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2019 - 2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

 

Literature
  

  • ENGL 211 - Literature Transformed

    Credits: (3)
    Domain (Anchored): ALV
    An introduction to the study of relations between works of literature and other media. Topics may include adaptation and revision; books made into films and vice versa; literature and music or the visual arts; or storytelling in newer media including graphic novels, videogames, and electronic literature.
  

  • ENGL 213 - Iconic Authors

    Credits: (3)
    Domain (Anchored): ALV
    An introduction to the major works of one or more celebrated, influential writers.  Subjects may include Jane Austen, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, or Toni Morrison.  (Courses that satisfy the Single Author requirement for the English major appear at the 400 level.)
  

  • ENGL 214 - One Good Book

    Credits: (3)
    Domain (Anchored): ALV
    A study of a single major work whose depth and complexity reward a semester-long immersion.  Subjects may include Melville’s Moby-Dick, Dickens’s David Copperfield, George Eliot’s Middlemarch, Joyce’s Ulysses, T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, Ellison’s Invisible Man, Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow, or Wallace’s Infinite Jest.
  

  • ENGL 215 - Popular Genres

    Credits: (3)
    Domain (Anchored): ALV
    An introduction to popular literature and “genre fiction.”  Topics may include detective stories, Arthurian romance, Gothic and supernatural fiction, children’s fantasy literature, Westerns, science fiction/speculative fiction, or pulp fiction.
  

  • ENGL 230 - Topics in Modern English

    Credits: (1-4)
    An exploration of aspects of the English language used currently.  Topics may include African American English and linguistic discrimination; “standard” and “nonstandard” English(es) in American, British, and global, colonial, and imperial contexts, and their implications for culture, society, and policy; slang, jargon, new words, and new usages; obscenity and hate speech.  Courses may include community-based research.  Courses do not presume any previous coursework in linguistics.
  

  • ENGL 250 - Interpreting Literature

    Credits: (3)
    In this course students develop the skills necessary for college-level literary analysis. Students will practice close reading and critical writing informed by various interpretive models. Course readings will include four to six primary literary texts selected from different historical periods, genres, traditions, and perspectives.
  

  • ENGL 311 - Epic and Romance

    Credits: (3)
    This course surveys epics and romances from Ancient Greece, Classical Rome, and Medieval France, Germany, and Italy. Readings (in translation) may include Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey; Virgil’s Aeneid; selected Arthurian romances by Chrétien de Troyes; Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival; and Dante’s Inferno.   Readings may also include English works in the epic and romance traditions.
  

  • ENGL 314 - Old English

    Credits: (3)
    An introductory study of the Old English language, including grammar, phonology, and vocabulary, through the translation and analysis of prose and poetry; collateral readings in Anglo-Saxon history and culture.
  

  • ENGL 315 - Beowulf

    Credits: (3)
    An intensive study of the text in Old English; collateral reading of the poem’s classical, Christian, and Norse analogues, and of selected literary criticism.
  

  • ENGL 316 - Arthurian Literature

    Credits: (3)
    A study of selected works from the Arthurian literary tradition. Major emphasis is upon authors from the medieval period (e.g., Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chrétien de Troyes and Malory), but some attention is also given to Arthurian literature in the 19th and 20th centuries.
  

  • ENGL 322 - Medieval Literature

    Credits: (3)
    A survey of selected major works and other representative examples of Old and Middle English literature, exclusive of Chaucer. The course explores the development of typical medieval attitudes and themes in a variety of literary forms and genres.
  

  • ENGL 322A - Middle English Practicum

    Credits: (1)
    Corequisite(s): ENGL 322 . 
    Study of selections from Middle English texts in the original language, surveying major works drawn from the chief dialects.  Emphasis on phonology, grammar, and vocabulary.
  

  • ENGL 323 - Early Modern British Literature

    Credits: (3)
    A survey of British literature between 1509, the accession of King Henry VIII, and 1625, the death of King James I.  Includes poetry, drama, and prose.  Major figures studied may include Thomas More, Queen Elizabeth I, Walter Raleigh, Philip Sidney, Mary Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, and William Shakespeare (especially his poetry).
  

  • ENGL 324 - Renaissance and Restoration

    Credits: (3)
    A survey of British literature between 1603, the death of Queen Elizabeth I, and 1713, the end of the War of the Spanish Succession that marked Great Britain’s emergence as a world power.  Includes poetry, drama, satire, and philosophical writing.  Major figures studied may include John Donne, Ben Jonson, Thomas Hobbes, Margaret Cavendish, John Milton, Andrew Marvell, the Earl of Rochester, Aphra Behn, John Locke, and John Dryden.
  

  • ENGL 325 - English Renaissance Drama

    Credits: (3)
    This course studies the remarkable flourishing of drama in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, periods characterized by their dramatic inventiveness and innovation. We will study early modern interventions into the development of the Classical genres of tragedy and comedy as well as the development of new dramatic genres, including the history play, the revenge tragedy, the dramatic epic, the masque, and the comedy of humors. Works studied may include plays by Dekker, Kyd, Marlowe, Marston, Cary, Shakespeare, Jonson, Middleton, Webster, and Ford.
  

  • ENGL 332 - Enlightenment and Sensibility

    Credits: (3)
    A survey of British literature between 1688, the Glorious Revolution, and 1789, the outbreak of the French Revolution.  Includes satire, poetry, drama, narrative fiction, essays, and philosophical writing.  Major figures studied may include Daniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Samuel Johnson, Thomas Gray, David Hume, Adam Smith, Frances Burney, and Olaudah Equiano.
  

  • ENGL 333 - The Rise of the Novel

    Credits: (3)
    This course studies the emergence of the novel as a literary form and a cultural force in the early modern, Enlightenment, and Romantic periods.  The course draws upon authors from the British Isles, the Americas, and the European continent, and considers modes of prose fiction ranging from amatory to picaresque and sentimental to satirical.  Major figures studied may include Miguel de Cervantes, Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Frances Burney, Jane Austen, Walter Scott, and James Fenimore Cooper.
  

  • ENGL 341 - Romanticism and Revolution

    Credits: (3)
    A survey of British literature between 1776, the outbreak of the American Revolution, and 1832, the year of the first British Reform Bill. Includes poetry, narrative fiction, and nonfiction prose. Major figures studied may include William Blake, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, John Keats, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Mary Shelley, Lord Byron, Robert Burns, Jane Austen, and Felicia Hemans.
  

  • ENGL 343 - English Novel, 1832-1900

    Credits: (3)
    Novels by Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Dickens, Trollope, Gaskell, Eliot and Hardy are studied as primary examples of the nature and development of the English novel during the Victorian period.
  

  • ENGL 344 - The World Novel After 1832

    Credits: (3)
    A study of selected novels written mostly by authors who are not Anglo-American. Focus of readings will vary from year to year (e.g., history of the genre; 19th-century Europe; postcolonialism).
  

  • ENGL 352 - Modern British and Irish Literature

    Credits: (3)
    This course considers how the literature of the British Isles reacted to the dramatic events of the first half of the twentieth century, including two world wars, the loss of empire (and partial independence for Ireland), struggles over extending the franchise (especially for women), the rise of mass communications. We will consider how a consciously new modernist literature responded to these developments and how older literary forms were modified for a changing world.
  

  • ENGL 353 - International Modernism

    Credits: (3)
    Comparative study of modernism as a set of cosmopolitan ideas and practices across transforming cities, nations, and social formations, infused by the internationalism of momentous events such as the Russian Revolution and the two world wars. Attention to modernism’s complex relations with emerging forms of popular and mass culture, and its dispersal across a variety of discourses and aesthetic media. Emphasis on the making of inventive historical connections in a still-contested field.
  

  • ENGL 355 - Modern Fiction

    Credits: (3)
    Reading, analysis, and discussion of British, Irish, and American fiction writers from the end of the Victorian era through the 1950s. The class will explore the development of modernist fiction writing in the first half of the twentieth century as well as the ways that modernist form and thematic preoccupations affected other styles of writing in the twentieth century.
  

  • ENGL 356 - Modern Poetry to 1930

    Credits: (3)
    Development of modern British, Irish, and American poetry from transitional poets Hopkins and Hardy through the first generation modernist poets and the Harlem Renaissance.
  

  • ENGL 357A - Modern Poetry, 1930-1960

    Credits: (3)
    Development of British, Irish, and American poetry published before and after World War II.  Special focus on the way aesthetic and ideological movements at the beginning of the 20th century influenced such poets as W.H. Auden, Theodore Roethke, Dylan Thomas, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Lowell, Gwendolyn Brooks, Philip Larkin, and Allen Ginsberg.
  

  • ENGL 357B - Modern Poetry after 1960

    Credits: (3)
    Development of British, Irish, and American poetry published during and after the 1960s.  Special focus on the way socio-political events during the 1960s influenced the work of such poets as Sylvia Plath, James Wright, Seamus Heaney, Mary Oliver, Sharon Olds, Louise Glück, Lucille Clifton, Yusef Komunyakaa, Rita Dove, Cathy Song, and Sherman Alexie.
  

  • ENGL 358 - Modern Drama

    Credits: (3)
    International survey of European and American drama from Ibsen to Beckett, Baraka, and Pinter (among others), from the advent of theatrical naturalism in the 1870s to the post-WWII experiments classed under the Absurd and new forms of political drama in the 1960s.
  

  • ENGL 361 - American Literature to 1836

    Credits: (3)
    A survey from Columbus to Poe, emphasizing the Puritan/ Enlightenment backgrounds of such writers as Bradford, Bradstreet, Taylor, Edwards, Franklin, Brown, and Freneau.
  

  • ENGL 362 - The American Renaissance

    Credits: (3)
    A survey of the mid-19th century, emphasizing the writers of the Concord Group, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson.
  

  • ENGL 363 - American Literature, 1865-1914

    Credits: (3)
    A survey of American literature from the end of the Civil War to the First World War, tracking the many transformations and debates in American literary culture.  Writers may include Charles Chesnutt, Theodore Dreiser, Pauline Hopkins, Henry James, Zitkala-Sa, Mark Twain, and Edith Wharton.
  

  • ENGL 364 - American Literature, 1912-1960s

    Credits: (3)
    A study of modern American writing from the early teens, through and beyond the two world wars. Literary and social movements covered may include Imagism, the “Lost Generation” writers, the Harlem Renaissance, 1930s Proletarian literature, and the counter-cultures of the 1950s and 60s.
  

  • ENGL 365 - Early Black American Literature

    Credits: (3)
    Survey of Black American literature and thought from the colonial period through the era of Booker T. Washington, focusing on the ways in which developing African American literature met the challenges posed successively by slavery, abolition, and emancipation.
    Cross-listed with: AFST 365 
  

  • ENGL 366 - Modern African-American Literature

    Credits: (3)
    Readings in African American literature from the 1940s to 2000. Issues addressed may include the Civil Rights Movement, black feminism, pan-Africanism, and postcolonialism. Writers may include Richard Wright, Ann Petry, James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, Audre Lorde, and Toni Morrison.
    Cross-listed with: AFST 366 
  

  • ENGL 370 - Global Postmodernism

    Credits: (3)
    This course will focus on literary experiments of the latter half of the twentieth century, particularly as they respond to the moral, cultural, and philosophical impasses of “late capitalism,” the Cold War, the nuclear age, and identity politics. We will consider why writers may have turned to self-reflexive, hyper-ironic, and fragmented narrative modes in response to the so-called “end of history.” Representative authors might include William Burroughs, Thomas Pynchon, Kathy Acker, Ishmael Reed, Julio Cortázar, Italo Calvino, Angela Carter, Don Delillo, and Haruki Murakami.
  

  • ENGL 371 - Topics in American Literature

    Credits: (3)
    Advanced study of a specific topic in American literature.
    If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENGL 371A - Transnational Asian American Literature

    Credits: (3)
    College Curriculum: COLL 200
    Domain (Anchored): ALV
    Additional Domain (if applicable): CSI
    Through the study of fiction and non-fiction texts, this course will examine how the Asian American is constructed transnationally. Variously the model minority, the perpetual foreigner, or the terrorist, how is the Asian American figured in different spatiotemporal contexts? While grappling with this question, the course will also analyze the intersectional constructs of race, gender, class, and sexuality in investigating how Asian Americanness is constituted within and against the concept of the nation.
    Cross-listed with: APIA 405 
  

  • ENGL 372 - Studies in Contemporary Literature

    Credits: (3)
    The main focus of this course is on living authors and current literary practices. Topics may include particular genres of writing (contemporary fiction, poetry, drama) or cut across genres to address particular thematic concerns (such as posthumanist literature, Afrofuturism, or writing addressing new modes of global interconnection).
    If there is no duplication of topic, this course may be repeated once for credit.
  

  • ENGL 381 - Topics in British Literature Before 1700

    Credits: (3)
    In-depth study of a specific topic within or across the medieval, Renaissance, and early modern periods of English and world literature.
    If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENGL 382 - Topics in British Literature Between 1700 and 1900

    Credits: (3)
     In-depth study of a specific topic within or across the 18th-century, Romantic, and Victorian periods of British and world literature.
    If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENGL 383 - Topics in American Literature Before 1920

    Credits: (3)
    In-depth study of a specific topic within or across the early to 19th century periods of American and world literature.
    If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENGL 384 - Topics in Literature Since 1900

    Credits: (3)
    In-depth study of a specific topic within or across the modern and contemporary periods of American, British and world literature.
    If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENGL 411 - Topics in Literary Theory

    Credits: (3)
    Topics in theory, exploring questions of aesthetics, the history of the study of literature, literature’s function as representation, its relationship to the world and to other disciplines. Topics vary but may include contemporary literary theory, psychoanalysis, and postmodernism.
    If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENGL 411A - Theory of Literature

    Credits: (3)
    A study of the major attempts to identify and define the nature of literature, our responses to it and its relation to life and to the other arts. The emphasis is on modern and contemporary literary theory, but with some concern for the historical tradition.
  

  • ENGL 412 - Topics in Literature and Other Arts

    Credits: (3)
    Exploration of the intersections among written, visual, and/ or performing arts. Topics vary from semester to semester but may include Shakespeare and Film, art and literature of the Harlem Renaissance, and race, representation, and arts in the U.S. South.
    If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENGL 414 - Topics in Women Writers

    Credits: (3)
    Study of fiction, non-fiction, and/or poetry by selected women writers. Topics vary from semester to semester but may include British women writers, medieval women writers, contemporary women writers.
    If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENGL 414A - African American Women Writers

    Credits: (3)
    This course examines the fiction and non-fiction of writers such Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Adrienne Kennedy, Alice Walker, Lorraine Hansbury, June Jordon, Maya Angelou, and Octavia Butler. Attention to black feminist/womanist and vernacular theoretical issues through selected critical readings.
    Cross-listed with: AFST 414  and GSWS 414 
  

  • ENGL 416 - Topics in Gender and Sexuality

    Credits: (3)
    Courses that address literary and/or theoretical treatments of gender and sexuality. Topics vary from semester to semester and may include issues such as sexual identity, queer theory, feminist criticism, masculinity studies and literature and the formation of sexual identity.
    If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENGL 416A - Literature and the Formation of Homosexuality

    Credits: (3)
    A study of the homosexual tradition and the formation of sexual identity in 19th-20th-century British and American literature. Authors read include Oscar Wilde, E. M. Forster, Willa Cather, Thomas Mann, Christopher Isherwood, Sigmund Freud and Michel Foucault.
  

  • ENGL 416B - Lesbian Literatures

    Credits: (3)
    Study of literary texts by and about lesbians, or about lesbian experience. Texts will be chosen from a range of genres and literary periods. Attention will be given to intersectional identities, especially as they pertain to race, ethnicity and class. Authors may include Katherine Philips, Sheridan LeFanu, Radclyffe Hall, Nella Larsen, Audre Lorde, Rita Mae Brown, Jewelle Gomez, June Jordan, Adrienne Rich, To Molefe, and Lindiwe Nkutha.
  

  • ENGL 417 - Topics in Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality

    Credits: (3)
    Study of literature focusing on changing cultural definitions of race, ethnic identity, and the shaping of (and rationale for) national literatures. Topics will vary but may include comparative and cross-cultural studies.
    If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENGL 417A - Literature of the Americas

    Credits: (3)
    A study of works that extend the definition of “American” literature beyond the national boundaries of the United States. Focus of readings will vary from year to year (e.g., Caribbean literature, U.S./Latin American literary relations, multiculturalism).
  

  • ENGL 417B - The Harlem Renaissance

    Credits: (3)
    Exploration of the artistic movement known as the Harlem Renaissance with an emphasis on the ways race, gender/sexuality, and class informed and critiqued construction of identity. Writers include Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, and others. Some attention to visual art and music.
    Cross-listed with: AFST 417 
  

  • ENGL 419 - Study of a Single Author or Auteur

    Credits: (3)
    In-depth study of a single author or auteur. Topics vary from semester to semester but may include Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, William Faulkner, Oscar Wilde, Orson Welles.
    If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENGL 419A - Jane Austen

    Credits: (3)
    In this course we will study the career of Jane Austen (1775-1817), one of the world’s greatest novelists.  Proceeding chronologically, we’ll concentrate on Austen’s six major novels, but we’ll also read some of her letters, juvenilia and unfinished pieces of fiction.  The main goal of the course is to enhance students’ appreciation and understanding of Austen’s development through close reading of her works.  In class discussions and in both formal and informal writing assignments, students will analyze the relationships between on the one hand, the language, structure and form of the novels and on the other hand, themes such as family dynamics, courtship, education, politeness, and psychological growth.  We’ll also pay attention to various contexts that illuminate Austen’s stylistic and thematic choices and strategies, approaching Austen’s works in terms of biography, British history, and the development of the genre of the novel, as well as recent scholarly criticism.  In addition, we’ll extend the pleasures and intellectual rewards of studying Austen by discussing various screen adaptations of her novels. 
  

  • ENGL 419B - Hemingway: The Man and the Myth

    Credits: (3)
    Ernest Hemingway has come to embody a dizzying array of (contradictory) meanings for America: the “man’s man,” the tortured genius, the misogynist, the articulate representative of a “lost generation.”  In this course we’ll be exploring the myths, the man, and his writing through historical, biographical, and literary criticism.  In what ways does Hemingway–his life and his art–represent the shift from Victorian to modern world views? How does his innovative and influential writing style both reflect and shape that newly emerging modern consciousness?  Despite his personal flaws, Hemingway believed that, as Miranda Mellis puts it, writers write “not, finally, to reduce experience to a formula, but rather to convert confusion into curiosity, to face questions that don’t have easy answers, and to create spaces in which others, be they students or readers, might do the same.”
  

  • ENGL 419C - Edith Wharton and Her Milieu

    Credits: (3)
    Drawing from Wharton’s long career, which depicted mid-nineteenth century social life through the flapper era, this course reads Wharton’s work in relation to changing cultural contexts, including: transatlanticism, cultures of consumption, models of marriage, divorce, women’s rights, servant life, materialisms, the gothic, cultural memory, old age, passionate manhood, cross-generational relations, and aesthetic representations. Readings include gothic tales, well-known novels such as The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence, novellas, literary and cultural criticism.
  

  • ENGL 420 - Studies in Chaucer

    Credits: (3)
    In this course, students study selections from Geoffrey Chaucer’s works (among them The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, The Book of the Duchess, and shorter lyrics) in order to appreciate his literary artistry and gain a better understanding of the Middle Ages.
  

  • ENGL 421 - Studies in Shakespeare

    Credits: (3)
    An in-depth study of Shakespeare’s plays, with individual topic to be set by the instructor. Topics may be organized around genre (e.g. Shakespeare’s Tragedies, Comedies, Histories or Problem Plays) or theme (e.g. Shakespeare and Race, Shakespeare’s Women, Shakespeare’s Rome, Shakespeare’s Language).
    If there is no duplication of topic, course may be repeated once for credit.
  

  • ENGL 423 - Topics in Post-Coloniality

    Credits: (3)
    Study of colonialism and post-colonialism in literature and cultural contexts ranging from the early modern period to the contemporary moment. Topics vary but may include literary representations of nationalism, transnationalism, diaspora, displacement, identity politics, and political activism in metropole and colony.
    If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit. Cross-listed with: APIA 423
  

  • ENGL 426 - Studies in Milton

    Credits: (3)
    John Milton’s career spanned a highly tumultuous period of English history that includes the Civil Wars, the period of the Commonwealth, and the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660. A poet and a polemicist, Milton was actively engaged in the many social, political and theological debates that shaped this period of English history. In this course we will study Milton’s major poetic and prose works, with emphasis given to the epic Paradise Lost and its various political, theological and literary contexts.
  

  • ENGL 465 - Topics in English

    Credits: (1-3)
    Exploration of a topic in literature, language, or in the relations between English and other disciplines.
    If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENGL 475 - Research Seminar in English

    Credits: (4)
    College Curriculum: COLL 400
    Study in depth of a specialized literary topic. Students write and present research papers for critical discussion. Non-majors may enroll upon consent of the department chair.
    If there is no duplication of topic, may be repeated for credit.
  

  • ENGL 480 - Independent Study in English

    Credits: (1-3)
    Prerequisite(s): Student must have at least a 3.0 in English.
    A tutorial on a topic agreed upon by the student and instructor and approved in advance by the departmental Undergraduate Program Committee. Normally open only to majors who have completed at least 18 credits towards the major.
    Normally may be taken only once.
  

  • ENGL 494 - Honors Proposal Writing Workshop

    Credits: (1)
    A one-credit course that involves individuated work with the director of English Honors and that includes weekly assignments oriented to the generation of a workable thesis topic under the direction of a thesis advisor; the refining the project’s parameters; familiarity with existing research on topics relating to the thesis; identification of appropriate methodologies and/or theories relevant to the project; and the creation of a project bibliography, all culminating in a thesis proposal to be reviewed by the English Honors committee. Restricted to juniors admitted by the departmental Honors Committee.
  

  • ENGL 495 - Honors

    Credits: (3)
    Honors study in English comprises (a) supervised reading in the field of the student’s major interest; (b) presentation two weeks before the last day of classes of the student’s graduating semester of an Honors essay or a creative writing project upon a topic approved by the departmental Honors Committee; and (c) oral examination in the field of the students major interest. Students who have not completed ENGL 494  may be admitted only under exceptional circumstances. Creative Writing Honors students may substitute for ENGL 494  either three 300- and/or 400-level Creative Writing courses, or two 300- and/or 400-level Creative Writing courses and a Creative Writing Independent Study (the project of the Independent Study must be different from the proposed Honors project). These three courses must be completed by the end of the junior year. Students not taking ENGL 494  need to take ENGL 475  by the end of the senior year. Creative Writing Honors involves the completion of a sustained project in creative writing.
    Note: For College provisions governing the Admission to Honors, see catalog section titled Honors and Special Programs.
  

  • ENGL 496 - Honors.

    Credits: (3)
    Honors study in English comprises (a) supervised reading in the field of the student’s major interest; (b) presentation two weeks before the last day of classes of the student’s graduating semester of an Honors essay or a creative writing project upon a topic approved by the departmental Honors Committee; and (c) oral examination in the field of the students major interest. Students who have not completed ENGL 494  may be admitted only under exceptional circumstances. Creative Writing Honors students may substitute for ENGL 494  either three 300- and/or 400-level Creative Writing courses, or two 300- and/or 400-level Creative Writing courses and a Creative Writing Independent Study (the project of the Independent Study must be different from the proposed Honors project). These three courses must be completed by the end of the junior year. Students not taking ENGL 494  need to take ENGL 475  by the end of the senior year. Creative Writing Honors involves the completion of a sustained project in creative writing.
    Note: For College provisions governing the Admission to Honors, see catalog section titled Honors and Special Programs.
  

  • ENGL 498 - Internship

    Credits: (1-3)
    Prerequisite(s): Student must have at least a 3.0 in English.
    Must be approved in advance on a case-by-case basis by the departmental Undergraduate Program Committee and the Office of the Dean of Undergraduate Studies. Normally open only to majors who have completed at least 18 credits towards the major.
    Note: Normally may be taken only once. Graded: Graded pass/ fail.

Marine Science
  

  • MSCI 330 - Introduction to Marine Science

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite(s): Select at least one course from the following list: BIOL 203  or BIOL 204  or CHEM 101  or CHEM 103  or CHEM 205  or GEOL 101  or GEOL 110  or PHYS 101  or PHYS 101H  or PHYS 107  
    Domain (Anchored): NQR
    This course provides an overview of physical, chemical, biological, and geological processes operating in the world ocean. The interdisciplinary nature of marine science is emphasized, providing an integrated view of factors that control ocean history, circulation, chemistry, and biological productivity.
    Cross-listed with: BIOL 330  and ENSP 249  and GEOL 330 
  

  • MSCI 331 - Field Studies in Coastal Marine Environments

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite(s): MSCI 330  or GEOL 330  or BIOL 330  or ENSP 249  - Course will be offered at VIMS Eastern Shore Laboratory.
    This course focuses on fundamental processes in marine science through the examination of the near shore, barrier island, coastal lagoon, and salt marsh environments along Virginia’s outer coast. Through a series of field trips, lectures, laboratory exercises and independent projects, students will examine the fauna and flora of the region and learn how natural and anthropogenic factors shape these coastal ecosystems. Housing is provided in dormitories at the VIMS Eastern Shore Laboratory and meals are also included.
    The $150 course fee covers the cost of housing and meals.
  

  • MSCI 391 - Marine Science Mash-up

    Credits: (1)
    Marine scientists conduct research in areas such as biological oceanography, earth science, fisheries science, and the physical sciences (e.g., physical and chemical oceanography). Scientists in this discipline are also engaged in collaborative research that crosses over these fields of study and connects to fields outside the natural sciences such as the social sciences, government and law, economics, and communication. This 1-credit course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of marine science through presentations by faculty conducting marine science research at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William & Mary, and neighboring institutions. By meeting these people and completing course assignments students will learn about how marine scientists study these topics, the availability of opportunities for student research, and the potential benefits of pursuing Marine Sciences as a career.
  

  • MSCI 398 - Marine Science Seminar

    Credits: (1-3)
    Seminar in interdisciplinary topics in Marine Science. The course topic, prerequisites, and instructors will vary from year to year. This course may be repeated for credit for different topics.
    Cross-listed with: Depending on the topic, a specific section may be crosslisted with GEOL 407  or ENSP 249 .
  

  • MSCI 401A - Fundamentals of Marine Science, Physical Oceanography

    Credits: (2)
    Prerequisite(s): MSCI 330  or BIOL 330  or GEOL 330 , and MATH 111  or permission of instructor
    This course provides an introduction to the various types and scales of motion in the ocean, the global heat budget, major water masses, and processes controlling distributions of temperature and salinity. Discussions on phenomena associated with water motion will include global circulation, wind-driven circulation in ocean basins, tides, coastal upwelling, storm surge, waves, turbulence, and circulation in estuaries. Underlying dynamics governing water motion will be presented, elucidating the role of the rotation of the earth. The El Nino/La Nina oscillation will be examined as a key example of large-scale ocean-atmosphere interactions. MSCI 401A requires co-registration with the relevant MSCI 401R .
  

  • MSCI 401B - Fundamentals of Marine Science, Chemical Oceanography

    Credits: (2)
    Prerequisite(s): MSCI 330  or BIOL 330  or GEOL 330 , and CHEM 103  or permission of instructor
    This course presents an overview of the chemistry of estuaries and the ocean including chemical processes that occur in marine sediments and at the air/sea interface. Discussion topics will include the chemical properties of seawater, chemical equilibrium and kinetics, the seawater carbonate system and ocean acidification, the global and oceanic carbon and nitrogen cycles, ion speciation, trace metals, and nutrients, sediment diagenesis, and fundamentals of radioisotope and stable isotope biogeochemistry. Interdisciplinary applications are emphasized. MSCI 401B requires co-registration with the relevant MSCI 401R .
  

  • MSCI 401C - Fundamentals of Marine Geology

    Credits: (2)
    Prerequisite(s): MSCI 330  or BIOL 330  or GEOL 330  
    This course provides an introduction to the major topics of marine geology without expecting the student to have a background in geology. The course addresses the age and internal structure of the earth, the processes of plate tectonics including the formation of oceanic crust, seamounts, hydrothermal vents, the characteristics and classification of sediments and the distribution of sediments in the deep sea. Also addressed is the interrelationships among and importance of paleoceanography, climate change, and sea-level change, and the processes and characteristics of various marine, estuarine, and coastal sedimentary environments. The course includes discussion of various types of field equipment and logistics and of some economic and societal implications. MSCI 401C requires co-registration with the relevant MSCI 401R .
  

  • MSCI 401D - Fundamentals of Marine Science, Biological Oceanography

    Credits: (2)
    Prerequisite(s):  MSCI 330  or BIOL 330  or GEOL 330 , and BIOL 204  or permission of instructor
    This course examines the biology and ecology of marine organisms and how they interact with their environment. Topics include the organisms and their behavior, distribution, and underlying physiology; effects of biology on elemental and nutrient cycles and visa versa; and ecosystem structure and ecological interactions. An interdisciplinary approach will be taken, as biology both depends on and influences ocean chemistry, physics, geology, and climate. The course will emphasize open ocean, pelagic systems, but will include many examples from coastal and estuarine systems, as well as shallow and deep-sea benthic systems. MSCI 401D requires co-registration with the relevant MSCI 401R .
  

  • MSCI 401E - Fundamentals of Environmental Chemistry, Toxicology, and Pathobiology

    Credits: (2)
    Prerequisite(s): MSCI 330  or BIOL 330  or GEOL 330 , and BIOL 204  and BIOL 203 , and CHEM 103  
    This course emphasizes ongoing and emerging environmental concerns in the Chesapeake Bay and world ocean. Lectures will address basic concepts and mechanism of contaminant chemistry and toxicology, infectious and noninfectious diseases in aquatic organisms. Case histories will be used to illustrate sources, fate and effects of anthropogenic chemical contaminants, and the important role of environmental change on disease in marine and estuarine ecosystems. MSCI 401E requires co-registration with the relevant MSCI 401R .
  

  • MSCI 401F - Fundamentals of Marine Fisheries Science

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite(s): MSCI 330  or BIOL 330  or GEOL 330 , and BIOL 204 
    This lecture course will introduce the principles and techniques of fishery science. Lecture topics will include the theory and impacts of fishing, description and status of international, North American and regional fisheries, fisheries oceanography, recruitment processes, single-species and ecosystem-based approaches fisheries management, and the goals and problems of sustaining an open-access common pool resource.
  

  • MSCI 401R - Fundamentals of Marine Science Recitation

    Credits: (1)
    Corequisite(s): MSCI 401A  or MSCI 401B  or MSCI 401C  or MSCI 401D  or MSCI 401E  
    MSCI 401R can be repeated once, and the title will change depending on whether the recitation section is biological or physical. The Biological topic reinforces and augments lecture material presented in MSCI 401D and E through discussion, problem sets, and review in advance of tests and quizzes. It is required for all students enrolled in MSCI 401D or E. The Physical Science topic reinforces and augments lecture material presented in MSCI 401A, B and C through discussion, problem sets, and review in advance of tests and quizzes. It is required for all students enrolled in MSCI 401A, B or C. MSCI 401R may be taken twice to fulfill the Fundamentals of Marine Sciences requirement, once with each topic.
  

  • MSCI 404 - Microbial Processes in a Changing Coastal Environment

    Credits: (2)
    Prerequisite(s): BIOL 330  or (BIOL 204  and BIOL 203 ) or (BIOL 204  and MSCI 330 )
    The course will address current topics and societal concerns in coastal and estuarine systems including microbial responses to eutrophication, harmful algal blooms, nutrient enrichment, and roles of bivalve-dominated systems, marshes, seagrasses, groundwater, and photic sediments on microbial nutrient cycling.
    Cross-listed with: BIOL 404 
  

  • MSCI 421 - Marine Geology: Environments, Processes, and Records

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite(s): GEOL 100  or GEOL 101  or GEOL 110  
    This course provides an introduction to the geologic processes which have shaped the world’s oceans and their margins. It is specifically targeted to advanced undergraduates and junior graduate students with a background in geological sciences. It will focus on three key study areas (the Bay of Bengal, the US Atlantic Coast, and the Arctic Ocean), and explore the geology and morphology of each, the key processes responsible for their formation and evolution over timescales ranging from decades to hundreds of millions of years, and the records of past changes in sea level, climate, and physical oceanography contained within their sedimentary deposits.
    Cross-listed with: GEOL 421 
  

  • MSCI 490 - Research in Marine Science

    Credits: (1-3)
    This course is designed to permit students (particularly marine science minors) to engage in independent research. Students will work closely with a faculty member as an advisor. Each student will be expected to conduct research and prepare aresearch paper appropriate for the number of credits.
    This course may be repeated for credit.
  

  • MSCI 497 - Problems in Marine Science

    Credits: (1-4)
    This is the avenue through which supervised projects are selected to suit the need of the upper level undergraduate student. Projects are chosen in consultation with the student’s supervising professor and the instructor. Credit hours depend upon the difficulty of the project and must be arranged with the instructor in advance of registration.
  

  • MSCI 498 - Special Topics in Marine Science

    Credits: (1-3)
    This is the avenue through which subjects not covered in other formal courses are offered. These courses are offered on an occasional basis as demand warrants. Seminars can be repeated for credit if the topic is different.
    Seminars can be repeated for credit if the topic is different.

Mathematics
  

  • MATH 100 - Critical Themes in Mathematics, Historical and Modern

    Credits: (4)
    College Curriculum: COLL 100
    The courses will explore ideas central to the evolution of mathematics and its application. Students will actively participate in the development of ideas explored in the courses. Some courses will require good high-school mathematics background. Sample topics might include Limits and Infinity, Linearity, Coding and Cryptanalysis, Geometry and Physics of Archimedes.
  

  • MATH 103 - Pre-calculus Mathematics

    Credits: (3)
    A study of the real number system, sets, functions, graphs, equations, inequalities and systems of equations, followed by a study of the trigonometric functions and their properties. This course is designed only for students intending to take Math 108 or Math 111, and whose background is deficient in algebra and trigonometry. Juniors and seniors must obtain permission from the instructor to enroll. This course may not be applied toward either the minor or major in mathematics or the satisfaction of GER requirements. A student may not receive credit for this course after successfully completing a Mathematics course numbered higher than 107, with the exception of Math 150.
  

  • MATH 104 - The Mathematics of Powered Flight

    Credits: (3)
    College Curriculum: COLL 200, MATH
    Domain (Anchored): NQR
    Domain (Reaching Out): CSI
    Applications of elementary mathematics to airplane flight. Wind and its effect on airport design and aircraft operation. Maps and map projections. Magnetic variation and compass navigation. Static air pressure: buoyancy and the altimeter. Use of a flight simulator will illustrate the mathematical analysis of certain aircraft instruments. Not open to students who have credit for a Mathematics course numbered above 210.
  

  • MATH 106 - Elementary Probability and Statistics

    Credits: (3)
    College Curriculum: MATH
    Introduction to basic concepts and procedures of probability and statistics including descriptive statistics, probability, classical distributions, estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation and regression, in the context of practical applications to data analysis from other disciplines. Not open to students who have successfully completed a mathematics course numbered above 210.  Students may receive credit for only one of the following introductory statistics courses: BUAD 231, ECON 307, and MATH 106.
  

  • MATH 108 - Brief Calculus with Applications

    Credits: (4)
    College Curriculum: MATH
    An introduction to the calculus of polynomial, rational, exponential and logarithmic functions, including some multi-variable calculus, with applications in business, social and life sciences. Algebra proficiency required. Maple or Matlab may be used in the course. Students may not receive credit for more than one of Math 108, 111, and 131, and may not receive credit for Math 108 after receiving credit for any Mathematics course numbered higher than 108, with the exception of Math 150. To use Math 108 as a prerequisite for Math 112 or 132, students need approval of the department chair.
  

  • MATH 110 - Topics in Mathematics

    Credits: (3)
    An introduction to mathematical thought with topics not routinely covered in existing courses. Material may be chosen from calculus, probability, statistics and various other areas of pure and applied mathematics.
  

  • MATH 111 - Calculus I

    Credits: (4)
    College Curriculum: MATH
    Domain (Anchored): NQR
    Standard functions (linear, polynomial, trigonometric, exponential, logarithmic) and their graphs. Tangents, derivatives, the definite integral and the fundamental theorem. Formulas for differentiation. Applications to physics, chemistry, geometry and economics. Requires graphing calculator. Concurrent enrollment in Math 111 calculus lab required. Students may not receive credit for more than one of Math 108, 111, and 131.
  

  • MATH 112 - Calculus II

    Credits: (4)
    Prerequisite(s): MATH 111  or MATH 131 .
    College Curriculum: MATH
    Methods of integration. Applications of the integral to geometry, chemistry, physics and economics. Slope fields and the qualitative behavior of solutions to differential equations. Approximations: sequences, series, and Taylor series. Concurrent enrollment in Math 112 Maple or Matlab calculus lab required. Students may not receive credits for more than one of Math 112 and 132.
  

  • MATH 131 - Calculus I for Life Sciences

    Credits: (4)
    College Curriculum: MATH
    Mathematical topics parallel to those in Math 111. Applications in Math 131 focus on issues of importance in the Life Sciences, e.g., mathematical models of population dynamics, ecology, physiology, genetics, neurology.  Students may not receive credit for more than one of Math 108, 111, and 131.
  

  • MATH 132 - Calculus II for Life Sciences

    Credits: (4)
    Prerequisite(s): MATH 111  or MATH 131 .
    College Curriculum: MATH
    Mathematical topics parallel those in Math112. Applications in this course focus on issues of importance in the Life Sciences, mathematical models of population dynamics, ecology, physiology, and epidemiology.  Students may not receive credit for both Math 112 and Math 132.
  

  • MATH 210 - Linearity

    Credits: (4)
    Prerequisite(s): MATH 112 
    Linear equations, dimension, linear transformations and their eigenvalues. Quadratic forms and matrix factorization. An introduction to research problems will include work in MATLAB and the typesetting language LATEX.
    Note: Students may not take both Math 210 and Math 211 for credit.
  

  • MATH 211 - Linear Algebra

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: MATH 112  or MATH 132 .
    Linear equations, matrices, determinants, vector spaces, linear transformations, eigenvalues, orthogonality. Optional topics include least squares problems, matrix factorization, applications. A computer lab using the software package Matlab may accompany the class.
    Note: Students may not take both Math 210 and Math 211 for credit.
  

  • MATH 212 - Introduction to Multivariable Calculus

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: MATH 112  or MATH 132 .
    Functions of several variables, surfaces in three-space, vectors, techniques of partial differentiation and multiple integration with applications. MAPLE or Matlab will be used in this course. Students may not receive credit for both Math 212 and 213.
  

  • MATH 213 - Multivariable Calculus for Science and Mathematics

    Credits: (4)
    Prerequisite(s): Prerequisite: MATH 112  or MATH 132 .
    Covers all Math 212 material plus other vector calculus topics (including Gauss’ and Stokes’ theorems). Students may not receive credit  for both Math 212 and MATH 213. Math 213 may replace Math 212 as a prerequisite and is particularly recommended for science and mathematics students.
  

  • MATH 214 - Foundations of Mathematics

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite(s):  MATH 112  or MATH 132 .
    Fundamentals of advanced mathematics: Propositional logic, quantifiers and methods of proof; naive set theory including mathematical induction, relations, orders, functions, and countability.
  

  • MATH 300 - Mathematical Sciences Writing

    Credits: (1)
    Prerequisite(s): MATH 214 
    Students will develop their mathematical writing skills in a term written project. Sources for topice include the history of mathematics, research conducted by the student, or topics from an upper division course that the student has taken or is currently taking. Fulfills the major writing requirement.
  

  • MATH 302 - Ordinary Differential Equations

    Credits: (3)
    Prerequisite(s): (MATH 211  or MATH 210 ) and (MATH 212  or MATH 213 ).
    First-order separable, linear, and nonlinear differential equations. First-order systems and forced second-order linear equations. Systems of linear equations and linearization. Numerical methods, bifurcations, and qualitative analysis. Applications to biology, chemistry, economics, physics, and social sciences.
 

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