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EDUC 374 - Content Area Reading (3)
This course develops understanding and acceptance of the importance of reading to accessing information, comprehending written texts, and acquiring knowledge across academic disciplines. Students will come to recognize the importance of embedding reading instruction in a meaningful context for the purpose of accomplishing specific, authentic tasks. In addition, they will acquire specific teaching, learning, and study strategies that are necessary for teaching content area reading. Content Area Reading includes on site or school based clinical experiences. (Offered fall/spring/summer.)
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EDUC 375 - Reading Difficulties: Assessment and Intervention (3)
Education students will learn how to administer and score developmentally appropriate reading assessments for K-12 students. Included in the course will be running records/miscue analysis of grade leveled passages, early intervention tasks, analytic spelling tests, fluency measures, and comprehension assessment. These assessments results will be used to plan lessons that are focused on the strengths and needs of individual students K-12 and to provide evidence of reading achievement for individual students K-12. This course includes tutoring of children. (Offered fall/spring/summer.) Prerequisite(s): EDUC 141 ;
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EDUC 381 - Diagnostic Teaching of Students with Mild/Moderate Disabilities (3)
This course prepares intervention specialist teacher education candidates to assess and instruct students with mild to moderate disabilities. Includes a clinical experience in an after-school tutoring program which may occurs outside of scheduled class time. Must take course prior to student teaching. (Offered fall/spring/summer.) Prerequisite(s): EDUC 211 or EDUC 221 ; EDUC 313 . Field work is required outside of class time. Must take prior to student teaching.
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EDUC 382 - Effective Behavior Modification for Students with Mild/Moderate Disabilities (3)
This course prepares teacher education candidates to work with exceptional children with mild to moderate disabilities. A focus will be on children with emotional/behavioral disorders. Includes a field-based component children who may have emotional and behavioral disabilities. (Offered fall/spring.) Prerequisite(s): ; Must take course prior to student teaching.
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EDUC 401 - Developing As a Professional IV (2)
This is the last course in a four course sequence designed to provide teacher education candidates with an ongoing awareness, exploration, commitment, development, and refinement of the knowledge, dispositions, and skills expected of entry year teachers in Ohio’s performance-based licensure program. Culminating expectations for Capital University’s teacher education program are addressed and a review is made of the underlying professional commitments, dispositions and values upon which the program is based. Attention is given to a candidate’s responsibility to serve as an advocate on behalf of students and their families, improved quality of programs and services for students, and enhanced professional status and working conditions for all educators. Overriding themes of this four course sequence are classroom management, diversity, and technology. (Offered fall/spring.) Prerequisite(s): The passing of all required state licensure exams. Corequisite(s): EDUC 402
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EDUC 402 - Inquiry:Theory Into Practice (3)
The course provides a study of research designs appropriate for action research in classrooms and schools. Students create and carry out a research study focused on improving their practice that may address content, pedagogy, or management issues identified through self-evaluation and reflection. Students learn group processing protocols and meet in learning groups to examine their practice and research. In addition, legal issues, legislation and other public policies affecting all children and all families are addressed. (Offered fall/spring.) Prerequisite(s): The passing of all required state licensure exams. Corequisite(s): EDUC 401
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EDUC 410 - Student Teaching: Early Childhood Education (5)
Student Teaching is an intensive fourteen week experience in an appropriate school setting. The experience allows the candidate to demonstrate the knowledge, dispositions, and skills of the ten performance areas for entry year teachers in the State of Ohio under the direct supervision of school and university personnel. Candidates conduct ongoing reflection, analysis, and evaluation of the experience. Candidates in Early Childhood Education must complete experiences in two different settings, serving children of two different age groups with varying abilities. Special Fee applies (see “SPECIAL FEES” in the FINANCE section of this Bulletin). (Offered fall/spring.) Prerequisite(s): The passing of all required state licensure exams. Corequisite(s): EDUC 401 and EDUC 402
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EDUC 420 - Student Teaching: Middle School (5-10)
Student Teaching is an intensive fourteen week experience in an appropriate school setting. The experience allows the candidate to demonstrate the knowledge, dispositions, and skills of the ten performance areas for entry year teachers in the State of Ohio under the direct supervision of school and university personnel. Candidates conduct ongoing reflection, analysis, and evaluation of the experience. Candidates in Middle Childhood Education must complete experiences in both levels of concentration during Student Teaching. Special Fee applies (see “SPECIAL FEES” in the FINANCE section of this Bulletin). (Offered fall/spring.) Corequisite(s): EDUC 401 and EDUC 402
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EDUC 430 - Student Teaching: Adolescents to Young Adult (5-10)
Student Teaching is an intensive fourteen week experience in an appropriate school setting. The experience allows the candidate to demonstrate the knowledge, dispositions, and skills of the ten performance areas for entry year teachers in the State of Ohio under the direct supervision of school and university personnel. Candidates conduct ongoing reflection, analysis, and evaluation of the experience. Special Fee applies (see “SPECIAL FEES” in the FINANCE section of this Bulletin). (Offered fall/spring.) Corequisite(s): EDUC 401 and EDUC 402
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EDUC 440 - Student Teaching: Multi-Age (5-10)
Student Teaching in Art, Health and Physical Education is an intensive fourteen week experience in appropriate school settings. The experience allows the candidate to demonstrate the knowledge, dispositions, and skills of the ten performance areas for entry year teachers in the State of Ohio under the direct supervision of school and university personnel. Candidates in Multi-Age Education must complete experiences in two different settings, serving children of two different program levels. Special Fee applies (see “SPECIAL FEES” in the FINANCE section of this Bulletin). (Offered fall/spring.) Corequisite(s): EDUC 401 and EDUC 402 .
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EDUC 441 - Student Teaching Elementary Music Education (5)
Student Teaching is an extensive twelve-week experience in an elementary/middle/secondary school music setting. Candidates conduct ongoing reflection, analysis, and evaluation of the experience. Special Fee applies (see “SPECIAL FEES” in the FINANCE section of this Bulletin). (Offered fall/spring.)
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EDUC 442 - Student Teaching Secondary Music Education (5)
Student Teaching is an intensive twelve-week experience in an elementary/middle/secondary school music setting. Candidates conduct ongoing reflection, analysis, and evaluation of the experience. Special Fee applies (see “SPECIAL FEES” in the FINANCE section of this Bulletin). (Offered fall/spring.)
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EDUC 450 - Student Teaching: Intervention Specialist (5-10)
Student Teaching is an intensive experience in two appropriate school settings. The experience allows the candidate to demonstrate the knowledge, dispositions, and skills of the ten performance areas for entry year teachers in the State of Ohio under the direct supervision of school and university personnel. Candidates conduct ongoing reflection, analysis, and evaluation of the experience. Candidates in Intervention Specialist Education must complete experiences in two different settings, serving children of two different program levels of Mild/Moderate programs. Special Fee applies (see “SPECIAL FEES” in the FINANCE section of this Bulletin). (Offered fall/spring.) Prerequisite(s): EDUC 381 and EDUC 382 Corequisite(s): EDUC 401
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EDUC 490 - Interprofessional Cultural Competency for Human Service Professions (1)
This course is designed to complement fieldwork and clinical experiences in nursing, education, and social work. Students will be engaged in the process of identifying, assessing, and enhancing their own cultural competency through standardized measures as well as reflections on field-based experiences. Areas to be addressed are: cultural desire, cultural awareness; cultural knowledge; cultural skills; and cultural encounters. The course will facilitate engagement in a culturally sensitive progression from ethnocentrism to ethnorelativism. (Offered as needed.) Prerequisite(s): , .
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EDUC 491 - Individual Study (1-6)
(Offered as needed.)
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EDUC 493 - Selected Topics (1-12)
(Offered as needed.)
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EDUC 495 - Internship (1-12)
The internship program allows the student to become a co-teacher in a public school for an entire school year calendar. The intern receives a stipend and is under contract to the public school system. Students who wish to intern must carefully plan their program from the initial stages of their college experience in order to have course work completed prior to the internship. A student’s student teaching experience is a component of the internship. (Offered as needed.)
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EDUC 550 - Issues in Second Language Acquisition: Theory and Practice (4)
This course is designed to cover material for students in the TESOL Endorsement program and will include: history, development and current theories of second language acquisition. Variables affecting language learning and terminology associated with the many aspects of TESOL will also be covered. (Offered summer.)
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EDUC 560 - Studies in English Language Structure and Linguistics (4)
This course will guide students through the linguistic and theoretical basis for the study of language structure and then focus specifically on English. Practical strategies will be discussed for teaching English in the five skill areas: reading, writing, grammar, listening and speaking. Class material in phonology, morphology, and syntax will be covered to help students consider these various skill areas. (Offered spring.)
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EDUC 570 - Sociolinguistics and Culture (4)
Topics for the course include: bilingualism, dialects, ethnic group membership, gender, religion, social class and educational level as it impacts on the identity of individuals. Understanding and appreciating uniqueness and differences will allow students in the TESOL Endorsement program to effectively design learning environments for all students. (Offered summer.)
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EDUC 580 - Assessment, Evaluation and Program Development in TESOL (4)
Students in the class will work toward skills in the development of lessons for ESOL (English for speakers of other languages) students that reflect Ohio’s grade-level learning outcomes. They will select, create, and adapt resources to support ESOL students’ language and literacy development and content area achievement. They will use age-appropriate assessment procedures, interpret data to make instructional decisions, communicate assessment results to learners and their caregivers, and develop strategies to encourage learners to use assessment results to make decisions about their own learning. (Offered fall.)
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EDUC 600 - Practicum-Classroom Observation and Practice Teaching (5)
The TESOL practicum consists of classroom observation and practice teaching through direct experience. These experiences will allow the student to demonstrate knowledge, dispositions, and skills for the performance areas required of teachers in the State of Ohio. (Offered fall/spring/summer.)
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EMF 100 - Pre-Professional Studies (0-3)
Experiential learning opportunity within radio, television or film. Repeatable for a maximum of six hours. (Offered fall/spring.)
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EMF 141 - Introduction to Film (3)
An introduction to film analysis and a survey of the history of film from its beginnings to the present. This course is recommended for English majors and others who are interested in film theory, teaching film analysis and appreciation, or reviewing film for newspapers or magazines. Offered fall semester of even-numbered years. (Offered as needed.)
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EMF 193 - Selected Topics (1-6)
Repeatable under different topics. (Offered as needed.)
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EMF 232 - Media Writing (3)
Learn basic principles, structure and format for screenwriting, copy writing, and social media writing. Includes film, television, radio, commercial and social media scripts and stories. (Same course offered as ENGL 222.) (Offered fall.) Prerequisite(s): COMM 131 .
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EMF 241 - Film Criticism (3)
The study of film, film theory and film criticism. Students will read works by film critics, but also will write their own critiques of films watched in class. (Offered as needed.)
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EMF 293 - Selected Topics (1-6)
Repeatable under different topics. (Offered as needed.)
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EMF 300 - Advanced Pre-Professional Studies (0-3)
Advanced experiential learning opportunity within radio, television or film. Repeatable for a maximum of 6 hours. More than credits per semester requires permission of instructor. (Offered fall/spring.) Prerequisite(s): EMF 100
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EMF 333 - Video Production (3)
Fundamentals of camera, lighting, sound, editing, and storytelling in regards to the production process. Emphasis on single-camera production. (Offered fall/spring.)
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EMF 336 - Broadcast Sound Production (3)
Fundamentals of sound, radio, announcing, audio management and auditory storytelling for effective communication with sound. Emphasis on both radio and Foley productions. (Offered spring.)
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EMF 337 - Media Management & Promotion (3)
Principles of media management with an emphasis on business management, marketing, social networking, promotion, sales, and audience analysis. (Offered spring.) Prerequisite(s): COMM 131 .
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EMF 339 - Motion Graphics (3)
This course explores media technologies with an emphasis on motion graphic design. This course introduces and develops essential skills in color grading, 2D animation, image design, video compositing, special effects, and the distribution of linear media for television, web, and mobile devices. (Offered fall.)
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EMF 341 - Gender and Film (3)
Students will examine how film reflects, reinforces and redefines cultural assumptions about masculinity and femininity. Students will watch and, using theoretical perspectives discussed in class, analyze selected films. (Same course offered as .) (Offered as needed.)
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EMF 342 - Horror Films and Their Audiences (3)
This course traces the development of the horror film. This class also explores the relationship between horror and society. (Offered as needed.)
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EMF 343 - Major Directors (3)
This course provides an in-depth consideration of one or two major directors/auteurs. Topics will vary. Repeatable under different topics. (Offered as needed.)
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EMF 344 - Film Genre Studies (3)
In this course, students will engage in an in-depth critical analysis of film genre. Topics will vary. Repeatable under different topics. (Offered fall/spring.)
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EMF 345 - Screenwriting (3)
Students are introduced to the elements of screenwriting (e.g., 3-act structure, proper screenplay format, conflict, plot, character, point of view, dialogue, step outline, and treatment). Students write, revise, and critique screenwriting in a structured workshop setting. (Offered as needed.) Prerequisite(s): UC 110 .
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EMF 393 - Selected Topics (3)
Repeatable under different topics. (Offered as needed.)
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EMF 433 - Advanced Video Production (3)
Advanced study and performance of production fundamentals with an emphasis on producing, directing and storytelling. Emphasis on single-camera productions. (Offered fall/spring.) Prerequisite(s): .
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EMF 491 - Individual Study
Specialized study in an area of radio, television or film under the supervision of a faculty member with an approved format. Repeatable to a maximum of 12 hours. (Offered as needed.)
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EMF 493 - Selected Topics (1-6)
Repeatable under different topics. (Offered as needed.)
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EMF 495 - Media Internship (0-12)
Qualified students are placed in radio and television stations, media production houses or in similar organizations. (Offered fall/spring/summer.)
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ENGL 100 - Basic Writing (3)
This course engages students in the full writing process-invention, drafting, revising, and editing-to prepare them for the rigors of Gen. Ed. 1 and for academic writing in general. Basic Writing focuses on composing essays and is not a grammar review course, though editing concerns are covered. Students who have taken UC 110 may not take English 100 for credit or to fulfill an elective requirement in any major or minor. Taken Pass/Fail only. Note: ENGL 100 does not meet the Reading and Writing Skills GEN ED. (Offered fall/spring.)
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ENGL 102 - Writing for International Students (3)
English 102 is designed specifically for non-native English speakers who have reached the 500 TOEFL level. Assignments will focus on preparing students for the Gen. Ed. requirement in writing. This course covers the same material as , but is tailored specifically for students who are writing in a second language. (Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 122 - Media and Society (3)
Critical approaches to multiple media texts, examining their creation, development, and relationships to society and culture. (Same course offered as COMM 131 .) (Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 150 - Introduction to Literature (3)
This course is a study of a variety of poems, short stories, plays and novels from a range of historical and geographical backgrounds. Students will develop skills for critically analyzing and clearly writing about texts. (Offered fall/spring.)
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ENGL 204 - Creative Writing (3)
Fulfills Fine Arts Goal. A disciplined workshop in fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction. (Offered fall/spring.)
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ENGL 211 - Critical Writing for English Majors (3)
Students will study critical approaches to understanding literature and practice using them in writing analytical papers. They will also investigate key issues and controversies within the discipline and begin to formulate their own literary theory. (Offered fall.)
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ENGL 223 - News Writing and Reporting (3)
Introduction to basic journalism techniques of investigation, interviewing, reporting, writing and photography. (Offered fall.)
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ENGL 230 - New Media and Writing (3)
Exploration of roles and uses of new media in composition. Special attention paid to topics such as identity construction and performance, visual rhetoric, digital divide, and intercultural communication in the information age. (Offered spring.)
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ENGL 240 - Genre Studies: Fiction 3
Focusing on narrative structure, technique, and theory, this course surveys great works of fiction from throughout history, from Maupassant and Poe to David Foster Wallace and Joyce Carol Oates. (Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 241 - Genre Studies:Modern Short Story (3)
A study of the short story in the 20th and early 21st centuries. Authors may include Hemingway, James Baldwin, James Joyce, Flannery O’Connor, Raymond Carver, and contemporary short story writers. (Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 243 - Genre Studies:Poetry (3)
Focusing on prosody, voice, theme, and poetic devices, this course introduces students to the complex task of reading and interpreting great poems from throughout history. (Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 245 - Genre Studies:Drama (3)
Study of a single literary genre. (Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 247 - Song of Self: Autobiography and Biography (3)
The reading of autobiographies, biographies, journals, letters, and memoirs and the writing of autobiographical and critical essays. (Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 250 - Survey of English Literature I (3)
English literature from the Middle Ages through the early 18th century. (Offered fall.)
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ENGL 251 - Survey of English Literature II (3)
English literature from the late 18th century to the early 20th century. (Offered spring.)
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ENGL 255 - Survey of American Literature (3)
American literature from pre-Colonial times to the beginning of the modern period.
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ENGL 260 - Introduction to African Literature (3)
This non-Western literature course provides survey and analysis of traditional and contemporary African literatures including fiction, poetry and drama in relationship to their social, economic and political environments. (Offered fall-even years.)
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ENGL 263 - Introduction to Latin American Literature (3)
This introductory course in non-Western literature explores fiction, poetry, and other literary genres from Central and South America. It focuses on the twentieth century and considers this literature in its social and political contexts. (Students may not take both this course and SPAN 355 for credit. Only one will count.) (Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 270 - Black Women Writers (3)
The course provides an intensive study of African-American women writers with an emphasis on the explosive creative period of the last 50 years. (Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 275 - Native American Literature (3)
The course provides a study of oral and written literatures of Native Americans, emphasizing the writing of men and women from the last half of the 20th century. Works are presented in their historical and cultural contexts. (Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 280 - Detective Fiction (3)
A chronological introduction to the genre, with an emphasis upon recent revisions and re-imagings of traditional themes, characters, plots, and settings, including the continuing creative intersection of detective fiction with film. (Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 282 - Contemporary American Fiction (3)
This course covers American fiction from the 1980s to the present. It considers these works as imaginative responses to contemporary culture and aesthetic accomplishments. (Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 290 - Mythology (3)
A study of myth, primarily Greek, Roman and Norse, as expressions of the human imagination and as influences on other forms of literature. Topics may vary. (Offered fall-even years.)
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ENGL 301 - Poetry Writing (3)
Students read, write and revise contemporary poetry in a workshop setting, learn about the basics of publishing, and attend local readings. Repeatable for credit up to six hours. (Offered fall.)
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ENGL 302 - Fiction Writing (3)
Students write, revise and critique fiction in a structured workshop setting, learn about the basics of the publishing industry and attend local literary readings. Repeatable for credit up to six hours. (Offered spring.)
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ENGL 303 - Creative Non-Fiction (3)
Students read, write, and revise creative non-fiction in a workshop setting, study forms of non-fiction and elements of craft, and learn about the basics of publishing creative non-fiction on a local and national level. Repeatable for credit up to six hours. (Offered spring.)
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ENGL 310 - Writing in the Professions (3)
General coverage of the writing activities and tasks commonly encountered in business and technical communication; focused attention will be given to business and technical report writing, proposal writing, and other writing tasks often completed in the corporate and non-profit sectors. (Same course offered as COMM 350 .) (Offered fall/spring.)
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ENGL 320 - Editing (3)
Development of advanced journalistic and publishing techniques needed to work in a professional environment. (Offered fall.)
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ENGL 321 - Layout and Design (3)
Coverage of the principles guiding layout and design of multiple facets of publication. Topics may include layout and design of newspapers, magazines, newsletters, flyers, brochures, booklets, and other documents. Students will also gain practice in implementing these principles using industry-standard software platforms. (Same course as PR 361 .) (Offered spring.)
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ENGL 322 - Magazine Article Writing (3)
This course focuses on research and writing skills needed to write a variety of non-fiction pieces for magazines. The business of freelance writing, including query letters, contracts and rights, will be addressed. (Offered fall-even years.)
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ENGL 323 - Chimes: Reporting Practicum (1)
Supervised practicum in reporting and writing for the campus newspaper. (Offered fall/spring.)
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ENGL 324 - Chimes: Editing Practicum (1)
Supervised practicum in editing for the campus newspaper. (Offered fall/spring.)
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ENGL 325 - Chimes: Design Practicum (1)
Supervised practicum in layout and design or web page production for the campus newspaper. (Offered fall/spring.)
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ENGL 326 - Ethics, Law and Media (3)
What is privacy when cameras and social media can report nearly everything we do? Why can the media portray famous people in a bad light? Laws of libel, privacy and obscenity will be explored in addition to First Amendment theories and case studies in ethics. (Same course offered as .) (Offered spring.)
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ENGL 330 - Technical Writing and Editing (3)
Combines theory and practice of producing various types of technical documents for business, industry, government, academia and social media. Introduces the concept of ‘level of edit’ to extend the understanding of editing writing, revising, and editing a number of documents including instructions, definitions, descriptions and reports. (Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 336 - Writing for the Web (3)
Emphasis on theory, practices, and principles of producing effective online documentation. The course establishes an ongoing discussion of various topics in web design - from the meanings of color and font to multicultural usability and internet commerce - and offers multiple opportunities for hands-on exploration of those topics through work on personal websites and client projects. (Same course offered as .) (Offered fall/spring.)
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ENGL 340 - English Language (3)
A study of the development and grammar of English including the history of the language, its structure, and the acquisition of language by native speakers. (Offered spring/summer.)
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ENGL 343 - Shakespeare (3)
More than any other individual writer, Shakespeare influenced the rhythms, the lexicon, the stylistic possibilities of modern English writing. This course explores the contributions Shakespeare made to literature through a study of his poems and plays. Emphasis is placed on both page and stage: textual analysis and considerations of performance issues. (Offered spring.)
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ENGL 345 - Major Authors (3)
Recent offerings include Jane Austen, Hemingway and Faulkner, Willa Cather and the West, Joyce and Yeats. (Offered fall-odd years.)
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ENGL 350 - Classical Literature (3)
The genres and conventions that shaped the history of western literature were developed in the first millennium before the Common Era by Greek and Latin writers. This class provides students an essential foundation for the study of literature through an exploration of writers and texts that have deeply influenced all later writers in the western tradition; Homer, Sappho, Sophocles, Vergil and Ovid among others. All texts are read in translation. (Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 355 - Medieval Literature (3)
A survey of the texts and authors that brought European literature from the age of the written manuscript to the age of the printing press. While the emphasis is on such English writers as Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, the Gawaine-Poet and Malory, this course includes some continental texts as well to provide a more inclusive awareness of the literature of the middle ages (800-1485). (Offered fall-odd years.)
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ENGL 356 - Renaissance (3)
The Early Modern era in England produced one of the richest epochs of literary production. The Renaissance was the period in which secular drama became a new genre of writing in England, literary theory saw its first English humanist defenses of poetry, and the English language was being crafted into its modern form. This course is an exploration of the poetry, prose and drama in the age of More, Spenser, Donne, Shakespeare, Jonson and Milton. (Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 358 - 18th Century (3)
British Victorians inherited Romantic writers and values, though they often criticized or even satirized them. Novelists (for instance, Thackery, Dickens, the Brontes and Hardy) invented more or less realistic worlds co-terminal with their own. Individual voices in poetry and essays took up the great topics of the day: women’s rights, the suffering of the poor, the value of the empire, the uses of education and gap between the individual and society. (Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 359 - Romantics (3)
In this course, concentrating on the period from 1780-1820, we read the traditional English Romantics poets (Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Coleridge and Keats) in the light of new critical interest in Gothic fiction (Anne Radcliffe, Mary Shelley and others). Reacting against many Enlightenment values, these Romantics explored the personal value of nature, language, emotion and creativity. (Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 366 - 19th Century American Fiction (3)
An intensive study of key works, ranging from Moby Dick to Little Women to Huck Finn. Students will study in its cultural and literary contexts. (Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 368 - Harlem Renaissance (3)
An intensive study of African-American writers, male and female, of the 1920s. Included are key writers leading up to and following this central period of Black literary tradition. (Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 370 - Modern and Contemporary Drama (3)
This advanced literature course explores a range of plays throughout the 20th century and into the 21st. We begin with some modern classics; however, many of the plays studied are contemporary. The class also has a global reach. Plays will be discussed from a range of critical and dramatic perspectives. (Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 371 - 20th Century Literature (3)
This course explores key trends in 20th Century American, English, European literatures. The focus of the course may vary. (Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 480 - Senior Seminar (3)
This capstone course focuses on the theoretical questions, disciplinary controversies and critical approaches central to the study of literature. Students will do extensive scholarly reading and writing. (Offered fall.)
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ENGL 491 - Individual Study (1-6)
(Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 493 - Selected Topics (1-3)
(Offered as needed.)
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ENGL 495 - Internship in Professional Writing (1-3)
Qualified students may apply to work with a variety of professional editors, writers and communicators in the Columbus area. Past internships have included Ohio Magazine, state government, Wexner Center, Ohio Bar Association, Columbus Dispatch, and Columbus Blue Jackets. (Offered fall/spring.)
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ENVS 230 - Environmental Geology (3)
Natural Science Group A: An introduction to physical and chemical geologic processes and natural resources as they relate to human activity and societal issues. Topics include geologic hazards (earthquakes, floods, volcanoes and landslides), water quality and supply issues, waste disposal issues and environmental consideration in extracting energy and mineral resources. Analysis of field and laboratory data using statistical, graphical and critical thinking analysis. (Also offered as GEOL 230 .) Offered fall and spring.
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ENVS 250 - Environmental Science (4)
An introduction to the discipline of environmental science, an interdisciplinary field concerned with investigating the nature and interactions of the hydrosphere, geosphere, atmosphere and biosphere. Major topics include biogeochemical cycles, physical and chemical oceanography, ecology, population dynamics, natural resources, meteorology and climate change, and contemporary societal issues such as waste management and air and water pollution. Collection and analysis of field and laboratory data using statistical, graphical and critical thinking skills. (Also offered as BIOL 250 .) Offered fall of odd years. Fulfills Natural Science General Education requirement.
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ENVS 315 - Research Methods in Environmental and Biological Sciences (3)
An introduction to the techniques and practices of biological and environmental science research focusing on experiential design, critical literature review, data analysis, and scientific writing. (Same course offered as BIOL 315 .) Offered fall semester.
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ENVS 350 - Environmental Issues of Developing Nations (3)
An interdisciplinary study of environmental issues of developing nations. Topics include significant environmental problems (including overpopulation, food availability, resource depletion and contamination, and environmental health), their causes, and solutions appropriate to sustainable development. Prerequisite(s): recommended.
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ENVS 393 - Computational Environmental Science (3)
This course is designed to stimulate critical thinking about environmental science principles using computational methodologies and numerical models to examine climate change, groundwater flow, nutrient cycles, and other topics. (Same course offered as CSAC 393 .) Prerequisite(s): CSAC 245 or CS 245 .
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