May 04, 2024  
Fall 2021 Catalog 
    
Fall 2021 Catalog FINAL VERSION - Closed for Revisions

Course Descriptions



 

 

Educational Sustainability

  
  • EDSU 909 - Ethics of Care in a Sustainable Society


    Description:
    Ethics of care is a theory to guide education toward developing moral, empathetic citizens. Explore this theory and its application within sustainability education. Ethics of care will be applied in the development of education programs for vulnerable populations. Available for master’s program graduate credit as EDSU 709 .

    Prerequisites:
    Admission into the Ed.D. program

    3 cr.

  
  • EDSU 910 - Place-Based Approaches within the Global Community Context


    Description:
    Students will critically explore place-based approaches to decolonize and re-inhabit places in support of sustainable communities. Participants will identify local and global needs in relevant community contexts and determine resources to support place-based pedagogies in their programs, curriculum, or organizations. Students will connect local initiatives to global, interconnected challenges and solutions. Available for master’s program graduate credit as EDSU 710 .

    Prerequisites:
    Admission into the Ed.D. or Master’s program

    3 cr.

  
  • EDSU 911 - Global Environmental Change


    Description:
    In the age where we are facing unprecedented global and environmental issues, you will be able to articulate these issues from multiple perspectives integrating ecological, economic, and social aspects. You will also examine and assess the social movements that are underway to address global environmental issues. Available for master’s program graduate credit as EDSU 711 .

    Prerequisites:
    Admission into the graduate program of studies or Ed.D.

    3 cr.

  
  • EDSU 912 - Political Ecology and Sustainability


    Description:
    Explore the relationships between political, economic, social, and environmental aspects of contemporary sustainability issues. Learn multiple perspectives with regard to the preservation and management of the commons and research the political ecology of a locally relevant issue. Available for master’s program graduate credit as EDSU 712 .

    Prerequisites:
    Admission into the Ed.D. program

    3 cr.

  
  • EDSU 913 - Ecological Foundations for a Sustainable Society


    Description:
    Utilizing scientific and indigenous knowledge, explore and apply ecological principles for sustainability in social and economic systems. Human systems are also part of nature and ecological principles provide the foundation for long-term economic, civic, and social sustainability. Available for master’s program graduate credit as EDSU 713 .

    Prerequisites:
    Admission into the Ed.D. program

    3 cr.

  
  • EDSU 914 - Teaching and Learning in Alternative Educational Settings


    Description:
    Education for sustanability can occur inside and outside of formal schools. Design and implement strategies to develop sustainability-focused learning opportunities in business, community, recreation, and other alternative youth and adult settings. Available for master’s program graduate credit as EDSU 714 .

    Prerequisites:
    Admission into the Ed.D. program

    3 cr.

  
  • EDSU 915 - Creative and Innovative Technology Thinking in Educational Sustainability


    Description:
    This course will explore technological tools and frameworks used in societal and environmental meaning making of significance in our planet. Students shall explore from beginning to advanced level technologies in the field of Interactive Story Mapping (ISM), Remote Learning (RL), Location Intelligence (LI), Data Collection, Analysis, and Visualization (DCAV) among others. In this course, students will engage in hands-on project-based activities involving extractive thinking of solutions from examination of empirical data. Such thought processes will lead students to develop applications that reinforces understanding from the lens of United Nations Sustainability Development Goals (UNSDG). Available for master’s program graduate credit as EDSU 715 .

    Prerequisites:
    Admission into the Ed.D. program or Program Director Consent

    3 cr.

  
  • EDSU 918 - Research Literature


    Description:
    Engage in comprehensive reviews of current literature with topics, frameworks, and methods chosen for their dissertation projects.

    Prerequisites:
    Admission into the Ed.D. program

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Summer

    3 cr.

  
  • EDSU 919 - Applied Residency Project


    Description:
    Key topics include education for sustainability, learning organizations, case study methodology, and program evaluation. Key practices include applying interdisciplinary information, program development and evaluation, critical reflection, and critical and empathetic peer review. Applied research and place-based field study through an intense in-person summer program. May be repeated up to 3 times.

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Summer

    3 cr.

  
  • EDSU 920 - Research Publication


    Description:
    Draft proposals and dissertations for defense meetings and publication as part of fulfillment of dissertation projects. May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisites:
    Admission into the Ed.D. program

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall, Spring & Summer

    3-6 cr.

  
  • EDSU 940 - Adaptive Mindsets for Transformative Action


    Description:
    Implications of different mindsets for individuals, groups, and sustainability. Applying mindsets to learning, leadership, and personal fulfillment. Available for master’s program graduate credit as EDSU 740 .

    3 cr.

  
  • EDSU 990 - Special Topics in Educational Sustainability


    Description:
    Subtitle will designate area of course focus. May be repeated for credit with different subtitles.

    Prerequisites:
    Admission to Ed.D. Program

    3 cr.

  
  • EDSU 996 - Independent Study (in any strand)


    Description:
    Planned Study to supplement preparation in area of specialization; regular conferences with staff supervisor.

    Prerequisites:
    Admission into the Ed.D. program

    1-3 cr.


Engineering

  
  • ENGR 105 - Engineering Fundamentals


    Description:
    Designed to equip engineering students with the necessary tools and background information to prepare them to be successful engineering students as well as a successful practicing engineer. Topics include project management, team work, technical writing, working with data and using spreadsheets, creating presentations, engineering design, and a thorough understanding of the engineering profession.

    Prerequisites:
    MATH 95  or concurrent registration, or suitable math placement score

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Fall Only; Wausau: Fall Only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGR 107 - Engineering Graphics with Computer Aided Drafting


    Description:
    Engineering graphics focusing on graphical communication. Topics include descriptive geometry elements, visualization, engineering drawing techniques, orthographic projection, pictorial representation, auxiliary views, section views, and basic dimensioning. Incorporates computer aided drafting (CAD) with engineering applications using 2-D drawing and 3-D modeling techniques.

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Wausau: Spring Only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGR 111 - Solid Modeling and Design


    Description:
    Introduction to reverse engineering and three-dimensional design using industry standard solid modeling software.

    Prerequisites:
    ENGR 107  or Instructor Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Wausau: Occasionally

    1 cr.

  
  • ENGR 220 - Statics


    Description:
    Principles of mechanics, force systems, equilibrium, structures, distributed forces, moments of inertia of area, friction. For students in the pre-engineering curriculum. May not earn credit in both ENGR 220 and PHYS 220 .

    Prerequisites:
    MATH 225  or Instructor Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Fall Only; Wausau: Fall Only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGR 221 - Dynamics


    Description:
    Kinematics, force-mass-acceleration relationships, work and energy, impulse and momentum, moments of inertia of mass. For students in the pre-engineering curriculum. May not earn credit in both ENGR 221 and PHYS 221 .

    Prerequisites:
    Either PHYS 220  or ENGR 220 , and MATH 226 ; or Instructor Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Wausau: Spring Only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGR 222 - Mechanics of Materials


    Description:
    Stress and strain, torsion, bending of beams, compound stresses, principal stresses, deflection of beams, statically indeterminate members, columns, elastic buckling, fatigue, creep, impact, and concrete properties.

    Prerequisites:
    C or better in ENGR 220  or PHYS 220  

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Fall Only; Wausau: Fall Only

    4 cr.

  
  • ENGR 263 - Engineering Thermodynamics


    Description:
    First and second laws of thermodynamics; thermodynamic properties of real and ideal gases, vapors, and mixtures; analysis of power and refrigeration cycles.

    Prerequisites:
    One of the following: CHEM 105 , CHEM 117 , or PHYS 240 ; and MATH 227  (or concurrent registration); or Instructor Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Wausau: Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGR 294 - Internship in Engineering


    Description:
    An internship or service learning project partnering students with organizations in the community or on campus. Provides practical experience by applying knowledge and skills. May be repeated for a maximum of six credits.

    Prerequisites:
    At least four credits of prior engineering coursework and Instructor Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Wausau: As Needed

    1-3 cr.

  
  • ENGR 299 - Independent Study in Engineering


    Description:
    Independent study under the supervision of an instructor.

    Prerequisites:
    Instructor Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Wausau: Occasionally

    1-3 cr.


English

  
  • ENGL 90 - Academic Reading


    Description:
    An introduction to independent academic reading at a college level. Emphasizes strategies for increasing comprehension, varying reading rate, and developing critical reading skills. Focuses on assignments and activities that help students achieve the learning outcomes for first-year composition and other difficult reading-intensive courses that require students to write about nonfiction reading. Does not count toward a degree.

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Fall and Spring; Wausau: Fall and Spring

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 91 - College Reading and Study Strategies


    Description:
    A reading-intensive course that helps students develop effective strategies for reading textbooks and nonfiction texts, taking notes, studying for exams, and taking tests. Does not count toward a degree.

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Occasionally; Wausau: Occasionally

    1-3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 98 - Introduction to College Writing


    Description:
    A composition course focusing on the conventions of academic writing, the composing process, critical thinking, and critical reading. Emphasis will be on reading and writing activities designed to prepare students for successful transition to college-level writing. Does not count toward a degree.

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Fall Only; Wausau: Fall and Spring

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 99 - Writing Studio


    Description:
    A small group and individualized instruction course that helps students develop college-level writing and critical reading skills. Emphasizes writing process strategies. May be repeated for 3 credits max. Does not count toward a degree.

    Prerequisites:
    Concurrent registration with ENGL 98 , ENGL 101 , ENGL 202 , or another writing-intensive class

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Fall and Spring; Wausau: Fall and Spring

    1 cr. pass/fail

  
  • ENGL 101 - Freshman English


    Description:
    Critical reading, logical thinking, and effective writing. Write frequently in and out of class, using specific rhetorical strategies for a variety of purposes and audiences.

    Prerequisites:
    Admission to the main campus, admission to a branch campus with placement into English 101, or completion of ENGL 98  with a C or better

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: WC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Fall and Spring; Wausau: Fall and Spring

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 103 - The Myth of …


    Description:
    (Topic will be announced.) The origin and development of a particular myth as it is embodied in folk tales and/or drama, film, novels (e.g. the myth of the Great Lover, the Doctor, the Jew, the Politician). May apply 3 cr max of ENGL 103/ENGL 203 /ENGL 303  toward major/minor.

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 106 - Reading Fiction


    Description:
    An opportunity to read, discuss, and evaluate outstanding works of fiction.

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 108 - Reading Drama


    Description:
    Oral reading and discussion of one play a week (chosen by the class) from dramatic literature.

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU
    Associate: HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 150 - Advanced Freshman English


    Description:
    Research and writing using appropriate rhetorical strategies for students with potential for accelerated reading, writing, and research.

    Prerequisites:
    Satisfactory placement test score

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: WC
    Associate: EC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Fall Only; Wausau: Fall and Spring

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 157 - Independent Writing


    Description:
    Individualized program for writing improvement based on student needs and personal objectives, taught in conjunction with the Writing Laboratory. May be repeated for up to 3 credits among ENGL 157, ENGL 257 , ENGL 357 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    1 cr. pass/fail

  
  • ENGL 190 - Special Topics in First Year English


    Description:
    Designed to cover topics which cannot be accommodated in usual course formats or by other courses. Topics, which will be specified in the campus course schedule, may include freshman literature, readings in selected disciplines (e.g., readings in the sciences or the social sciences), or introduction to the English major. May be repeated for credit with different subtitles.

    Prerequisites:
    C or better in ENGL 98 , or placement into ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Associate: HC

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Occasionally; Wausau: Spring terms of even years

    1-3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 200 - Introduction to the Study of Literature


    Description:
    Study of literature, emphasizing development of critical vocabulary, recognition of various forms of literature, and rudimentary analysis of selected works.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU
    Associate: HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Fall terms of odd years; Wausau: Fall terms of odd years

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 201 - Introduction to Literary Study for the English Major


    Description:
    Major literary genres in their cultural and historical contexts emphasizing development of interpretive and communicative skills necessary to join effectively in the discussion of and writing about literature.

    Prerequisites:
    Declared English major, and completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 202 - Sophomore English


    Description:
    Analytical reading and writing and the methods of inquiry common to various academic disciplines. Write frequently in and out of class, using suitable sources of information and appropriate documentation methods.

    Prerequisites:
    ENGL 101  or equivalent

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: WC
    Associate: EC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall, Spring, and Summer

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Fall and Spring; Wausau: Fall and Spring

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 203 - Myth of …


    Description:
    Topic will be announced. See ENGL 103 .

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 205 - Literary Magazines


    Description:
    Study contemporary literary magazines, including national and student publications produced in print and online. Students collaborate to produce their own literary publication(s). May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150    

    General Education Designation(s):
    Associate: CCT

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Occasionally; Wausau: Occasionally

    1-3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 211 - English Literature I


    Description:
    Emphasis on major writers from Beowulf through pre-Romantics, stressing insight into their works.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU
    Associate: HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 212 - English Literature II


    Description:
    Emphasis on major writers from Romantics to the present, stressing insight into their works.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU
    Associate: HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Wausau: Fall terms of odd years

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 213 - American Literature I


    Description:
    Representative works by American writers up to 1865.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU
    Associate: HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Wausau: Fall terms of odd years

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 214 - American Literature II


    Description:
    Representative works by American writers since 1865.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU
    Associate: HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Occasionally; Wausau Spring terms of odd years

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 240 - Introduction to Linguistics


    Description:
    Fundamental concepts and methods of the scientific study of languages in their structural, historical, and geographical aspects.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall Only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 248 - Introduction to Environmental and Science Writing


    Description:
    Read and produce environmental/science writing such as creative nonfiction prose, natural history essay, news report, investigative journalism report, popular magazine/newspaper feature, pedagogical articles. Introductory readings in the rhetoric and ideology of science writing, eco-criticism, social/environmental justice, ethics of science, history of environmental/science writing.

    Prerequisites:
    Freshman English or Instructor Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall Only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 250 - Intermediate Composition


    Description:
    Practice in exploratory, expository, and persuasive discourse.

    Prerequisites:
    Successful completion of freshman English, or Department Consent

    General Education Designation(s):
    Associate: EC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Occasionally; Wausau: Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 253 - Introduction to Creative Writing


    Description:
    Training and practice for the beginning writer in various forms of poetry and fiction; class discussion of student work.

    Prerequisites:
    ENGL 98 , or placement into either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: ART
    Associate: CCT

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Occasionally; Wausau: Fall and Spring

    1-3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 254 - Introduction to Technical Writing


    Description:
    Introductory training and practice in workplace writing for business, industry, office, lab. With the understanding that writing is shaped by workplace culture and ethics, produce a wide range of written texts including emails, memos, job application materials, grant proposals, formal reports, and manuals.

    Prerequisites:
    Freshman English or Instructor Consent

    General Education Designation(s):
    Associate: EC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Spring terms of odd years; Wausau: Spring terms of odd years

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 257 - Independent Writing


    Description:
    Same as ENGL 157 .

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    1 cr. pass/fail

  
  • ENGL 260 - Computer Aids for English Studies


    Description:
    Introduction to uses of computer software in the study of English language and literature. 4 wk module for English majors/minors.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    1 cr.

  
  • ENGL 274 - Literature for Early Childhood


    Description:
    Read, select, and present materials suitable for children, preschool through grade 3. (See Note 4 .)

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 275 - Children’s Literature


    Description:
    Read, select, and present materials suitable for elementary school readers. (See Note 4 .)

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Associate: HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Fall terms of odd years; Wausau: Fall terms of odd years

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 277 - Film Studies


    Description:
    An exploration of some aspect, theory, problem, or distinctive variety of film, particularly narrative film. Emphasis may be upon the history of a genre, a single artist, or the distinctive character of the medium in comparison to drama or narrative fiction. May be repeated for credit with different subtitles.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150    

    General Education Designation(s):
    Associate: HC

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Spring Only; Wausau: Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 278 - Asian American Literature


    Description:
    An introduction to writing by Asian American authors from the late 19th century to the present, with attention to the historical, political, and cultural contexts of the literature. All texts in English, either originally or in translation.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 279 - Chicano and Chicana Literature


    Description:
    An introduction to writing by Chicano and Chicana (Mexican American) authors from 1846 to the present with attention to the historical, political, and cultural contexts of the literature. All texts in English, either originally or in translation.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 280 - American Indian Literature


    Description:
    Literature about the American Indian from oral and written materials by Native American authors and other American writers.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU, USD

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Occasionally; Wausau: Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 282 - Black Literature


    Description:
    Critical study of works by black writers (e.g., Americans, Africans, West Indians).

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU, USD

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Wausau: Fall terms of odd years

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 283 - Mythology in Literature


    Description:
    The basic myths of creation, the flood, man’s fall, Olympians and their Roman counterparts, and stories of myth and history that form the basis of literary expression of Western culture; emphasis on Graeco-Roman, Judeo-Christian, and Norse myths, as they appear in selected poetry, novels, and plays.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 284 - Introduction to Ethnic Literature in the United States


    Description:
    Introduction to ethnic literature in the U.S. including works by African, Asian, Native American, and Latino writers. Explore how these works address basic issues of race, ethnicity, and cultural identity in a diverse society.

    Prerequisites:
    English Major, and completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Associate: ES, HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Spring terms of odd years; Wausau: Spring terms of odd years

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 285 - Women in Literature


    Description:
    Examine literature to determine how women are depicted in Western cultural tradition, how images of women have developed and been perpetuated, and how they shape a woman’s sense of who she is and a man’s idea of what she should be.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU, USD
    Associate: HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 286 - Literature and Film


    Description:
    Introduction to theories and concepts of narrative, language, and culture through examination of various prose fiction texts and their film adaptations.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bacehlor: ART
    Associate: HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    Typically Offered on the Branch Campuses:
    Marshfield: Occasionally; Wausau: Spring terms of odd years

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 287 - Gay and Lesbian Literature


    Description:
    Introduction to a variety of literary representations of same-sex relationships, belonging to different genres and taken from different cultures and historical periods, in order to discuss how the meanings of and attitudes toward such relationships are culturally variable rather than constant.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU, USD

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 288 - Literature of Human Love and Sexuality


    Description:
    Literature of love, using representative works and authors from various cultures and times such as Lysistrata, the Song of Solomon, Ovid, Chaucer, Donne, Swift, DeSade, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 289 - Popular Literature


    Description:
    Close reading of selected topics with general appeal such as frontier literature, sports literature, speculative fiction, mystery literature. Subtitle will designate area. May be repeated for credit with different subtitles.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of either ENGL 101  or ENGL 150  

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bacehlor: HU
    Associate: HC

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 291 - Writing Tutor Seminar


    Description:
    Introduces students to concepts in writing studies with emphasis on writing center pedagogy. Includes practice and application of skills as students learn to serve as writing center tutors.

    Prerequisites:
    Successful completion of ENGL 202  or Instructor Consent

    General Education Designation(s):
    Associate: EC

    1-3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 303 - The Myth of…


    Description:
    Topic will be announced. See ENGL 103 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 308 - Reading Drama


    Description:
    Oral reading and discussion of one play a week from dramatic literature.

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 309 - Forms and Modes in Literature


    Description:
    Selected works of several writers that are examples of a form or mode, such as the parable in modern literature. Subtitle will designate area. May be repeated for credit with different subtitles. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 509 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    1-3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 310 - Modern Short Story


    Description:
    Representative short stories of world literature with emphasis on literary structure, form, and theme.

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 311 - English Novel (British)


    Description:
    English novels from (a) early 1700s to 1880 including Defoe, Fielding, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, and George Eliot; or (b) 1880 to the present including Hardy, Joyce, Conrad, Lawrence, Woolf, and Lessing. May take once for each period. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 511 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall and Spring

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 312 - Modern Drama


    Description:
    Representative dramas of world literature from Ibsen to the present; emphasis on literary structure, form, and theme. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 512 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 313 - American Novel


    Description:
    American novels from (a) late 1700s to 1900 including Hawthorne, Melville, James, and Twain; or (b) 1900 to the present, including Wharton, Hemingway, Cather, Faulkner, and Bellow. May take once for each period. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 513 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 314 - Modern Poetry


    Description:
    Study of 20th century poetry beginning with works of Yeats, Pound, and Eliot. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 514 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 319 - The Novel since 1850


    Description:
    Representative novels of world literature from a variety of cultures with emphasis on literary structure, form and theme. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 519 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 320 - American Realism and Naturalism


    Description:
    Theory and development of realism and naturalism from 19th century to present. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 520 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 321 - English Literature to 1485


    Description:
    Development of English poetry and prose, excluding Chaucer, from Anglo-Saxon through late medieval periods. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 521 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 323 - British Literature Before 1790, Excluding Drama


    Description:
    Development of poetry and prose from (a) 1485-1660 including More, Sidney, Marlowe, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Jonson; or (b) from 1660-1790 including Dryden, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Sam Johnson, Goldsmith. May take once for each period. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 523 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall Only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 324 - Romantic Movement (British)


    Description:
    Development of romanticism in English poetry and prose, its theory and creation, also survey of pre-Romantic Movement. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 524 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall Only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 325 - Victorian Literature (British)


    Description:
    Works revealing the crisis of the individual in an age torn by conflicting values. Major poets and essayists including Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Carlyle, Newman, and Ruskin. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 525 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 327 - Victorian Literature in Transition (British)


    Description:
    Development of the modern spirit in such writers as Hardy, Conrad, Ford, Shaw, Yeats, and the Aesthetes and Decadents. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 527 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 328 - Modernism


    Description:
    Theories and practices of “Modernism” (approx. 1900-1940). Emphasis on literary texts belonging to different genres with discussions including examples from other media (visual arts, music, performance, etc.) in an international context. Formal innovations as well as philosophical, psychological, and sociological preoccupations of several Modernist writers and artists will be covered. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 528 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 329 - The American Renaissance


    Description:
    American literary renaissance of mid-19th century with works of Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Melville, and Whitman. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 529 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: HU

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 330 - Chaucer (British)


    Description:
    Emphasis on the Canterbury Tales and their historical, social, linguistic background. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 530 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 333 - Shakespeare (British)


    Description:
    Early plays. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 533 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall Only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 334 - Shakespeare (British)


    Description:
    Tragedies and later plays. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 534 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall And Spring

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 336 - Milton (British)


    Description:
    Milton’s poetry and selected prose. Growth of a writer in his historical milieu. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 536 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 339 - Book and Publication Design


    Description:
    Study the art and application of book and publication design. Use Adobe InDesign Publishing Suite to create layouts, covers, and other book materials. Edit, design, market, and sell at minimum one book acquired by Cornerstone Press.

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 340 - Language, Gender, and Sexuality


    Description:
    Introduction to relationships, in theory and in practice, among language, gender, and sexuality. Surveys the major theories of gender and language in linguistics; questions received notions of what gender is and how it and language are interconnected; and examines the relationship between language and sexuality as expressed in both sexual identity/orientation and sexual behaviors.

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 341 - Invented Languages


    Description:
    Study of invented or constructed languages, such as Esperanto, or others such as Star Trek’s Klingon, in order to understand the building blocks of any language, natural or invented: phonology (sound system), morphology (word structure), syntax (sentence structure), lexicon (vocabulary), semantics (meaning), pragmatics (intent), and orthography (written form) of language. Creates a basic language, incorporating the appropriate structural elements.

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 342 - English Grammars


    Description:
    Survey of major methods of language analyses that have been applied to English since the 18th century; traditional, structural, and transformation-generative. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 542 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 343 - Sociolinguistics: Language and Dialects of the U.S.


    Description:
    An examination of the languages and different varieties of English spoken in the United States. Various factors are considered in reviewing current patterns of language diversity, including region, socioeconomic level, gender, ethnicity, language contact, language attitudes, and education. U.S. language policies are also examined.

    Prerequisites:
    One of the following: ENGL 240 , ENGL 342 , ENGL 345 , CSD 266 , FREN 420 , GERM 420 , or SPAN 420 ; or Instructor Consent

    General Education Designation(s):
    Bachelor: SS, USD

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 344 - History of the English Language


    Description:
    Development of English sounds, spelling, inflection, syntax, vocabulary, and dialects from Old English to the present. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 544 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall Only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 345 - English Language for Teachers


    Description:
    Overview of history and structure of English and conventions of standard written English. Includes contemporary approaches to teaching grammar, usage, punctuation. Required for teacher certif. English majors/ minors. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 545 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 346 - Old English


    Description:
    Introduction to Old English language and literature. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 546 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 347 - Grant and Proposal Writing


    Description:
    Invention and delivery of grants and proposals in the business, scientific, technical artistic, and educational arenas. Opportunity to write a grant proposal for a campus or community-based organization. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 547 .

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of Freshman English requirement

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall Only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 348 - Advanced Environmental and Science Writing


    Description:
    Produce a single well-researched popular or educational article related to science or the environment and prepare it for submission to a juried publication. Also, readings in the rhetoric and ideology of science writing, eco-criticism, social/environmental justice, ethics of science, history of environmental/science writing. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 548 .

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of Freshman English requirement and ENGL 248 , or Instructor Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Occasionally

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 349 - Editing and Publishing


    Description:
    Writing, editing, and preparing materials for publication, including consideration of reader/editor appeal, and ways to market manuscripts. [Editor’s note: The class must find a manuscript, produce and sell a book.] Available for graduate credit as ENGL 549 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 350 - Creative Nonfiction


    Description:
    Art of nonfiction writing using literary devices to write about true events. The course explores creative nonfiction forms and includes class discussion of student work.

    Prerequisites:
    Either ENGL 250  or ENGL 253 , Instructor Consent, or Department Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring Only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 351 - Advanced Business Writing


    Description:
    Examine methods of audience analysis and strategies to shape effective written business communication. Available for graduate credit as ENGL 551 .

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall, Spring, And Summer

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 352 - Writing for Digital Media


    Description:
    Digital writing for online content creation such as blogs, web content, social media, advertising, and feature writing.

    Prerequisites:
    Completion of the GEP Written Communication requirement or Instructor Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Fall Only

    3 cr.

  
  • ENGL 353 - Advanced Creative Writing


    Description:
    Intensive study in writing various forms of poetry or fiction; class discussion of student work. May take max 9 cr with 6 cr max under one focus. (Poetry or Fiction) Available for graduate credit as ENGL 553 .

    Prerequisites:
    ENGL 253 , Instructor Consent or Department Consent

    Typically Offered on the Main Campus:
    Spring and Fall

    1-3 cr.

 

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