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The courses listed herein have been approved by the faculty as authorized by the Board of Trustees. Prerequisites (if any) and the General Education Requirement(s) which each course fulfills (if any) are noted following each course description.
4.00 credit hours A foundational course on the guiding principles and learning theories of teaching mathematics at the elementary and middle school levels. Emphasis is on the application of research-based instructional strategies that facilitate students’ conceptual understanding, procedural fluency and mathematical reasoning skills in the mathematics classroom.
4.00 credit hours Introduction to methods for teaching science in elementary and middle grades classrooms including instruction and assessment strategies. Emphasis on differentiated instruction, indirect teaching methods and teaching and assessment strategies that facilitate high level learning.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Teacher Education Program and one laboratory science. Concurrent enrollment in EDUC 320, EDUC 324 and EDUC 391.
4.00 credit hours Examines issues and current trends within inclusive and special education as well asoverviews the characteristics of persons with disabilities including multi-cultural perspectives and legal issues. Explores instructional models and methods that have empirical support for their effectiveness in addressing the learning needs of students at-risk for or with identified disabilities. Emphasis is placed on the importance and challenges associated with the role of general educator within inclusive classrooms. Candidates also explores the selection, adaptation and development of instructional supports related to lesson design, presentation, materials, assignments and assessment/evaluation. This course includes 15 hours of required field experience.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Teacher Education Program.
4.00 credit hours An interactive study of art education issues and practices for the elementary portion of K-12 Art Teacher certification. Through discussion, observation and modeling, students use state goals and curricula to develop a meaningful, integrated art program. The focus is on sequential skill building, expressive content lessons and teaching strategies based on the physical, social and emotional needs of the grades 1-6 student.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Teacher Education Program, ARTD 107, ARTD 120 and ARTD 160. Concurrent enrollment in EDUC 332.
1.00 credit hours Provides students with an extended field experience in an elementary school art classroom supervised jointly by an NCC supervisor and the classroom teacher. Students complete 50 hours of supervised field work, applying research-based methods to actual teaching situations in the elementary school setting. At least twice during the term, an NCC supervisor observes the students as they conduct lessons and conducts a follow up conference in which the student and supervisor evaluate and discuss the lesson. Students are required to provide proof of health insurance. Registration for this course at least 15 days prior to the first day of the term is strongly encouraged as additional background checks may be required; an additional fee could be incurred based on district requirements for background checks. Background check required. Tuberculosis test required.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Teacher Education Program. Concurrent enrollment in EDUC 331.
4.00 credit hours Examines the current research, curricular goals and methods of effectively teaching literacy learning in 6-12 classrooms. Preservice teachers develop an understanding of the reading process, demands of academic literacies and characteristics of adolescent learners. Students are exposed to targeted reading instructions for struggling adolescent readers as well as readers from linguistic and culturally diverse backgrounds and apply strategies for teaching reading within their specific disciplines.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Teacher Education Program. Concurrent enrollment in EDUC 322 and EDUC 390. iCon(s): Being Human.
EDUC 383 - Methods and Materials to Teach English Language Learners
4.00 credit hours Focuses on methods, approaches and materials used in the teaching of English as a second language. Methods of teaching different language skills as well as theories and practices to differentiate instruction to respond to K-12 English language learners’ needs are introduced. Students are engaged in developing, implementing and evaluating lesson plans and materials.
EDUC 384 - Practicum in Teaching English Language Learners
1.00 credit hours Designed to provide students with an extended supervised field experience in an elementary, middle, or secondary school classroom with an emphasis on teaching English language learners. Students observe, assist and teach several lessons under the joint supervision of a cooperating teacher in the school and a supervisor from NCC. Required: 50 field experience hours. Students are required to provide proof of health insurance. Registration for this course at least 15 days prior to the first day of the term is strongly encouraged as additional background checks may be required; an additional fee could be incurred based on district requirements for background checks. Background check required. Tuberculosis test required.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Teacher Education Program. Concurrent Enrollment in EDUC 383.
EDUC 385 - Assessment of English Language Learners and Bilingual Students
2.00 credit hours Provides a comprehensive understanding of using assessment data to make informed decisions for the education of English language learners (ELLs). It allows the participants to become aware of critical issues related to the assessment of culturally and linguistically diverse learners. Required: 25 field experience hours.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Teacher Education Program.
EDUC 386 - Methods and Materials for Teaching in Bilingual Classrooms
4.00 credit hours Focuses on language teaching methods and classroom materials for use with English Language Learners (ELLs) in K-12 Bilingual classrooms. Methods of teaching listening, speaking, reading and writing are presented and practiced. Methods for integrating the teaching of language and academic content are introduced and practiced. Sheltering and scaffolding instruction is emphasized, and students select and critically analyze materials for use in the Bilingual classroom.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Teacher Education Program and LANG 380.
1.00 credit hours Directed observation and participation experience at selected attendance centers (50 clock hours). Focus on individual, small group and whole group teaching. Students are required to provide proof of health insurance. Registration for this course at least 15 days prior to the first day of the term is strongly encouraged as additional background checks may be required; an additional fee could be incurred based on district requirements for background checks. Background check required. Tuberculosis test required.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Teacher Education Program. Concurrent enrollment in EDUC 322 and EDUC 360.
1.00 credit hours Directed observation and participation experience at selected attendance centers (50 clock hours). Focus on individual, small group and whole group teaching. Students are required to provide proof of health insurance. Registration for this course at least 15 days prior to the first day of the term is strongly encouraged as additional background checks may be required; an additional fee could be incurred based on district requirements for background checks. Background check required. Tuberculosis test required.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Teacher Education Program. Concurrent enrollment in EDUC 320, EDUC 324 and EDUC 326.
4.00 credit hours Principles, methods and techniques of assessing learning of elementary school students that communicates progress and achievement to students and parents and informs teacher decision-making.
Principles, methods and techniques of assessing learning of High School and Middle School students that communicates progress and achievement to students and parents as well as informs teacher decision making.
***Course required only for students who enter Fall 2022 or beyond***
Principles, methods and techniques of assessing learning of High School and Middle School students that communicates progress and achievement to students and parents as well as informs teacher decision making.
***Course required only for students who entered before Fall 2022.***
EDUC 411 - Equity and Access in Systems of Education
4.00 credit hours Students examine and analyze their role as an advocate for equity in systems of education. Drawing from leadership perspectives, students investigate educational theories and practices instituted locally, nationally and globally. The goal of this course is to assist students to both understand these systems and develop the knowledge and skills to be agents of change.
Prerequisite(s): Education Majors: EDUC 320 or EDUC 322; Non-Education Majors: Junior standing. Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Ethical Dimensions, U.S. Power Structures. iCon(s): Engaging Civic Life, Experiencing Place.
EDUC 432 - Characteristics of Students with Disabilities
3.00 credit hours Examines the identifying characteristics of students with physical and neurological disabilities as defined under the federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act and Section 504 of the Vocational Rehabilitation Act. Multi-Tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) and Universal Design for Learning (UDL) are studied along with the definitions of different disabilities and incidence rates. Students may not receive credit for both EDUC 432 and MEDU 532.
EDUC 433 - Methods for Teaching Students with Disabilities
3.00 credit hours Effective instructional methods, strategies, accommodations and modifications, in multiple content areas, as they relate to teaching K-12 students with high incidence disabilities in inclusive settings. Strategies to collaborate with colleagues and with parents/families of students with disabilities are also covered, including co-teaching, family-educator conferences and working effectively with paraprofessionals. Students may not receive credit for both EDUC 433 and MEDU 533.
EDUC 434 - Diagnosis and Assessment of Students with Disabilities
3.00 credit hours Prepares students in the field of education with knowledge, skills and experience related to: 1) diagnostic and educational assessment instruments and methods; 2) administration and scoring of diagnostic and educational assessments; 3) interpretation of assessment results; 4) data-based decision making regarding placement, instructional planning and evaluation of students with disabilities; 5) communication of diagnostic and educational assessment results to colleagues and parents. Students may not receive credit for both EDUC 434 and MEDU 534.
4.00 credit hours Current research and methods of teaching visual arts at the HS and MS level are explored. Postmodern principles, multiple media and technological processes are applied to content areas. Art education students develop interdisciplinary lesson plans that improve students’ expressive and analytical capacities.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Teacher Education Program, EDUC 322 and EDUC 360. Concurrent enrollment in EDUC 403 and EDUC 490. Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Arts, Writing Intensive.
4.00 credit hours Current research and methods of teaching English (literature, composition and language) at the high school and middle school level are explored. Consideration is given to such issues as instructional planning in a multicultural setting, teaching reading in the content areas and writing across the curriculum.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Teacher Education Program, EDUC 322 and EDUC 360. Concurrent enrollment in EDUC 403 and EDUC 490. Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Writing Intensive.
4.00 credit hours Current research and methods of teaching foreign languages at the HS, MS and elementary school levels are explored.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Teacher Education Program, EDUC 322 and EDUC 360. Concurrent Enrollment in EDUC 403 and EDUC 490. Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Writing Intensive.
4.00 credit hours Current research and methods of teaching mathematics at the HS and MS level are explored. Consideration is given to such issues as instructional planning in a multicultural setting, teaching reading in the content areas and writing across the curriculum.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Teacher Education Program, EDUC 322 and EDUC 360. Concurrent enrollment in EDUC 403 and EDUC 490. Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Writing Intensive.
4.00 credit hours Current research and methods of teaching science (biology, chemistry and physics) at the HS and MS level are explored.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Teacher Education Program, EDUC 322 and EDUC 360. Concurrent enrollment in EDUC 403 and EDUC 490. Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Writing Intensive.
4.00 credit hours Current research and methods of teaching social studies at the HS and MS level are explored.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Teacher Education Program, EDUC 322 and EDUC 360. Concurrent enrollment in EDUC 403 and EDUC 490. Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Writing Intensive.
4.00 credit hours Prepares teacher candidates to know, understand, and use concepts from reading, language and child development to teach various literacy skills to students in elementary and middle grades. Candidates will develop techniques to support students in applying their developing literacy skills to different situations, materials and ideas. This includes a focus on writing, speaking and listening skills within the literacy curriculum.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Teacher Education Program, EDUC 320, EDUC 324 and EDUC 326. Concurrent enrollment in EDUC 401 and EDUC 491. Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Writing Intensive.
EDUC 462 - Reading Assessment Tools and Strategies
4.00 credit hours Students are introduced to an examination of the nature of the reading process and the tools and strategies used to evaluate reading development. Emphasis is placed on the use of assessment to strengthen and extend the reading abilities of MS students. Students may not receive credit for both EDUC 462 and MEDU 562.
4.00 credit hours Students are introduced to the nature of literacy development and the learning difficulties children may face as they develop as readers. The focus of the course is on the interactive view of reading ability and disability, which suggests that reading is the process of constructing meaning through interaction between the reader, the text and the context of the reading situation. Students are exposed to a variety of alternative teaching strategies and materials to help students solve their problems with reading. Emphasis is placed on a holistic and ongoing approach to the diagnostic process and the relationship between diagnostic assessment and instructional planning. Students may not receive credit for both EDUC 463 and MEDU 563.
1.00 credit hours Students use a variety of alternative teaching strategies and materials while working with elementary/MS students in a supervised practicum setting. Students conduct a multifaceted diagnostic assessment to identify individual reading abilities and difficulties and develop a plan for intervention based on assessment results. Emphasis is placed on applying techniques learned in EDUC 462/MEDU 562 and EDUC 463 /MEDU 563. Students may not receive credit for both EDUC 464 and MEDU 564.
1.00 credit hours Provides students with an extended field experience in a MS or HS classroom in the student’s major content area (art, English, foreign language, mathematics, music, science, or social studies). Students complete 75 hours of supervised field work applying research-based methods and techniques to actual teaching situations under the joint supervision of the cooperating classroom teacher and the NCC supervisor. While 75 hours are required for this field experience, candidates will complete 20-25 hours in placements prior to the start of NCC’s academic term in order to experience start of school activities. This course is graded pass/no pass. Students are required to provide proof of health insurance. Registration for this course at least 15 days prior to the first day of the term is strongly encouraged as additional background checks may be required; an additional fee could be incurred based on district requirements for background checks. Background check required. Tuberculosis test required.
1.00 credit hours Provides students with an extended field experience in elementary school classroom. Students complete 75 hours of supervised field work applying research-based methods and techniques to actual teaching situations under the joint supervision of the cooperating classroom teacher and the NCC supervisor. While 75 hours are required for this field experience, candidates will complete 20-25 hours in placements prior to the start of NCC’s academic term in order to experience start of school activities. This course is graded pass/no pass. Students are required to provide proof of health insurance. Registration for this course at least 15 days prior to the first day of the term is strongly encouraged as additional background checks may be required; an additional fee could be incurred based on district requirements for background checks. Background check required. Tuberculosis test required.
Prerequisite(s): Concurrent enrollment in EDUC 460 and EDUC 401.
1.00 credit hours Supports candidates as they begin the final stages of the teacher education program, with a focus on the co-teaching model and preparation for the Teacher Performance Assessment.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Teacher Education Program; completion of all professional education coursework; passing score(s) in the Illinois Licensure Testing System required content test(s).
4.00 credit hours This seminar engages students to expand their knowledge and skills in topics such as engaging instruction, effective assessment, data driven decision-making, parent communication and analysis and reflection on instruction. Focus is given to all tasks of the Teacher Performance Assessment (TPA). Additionally, attention is given to aspects of professional development, professional service and community involvement.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Teacher Education Program; completion of all professional education coursework; passing score(s) in the Illinois Licensure Testing System required content test(s). Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Social Sciences, Community Engaged Learning, Career Preparation. iCon(s): Experiencing Place.
8.00 credit hours A five-day per week, full day student teaching experience in an elementary, MS or HS classroom. Candidates assume all of the responsibilities of teaching (planning, instruction, assessment, record keeping, etc.) using a co-teaching model building up to full responsibility. Students are required to provide proof of health insurance. Registration for this course at least 15 days prior to the first day of the term is strongly encouraged as additional background checks may be required; an additional fee could be incurred based on district requirements for background checks. Background check required. Tuberculosis test required.
Prerequisite(s): Admission to the Teacher Education Program; completion of all professional education coursework; passing score(s) in the Illinois Licensure Testing System required content test(s). Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Career Experiential.
4.00 credit hours Students learn to design digital logic building blocks and to create combinational and sequential logic circuits. Lecture/Laboratory.
4.00 credit hours Basic circuit analysis, nodal and mesh, equivalent circuits, independent and dependent sources, power and multi-phase circuits. Lecture/Laboratory.
4.00 credit hours Network analysis techniques of direct and alternating current theory. Transient forced and complete responses of circuits. Lecture/Laboratory.
4.00 credit hours Introduces students to advanced design methodologies and practical design approaches for high-performance FPGA applications. Lecture/Laboratory.
2.00 credit hours An overview of specific engineering majors, laboratory safety, competitions, internships, research, post-graduate opportunities and employment options. Examines the relevancy of a liberal arts foundation and how it relates to the field of engineering.
Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Career Preparation.
2.00 credit hours Methods and practices employed to develop, commercialize and distribute products and services dependent on engineering will be presented. Includes descriptions of the four major career paths available to engineers. Lecture/Laboratory.
0.00-12.00 credit hours Valuable professional experiences supplement classroom instruction and allow students to apply theories and concepts to broader issues and system. Students explore career options within a specific area of study and critically reflect on the experience in a structured manner. May be repeated with different professional experience.
4.00 credit hours Methods for digital data acquisition; measurements of pressure, temperature, flow rate, heat transfer and static forces and moments. Lecture/Laboratory.
0.00-12.00 credit hours Valuable professional experiences supplement classroom instruction and allow students to apply theories and concepts to broader issues and system. Students explore career options within a specific area of study and critically reflect on the experience in a structured manner. May be repeated with different professional experience.
2.00 credit hours An exploration of the tools and methods used to monitor and control production processes, product characteristics and performance including evaluating process stability, detect rates MTTF and MTBF.
0.00-12.00 credit hours Valuable professional experiences supplement classroom instruction and allow students to apply theories and concepts to broader issues and system. Students explore career options within a specific area of study and critically reflect on the experience in a structured manner. May be repeated with different professional experience.
4.00 credit hours Introduction to American Academic English for non-native speakers. The focus is on listening and speaking skills, including presentation and in-class participation skills, vocabulary and idiom practice, while also introducing and practicing academic reading and writing skills through readings on American culture.
4.00 credit hours Advanced practice in writing, reading, speaking and listening skills in American Academic English for non-native speakers. The focus is on Academic writing (summaries, essays), readings on American culture and history, vocabulary and idiom practice, and essentials of advanced English grammar.
2.00 credit hours Designed for any student who wants to interpret the imaginary worlds of writers across 500 years of texts. From early stories to sci-fi, students learn to make sense of stories in their varied forms. Depending on instructor and content, may include field trips to fiction readings and/or The American Writer’s Museum.
Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Humanities. iCon(s): Being Human.
2.00 credit hours Designed for any student who wants to practice reading poems or songs, the most ancient and popular writing in the world. Students learn to write and interpret different poetic forms and explore timeless struggles in both ancient and contemporary verse. Students also practice writing poems. Depending on instructor and content, may include field trips to poetry readings in Chicago.
Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Arts. iCon(s): Engaging Civic Life.
ENGL 108 - Appreciating Plays and Screenplays: Text
2.00 credit hours Designed for any student who wants to read dramas for stage and screen, interpret plays, and critique live stage performances. Students also practice writing plays. Depending on instructor and content, may include field trips to plays in and around Chicago.
Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Arts. iCon(s): Engaging Civic Life.
4.00 credit hours Students learn ways expressive writing helps in the discovery of self and world. Focus is on fundamentals of creativity and the benefits of a regular imaginative writing practice as a means of developing insight, personal growth and well-being.
Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Arts. iCon(s): Being Human, Examining Health.
2.00 credit hours Students micro-publish a complete humor magazine from conception to production and distribution to campus community. Exposure to holistic publication process, though individual content contributions may vary. Discussion of the fine line between innovative and offensive commentary. Students produce a portfolio of professional work.
2.00 credit hours The practicum provides experience in the running of a literary journal, with opportunities for work in management, editing, design, production, and marketing. Students may specialize in one area but be called upon to help in others. Students learn about the contemporary literary landscape, the larger world of publishing and its cultural ramifications, all while developing skills that will transfer easily to a number of workplace settings.
2.00 credit hours An exploration of children’s genres from picture books to fiction and poetry across historical periods and nations. Students consider how these texts often foreground reading and interpretation. Students may create children’s texts and evaluate their appeal.
Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Arts, Ethical Dimensions. iCon(s): Being Human.
2.00 credit hours An exploration of Y.A. genres from fiction, graphic novels and poetry across the 19th–21st centuries of various ethnicities and nations. Students consider how these texts often foreground reading and interpretation. Students may create Y.A. texts, evaluating their appeal.
4.00 credit hours This gateway course introduces critical and creative methods with a focus on close reading and effective writing. Theoretical and imaginative approaches are explored and practice given in reading, writing and analyzing a variety of texts. Students are introduced to disciplinary conventions and basic research strategies in English.
Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Humanities, U.S. Power Structures. iCon(s): Being Human.
ENGL 202 - British Literature to 17th Century: Beowulf and Milton
4.00 credit hours Close reading focused on Continental traditions and socio-political contexts that influenced Beowulf, di Pizan, Chaucer, Spencer, Shakespeare, Milton and more. Students trace the figure of the monster in literature produced between the 8th–17th centuries.
Prerequisite(s): CARD 101, English Composition or equivalent.
ENGL 204 - Literature and Culture of the Long 18th Century
4.00 credit hours Students study texts before and just after the so-called “Age of Reason,” from the late 17th to early 19th centuries, in both British and Early American contexts. Focus on the rise of individualism, science and colonial expansion, with slavery and genocide in its wake. Literature across time.
Prerequisite(s): CARD 101, English Composition or equivalent.
ENGL 206 - British Literature and Culture of the 19th–21st Centuries
4.00 credit hours Students explore 19th–21st century texts, a time of contradictions, with progress in science, industry, the expansion and then losses of the British Empire, and the rise of democratic movements (suffrage, labor, anti-imperial resistance) in and beyond England. Literature across time.
Prerequisite(s): CARD 101, English Composition or equivalent. Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Humanities. iCon(s): Experiencing Place.
ENGL 208 - American Literature and Culture of the 19th–21st Centuries
4.00 credit hours Students explore 19th–21st century American literature and culture through a survey of poets, essayists, fiction writers, playwrights and filmmakers who grappled with principles and practices of American democracy. Romantic, realist, modern and postmodern writers offer diverse perspectives on what it means to live in relation to the promise of “we the people.”
Prerequisite(s): CARD 101, English Composition or equivalent. Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Humanities, U.S. Power Structures. iCon(s): Experiencing Place.
ENGL 212 - Writing, Rhetoric and Digital Studies: Text/Technologies
4.00 credit hours Students examine theoretical, stylistic and ethical issues connected with writing in various rhetorical situations, including digital environments. Focus on writing about ethically charged issues such as artificial intelligence, digital technology, biotechnology and transhumanism.
Prerequisite(s): CARD 101, English Composition or equivalent. Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Arts, Writing Intensive. iCon(s): Innovating the World.
4.00 credit hours An introduction to foundational concepts in visual design, narrative structure and multimodality. From 1200 AD to the present, illuminated manuscripts, broadsides, comic books and websites have combined words and images, playing a part in literature and pop culture. Students explore the history of the word/image interface through critical and creative work.
Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Arts. iCon(s): Being Human.
4.00 credit hours A workshop-based public and professional writing course focusing on writing about travel; nature and ecology; and immersion or experiential writing. Place, setting and location inspire in myriad ways; mindful of this, students read and collaboratively analyze professional and peer practitioners for craft. Students also write, edit and revise original place-based and travel writing for workshop.
Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Arts, Global Understanding. iCon(s): Experiencing Place.
4.00 credit hours Students explore literature from the erstwhile colonies in South Asia, Africa and Australia to examine the relation between representation and nationalism. Students focus in particular on identity, gender, resistance and reconciliation.
Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Global Understanding, Writing Intensive.
4.00 credit hours (Same as: ENVI 224.) Encompasses the classics of nature writing from Anglo-American literary traditions to the practice of eco-criticism, through which a wider range of novels and other texts can be analyzed. With these texts, students explore how literature participates in cultural formations of the relations among humans, their environment and other forms of life. Readings include several genres: poetry, non-fiction and science-fiction from the 19th century to the present.
Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Arts. iCon(s): Innovating the World.
4.00 credit hours From slave narratives to folk tales to fiction, storytelling has played a role in asserting the value of black lives and challenging oppression. Students examine black narratives as channels for creative expression and social intervention. Discussions focus on how historical contexts and literary traditions interact; how racism shapes the social map and personal experience; and how gender, sexuality and class intersect.
Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Humanities, U.S. Power Structures. iCon(s): Challenging Inequity.
4.00 credit hours (Same as GSST 234.) Students explore gender’s place in literature from a variety of cultures, time periods and genres. Discussions focus on representations of gender; how creative writing links to political work to challenge inequality; how writers interrogate the category “woman”; and how gender intersects with race, class, sexuality and religion.
Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Humanities, U.S. Power Structures. iCon(s): Challenging Inequity.
2.00 credit hours Practice in the writing of poetry, with attention paid to the various techniques, approaches—free verse or formal verse—and the close reading of contemporary poets. Introduction to workshop-based peer critique and a regular writing and revision practice.
Prerequisite(s): CARD 101, English Composition or equivalent. Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Arts. iCon(s): Challenging Inequality, Engaging Civic Life.
2.00 credit hours An introduction to creative nonfiction emphasizing memoir, personal essays and narrative nonfiction. Students read and collaboratively analyze the work of professional and peer practitioners for craft, and write, edit and revise original creative nonfictions for workshop.
Prerequisite(s): CARD 101, English Composition or equivalent. Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Arts. iCon(s): Challenging Inequality, Engaging Civic Life.
2.00 credit hours An introduction to literary fiction emphasizing micro, flash and short fiction. Students read and collaboratively analyze the work of professional and peer practitioners for craft, and write, edit and revise original short fictions for workshop.
Prerequisite(s): CARD 101, English Composition or equivalent. Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Arts. iCon(s): Challenging Inequality, Engaging Civic Life.
2.00 credit hours An introduction to stage drama emphasizing monologues, ten-minute plays, short sketches and performance pieces. Students read and collaboratively analyze the work of professional and peer dramatists for craft, and write, edit and revise original scripts for class performance and workshop.
Prerequisite(s): CARD 101, English Composition or equivalent. Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Arts, U.S. Power Structures. iCon(s): Challenging Inequity, Engaging Civic Life.
4.00 credit hours A workshop-based writing course emphasizing the close reading and production of equity-minded texts that challenge existing power structures. Studying writing of social change movements of the past, students learn the arts of writing to change the world through individual and collaboratively designed projects for publics. Writing and Rhetoric.
Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Arts, Writing Intensive. iCon(s): Engaging Civic Life.
4.00 credit hours When activists today assert that “Black Lives Matter”, they are participating in a long tradition of protest that affirms the value of Black life. This course traces the historical evlauaiton of African American protest with a focus on writing, both fiction and nonfiction, with writers ranging from Richard Wright to Ta-Nehisi Coates and Zora Neale Hurston to Patrice Kahn-Cullors.
4.00 credit hours An introduction to linguistic principles through a study of modern English. Students examine approaches to language and linguistics: morphology, syntax, phonetics and phonology and semantics. Child language acquisition, adult second language acquisition and recent developments in neuroscience and computer science are also introduced.
Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Global Understanding. iCon(s): Thinking Globally.
2.00 credit hours Students explore the rules native English speakers employ in daily language use. Drawing on grammatical theories, the focus is on sentence structures and the classification of words. Students examine rhetorical grammar and issues of “correctness,” learning skills for analyzing sentences.
4.00 credit hours Using a reader-centered approach, students are introduced to strategies for writing effectively in the workplace. Rhetorical theories and practices join multimodal writing and presentation skills to help students transfer from school-to-work contexts.
Prerequisite(s): CARD 101, English Composition or equivalent. Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Ethical Dimensions. iCon(s): Engaging Civic Life.
4.00 credit hours An exploration of the conventions, genres and ethical issues involved in writing within STEM fields. Students read field-specific texts to analyze and evaluate effective writing. Workshops and collaborative, multimodal final projects.
Prerequisite(s): CARD 101, English Composition or equivalent. Cardinal Directions Designation(s): Ethical Dimensions. iCon(s): Sustaining our World.
0.00-12.00 credit hours Valuable professional experiences supplement classroom instruction and allow students to apply theories and concepts to broader issues and system. Students explore career options within a specific area of study and critically reflect on the experience in a structured manner. May be repeated with different professional experience.
4.00 credit hours An intensive study of the plays and poetry of William Shakespeare. Depending on the instructor, the focus may include Shakespeare’s works in relation to the period; world literatures that influenced Early Modern plays; queering Shakespeare; or, Shakespeare’s ethics and values in response to the social and political world he and his contemporaries engaged. Other instructors may approach Shakespeare’s plays in relation to their more recent representations in film, or on television or stage. Credit may not be earned for both ENGL*304 AND ENGL*302.
4.00 credit hours Students explore writers and/or topics across 19th–21st American literature and culture. Topics, genres and time periods vary by instructor, but may include themes such as the American Dream; embodiment and social class; a single writer or several studied for comparison and contrast; a movement or school in American literature; a particular region; or a recurring theme such the American Dream, LGBTQ literature or Latinx writers. Literature across time.
