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include range, direction, and diversities of the fiction of
selected writers
Prerequisite: ENGL 2301, 2302, or 2303. Fall
(odd years)
ENGL 4308 The English Novel (3-3-0)
(British Lit.)
Representative novels of Great Britain’s eighteenth,
nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
Prerequisite: ENGL
2301, 2302, or 2303. As needed
ENGL 4311 Modern Poetry (3-3-0)
(British or American Lit.)
Twentieth century American and British poetry. Studies
include range, direction, and diversities of the poetry of
selected poets.
Prerequisite: ENGL 2301, 2302, or 2303.
Spring (even years)
ENGL 4312 The Seventeenth Century (3-3-0)
(British Lit.)
Study of the works of Milton and Dryden, poetic schools of
Donne and Jonson, and prose writers—Bacon, Browne,
Bunyan, and others.
Prerequisite: ENGL 2301, 2302, or 2303.
As needed
ENGL 4313 Early American Literature (3-3-0)
(American
Lit.) Colonial and national American literature, from the
beginnings to Irving and Cooper.
Prerequisite: ENGL 2301,
2302, or 2303. As needed
ENGL 4315 Creative Writing (3-3-0)
(Non-Lit.) Workshop
program in writing poetry and fiction. Class limited to 15
students.
Prerequisite: ENGL 2301, 2302, or 2303. Fall
ENGL 4316 Advanced Creative Writing (3-3-0)
(Non-Lit.)
Workshop program in writing poetry and fiction. Class limited
to 15 students.
Prerequisite: ENGL 2301, 2302, or 2303;
ENGL 4315 or approved selection of writing required. Spring
ENGL 4317 American Romanticism (3-3-0)
(American Lit.)
Study of major American writers from Emerson to Dickinson,
including Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman.
Prerequisite: ENGL 2301, 2302, or 2303. Fall (odd years)
ENGL 4318 Studies in Compositional Theory (3-3-0)
(Non-
Lit.) Study of the development of compositional theories,
focusing on various topics in rhetoric, including history,
research, and curriculum development. Emphasis may vary
each time the course is taught.
Prerequisite: ENGL 2301,
2302, or 2303. Fall (odd years)
ENGL 4319 Studies in Milton (3-3-0)
(British Lit.) Close
study of the major poetry and prose; emphasis on literary,
political, and theological contexts.
Prerequisite: ENGL 2301,
2302, or 2303. As needed
ENGL 4320 The Thought and Fiction of C.S. Lewis (3-3-0)
(British Lit.) Close study of selected fiction and non-fiction;
emphasizes analysis of style and values.
Prerequisite: ENGL
2301, 2302, or 2303. Fall (even years)
ENGL 4321 Introduction to Linguistics (3-3-0)
(Non-Lit.)
Introductions to the study of the process by which we acquire,
understand, and use language. Introduces the major aspects
of this discipline: phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics,
and sociolinguistics.
Prerequisite: ENGL 2301, 2302, or 2303.
Fall (even years)
ENGL 4322 Modern Fantasy (3-3-0)
(British or American Lit.)
Close study of representative novels; emphasizes the
development of the genre from the 1860s to the present.
Prerequisite: ENGL 2301, 2302, or 2303. Spring (odd years)
ENGL 4324 The Romantic Period (3-3-0)
(British Lit.) Poetry
of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats and others;
the essays of Lamb, Hazlitt, DeQuincey, and others.
Prerequisite: ENGL 2301, 2302, or 2303. As needed
ENGL 4325 American Literary Realism (3-3-0)
(American
Lit.) Study of American literature from the Civil War to World
War I.
Prerequisite: ENGL 2301, 2302, or 2303. Fall (even
years)
ENGL 4326 The Victorian Period (3-3-0)
(British Lit) British
poetry of Browning, Tennyson, Arnold, and others; the prose
of Arnold, Carlyle, and others.
Prerequisite: ENGL 2301,
2302, or 2303. As needed
ENGL 4327 Studies in Southern Literature (3-3-0)
(American Lit.) Will focus on significant texts by Southern
authors from nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries.
Issues such as Race, Religion, History, Politics, Traditions,
Identity, Myth, Folklore, and Relationships may be discussed
against a background of the South’s complex and diverse
culture. The course may range over many genres: poetry,
short fiction, drama, autobiography, essay, and novels.
Emphasis may vary each time the course is taught.
Prerequisite: ENGL 2301, 2302 or 2303. Spring (even years)
ENGL 4328 Studies in Women Writers (3-3-0)
(British or
American Lit.)
This course will focus on significant texts by
British & American women writers. Love, marriage,
motherhood, family, relationships, and mythic and archetypal
representations - and broader concerns such as women's
spirituality and creativity - will be discussed. The course could
range over many genres: poetry, short fiction, drama, essay,
novel, and memoir.
Prerequisite: ENGL 2301, 2302, or 2303.
Spring (odd years)
ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT (ENVM)
ENVM 3312 Environmental Ethics (3-3-0)
A study of the
ethical principles and values that are relevant in examining the
moral relationship between humans and environment. Will
include consideration of ethical positions to defend actions on
the environment from several perspectives, including
anthropocentrism, ecocentrism, individualism, and Christian
biblical and theological traditions. The value implications of
ecological principles and concepts will be examined. The
ecological teachings and environmental ethics from non-
Western world views will be examined. The ecological
teachings and environmental ethics from non-Western world
views will be surveyed. Course will emphasize the
development of the ability to articulate and defend one’s own
views about the environmental ethics and to constructively
criticize the views of others through discourse and writing.
May be used to fulfill the humanities requirement of the
foundational curriculum; not intended to fulfill the science
requirements of the foundational curriculum. Spring (odd
years)
ENVM 4099 (1-4 credits) Special Topics
Study of special
topics, which are concentrated, highly specific, and impart
time labile information.
ENVM 4320 Fundamentals of Toxicology and Industrial
Hygiene (3-3-0)
An introduction to the principals of toxicology
and industrial hygiene in the workplace environment. This
course emphasizes both health and safety management in
the workplace. The related regulations such as the
Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSH Act).
Fall
ENVM 4340 Environmental Laws and Regulations (3-3-0)
A survey of federal and state environmental regulations and
the laws they are based on.
Fall, even years
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE (ENVS)
ENVS 1111 Introduction to Environmental Science Lab (1-
0-2)
A laboratory course providing an introduction to various
techniques used by environmental scientist to measure and
describe environmental science phenomena. Topic to be
covered include water runoff monitoring, storm water
planning, soil measurement techniques, environmental site
descriptions, climate impacts on humans, use of Global
Positioning Satellite equipment, and an introduction to maps.
Prerequisite: ENVS 1311 required previously or concurrently.
Fall, Spring
ENVS 1311 Introduction to Environmental Science (3-3-0)
This course is an introduction to the broad set of topics
collected under the rubric of environmental science. Topics
will be explored from global climate change to extinction of
various flora and fauna in our world. The specific topics will
be selected by the instructor.
Fall, Spring
ENVS 2311 Ecosystem Sustainability (3-3-0)
Study of
interrelationships between physical, chemical, and biological
processes responsible for ecosystem function, resilience, and
stability. This course explores in more detail the complex
interactions between physical, chemical, biological, and social
aspects of populations, communities and landscapes that are
responsible for current unsustainable resource use and
ecosystem degradation. Current and historic unsustainable
resource consumption patterns are investigated, leading to a
critical assessment of emerging technology and policy