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EGR 384 - Human Factors and Ergonomics
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
Physiological systems and psychological characteristics; ergonomics; anthropometry; effects of the physical environment on humans; occupational safety and health; work methods.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
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EGR 386 - Operations Research ll: Probabilistic Methods
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
An introduction to ordinary differential equations is complemented with the tandem presentation of elementary linear Stochastic processes; Markov chains; queuing theory and queuing decision models; probabilistic inventory models.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 305
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EGR 390 - Internship
Units: 1
When Offered: As offered
A required internship with industry, research, non profit or other experience with a minimum of 200 hours of supervised work. A learning contract signed by the student and supervisor is required at the beginning and an executive summary written by the student and signed by the supervisor is required at completion.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 306
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EGR 392 - Engineering Seminar II
Units: 1
When Offered: Spring
Different speakers of importance to the engineering profession will make presentations. Included are area engineering leaders and professionals as well as nationally recognized contributors to the profession of engineering. Short reflection papers are required and will be included in your electronic portfolio. May serve as EGR 192 credit for upper division transfer students.
Repeatable: May be repeated for credit
Grade Type: Letter Grade
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EGR 400 - Special Topics in Engineering
Units: 1-3
When Offered: As offered
This course offers a concentration upon a specific topic in the field of engineering. The topic varies by semester.
Repeatable: May be repeated for a maximum of eighteen (18) units with change in topic
Grade Type: Letter Grade
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EGR 401 - Capstone Design
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall
The first of a two course senior capstone design sequence. Various design topics may be discussed including equipment design, the design of process systems, and economics. Student teams select a project which may involve company sponsorship, and proceed through the design methodology introduced in earlier design classes, incorporating appropriate engineering standards and multiple realistic constraints. Every project has a ‘customer’ which requires the generation of a customer spec. During the sequence students provide detailed schedules for building a prototype system or designing a process and present weekly progress reports. They also produce technical specifications, undergo a preliminary design review (PDR), and build a working prototype system if appropriate.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 302 or 352
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EGR 402 - Capstone Design and Presentation
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
A continuation of EGR 401 - Capstone Design . Further development of the project will take place and will involve testing as appropriate. Teams will develop proper documentation for their projects and will appropriately communicate and present the results of their project. A final presentation is given to the public which could include members of the engineering advisory council. The presentation will be recorded and included as a part of students’ senior portfolios.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 401
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EGR 403 - FE Exam
Units: 1
When Offered: Fall
A review course for the Fundamentals of Engineering Exam or an equivalent exam for the programs within the College of Engineering. Review topics may be tailored to fit the needs of the various programs. Exam policies and test-taking strategies may be covered.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): Senior status
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EGR 405 - Internship Report and Presentation
Units: 1
When Offered: Fall, Spring
An executive summary of your summer intern experience, signed by your supervisor will be submitted the first day of class. A PowerPoint presentation to the entire class and evaluated by your professors and peers will be made. A video of your presentation will be made and feedback will be provided.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): Permission of the Department Chair
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EGR 423 - Mobile Applications Development
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall
Investigation of mobile operating systems and associated software development environments. Consideration of unique constraints and techniques for creating software designed for mobile devices. Design and development of a mobile application.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 325 and 327
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EGR 424 - Web Application Development
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
The design and development of data driven web applications. The integration and exploitation of HTML, JavaScript, server-side programming languages and database technology.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 325
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EGR 425 - Real Time and Embedded Development
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
Focus on Programming real-time applications on an embedded platform running a real-time operating system (RTOS). Consideration will be given to cross-compiled software development, embedded system debugging, multitasking, real-time scheduling, inter-task communication, software design for deterministic execution time, software performance analysis and optimization, device drivers.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 222 and 329
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EGR 427 - Software Project Management
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall
Project planning, cost estimation and scheduling. Project management tools. Analysis of options and risks. Release and configuration management. Software process standards and process implementation. Approaches to maintenance and long-term software development.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 222
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EGR 431 - Control Systems
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
Analog control system modeling, analysis, and design using root locus and frequency response methods. Introduction to state variable methods and digital control. Includes lab projects on real-time control systems. MATLAB and SIMULINK are used extensively as design tools.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 331
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EGR 432 - Applied Electromagnetics
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
Vector description of the electric and magnetic properties of free space (using the laws of Coulomb, Ampere, and Faraday). Maxwell’s electromagnetic field equations. Wave propagation in unbounded regions, reflection and refraction of waves, and transmission lines and antennas.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 232 , MAT 343 , and PHY 203
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EGR 433 - Power Electronics
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall
Introduction to the power electronic systems, power controls, switching circuits; power converter topologies and magnetic components including AC/DC, DC/DC, DC/AC converters and their applications.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 334 and 431
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EGR 434 - Robot Modeling and Control
Units: 3
When Offered: As offered
Introduction to fundamentals of robotics. Topics include coordinate frames and transformations, forward and inverse positional kinematics, velocities and Jacobians of linkages, dynamics, sensors and actuators, path planning, robot control methodologies. Special topics such as teleoperation, haptics or computer vision will be introduced. Includes lab problems.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 431
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EGR 435 - Advanced Digital System Design Using FPGAs
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall
Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) have become a popular method of implementing digital electronic designs. Introduction to FPGA integrated circuit structure, concepts, programming, and user designs by way of lecture and laboratory. Thorough treatment of the Verilog Hardware Description Language (HDL) and Xilinx design software plus development boards, in a learn-by-doing approach, via simulation and actual implementation plus testing. Students are taught design building blocks in ever increasing complexity, first combinational blocks then sequential. For example: multiplexors, decoders, counters, state-machines, UARTS and finally an imbedded microcontroller.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 322
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EGR 437 - Digital Signals and Systems
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall
This course focuses on the representation and analysis of discrete-time signals and systems, and also provides an introduction on digital signal processing. Topics covered include convolution sum, difference equations, discrete-time Fourier Series and Fourier Transform, z-Transform, sampling and reconstruction, DFT, FFT, digital FIR and IIR filters.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 331
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EGR 441 - Heat Transfer
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
Steady and unsteady heat conduction including numerical solutions, forced and natural convection in external and internal flows, thermal radiation properties and exchange between surfaces, introduction to heat exchangers, and boiling and condensation are covered.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 341
Pre- or Co- Requisite(s): EGR 342
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EGR 442 - Computer-Aided Engineering Design and Visualization
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
Design, analysis and visualization of engineering components and systems using interactive computer programs with emphasis on computer simulation.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 242
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EGR 443 - Mechanical Vibrations
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
The theory and analysis of vibrating systems including single and multi-degrees of freedom, free and forced, vibrations, with and without damping.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 343 and 382
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EGR 444 - Mechanical Engineering Laboratory
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
Measurement of fluid flow, heat transfer, power and other properties of mechanical equipment. Design of experiments, use of data acquisition systems, date reporting and presentation.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 305 and 441
Pre- or Co- Requisite(s): EGR 443
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EGR 445 - Thermal Design of Heat Exchangers
Units: 3
When Offered: As offered
This course covers the topics of classification of heat exchangers, design methods, single-phase convection correlations and two phase-correlations, pressure drop calculations, and fouling of heat exchangers. Study of various types of heat exchangers are also discussed, such as double pipe heat exchangers, shell-and-tube heat exchanger, compact heat exchangers, plate heat exchangers, condensers, and evaporators.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 371 or 441
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EGR 446 - Aerodynamics
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
This course will introduce students the topic of gas dynamics and concepts of lift, drag, and pitching moment. The course will also cover the topics of potential flow, mechanics of laminar and turbulent flow, boundary-layer theory, and applications to wings and turbo-machinery. Numerical analysis will also be utilized in design analysis and problem solving.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
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EGR 447 - Mechanics of Composite Structures
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall
This course will introduce students to the fiber-reinforced composite materials and structures with emphasis on numerical analysis. Topics covered in this course will include composite micromechanics and failure criteria, design considerations for structures made of composite materials, and the overview of fabrication process and experimental characterization.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 242
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EGR 448 - Propulsion
Units: 3
When Offered: As offered
This course will introduce students to the topic of propulsion, stationary power production with gas turbine engines, and reciprocating engines. Air-breathing propulsion is emphasized, with a brief treatment of rocket propulsion. It also includes the application of thermodynamic and fluid-mechanical principles to analysis of performance and design with numerical methods.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
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EGR 451 - Project and Construction Management
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall
An introduction to professional construction management practice including contracts, addendums, bonds, design-build, bids, specifications, scheduling, and other legal issues.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior status
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EGR 452 - Structural Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
The course will focus on the analysis of the dynamic response of structural systems. Students will be introduced to the basic concepts of seismology and structural dynamics including the evaluation of structural response to earthquake motions. We will also discuss the seismic design procedure in building codes used in the United States. This will enable students to have a better understanding of dynamic behavior of structural systems under earthquakes. Students will also use their knowledge of seismic design to prepare the Professional Engineer’s (PE) examination, which is a mandatory section in California.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 351 and 343
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EGR 453 - Environmental Engineering I
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall
Introductory study of water treatment and supply, wastewater collection and treatment common to rural and metropolitan areas. Laboratory principles and methods related to safety, sampling, data analysis, and measurement of selected physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of water and wastewater are introduced. Field trips are required.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): Senior status
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EGR 454 - Environmental Engineering II
Units: 3
When Offered: As offered
Introductory study of solid and hazardous waste management and air pollution control. Study of solid and hazardous waste properties, sources, composition, magnitude, and regulations. Engineered solid waste management functional elements will be introduced. Landfilling methods including siting and modern landfill designs will be studied. Introduction to air pollution sources, quality, meteorology, atmospheric dispersion modeling, and control methods. Field trips are required.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 453
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EGR 455 - Structural Design II
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall
Principles of the design of reinforced concrete structures. Design includes flexural members, compression members, one-way slabs and footings. ACI Strength Design Method.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 352
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EGR 456 - Sustainable Civil Engineering
Units: 3
When Offered: As offered
This course will focus on applying the principles and practices necessary such that planning, design, and construction of a project can be sustainable technically, economically, and environmentally. Students will carefully examine scientific, economic, energy, political, ethical, and regulatory principles by evaluating two actual case studies-one in a developed country; one in a developing country.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 256
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EGR 457 - Transportation Engineering
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall
Introduction to transportation engineering with an emphasis on highway design. Topics include transportation demand and planning, aerial photography, environmental impact statements, horizontal and vertical alignment, earthwork, volumes, and design of flexible and rigid pavements, and batteries.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): Junior or Senior status
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EGR 458 - Water Resources Engineering
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
A continuation and extension of Fluid Mechanics with civil engineering applications of hydraulic and hydrologic engineering. Applications of the concepts from Fluid Mechanics (hydrostatics, conservations laws), analyses of pipe flows, pipe networks, hydraulic machinery, hydroelectric power, pressure conduits, reservoirs and dams, and open channel flow are covered.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 342 and 356
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EGR 459 - Advanced Transportation Engineering
Units: 3
When Offered: As offered
Advanced transportation engineering with an emphasis on the design, construction, maintenance and rehabilitation of highway pavements, airport pavements, railroads, traffic engineering, sustainable transportation systems. The course will cover topics like transportation material characterization, pavement structural design, pavement damage (distress) prediction, airport pavement design specifications, railroad sub-structure design, traffic forecasting, and building sustainable transportation infrastructure.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 251
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EGR 461 - Rehabilitation Engineering
Units: 3
When Offered: As offered
The course provides a basic understanding of assistive technology research and application in: wheelchair technology, augmentative communication, computer access, home and work site modifications, environmental access, and prosthetics. Course also includes a focus on novel prosthetic materials.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 242
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EGR 462 - Biomaterials I: Fundamentals of Concepts
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
The course provides students with a fundamental understanding of the material selection process required in engineering for medical applications. Materials to be covered include both short-exposure, such as surgical tools and catheters, and long-exposure, such as implants and shunts. Topics to be included are: the manufacturing process, performance characteristics, biocompatibility testing, and long-term biological response such as tissue formation and fibrosis. Relevant design considerations will be discussed, including common medical device standards relating to biomaterials testing and performance.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 382, CHE 115, and 115L
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EGR 463 - Biomaterials II: Polymers for Biomedical Applications
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall
The course provides students with a fundamental understanding of the soft material science and technology required in engineering for medical applications such as cardiovascular, bones and joint, intraocular lenses, artificial kidney, surgical sutures, tissue ingrowth polymers, and controlled release of drugs. Topics to be included are: polymeric materials for advanced technology, thermoplastics, elastomers, thermosets, nanocomposites, and biopolymers. This course also includes the emerging areas of technological growth such as separation, nanomedicine, and biotechnology. Recent examples from the literature will be used to illustrate technologically relevant materials in current nano-biotechnology.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): CHE 115 , 115L , EGR 242 , and 382
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EGR 464 - Neural Engineering
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
This course provides students with basic principles, theories, and methods that underlie technology for recording and stimulation of central and peripheral nervous system structures. The course also presents recent advances in the development of technology, its practical applications in neuroscience and in medicine.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): BIO 153 and EGR 262
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EGR 473 - Chemical Reaction Engineering
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall
The course covers reaction kinetics, differential and integral data analysis, batch, mixed, and plug flow reactors, systems with multiple reactions, reactor cascades, temperature and energy effects, and catalysis.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 371 and 372
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EGR 474 - Chemical Process Control
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
Control theory and practice, instrumentation, system responses, transfer functions, feed-back control, and stability as applied to chemical engineering processes.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 272 and MAT 342
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EGR 475 - Process Safety
Units: 2
When Offered: Fall
Fundamentals of chemical process safety including toxicology, industrial hygiene, toxic release and dispersion models, fires and explosions, and designs to prevent fires and explosions.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 342
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EGR 477 - Chemical Engineering Laboratory
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall
The application of fundamentals to the experimental study of various chemical processes and unit operations. Experimental design, data collection and analysis, error analysis, instrumentation, and oral and written communication will be emphasized.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 302 and 374
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EGR 481 - Systems Simulation
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall
Model design to simulate discrete event systems with basic input and output analysis using high order languages, applied to industrial systems analysis and design problems.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 305
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EGR 482 - Supply Chain and Logistics Management
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
Apply industrial and systems engineering and management approaches to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of material flow, information flow and cash flow for the entire supply chains.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 305 and 381
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EGR 483 - Production Systems
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall
Production planning, forecasting, scheduling, and inventory; computer integrated decision systems in analysis and control of production systems, facilities layout and design.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 305 and 381
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EGR 490 - Independent Study
Units: 1-3
When Offered: As offered
Registration Approval: Independent Study Agreement. Student does an independent study under direction of a faculty member. Study of problems in a topic for which related courses have been completed.
Repeatable: May be repeated for a maximum of three (3) units
Grade Type: Letter Grade
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EGR 491 - Research Project
Units: 1-3
When Offered: Fall
This special registration permits the completion of upper division degree requirements for transfer or other students, program requirement changes, or other special circumstances in which students have partial but not full credit toward a specific degree requirement. It also provides the opportunity for recognition of supervised academic experiences that are not included in traditional curriculum. Registration requires approval by the dean and sponsoring faculty member. The determination of degree credits is at the time of registration.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): EGR 101 and Permission of the Dean
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ENG 100 - Introduction to Technology in Literary Studies
Units: 1
When Offered: OPS
An introduction to the English major in the online modality with a focus on applying a Christian worldview to study of English. Introduces students to a range of online discussion tools and to a range of professions in which the English major can be applied.
Grade Type: Pass/Fail
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ENG 101 - Introduction to the Discipline
Units: 1
When Offered: Fall
This course introduces a consideration of personal worldview, faith, and the discipline of English, including literary studies and creative writing. It is also designed to introduce students to the basic skills necessary for academic success in the discipline of English and to provide students with an overview of the discipline including requirements of the major and expectations of professions in which that major may be applied.
Grade Type: Pass/Fail
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ENG 113 - Composition
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall, Spring, & OPS
This is a process-based writing class that focuses on academic writing, reading, and critical thinking as expressed in expository and analytical writing assignments through 5 to 7 substantial essays over the course of the semester. Develops fluency, coherence, style, effectiveness, and literary analysis. Students must pass this course with a C- or better or demonstrate a comparable level of writing competence to fulfill general competency requirements and to proceed to ENG 123 - Intermediate Composition . Students may only earn credit for ENG 113 or ENG 113E - Composition Enriched with Lab .
Grade Type: Letter Grade
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ENG 113E - Composition Enriched with Lab
Units: 4
When Offered: Fall, Spring
This is a process-based writing class enriched with a paired writing lab and a cohort model that focuses on academic writing, reading, and critical thinking as expressed in expository and analytical writing assignments through 5 to 7 substantial essays over the course of the semester. Develops fluency, coherence, style, effectiveness, and literary analysis. It provides students with additional opportunity for close attention to the fundamentals of written communication and revision. By learning in a collaborative writing community, students will develop effective strategies in generating and developing ideas, giving and receiving feedback, and reading and analyzing texts. Students must pass this course with a C- or better to proceed to ENG 123E - Intermediate Composition Enriched with Lab . Students may petition to move into ENG 123 - Intermediate Composition . Students may only earn credit for ENG 113 - Composition or ENG 113E.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
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ENG 123E - Intermediate Composition Enriched with Lab
Units: 4
When Offered: Fall, Spring
This course provides students with continued practice in writing and research in the enriched environment of a writing lab and a cohort model. It emphasizes critical thinking, argument, analysis and interpretation of multicultural readings and other interdisciplinary expository materials, providing students with additional time to gather, interpret, and integrate interdisciplinary research into the writing of a research paper (or report). Researching and writing within a community supports students’ individual growth of written communication as well as public engagement of ideas through informal discussion and formal presentation. Students must pass this course with a C- or better. Students may only earn credit for ENG 123 - Intermediate Composition or ENG 123E.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 113E with a grade of C- or better or evidence of a comparable level of writing competence.
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ENG 200 - Special Topics in English
Units: 3
When Offered: As offered
Focuses on a different phase of British, American or world literature each time offered-themes, genres, periods. See instructor for the topic currently to be studied.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
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ENG 201 - Introduction to Literature
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall, Spring, & OPS
An introductory study of literary terminology and the major genres of American, British, European, and multicultural literature. Focuses on critical reading and intelligent appreciation of literature and of the ways of writing about literature.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Pre- or Co- Requisite(s): ENG 100 , 101 , 123 , or 123E
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ENG 213 - British Literature Pre-1750
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring (even years) & OPS
Literature of Great Britain from the Middle Ages through the eighteenth century.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Pre- or Co- Requisite(s): ENG 100 , 101 , 123 , or 123E
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ENG 223 - British Literature Post-1750
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring (even years)
Literature of Great Britain from the Romantic Period to the present.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Pre- or Co- Requisite(s): ENG 100 , 101 , 123 , or 123E
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ENG 233 - American Literature Pre-1865
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall & OPS
American Literature from the Colonial Period to 1865.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Pre- or Co- Requisite(s): ENG 100 , 101 , 123 , or 123E
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ENG 243 - American Literature Post-1865
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
American literature from 1865 to present.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Pre- or Co- Requisite(s): ENG 100 , 101 , 123 , or 123E
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ENG 253 - World Literature Pre-1650
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall (odd years)
World literature (excluding British and American) through the Renaissance.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Pre- or Co- Requisite(s): ENG 100 , 101 , 123 , or 123E
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ENG 263 - World Literature Post-1650
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall (even years)
World literature (excluding British and American) from Neoclassicism to present.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Pre- or Co- Requisite(s): ENG 100 , 101 , 123 , or 123E
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ENG 273 - Introduction to Creative Writing
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall, Spring, & OPS
This course introduces the creative writer to the literary genres, encouraging creativity, individuality, spontaneity and boldness for students in search of the writer within. The lecture/discussion is designed to help students develop a writing voice and work toward a final project in one of the major genres.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Pre- or Co- Requisite(s): ENG 100 , 101 , 123 , or 123E
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ENG 302 - Professional Writing
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall (even years)
This course studies writing within the diverse environment of the workplace. It emphasizes the need to adapt written documents for a distinct task, audience, or platform. The course introduces students to professional and technical writing through examination and evaluation of interdisciplinary readings and representative models of professional documents-both print and digital. The course will incorporate strategies for developing and improving skills in writing, reading, researching, editing, presenting, and collaborating. Students will demonstrate an understanding of effective practices through a portfolio of professional documents.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 303 - Topics in World Literature
Units: 3
When Offered: As offered & OPS
An intensive study of a particular area of world literature in translation (e.g., Greek drama, or the literature of Existentialism). See the instructor for the area currently being studied. May be offered as a dual-language topic such as Latin American authors.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 313 - American Multicultural Literature
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring & OPS
The literature of women and ethnic minorities. Recommended for Liberal Studies majors. At least one literature survey course recommended.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 314 - Global Literature
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall
This course offers students an intensive study of global literature with an emphasis on works translated into English, excluding American literature. Students will study literature and cultures from around the world, equipping them to broaden their engagement in academic studies and Great Commission service. It is recommended that at least one literature survey course be taken prior.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 323 - Classical Literature
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
This course explores the intellectual contributions of Classical Literature by examining the meaning of these works within historical, political, and cultural context of Classical society.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 333 - Seventeenth Century British Literature
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall (odd years)
The Metaphysical and cavalier Poets, and the prose of John Milton, in historical context.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or ENG 123E
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ENG 343 - Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century British Literature
Units: 3
When Offered: As offered & OPS
Neoclassical, Romantic, and Victorian literature in historical context.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 345 - Nineteenth Century American Literature
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring (odd years)
American literature and thought, 1800-1914, with emphasis on Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson, Dickinson, Douglass, Whitman, Melville, Stowe, and Twain.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or ENG 123E
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ENG 350 - Research and Writing in Literature and Language
Units: 3
When Offered: OPS
Introduction to research topics, methods, and materials in the field of language and literature for application in a series of scholarly papers and presentations of various types and lengths.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 353 - Introduction to Children’s Literature
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall, Spring, & OPS
An introduction to the study of a wide variety of children’s literature, including picture books, novels, poetry, and folklore. Focus on critical analysis of texts, employing a variety of literary theoretical perspectives, close readings, and contemporary research. Also examines the historical constructions of childhood, uses within the elementary classroom, and social response to children’s literature. Meets the Liberal Studies requirement for Children’s literature.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 354 - Children’s Classics
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall (odd years)
A consideration of children’s classics, including but not limited to texts from “Golden Age” of children’s literature, approximately 1865-1914. Focus on critical analysis of texts, employing a variety of literary theoretical perspectives, close readings, and contemporary research. Also examines the historical constructions of childhood and social responses to children’s literature. Students will examine the texts in light of literary, historical, social contexts.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 355 - Folklore and Fairy Tales
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall (even years)
A close examination of selected folklore and fairy tales from various cultural or literary traditions. Focus on interpretation and analysis of individual texts, utilizing a variety of historical and contemporary critical approaches to reading, understanding, and researching folklore and fairy tales as a distinctive genre.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 360 - Detective Fiction
Units: 3
When Offered: OPS
Detective Fiction is an historical approach to the detective fiction genre and its impact on Western society. The class explores issues of knowledge production, detection, policing, and identity through drama, novels, short stories, and film.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 363 - Introduction to Young Adult Literature
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring & OPS
Introduction to literature designed to meet the unique needs of adolescents and young adults. Varied uses of literature such as poetry and short stories will be explored with intensive study of longer works of fiction and non-fiction.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 365 - Christian Classics
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring (odd years)
Surveys some of the great literary texts in the Christian tradition. Readings from primary works will provide opportunity to become familiar with a variety of voices in the history of Christian spirituality. Students will examine the texts in light of literary, historical, social, and theological contexts. Authors and texts may vary each time the course is offered.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 366 - Faith and Literature
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall (even years)
The course is designed to examine the study of literature through the lens of faith. It considers the intersection of personal belief and reading practices, the analysis of literature, both religious and secular, from a Christian worldview, and potential avenues of Christian literary theory. It requires students to evaluate and analyze both literary texts and approaches to literature, with each student formulating a formal position in regard to the intersection of faith and literature.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 371 - The Graphic Novel
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall (odd years)
The class represents a close examination of select graphic novels from a variety of genres and styles. It focuses on literary interpretation and analysis of individual texts, utilizing a variety of historical and contemporary critical approaches to reading, understanding, and researching the graphic novel within an interdisciplinary context.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E (Recommend: ENG 201 )
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ENG 382 - Introduction to Digital Studies
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall (odd years)
This course introduces students to the growing field of digital studies. Given the interdisciplinary nature of digital studies, students will study digital texts and projects and will work collaboratively to evaluate, develop, and refine their technical skills to create and edit various forms of digital publications.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 384 - Writing Fiction
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall
An intensive writing workshop designed to permit the student to study and practice fiction in various forms: articles, short stories, novels, etc.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 385 - Writing Poetry
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
This college course is an intensive workshop designed to encourage creativity in poetry. The class offers specific writing direction plus critical responses to students’ works, both creative and analytical.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 386 - Writing Creative Nonfiction
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall (odd years)
An intensive writing workshop designed to permit the student to study and practice creative nonfiction in various forms: personal narrative, topical essay, lyric essay, memoir, etc.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 399 - Independent Study
Units: 3
When Offered: As offered
An opportunity for students who have demonstrated the ability to do independent work to pursue in depth a topic of particular interest. Other courses listed in the catalog may not be taken by independent study.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
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ENG 400 - Special Topics in English
Units: 3
When Offered: As offered
Focuses on a different theme, genre, or period of British, American, or World literature each time offered. See instructor for topic currently to be studied.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 401 - Literary Theory and Criticism
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring & OPS
Advanced study in theories of imaginative literature and in the issues of interpreting literary texts.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E , and 201 as well as at least one literature survey course are required
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ENG 409 - Good Books
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring (odd years)
This course offers students intensive study of print culture, particularly in regard to the history of the book, as found in American, British, and/or world literature. The course may focus on a particular genre, such as the novel, the autobiography, or the chapbook, or on a particular subgenre, such as the gothic or satirical novel. This study will also equip students to understand how books within the discipline of English shaped and were shaped by various historical, cultural, economic, philosophical, and social forces. It is recommended that at least one literature survey course be taken prior.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 411 - Special Topics in Creative Writing
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall (even years)
Focuses on different styles or aspects of creative writing each time offered-for example, creative non-fiction, storytelling, etc. See instructor for the topic currently to be studied.
Repeatable: May be repeated one (1) time for credit with a change in topic
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 413 - Shakespeare Studies
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall & OPS
Selected poems and plays are studied in their historical contexts. A variety of critical approaches are incorporated. Includes comedies, history plays, and tragedies.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 420 - Special Topics in American Literature
Units: 3
When Offered: As offered
This course offers students intensive study of a special topic in American literature. Students will study a specific theme, author, genre, or period within the broad literary history of the United States. This study will equip students to broaden their engagement in American literature. It is recommended that at least one literature survey course be taken prior.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 430 - Special Topics in British Literature
Units: 3
When Offered: As offered
This course offers students an intensive study of a special topic in British Literature. Students will study a specific theme, author, genre, or period within the broad literary history of Great Britain. This study will equip students to broaden their engagement in British literature. It is recommended that at least one literature survey course be taken prior.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 431 - Literary Journal Editing and Publishing
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
In this course students assist in all aspects of the publication of the campus literary journal. Students read submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, they work with writers to edit their pieces, and they assist with layout and design.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 432 - Sociolinguistics
Units: 3
When Offered: As offered
Sociolinguistics is the study of the relationship between language and society. This course explores key areas within the field of sociolinguistics. It also gives students practice in reflecting on how sociolinguistics of English and other languages affects how they speak. Students will investigate a topic in sociolinguistics and write a review of literature about it as well as develop a language policy report.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 434 - Major Christian Authors
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring (even years) & OPS
Focuses on the development of style, themes, and worldview in a body of work by concentrating on no more than three Christian authors per semester, such as C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Flannery O’Connor, Li-Young Lee, or Shusaku Endo. Explores this body of work in depth from the British, American, or world traditions. See instructor for the current author(s).
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 440 - Modern American Literature
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall (even years) & OPS
Major fiction and poetry from 1900 to World War II.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 442 - Teaching Second Language Writing
Units: 3
When Offered: Fall
This course prepares students to teach writing to second language learners, especially but not exclusively at the college level. Course materials and activities focus on current composition philosophy, research-based method and teaching techniques for collegiate level second language writing courses. At a minimum, this course is designed to introduce students to major theories, research, and practice in the teaching of English writing to second language learners. Thus, students should complete this course being able to do what ESL/EFL writing instructors do: design lesson plans for college composition; evaluate (read, respond to, grade, and assess) college level writing; and engage in research in at least one relevant issue in ESL/EFL composition pedagogy. This course should train students to be reflective practitioners and researchers of collegiate level English composition.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 443 - Contemporary American Literature
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring (even years)
Major fiction and poetry from World War II to the present.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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ENG 446 - Teaching Second Language Reading
Units: 3
When Offered: Spring
This course will be about reading in a second language, primarily, but not exclusively English. In particular, the class will emphasize teaching reading in English to learners whose native language is not English. Since research and theory inform sound pedagogical practice, we will also research and review research on a variety of relevant topics to teaching reading from both linguistic and educational perspectives. Finally, given the importance of literacy in so many contexts today, we will consider a multitude of variables which affect the teaching and learning of reading skills for both children and adults, in second and foreign language settings, and explore the implications of the research for all concerned.
Grade Type: Letter Grade
Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 or 123E
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