaning and as a form of philosophizing. It also seeks to reveal the place and values of popular fiction in our lives.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0626 - SCIENCE FICTION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course introduces students to the major ideas, themes, and writers in the development of science fiction as a genre. Discussions will help students to understand and use critical methods for the analysis of science fiction. The topics covered include problems describing and defining the genre, contrasting ideologies in soviet and American science fiction, the roles of women as characters, readers and writers of science fiction, etc.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0643 - SATIRE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course studies satire in general, the techniques of certain satires in particular and the expression of satiric attitudes. We will examine satires from various times and countries so that we can better understand what satire is, how it differs from other literary forms and its function within the culture that produces it.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0650 - IRISH LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will introduce students to nonfiction, fiction, drama, and poetry by Irish writers, including Jonathan swift, William Butler Yeats, Oscar Wilde, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, Evan Boland and Roddy Doyle. Students will become familiar with a variety of literary styles, studied in the context of Irish history, politics and culture.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 0660 - LITERARY FAME


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course investigates the creation of literary fame: how particular authors, literary works, characters, and even particular lines and phrases became famous and stayed in circulation in English-speaking culture, and why they dropped out of circulation. In part, then, this is an investigation of canonicity, not concerned with abstract ideas of what makes works of literature great so much as investigating the cultural mechanisms and patterns by which works and lines establish themselves in culture.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1012 - 18THC BRITISH/COLONIAL LIT


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Examines the major British and American writers during this period of intellectual ferment. Those to be examined include Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Franklin, Paine, Jefferson, and Washington.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
  
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    ENGLIT 1020 - HISTORY OF LITERARY CRITICISM


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course considers influential critical theorists ranging from Plato and Augustine to Nietzsche and Freud. Neither the readings nor the approach of the class fall under the narroWest definitions of literary criticism; our focus instead will be on texts from several disciplines that offer powerful models of reading and writing and that raise interesting questions about the foundations of literature, culture, and interpretation.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1022 - LITERATURE OF THE AMERICAN WEST


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Surveys the history and development of the popular novel of the American West, from the formulaic fictions of Owen Wister and Zane Grey to the historical romances of Ernest haycock and A.B. Guthrie.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1065 - NARRATIVE LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Introduces the novel as an art form, examining various themes and techniques in major novels by such writers as Melville, James Joyce, Proust, Celine, Hemingway, and Greene.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1100 - MEDIEVAL IMAGINATION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course explores some of the ways people in the middle ages saw the world around them. We will try to understand those perceptions by reading a variety of literary works, by comparing those works to other art forms and by examining similar kinds of experience in the modern world.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0020; LVL: Sophomore
  
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    ENGLIT 1125 - MASTERPIECES OF RENAISSANCE LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course studies prose, poetry and drama written in England between 1550 and 1660—an age of religious reformation, economic and social instability, intellectual revision and political revolution. It seeks to make sense of the renaissance in terms appropriate both to that time and to our own.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0020; LVL: Sophomore
  
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    ENGLIT 1126 - ADVANCED SHAKESPEARE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This upper level course in Shakespeare assumes some prior work with his writings. It seeks to develop a more detailed appreciation of his writing by examining selected texts in relation to some historical, cultural or critical issue.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGLIT 0580 or permission of instructor
  
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    ENGLIT 1150 - ENLIGHTENMENT TO REVOLUTION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course focuses on literature and culture of the late 17th and 18th centuries—a period of revolutionary changes in the way writers and readers viewed their world. We will read widely in the important texts of the period in order to explore the interplay of enlightenment and revolution.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1175 - 19TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A study of the major writers and cultural issues of 19th century Britain situated in relation to the social and intellectual developments of the time.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore or permission of instructor
  
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    ENGLIT 1199 - TOPICS IN BRITISH LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Explores thematic, formal, historical or cultural topics in British literature. It ties these issues to critical and social concerns in the development of British literature and culture.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1200 - AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1860


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course surveys literature produced in America before the Civil War. In the process it explores the historical, political, social and cultural factors that affected the development of that literature. It examines the work of writers who saw themselves as powerful framers of the national experience yet fearful they would have little effects on a culture confronting problems of slavery, divisiveness, literacy, economic change, immigration, etc.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1215 - PRE-20THC AMERICAN LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Surveys a major author’s genres and themes from the 17th through the 19th century. Introduces the student to the puritan, neoclassical, romantic, and realist movements.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore
  
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    ENGLIT 1241 - JANE AUSTEN: BOOKS & FILM


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will cover four of the novels of Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma), and their film and television series equivalents, plus one very recent derivative novel, Helen Fielding’s, “Bridget Jones’s Diary” (and its film version). The point of the course would be to refine students’ sense of how to read both novels and films and simultaneously to sharpen their sense of a historical period in some cultural detail and examine the cultural and aesthetic values of their own post-modern era.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1248 - LITERATURE OF MINORITY WOMEN


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Through a close study of literary works by minority women writers of North America, particularly African/Asian American writers, the course intends to help students develop a clear understanding and a critical appreciation of these different ‘strands’ in North American culture.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1325 - MODERNISM


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course examines major works in the modernist tradition poetry, fiction, drama—to determine the role these texts have played in creating the world that seems so familiar to us now.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Sophomore or permission of instructor
  
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    ENGLIT 1360 - TOPICS IN 20TH CENTURY LIT


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Considers thematic, formal historical or cultural topics in late 19th and 20th century literature. It ties these issues to critical and social concerns in international modernism and post modernism.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0020
  
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    ENGLIT 1380 - WORLD LITERATURE IN ENGLISH


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course examines contemporary literature, primarily in English, written in eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, etc. It pays particular attention to its depiction of social, political and moral concerns.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1552 - HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A survey of the linguistic development of English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. Attention given to basic linguistic structures and discursive practices and to the social and historical conditions under which they change.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0020
  
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    ENGLIT 1572 - FANTASY AND ROMANCE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Focusing on works that offer fantastic alternations to the world of ordinary experience, this course examines works produced from the middle ages to the present day. It raises questions about our perceptions of “reality”, and the effects of conscious or unconscious wishes, desires and fears on literary representations.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1610 - TOPICS IN GENRE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A consideration of significant emergent literary forms or practices in relation to their social and cultural contexts.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1611 - DEVELOPMENT OF THE NOVEL


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course studies the development of the novel as a literary practice. Readings will reveal significant contributions to the definition of the novel; the characteristics that identify the novel, historical developments that led to its creation, and its dominant subjects.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0020; LVL: Sophomore
  
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    ENGLIT 1640 - LITERATURE FOR CHILDREN


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course examines literature that has been and is being read by children. There are units on fairy tales, myths and legends, poetry and fiction as well as more “realistic” fiction. The approach is historical, critical and creative.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0020
  
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    ENGLIT 1645 - CRITL APPRCH TO CHILDREN’S LIT


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course examines a variety of children’s books from a number of theoretical perspectives; historical, feminist, transactional, structuralist, etc. The implications of theory will be emphasized. We will place children’s books and reading in the wider context of the emotional, cognitive, and moral development of the child, the popular culture of childhood, and contemporary multicultural society.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGLIT 1640 or ENGLIT 1647
  
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    ENGLIT 1647 - LITERATURE FOR ADOLESCENTS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will read classics as well as modern works written specifically for an adolescent audience. We will also read and discuss sociological and psychological constructions of adolescents and books on pedagogy.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0020; LVL: Sophomore
  
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    ENGLIT 1701 - TOPICS IN WOMEN’S STUDIES


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Investigates issues raised by the woman’s movement in literature written by and about women. It ties these issues to critical and cultural concerns both at the time the text was written and to the present day.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1725 - ASIAN NORTH AMERICAN FILM AND LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course introduces the selected works by Asian North American writers of Chinese, Japanese, Indian, and Korean descent. Literary analysis will focus on the theme, form, style, language, and structure of works from a variety of genres, including essays, poetry, short stories, novels, drama, and film. A critical reading and comparing these selected texts intend to help students recognize Asian North American literary writings as part of the rich diversity of American cultural and literary traditions.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 6
    This option permits students to design their own course with the approval of a department faculty member.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Independent Study
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1905 - INTERNSHIP


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course enables students to combine academic training and practical work experience related to the major.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Internship
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1910 - SENIOR SEMINAR


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Intensive study of a single topic or figure that assumes previous work in related literary historical and critical areas. Each seminar moves toward a final paper that integrates earlier literary study with the specific critical perspective developed in this course.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGLIT 1950 - ENGLISH LITERATURE CAPSTONE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Capstone course for senior English literature majors.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Directed Studies
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Senior

English Writing

  
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    ENGWRT 0400 - INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course offers the opportunity to experiment with forms of poetry and fiction and to read and discuss from a writer’s point of view contemporary writing in these genres.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0020 or 0200 or 0006 or permission of instructor
  
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    ENGWRT 0410 - INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE WRITING


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This is the first course that Writing students take to get acquainted with the genres of fiction, poetry, and nonfiction in order to continue in more advanced courses. Students read classic and contemporary writers and poets to learn such basic components as scene, setting, dialogue, image, line, and meter. Students will work together and with the professor in several rough-draft sessions as the students compose essays, short stories, and poems. Students are also encouraged to submit to and join the staff of Pendulum, the student literary magazine.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0020 or permission of instructor
  
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    ENGWRT 0411 - INTRODUCTION TO CREATIVE NONFICTION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will introduce undergraduates to creative nonfiction, a genre that often borrows from fiction writer’s techniques while sticking to the facts. Genre includes personal essay, new journalism, memoir and quality feature writing.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0020
  
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    ENGWRT 0520 - INTRODUCTION TO FICTION WRITING


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This first course in the fiction sequence introduces students to aspects of prose fiction—plot, point of view, characterization, conflict, etc. Students may write exercises on these aspects of fiction, write one or more short stories and revise frequently. Students will also read representative stories and explore their use of particular fictional techniques.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0020
  
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    ENGWRT 0530 - INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WRITING


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Through writing exercises, analysis of modern and contemporary poetry and frequent revision of their own poetry, students learn the basic elements of poetry writing.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0020
  
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    ENGWRT 0550 - FUNDAMENTALS OF NEWS REPORTING


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The internet has led newspapers, corporations and non-profit agencies to create websites that dispense news and information 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and these agencies need people who can write efficiently in that style. This makes clear, concise, accurate writing - the basis of all news reporting - more important than ever. In fundamentals of news reporting, students will learn to identify news, write effective summaries of the information, structure stories well, conduct research, and identify sources of reliable facts and informed opinions. Students will write about their surrounding communities: the University, Oakland, the city of Pittsburgh. The course will also include lectures and discussions about media law and ethics.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0020 or permission of instructor
  
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    ENGWRT 0650 - READINGS IN JOURNALISM


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is intended to introduce journalism students to news, feature, and column/op-ed writing as practiced by the best papers - and the best writers - nationally. The course will focus on the methods for obtaining the information needed to create solid news stories, and strategies ranging from extensive, in-depth interviewing, background reading, and the journalistic “legwork” and “digging” that produces incisive, accurate accounts and the very best “investigative reporting”.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGWRT 1010 - INTERMEDIATE FICTION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Students work on writing short stories and read a wide range of stories. Students can expect to revise their work regularly. Class sessions will address problems in fiction writing — from plot to characterization, from point-of-view to style.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Workshop
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0410
  
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    ENGWRT 1012 - DIGITAL STORYTELLING 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will introduce students to the history and transformative power of digital technologies and to how these technologies influence the ways we create and share stories today. We will explore the ways technology helps us tell stories through new and emerging narrative forms, including blogs, podcasts, photo/sensory essays, and other combinations of audio and video forms. We will study methods digital storytellers use to connect with audiences in unique and intimate ways, and students will create their own stories with specific audiences in mind. Students will practice storytelling using a variety of digital mediums and will construct their own digital storytelling portfolios to showcase their work.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0410 or Instructor’s Permission
  
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    ENGWRT 1022 - DIGITAL STORYTELLING 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Digital Storytelling 2 is the advanced-level, follow-up course to Digital Storytelling 1. In this course, students will refine and advance the skills they acquired in ds 1 and use those skills to produce an in-depth personal digital narrative or immersion project.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 1012
  
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    ENGWRT 1089 - THE CREATIVE PROCESS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course interweaves the theoretical and psychological perspectives of the creative process with the experiences, work and words of both painters and poets. Master articulations of psychological theories and artistic experiential models inform the lectures, workshop and guest appearances.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0410; PSY 0010
  
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    ENGWRT 1094 - READINGS IN CONTEMPORARY FICTION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course acquaints students with a variety of contemporary writers. This study helps students raise questions about their own developing esthetics as they are reflected in form and take into account their dual roles as creative writers and critics. It also helps students access their relationship to reviewing and criticism, including its benefits to a creative writer developing a career, and to discover techniques of reviewing and criticism which aid and do not transgress upon their esthetics and its expression.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0520
  
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    ENGWRT 1095 - TOPICS IN FICTION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course concerns itself with matters of interest in fiction writing; form and technique, contemporary production, and the relation of the fiction writer to his/her society.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0410
  
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    ENGWRT 1170 - SHORT STORY WORKSHOP


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This workshop will involve rigorous discussion of the stories written by students as well as stories by some contemporary practitioners of genre fiction, such as science fiction and fantasy. Emphasis will be on the poetics, not the mechanics, of writing literary fiction. Each student will write and revise four stories over the semester.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0410 and ENGWRT 0520
  
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    ENGWRT 1175 - FICTION SEMINAR: FAMILIES AND SMALL TOWNS


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course examines the various and diverse ways that writers define the idea of “family.” Equally varied are the small towns in which these stories take place: We may be in Flannery O’Connor’s rural Georgia, or in Jhumpa Lahiri’s suburban New England. Students will write and revise short stories that concern family matters and take place in small towns.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0410
  
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    ENGWRT 1210 - POETRY WORKSHOP


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    For this advanced poetry writing course, the central text will be the student’s own writing. Students will read recently published poetry, regularly write their own poetry and frequently rewrite it.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0410
  
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    ENGWRT 1250 - FORMAL POETRY WRITING


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course reviews free verse and then introduces the student to various verse forms of poetry. Examples from many time periods will be studied; however, special focus will be placed on modern and contemporary poets writing in meter. Students will write in free verse and then in various rhymed and unrhymed forms (e.g., the haiku, sonnet, sestina, and villanelle). Emphasis will be on the experimentation with and potential of verse form, not on its perfection.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0410
  
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    ENGWRT 1290 - READINGS IN CONTEMPORARY POETRY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course focuses on American poets who have come to prominence since 1963. We will read widely in the poetry of this period to understand its unique contribution to the development of poetic form and its relationship to the culture that produced it.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0410
  
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    ENGWRT 1310 - NEWSPAPER 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Students in this course learn how to profile individuals, report trends, take polls and write about a community. The course provides hands-on practice in feature writing and a workshop approach to critiquing students’ and professionals’ work.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0550
  
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    ENGWRT 1331 - MAGAZINE 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Students will learn how to write for the magazine market. The focus is on writing for specific audiences. Students will learn how demographics and editorial vision affect content. They’ll practice developing a variety of writer-voices and learn how to write for target markets. They’ll find subjects they’re passionate about and find target magazine markets that match. Students will generate story ideas, conduct research and reportage, write and re-write and ultimately publish their work either in an on-campus publication or beyond.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0410 or ENGWRT 0411, or ENGWRT 0550
  
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    ENGWRT 1380 - NEWS PRACTICUM: THE INSIDER


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is for writers, editors, photojournalists, graphic designers, business managers, and editorial cartoonists at The Pitt-Greensburg Insider, or for those who aspire to be on staff. We critique the daily editions of The Insider online and in print. You will learn how to pitch, report, write, and edit stories with the goal of publishing them. You will collaborate with your colleagues to strengthen your journalism skills and learn what goes into making excellent journalism. This includes thinking critically about interviewing, researching, writing, placement of stories, and visual journalism, as well as ethics and legal issues. Practicing journalists will visit the class. This three-credit course provides the initial credit for first-time Insider staff members. The course is repeatable (as ENGWRT 1381) for 2 credits to allow you to continue to work on The Insider throughout your time at Pitt-Greensburg.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0020
  
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    ENGWRT 1381 - NEWS PRACTICUM: THE INSIDER


    Minimum Credits: 2
    Maximum Credits: 2
    Students who would like to continue to work on The Insider may continue to receive academic credit by signing up for this repeatable course after completing ENGWRT 1380.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 1380
  
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    ENGWRT 1390 - READINGS IN CONTEMPORARY NON-FICTION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course familiarizes students with a number of different forms of and approaches to contemporary non-fiction writing.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0410
  
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    ENGWRT 1391 - WRITING THE REVIEW


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course explores various types and styles of reviews. Students read a variety of critics as well as write original reviews of film, television, theatre, music, books, etc.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGWRT 1403 - TOPICS IN NON-FICTION: ELECTRONIC MEDIA


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course concerns itself with the varieties of writing for the electronic media, and with related matters of interest; form and technique, contemporary production, ethical and legal matters, and the general relation of the writer in this field to his/her society.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: At least one ENGWRT course
  
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    ENGWRT 1410 - TOPICS IN NON-FICTION: MEMOIR


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    “A creative writing class is one of the few places where your life still matters,” Richard Hugo, a great writer and teacher, once said. That idea is at the center of this course. Students will read a series of memoirs, both classic and contemporary, and examine the ways writers construct the truths of their lives on the page. In conjunction with the assigned readings which will include work by writers ranging from Ernest Hemingway to David Sedaris, Simone DeBeauvoir to Joan Didion students will draw from their own life experiences and write a series of essay-length memoirs about the things that matter to them most. Class includes a workshop component that allows students to share their writing each week. Topics have included Food Writing, Memoir Writing, Travel Writing, Nature Writing, and other subjects.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0410
  
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    ENGWRT 1415 - TOPICS IN NONFICTION WRITING


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Topics in nonfiction course is an intensive readings- and workshop-oriented course highlighting the various subgenres of creative nonfiction. Topics vary from term to term and include such areas as memoir writing, nature writing, travel writing, narrative/immersion journalism and more.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREREQ: ENGCMP 0020; ENGWRT 0410 and (ENGWRT 0411 or ENGWRT 0550)
  
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    ENGWRT 1420 - BLOGGING AND THE BLOGOSPHERE: JOURNALISM’S NEXT WAVE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will require students to study contemporary blogs ’ both good and bad — and trace the history of non-traditional reportage, particularly during wartime. We’ll examine the impact bloggers have on other forms of journalism, the quality of blog reportage, how technology is affecting the quality and quantity of traditional reportage, and the problematic and/or empowering position of the “I” in reportage. We’ll also examine information overload in the 21st century and work on developing the critical skills necessary to distinguish what is and isn’t news, what is and isn’t valuable, what is and isn’t fair and/or accurate in cyberspace and beyond.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0410, (ENGWRT 0411 or ENGWRT 0550)
  
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    ENGWRT 1430 - LITERARY AND ONLINE PUBLISHING


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will introduce students to the art and craft of literary and online publishing. Students will research independent literary magazines and small presses, both online and in print. They will learn the basics of literary publishing from both an editorial and an authorial perspective. They will use what they learn to produce an online site featuring the work of Pitt-Greensburg writing program graduates, as well as individual print chapbook-length collections from the English writing program capstone.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0410 or ENGWRT 0411 or ENGWRT 0520 or ENGWRT 0530 or ENGWRT 0550
  
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    ENGWRT 1650 - PLAYWRITING 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A beginning course in writing for the stage. Starting with short scenes, students will work towards understanding the craft and art of constructing theatre stories to be performed by actors. The final project will be a one-act play. Throughout there will be emphasis on the stage effectiveness of the writing and opportunity for informal performance of student scripts.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGWRT 1710 - SENIOR SEMINAR IN FICTION


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    In this seminar students are expected to criticize student work intelligently and constructively. It is designed for students familiar with the craft of writing who wish to refine their writing skill and make their stories more subtle, original and meaningful. Analysis of student writing will be supplemented by the reading of professionally written stories.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Workshop
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGWRT 1730 - SENIOR SEMINAR IN POETRY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A fairly broad knowledge of 20th century poetry in English is assumed. Most class hours will be devoted to workshop critiques; a portion of class time will be spent discussing the work of younger contemporary poets.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Workshop
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGWRT 1900 - INTERNSHIP: WRITING


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course offers students an opportunity to work as interns for local media, including newspapers, magazines and television stations. The internships are complemented by close supervision and seminars dealing with some of the ethical, legal, and practical issues facing the working professional.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Internship
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGWRT 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 6
    This option permits students to design their own course with the approval of a department faculty member. Students must submit a proposal to the faculty member. Note: the proposed study must not duplicate the content of regularly offered courses.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Independent Study
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    ENGWRT 1955 - ENGLISH WRITING CAPSTONE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Capstone course for English Writing majors. In this course, which should be taken during a student’s final semester, writing majors receive a complete immersion into the writing life. Students prepare a publishable chapbook-length manuscript in their chosen genres. Students share a reading list and do close readings of the texts. Students participate in readings, both on campus and off, and are featured during the week-long Writers Festival and the monthly Written/Spoken reading series. The course is workshop-driven, with students sharing new and revised work each week.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: LVL: Senior

French

  
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    FR 0001 - ELEMENTARY FRENCH 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course will introduce the student to the oral-aural and reading-writing skills in the language. From the outset, students learn to use the spoken language and begin to work on good pronunciation, while at the same time developing the listening comprehension, reading, and writing skills.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    FR 0002 - ELEMENTARY FRENCH 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course introduces the students to the oral-aural and reading-writing skills in the language. From the outset, students learn to use the spoken language and begin to work on good pronunciation, while at the same time developing the listening comprehension, reading, and writing skills. This course is a logical continuation of elementary French 0001.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0001 or 0111
  
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    FR 0003 - INTERMEDIATE FRENCH 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is a logical continuation of the first-year sequence. Emphasis continues to be placed on the oral aural skills, but the reading and writing skills become increasingly stressed.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0002 or 0112
  
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    FR 0004 - INTERMEDIATE FRENCH 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is a continuation of French 0003. Reading skill is emphasized even more than in FR 0003 but continues to be accompanied by oral-aural and written work.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0003 or 0211
  
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    FR 0020 - FRANCE IN THE 21ST CENTURY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course is designed to lead students to a better understanding of France today. We shall pay particular attention to the perceptions the French have of themselves, and to the major aspects of contemporary French life and society.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    FR 0021 - APPROACHES TO FRENCH LITERATURE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The goal of this course is to illustrate ways of looking at literary texts. We shall examine plays, short prose works and poems focusing on textural elements such as narrative technique, characterization, societal factors and language.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    FR 0041 - ELEMENTARY FRENCH 1


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    First of three courses designed to develop skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing in French. A systematic presentation of grammar will accompany language instruction. Understanding of French culture is emphasized as part of language skill.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    FR 0042 - ELEMENTARY FRENCH 2


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Second of three courses designed to develop skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing in French. A systematic presentation of grammar will accompany language instruction. Understanding of French culture is emphasized as part of language skill.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    FR 0043 - ELEMENTARY FRENCH 3


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Third of three courses designed to develop skills in speaking, listening, reading and writing in French. A systematic presentation of grammar will accompany language instruction. Understanding of French culture is emphasized as part of language skill.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0042 with grade of C or better
  
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    FR 0080 - MODERN FRENCH NOVEL


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    The French novel is to a great extent a genre in which psychological analysis has been brought to a high level of sophistication. This shall be studied through close analyses of approximately six works in English translation.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    FR 1902 - DIRECTED STUDY


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course enables the student who has completed, or nearly completed, the French major to do research under the direction of a faculty member, on a topics of mutual interest.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Directed Studies
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

Freshman Studies

  
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    FS 0002 - FRESHMAN SEMINAR


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    This course will acquaint freshmen with the many policies and procedures of college life.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    FS 0008 - TRANSFER SEMINAR


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    This course will acquaint transfer students with the many policies and procedures of college life.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    FS 0009 - ESL SEMINAR


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This seminar course is for international students
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    FS 0014 - VILLAGE FIRST -YEAR SEMINAR


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This seminar is for freshmen who are residing in the academic villages.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Seminar
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    FS 0016 - HEALTH SCIENCE SEMINAR


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    FS 0026 - SCIENCE SEMINAR 1


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 1
    Intended for students enrolled in both biology and chemistry, this section of first-year seminar is part of a two-semester science learning community experience. The goals for the fall seminar are to aid students in their academic and social transitions to college, to provide students with academic skills needed for the study of science and to foster a better appreciation for career opportunities in science and the scientific approach to problems.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    FS 0027 - SCIENCE SEMINAR 2


    Minimum Credits: 2
    Maximum Credits: 2
    This course is the second part of a two-semester science learning community experience designed for first-year biology and chemistry students. The second semester course will continue the themes of the first semester emphasizing continued development of good study habits, further exploration of career options and mastery of skills in scientific thinking.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
    Course Requirements: PREQ: FS 0026
  
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    FS 1950 - DIRECTED STUDY


    Minimum Credits: 1
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Course content to be decided between the professor and the student.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Directed Studies
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis

Geography

  
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    GEOG 0101 - WORLD REGIONAL GEOGRAPHY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    A systematic treatment of the physical, historical, cultural and economic processes that have shaped global landscapes. Contemporary regional problems and prospects will be emphasized.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
  
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    GEOG 0810 - EARTH AND PEOPLE


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    Introduces the student to the nature and scope of the field of geography and demonstrates the methodology which geographers use to examine people and land relationships. A number of world regions will be analyzed in this class.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis

Geology

  
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    GEOL 0860 - ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY


    Minimum Credits: 3
    Maximum Credits: 3
    This course takes an integrated earth systems approach to understanding our planet and its resources. We will investigate geologic processes and hazards (e.g., earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, and weather hazards), geologic resources (water, soil, minerals, energy) and the local and global ramifications of human interaction with the earth (e.g., air, soil and water pollution, ozone depletion, and climate change). This course also serves as an introductory course for three majors in the department of geology and planetary science.
    Academic Career: Undergraduate
    Course Component: Lecture
    Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
 

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