EE 6643 - Digital Image Processing

• Fundamental knowledge for design and development of an image/video-processing/multimedia/fata-fusion system. Knowledge that is essential for research in 2D/3D image signals, video/multimedia systems, and multisensory data fusion/networking/biophotonics.

EE 6653 - Computer Vision

• Understanding of computer vision and machine perception.

EE 6663 - Pattern Recognition

• Knowledge for analysis and design of a PR system. Essential information in conducting research in visual pattern recognition, medical imaging, machine vision and robotics, remote sensing, and audio recognition.

EE 6673 - Interconection Networks for High-Performance Computing Systems

• Ability to differentiate between various switching and routing techniques.
• Ability to evaluate future technologies for implementing the interconnection network.
• Ability to understand techniques for designing various network/interconnect topologies.
• Ability to understand the working of interconnection networks at on-chip and off-chip levels.
• Ability to understand the working of the router microarchitecture.
• Ability to understand various flow control techniques implemented by interconnection networks.

EE 6713 - Digital Signal Processing

• Analyze signal spectra, correlations, and eigenvalue structure.
• Analyze systems using the DFT, z-transform.
• Design basic FIR and IIR filters.
• Understand common parametric signal models.
• Understand discrete time analysis of random signals.
• Understand the use and implementation of the DFT and FFT

EE 6723 - Digital Communications

• Ability to characterize canonical fading channel models.
• Ability to describe ISI and specify equalizers for mitigation.
• Ability to describe communication modulations in time and frequency domains.
• Ability to determine matched filter for arbitrary signals and noise.
• Ability to specify and evaluate multi-carrier system performance and characteristics.
• Ability to use signal space concepts for modulation analysis.

EE 6733 - Advanced Topics in Signal Processing

• Ability to apply least-squares and Kalman filtering algorithms.
• Ability to apply super-resolution algorithms.
• Ability to characterize DT filtering of random processes.
• Ability to conduct eigen- and spectrum analysis of WSS processes.
• Ability to design IIR and FIR filters to specifications.
• Ability to design and analyze stochastic gradient filters.
• Ability to imply SVD in filter design.
• Ability to specify Wiener filters and linear predictors.

EE 6743 - Information Theory

• Ability to compute and describe channel capacity for the Gaussian channel.
• Ability to compute and describe entropy.
• Ability to compute and describe mutual information.
• Ability to compute differential entropy for continuous sources.
• Ability to evaluate lossless compression codes.
• Ability to evaluate loss compression codes with a distortion measure.

EE 6863 - Advanced Electronic Navigation Systems

• Knowledge of the working principles of various future navigation systems and their applications.
• The ability to design and implement key algorithms of electronic navigation systems (such as GPS software radio, LIDAR-based navigation) in Matlab®.
• The ability to solve engineering problems related to the design and analysis of electronic navigation systems.
• Understanding a variety of advanced navigation and timing systems.
• Understanding of the design principles involved with safety-critical (avionics) systems.

EE 6900 - Special Topics in Electrical Engineering

• At discretion of instructor.

EE 6910 - Graduate Internship in Electrical Engineering

• Graduate internship.

EE 6930 - Independent Study

• At discretion of instructor.

EE 6940 - MS Research

• MS Thesis research.

EE 6943 - MS Project Report

• MS project report

EE 6950 - Thesis

• Thesis.

EE 6981 - Graduate Research Seminar

• Seminar.

EE 7123 - Automata Theory

• Understanding of the finite state automata and theory of computation.
• Ability to use the mathematics (vector spaces, linear transforms, etc.) to solve problems in automata.

EE 7153 - VLSI Design of Neural Networks

• Ability to design digital VLSI components in state of the art MOS technology.
• Ability to design, optimize, and layout of either very high speed, high density, or low power circuits.
• Understanding of impact of scaling, deep submicron effects, interconnect, signal integrity, power distribution and consumption, and timing.

EE 7183 - Reinforcement Learning

• Apply artificial intelligence concepts to reinforcement learning design.
• Apply principles of machine learning to reinforcement learning.

EE 7213 - Cognitive Neuroscience and Embodied Intelligence

• Another aim is to study biological substrates underlying cognition, with focus on the neural models of mental processes and their behavioral manifestations.
• The course aims to teach students about principles and structural organization of intelligence, learning, and goal oriented behavior.
• The course focuses on models of embodied intelligence that learns through interaction with environment.

EE 7233 - Nonlinear System Analysis II

• A mastery of advanced analytical techniques for nonlinear dynamical system, e.g. perturbation analysis, harmonic linearization and analysis, energy/power analysis, and mathematical reasoning.
• An ability to use numerical and symbolic programming for advanced analysis of nonlinear dynamic systems and processes.
• An in-depth understanding of nonlinear dynamical system behaviors, e.g. solution and stability of perturbed motion, energy based stability analysis, frequency response of nonlinear dynamical systems.

EE 7733 - Time Frequency Analysis and Wavelet Signal Processing and Applications

• Ability to apply the lifting algorithm implementation of integer-to-integer wavelet transforms.
• Ability to compute the STFT and Wigner distributions.
• Ability to derive marginal distributions from joint distributions, and compute multiple types of averages.
• Ability to determine when conventional Fourier analysis is inadequate and TF analysis needed for non-stationary signals.
• Ability to distinguish between dyadic wavelet and wavelet packet decomposition of signals and images, and apply them in lossless and loss data compression techniques.
• Ability to generate TF distributions via the characteristic function and kernel methods.
• Ability to implement and apply the discrete wavelet transform using quadrature-mirror filter banks.
• Ability to represent signals in analytic form.
• Ability to understand and apply the signal uncertainty principle.
• Ability to use wavelet basis functions as an alternative to Fourier bases.

EE 7743 - Mobile Communications

• Analyze/simulate performance of convolutional codes and maximum likelihood sequence estimation.
• Analyze/simulate performance of modulations over fading channels.
• Analyze/simulate performance with diversity.
• Describe and simulate fading channels.
• Develop models for co-channel interference.

EE 7803 - CDMA and Spread Spectrum Communications

• Analyze spread spectrum performance in fading channels.
• Analyze spread spectrum performance in presence of several types of jamming.
• Understand fundamentals of SS multiple access and power control.
• Understand fundamentals of code acquisition and tracking.
• Understand principles of commonly used spreading sequences.

EE 7913 - Advanced Digital Control Systems

• Learn how to mathematically model the effects of converting signals by digital to analog and analog to digital devices.
• Learn to analyze stability of linear, sampled data feedback control systems.
• Learn to design feedback controllers for sampled-data systems via modern control techniques such as LQG and pole placement.
• Learn to mathematically model linear systems in which there are both continuous and analog signals (sampled-data systems).
• Learn to represent sampled-data feedback control systems with discrete state space models.
• Learn to use MATLAB and/or SIMULINK to analyze feedback, sampled-data control systems.
• Learn z-transforms for analyzing sampled-data control systems.

EE 7953 - Advanced Probability and Stochastic Processes for Communications

• Ability to conduct and evaluate hypothesis tests.
• Ability to find densities/distributions of arbitrary random variable transformations.
• Ability to formulate and evaluate various parameter estimatation methods.
• Ability to use and analyze Markov chains to describe stochastic processes.
• Employ various spectral representations to describe stochastic process.
• Understand and describe types of stochastic convergence.
• Understanding and classifying of principles and applications of random walks.

EE 7963 - Advanced State Variable Methods in Control

• Construct standard state variable forms for systems.
• Define and analyze controllability and observability of LTI systems.

EE 7973 - Linear Optimal Control

• Construct performance functionals for DT systems.
• Develop finite-time solutions to control of LTI systems.

EE 8233 - Nonlinear Control System Design

• A mastery of a tool-set of advanced nonlinear controller and observer design techniques.
• A mastery of computer simulation for nonlinear control systems with a significant level of complexity and realm.
• An ability to conduct research in advanced nonlinear control.
• An understanding of advanced nonlinear control theory such as controllability, observability and stabilization of nonlinear dynamical systems by analytic, differential algebraic, and differential geometric methods.

EE 8900 - Special Topics in Electrical Engineering

• At discretion of instructor.

EE 8940 - Doctoral Research

• Doctoral research.

EE 8950 - Dissertation

• Doctoral research.

EH 5000 - Environmental Health and Safety Risk Communication

• Apply risk communication concepts to multiple scenarios involving environmental issues.
• Complete a case study of a risk communication scenario.
• Demonstrate an improvement in communicating risks to the public.
• Identify the key concepts behind the public perception of environmental health and safety risks.

EH 5100 - Air, Waters and Wastes

• Apply specific enforcement codes and regulations for air, waters, and wastes issues.
• Describe the laws and regulations applicable to air, waters, and wastes.
• Explain sources of pollution in air and waters, and how to control them effectively.

EH 5200 - Health and the Built Environment

• Describe how to conduct assessments of the health and safety of indoor environments.
• Describe the variety of factors affecting the indoor environment and how to control them.
• Evaluate the impact of social determinants on health disparities.
• Explain the laws and regulations applicable to indoor environments.
• Summarize the role that environmental health professionals can play to influence healthy communities.

EH 5300 - Food Quality and Vector Control

• Describe diseases associated with food and vector borne modes of transmission.
• Explain the basics of Hazard Analysis Critical Control Point (HAACP) food safety and quality paradigm.
• Recognize control opportunities for vector borne diseases.

EH 5400 - Occupational Safety and Health

• Ability to identify industrial hazards for which regulations exist.
• Application of federal regulations and best practices to injury and risk reduction.
• Explain safety science techniques to identify unsafe workplaces.
• Describe the safety profession within the health, safety, environment paradigm.

EH 5900 - Special Topics in Environmental Health

• Students will increase their knowledge in Environmental Health.

EH 6010 - Climate Change and Public Health

• Be aware of public health adaptation and mitigation policies to manage the risks of climate change.
• Become aware of the special vulnerability in developing countries as a result of climate change.
• Comprehend the scientific principles and basic concepts of climate change.
• Develop skills in critical thinking for making recommendations to reduce the potential adverse health impacts of climate change on health in a specific community.
• Have an improved understanding of the epidemiologic methods used to analyze associations between climate change and health outcomes.
• Identify knowledge gaps and know where to find further sources of information.
• Understand how climate change can impact human health and know the major predicted health effects from climate change.

EH 6900 - Special Topics - Environmental Health

• Apply professional level decision making and information tools
• Creation of a professional level resume, cover letter, and list of references
• Demonstration of professional level presentation abiliities across two or more topical areas
• Describe current research aspects of profession
• Explain graduate school options, funding, application procedures, and outlook
• Explain professional ethics and codes of conduct for professionals

EH 6930 - Independent Study

• Accomplishment of pre-determined goals as agreed to ahead of registration with instructor of record

ELIP 5100 - Critical Reading and Analysis

• Students will be able to apply strategies to recognize and retain critical information from texts.
• Students will be able to apply strategies to recognize and retain important vocabulary.
• Students will be able to apply the concepts of summary and paraphrasing in both verbal and written form.
• Students will be able to recognize and use standard academic rhetorical styles.
• Students will improve their ability to read, skim, and scan accurately and efficiently.
• Students will improve their critical reading and thinking skills.
• Students will improve their information management skills, including database searching.

ELIP 5120 - Graduate Reading and Writing

• Students will analyze source texts for main arguments, author stance, and supporting details.
• Students will critique and compare source texts in order to effectively use them in their own writing.
• Students will effectively organize their academic writing, specifically, summaries, response papers, and essays.
• Students will effectively paraphrase, summarize, and use direct quotations according to a citation style guide.
• Students will employ self-editing skills in order to improve in areas of grammatical weakness.
• Students will use academic vocabulary, phrasing, and style.

ELIP 5140 - Academic Writing in Graduate Studies

• Students will critique, categorize, and combine source text ideas in order to build an argument.
• Students will edit and proofread their own academic writing.
• Students will effectively organize their academic writing, specifically, critiques, literature reviews, and research papers.
• Students will effectively paraphrase, summarize, and use direct quotations according to a citation style guide.
• Students will use academic vocabulary, phrasing, and style.

ELIP 5160 - Writing for Research

• To introduce students to the research prospectus, thesis/dissertation, or article writing process with the focus on both the rhetorical framework and grammatical patterns germane to these tasks and the purpose of the research project.
• To provide training and assistance with the use of sources, including employing accurate citation practices and using sources to build an argument.
• To provide training for the development of self-editing and proofreading skills.

ELIP 5180 - Professional Writing in Public Administration

• Students will edit and proofread their own academic and professional writing.
• Students will effectively organize their writing with respect to purpose and according to the guidelines within Public Administration.
• Students will successfully write book reviews, critiques, and literature reviews related to concurrent academic coursework within Public Administration.
• Students will use academic vocabulary, phrasing, and style according to the guidelines within Public Administration.

ELIP 5200 - English Pronunciation

• Students will discuss American culture and intercultural communication strategies.
• Students will improve their listening comprehension of English as they become accustomed to the features of natural and spontaneous speech such as reductions and linking.
• Students will improve their pronunciation of English in terms of individual vowel and consonant sounds.
• Students will improve their pronunciation of English in terms of intonation, rhythm, word stress, and fluency.

ELIP 5220 - Classroom Communication Skills for International Teaching Assistants

• Students will discuss cultural aspects of the American academic community and analyze how the aspects apply to teaching.
• Students will improve their oral presentation and critical listening skills necessary for different types of classroom interaction.
• Students will increase the intelligibility of their speech by improving their American English pronunciation.

ELIP 5300 - Oral Communication in Graduate Studies

• Students will be able to effectively organize and deliver presentations, including to diverse audiences.
• Students will be able to create and use effective visual aids.
• Students will be able to summarize and synthesize information from various sources.
• Students will be able to effectively lead and participate in group discussions on professional and/or academic topics, to diverse audiences.

ELIP 5320 - Oral Communication for the Graduate Researcher and Presenter

• Students will anticipate and be prepared to answer potential defense and interview questions.
• Students will create and use effective slides and handouts for presentations.
• Students will effectively use discourse markers, nonverbal language, and strong organization for coherent presentations.
• Students will speak confidently and coherently in high-stakes environments such as defenses, interviews, presentations, or poster sessions.

ELIP 5900 - Special Topics in English Language Improvement Program

• Students will increase their knowledge in English Language Improvement Program.

ELIP 6000 - Special Studies in Graduate Writing

• Students should be able to apply the concepts of specialized study to their graduate writing.

ELIP 6100 - Special Studies in Oral Communication

• Students should be able to apply the concepts of specialized study to their oral communiation skills.

ELIP 6900 - Special Topics in English Language Improvement Program

• Students will increase their knowledge in English Language Improvement Program.

EMGT 6000 - Foundations of Engineering Management

• Develop an overall understanding of managing engineering and technology.
• Develop techniques for managing projects.
• Learn guidelines for managing their engineering career.
• Learn the basic functions of technology management.
• Understand how to approach managing technology through the product life cycle.

EMGT 6010 - Engineering Writing

• Conduct and report business research.
• Develop correspondence appropriate to the job search.
• Discuss topics relevant to the understanding of communication in a business environment (legal and ethical issues, critical thinking, and international/cultural issues).
• Prepare and present effectively.
• Report information in writing and orally.
• Understand the ethical aspects of a decision and how to communicate them effectively.
• Write both internal and external business correspondence.

EMGT 6100 - Statistics for Engineering Management

• Calculate and interpret hypothesis tests and confidence intervals for single samples.
• Calculate and interpret hypothesis tests and confidence intervals for two samples.
• Calculate probabilities of events in sample spaces, conditional probabilities, permutations and combinations.
• Calculate the mean and variance for discrete and continuous random variables.
• Create and interpret descriptive statistics through graphical techniques.
• Determine appropriate point estimators for common sampling distributions: Standard normal, t distribution, F distribution, and chi-square distribution.
• Determine, calculate and evaluate simple linear regression and multiple linear regression.
• Utilize Analysis of Variance to test multiple means and evaluate regression models.

EMGT 6110 - Principles of Six Sigma

• Apply control charts to control product and process quality.
• Construct and use sampling plans for attributes.
• Demonstrate the application of quality control methods to a non-manufacturing application.
• Develop and analyze advanced control charts: CUSUM (cumulative sum) and EWMA (exponentially weighted moving average) charts.
• Develop and analyze control charts for measuring defects.
• Develop and analyze control charts for measuring proportion.
• Develop and analyze control charts for variables using groups.
• Develop and analyze control charts for variables using individual measurements.
• Identify methods for reducing the variance in a process.
• Identify sources of variance in a process.
• Measure process and system capability ratios.
• Utilize MINITAB software to develop control charts and analyze them.

EMGT 6120 - Quality Systems

• Be able to incorporate quality into strategic planning.
• Know the process for ISO 9000 certification.
• Know the works of the major figures in the quality movement.
• Understand process measurement and continuous quality improvement.
• Understand the philosophy behind quality management.

EMGT 6200 - Information Systems Engineering

• Define the terms computer-based information systems and information technology.
• Differentiate between data, information, knowledge and wisdom in the context of information systems, and explain how each one is acquired by using these systems.
• Describe how information needs vary across the hierarchical levels of a company.
• Explain the differences between Transaction Processing Systems, Enterprise Resource Planning Systems and Management Information Systems.
• Describe common methods for data communications and explain how they enable the flow of information to support supply chains.
• Use the concepts of big data, data analytics, data warehouses and dashboards to explain how knowledge based systems support operational decision-making, and create a simple knowledge based system.
• Discuss issues relevant to data security.
• Explain how logic-based programming can be used to create knowledge that supports operational decision-making.
• Develop a logic-based program to determine trending in time series data.
• Explain the advantages and disadvantages of using a database management system.
• Use a Rapid Application Development (RAD) tool such as Microsoft Access to manipulate data in a database and display it for various user needs.
• Describe the capabilities of enterprise-scale database management systems such as Microsoft SQL Server.
• Explain why existing business processes must be reexamined when a new enterprise data system is adopted.

EMGT 6210 - Database Information Systems

• Build a database/web server using a common development environment.
• Design a set of relations for storing data.
• Determine the locking requirements for concurrent access.
• Determine what check constraints may be required for a table.
• Develop a set of SQL DML statements to create a set of tables.
• Develop complex SQL queries to retrieve required data.
• Normalize a set of relations to 3rd normal form.

EMGT 6220 - Data Acquisition and Predictive Analytics

• Students will be able to evaluate and redesign an existing database and apply basic and advanced SQL queries to analyze the data.
• Students will be able to apply various data preparation methods to verify, cleanse, and visualize data sets.
• Students will be able to analyze data and predict outcomes using various statistical modeling software programs.
• Students will be able to apply statistical inference and machine learning methods on historical data to find patterns.
• Students will be able to decide on the best course of action in the engineering management context, based on the critical evaluation using predictive analysis.
• Students will be able to critically research and review the state of the art literature in data analytics.

EMGT 6300 - Project Management

• Allocate time and manpower resources to project activities.
• Apply PERT/CPM methods for scheduling project activities.
• Apply engineering economic methods to evaluate project alternatives.
• Apply project management techniques in classroom and real-world projects.
• Estimate and allocate budget to projects and their activities.
• Plan engineering project activities and estimate their durations.
• Schedule project activities, due dates and milestones.
• Utilize one or more project management software tool to manage projects.

EMGT 6400 - Engineering Law

• Formulate and understand legal arguments.
• Learn the rudiments of locating and using legal source materials.
• Understand domestic and international aspects of administrative law and employment law.
• Understand domestic and international contracts and contractual relationships.
• Understand domestic and international intellectual property policy.
• Understand domestic and international torts and liability.
• Understanding of the law as part of the business environment.

EMGT 6500 - Lean Thinking Methods

• Ability to estimate or calculate takt and cycle times.
• Analyze setup operations and reduce changeover times.
• Apply 5S method to improve a work area.
• Apply A3 method of Lean management in the organization.
• Apply and implement one-piece flow for product/part transfers.
• Apply visual workplace principles and method in the organization.
• Create a Value Stream Map (both current state and future state) of a manufacturing or service system.
• Develop and implement mistake proofing devices.
• Explain the objectives of applying lean analysis and continuous improvement to a manufacturing or service system.
• Implement a kanban system for inventory management.

EMGT 6600 - Applied Accounting and Finance for Engineering Management

• List and differentiate between cost categories used in engineering activities such as manufacturing, and compute overhead rate, total cost and average cost per unit.
• Explain differences between activity-based costing and conventional costing, and compute activity rates and product costs using activity based costing.
• Record the flow of material, labor and overhead through a process costing system, compute parameters such as cost per unit, and prepare a cost reconciliation report.
• Explain the interrelationships between cost, volume and profit, and calculate related parameters such as break-even point, margin of safety and degree of operating leverage.
• Describe the differences between variable costing and absorption costing methods.
• Prepare budgets for production, direct labor, manufacturing and cash accounts, and prepare a budgeted income statement and balance sheet.
• Differentiate between a flexible budget and other budget types, and demonstrate how to read and interpret a report showing revenue and spending variances.
• Calculate and describe the significance of key performance measures including return on investment, residual income, and manufacturing cycle efficiency, and display them in a balanced scorecard.
• Demonstrate the use of differential analysis techniques, including time value of money measures, to support decisions such as make-or-buy, continuing or closing a product line, and making capital investments.
• Prepare and interpret financial statements and statements of cash flows, and compute common financial ratios for activities such as asset management, debt management and profitability assessment.

EMGT 6700 - Engineering Leadership

• Develop an inventory of effective leadership skills.
• Differentiate between leadership and management and understand how the effective leader uses management tools.
• Employ period reflection to reinforce leadership characteristics, skill,s and development.
• Provide examples of effective leadership styles using personal experience applied to Goleman’s identified styles.
• Understand implications of personality inventories (Bolton, True Colors and MBTI) as applied to yourself and others.

EMGT 6900 - Special Topics in Engineering Management

• Students will increase their knowledge in Engineering Management.

EMGT 6930 - Special Investigations

• Apply engineering management methods as appropriate for the topic(s) covered by the project.

EMGT 6949 - Engineering Management Project

• Demonstrate effective written communication.
• Demonstrate the mastery of Engineering Management Methods.

ENG 5010 - Anglo-Saxon

• Emphasize the significance of the Norman Conquest in reshaping English literary styles and tastes.
• Introduce the orthography, lexis, and grammar of Anglo Saxon (Old English).
• Learn about Anglo-Saxon prosody.
• Read a number of short Anglo-Saxon prose texts.

ENG 5020 - Old English Poetry

• Become familiar with the prosody of Old English poetry.
• Explore the various genres of Old English poetry.
• Introduce about the historical context of Old English poetry.
• Read “Beowulf”.
• Read a variety of short poems written in Old English.

ENG 5030 - English Language

• Students will be familiar with Old English, Middle English, Early Modern English, and Modern English.
• Students will be familiar with linguistic theoreticians.
• Students will be familiar with fundamental linguistic concepts.
• Students will know the contemporary varieties of English in the US and around the world.
• Students will know the historical origins of English and historical influences on change in the language.

ENG 5040 - American English

• Consider the influence on American English of figures such as Noah Webster.
• Discuss dialectal developments and the range of dialects in today’s American English.
• Discuss how in which American English developed from British English.
• Discuss the changes in American English from the 18th century to the 21st century.
• Do individual research into some aspect of American English.

ENG 5050 - Old Norse Language and Literature

• Explore the historical context of Old Norse and the sagas.
• Learn to read elementary Old Norse.
• Read Icelandic sagas.

ENG 5080 - Teaching Writing and Critical Inquiry

• Demonstrate ways of integrating writing to learn into grade specific contexts.
• Demonstrate ways of integrating writing to learn into discipline specific contexts.
• Understand and demonstrate the ties between writing and critical thinking.
• Understand concepts of informal writing.
• Understand writing to learn.

ENG 5090 - Medieval English Literature

• Students will be able to construct bibliographies and do research into literary topics and scholarship in medieval literature.
• Students will be able to read and understand the various literary genres of medieval literature.
• Students will be familiar with the origins and social functions of the five languages spoken in medieval England.
• Students will have the ability to carry out scholarly research in medieval English literature.
• Students will have the basic ability to read works in Middle English.

ENG 5100 - Teaching Literature

• Become familiar with various ways of introducing literature in the classroom.
• Explore the canonical works of British and American literature.
• Explore various theoretical approaches to literature.
• Practice different ways of leading discussions of literature.

ENG 5110 - The 18th-Century English Novel

• Compare the works of various authors and types of novel (e.g., epistolary, picaresque).
• Consider economic themes in the 18th-century novel.
• Discuss prose antecedents of the 18th-century English novel (e.g., Malory’s MORTE DARTHUR).
• Introduce the genre of the novel and its distinction from earlier long fiction written in verse.
• Present various theoretical perspectives on the origins and growth of the novel form.

ENG 5120 - The 19th-Century Novel

• Consider various forms of the 19th-century novel.
• Explore the way the novel of the 19th century developed out of its eighteenth-century beginnings.
• Learn about popular themes and concerns of 19th-century novels.

ENG 5130 - Early Modern British Literature

• Develop an ability to read literature written in Early Modern English.
• Explore the development of Early Modern English drama and its origins in medieval drama.
• Explore the development of Early Modern English poetic forms and themes, especially the sonnet.
• Explore the development of prose as a new medium for fiction.
• Provide the historical context of Early Modern Literature.

ENG 5140 - The Works of Edmund Spenser

• Become familiar with Spenser’s poetic forms.
• Do scholarly research and writing on Spenser’s works.
• Explore the literary and historical context of Spenser’s work.
• Read “The Faerie Queene” and some of Spenser’s shorter poems.

ENG 5160 - Teaching Oral Language

• Consider the concept of any variety of English as a standard and the implications of that concept.
• Discuss the problems posed when different varieties of American English are spoken in the secondary classroom.
• Explore the characteristics of African American English.
• Explore the characteristics of Appalachian English.
• Explore the reasons and ways in which the teacher may support children’s home dialects.
• Introduce the concept of varieties of spoken English.

ENG 5170 - The Works of John Milton

• Explore Milton’s life and his relationship to the great events of his time.
• Explore the historical and literary context of Milton’s works.
• Study Milton’s prose works.
• Study Milton’s short poems.
• Study “Paradise Lost” and “Paradise Regained”.

ENG 5180 - Literature of the English Restoration

• Compare the literature of satire and the literature of sentimentality in the Restoration period.
• Explore the consequences for literature and drama of the restoration of the monarchy.
• Study the development of the genres of prose fiction and of poetry during the Restoration period.
• Study the effects of the 18th-century English civil war on English literature.

ENG 5190 - The Literature of 18th-Century England

• Become familiar with the historical events of the English Civil War and the Restoration.
• Explore the beginnings and development of the English novel in the 18th-century.
• Learn about the bearing of those events on the literature of the 18th-century.
• Study the changing nature of eighteenth-century English drama, e.g., Comedy of Manners, etc.
• Study the poetry of the Augustan age, especially that of Dryden and Pope.

ENG 5210 - Teaching Drama

• Consider techniques of teaching the literature of drama in connection with mini-performances.
• Explore methods of introducing such plays.
• Read a variety of English plays accessible to secondary-school students.

ENG 5220 - The Works of Chaucer

• Approach Chaucer as a writer of dream-visions and romance (e.g., “Book of the Duchess,” “Troilus and Criseyde,” and “House of Fame”).
• Become familiar with Chaucerian scholarship.
• Compare dramatic and non-dramatic readings of The Canterbury Tales.
• Explore the structure and themes of The Canterbury Tales.

ENG 5230 - Literature of the Romantic Period

• Analyze one text in light of the course learning.
• Develop an understanding of the historical and literary context of English Romanticism.
• Understand key Romantic concepts like emotion and the emphasis on nature.

ENG 5240 - The Works of William Shakespeare

• Become familiar with the historical and literary context within which Shakespeare wrote.
• Consider the origin of the various surviving versions of Shakespeare’s plays.
• Study Shakespeare’s plays within the context of the time in which they were written.
• Study the social and legal history of Shakespeare’s time.

ENG 5250 - Victorian Poetry

• Explore the various popular genres of Victorian literature.
• Study the great works of Victorian literature.
• Study the historical and literary context of Victorian England.

ENG 5260 - 19th-Century Prose

• Become familiar with historical and social developments in England in the 19th-century.
• Become knowledgeable about current scholarship on 19th-century prose literature.
• Explore the central themes of the 19th-century English novel.
• Recognize circumstances leading to the development of Romantic and Victorian literature.

ENG 5300 - American Literature 1776-1865

• Consider colonialism and its influence on and through literature.
• Develop an appreciation for the literature of the Americas and how they relate to colonialism.
• Understand the early historical context of the United States.

ENG 5310 - Major Medieval Genre

• Consider the relationship of Medieval literature to literature from later periods.
• Develop an appreciation for different ways of thinking in the Medieval period.
• Understand the Medieval period through literature and historical context.

ENG 5320 - Renaissance Drama excluding Shakespeare

• See the historical context of the Renaissance period.
• Analyze literary works by Marlow, et al.
• Consider the relationship of renaissance drama to drama in later periods.

ENG 5330 - American Literature 1865-1918

• Analyze the continued influence of colonialism.
• Consider especially what American Indian writers contribute to our understanding of the period.
• Understanding historical and literary context of the United States.

ENG 5350 - African American Literature

• Think about African American literature in terms of Africa and colonialism.
• Understand historical circumstances informing African American literature.
• Understand how African American literature informs other literature of the period.

ENG 5360 - Critical Theory I

• Students will consider how our ideological positions influence the way we read texts / the world.
• Students will reflect upon our ways of knowing the world.
• Students will understand colonialism and its effects.

ENG 5370 - Critical Theory II

ENG 5400 - Studies in Comparative Literature

• Compare English dramatic traditions with the dramatic traditions of other languages and cultures.
• Compare English fiction in both prose and poetry with fiction written in other languages.
• Compare English lyric poetry with the lyric poetry of other cultures.
• Consider literary forms across linguistic boundaries.
• Consider the historical and cultural influences leading to various literary themes and forms.