2024-2025 Undergraduate Catalog
Course Descriptions
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Education |
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EDUC 438 - Clinical Practice in Early Childhood Education
(12 hour(s)) Prerequisite: Admission to Clinical Practice. An intensive field-based co-teaching experience that includes observation, participation and supervised teaching in an early childhood classroom (grades P-3) for sixty (60) full days. The clinical practitioner works with an SCTS 4.0 certified teacher and university supervisor to develop and implement an integrated curriculum that is designed to meet the social, emotional, physical, and cognitive needs of students in the classroom. The clinical practitioner becomes a member of a teaching team that includes, classroom teachers, special area teachers, staff, administrators, parents/guardians, community agencies, professional consultants, school volunteers, and students from diverse cultural background. Demonstrated competency as identified by the SCTS 4.0 performance evaluation instrument is required. Professional seminars are required. Students are responsible for arranging their own transportation to designated or assigned sites. This course cannot be challenged. Note: An incomplete cannot be received. Counts for ELR credit. Directed Teaching fee required.
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EDUC 440 - Clinical Practice in the Secondary School
(12 hour(s)) Prerequisite: Admission to Clinical Practice. An intensive field-based experience that includes observation, participation, and supervised teaching in a secondary classroom (grades 9-12) for sixty (60) full days. The clinical practitioner works with an Expanded SCTS 4.0 certified teacher and university supervisor to develop and implement an integrated curriculum that is designed to meet the social, emotional, physical, and cognitive needs of students in the classroom. The clinical practioner becomes a member of a teaching team that includes classroom teachers, special area teachers, staff, administrators, parents/guardians, community agencies, professional consultants, school volunteers, and students from diverse cultural backgrounds. Demonstrated proficiency in the four domains of the South Carolina Teacher Standards identified by the state-mandated Expanded SCTS 4.0 performance evaluation instrument is required. Professional seminars are required. Students are responsible for arranging their own transportation to designated or assigned sites. This course cannot be challenged. Note: An incomplete cannot be received. Counts for ELR credit. Directed Teaching fee required.
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EDUC 441 - Clinical Practice in the Middle Grades
(12 hour(s)) Prerequisites: Admission to Clinical Practice. An intensive field-based experience that includes observation, participation and supervised teaching in a middle grades classroom (grades 5-8) for sixty (60) full days (two placements of six weeks each). The clinical practitioner works with an Expanded SCTS 4.0 certified teacher and university supervisor to develop and implement an integrated curriculum that is designed to meet the social, emotional, physical, and cognitive needs of students in the classroom. The clinical practitioner becomes a member of a teaching team that includes classroom teachers, special area teachers, staff, administrators, parents/guardians, community agencies, professional consultants, school volunteers, and students from diverse cultural backgrounds. Demonstrated proficiency in the four domains of the South Carolina Teacher Standards identified by the state-mandated Expanded SCTS 4.0 performance evaluation instrument is required. Professional seminars are required. Students are responsible for arranging their own transportation to designated or assigned sites. This course cannot be challenged. Note: An incomplete cannot be received. Counts for ELR credit. Directed Teaching fee required.
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EDUC 442 - Clinical Practice in the Elementary and Secondary Schools
(12 hour(s)) Prerequisite: Admission to Clinical Practice. An intensive field-based experience in grades K-12 for music and physical education majors that includes observation, participation, and supervised teaching in elementary and secondary environments for sixty (60) full days. The clinical practitioner works with an Expanded SCTS 4.0 certified teacher and university supervisor to develop and implement an integrated curriculum that is designed to meet the social, emotional, physical, and cognitive needs of students in the classroom. The clinical practitioner becomes a member of a teaching team that includes classroom teachers, special area teachers, staff, administrators, parents/guardians, community agencies, professional consultants, school volunteers, and students from diverse cultural backgrounds. Demonstrated proficiency in the four domains of the South Carolina Teacher Standards identified by the state-mandated Expanded SCTS 4.0 performance evaluation instrument is required. Professional seminars are required. Students are responsible for arranging their own transportation to designated or assigned sites. This course cannot be challenged. Note: An incomplete cannot be received. Counts for ELR credit. Directed Teaching fee required.
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EDUC 443 - Topics in Teacher Education
(1 - 3 hour(s)) Prerequisite: EDUC 201 and permission of the Department Chair. An inquiry into a topic related to teacher education.
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SPED 361 - Instructional Strategies for Diverse Learners
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisite: EDUC 201 with a grade of “C” or better. A focus on the identification of various kinds of exceptionalities and techniques for individualizing instruction and managing students of various skills, abilities, socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds. Identification procedures, assessment measures, general program approaches, curriculum development theories, self-esteem strategies, and intervention techniques will be emphasized. Also included will be specific strategies for dealing with “at-risk” students. A 10-hour practicum is required. Students are responsible for arranging their own transportation to designated or assigned sites. This course cannot be challenged. Note: Offered: Fall and Spring. Counts for ELR credit.
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Engineering |
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ENGR 100 - Engineering Skills and Applications
(2 hour(s)) Corequisites: MATH 110 or equivalent. This course provides a reinforcement of the fundamental mathematical skills required in engineering. Real-world problems will be studied and analyzed through the use of in-class activities and hands-on experiments. This 2 credit course is intended for engineering students who are not-yet ready for calculus. Other STEM related majors are welcome to take this course. This course cannot be challenged.
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ENGR 101 - Introduction to Engineering
(3 hour(s)) Co-requisite: MATH 130. An overview of the engineering profession, disciplines, curricula, professional ethics, environmental and societal issues, design process, and current trends. Technical communication skills and problem-solving techniques are emphasized. Material is introduced through the use of readings, discussion, hands-on learning activities, projects, and field trips. This course cannot be challenged.
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ENGR 102 - Engineering Graphics
(3 hour(s)) Introduction to the fundamentals of engineering graphics. Includes basic sketching techniques, drawings, layouts, dimensioning, and modeling. Incorporates computer aided design software to model three-dimensional objects. This course may not be challenged. Note: Laboratory fee required.
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ENGR 201 - Statics
(4 hour(s)) Prerequisites: MATH 222, PHYS 203, and PHYS 203L ( grades of “C” or better ). A study of forces and force systems and their external effect on bodies, principally the condition of equilibrium of particles and rigid bodies. Includes a study of distributed forces, centroids and center of gravity, moments of inertia, analysis of simple structures and machines, and various types of friction. The techniques of vector mathematics are employed and the rigor of physical analysis is emphasized.
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ENGR 210 - Circuit Analysis I
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: MATH 222, PHYS 204, and PHYS 204L. A study of D.C. resistive circuits; Kirchoff’s Laws; independent and dependent sources; nodal and mesh analysis; superposition; Thevenin’s and Norton’s theorems; maximum power transfer; natural response of RC, RL, and RLC circuits; forced response of RC, RL, and RLC circuits; operational amplifiers; sinusoidal analysis and phasors.
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ENGR 211L - Circuits I Laboratory
(1 hour(s)) Prerequisites: MATH 222, PHYS 204, and PHYS 204L. Corequisite: ENGR 210 This course offers a hands-on study of the basic analog measurement devices, instrumentation, components, and circuits used in electrical engineering. Laboratory exercises are designed to supplement the material presented in the first electrical circuits course. This course cannot be challenged. Note: Laboratory fee required.
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ENGR 212 - Circuit Analysis II
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: MATH 351, ENGR 210 and ENGR 211 ( grades of “C” or better). A continuation of ENGR 210. A study of the frequency response of circuits. Includes AC power, three-phase circuits, frequency response, and active filters. The use of computer applications is employed to assist in the analysis and design of engineering problems.
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ENGR 213L - Circuits II Laboratory
(1 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGR 210 and 211. Corequisites: ENGR 212. This course offers a hands-on study of AC circuits, circuit transfer functions, and passive/active filters. Laboratory exercises are designed to supplement the material presented in the second electrical circuits course. This course cannot be challenged. Note: Laboratory fee required.
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ENGR 220 - Digital Systems
(3 hour(s)) Study of the fundamental building blocks of digital systems. Includes number systems, Boolean algebra, combinational logic networks, synchronous sequential networks, state machines, and their application to the design of more complicated digital devices. This course cannot be challenged.
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ENGR 221L - Digital Systems Laboratory
(1 hour(s)) Corequisites: ENGR 220. Hands-on study of the fundamental building blocks of digital systems. Laboratory exercises are designed to supplement the material presented in the digital systems course. This course cannot be challenged. Note: Laboratory fee required.
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ENGR 301 - Solid Mechanics
(4 hour(s)) Prerequisites: MATH 321 (grades of “C” or better) and ENGR 201 (grades of “C” or better). Concepts and theories of internal force, stress, strain, and strain energy. Behavior of linear elastic structures under static and impact loading conditions. Deflection, stress analysis, and failure modes for bars, beams, columns, thin-walled vessels, and shafts. Practical application and analysis through physical lab activities and software simulations. This course cannot be challenged. Note: Laboratory fee required.
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ENGR 302 - Dynamics
(4 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGR 201 and MATH 222 (grades of “C” or better). A continuation of ENGR 201. A study of kinematics of particles and rigid bodies, kinetics of particles with emphasis on Newton’s second law, energy and momentum methods for the solution of problems, and applications of plane motion of rigid bodies. Techniques of vector mathematics are employed. Practical application and analysis through physical lab activities and software simulations. This course cannot be challenged. Note: Laboratory fee required.
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ENGR 310 - Electronics
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGR 210 and ENGR 211 (grades of “C” or better). Study of the fundamentals of discrete semiconductor devices and basic electronic circuits. Includes semiconductors, diodes, transistors, op-amps, and electronic circuit applications. This course cannot be challenged.
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ENGR 311L - Electronics Laboratory
(1 hour(s)) Corequisite: ENGR 310. Hands-on study of the fundamentals of discrete semiconductor devices and basic electronic circuits. Laboratory exercises are designed to supplement the material presented in the electronics course. This course cannot be challenged. Note: Laboratory fee required.
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ENGR 320 - Embedded Applications
(4 hour(s)) Prerequisites: CSCI 235, ENGR 220 and ENGR 221 ( grades of “C” or better ). Study of embedded systems, components, and applications. Topics include microcontrollers, FPGAs, embedded programming, digital interface techniques, analog-to-digital and digital-to-analog converters, and peripheral interfacing. Laboratory activities are employed to assist in the design and implementation of embedded applications. Course project consists of the design and implementation of a fully functional embedded application. This course cannot be challenged. Note: Laboratory fee required. Counts for ELR credit.
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ENGR 325 - Signals and Systems
(4 hour(s)) Prerequisite: ENGR 210 (grade of “C” or better). Corequisite: MATH 351. Study of the fundamental representation and analysis of continuous-time and discrete-time signals and systems. Includes system models, time-domain and frequency-domain representations for discrete and continuous systems, Fourier analysis, and Laplace transforms. Practical application and analysis through physical lab activities and software simulations. This course cannot be challenged. Note: Laboratory fee required.
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ENGR 330 - Power Systems
(4 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGR 210 and ENGR 211 (grades of “C” or better). Study of power signals, systems, and their components. Includes complex power, three-phase systems, transmission lines, transformers, generators, and voltage control. Computer applications and laboratory activities are employed to assist in the study, analysis, and design of power systems. This course cannot be challenged. Note: Laboratory fee required.
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ENGR 340 - Electromagnetics
(4 hour(s)) MATH 321, ENGR 210 and ENGR 211 (grades of “C” or better). Study of the fundamental principles and applications of electromagnetics. Includes transmission lines, static electric and magnetic fields, time-varying electromagnetic fields, and Maxwell’s equations. Computer applications and laboratory activities are employed to assist in the study and analysis of electromagnetics. This course cannot be challenged. Note: Laboratory fee required.
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ENGR 341 - Thermal Fluids I
(4 hour(s)) Prerequisite: ENGR 302 (grades of “C” or better). Corequisite: MATH 351. Integrated development of the fundamental principles of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer. Thermodynamic properties of pure substances. Conservation laws for closed and open systems. Fluid statics, fundamentals of fluid dynamics. Introduction to heat transfer modes, with focus on conduction and radiation. Practical application through physical lab activities and computational simulations. This course cannot be challenged. Note: Laboratory fee required.
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ENGR 342 - Thermal Fluids II
(4 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGR 341 (grade of “C” or better). Principals and application of thermodynamics, heat transfer, and fluid mechanics. Laminar and turbulent internal fluid flow with losses. Laminar and turbulent external flows with lift and drag. Convection and multimode heat transfer. Phase change. 2nd Law of Thermodynamics and entropy. Systems and applications. Practical application through physical lab activities and computational simulations. This course cannot be challenged. Note: Laboratory fee required.
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ENGR 350 - Communication Systems
(4 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGR 325 (grade of “C” or better). Study of the fundamentals of analog and digital communication systems, components, and techniques. Includes transmitter and receiver components, coding methods, and modulation techniques. Computer applications and laboratory activities are employed to assist in the study, analysis, and design of communication systems. This course cannot be challenged. Note: Laboratory fee required.
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ENGR 360 - Control Systems
(4 hour(s)) Prerequisites: MATH 326, ENGR 325 (grades “C” or better). Study of the fundamentals of control systems, components, and techniques. Includes transient and steady-state responses, open-loop and closed-loop control, stability, modeling, root locus, and frequency response analysis. Computer applications and laboratory activities are employed to assist in the study, analysis, and design of control systems. This course cannot be challenged. Note: Laboratory fee required.
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ENGR 469 - Engineering Internship
(1-4 hour(s)) Prerequisites: Engineering major, 61 semester hours, 2.75 GPA, and permission of the department chairperson. Internships must provide the student with practical engineering experience. Minimum work hours and job responsibilities must be mutually agreed upon by the student, supervising professor, and agency involved, and then have approval of the department chair. In order to earn credit for this course, a work journal and project or paper must be completed and submitted to the supervising professor. This course cannot be challenged. Note: Note: Grading will be on a pass/fail basis. Counts for ELR credit.
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ENGR 470 - Engineering Internship
(1-4 hour(s)) Prerequisites: Engineering major, 61 semester hours, 2.75 GPA, and permission of the department chairperson. Internships must provide the student with practical engineering experience. Minimum work hours and job responsibilities must be mutually agreed upon by the student, supervising professor, and agency involved, and then have approval of the department chair. In order to earn credit for this course, a work journal and project or paper must be completed and submitted to the supervising professor. This course cannot be challenged. Note: Note: Grading will be on a pass/fail basis. Counts for ELR credit.
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ENGR 495 - Senior Project I
(1 hour(s)) Prerequisites: Permission of chair. The first in a project-based capstone series. Student teams will complete the design of a significant engineering project under the guidance of an assigned instructor. Projects require the assimilation of the skills, tools, techniques, and theory learned throughout the engineering program. Teams prepare a project proposal and conduct design reviews both in written and oral form. This course cannot be challenged. Note: Laboratory fee required. Counts for ELR credit.
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ENGR 496 - Senior Project II
(2 hour(s)) Prerequisite: ENGR 495 (grade of “C” or better). The last in a project-based capstone series. Student teams will complete the implementation and testing of the engineering project started in the first capstone course under the guidance of an assigned instructor. Projects require the assimilation of the skills, tools, techniques, and theory learned throughout the engineering program. Teams prepare a final report and present a defense of their project both in written and oral form. This course cannot be challenged. Note: Laboratory fee required. Counts for ELR credit.
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ENGR 497 - Senior Seminar
(1 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGR 495 (grade of “C” or better). This course reviews the fundamentals of engineering and prepares students to enter the engineering profession. Includes discussions from a Biblical perspective on professional and ethical responsibility, professional standards, lifelong learning, and service. This course cannot be challenged.
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English |
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ENGL 099 - Fundamentals of Writing and Mechanics
(4 hour(s)) Prerequisite: Admission to CSU through the Bridge Program or appropriate score on the English Placement Exam. For students who are deemed at risk in these areas of English, the course concentrates on development of practical writing skills, focusing on the writing process in development of essays, understanding of rhetorical strategies, and conventions of grammar and usage. This course emphasizes college level composition and is intended to facilitate transition into English 111. Minimum grade of “C” or better before matriculating from the Bridge program and/or to any other English course. This course may not be attempted more than twice. Students receive institutional credit only. This course may not be challenged. Note: 099 courses will be calculated in student GPAs but will not be included in the earned hours toward graduation (CSU students typically need 120 hours for graduation).
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ENGL 100 - English
(3 hour(s)) Designation reserved for elective credit received under the CLEP program.
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ENGL 111 - English Composition and Rhetoric
(3 hour(s)) A composition course designed to improve students’ informative, analytic and persuasive writing. Includes documentation and research. English Exit Examination given as final exam. This course may not be challenged.
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ENGL 111L - Grammar and Writing Workshop
(1 hour(s)) Corequisite: ENGL 111. Grammar and Writing Workshop consists of short lectures about various writing and grammar principles followed by small group workshops led by the instructor and Writing Center tutors. ENGL 111L is required as a corequisite of ENGL 111 for students who test into ENGL 111L. The course may be taken optionally at the recommendation of the student’s advisor. A passing grade in ENGL 111L is not required to pass ENGL 111. This course may not be challenged. Note: Grading is pass/fail.
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ENGL 112 - Composition with Introduction to Literature
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisite: ENGL 111. A continuation of English 111, with emphasis on introduction to literary study and writing about literature. Includes documentation and research. This course may not be challenged.
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ENGL 121 - Composition and Rhetoric I for Multilingual Writers
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: Regular admit in English. A course designed for non-native speakers of English to improve in writing ability, emphasizing theme writing based on the study of essays. Offered in lieu of ENGL 111 for ESL students. This course cannot be challenged.
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ENGL 122 - Composition and Literature for Multilingual Writers
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 121. A continuation of ENGL 121 with emphasis on writing based on the study of literature, including research writing. This course is designed for students who speak and write multiple languages and who consider English a secondary language. Offered in lieu of ENGL 112 for ESL students. This course cannot be challenged.
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ENGL 202 - Survey of American Literature
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111 and 112. A study of the principal authors from the Colonial Period to the present, including literature by women and minorities, with emphasis on advanced literary concepts, structures, and terminology. Students are also introduced to major contemporary literary theories.
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ENGL 203 - Survey of English Literature I
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111 and 112. A study of the principal authors from the Old English period to the eighteenth century with emphasis on advanced literary concepts, structures, and terminology. Students are also introduced to major contemporary literary theories.
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ENGL 204 - Survey of English Literature II
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111 and 112. A study of the principal authors from the end of the eighteenth century to the contemporary period with emphasis on advanced literary concepts, structures, and terminology. Students are also introduced to major contemporary literary theories.
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ENGL 250 - Workplace and Technical Writing
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111 and 112. This course is designed to introduce you to many of the basic writing tasks you will encounter in your professional career, including the composition of letters, memos, resumes, proposals, instructions, reports and web-based writings for specific audiences. This course may not be challenged.
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ENGL 251 - Introduction to Creative Writing - Fiction and Narrative
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111 and 112. An introduction to the basic principles of writing fiction and creative narratives. The course emphasizes the study of narrative forms and requires students write creative narratives and submit them to workshops. Students are expected to respond to peer works. This course may not be challenged. Note: Offered: Spring (even years)
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ENGL 252 - Introduction to Creative Writing - Poetry
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111 and 112. An introduction to the basic principles of writing poetry. The course emphasizes the study of prosody and poetic forms and requires students write creative poems and submit them to workshops. Students are expected to respond to peer works. This course may not be challenged. Note: Offered: Spring (odd years)
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ENGL 311 - Major American Writers to 1865
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, and 202. A study of American literature from the Colonial Period to 1865, focusing on such major authors as Franklin, Poe, Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Douglass, Melville, Whitman and Dickinson. This course may not be challenged.
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ENGL 312 - Major American Writers from 1865 to 1945
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112 and 202. A study of American literature from 1865 to the end of World War II, focusing on such major authors as Twain, James, Crane, Frost, Eliot, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and Hughes. This course may not be challenged.
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ENGL 313 - Major American Writers Since 1945
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, and 202. A study of American literature from the end of World War II to the present, focusing on such major authors as Lowell, Baldwin, Williams, Miller, O’Connor, Welty, Ellison and Plath. This course may not be challenged.
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ENGL 314 - Diversity in American Literature
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112 and 202. A study of the culturally diverse literary heritage of the United States from the colonial period to the present, especially focusing on African American, Native American, Hispanic, Asian American, and other authors from ethnic and immigrant backgrounds often overlooked in the traditional American canon. Authors studied may include Wheatley, Douglass, Hurston, Ellison, Morrison, Tan, Cisneros, and Momaday. This course may not be challenged. Note: Offered: Spring (even years)
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ENGL 317 - The Text: Forms, Methods and Concepts
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 202, 203 or 204 (Grade of “C” or better).
This course will explore the various formats of text. Specifically, informational text, imaginative text, and digital text. The course will not only examine text exemplars, but also how adolescents read, write and interact with texts. Counts toward English Education, Writing Emphasis elective and English minor.
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ENGL 318 - Adolescent Literature
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, and either ENGL 202, 203 or 204. A survey of literature appropriate to the needs, interests, and abilities of the middle and secondary school students. This course may not be challenged. Note: Adolescent Literature counts toward the major only for students in English Education. Offered: Fall.
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ENGL 319 - Creative Writing: Poetry
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 252 or any other 200 level English course. Creative writing workshop focused on the crafting of poetry. Students write and submit poems to workshops and respond to peer works. This course may not be challenged.
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ENGL 320 - Creative Writing: Narrative
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 251 or any other 200 level English course. Creative writing workshop focused on narrative prose. Students write and submit creative narratives to workshops and respond to peer works. This course may not be challenged.
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ENGL 333 - Advanced Composition and Rhetoric
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, and either ENGL 202, 203 or 204. A thorough study of grammar and the development of effective styles of writing through analysis and imitation of masters of English prose. This course may not be challenged. Note: Offered: Spring.
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ENGL 351 - The Romantic Movement
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, and 204. A study of the new creative spirit manifested in the poetry of Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, as well as minor poets of the age. This course may not be challenged.
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ENGL 352 - The Victorian Period
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, and 204. A study of English literature from 1832 to 1900 with emphasis on such major poets as Tennyson, Browning, Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and Hardy and on such major prose writers as Carlyle, Mill, Ruskin, Huxley, Eliot, and Wilde. This course may not be challenged.
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ENGL 353 - British Literature Since 1900
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112 and 204. A study of British and commonwealth literature since 1900 with emphasis on such major writers as Shaw, Conrad, Yeats, Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Aldous Huxley, Beckett, Auden, Orwell, Coetzee, Gordimer, and Munro. This course may not be challenged.
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ENGL 354 - Literary Criticism
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, and either ENGL 202, 203 or 204. A course in applied criticism of literary works – poetry, fiction, and drama, using the most commonly applied traditional and modern methods. This course may not be challenged. Note: Offered: Fall.
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ENGL 357 - Shakespeare
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, and ENGL 203. A study of Shakespeare’s major plays, including comedies, histories, and tragedies. This course may not be challenged. Note: Offered: Spring.
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ENGL 358 - Renaissance Literature
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, and 203. A study of English literature from 1500 to 1660 with emphasis on such writers as Spenser, Shakespeare (nondramatic poetry only), Marlowe, Donne, Jonson, Bunyan, and Milton. This course may not be challenged.
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ENGL 361 - The English Novel to 1900
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, and either ENGL 203 or 204. A study of representative novels by major British authors, such as Fielding, Austen, Scott, the Brontës, Dickens, George Eliot, and Hardy. This course may not be challenged.
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ENGL 362 - The Modern Novel
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, and either ENGL 202 or 204. A study of major novelists since 1900, including such writers as Conrad, Joyce, Wolfe, Hemingway, Faulkner, Camus, Garcia- Marquez and other major novelists. This course may not be challenged.
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ENGL 371 - Modern Drama
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, and either ENGL 202 or 204. A study of American, British, and Continental drama including such playwrights as Ibsen, Chekhov, Shaw, Synge, O’Neill, Pirandello, Brecht, Ionesco, and Beckett. This course may not be challenged.
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ENGL 400 - English Seminar
(1 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, 202, 203, and 204. Open to senior level English majors only (students with less than 91 hours will be admitted only by permission of the English chair). This is a capstone seminar required of all English majors. Students will be required to sit for the Major Fields Test in English (or other assessment exams), revise at least four papers originally submitted for upper division English for a portfolio, and discuss, research, and write about one major literary work. Furthermore, students will discuss graduate schools, professional opportunities, careers in education, and other post graduation possibilities. This course may not be challenged.
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ENGL 402 - Early English Literature
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, and 203. An introduction to the significant works, authors, and genres of Old and Middle English literature. Students read Old and Middle English texts when possible or modern translations to gain familiarity with the language, art, and style of the works. Background material provided on the life and times of the authors, for each period in particular and the Middle Ages in England and the Continent in general. Attention is also paid to the influence of author, work, style, or genre on English literature of later periods. This course may not be challenged.
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ENGL 405 - Women and Literature
(3 hour(s)) ENGL 111, 112, and either ENGL 202, 203 or 204. A study of the significant contributions of women to literature written in English, and a study of women’s themes and issues as presented in literature, criticism, and literary theory. Included are such writers as Anne Bradstreet, Mary Wollstonecraft, Jane Austen, Emily Dickinson, Edith Wharton, Virginia Woolf, and Toni Morrison. This course may not be challenged.
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ENGL 409 - Topics in Christianity and Literature
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, ENGL 112, and either ENGL 202, ENGL 203, or ENGL 204. An exploration of issues at the intersection of Christianity and literature. Versions of the course may focus on a particular genre (e.g. Spiritual Autobiography; Christianity and the Epic), theme (e.g. Faith and Doubt in Literature), theory (e.g. Christianity and Postmodern Literary Theory), or author(s) (e.g. Flannery O’Connor; C.S. Lewis and the Inklings).
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ENGL 410 - Theories and Applications of Grammar and Composition
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, and either ENGL 202, 203 or 204. A practical introduction to the theories of teaching grammar and composition and their applications in the classroom, with special emphasis on the structure and terminology of traditional grammar. This course may not be challenged. Note: Offered: Spring (even years)
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ENGL 411 - Southern Literature
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, and 202. An investigation of the literary achievement in the South from the Colonial period to the present with emphasis upon Jefferson, Simms, King, Chopin, Faulkner, Welty, Warren, O’Connor, Berry, and others. This course may not be challenged.
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ENGL 413 - History of the English Language
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, and either ENGL 202, 203 or 204. A survey of the English language from Indo-European backgrounds through Old and Middle to Modern English. Major changes in phonology and syntax examined in a historical/cultural context, with Modern English including dialects and new grammars. This course may not be challenged. Note: Offered: Fall.
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ENGL 420 - Writing Center Theory and Practice
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, ENGL 112, and either ENGL 202, ENGL 203, or ENGL 204 An introduction to peer tutoring in writing, including theory, observation, and practice. The course is intended primarily for, but not limited to, students who are interested in tutoring in the Writing Center. The course fulfills one hour of ELR credit. This course cannot be challenged. Note: ELR Credit
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ENGL 422 - Editing, Publishing, & The Literary Magazine
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisite(s): ENGL 202, 203, or 204; may be overridden with the chairperson’s approval. Work from many of our most celebrated writers first appeared in literary magazines. Take, for instance, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose earliest Sherlock Holmes stories appeared in Lippincott’s. Or T.S. Eliot, whose masterpiece “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” was first published in Poetry. From these creative greats to our contemporary masters, artists have always relied on literary magazines to connect with readers. The writers (and editors) of Charleston Southern take part in this rich tradition with the annual production of SEFER, our own undergraduate literary magazine. In this class, you will participate in all aspects of the editorial process, including soliciting submissions, evaluating work, proofreading, developmental editing, announcing both acceptances and rejections, and the marketing of the issue itself. Not only will you develop editorial skills useful for SEFER, but you will also gain a better understanding of literary publishing as a whole, particularly literary magazines and small press publishing. This course may not be challenged. Note: Counts for ELR credit.
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ENGL 425 - English Capstone
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, 202, 203, and 204. Open to senior level English majors only (students with fewer than 91 hours will be admitted only by permission of the English chair). This is a capstone seminar required of all English and English: Writing Emphasis majors. Through readings, writings, and experiential learning, students explore vocational possibilities for English majors, both specific post-graduation careers and general callings as lifelong readers and writers (especially considering the latter from a Christian perspective). Students demonstrate professional preparation through the Major Fields Test in English (or other assessment exams), submission of a writing portfolio, and completion of a project bearing one hour of experiential learning credit. This course replaces ENGL 400 for English and English: Writing Emphasis majors. This course cannot be challenged. Note: Offered: Spring.
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ENGL 436 - World Literature II: 1650 through the Present
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111 and ENGL 112, and either ENGL 202, ENGL 203 or ENGL 204. A survey of the major literary works of world literature with a focus on literature written from 1650 through the present. This course cannot be challenged.
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ENGL 448 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century Literature
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, and 203. A study of major English writers from 1660 to 1800, including such authors as Dryden, Congreve, Swift, Pope, Fielding, Johnson, Boswell, and Sheridan. This course may not be challenged.
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ENGL 452 - The Modern Short Story
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, and either 202 or 204. A study of modern short stories by such writers as Conrad, Chekhov, Mann, Joyce, Lawrence, Faulkner, Hemingway, and Borges. This course may not be challenged.
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ENGL 455 - Modern Poetry
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, and either ENGL 202 or 204. A study of British, American, and World poetry from the early twentieth century to the present day. Readings include the works of such poets as Hardy, Yeats, Eliot, Frost, Hughes, Neruda, Rilke, Szymborska, Heaney, and Walcott. This course may not be challenged.
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ENGL 469 - Internship in English
(1-3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, and either ENGL 202, 203 or 204; minimum GPA of 2.75; junior standing. Course may be taken twice for credit; all hours count as general electives only unless credit toward the major is approved by the chair. Internship requires supervised work in a professional setting that allows the student to apply reading, writing, editing, and critical skills; the required work hours are specified in the university internship policy. Students should consult advisors concerning available sites. This course may not be challenged. Note: Grading is on a pass/fail basis. Counts for ELR credit.
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ENGL 470 - Internship in English
(1-3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, and either ENGL 202, 203 or 204; minimum GPA of 2.75; junior standing. (1-3 hours) Prerequisites: ENGL 111, 112, and either ENGL 202, 203 or 204; minimum GPA of 2.75; junior standing. Course may be taken twice for credit; all hours count as general electives only unless credit toward the major is approved by the chair. Internship requires supervised work in a professional setting that allows the student to apply reading, writing, editing, and critical skills; the required work hours are specified in the university internship policy. Students should consult advisors concerning available sites. This course may not be challenged. Note: Grading is on a pass/fail basis. Counts for ELR credit.
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FINA 305 - Business Finance
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ACCT 210. Principles of managing capital in a business firm. This course cannot be challenged.
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FINA 315 - Risk Management and Insurance
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: FINA 305 (grade “C” or better). This course covers the principles of assessment, risk avoidance, and the nature of financial tools which may be used to shelter critical assets against loss. This course cannot be challenged.
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FINA 320 - Financial Planning for Professionals
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: BUSI 203. This course is the first of seven in the CFP® program that prepares students to take the CFP® exam. It provides an overview of the financial planning process including practice management and building client relationships. It introduces the fundamentals of income tax, investments, estate, retirement, and risk, management planning. It also introduces the legal and ethical standards of the financial planning profession. The Biblical principles of managing money are integrated throughout the course. This course cannot be challenged.
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FINA 327 - Intermediate Business Finance
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: FINA 305 (grade of “C” or better). Continuation of managing capital in a business firm. This course cannot be challenged.
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FINA 340 - Estate Planning
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisite: FINA 305 (grade of “C” or better). This course is one of seven in the CFP® program that prepares students to take the CFP® exam. Students learn the primary elements of estate planning from the perspective of a financial advisory professional. It focuses on the conservation and transfer of wealth, consistent with the goals of a financial planner’s clients. It is a study of the legal, tax, financial and non-financial aspects of this process. Students will develop a Biblical perspective of wealth and wealth transfer. This course cannot be challenged.
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FINA 437 - Entrepreneurial Finance
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ACCT 210 or permission of instructor. Principles of managing capital requirements in the small or family business. This course addresses techniques to successfully finance and sustain small firms and owner managed companies. Topics covered include the tools to maintain financial control and avoiding unique financial barriers that can damage the well being of the start-up enterprise. This course cannot be challenged.
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FINA 446 - Investments and Securities Analysis I
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: FINA 305 (grade of “C” or better) and ECON 224 or MATH 213. Techniques and theories used in analyzing securities. Selection, management, evaluation, and revision of portfolios. This course cannot be challenged.
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FINA 447 - Investments and Securities II
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisite: FINA 446 (grade of “C” or better). Instructor permission required. This course addresses the fundamentals of investing and security analysis by examining the various investments such as stocks, bonds, and mutual finds’ investments from the investor and analysis perspectives. The student will learn to use the appropriate asset class and investment vehicle based upon its risk and return characteristics and expected cash flow. Risk-return analysis techniques are discussed for assessment of investments to include identi’. measure, and differentiate between types of investment risks including systematic. unsystematic risk, interestrate risk, liquidity risk, credit risk, inflation risk, operating and financial risk, reinvestment-rate risk, exchange-rate risk, and political risk in a portfolio. This course is designed to provide students the opportunity to analyze, manage, and recommend stocks for financial portfolios: a. Students in the course will lead and assist in managing the Buccaneer Student Investment Fund b. Volunteer students will also lead and manage the “Buc Fund” This course cannot be challenged.
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FINA 450 - Retirement Savings and Income Planning
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisite: FINA 305 (grade of “C” or better). This course is one of seven in the CFP® program that prepares students to take the CFP® exam. Students learn the fundamentals of retirement planning from the perspective of a financial advisory professional. They learn to conduct a retirement needs analysis and to use the various government and private vehicles available to meet those needs. They learn the Biblical perspective of retirement. This course cannot be challenged.
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FINA 457 - Personal Finance Peer-to-Peer Coaching
(0-3 hour(s)) Prerequisite: BUSI 203. This course is created for peer-to-peer coaches in the Center for Personal Financial Management. The course is a hybrid course where classroom contact and in-class training compose 40 to 50% of curriculum, and 50 to 60% of class is spent on peer-to-peer counseling of students on financial matters and challenges. The students will receive training and resources for conducting financial matters coaching sessions. Counts for ELR credit. Students may take this course multiple times for credit hours not to exceed 3 hours. Students must apply and be accepted into the Center for Personal Financial Management Peer-to-Peer Coaching Program to be approved for this class. This course cannot be challenged. Note: Grading is on a pass-fail basis.
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FINA 460 - CKA® - CFP® Capstone in Financial Planning
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisite: FINA 320. This course is the last of seven courses in the CFP® program that prepares students to take the CFP® and the CKA® exam. This course will require students to synthesize and apply elements of comprehensive financial planning within a Biblical context. The course will require students to perform all functions of the financial planning process and apply the CFP Board’s Practice Standards. Additionally, this ocurse will satisfy the educational requirements for the Certified Kingdom Advisor, CKA® designation. This course cannot be challenged.
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FREN 110 - French for Today’s World I
(3 hour(s)) Corequisite: FREN 110L. A course designed to provide a foundation for understanding, speaking, reading and writing French. The focus on communication will provide the student with real situations in today’s world and the opportunity to learn how to respond in the language effectively. This class is to be taken with the mandatory one-hour weekly laboratory, French 110L.
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FREN 110L - French Culture
(0-1 hour(s)) Corequisite: FREN 110. A course designed to provide a foundation for understanding, speaking, reading and writing French. The focus on communication will provide the student with real situations in today’s world and the opportunity to learn how to respond in the language effectively. This class is to be taken with the mandatory one-hour weekly laboratory, French 110.
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FREN 120 - French for Today’s World II
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: FREN 110 or equivalent. Further development of essential speaking, listening, reading, and writing skills. Emphasis on verbal communication. This course cannot be challenged.
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FREN 201 - Intermediate French I
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisite: French 102 or equivalent. A course designed to strengthen and expand the foundation provided by French 101-102. Weekly laboratory requirement.
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FREN 202 - Intermediate French II
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisite: French 201 or equivalent. A course designed to strengthen and expand the foundation provided by French 101, 102, and 201. Weekly laboratory requirement.
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FREN 213 - French Literature in Translation
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisites: ENGL 111 and 112. The course is designed to familiarize students with prominent French writers from the Middle Ages to the present time. Various aspects of French society are discussed in conjunction with the readings. Among the authors to be read are Racine Corneille, Moliere, Voltaire, Balzac, Flaubert, Zola, and Camus. Conducted in English. This course cannot be challenged.
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FREN 311 - French Literature: Pre-18th Century
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisite: French 202 or equivalent. A general survey of French literature from its beginning to the eighteenth century; extensive readings, reports, and discussions in French. This course cannot be challenged.
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FREN 312 - French Literature: Post-18th Century
(3 hour(s)) Prerequisite: French 202 or equivalent. A general survey of French literature from the eighteenth century to the present; extensive readings, reports, and discussions in French. This course cannot be challenged.
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