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EHD 497 - Advanced Internship (Secondary) A full-day, off-campus advanced internship, teaching in a selected school. Seminars and conferences. (Pass/Fail Grade Only.)
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Capstone Experience Requirement.
Prerequisites: STT 491.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 2-6 |
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EHD 498 - Seminar for Interns Students examine and reflect on their understanding about teaching and learning, apply integrated educational skills and knowledge and synthesize academic and professional experiences from their courses, field experiences and internships to develop and finalize their Teacher Candidacy portfolio.
Prerequisites: Senior standing;completion of all other program requirements or permission.
Corequisites: EHD 490 or EHD 491 or EHD 496 or EHD 497 or EHD 499.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 1-3 |
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EHD 499 - Student Teaching K-12 (Kinesiology and Physical Education) Observation and student teaching in selected elementary and/or secondary schools.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Capstone Experience Requirement.
Prerequisites: Senior standing; EDB 202, EDB 221 or equivalents and a methods course.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 1 - 12 |
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ELL 470 - The Teaching of English As A Second Language Basic principles underlying ESL pedagogy and current techniques for second and foreign language teaching. Students review published materials, develop activities, plan lessons, and compile a teaching materials portfolio. For practicing teachers seeking Maine’s ESL endorsement or individuals planning to teach EFL overseas.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Summer
Credits: 3 |
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ELL 475 - Curriculum Development in English As A Second Language/English As A Foreign Language Contexts Hybrid online-plus-workshops course instruction in principles of syllabus design and processes for ESL/EFL curriculum development. For practicing teachers seeking Maine’s ESL endorsement or individuals planning to teach EFL overseas. Also suitable for those preparing to teach a second language other than English.
Prerequisites: ELL 470 or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Summer
Credits: 3 |
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ELL 480 - Testing and Assessment in English As A Second Language/English As A Foreign Language Contexts Principles of second/foreign language assessment. Examines various instruments and procedures: helps students develop reliable and valid techniques; explores placement and diagnosis; reviews curriculum and program evaluation. For practicing teachers seeking Maine’s ESL endorsement or individuals planning to teach EFL overseas. Also suitable for those preparing to teach a second language other than English.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Summer
Credits: 3 |
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ELL 485 - Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition Principles for ESL/EFL Teachers Basic linguistic concepts and principles from research into how humans learn to communicate in a second or foreign language. Application of these concepts and principles to facilitating acquisition in English language instructional contexts. For practicing teachers seeking Maine’s ESL endorsement or individuals planning to teach EFL overseas.
Prerequisites: junior standing.
Course Typically Offered: Summer
Credits: 3 |
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ELL 491 - Multiculturalism and Diversity for ESL/EFL Contexts Diversity training and personal reflection to raise awareness of and to challenge biases about difference. Focus on attitudes toward language, dialect, or accent difference. Issues related to cultural diversity in communication styles, values systems, instructional role expectations, and paths to identity formation. For practicing teachers seeking Maine’s ESL endorsement or individuals planning to teach EFL overseas.
Prerequisites: Junior standing.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3 |
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EMA 314 - Teaching Mathematics in Elementary School An instruction to methods and techniques in teaching mathematics, arithmetic readiness program, instructional and evaluation material.
Prerequisites: Elementary Education majors; MAT 107 and PSY 100.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 100 - College Composition Stretch, Part I This course provides intense practice with habits of reading, writing, thinking, and revising essential to postsecondary academic work. Designed for students who want to create a strong foundation for themselves in academic reading and writing. Available only during fall semester. Students who complete ENG 100 move on to ENG 106 during the spring semester. Students will not earn credit or grades for completing both ENG 101 and either course in the College Composition Stretch Sequence, ENG 100 and ENG 106.
General Education Requirements: Students must complete both ENG 100 and Eng 106 with a minimum grade of C or better in each course to satisfy the General Education College Composition requirement. Neither course taken alone will satisfy this requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 101 - College Composition Students practice the ways in which writing serves to expand, clarify, and order experience and knowledge, with particular attention to persuasive writing. Satisfactory completion of the course depends upon quality of weekly writing assignments as well as demonstration of proficiency in college-level writing.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 106 - College Composition Stretch, Part II This course provides intense practice with habits of reading, writing, thinking, and revising essential to postsecondary academic work. Designed for students who want to create a strong foundation for themselves in academic reading and writing. Available only during the spring semester. Students will not earn credit or grades for completing both ENG 101 and either course in the College Composition Stretch Sequence, ENG 100 and ENG 106.
General Education Requirements: Students must complete both ENG 100 and ENG 106 with a minimum grade of C or better in each course to satisfy the General Education College Composition requirement. Neither course taken alone will satisfy this requirement.
Prerequisites: C or better in ENG 100
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 129 - Topics in English Offers small-group discussions of literature focusing on a common theme. Each division takes up a different theme, such as utopianism, the quest myth, growing up in America and the like. Students can expect to read texts closely and write regularly about them. May be repeated for credit.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: Open to first-year students only. May be taken before or after ENG 101 or concurrently with permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 131 - The Nature of Story Explores the fundamental activity of why and how we create, tell and read/listen to stories. Readings may include selections from folk tale and myth, saga and epic, drama and novel, film and song, poetry and essay–from the ancient world to the modern, from the western cultural tradition and from a variety of other cultures.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 170 - Foundations of Literary Analysis An introduction to the close reading of literature. Students write frequently, exploring how conventions of genre, form, and style work in literature. Required of English majors.
Prerequisites: ENG 101 is strongly recommended.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 205 - An Introduction to Creative Writing Offers students experience in writing in three major forms: autobiographical narrative, fiction, and poetry.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Artistic and Creative Expression and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: ENG 101 is strongly recommended.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 206 - Descriptive and Narrative Writing Special emphasis on the informal, autobiographical essay.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Artistic and Creative Expression and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: ENG 101 or equivalent.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 212 - Persuasive and Analytical Writing Designed for students wanting practice in those forms of expository, analytical, and persuasive prose required in writing answers to essay test questions, term papers, research projects, and extended arguments.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 101 and sophomore standing.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 222 - Reading Poems Focuses on helping students develop critical skills particularly suited to the interpretation and analysis of poetry. Readings will include poems from different eras in both traditional and innovative forms. May cover a range of poetic practices and a variety of media: including, for example, poetry readings, little magazines and presses, digital texts, and poetic movements.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition, Artistic and Creative Expression and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 229 - Topics in Literature Subject matter varies with faculty interest. Previous topics have included: scandalous women, detective fiction, vampires in literature, dark humor in literature, and literature of the Vietnam war. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 231 - Western Tradition in Literature: Homer Through the Renaissance Survey of the major writers in the Western literary tradition. The development
of our cultural heritage and the evolution of major literary forms. (This course
is identical to MLC 231.)
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Artistic and Creative Expression Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 235 - Literature and the Modern World An examination of the modern sensibility as it has manifested itself in 20th century literature. Some attention also to the history, music, visual arts, social thought, and science of the contemporary epoch.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition, Artistic and Creative Expression and Ethics Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 236 - Intro to Canadian Literature A survey of Canadian literature from 1850 to the present. Interpretation and analysis of the poetry and prose of major literary figures. Some examination of the impact of British and American models upon the tradition of Canadian literature.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives, Artistic and Creative Expression and Ethics Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Course Typically Offered: Every Year
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 237 - Coming of Age in America The process of moving from innocence to experience has many faces in America, as our literature in the last few decades has begun to chronicle. Explores stories of coming of age in American fiction, nonfiction and film of the last fifty years from writers to many traditions, including Franco-American, Latino-Latina, Native American, African-American and Asian-American.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirement.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 238 - Nature and Literature Looks at the many different ways people have looked at nature and examines the philosophies and values which inform humans’ interactions with their environment. Authors will be drawn from traditional literary figures, American nature writers, environmentalists and especially, authors from Maine. Assignment may include field experience.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 243 - Topics in Multicultural Literature Topics will vary, including such titles as Ethnicity and Race in American Literature; Caribbean Literature; Third World Literature; and other topics in African, Asian, Francophone, Native American, Chicano and ethnic literatures in the English language.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition, Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Ethics Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 245 - American Short Fiction A study of genre, form, and theme in representative works of American short fiction from Irving to the present.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition, Artistic and Creative Expression and Ethics Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 246 - American Women’s Literature A survey of the main traditions and writers in American women’s literature from the origins to the present.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition, Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Ethics Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 249 - American Sports Literature and Film Uses readings in fiction, poetry, drama, essays and films to explore social, humanistic, ethical and aesthetic issues in sports and its literature. Examines ways writers capture physical action and the role of sports in various genres and media.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Artistic and Creative Expression Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Even Years
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 251 - English Literature Survey: Beginnings Through Neoclassicism The major patterns of development within the English literary tradition, with
emphasis on the cultural and historical forces which have shaped this tradition.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Artistic and Creative Expression Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of literature or permission. (ENG 170 recommended.)
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 253 - Shakespeare: Selected Plays A study of ten to twelve plays, selected to represent the range of Shakespeare’s achievement as a playwright. Recommended for non-majors. Not open to students who have taken ENG 453.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition, Artistic and Creative Expression and Ethics Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Course Typically Offered: Every Year
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 256 - British Women’s Literature A survey of British women writers and their traditions from the origins to the present.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition, and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 271 - The Act of Interpretation An introduction to critical theory. Study of individual critics or schools of literary theory. Application of these interpretative strategies to literary texts.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Western Cultural Tradition and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: ENG 170.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 280 - Introduction to Film A survey of the history of motion pictures and an exploration of the rhetoric of film, designed to give students with no prior film study an integrated approach to understanding the moving image and how it functions.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Context and Institutions and Artistic and Creative Expression Requirements.
Prerequisites: 3 hours of English.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 301 - Seminar in Writing Studies A writing-intensive seminar that combines substantial reflective practice with an introduction to research and scholarship in literacy and writing studies.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 201, ENG 315, or ENG 395.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 308 - Writing Poetry A course in the writing of poetry, for students of demonstrated ability.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 205 or ENG 206 or permission of instructor. Submission of writing sample.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 309 - Writing Creative Nonfiction An intermediate course in such forms of creative nonfiction as memoir, travel literature, autobiography and personal essays.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Artistic and Creative Expression and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: ENG 205 or ENG 206 or ENG 212 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 315 - Research Writing in the Disciplines Builds on ENG 101 by preparing students for writing-intensive coursework and for senior capstone projects. This course focuses on similarities and differences among the types of peer-reviewed academic research articles that researchers and scholars use to advance knowledge in their fields. Class projects will develop familiarity with and contribute to students’ own academic research writing in their chosen field of study.
General Education Requirements: Satisifies the Writing Intensive General Education Requirement.
Prerequisites: Junior standing and a declared major.
Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring.
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 317 - Business and Technical Writing Supervised practice in the writing of business and technical reports, professional correspondence, and related materials.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 101 or equivalent and junior standing.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 336 - Canadian Literature An intensive study of a major Canadian writer or small group of Canadian writers, or an examination of a major theme in Canadian literature. Specific topic varies from semester to semester. This reading-intensive course is designed to teach students about Canadian literature while giving them the opportunity to practice their reading and research skills in order to better prepare them for work in advanced seminars.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 341 - Colonial and Early National American Literature The literatures of colonial America began almost immediately after contact between Europeans and Native Americans in the fifteenth century, disseminated in multiple languages across Europe. These earliest writings were advertisements for empire: tales of adventure, catalogues of wonders, justifications and warnings. By the seventeenth century, new immigrants and Amercian-born settlers were creating a local literature for local consumption, including the great devotional works of the New England Puritans and the first examples of that long-lived American genre, the captivity narrative. This colonial period culminated in the eighteenth century’s American Enlightenment, which gave rise to the Revolution, and was soon followed by the first stirrings of literary nationalism in the early republic. Encompassing three hundred years of history and an international range of authors, this introductory course may include works translated into English and taking such representative forms as the memoir, travel narrative, sermon, and political tract, as well as the more expected literary genres of poetry, fiction, and drama. A reading-intensive course, it is designed to teach students about a crucial epoch in world history and American literature while creating an opportunity for students to practice reading and research skills in order to better prepare them for work in advances seminars.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity or International Perspectives
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 342 - Native American Literature Surveys literature by Native American authors from a wide range of tribal backgrounds and culture areas. Considers the development of written traditions over time in relation to oral genres, traditional themes and story forms, and situates writing by Native American people in the context of historical and socio-political events and trends in Turtle Island (North America). Provides the opportunity to reconsider stories of colonization and the Anglo-American culture/nation in the light of indigenous perspectives and experience. This reading-intensive course is designed to teach you about the history of Native American writing in English, while giving you the opportunity to practice your reading and research skills in order to prepare you for work in advanced seminars.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives.
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission.
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years.
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 343 - Nineteenth-Century American Literature An introduction to American literature and culture of the nineteenth century, a period of unprecedented violence, vision, and change encompassing some of the most storied names in poetry and prose. Because the historical events and social turmoil of the century is so crucial for an understanding of its greatest authors, the course may include writers and thinkers whose primary significance is not literary-men and women who witnessed or acted in the great events of the age. This reading-intensive course is designed to teach students about a rich, exciting epoch in literary history while giving them the opportunity to practice their reading and research skills in order to better prepare them for work in advanced seminars.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 351 - Medieval English Literature An introduction to Medieval Literature which involves reading the wild, beautiful, idiosyncratic, and foreign yet strangely familiar works of Chaucer and his English contemporaries. The class will focus on understanding the nature of the medieval world and its expression in the literature of the time, and on developing reading skill in Middle English. This reading-intensive course is designed to teach students about a crucial epoch in literary and linguistic history while giving them the opportunity to practice their reading and research skills in order to better prepare them for work in advanced seminars. For more details see course descriptions on the English Department website.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years.
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 353 - Shakespeare and the English Renaissance Renaissance suggests a rebirth of classical models, but this period (late 16th and early 17th centuries) is also one of startling innovation. The literature of Shakespeare and his contemporaries can be wildly comic and tragic, lyrical and grotesque, epic and domestic, rewriting the medieval and anticipating the modern worlds. Emphasis may vary among genres (drama, lyric, narrative poetry), theme (romance, revenge, rebellion, reverence), and authors (Shakespeare, Spenser, Marlowe, Donne, Milton for example). This reading intensive course introduces representative texts from a crucial period in literary history, and it provides students the opportunity to practice reading and research skills in preparation for work in advanced seminars.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 355 - Restoration and Eighteenth-Century British Literature From sentiment to sadism, astounding change ignited the Restoration and Eighteenth Century, making this period a watershed that marks the transition from Renaissance to Modern. This reading-intensive class will consider literature against the background of this historical change, inheritance, and influence. Works by Pope, Behn, Cavendish, Finch, Congreve, Dryden, Swift, Defoe, Richardson, Johnson, and Radcliffe, among others. The focus on reading and research skills will prepare students for work in advance seminars.
General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition.
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 357 - Nineteenth-Century British Literature This reading intensive course introduces Nineteenth-century British literature in the context of larger political, technological, cultural, and social changes: The expanding publishing market, the growing influence of a literate middle-class, industrialization, urbanization, global capitalism and modern warfare, Britain’s imperial power. Because of the sheer variety of works and genres, emphasis will vary from instructor to instructor, but along with well-known writers like Wordsworth, Austen, or Dickens, students will be introduced to lesser-known authors, popular and influential in their day but too often forgotten since. This course provides students with the opportunity to practice reading and research skills and prepares students for work in advanced seminars. For more details see Course Descriptions on the English Department website.
General Education Requirements: Satisifies the Western Cultural Tradition General Education Requirement
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Even Years
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 361 - Modernism An introduction to modernism, the revolution in literature and culture that took place during the end of the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth century. Because modernism was an international movement expressed in multiple genres, this introductory course may include writers and artists from around the world working in poetry, prose, drama, and film. This reading-intensive course is designed to teach students about a crucial period in literary history while giving them the opportunity to practice their reading and research skills in order to better prepare them for work in advanced seminars.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the Western Cultural Traditon General Education Requirement.
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Even Years
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 363 - Literature of the Postmodern Period An introduction to literature of the postmodern period, roughly defined as 1945-1989. To call the historical-literary period and writing styles that emerged after WWII “postmodern” can spark a lively argument. But, whatever your position, the fact remains that during this extraordinary times poets, playwrights, and novelists responded to a world changed by WWII in intelligent and challenging ways. Continuing modernist-period fluidity across national borders as well as genres, this reading-intensive course may include writers from around the world working in poetry, prose, and drama. It is designed to teach students about a crucial period in recent literary history while giving them the opportunity to practice their reading and research skills in order to better prepare them for work in advanced seminars. For more details, see course descriptions on the English Department website.
General Education Requirements: Satisifies the Western Cultural Tradition General Education Requirement
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Odd Years
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 364 - Contemporary Literature An introduction to literature after 1989 and up to the present. Studying the living tradition can be incredibly exciting. From writers working in our moment we can gain a unique perspective on our world, which may help us to develop a nuanced reading of the broader culture we both consume and participate in. Because contemporary literature often defies easy genre distinctions, and sometimes even the conventional idea of the book, this course may include multiple genres and cross-genre forms, and a variety of media, from sound files to digital literature. This reading-intensive course is designed to teach students about literature emerging in our time while giving them the opportunity to practice their reading and research skills in order to better prepare them for work in advanced seminars.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies Western Cultural Tradition General Education Requirement.
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Even Years
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 371 - Readings in Literary Theory and Criticism This reading-intensive course is designed to acquaint students with a wider range of theoretical and critical texts, concepts, and perspectives than can typically be covered in core requirement classes such as English 170 and 271 (both of which are strongly recommended). Emphasis will be given to theories of signification (semiotics), representation (mimesis), and interpretation (hermeneutics) that have informed the practice of literary analysis from antiquity to the present day. The course will also provide students with the opportunity to practice their reading and research skills in order to better prepare them for work in advances seminars such as English 470: Topics in Literary Theory and Criticism.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the Western Cultural Tradition General Education Requirement.
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Odd Years
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 381 - Themes in Literature When we approach study of literature thematically, surprising connections can emerge. In this reading-intensive course, we will trace a single, defined theme through multiple literary works. This journey through a particular theme is a delightful way for you to practice your reading and research skills in preparation for advanced seminars. Can be taken more then once for credits, provided that the theme covered is different.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the Western Cultural Tradition General Education Requirement
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Every Year
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 382 - Major Genres in Historical Perspective Tragedy, comedy, lyric, novel, play or film: these are just a few of the divisions, called “genres” that we use to distinguish one kind of literary art from another. Continuing and deepening the work begun in 170 and/or 222, Major Genres in Historical Perspectives is a reading-intensive course on the thematic and technical developments of one specific genre within a broader cultural and historical framework. This theoretical approach to genre studies will allow students to spend more time reading in a genre they love, while giving them the opportunity to practice their research skills in preparation for work in advanced seminars. May be taken more than once for credit, provided the genre covered is different.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the Western Cultural Tradition General Elective
Prerequisites: 6 credits beyond ENG 101 (ENG 170 and ENG 222 recommended) or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Every Year
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 395 - English Internship An advanced course in writing and collaborative learning. Students first experience collaborative work in essay writing, critical reading of peers’ essays, and rigorous practice in written and oral criticism. They participate in supervised tutoring in the English Department’s writing center.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 101 or equivalent and at least one other writing intensive course, a recommendation from a UM faculty member, submission of writing sample and permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 402 - Topics in Writing and Research A seminar concentrating on a specific topic or concern in undergraduate research and writing. This course emphasizes theoretical and practical approaches to research by engaging participants in a sustained research project. May be repeated for credit when topic varies.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: English Majors with Junior or Senior standing
Course Typically Offered: Every Year
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 405 - Topics in Creative Writing A senior level course designed to provide students with an opportunity to work intensively in a specifically defined genre, form,, or methods of creative writing. May also address the broader issues of production and publication. Sample topics: graphic novel, hypertext, mixed-media, electronic writing, translation, traditional poetic forms, the epic, publication, book-making, magazine editing, the serial poem, the long poem, collaboration. ENG 405 and/or ENG 406 may be taken for credit up to a total of 6 credit hours.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 407 - Advanced Fiction Writing A fiction workshop at the advanced level. This is the advanced level course for fiction writers in the English concentration in creative writing, and may be taken in tandem with ENG 499 (capstone experience). May be repeated once for credit.
Prerequisites: ENG 307 and permission of Instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 408 - Advanced Poetry Writing A poetry workshop at the advanced level. This is the advanced level course for poets in the English concentration in creative writing, and may be taken in tandem with ENG 499 (capstone experience). May be repeated once for credit.
Prerequisites: ENG 308 and permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 415 - Advanced Report & Proposal Writing Prepares students to write workplace proposals and reports. Students will spend approximately four weeks analyzing proposals - including grant proposals - and reports. Students will spend the next eight weeks researching and writing a grant proposal, a project proposal, or an analytical report. When possible, students will work on projects for campus clients. The last three weeks of the semester will focus on exploring visual and audio reports, including designing electronic materials that support oral presentations and preparing audio reports using podcast technology. This course will be taught as a workshop with student writers sharing drafts, providing peer feedback, and working as collaborators. Appropriate for senior students in the Technical/Professional Writing track; for graduate students; and for professionals interested in examining the genre of report writing.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 317 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 416 - Technical Editing & Document Design Focuses on print and online editing, including the use of traditional proofreading marks and online techniques, document layout and design, principles of copywriting, and the study of style manuals. Follows two lines of study: one of editing / text crunching practices and one of print document design principles and practices related to the editing of documents. The cornerstone of the course is producing a newsletter or other document for a client.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 317 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 418 - Topics in Professional Writing Topics vary according to changes in the field, expertise of the faculty, and needs of the students. Possible topics include editing, document design and desktop publishing, and professional writing in intercultural contexts. May be repeated for credit.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: 6 credits in writing, including ENG 317, and permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 429 - Topics in Literature and Language Studies in the various topics concerning literature connected to faculty research interests (for example, utopian literature, the graphic novel, revenge in literature) or in issues pertaining to questions of language and literature, such as modern grammar, history of the English language, Old and Middle English, or theories of semiotics and linguistics brought to literary analysis. Specific topic varies from year to year. May be repeated for credit as long as the topic is different.
Prerequisites: ENG 271 plus 6 hours of 300-level literature courses or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 440 - American Seminar A seminar on an American writer or writers or a focused epoch or movement in American literature. Topics vary, depending on the professor. Student research and writing will be emphasized.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: ENG 271 plus 6 hours of 300-level literature courses or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 445 - The American Novel Readings from the major American novelists: Stowe, Melville, James, Twain, Dreiser, Wharton, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Cather, and Faulkner, among others. Focus on thematic, technical, and narrative developments in the 19th and 20th century American novel.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: 6 hours of literature or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Every Year
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 459 - British Seminar A seminar on a British writer or writers or a focused epoch or movement in British literature. Topics vary, depending on the professor. Student research and writing will be emphasized.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites: ENG 271 plus 6 hours of 300-level literature courses or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 460 - Major Authors An in-depth seminar of from one to three major writers. Topics vary, depending on the professor. Student research and writing will be emphasized. May be repeated for credit.
General Education Requirements: Satisfied the Ethics and the Writing Intensive General Education requirements.
Prerequisites: ENG 271 plus 6 hours of 300-level literature courses or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly offered
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 470 - Topics in Literary Theory and Criticism Studies in the history of literary criticism, in selected theoretic perspectives, or in the application of specific critical approaches. Specific topic varies from year to year.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 271 plus 6 hours of 300-level literature courses or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 471 - Literature, Gender, and Gender Theory Introduction to gender theory and issues of gender as reflected in the reception, interpretations, and transmission of literary texts. Emphasis on cultural assumptions surrounding gender, which involve both women and men.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ENG 271 plus 6 hours of 300-level literature courses or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Alternate Years
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 490 - Research Seminar in Literature A seminar course on a small body of primary literary texts and the critical communities concerned with them. Students propose and write original researched papers that demonstrate knowledge of current research in the field, using appropriate research methods and conventions of scholarly bibliography.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive and Capstone Experience Requirements.
Prerequisites: ENG 271 and 6 hours of 300 or 400 level literature courses or instructor permission
Course Typically Offered: Every Year
Credits: 3 |
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ENG 496 - Field Experience in Professional Writing Students work with businesses, professions, and other organizations approved by the department. The work in the course varies with each student enrolled and with the needs of the cooperating employer but normally involves either research, public relations, reporting, editing, interviewing, indexing, or other allied activity requiring skill in reading and writing. May be repeated for credit up to 6 credit hours.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Capstone Experience Requirement.
Prerequisites: 9 hours of writing including ENG 317 and permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 1-6 |
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ENG 497 - Independent Study in English Advanced study and research in literature and/or theory not covered by other courses.
Prerequisites: Senior Standing and permission of the instructor. May not be repeated.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 1-3 |
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ENG 499 - Capstone Experience in English Pre-professional experience supervised by an English faculty member, attached to an appropriate 3 credit English course (i.e. completion of a substantial critical paper based upon content of a 400-level literature course; a semester tutoring in the Writing Center after ENG 395: English Internship; ENG 496: Field Experience; or completion of a finished manuscript after an appropriate 400-level creative writing course.
(Pass/Fail Grade Only.)
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Capstone Experience Requirement.
Prerequisites: Senior English major and permission of department
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 0 |
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ERL 317 - Children’s Literature An overview of literature written for children between the ages of four and twelve. Emphasis on developing criteria for evaluating various types of books and selecting for individual children.
Prerequisites: Elementary Education major or Child Development and Family Relations-Early Childhood Education major; Junior standing; and English Literature Course.
Corequisites: ERL 319
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3 |
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ERL 319 - Teaching Reading and Language Arts in Preschool to Grade 3 Current methods, materials, and assessment tools in teaching reading and writing to children preschool to grade three, including early literacy development, guided reading/shared reading, spelling and oral language development, handwriting instruction, the writing processes of young children, and reading and writing reciprocity in literacy development. Field experience required as part of the course.
Prerequisites: Elementary Education major or Child Developement and Family Relations-Early Childhood Education option major; junior standing; PSY 100.
Corequisites: ERL 317
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 4 |
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ERL 320 - Teaching Reading and Language Arts in Grades 4-8 Current methods, materials, strategies, and assessment tools to teach and assess reading and writing in grades 4-8, including the foundation for teaching using vocabulary, content area reading, the reading/writing connection, narrative and informational text, and print skills with intermediate/middle grades students.
Prerequisites: Elementary Education major; Junior standing; ERL 317, ERL 319, PSY 100.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3 |
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ERL 440 - Teaching Reading in the Secondary School An exploratory course for high school teachers who wish to develop competence in teaching reading. Includes the nature of the reading process, rationales for continuing reading instruction in junior and senior high schools, reading and study strategies, improving rates of reading, organization, evaluation.
Prerequisites: Secondary Education majors.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3 |
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ERS 100 - An Introductory Survey of Geology An introduction for non-science majors to the main features and processes included in the science of geology. This course has two main goals: (1) To develop an appreciation by the students of the scientific method as applied by geologists, and (2) To develop in the students an appreciation of the aesthetic, social, political, environmental and economic aspects of the topics included in the study of geology. Course may include one weekend field trip. Students may not receive credit for both ERS 100 and ERS 101. Lec 3.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Applications of Scientific Knowledge Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 3 |
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ERS 101 - Introduction to Geology A study of earth materials and processes, including their impact on humans. Topics include mineralogy, formation of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks, geologic time, weathering and soil formation, glaciation, deserts and desertification, coastlines, earthquakes and seismology, and evolution of mountain belts and plate tectonics. Laboratory work includes the study of rocks, minerals, topographic maps and aerial photographs in preparation for a one-day weekend field trip to Acadia National Park.
Students may not receive credit for both ERS 100 and ERS 101. Lec 3, Lab 3.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Lab in the Basic or Applied Sciences Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credits: 4 |
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ERS 102 - Environmental Geology Environmental Geology explores the interaction of humans with the Earth’s systems. The course begins with discussions of earth materials and human population dynamics. The science underlying geologic hazards (earthquakes, floods, landslides, etc.) is described and the interaction between geologic hazards and humans is explored. Human impacts on earth systems are identified and evaluated with a focus on pollution and climate change. Sources of energy used by humans and the associated environmental consequences of different energy sources are discussed. May include a one day field trip.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Laboratory in the Basic or Applied Sciences and Population and the Environment Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring
Credits: 4 |
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ERS 103 - Dynamic Earth Explores how Earth’s dynamic processes interact with humans by evaluating: the
interplay between Earth’s interior, hydrosphere, biosphere and atmosphere; the
effects and underlying causes of natural hazards such as earthquakes, volcanic
eruptions, tidal waves and global warming; Earth’s economic and energy resources
how they form and how long they will lasts; and the global environment and how
best to interact with it. Lec 3.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Applications of Scientific Knowledge and Population and the Environment Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Summer
Credits: 3 |
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ERS 108 - Beaches and Coasts An introduction to coastal landforms, including beaches, salt marshes, tidal flats and sea cliffs, their origins, global distribution, and associated nearshore processes. Human impacts to the coastal zone, including coastal erosion, land loss and management, and human responses to sea-level change are considered. Course may have field trips during class time and a one day field trip. (This course is identical to SMS 108.)
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Applications of Scientific Knowledge and Population and the Environment Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 3 |
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ERS 121 - Humans and Global Change Explores how Earth’s climate system works and how past environmental changes affected humans on time scales ranging from interannual to hundreds of thousands of years. Topics will range from the development of agriculture at the beginning of the current interglaciation to how humans are now changing global climate through the addition of greenhouses gases to the atmosphere.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Population and the Environment Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 3 |
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ERS 151 - Experiencing Earth Explores the field of Earth and climate sciences through a series of short- and long-term projects related to environmental, climatic, and solid Earth processes. The long-term projects will address modern societal issues such as climate change and natural hazards. Specific topics vary from year to year but will always include several of the major Earth systems. The class format requires active engagement and a desire for independent investigation and problem-solving. May include weekend and lab-time field trips.
General Education Requirements: Meets the Quantitative Literacy and Lab Science General Education Requirements.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 4 |
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ERS 200 - Earth Systems A survey of dynamic topics in earth sciences, emphasizing active participation in on-going faculty research in topics such as: global climate change, changing sea levels, geochemical cycles, plate tectonics and mountain building, and the geological evolution of the northern Appalachians. Multiple field trips; at least one a weekend. Lec 3, Lab 3.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive and Lab in the Basic or Applied Sciences Requirement.
Prerequisites: any 100-level UMaine Earth Sciences course.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 4 |
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ERS 201 - Global Environmental Change Examines the physical and chemical interactions among the primary systems operating at the Earth’s surface (atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, biosphere, lithosphere) on various timescales throughout geologic history. We will consider internal and external forces that have shaped environmental evolution, including the role of humans in recent geochemical and climatic change. During lecture and laboratory sessions, our goals are to develop critical thinking skills and a scientific approach to the complex array of feedbacks operating at the Earth’s surface, as well as an appreciation for how past environmental change informs current societal issues. Course will include field trips during class hours and may include weekends.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Lab in the Basic or Applied Sciences and Population and the Environment Requirements.
Prerequisites: Any 100-level ERS course.
Course Typically Offered: Spring
Credits: 4 |
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ERS 209 - Geology of Maine An introduction to the minerals, rocks, groundwater, coastline, geomorphology, geological history, and geoenvironmental problems of Maine. Three weekend field trips.
Prerequisites: ERS 100 or ERS 101 or ERS 102 or ERS 103 or permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Even Years
Credits: 3 |
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ERS 210 - Geology Applied to Engineering Focuses on the interaction between humans and geologic environment at and near the Earth’s surface. Course includes the physical and chemical characterization of earth materials and applies these properties to environmental and engineering geology problems. Course may include weekend field trips.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Population and the Environment requirement.
Satisfies the General Education Applications of Scientific Knowledge requirement when taken without ERS 211. Together with ERS 211, this course satisfies the General Education Lab in the Basic or Applied Sciences requirement.
Prerequisites: MAT 126
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Odd Years
Credits: 3 |
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ERS 211 - Geology Applied to Engineering Laboratory Focuses on assessing environmental and geologic data and evaluating the natural physical and chemical processes that interface with human activites. Spreadsheet (or similar) software is used to analyze environmental data to quantitatively assess these processes and problems. Course may include weekend field trips.
General Education Requirements: Together with ERS 210, this course satisfies the General Education Lab in the Basic or Applied Sciences requirement.
Prerequisites: MAT 126
Corequisites: ERS 210
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Odd Years
Credits: 1 |
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ERS 230 - Earth and Climate Science Geomatics This course will provide an introduction to the collection, display, manipulation and management of geospatial information. The focus will be on modern tools, techniques and methodologies commonly used by earth and environmental scientists. The course will be divided into surveying and mapping (including GPS), satellite remote sensing, and geographical information systems (GIS). Lec. 2.5 hr, Lab 3hr.
Prerequisites: ERS 101 and ERS 102 and ERS 103 or ERS 108 or SMS 108 or permission of instructors.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Even Years
Credits: 4 |
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ERS 240 - The Atmosphere The nature of planetary atmospheres, physical processes in the atmosphere, clouds and precipitation, global climate, seasons, natural and anthropogenic climate change, forecasting of storms. Lec 3, Lab 2.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Laboratory in the Basic or Applied Sciences Requirement.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Even Years
Credits: 4 |
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ERS 312 - Geochemistry Introduction to the field of geochemistry, from Earth formation to modern processes in the deep Earth and at the surface. This course will investigate the chemistry of many Earth materials, including rocks, soils, surface and ground waters, and oceans. Course may include weekend field trips.
Prerequisites: CHY 121 & 123, and either ERS 100, ERS 101, ERS 102, or ERS 103.
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Odd Years
Credits: 4 |
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ERS 315 - Principles of Sedimentology and Stratigraphy Basic concepts and techniques of stratigraphy and sedimentation. Field trips to local environments and outcrops. Laboratories emphasize practical analytical techniques of sedimentology, petrography of sedimentary rocks in hand specimens and thin section, and modern stratigraphic approaches. Lec 3, Lab 3.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ERS 101 or ERS 102 and STS 232 or permission.
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 4 |
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ERS 316 - Structural Geology Explores the principles of structural geology, with emphasis on the geometry, kinematics and dynamics of Earth deformation. Includes several field trips with the aim of integrating field observations and theory. Lec 2, Lab 3. Course may have field trips during class times with the aim of integrating field observations and theory.
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites: ERS 200.
Course Typically Offered: Fall, Odd Years
Credits: 4 |
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ERS 317 - Introduction to Geophysics Introduction to geophysical studies of the Earth. Seismological, gravity, magnetic, electrical and geothermal studies of the Earth’s lithosphere are emphasized. Field exercises on one afternoon of selected weeks; course problem solving requires spread sheeting/ graphical applications using available personal computers. Lec 3, Lab 3. Course may include weekend field trips.
Prerequisites: ERS 101 or ERS 102, and MAT 126 and PHY 111
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Even Years
Credits: 3 |
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ERS 320 - Research Seminar in Earth and Climate Sciences Research seminar course of students with junior or senior standing. Students will attend research presentations by School of Earth and Climate Sciences faculty or graduate students and write short reviews of these presentations with the goals of increasing student understanding and awareness of the role of research in earth and climate sciences and strengthening students’ writing skills.
Prerequisites: ERS 200 and ERS 201 and Junior or Senior Standing
Course Typically Offered: Fall
Credits: 1 |
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ERS 321 - Problems in Earth and Climate Sciences Students conduct an original investigation and report findings. May not normally be used as a required geology elective. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: permission of instructor.
Course Typically Offered: Variable
Credits: 1-4 |
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ERS 323 - Extreme Weather Extreme weather is analyzed in terms of its physical basis as well as historical, economic and human consequences. Emphasis is placed on the interplay between technological advances, the evolution of meteorology as a science, and the impacts of extreme weather (winter storms, severe thunderstorms, tornados, tropical storms, El Nino, floods, droughts, heatwaves, cold waves).
General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Quantitative Literacy and Population and Environment requirements.
Prerequisites: Recommended: ERS 140 or ERS 121
Course Typically Offered: Spring, Odd Years
Credits: 3 |
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