Course Descriptions

EMS 490 - Cooperative Education Internship

EMS 493A - Paramedicine Internship I

• Attain all of the terminal objectives set forth in the clinical requirements of the Program without exception and without modification including 25% of the hour requirements for Program clinical objectives.
• Demonstrate psychomotor skills in adult patient assessment, ophthalamic/otoscopic examination, advanced airway management, rapid sequence intubation, CPAP/BiPAP, autovent, BVM ventilation, needle thoracentesis, and surgical cricothyrotomy.
• Demonstrate psychomotor skills in intravenous therapy and venipuncture; intramuscular, subcutaneous, endotracheal, oral, otic, nasal, buccal, inhalation, sublingual, transdermal, intravenous medication administration.
• Demonstrate psychomotor skills in central line placement, intravenous infusion, EKG interpretation of bipolar limb leads, endotracheal extubation, obtaining blood specimen, and oxygen administration.

EMS 493B - Paramedicine Internship II

• Attain all of the terminal objectives set forth in the clinical requirements of the Program without exception and without modification including 33% of the hour requirements for Program clinical objectives.
• Demonstrate psychomotor skills in adult patient assessment, ophthalamic/otoscopic examination, advanced airway management, rapid sequence intubation, CP AP/BiPAP, autovent, BVM ventilation, needle thoracentesis, and surgical cricothyrotomy.
• Demonstrate psychomotor skills in intravenous therapy and venipuncture; intramuscular, subcutaneous, endotracheal, oral, otic, nasal, buccal, inhalation, sublingual, transdermal, intravenous medication administration.
• Demonstrate psychomotor skills in central line placement, intravenous infusion, EKG interpretation of bipolar limb leads, endotracheal extubation, obtaining blood specimen, and oxygen administration.
• Demonstrate psychomotor skills in 12-lead ECG acquisition and interpretation; Defibrillation, Cardioversion, and Transthoracic Pacing; carotid sinus massage; Valsalva Maneuver; CVP measurement; and auscultation of heart tones.
• Demonstrate psychomotor skills in emergency obstetrics; McRoberts, Woods, and Leopold Maneuvers; nasogastric and orogastric tube insertion; urinary catheter maintenance; pulmonary function monitoring; and nasotracheal and oral suctioning.
• Demonstrate psychomotor skills in pulmonary assessment (including auscultation); neurological assessment; gastrointestinal assessment; preventative and mitigating actions of infectious diseases and communicability; and ABG analysis.
• Demonstrate psychomotor skills in acute psychiatric and emotional crisis assessment and intervention; patient restraint; pharmacological restraint; and management of toxidromes.

EMS 493C - Paramedicine Internship III

• Attain all of the terminal objectives set forth in the clinical requirements of the Program without exception and without modification including 42% of the hour requirements for Program clinical objectives.
• Demonstrate psychomotor skills in all of the Learner Outcome Objectives of EMS 493A and EMS 493B in continuity and, in addition, the following Learner Outcome Objectives.
• Demonstrate psychomotor skills in pediatric assessment; neonatal assessment; pediatric and neonate airway management; pediatric respiratory assessment; pediatric cardiovascular assessment; and neonatal cardiorespiratory assessment.
• Demonstrate psychomotor skills in umbilical vein cannulation; scalp vein cannulation; neonatal resuscitation; postpartum hemorrhage control; pediatric assessment triangle; neonatal ventilation & oxygenation; APGAR scoring; and heat control
• Demonstrate psychomotor skills in assessment-based management; assessment of geriatric patients; managing sensory deprivation of patients; management of the challenged patient; and acute interventions of the chronic patient.
• Demonstrate psychomotor skills in principles of HazMat management; Medical Incident Management; EMS Operations; Response to Terrorism; and leadership and team management.

EMS 496 - Individual Study

EMS 497 - Honors

EMS 498 - Special Topics

EMS 499 - Seminar

ETSC 101 - Modern Technology and Energy

• Examine technology from multiple perspectives.
• Evaluate different technologies covered in this course and their impact on our society.
• Detail the process that drives technological progress (new and emerging), and articulate its social, political, economic, and ethical implications.
• Determine the relationship between technology and its scientific basis.
• Develop an awareness of how basic scientific and mathematical knowledge is used to solve technical problems.

ETSC 145 - Machine Woodworking

ETSC 150 - Engineering Graphics

• Review and interpret a mechanical part drawing.
• Create a two-dimensional detail drawing of a mechanical part using CAD software.
• Use a three-dimensional CAD software to produce models of individual components and assemblies, as well as two-dimensional drawings.
• Use a piping and instrumentation diagram to locate a specific component in a system.

ETSC 160 - Computer-Aided Design and Drafting

• Demonstrate how computer-aided drafting techniques can be applied.
• Describe the common computer-aided drafting methods and their application.
• Define steps in computer-aided drafting.

ETSC 161 - Architectural Computer Aided Design

ETSC 201 - Bio-related Technologies (Put on reserve 9/16/17)

• Define and categorize bio-related technologies.
• Develop problem solving skills to solve design challenges.
• Study the different types of waste and their effects on the environment.
• Develop oral and written presentation skills.
• Categorize current technological trends with the ethical and human views of various age groups.
• Gain knowledge in a variety of bio-related technologies such as: health and medicine, agriculture, waste management, fuel production, and bioethics.

ETSC 215 - Small Engines (Put on Reserve 9/16/16.)

ETSC 241 - Programmable Logic Controller Applications

• Demonstrate an ability to construct basic relay logic circuits
• Demonstrate an ability to interface pushbuttons, indicators, and sensors to the PLC
• Demonstrate an ability to program the PLC using ladder logic, structured text, or function block diagram programs
• Demonstrate an ability to configure and control variable frequency drives

ETSC 242 - Instrumentation

• Use virtual instruments in the LabVIEW environment.
• Use LabVIEW to acquire data.
• Determine sensor operation from manufacturer specifications.
• Convert sensor data to a form that would be friendly to a system operator.
• Verify data conversions using arithmetic formulas derived from the sensor specifications.
• Communicate assumptions, results (data), and conclusions about technical information in a coherent and prescribed format.

ETSC 260 - NURBS Modeling

• Will be able to create NURBS based graphic objects.
• Create models with precision using coordinate input, and object snaps.
• Modify curves and surfaces with edit commands.
• Export and import models to and from different native file formats.
• Render a model.
• Display any portion of a model and plot with a simple layout view.
• Accurately and efficiently solve problems using NURBS based modeling.

ETSC 265 - Three-dimensional Modeling

• Demonstrate the ability to produce 3D models using SolidWorks software under a time constraint
• Demonstrate the ability to understand basic design concepts and terminology as explained in class and online Instructional Videos
• Demonstrate the ability to produce design documents including engineering drawings and similar documents while conforming to engineering standards

ETSC 277 - Introduction to Robotics

• Demonstrate an ability to design, analyze, and implement controls systems for robotics utilizing graphical programming.
• Demonstrate an ability transfer automated robotic control systems between programming platforms.
• Demonstrate an ability to design, construct, and analyze modular robotic systems.
• Demonstrate an ability to code in the LabVIEW environment to interface sensors and motors.
• Explain sensor operation from manufacturer specifications.

ETSC 290 - Cooperative Education

ETSC 296 - Individual Study

ETSC 298 - Special Topics

ETSC 299 - Seminar

ETSC 300 - Industrial Engineering Technology Fundamentals

• Identify and describe the types of organizations that comprise the industrial landscape.
• Distinguish the roles and responsibilities of different people within an organization and their connections to IET outcomes.
• Act in a professional and ethical manner.
• Analyze case studies to diagnose and determine solutions to ethical dilemmas.

ETSC 301 - Engineering Project Cost Analysis

• Analyze economic engineering project decisions using present worth analysis techniques.
• Use Excel to present data and graphing alternatives.
• Evaluate project alternatives, which are mutually exclusive, using incremental analysis methods to determine the best economic option.
• Examine engineering alternatives based on sensitivity and breakeven analysis.
• Evaluate equipment replacement and repair alternatives based on cost data and the economic factors of personnel and clean and green alternatives.

ETSC 311 - Statics

Prerequisites: PHYS 111 or PHYS 181. Pre or Co-requisite: MATH 173.

Credits: (4)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• ABET SO 3b: Students will understand the relationships between metric and US units and have the ability to work in both arenas. A foundation for problem solving techniques is developed and students will be able to apply analytical skills in engineering statics, the study of forces on objects at rest.
• ABET SO 3b: Demonstrate an understanding of vectors and be able to express and resolve vectors in two and three dimensions.
• ABET SO Mc: Draw a free body diagram and solve for unknown forces in two and three dimensions for particle and rigid body systems. Demonstrate analytical skills by solving for unknown forces.
• ABET SO 3b: Students will be able to perform vector operations of dot and cross product and use these principals to solve for unknown forces in three dimensions. Demonstrate the ability to use the concepts of moments and couples in qualitative and quantitative applications.
• ABET SO 3b: Apply the method of joints and sections to determine the forces in a truss’s members. Obtain the ability to determine joint reactions of simple frames or machines.
• ABET SO 3b: Students will understand the concept of friction and analyze rigid bodies subjected to dry friction.
• ABET SO 3b: Understand the concepts of center of gravity, center of mass, and the centroid. Be able to calculate the center of gravity and centroid of shapes.
• ABET SO 3b: Be able to conceptualize fluid pressure and calculate hydrostatic forces.

ETSC 312 - Strength of Materials

ETSC 341 - Programmable Logic Controller Applications II

• Program and configure a PLC-controlled system with multiple actuators, controls, and sensors
• Describe LAN topologies including their operational characteristics.
• Describe the layers of the OSI and TCP/IP models
• Describe the operating principles and primary devices of an Ethernet network.
• Configure a PLC to act as a supervisory control

ETSC 380 - Quality Control

• Solve problems using basic quality improvement techniques.
• Use fundamental statistical concepts to construct and interpret control charts for variables to determine manufacturing process capabilities.
• Use fundamental concepts of probability to construct and interpret control charts for attributes to determine product quality.
• Use attribute and variable concepts to determine appropriate acceptance sampling systems.
• Discuss the basic concepts of ISO 9000 and ISO 14000.

ETSC 385 - Product Design and Development

• Explain and use the design, production, manufacturing, distribution organizational structure and functional relationships in the development or enhancement of a product.
• Use the terminology and vernacular of design, production, manufacturing, distribution to convey the new or enhanced product criteria.
• Develop a detailed design and development plan of a simple product utilizing recognized engineering procedures and practices.
• Demonstrate competence in using engineering analytical methods in the development of a simple product.
• Produce well documented product designs and analyses that are based on accepted industrial practices.
• Research methods of design and production of sample products.

ETSC 389 - Technical Presentations

• Find and read technical research databases and make decisions on what information is most useful in presenting an idea and influencing decisions.
• Write about a subject using technical data to present an idea or influence a decision.
• Present an idea based on technical data to inform or influence the audience.
• Demonstrate an ability to promote an organization using technical information.
• Demonstrate an ability to develop promotional print material for an approved subject of interest.

ETSC 396 - Individual Study

ETSC 397 - Honors

ETSC 398 - Special Topics

ETSC 399 - Seminar

ETSC 430 - Methods of Teaching Technology Education

• Present a demonstration of classroom technology and other industrial equipment usage. This may include computers, computer software, Mobi, digital video equipment, and/or use of industrial materials, tools, and machines.
• Prepare a video presentation on an approved topic. This will include learning the operation of a digital video camera and editing software available in Black Hall.
• Update oneself on a variety of the latest methodological trends in technology education, safety, and business/industry training.
• Update oneself on the appropriate forms and program approval procedures required for technology education program approval from OSPI.
• Select and construct teaching aids or devices to assist in the learning and communication process.
• Organize a course into units and write a lesson plan for each unit of study.

ETSC 433 - Technology Education Laboratory Planning

• Describe how heating, lighting, ventilation, sound and color affect the learning environment.
• Specify machine and equipment layout to reflect concepts of quiet/loud, clean/dirty, traffic paths, and group instruction.
• Design and construct a tool holder that helps promote “organization.”
• Select tools, machines, and other equipment based on established criteria such as budget constraints, need, space availability, etc. to supply a technology education facility.
• Describe techniques of classroom management and organization.
• Acquire knowledge associated with student leadership organizations.

ETSC 435 - Technology Education Exit Assessment

• Organize assignments from courses in major and place into Livetext.
• Refine oral presentation skills.
• Determine their effectiveness for meeting competencies in technology education.

ETSC 442 - Alternative Energy Resources and Technology

• Demonstrate an understanding of the units used to measure and discuss Energy and Power.
• Analyze a facilities energy footprint.
• Calculate the annual energy output of a given solar photovoltaic array.
• Propose the quantity of solar panels required to offset 100% of a building’s annual electrical energy demand.
• Estimate the maximum power output of a commercial wind turbine.

ETSC 455 - Engineering Project Management

ETSC 457 - Advanced Foundry

ETSC 485 - Industrial Engineering Technology Capstone

• Communicate at a professional level in oral and written form.
• Integrate and apply the skills gained during their undergraduate courses.
• Synthesize and present a solution to a technical problem.

ETSC 490 - Cooperative Education

ETSC 491 - Workshop

ETSC 496 - Individual Study

ETSC 498 - Special Topics

ETSC 499 - Seminar

MET 387 - Engineering Ethics

• Classify and identify ethical issues in an engineering context
• Characterize ethical terms, cases and analyses
• Apply ethics analyses to engineering scenarios mitigate related issues
• Modify personal behavior and work place environment to comply with ethics

ENG 100T - Transitional English

• Explore assumptions, opinions, facts, and reasoning of others, using critical reading strategies that include an understanding of text organization and purpose.
• Use text marking and other critical reading strategies to demonstrate an understanding of tone, purpose, and organization.
• Write unified and coherent paragraphs and short compositions, following standard conventions of spelling, punctuation, and grammar.
• Be able to write essays which contain a thesis or central idea (an-assertion), supported by appropriate evidence from texts and developed according to an organizing principle.
• Demonstrate the ability to summarize main ideas and supporting details from other texts.
• Use appropriate strategies to generate ideas, organize, draft, revise, edit, and proofread their own writing.

ENG 101 - Academic Writing I: Critical Reading and Responding

• Read college-level texts critically and rhetorically-distinguishing central ideas from evidence; identifying the author’s purpose, assumptions, and attitudes; and locating issues or topics in need of further research.
• Summarize college-level texts objectively, accurately, and ethically-referring to all key ideas and excluding unnecessary details.
• Respond to college-level texts-evaluating their reasoning, currency, thoroughness of research, or reliability of findings.
• Synthesize responses to issues, various perspectives on a topic, or solutions to a problem and draw reasonable conclusions based on this synthesis.
• Express ideas in clear and coherent sentences and paragraphs, following the conventions of Academic English-citing sources and demonstrating control of grammar, usage, and punctuation rules.

ENG 102 - Academic Writing II: Reasoning and Research on Social Justice

• Analyze and critique an argument, evaluating its rhetorical effectiveness and identifying underlying assumptions.
• Identify and synthesize high-quality sources and use them effectively in support of an argument.
• Take a position on an issue concerning social justice and identity by developing a focused assertion based on a shared assumption, presenting evidence in support of a line of reasoning, addressing divergent stances on the issue, and using a variety of rhetorical appeals.
• Cite and document sources precisely and effectively according to the guidelines of a specific style manual.
• Describe the interrelationship between style and meaning and make adjustments to style to enhance meaning.
• Craft prose that conforms to academic conventions and to expectations regarding clarity, coherence, and unity.

ENG 103 - Academic Writing II: Reasoning and Research on Health and Current Issues

• Identify and synthesize high-quality sources and use them effectively in support of an argument.
• Identify and synthesize high-quality sources and use them effectively in support of an argument.
• Cite and document sources precisely and effectively according to the guidelines of a specific style manual.
• Describe the interrelationship between style and meaning and make adjustments to style to enhance meaning.
• Craft prose that conforms to academic conventions and to expectations regarding clarity, coherence, and unity.

ENG 104 - Academic Writing II: Reasoning and Research on Sustainability and Civic Engagement

• Analyze and critique an argument, evaluating its rhetorical effectiveness and identifying underlying assumptions.
• Identify and synthesize high-quality sources and use them effectively in support of an argument.
• Take a position on an issue by developing a focused assertion based on a shared assumption, presenting evidence in support of a line of reasoning, addressing divergent stances on the issue, and using a variety of rhetorical appeals.
• Cite and document sources precisely and effectively according to the guidelines of a specific style manual.
• Describe the interrelationship between style and meaning and make adjustments to style to enhance meaning.
• Craft prose that conforms to academic conventions and to expectations regarding clarity, coherence, and unity.

ENG 105 - The Literary Imagination: An Introduction to Literature

• Read and respond to literary works from a variety of cultures and from a range of historical periods.
• Read and respond to literary works of poetry, fiction, and drama and recognize formal and rhetorical differences among genres.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how literary elements such as character development, setting, and figurative language relate to literary meaning.
• Interpret and analyze literary works from diverse cultural perspectives and respond to the ways the works contend with issues of race, class and gender privilege.
• Identify and reflect on how literary works challenge linguistic, conceptual, and normative presuppositions.

ENG 106 - Literature and the Environment

 

Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a grade of C- or higher.

Credits: (5)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Explore a breadth of literary elements. Recognize and discuss literary elements in a variety of genres and forms.
• Connect to writing life beyond the classroom
• Reflect, revise, and synthesize their writing, engaging with cultural aesthetics as appropriate
• Apply their new knowledge to engage and connect with local communities, demonstrating compassionate leadership.

ENG 107 - Literature, Health, and Well-Being

 

Prerequisites:
Prerequisite: ENG 101 with a grade of C- or higher.

Credits: (5)

Learner Outcomes:
Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Read and respond to literary works from a variety of cultures and from a range of historical periods that focus on well-being.
• Read and respond to literary works of poetry, fiction, and drama and recognize formal and rhetorical differences among genres.
• Demonstrate an understanding of how literary elements such as character development, setting, and figurative language relate to literary meaning.
• Interpret and analyze literary works in relation to personal and social health and well-being in diverse historical and cultural contexts
• Identify and reflect on linguistic, conceptual, and normative presuppositions about health and well-being

ENG 180 - Introduction to Linguistics

ENG 220 - Grammar for Writers

• Demonstrate knowledge of terms and concepts used to describe standardized academic English.
• Describe the structure of sentences in standardized academic English.
• Apply knowledge of formal grammar by analyzing and producing academic writing-attending to word choice, sentence structure, cohesive devices, and use of punctuation.
• Use knowledge of sentence structure to improve the clarity, coherence, and unity of both sentences and paragraphs.
• Use knowledge of formal grammar to edit one’s own work and comment on the writing of others.

ENG 222 - Multicultural Literature for Teachers

• Read and respond to works representing and authored by a range of cultures and ethnicities globally and within the United States - including Native American, Asian American, African American, Mexican American and Gay and Lesbian
• Read and respond to multicultural literary works of various genres - including poetry, fiction, essay, and film
• Plan and present a lesson describing how literary elements such as plot, character, theme, setting, tone, and figurative language relate to literary meaning in a text
• Write an essay that demonstrates the ability to read closely, interpret effectively, and analyze and synthesize literary works in their cultural contexts
• Model higher level thinking skills and scaffold metacognitive processes for a wide variety of literary tasks related to multiculrural themes, such as Origins and Insights, Gender and Identity, Race and Difference, and Individualism and Community
• Develop methods for teaching multicultural literature, including assignments and assessment strategies that invite students to think critically and use textual evidence to support their viewpoints
• Participate in both small and large group discussions on issues of class, race, ethnicity, and sexual preference in literature
• Participate in two campus or community activities related to diversity and multiculturalism and make connections between their content and ideas/issues/texts/strategies explored in the course.

ENG 243 - Talking Back: Power, Diversity, and Social Justice

• Articulate the requirements of informed citizenship based on analysis of social, cultural, economic and/or political processes, issues, and/or events.
• Explain how social, psychological, and/or culturally diverse experiences create value in the community.
• Analyze relationships between local, national, regional, and/or global cultures and community, citizenship, politics, and/or government.
• Describe how historical, social, economic, and/or cultural developments have affected communities, citizenship, politics, and/or government.

ENG 247 - Multicultural Literature

• Represent in written and oral form an introductory knowledge of the cultures and histories major minority groups in the United States, including but not limited to African Americans, American Indians, Asian Americans, Latino/Latinas.
• Identify major literary themes and concepts that appear in American multicultural literature such as changing definitions of personal, cultural, and national identity, slavery, diaspora, racism, nativism, the American Dream, social protest, the labor movement, feminism, cultural differences, religion, and the Civil Rights movements.
• Demonstrate an ability to read, interpret, and analyze the literary works of these minority groups in their historical and cultural contexts.
• Submit at least eight pages of writing “that is assessed for content and mechanics (grammar, spelling, punctuation, and organization),” in accordance with the General Education Writing Requirement.

ENG 250 - Reading and Writing Enrichment (Put on reserve 9/16/17)

• Increase their reading efficiency and comprehension of college-level texts
• Improve their writing skills using a variety of genres of writing
• Apply reading and writing strategies across the curriculum for the purposes of research and documentation
• Use informal writing to explore and reflect on ideas using freewrite, reflections and situational writing
• Increase their critical thinking and interpretation skills

ENG 263 - Introduction to Creative Writing

• Demonstrate knowledge of the conventions that govern creative nonfiction, what its expectations are, how professional writers have manipulated the genre.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the conventions that govern fiction, what its expectations are, how professional writers have manipulated the genre, the uses of dialogue, exposition, flashbacks, plot, and character.
• Learn about the conventions of poetry, some of the current strategies (confessional, imagist, formal, postmodern, etc.), its forms, the persona poem, etc.
• Complete and submit a portfolio of revised work that demonstrates their repertoire of creative writing skills. 
• Critique each other’s writing productively in workshop settings, attending to the elements of form, tone, and language introduced and modeled by the instructor.
• Learn about the conventions of play and screenwriting.

ENG 264 - Introduction to Creative Writing and the Environment

• Explore a breadth of literary elements.
• Recognize and discuss literary elements in a variety of genres and forms.
• Practice using a variety of literary elements, developing enhanced communication and demonstrating a basic understanding of fundamental concepts within an academic field. 
• Engage in workshop and other collaborative settings with class and PNW communities, empathizing and imagining others’ experiences.
• Connect to writing life beyond the creative writing classroom.
• Develop revision strategies and practices for their own work, and articulate best writing practices.
• Reflect, revise, and synthesize their personal writing, engaging with cultural aesthetics as appropriate.
• Apply new knowledge to engage and connect with local communities, demonstrating compassionate leadership.

ENG 265 - Introduction to Creative Writing as “Mindfulness, Health and Well-Being”

• Explore a breadth of literary elements. Recognize and discuss literary elements in a variety of genres and forms.
• Practice critical analysis of issues related to individual health in real-life problems in creative works, using tools of the craft to develop your own approaches to individual and/or societal health
• Practice finding/evaluating health-related information in creative work and through your experience, observations, and writing (HWB-1).  Evaluating the information in the work of others and your own will involve seeing it in a larger context–thus analyzing critical issues related to public health and societal well-being.
• Practice engaging in workshop and other collaborative settings with class members and health- or mindfulness-related representatives–thus empathizing with and imagining others’ experiences.
• Develop revision strategies and practices for their own work, and articulate best writing practices
• Reflect, revise, and synthesize their writing, engaging with cultural aesthetics as appropriate
• Apply their new knowledge to engage and connect with local communities, demonstrating compassionate leadership.

 Learner Outcomes Approval Date:
2/1/18

ENG 267 - Screenwriting Fundamentals

ENG 296 - Individual Study

ENG 298 - Special Topics

ENG 299 - Seminar

ENG 301 - Rhetoric for Professional Writers

• Identify and apply the rhetorical conventions of a variety of professional genres, including professional/business letters, memos, proposals, and emails.
• Identify a variety of perspectives related to workplace writing. These perspectives include rhetorical, social, ethical, technological, and professional aspects of texts, documents, and other workplace writing contexts.
• Develop skills to deploy rhetoric in professional contexts that involve persuasion and knowledge-making. They practice applying these skills to “real world” problems.
• Develop and demonstrate research strategies appropriate to workplace writing.
• Demonstrate presentation skills appropriate to workplace contexts.
• Define and analyze examples of professional writing according to the theoretical foundations of the discipline.
• Demonstrate their understanding of the theoretical foundations of rhetoric and professional writing.
• Demonstrate their ability to adjust style and voice for rhetorical effectiveness in professional writing genres.

ENG 302 - Poetry and Poetics

• Recognize the seven metrical feet and scan metrical poetry to determine stanza patterns, the meaning of variations, and other formal properties.
• Identify the characteristics and conventions of major poetic forms.
• Develop and apply criteria for evaluating poems.
• Identify formal and intellectual differences in poems from different historical periods.
• Identify, interpret, and analyze the use of figurative language, tone, and other literary devices in poetry.
• Identify and analyze common themes among a group of related poems.

ENG 303 - Principles of English Studies

• Recognize and employ contemporary critical assumptions and methods used in literature classes. 
• Write formal and informal responses to literature that demonstrate engagement, reflective thought about the writer’s own assumptions, effective inquiry, and responsible interpretation.
• Identify themes, patterns, and formal features in literary texts. 
• Employ the rhetoric of English Studies, including specialized vocabulary and appropriate evidence.
• Demonstrate proficiency in literary research techniques and familiarity with library resources.
• Demonstrate familiarity with English major and minor requirements and develop a plan for completing the major.

ENG 304 - English Linguistics

• Demonstrate an understanding of semantics, syntax, morphology, and phonology.
• Explain the processes underlying language acquisition and development.
• Apply knowledge of morphology, syntax, and syntactic style in the analysis of literary texts.

ENG 310 - Technical Writing

ENG 311 - Business Writing

• Recognize the rhetorical, organizational and stylistic characteristics in a variety of business writing genres.
• Demonstrate a mastery of specific genres for a variety of business writing contexts.
• Demonstrate the ability to select specific business writing genres and characteristics to match specific writing contexts.
• Analyze the relationship between the audience of a business document and the style and tone appropriate to that document.
• Organize materials to match message with structure for readability.
• Demonstrate mastery of expectations for business writing contexts including conciseness, cohesion, clarity and appropriateness.
• Generate audience analysis deliverables that help demonstrate the differences between writing for business audiences and writing for academic audiences.
• Provide writing feedback and revision suggestions for others based on knowledge of business writing conventions and techniques.

ENG 315 - Visual Rhetoric and Document Design

• Describe theories of visual rhetoric.
• Develop the vocabulary and rhetorical awareness to critique design elements based on audience, purpose, and goals.
• Analyze how design principles affect readability, functionality, interpretation, and communication of information.
• Design rhetorically effective documents, for both print and web, by applying basic design principles.
• Demonstrate basic technical skills required for industry-specific design software.

ENG 320 - English Grammar

• Describe the development of the English language through successive historical periods
• Recognize the part of speech and function of every word in a complex or compound sentence
• Recognize and correct grammar and punctuation errors in student essays
• Use their knowledge of traditional grammar to revise and edit their own writing
• Describe sentence patterns, sentence forms, and sentence types

ENG 323 - Writing and Editing for Publication

• Articulate criteria to assess effective writing.
• Describe a method for offering feedback to authors.
• Locate and explain common errors in usage, punctuation, and mechanics.
• Use conventional proofreader’s marks to correct common errors in print documents.
• Use software tools to correct common errors in electronic documents.
• Explain the function of a stylebook.
• Provide feedback to authors submitting print or electronic documents.

ENG 330 - African American Literature

• Articulate in written and oral form an informed awareness of the socio-political and cultural history out of which African Americans wrote, and write, their works.
• Demonstrate their knowledge of African American artistic and literary expressions, beginning with the oral tradition to contemporary literature.
• Demonstrate their knowledge of major writers (and some non-major written) and significant texts representing the different genres and periods in African American literature.
• Recognize, trace, and articulate the differences (as well as similarities) in literary themes and approaches to literature between African American literary studies and traditional literary studies.

ENG 331 - Latina/o Literature

• Articulate an introductory knowledge of the cultures and histories of the specific Latina/o groups represented in the course.
• Demonstrate an ability to read, interpret, and analyze the literary works of Latinas/os in their historical and cultural contexts.
• Recognize, trace, and articulate literary themes and concepts that appear in Latina/o literature: including changing definitions of national, regional, and personal identity, colonization, racism, the border, nativism, anti-immigration drives, assimilation, transculturation, the American Dream, the barrio, ethnic nationalism, feminism, migrations, borderlands, religion, and the family.

ENG 332 - American Indian Literature

• Demonstrate their understanding of the relationship of culture to literary expression, critique, and evaluation.
• Demonstrate their knowledge of significant characteristics of American Indian literary traditions in terms of specific works.
• Recognize, trace, and articulate recurring themes in American Indian literature relating to historical as well as cultural and societal issues, such as sense of place, family, love, migration and exile, gender, identity.
• Demonstrate an ability to read closely, to interpret effectively, and to analyze and synthesize literary works.

ENG 333 - Asian American Literature

• Demonstrate an informed awareness of the socio-political and cultural history out of which Asian American writers wrote, and write, their works.
• Articulate recurring themes in Asian American literature relating to historical as well as cultural and societal issues, such as sense of place, family, love, migration and exile, gender, identity.
• Analyze the influence of Asian culture and tradition on modem Asian American writers and their works.
• Demonstrate an ability to read closely, to interpret effectively, and to analyze and synthesize literary works.

ENG 334 - American Indian Oral and Nonfiction Literature

• Differentiate between the forms of Indian oral and non-fiction literature, including, ritual and ceremony, creation stories, legend, oratory, and types of autobiography
• Describe and analyze recurring character archetypes, themes and motifs in American Indian myth and legend like the Trickster, Transformer, culture hero, the witch, etc
• Demonstrate their knowledge of the rhetorical structure and function of Indian oratory and its role in Indian/ Western history and cultural conflict
• Identify and characterize forms of Indian autobiography and describe the construction of Indian identity reflected in these forms
• Demonstrate their knowledge of the roles of myth and legend and of ritual and ceremony in American Indian Culture and their influence on American Indian writers
• Demonstrate an ability to read closely, to interpret effectively, and to analyze and synthesize literary works

ENG 335 - Women’s Literature

• Identify different types of feminist literary theory. Including commonalities and differences in assumptions
• Identify how feminist literary theories “revise” canonical texts and illuminate uncanonical texts, and how they revise traditional assumptions about the canon
• Identify how and which literary works support dominant ideologies, and undermine subvert ideologies. Also be able to identify how we evaluate subversion in texts from the past.
• Identify how literary works help us to understand commonality and differences among women of different classes, ethnic groups, etc.
• Identify what the term “woman writer” suggests, and how this relates to beliefs of how woman and men write differently. Also, how class and ethnicity may complicate this topic, and how women face being “silenced.”
• Demonstrate an ability to read closely, to interpret effectively, and to analyze and synthesize literary works
• Identify beliefs about how women read differently than men, and what it means to read “as a women”. Also, students will be able to identify what it means for women to be “resisting readers” of male texts

ENG 342 - Cinema Studies I: Early American Film History

• Synthesize and demonstrate mastery of the origins of American film, and its stylistic, thematic, cultural and aesthetic evolution from early silent cinema through the films of the mid-20th century.
• Analyze the ways in which American cinema both reflects and shapes national values and mores.  
• Evaluate the role and importance of the Hollywood studio system and the notion of stardom from their early manifestations to the mid-20th century.
• Articulate evolution of film technology from silent cinema to mid-century motion picture techniques.

ENG 343 - Cinema Studies II: Modern American Film History

• Synthesize and demonstrate mastery of the evolving major trends, styles, themes, directorial schools, and cultural thrust of American film from mid-20th century to the present.
• Analyze the ways in which  post-mid-20th century American cinema both mirrors and molds national values and ideological precepts.
• Analyze the ways in which the studio system, the star system, the media, and other forces related to the industry impact cinematic output after mid-20th century.
• Summarize the major developments in cinema technology since mid-20th century.

ENG 344 - Cinema Studies III: Film Theory

• Distinguish between the major film theories and critical approaches
• Utilize key filmic terminology and critical vocabulary.
• Assess major theoretical and critical practices as they relate to a body of film.
• Write professional quality film reviews and analyses.

ENG 347 - Global Perspectives in Literature

• Represent in written and oral form, and through interdisciplinary approaches, a knowledge of the cultures and histories of the national and cultural groups in the non-Western literature discussed.
• Interpret and analyze literatures of the global south to show how diversity, inequality or privilege interact with social, economic, and political power.
• Identify major literary themes and concepts in selected culture such as the representations of individual and cultural identity, the concept of selfhood, gender relations, cultural difference/the clash of culture, revolution, colonialism, etc.
• Identify the processes that shape transnational relationships and global capital through interpretation and analysis of literary works.
• Write analytical papers on course reading applying interdisciplinary methods.

ENG 353 - History of Narrative Film

• Demonstrate their knowledge of the history of the narrative motion picture from the silent era to the present, with attention to important narrative and visual styles, dominant genres, thematic trends, and directors’ approaches.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the ways in which cinema reflects, assesses, reaffirms, and critiques culture, particularly American mainstream culture.
• Gain a comprehension of the Hollywood studio system and its influence on shaping cinema in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

ENG 354 - History of Television

• Understand chronology of history of television technology and programs in context of American society in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
• Apply techniques of critical analysis to television programs as cultural texts.
• Trace a specific issue of cultural or social impact as reflected in a particular genre or program example during a specific period in American history.

ENG 355 - History of Documentary

• Trace the development of documentary from its origins in primitive cinema through its changes and applications in reaction to domestic and world events and to technological developments.
• Develop a critical approach for examining the historical evolution of the documentary genre
• Ability to juxtapose the historical development of documentary film/video, technology and/or content/subject matter with the social context of production.
• Demonstrate knowledge of how the chronological development of documentary as a genre and a mode of expression has become a part of societal commentary and how documentary has shaped our sense of ourselves and the “other.”
• Identify and address questions germane to the field, including the distinction between fiction and nonfiction, the creation of truth and truths and the power relationships between documentarians and their subjects.
• Identify and address questions germane to the field, including the formal components used in (re)constructing reality, and documentary’s overall impact on history and culture.

ENG 357 - Writing for Serial Media

• Recall and apply proper spelling, grammar, punctuation, and format for single-camera and multi-camera television scripts.
• Evaluate and summarize strengths and weaknesses of a television pilot script.
• Analyze a comedy program for story, characters, and style, and write a “spec” scene to be used in that program.
• Analyze a dramatic program for story, characters, style, and emotional through-line, and write a “spec” scene to be used in that program.
• Propose and pitch a concept for an original web series.
• Write an episode for an original web series.

ENG 360 - Cinema Studies IV: Survey of World Cinema

• Examine major styles, trends, themes, and directors of a range of world cinematic cultures. 
• Compare particular representative films from each of those countries.
• Evaluate how such films represent a window into the cultures that produced them.
• Summarize the ways various international filmmakers both utilize and challenge the traditions and aesthetic patterns of Hollywood film.

ENG 363 - Shakespeare

• Explain the way that Shakespeare’s works can be analyzed against the Renaissance Intellectual, historical, and cultural background.
• Identify and discuss Shakespeare’s themes, concerns, and conceptions of the human subject.
• Identify key elements of the genres Shakespeare wrote including comedy, tragedy, and “problem play”.
• Interpret and analyze individual plays.

ENG 364 - Fiction Writing

• Write dialogue, point of view, exposition, plot, characterization, and setting.
• Analyze published works of fiction in order to recognize elements of craft–e.g., use of setting, point of view, exposition, structure, plotting, summary, scenes, characterization, dialogue, humor, etc.
• Identify different genres in fiction–e.g., minimalism, magical realism, metafiction, satire, etc., as well as the “shapes” of stories (narrative arcs, character portraits, formal experiments).
• Articulate criteria for effective stories and evaluate the success of various authors.
• Use revision techniques based on reviewers’ and instructor’s comments
• Reassess their original work after oral performance.

ENG 365 - Poetry Writing

• Identify and analyze the variety of forms, styles, voices, and strategies for writing poetry
• Be able to assess drafts of poems and give practical advice about how to improve
• Compose original poetry that employs a variety of forms and strategies
• Revise their work
• Articulate and apply their own aesthetic principles

ENG 366 - Creative Nonfiction Writing

• Learn about the conventions that govern creative nonfiction, what its expectations are, and bow professional writers have manipulated the genre
• Distinguish between varieties of creative nonfiction
• Learn about the overlapping elements common to poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction-e.g., setting, characterization, insight, lyricism, etc.
• Complete and submit a portfolio of revised work that demonstrates their repertoire of creative nonfiction writing skills.
• Recognize the value of drafting, peer feedback and reflection as vital to the creative process
• Learn research strategies to generate and deepen their material

ENG 368 - Multi-Genre Writing Workshop

• Identify and emulate poetry, short fiction and creative nonfiction terms and techniques.
• Demonstrate knowledge of the conventions of poetry writing and prose writing.
• Demonstrate useful techniques for contributing to group workshop critiques.
• Practice specific writing skills in each genre studied.
• Identify and practice writing in hybrid forms.
• Demonstrate the revision process in a series of create pieces.

ENG 369 - Variable Topics Writing Workshop

• Analyze works by representative writers who focus on a specific topic or genre to understand the form and tools of the craft.
• Develop oral communications skills.
• Assess drafts and give practical advice about how to improve them.
• Develop revision/editing skills.
• Use voice, imagery, tension, pacing, and placement of factual information as appropriate for the topic.
• Understand marketing strategies for the special topic.