| Economics |
ECO 001 - Economics Elective
Credits:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
ECO 002 - Economics Elective - SAB only
Credits:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
Economics
ECO 156 - Prin of Economics (Macro)
Credits:
3.00
A macroeconomic study of the household, business and
government sectors of the American economy, supply-demand
analysis, and an overview of national income accounting,
business cycles, and the nature and effect of monetary and
fiscal policies.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
ECO 157 - Prin of Economics (Micro)
Credits:
3.00
Discusses the American economy in microeconomic terms, the
operation of supply, demand, and elasticity, marginal
utility and indifference curve analysis, the business firm
in competition and monopoly, and the economic and political
significance of shifting currents in the nation's
balance-of-payments and balance-of-trade transactions.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
ECO 250 - Quantitative Analysis for Eco
Credits:
3.00
This course introduces students to the basic mathematical
techniques and forms of analysis used in economics. General
and applied methods of economic and mathematical analysis
are presented with applications including: functions,
equations in economics, optimization and constrained
optimizaion partial differentiation, and matrix algebra in
economics. Prerequisite: ECO 156, ECO 157, and MTH 129
or MTH 117 or equivalent.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
Economics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 156 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 157 Minimum Grade: D
and MTH 129 Minimum Grade: D
or MTH 117 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 255 - Money and Banking
Credits:
3.00
A description of American central banking, the structure and
development of commercial banks and non-bank financial
intermediaries, the nation's money and capital markets, bank
regulation and supervision, monetary theory and its policy
implications, and the operation of the system in
international payments.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 156 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 156R Minimum Grade: D
ECO 258 - Labor Econ & Labor Relations
Credits:
3.00
Discusses economic factors and underlying changes in labor
productivity, the composition of the labor force and nature
of a job search, the American labor movement and the role of
labor unions, determination and classification of wages and
wage structures in private and public employment, and the
effect of legislation on collective bargaining procedures.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 156 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 156R Minimum Grade: D
ECO 259 - Contemp Econ Issues & Problems
Credits:
3.00
Explores and analyzes the problems and issues of inflation,
unemployment, the necessity of urban renewal, the growth of
corporate conglomerates, the social and political
ramifications in the world's money markets, together with
the reasons giving rise to these occurrences.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 156 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 156R Minimum Grade: D
ECO 260 - Intermediate Microeconomics
Credits:
3.00
This course provides students with a critical examination
and introduction to the analysis of markets, demand theory,
production, theory of the firm, market structure, general
equilibrium and welfare analysis, and introductory game
theory. The course introduces students to introductory
modeling and mathematical methods used in microeconomics
to model and estimate demand relationships, production
functions, market behavior, and risk and uncertainty.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
Economics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 157 Minimum Grade: D
and MTH 129 Minimum Grade: D
or MTH 117 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 262 - Managerial Economics
Credits:
3.00
This course introduces students to the use of economic
methods for managerial decision-making. The focus of the
course is on the practical application of economic technique
to business problems including; the theory of the firm,
demand estimation, productions functions, cost estimation,
market structure, pricing strategy, and game theory.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
Economics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 157 Minimum Grade: D
and MTH 110 Minimum Grade: D
and MTH 129 Minimum Grade: D
or MTH 117 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 270 - Intermediate Macroeconomics
Credits:
3.00
Study of aggregate economic analysis. With attention to the
determination of the level of income, employment, and
inflation (IS-LM); Fiscal and monetary stablization policies
critically examines both theories, and the policies
associate with them; the macroeconomic implications
of fixed and flexible exchange rates in the presence of
international capital mobility supply-sided economics.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 156 Minimum Grade: D
and MTH 129 Minimum Grade: D
or MTH 117 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 303 - Arts & Entertainment Economics
Credits:
3.00
An analysis and in-depth study of the economics and
economic impact of the arts and entertainment activities.
Topics include arts demand and supply, live performaning
and cultural arts, profit and non-profit entertainment
industries, music and film industry (recorded arts) arts
venues, museums, and perfoming arts centers and economic
models of nonprofit cultural organizations.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
Economics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 156 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 156R Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 157 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 157R Minimum Grade: D
ECO 304 - Sports Economics
Credits:
3.00
An analysis and in-depth study of the economics and
economic impact of professional and amateur sports. Topics
include team and league structures, labor relations, stadium
financing, consumer demand for sports, and the role and
impact of public and private subsidies. The student should
be able to: identitfy and explain the economic principles
and problems associated with sports team ownership, stadium
economics, as well as the impact and effects of radio and
television broadcast rights on sports economics.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
Economics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 156 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 157 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 310 - Health Economics & Policy
Credits:
3.00
The aim of this course is to introduce students to the
application of economic thinking to the analysis of health
policy and health systems. Specifically, we will survey the
organization, financing and delivery of health services, the
the economic evaluation of alternative methods of providing
health care, priority setting and resourse allocation and
the health behaviors of individuals.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
Economics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 156 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 157 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 312 - Economics of Non-Profit Org.
Credits:
3.00
Nonprofit organizations have grown in numbers, wealth and
importance throughout the world over the past fifty years.
This course provides a transnational overview of the
statutory, regulatory and tax environments in which
nonprofits operate; the strategies they use in adapting to
changing sources of funding and relations to government; and
expectaions in influencing their behavior. In addition to
considering the development of non-governmental organization
in the U.S., Europe and Asia, the course will give attention
to the growth of transnational nonprofits operating outside
the nation state framework. It will also focus on particular
industries in which noonprofits operate, including social
services, health care, education and religion. Readings,
discussions,and written assignments are intended to help
students to think critically about the challenges managers
and policymakers face with the continuing growth of the
nonprofit organizations domestically and internationally.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 156 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 157 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 320 - Economics of the Internet Age
Credits:
3.00
A study of the economic structure and growth of the modern
economy focusing on the effect and impact of emerging
technologies on industry, employment, financial markets
and market structure.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 156 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 157 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 321 - Engineering Economics
Credits:
3.00
This course will provide students with a basic understanding
of the economic aspects of engineering in terms of the
evaluation of engineering proposals with respect to their
worth and cost. Topics include: introduction to Engineering
Economics; interest and interest formulas; equivalence and
equivalence calculations; evaluation of replacement
alternatives and operational activities; basic fundamentals
of cost accounting.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
ECO 330 - Modern Economic Thought
Credits:
3.00
The purpose of this course is to study the most important
economic theories of the recent past in order to gain a
better understanding, not only of these earlier economic
theories, but also of the nature of economic theory in
general and of the strengths and weaknesses of modern
micro and macro-economics and policymaking. We will study
the major schools of Modern Economic Thought -Neo-Classical,
Austrian, Keynesian, Monetarist, etc. We will examine these
theories to trace the long term thought on economic problems
like value theory, money & inflation, free trade, macro-
economics stability, etc.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 156 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 157 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 340 - International Trade
Credits:
3.00
First of a two semester offering to provide a comprehensive
exposition of the theory and principles of international
trade, the importance of international trade in
interdependent economics, and a knowledge of international
trade institutions and how they relate to U.S. commercial
policy. The material will employ an analytical as well as
historical and institutional approach.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 157 Minimum Grade: C
or ECO 157R Minimum Grade: C
or ECO 156 Minimum Grade: C
or ECO 156R Minimum Grade: C
ECO 341 - International Finance
Credits:
3.00
Second half of a two semester offering to provide
theoretical and practical knowledge of international
finance, its relationships to financial markets, and the
international monetary system as it relates to the U.S.
economy. The course work will focus on balance of payments,
foreign exchange markets and the international monetary
system.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 157 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 157R Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 156 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 156R Minimum Grade: D
ECO 342 - Financial Economics
Credits:
3.00
This course introduces students to the basic mathematical
models, techniques amd forms of analysis used in financial
economic analysis. Topics covered include uncertainity and
financial decision-making, mean-variance model of portfolio
selection, Black-Scholes option pricing formula, utility
functions, computational techniques and stochastic
volatility.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 156 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 157 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 250 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 350 - Economics of Global Disasters
Credits:
3.00
This course focuses on the inter-relationship between
natural and manmade hazards and disasters and the
economy. Disasters within the economic and sociology
literature arise when an event impacts the physical,
social and economic infrasturcture beyond its normal
absorptive capacity. Topics covered and examined
include natural hazards and their effects on regional
development, manmade disasters, methods of hazard
analysis, impact estimation techniques, and disaster
planning and mitigation, public policy and issues.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 156 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 157 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 380 - Econometrics
Credits:
3.00
The course will focus on application of statistics and
mathematics to problems of formulating and estimating
models of economic behavior. Topics to be covered:
Fundamentals of probability and statistics used in
economics and applied science. Introduction to
central limit theorem and Gauss Markov theorem;
Univariate and Multivariate regression using
Ordinary Least Square (OLS); Finite and large-
sample properties of the classical regression
models; Dummy variables and varying parameter
models; specification analysis.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
Economics
Pre-requisites:
MTH 110 Minimum Grade: D
and MTH 130 Minimum Grade: D
or MTH 131 Minimum Grade: D
or MTH 150 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 156 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 157 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 401 - Industrial Organization
Credits:
3.00
This course teaches how to bring industrial organization
theory to data and vice-versa. We will cover strategic
models of firm competition and selecte trade policy issuses.
We will use an explicit game-theoretic approach and study
simplified versions of theoretical models from industrial
organization and international trade. The theoretical
material will be illustrated with case studies and examples.
The focus will be on different topics including monopoly and
competition, cartels and collusion, entry and market
structure, price discrimination, information and competition
technological change and competition, and empirical analysis
of auctions and organizations.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 260 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 262 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 370 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 255 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 410 - Public Finance/Sector Economic
Credits:
3.00
This course introduces students to the issues, interactions
and inter-relationships arising between the market and
government policy-making. Tpoics covered include: tools
of public finance, budget analysis, externalities, political
economy, cost-benefit analysis, taxation and policy, social
insurance, income distribution and welfare.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 260 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 262 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 255 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 370 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 412 - Cost-Benefit Analysis
Credits:
3.00
This course will focus on the principles of applied economic
and welfare analysis. The basic theory of cost-benefit
analysis is presented and its revelance for social policy
analysis is established. Applications of cost-benefit
analysis are examined in the light of management decision
making, theoretical grounding in finance, accounting,
marketing, investment and planning. Its application in
health care industry, non-profit sector, entertainment
sector, transportation sector and information technology
sector also examined.
College:
Academic and Public Service
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 260 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 262 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 270 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 255 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 415 - Planning Theory & Analysis
Credits:
3.00
The basic objective of this course is to intorduce the key
players and landscapes, in which economic development is
practiced, to provide a basic theorectical foundation in
economic development studies, to address economic
development strategies and policy alternatives, and to
explore financial options available for economic development
Students in this course will use microsft excel spreadsheet
software to apply basic planning methods to real planning
and economic develoment issues and data sets. Class meetings
will include both lectures and applied case problems in
demography, land use, regional economic development and
transportation.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 260 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 262 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 270 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 255 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 420 - Eco of Science & Technology
Credits:
3.00
This course is an examination of technology based growth and
development both in historical and current contexts. Topics
include technology-based economic development, the role
of human capital, technology transfer, intellectual property
rights and patents, and network economics.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 260 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 262 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 255 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 270 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 430 - Urban & Regional Economics
Credits:
3.00
This course provides an introduction to urban economics
within a context of public policy and planning. The problems
of rapid urban growth, urban sprawl, spatial mismatch of
jobs and residential locations of low-income workers,
traffic congestion, affordable housing, education,
homelessness, crime and poverty concentration are some of
the byproducts of the dynamics of metropolitan markets for
real estate, labor and transportation. We examine and
evaluate critically the accounting and economic frameworks
used to measure regional economic growth and review
multipiliers, backward and forward linkages, supply chains,
and other measures. We discuss how these consepts can be use
to assess employment and environmental impacts and
infrastructure investments, accounting for measurement
problems, such as the underground economy. We review price
indices, emploment and industrial location measures and
shift-share analysis, economic growth and development is
analyzed with the focus on the dynamics of strategic
regional policy making.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 260 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 262 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 270 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 255 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 435 - Evironmental Economic & Policy
Credits:
3.00
This course provides a survey of the fundamental concepts
underlying economic approaches to environmental policy,
illustrates applications of these concepts in the real world
and offers students the opportunity to apply their new
knowledge toward understanding a current environmental
problem.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Academic and Public Service
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 260 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 262 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 370 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 255 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 440 - Topics in Applied Economics
Credits:
3.00
A treatment of diverse topics chosen by the department for
their importance in current economics. The course will
require extensive reading, analysis and written work
depending on the topic. Students should check with the
department before registering for this course regarding
anticipated topics for the semester.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 260 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 262 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 270 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 255 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 480 - Forecasting
Credits:
3.00
This course the methodology and applications of
econometric forecasting and time series analysis.
Topics include linear regression model, stationarity,
modeling seasonality, arima models, and volatility.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 380 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 260 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 262 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 255 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 270 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 489 - Economic Intership
Credits:
3.00
Advanced third and fourth year applied economics
students will be placed ina public or private sector
setting in which the student will be able to gain work
experience in applied economics analysis. A written report
on the internship experience is required of the student at
the conclusion of the internship. Students may not repeat
this course for credit.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 260 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 262 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 270 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 255 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 250 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 490 - Eco Research and Reporting
Credits:
3.00
This course introduces students to the methods and
techniques of economic analysis, research and report
writing. Topics include methods of impact analysis, data
and statistical analysis, interpretation of results,
documentation, article preparation and report
presentation.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 260 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 262 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 270 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 255 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 250 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 380 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 490W - Eco Research & Reporting Wrtg
Credits:
3.00
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 260 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 262 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 270 Minimum Grade: D
or ECO 255 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 250 Minimum Grade: D
and ECO 380 Minimum Grade: D
ECO 491 - Applied Eco Analysis
Credits:
3.00
This course is a follow-up to the economic research and
reporting course. Its goal is to prepare you to conduct
independent research in consultation with their advisor,
students will develop a senior project in an area of current
economic interest. They will participate in seminar and
present their research, culminating in a completed report
and presentation on their research topic.
Other:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
History/Economics/Politics
Pre-requisites:
ECO 490 Minimum Grade: D
| Electrical Engr/Electronics |
EET 001 - Elec Engr Elective (Upper Div)
Credits:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
EET 104 - DC/AC Circuits
Credits:
4.00
An introductory course to the fundamentals and basic
principles of DC and AC circuits. Topics covered include:
The definition of current, voltage and passive circuit
elements such as, resistors, capacitors, and inductors,
through their I-V characteristic relationships. Ohm's Law
Power, Kirchoff's Current and Voltage Laws, Voltage and
Current Divider Rules, and their basic applications in the
analysis of series, parallel and series-parallel circuits.
The fundamental Network Theorems, Superposition,
Thevenin's and Norton's equivalent circuits and Maximum
Power Transfer. AS signal waveforms and their Average
and RMS value, alternating current, voltage and power
resistors, capacitors and inductors in AC circuits, ideal
transformers and the concept of resonance. Introduction
to the operation and basic applications of first order
passive, low and high pass, RC filters.
Lecture:
3.00 Lab:
2.00 Other:
1.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Pre-requisites:
MTH 116 Minimum Grade: D
EET 105 - Intro to Digital Electronics
Credits:
.00 or 2.00
An introduction to the fundamental concepts of Digital
Electronics, Number Systems, Combinational Circuits, Boolean
Algebra, Karnaugh Map Techniques, Adders, Multiplexers,
Code Converters, etc., Measurement of Waveforms and Timing
Diagrams in Digital Circuits. The student will become
familiar with commonly adopted techniques of measurement
using an oscilloscope.
Lecture:
1.00 Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 111L, EET 111T
EET 110 - Computer Applications
Credits:
.00 or 3.00
An introduction to computer programming with applications.
Examples and assignments are drawn from problems in
Electrical Engineering Technology. The course uses Windows
based PC's, the "C/C++" programming language (visual
C++), and IEEE-488 Standard interfacing to programmable
instrumentation.
Lecture:
2.00 Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Pre-requisites:
EET 111 Minimum Grade: D
or EET 111T Minimum Grade: D
EET 110L - Computer Applications Lab
Credits:
.00
Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
EET 111L - Electric Circuits I - Lab
Credits:
1.00
Lab:
2.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 111T, MTH 129
EET 111T - Electric Circuits I - Theory
Credits:
3.00
A basic course in direct current circuit theory. Concepts
of charge, current and voltage; Ohm's Law, Kirchoff's Laws;
analysis of series, parallel, and combination circuits; mesh
and nodal analysis; Superposition, Thevenin's & Norton's
theorems; maximum power transfer theorem; electric fields
and capacitance; magnetic fields and inductance; analysis
of R-C and R-L switching networks. The laboratory is
coordinated with, and supports, the theory course.
Lecture:
4.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 111L, MTH 129
EET 113L - Electric Circuits II - Lab
Credits:
1.00
Lab:
2.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 113T
Pre-requisites:
EET 111T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 111 Minimum Grade: D
and MTH 129 Minimum Grade: D
EET 113T - Electric Circuits II - Theory
Credits:
3.00
This is the second of a two-course sequence designed to
provide the background needed to analyze electric networks.
Topics covered in this course include sinusoidal waveforms
and non-sinusodial waveforms; the phasor representation of
sinusoidal signals; the use of complex numbers to analyze
R-C, R-L, and R-L-C networks under sinusodial steady-state
conditions; series and parallel resonance; average power
calculations; simple passive filters, frequency response
(dB magnitude and phase) and its relations to the step
response of simple R-C, R-L and R-L-C networks; transformer
principles and types of transformers; three phase balance
systems.
Lecture:
4.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 113L
Pre-requisites:
EET 111T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 111 Minimum Grade: D
and MTH 129 Minimum Grade: D
EET 117L - Basic Electronics - Lab
Credits:
1.00
Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 113T, EET 117T
EET 117T - Basic Electronics - Theory
Credits:
3.00
The fundamentals of semiconductor diodes, Bipolar Junction
Transistors (BJT's) and Field Effect Transistors (FET's)
are discusses. Topics covered include: diode circuits,
rectifiers, RC filters, zener diodes and zener regulated
power supplies, biasing schemes and Q point operating
conditions of BJT and FET transistors. In addition, small
signal BJT and FET amplifiers are analyzed at midband
frequency in terms of voltage gain, current gain and power
gain, input impedance and output impedance. Format report
writing is part of the laboratory requirements.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 113L, EET 117L
EET 118 - Semiconductor Devices&Circuits
Credits:
4.00
Fundamentals of semiconductor diodes and bipolar junction
transistors are discussed in this coure. Topics covered
include: Q point operating condtions of semiconductor diodes
in various circuit confirgurations, full and half-wave
rectification, capacitor input filters, zener diodes and
basic linear DC power supply configurations. Q point
operating conditions of BJT transistors in various bias
configurations are analyzed as well as small signal
single-stage and multi-stage amplifiers at mid-band
frequencies in terms of voltage gain, current gain,
power gain, input impedance, output imedance, AC
load lines and signal node voltages.
Lecture:
3.00 Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 113
EET 118L - Semiconductor Devices&Circuits
Credits:
1.00
Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 113
EET 118T - Semiconductor Devices&Circuits
Credits:
3.00
Fundamentals of semiconductor diodes and bipolar junction
transistors are discussed in this course. Topics covered
include: Q point operating conditions of semiconductor
diodes in various circuit configurations, full and half-wave
rectification, capacitor input filters, zener diodes and
basic linear DC power supply configurations. Q point
operating coditions of BJT transistors in various bias
configurations are analyzed as well as small signal
single-stage and multi-stage amplifiers at mid-band
frequencies in terms of voltage gain, current gain,
power gain, input impedance, output impedance,
AC load lines and signal node voltages.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 113
EET 191 - Elec Circ Concepts/Components
Credits:
4.00
An introductory lecture/demonstration course in the
terminology, concepts, and components of electric circuits.
The aim is to give students from other disciplines (e.g.
Office Management, Nursing, etc.) sufficient knowledge
and understanding to effectively communicate with technical
specialists in this field.
Lecture:
4.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
EET 222L - Amplifiers - Lab
Credits:
1.00
Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 110, EET 222T, MTH 130
Pre-requisites:
EET 113T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 113 Minimum Grade: D
and ( EET 117T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 117 Minimum Grade: D )
EET 222T - Amplifiers - Theory
Credits:
3.00
Signal parameters of Class A and Class B small signal and
power amplifiers are analyzed in this course. Topics
covered include: BJT, JFET, and MOSFET transistors,
operational amplifiers, cascade, Darlington, and cascode
amplifiers, decibels, Q point stability, voltage feedback,
AC loadlines, efficiency, heat sink requirements and
frequency response. Micro-Cap software is used to simulate
amplifier operating conditions and frequency response.
Formal report writing is part of the laboratory requirement.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 110, EET 222L, MTH 130
Pre-requisites:
EET 113T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 113 Minimum Grade: D
and ( EET 117T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 117 Minimum Grade: D )
EET 223L - Digital Electronics - Lab
Credits:
1.00
Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 223T
Pre-requisites:
EET 105 Minimum Grade: D
and EET 117T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 117 Minimum Grade: D
EET 223T - Digital Electronics - Theory
Credits:
3.00
Analysis and design of combinational and sequential logic
circuits. SSI and MSI circuits; flip-flops, counters, and
shift registers; integrated circuit families; multiplexers;
semiconductor memory devices; D/A and A/D converters. The
associated laboratory reinforces the topics covered in the
theory through relevant experiments performed by the
student. A formal report is part of the laboratory
requirement.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 223L
Pre-requisites:
EET 105 Minimum Grade: D
and ( EET 117T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 117 Minimum Grade: D )
EET 225 - Communications Electronics
Credits:
.00 to 4.00
An introduction to communication signals and circuits.
Topics include: filters, simple audio and RF oscillators,
interpretation and application of Fourier series;
mathematics of amplitude; frequency and phase modulation;
basic transmitter circuitry; superheterodyne receivers for
various modulation methods; multiplexing techniques
including FM stereo multiplexing. Introduction to Digital
Transmission Techniques as time permits. Formal report
writing is part of the laboratory requirement.
Lecture:
3.00 Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 225L
Pre-requisites:
EET 222 Minimum Grade: D
or EET 222T Minimum Grade: D
EET 225L - Communications Electronics Lab
Credits:
1.00
Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 225
Pre-requisites:
EET 222T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 222 Minimum Grade: D
EET 225T - Communications Electronics
Credits:
3.00
An introduction to communication signals and circuits.
Topics include: filters, simple audio and RF oscillators,
interpretation and application of Fourier series;
mathematics of amplitude; frequency and phase modulation;
basic transmitter circuitry; superheterodyne receivers for
various modulation methods; multiplexing techniques
including FM stereo multiplexing. Introduction to Digital
Transmission Techniques as time permits. Formal report
writing is part of the laboratory requirement.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 225L
Pre-requisites:
EET 222T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 222 Minimum Grade: D
EET 228 - Advanced Electronics
Credits:
3.00
Differential amplifier analysis and operational amplifier
configurations. Differential and common mode operation,
CMRR and non-ideal Op-Amp characteristics. Frequency
characteristice and effects on Op-Amp operating parameters.
Industrial IC's and manufacturers' specifications. Selected
Op-Amp applications. Formal report writing is part of the
laboratory requirement.
Lecture:
2.00 Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 228L
Pre-requisites:
EET 117T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 117 Minimum Grade: D
EET 228L - Advanced Electronics Lab
Credits:
1.00
Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 228T
Pre-requisites:
EET 117T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 117 Minimum Grade: D
EET 228T - Advanced Electronics
Credits:
2.00
Differential amplifier analysis and operational amplifier
configurations. Differential and common mode operation,
CMRR and non-ideal Op-Amp characteristics. Frequency
characteristics and effects on Op-Amp operating parameters.
Industrial IC's and manufacturers' specifications. Selected
Op-Amp applications. Formal report writing is part of the
laboratory requirement.
Lecture:
2.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 228L
Pre-requisites:
EET 117T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 117 Minimum Grade: D
EET 251 - Microprocessors
Credits:
.00 or 3.00
Fundamental microprocessor and microcontroller concepts;
architecture, memory, memory interfacing, programming,
signals, timing, delay calculations, I/O interfacing and
interrupts. The students will be required to interface input
and output devices to the embedded controller and quantify
associated hardware/software trade-offs. Laboratory work
requires programming in assembly language and in C/C++.
Lecture:
2.00 Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Pre-requisites:
EET 223T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 223 Minimum Grade: D
EET 311 - Network Analysis
Credits:
.00 or 4.00
A calculus based network analysis course that introduces the
use of Laplace transforms in the analysis of both active and
passive lumped parameter time-invariant linear networks.
Topics covered include Mesh and Nodal analysis using matrix
formulations; the network theorems; impedance and the
modeling of initial conditions; first and second order
systems; transfer functions; poles and zeros; impulse and
step response; forced and natural response as well as
system stability and time domain response. The sinusoidal
steady state (AC) phasor transforamtion and its relation to
the Laplace transform and the frequency response of
networks are also included. The laboratory utilizes
simulation of electric networks.
Lecture:
3.00 Lab:
2.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 311L
EET 311L - Network Analysis Lab
Credits:
.00
Lab:
2.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 311T, MTH 236
EET 311T - Network Analysis Theory
Credits:
.00 or 4.00
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 311L, MTH 236
EET 316 - Digital Design
Credits:
.00 or 4.00
Introduction to digital design using PAL (Programming Array
Logic), GAL (Genetic Array Logic), and FPGA (Field
Programmable Gate Arrays). The PAL/GAL circuits are
designed using the Boolean language ABEL. The PAL/GAL chips
are then "burned" using a PAL programmer. The FPGA circuits
are designed using the schematic entry software VIEWLOGIC
and/or ABEL. The target chips are Xilinx FPGA and the
Xilinx XACT software is used to "place and route" the
design. Designs are then tested using a demo bourd and
special Xchecker cable. The course involves extensive
computer aided laboratory work.
Lecture:
3.00 Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Pre-requisites:
EET 223 Minimum Grade: D
or EET 223T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 223T Minimum Grade: D
EET 316L - Digital Design Lab
Credits:
.00
Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 316T
Pre-requisites:
EET 223T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 223 Minimum Grade: D
EET 316T - Digital Design Theory
Credits:
.00 or 4.00
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 316L
Pre-requisites:
EET 223T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 223 Minimum Grade: D
EET 317L - Industrial Electronics Lab
Credits:
.00
Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 317T
Pre-requisites:
EET 228T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 228 Minimum Grade: D
EET 317T - Industrial Electronics Theory
Credits:
.00 or 4.00
Selected topics involving Difference and Instrumentation
amplifiers with Transducer Bridge applications. Linear
and Switching mode regulated power supply operation
with analysis and design techniques using existing
industrial IC's Thyristor characteristics with SCR, DIAC
and TRIAC applications in power control circuits.
Theory concepts are illustrated in the Laboratory.
Formal report writing is part of the laboratory
requirement.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 317L
Pre-requisites:
EET 228T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 228 Minimum Grade: D
EET 325 - Amplifier Design
Credits:
.00 or 4.00
Design considerations for small signal and power amplifiers.
Effect of transistor parameter and temperature variation on
Q point stability. Stability factors and DC stabilization
techniques is the design of amplifiers. Worst case
operating conditions. Heat sink requirements. Amplifier
frequency response characteristics and requirements.
Theory concepts are illustrated in the laboratory. Formal
report writing is part of the laboratory requirement.
Lecture:
3.00 Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 325L
EET 325L - Amplifier Design Lab
Credits:
.00
Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 325
EET 327 - Automated Test/Signal Process
Credits:
.00 or 4.00
A course on the use of programmable instrumentation for
automated testing, and the use of computers to process data
and signals. Topics covered include the IEEE-488 interface
and its application in automated testing; the use of
computers to process data; Fourier Series, and Fourier
transforms, and signal spectra; the sampling theorem; the
discrete Fourier transform; the Fast Fourier Transform;
applications. The laboratory assignments are an integral
part of the course and require considerable programming in
C/C++ MATLAB. Both formal and informal laboratory reports
are required.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 327L
Pre-requisites:
EET 311T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 311 Minimum Grade: D
EET 327L - Automated Test/Signl Proc. Lab
Credits:
.00
Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 327
Pre-requisites:
EET 311T Minimum Grade: D
and MTH 236 Minimum Grade: D
EET 414 - Transmission Lines & Antennae
Credits:
.00 or 4.00
Introduction to transmission lines. Transient response for
conditions of matched and mismatched impedance. Definition
of reflection and transmission coefficients. Sinusoidal
signals, standing wave ration and use of the Smith chart.
Power measurement. Introduction to antennas. Radiation
pattern and impedance of simple dipole antennas. Formal
laboratory report writing required.
Lecture:
3.00 Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Pre-requisites:
EET 422 Minimum Grade: D
or EET 422T Minimum Grade: D
and ( EET 225T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 225 Minimum Grade: D )
EET 414L - Transmissn Lines & Antenn(Lab)
Credits:
.00
Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 414T
Pre-requisites:
EET 422T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 422 Minimum Grade: D
and ( EET 225T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 225 Minimum Grade: D )
EET 414T - Transmission Lines & Antenna
Credits:
4.00
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 414L
Pre-requisites:
EET 225 Minimum Grade: D
or EET 225T Minimum Grade: D
EET 418 - Microproc Interface & Control
Credits:
.00 or 4.00
This course covers an in-depth study of the Intel family
of microprocessor systems by exploring the internal
functions of a computer. Hardware and software
capabilitites are studied in order to build a foundation
for the design and interfacing of microprocessor based
systems using real world examples. Assembly as well as a
high level language such as "C++" is used in various
programming projects and in interfacing devices.
Lecture:
3.00 Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Pre-requisites:
EET 110 Minimum Grade: D
and EET 251 Minimum Grade: D
EET 418L - Microprc Intrface & Contrl Lab
Credits:
.00
Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 418T
Pre-requisites:
EET 251 Minimum Grade: D
and EET 327 Minimum Grade: D
EET 418T - Microproc Interface & Ctrl
Credits:
4.00
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 418L
Pre-requisites:
EET 251 Minimum Grade: D
and EET 327 Minimum Grade: D
EET 420 - Linear Systems and Controls
Credits:
4.00
This course covers the principles and characteristics of
continuous time in variant linear systems and controls as
well as the basic performance parameters and analysis
techniques of such systems. Topics covered include: Review
of Laplace Trnasforms and their applications in analyzing
the performance of systems in terms of their impulse and
step response; block diagram models, signal flow graphs,
and state variable representation of systems; second order
active filters and the performance characteristics of
second order systems in terms of overshoot, speed and
settling time. Feedback Control System characteristics, the
Routh-Hurwitz stability criteria, and the application of
Root Locus and Frequency Response techniques in the
analysis of control systems are also covered. The laboratory
utilizes MATLAB to demonstrate and enhance the theory
principles covered in the lecture portion of the course.
Lecture:
3.00 Lab:
2.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
MTH 245
Pre-requisites:
EET 311 Minimum Grade: D
EET 422 - Control Systems I
Credits:
.00 or 3.00
A combined lecture/laboratory course in the analysis/design
of continuous linear time-invariant systems. Topics covered
include: a review of Laplace transforms and their
application; transfer functions; impulse and step response;
frequency response; stability considerations; block
diagrams; the modeling of both translational and rotational
mechanical systems and electrical analogues for such
systems. The laboratory is used to demonstrate and/or
extend the lecture topics, and makes considerable use of
available software (e.g. PSPICE) and programmable
instrumentation. Both formal and informal laboratory
reports are required.
Lecture:
.00 or 2.00 Lab:
.00 or 3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 422L, MTH 322
Pre-requisites:
EET 311 Minimum Grade: D
or EET 311T Minimum Grade: D
EET 422L - Control Systems I Lab
Credits:
.00
Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 422T, MTH 322
Pre-requisites:
EET 311T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 311 Minimum Grade: D
EET 422T - Control Systems I Theory
Credits:
3.00
Lecture:
2.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 422L, MTH 322
Pre-requisites:
EET 311T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 311 Minimum Grade: D
EET 423L - Control Systems II Lab
Credits:
.00
Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 423T
Pre-requisites:
EET 422T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 422 Minimum Grade: D
EET 423T - Control Systems II
Credits:
4.00
A continuation of ControI Systems I in the analysis of
linear time- invariant feedback control systems. Topics
covered include: State variable and state diagram
system representaion; absolute and relative stability
consideration using Routh-Hurwtiz and Nyquist criteria; the
use of root locus and Bode plots for the frequency
domain analysis of such systems. The laboratory is
used to demonstrate and/or expand the theory concepts
and makes use of available software including PSPICE
and MATLAB>
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 423L
Pre-requisites:
EET 422T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 422 Minimum Grade: D
EET 426 - Digital Communications
Credits:
3.00
An introduction to digital communications systems. Topics
covered include; the sampling theorem; PCM systems;
synchronization techniques; noise analysis and reduction;
FSK; PSK; bit error rates; hamming codes; and an
introduction to fiber optic systems.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 327
Pre-requisites:
EET 225T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 225 Minimum Grade: D
EET 428 - Advanced Microprocessors Theor
Credits:
.00 or 4.00
This course covers various hardware applications of a
special purpose microprocessor systems and peripheral
devices such as floating point processors and interrupt
controllers. Practical approaches of interfacing the
microprocessor with different systems are explored.
Laboratory assignments make use of assembly level as well
as a high level programming language.
Lecture:
3.00 Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 428L
Pre-requisites:
EET 418T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 418 Minimum Grade: D
EET 428L - Advanced Microprocessors Lab
Credits:
.00
Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 428T
Pre-requisites:
EET 418T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 418 Minimum Grade: D
EET 428T - Adv Microprocessors Theory
Credits:
.00 or 4.00
Lecture:
3.00 Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 428L
Pre-requisites:
EET 418T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 418 Minimum Grade: D
EET 440 - Data Communications & Network
Credits:
4.00
This course covers the basic concepts of networking and
computer connectivity. Several network topologies and
related media access techniques are explored. The
rudiments of Data Communications and Open System
Interconnection (OSI) are discussed in detail. Students
will learn the components of a client server networks
using the Novell's Net Ware/ Intra Net Ware. Certain
protocols such as TCP/IP and SPX/IPX are also
discussed. Laboratory experiments are designed to
give students a hands on experience in Network
administration, configuration and resource management.
Completion of this course includes a final project related
to the design of a local area network, complete with
Layers I and II, as well as the Directory Tree Structure
based on the netware. An oral presentation by each
student of his/her project is required.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
EET 440L - Data Communications & Network
Credits:
.00
The course covers the basic concepts of networking and
computer connectivity. Several network topologies and
related media access techniques are explored. The rudiments
of Data Communications and Open System Interconnection (OSI)
are discussed in detail. Students will learn the comppnents
of a client server networks using the Novell's
Netware/ IntraNetWare. Certain protocols such as TCP/IP and
SPX/IPX are also discussed. Laboratory experiments are
designed to give students a hands on experience in Network
administration, configuration and resource management.
Completion of this course includes a final project related
to the design of a local network, complete with Layers I and
II, as well as the Directory Tree Structure based on the
netware. An oral presentation by each student of his/her
project is required.
Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 440T
EET 440T - Data Communic & Network Theory
Credits:
4.00
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 440L
EET 441 - Advanced Networking
Credits:
4.00
This course is a continuation of EET 440, Networking and
Data Communications. The principles of Architecture
Layering, Multiplexing and Encapsulation are discussed.
TCP/IP, IPX, PPP, ISDN and Frame Relay Protocols are
covered. Network equipment such as repeaters, bridges
router hubs and switches are studied in detail. Equipment
examples are drawn from key vendors such as CISCO, 3COM
and Cabletron. The laboratory portion of the course will
concentrate on experiments and projects designed using
CISCO Systems networking equipment, such as 2500 and
2600 series routers, 1900 and 2900 catalysts switches.
The students will also learn how to design networks using
VLANS on the above mentioned equipment.
Lecture:
3.00 Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Pre-requisites:
EET 440 Minimum Grade: D
or EET 440T Minimum Grade: D
EET 441L - Advanced Networking Lab
Credits:
.00
Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 441T
Pre-requisites:
EET 440T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 440 Minimum Grade: D
EET 441T - Advanced Networking Theory
Credits:
4.00
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Co-requisites:
EET 441L
Pre-requisites:
EET 440T Minimum Grade: D
or EET 440 Minimum Grade: D
EET 450 - Design Concepts
Credits:
2.00
General design considerations and concepts with particular
emphasis in "worst case" design and "optimum" design. Case
studies will be provided through examples of different areas
of Electrical Engineering Technology. Product development
procedures and processes will be presented along with
testing and costing considerations. By the end of this
course students must select their senior design project
for EET 451 and must submit an appropriate proposal.
Lecture:
2.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
EET 452 - Design Project
Credits:
2.00
The student's overall technical knowledge is applied to
this "capstone" design project under the supervision
of faculty. A complee oral and wrriten presentation is
required of each student explaining the design process
and specifications, cost considerations, testing and/or
computer simulation results when appropriate.
Lecture:
1.00 Lab:
2.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
EET 452W - Design Project
Credits:
2.00
The student's overall technical knowledge is applied to this
"capstone" design project under the supervision of faculty.
A complete oral and written presentation is required of each
student explaining the design process and specifications,
cost considerations, testing and/or computer simulation
results when appropriate.
NOTE: This is a writing-intensive course. Students will be
expected to write short exercises, as well as longer papers
that will be revised and graded.
Lecture:
1.00 Lab:
2.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
Pre-requisites:
EET 450 Minimum Grade: D
EET 455 - Senior Project
Credits:
.00 or 3.00
An independent investigation of a technical problem of
interest to both the student and a faculty member who shall
act as Project Advisor. Registration requires Department
approval of a formal written proposal submitted by the
student with an accompanying evaluation of the faculty
member who has agreed to act as Project Advisor. This
proposal must be submitted at least 30 days prior to
registration. Successful completion requires the
submission of a comprehensive technical report and a
successful oral presentation and defense of this report
before a departmentally appointed Evaluation Committee
consisting of the Project Advisor and two other faculty
members. The oral presentation and defense is open to all
members of the department, but the grade to be awarded is
determined by the Evaluation Committee.
Lecture:
1.00 Lab:
6.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
EET 490 - Topics: Electrical Engr Tech
Credits:
3.00
Selected topics of current interest in Electrical
Engineering Technology. (See department mailings for
detailed description of each particular offering.)
Lecture:
2.00 or 3.00 Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
EET 491 - Wireless Communication
Credits:
3.00
Lecture:
2.00 Lab:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
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EGL 000 - Writing Placement
Credits:
.00
Lecture:
.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
EGL 001 - English Elective
Credits:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
EGL 003 - Upper Level English Elective
Credits:
3.00 to 6.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
EGL 097 - Basic Writing Skills
Credits:
3.00
A developmental course concerned with the improvement of
written communication skills. Students review grammar and
mechanics, syntax, vocabulary, paragraph and essay
organization, and reading skills. Students are required to
pass an exit exam, and a pass/repeat grade is awarded for
the course. This course is not applicable toward an
Associate degree.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
EGL 101 - Composition: Rhetoric
Credits:
3.00
A course in expository writing with emphasis on the use of
acceptable patterns of English and the application of
rhetorical principles and research. Students will gain
experience in the writing process, including revision. A
research paper is required with assignments in library
research, note taking, outlining, and incorporating sources
into a final draft.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
Sentence Skills - Placement 082
or Essay - Placement Test 07
or English Test Waiver 999
or EGL 097 Minimum Grade: P *
or EGL 095R Minimum Grade: D *
or EGL 096R Minimum Grade: D *
or EGL 097R Minimum Grade: P *
or English Placement Level 1
or EGL 101R Minimum Grade: D
or EGL 101R Minimum Grade: D
EGL 101R - Composition Rhetoric w/Lab
Credits:
4.00
A course in expository writing emphasizing the writing
process, including critical thinking, brainstorming,
organizing through rhetorical patterns, and revision.
Students will write and revise several short essays. They
will learn research techniques, both traditional and
Internet based, and note taking and outlining, in order to
produce a final research paper that incorporates sources
responsibly, summarizing, paraphrasing and quoting them as
needed. This version of 101, enhanced with a 50 minute lab
period for students whose placement test indicate that they
can benefit four credits toward the degree rather than
three. Each student will make an oral presentation based on
his/her research and/ or essays.
Lecture:
4.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
EGL 102 - Composition: Literature
Credits:
3.00
An introduction to plays, poetry, short stories, novels,
and essays. Papers are written on forms, techniques, and
themes of literature.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 101 Minimum Grade: D
or EGL 101R Minimum Grade: D
or EG 101 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 105 - Honors Freshman Composition
Credits:
3.00
An interdisciplinary approach to reading and writing in such
fields as philosophy, history, ethics, and science,
emphasizing their interrelationships. Students explore
issues in depth via term papers, presentations by guest
speakers, and visits to museums, corporations, libraries,
and theaters.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
EGL 200 - Shakespeare
Credits:
3.00
A survey of representative comedies, tragedies, romances,
and histories showing Shakespeare's dramatic variety.
Acting styles are emphasized with the use of recordings,
tapes and, when possible, live performances.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 200W - Interp'sal Comm/Writ Intensive
Credits:
3.00
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Academic and Public Service
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 201 - Eng Lit: Old English-18th Cent
Credits:
3.00
A historical survey of English literature from the
beginnings to neoclassicism. Consideration is given to
Anglo-Saxon and medieval writers, Chaucer, Elizabethan and
Jacobean writers, Shakespeare, Milton, and the writers of
the Age of Reason. English history, religion, and
philosophy are studied as they relate to literature.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 202 - Eng Lit: 19th Century-Present
Credits:
3.00
A historical survey of the Romantics, including Blake,
Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, and Keats; the
Victorians, including Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold; and
twentieth century writers, including Yeats, Joyce, and
Eliot. Emphasis is placed on the development and continuity
of literary traditions.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
or EGL 102R Minimum Grade: D
EGL 203 - American Lit: Beginnings-1865
Credits:
3.00
An examination of major historical and new canonical
American authors; genres, and periods of the seventeenth,
eighteenth, and part of the nineteenth centuries up to the
Civil War. An analysis of the works of writers of the New
Republic, the Revolutionary and Federalist periods of the
eighteenth century, as well as the emerging national
literatures of indigenous and colonizing groups; the ages of
Transcendentalism, American Gothic, early Realism as well as
the works of Native American, Feminist, African-American,
Abolitionist, Frontier and Civil War writers will be
considered.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 204 - American Lit: 1865 to Present
Credits:
3.00
An examination of major historical and new canonical
American authors, genres and periods of the era from the
Civil War through the twentieth century. An analysis of
such trends as Realism, Naturalism, immigrant literature,
the regional and local color movements, as well as the rise
of bibliographical genres, and the influence of psychology
and technology on literature will be made. Modernism, the
renaissance in American poetry, the Harlem Renaissance, and
the literature of social critique will also be examined.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 204W - American Lit:1865 to Present
Credits:
3.00
An examination of major historical and new canonical
American authors, genres and periods of the era from the
Civil War through the twentieth century. An analysis of such
trends as Realism, Naturalism, immigrant literature, the
regional and local color movements, as well as the rise
of bibliographical genres, and the influence of psychology
and technology on literature will be made. Modernism, the
renaissance in American poetry, the Harlem Renaissance,
and the literature of social critique will also be examined.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 206 - World Lit: Early Classics
Credits:
3.00
An introduction to Western and non-Western literature from
earliest times through the seventeenth century. Included
are works from ancient Greece and Rome, Medieval and
Renaissance Europe, the Middle East, Africa, China, and
India.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 207 - World Lit: The Moderns
Credits:
3.00
An introduction to Western and non-Western literature from
the eighteenth century through the twentieth century.
Included are works from authors of the Enlightenment, the
Romantic and Realist Movements, and the twentieth century
from the Continent and the Third World.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 209 - Technical Communication
Credits:
3.00
A course stressing the structure of written and oral
expository communication of a practical, technical, or
scientific nature intended for a specific audience.
Students are required to produce written and oral reports,
proposals, resumes, and professional correspondence. A
1500-word research report is required.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 210 - Intro to Drama
Credits:
3.00
A survey of Western drama stressing close reading of plays
from ancient Greece, Elizabethian and Restoration England,
nineteenth-century Scandinavia and Russia, and
twentieth-century Britain and America. The changing
concepts of comedy and tragedy are discussed.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 210W - Intro: Drama/Writing Intensive
Credits:
3.00
A survey of Western drama stressing close reading of plays
from ancient Greece, Elizabethan and Restoration England,
nineteenth- century Scandinavia and Russia, and
twentieth-century Britain and American. The changing
concepts of comedy and tragedy are discussed.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
or EGL 102R Minimum Grade: D
EGL 212 - Intro to Fiction
Credits:
3.00
A survey of American, British, and continental prose
fiction. An understanding of the critical theory of such
works is stressed.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 214 - Intro to Poetry
Credits:
3.00
A survey of English language poetry. Selected works of both
traditional and contemporary poets are analyzed and
discussed. (Offered in Spring)
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 214W - Introduction to Poetry
Credits:
3.00
A survey of English language poetry. Selected works of both
traditional and contemporary poets are analyzed and
discuessed. Writing Intensive.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 216 - Creative Writing
Credits:
3.00
An introduction to a wide spectrum of written formats,
especially those employed by writers of fiction and poetry.
Students read in these genres and submit a short written
piece, in either genre, for each class. In addition,
students complete a major project in their chosen area.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 222 - Women in Literature
Credits:
3.00
An exploration of the position of women in various cultures
as interpreted by major world writers. Focus is on the
female protagonist's attainment of goals in marriage,
family, and work.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
or EGL 102R Minimum Grade: D
EGL 224 - Black Lit & Amer Tradition
Credits:
3.00
A study of representative works of African-American writers
from the Pre-Civil War Period through the present day.
Historical and social backgrounds are examined.
African-American literature is considered as an expression
of a people, and as a part of the American literary
tradition.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 225 - Images of Women in Drama
Credits:
3.00
A study of images of women in Western drama from
ancient times to the present. This course will consider the
development of drama as a popular art form reflecting gender
issues of its time.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 225W - Images of Women in Drama
Credits:
3.00
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Academic and Public Service
Department:
English/Humanities
EGL 226 - Journalism
Credits:
3.00
An introduction to practical journalism in which students
write news and feature stories, editorials, and reviews,
and examine techniques of newspaper design and photography.
Classes include readings and discussions in the theory of
mass communications. Student materials may be printed in
campus publications.
Note: Students taking this course may not receive credit for
PCM 226.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 228 - Classics & Myth in Pop Culture
Credits:
3.00
This course presents a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary
examination of the meaning and value of such myths as those
of the creation, the flood, and the hero, and their
depiction in literature, art, film, and music from the
ancient past to the present. Students will acquire an
understanding of the uses of mythical themes and archetypes
both in ancient art and literature as well as in modern art,
literature, and film. Course work includes assigned
readings, film screenings, informal journals, a formal
paper and exams.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
or EGL 102R Minimum Grade: D
or EGL 102R Minimum Grade: D
EGL 230 - Literature of the Bible
Credits:
3.00
A study of the origins, themes, and history of Biblical
literature based on the new international version of the
Bible. Later literature and other arts influenced by the
Bible are included.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 232 - Voices of Multicultr America
Credits:
3.00
A study of selected fiction, poetry, autobiography and
memoirs of American immigrants of the 20th and 21st
centuries. The thematic focus of this course is the way
in which writers from different cultures shape the stories
of their lives, particularly as they encounter the realities
of American experience and test the truth of their
American dreams. Lecture and discussion of individual
writers will address the different genres and styles
used by these immigrant writers as well as thematic
parallels and differences between writers from different
cultural backgrounds. Readings may vary each semester
but will reflect the cultural diversity of American
immigrant writing, including writing by Caribbean writers,
Asian-Americans, Latino Americanos, Jewish, Italian, Irish,
and other Eastern European immigrants.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 240 - Themes Sci Fiction Film & Lit
Credits:
3.00
An exploration of how writers of science fiction have used
science and technology to examine moral questions, social
issues and the boundaries of technology. Readings of
selected authors will focus on the ways creative writers
have explored various aspects of the genre, including
scientific experimentation, alternate time/space continuum,
weaponry, psychic phenomena, cyberspace, bionics, alien life
and the future. The class will also view cinematic
adaptations of the selected works to examine whether/how
the change of medium affects the emphasis and impact of
the work and how visualization and special effects affect
the audience's perception. Course work includes assigned
readings, film screenings, informal journals, and formal
papers.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 242 - Film and Literature
Credits:
3.00
Students will read selected short fiction and novels by
English, American and other writers and view the films that
have been made from them by prominent directors. The course
will develop students' understanding and appreciation of
both literature and film. Students will examine how great
writers elicit the complex response they do from their
readers, and then explore the ways that film provides an
interpretation of literature. Analysis and discussion will
center on how the visual media shapes literature as various
directors adapt texts for the screen. The ability to
interpret the texts aand films appreciatively and
critically will be assessed through a series of class
projects and examinations.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
or EGL 102R Minimum Grade: D
EGL 242W - Film & Lit / Writing Intensive
Credits:
3.00
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
or EGL 102R Minimum Grade: D
EGL 244 - Classics Suprnaturl Film & Lit
Credits:
3.00
This course engages students in the principle forms of
artistic expression integral to classic works of
supernatural literature and their cinematic adaptations.
Students will acquire an understanding of the creative
process inherent in these works, an understanding of the
literary and cinematic conventions of the genre and will
also develop a critical vocabulary that will allow them
to discuss and to evaluate these works and other in depth.
Cinematic adaptations of these works in particular follow
the evolution of the cinema itself, thus students in
this course will also gain a critical understanding of its
aesthetic and technological development. This course will
also focus on film composition, including the shots, angles,
iconography and editing typical of this genre. Course work
includes assigned readings, informal and formal papers
requiring primary and secondary research, critical analysis
of required screenings, and exams. Students will be
required to attend and to complete critical analyses of
campus and off-campus theatrical screenings as they are
scheduled.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 244W - Clsc Spntrl Flm/Lit -Wrtng Int
Credits:
3.00
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
or EGL 102R Minimum Grade: D
EGL 246 - Themes in Literature
Credits:
3.00
This course will enable students to explore a major literary
theme. The theme may vary in different semesters or in
different sections of the course during a single semester.
Themes may include nature writings, literature of the
Holocaust, literature of the American West, and Long Island
in fiction among others.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 266 - Fantasy in Literature & Film
Credits:
3.00
Fantasy in Literature and Film examines not only the oldest
literay genre but one that continues to fascinate readers
old and young and to inspire some of the most innovative
(and technically sophisticated) films. Works of fantasy over
lap other genres: myth, fairy tales, epic sagas, tales of
the grotesque, juvenilia, adventure stories, and some
science fiction. However, fantasy is the study of what can
never actually be real, that is, what we dream about or can
only imagine. Readings include traditional works of fantasy
from the earliest recorded texts as well as beloved
children's and young adult "classics" of this genre. Film
adaptions as well as original films in this genre will also
be analyzed and critiqued.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 269 - Romantic Art:Art/Dance/Lit/Mus
Credits:
3.00
This course examines the art, dance, literature and music of
the Romantic Period of each of the disciplines. Students
will acquire an understanding of the aesthetic concerns of
each of these art forms in the period in which they were
created and develop a critical vocabulary that will allow
them to better understand, evaluate, and discuss the works
in depth. Course work includes readings, field trips to art
exhibits and performances, and extensive use of audio-visual
materials. The course will require both informal and formal
papers that utilize primary and secondary research
materials. By examining multiple art forms, students will
develops greater aesthetic and critical understanding of the
art forms of the Romantic period included in the course
study.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
or EGL 102R Minimum Grade: D
EGL 269W - Romantic Art: Writing Intense
Credits:
3.00
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
or EGL 102R Minimum Grade: D
EGL 301 - Adv Grammar & Vocabulary
Credits:
3.00
Students will master a study of descriptive and prescriptive
English grammar as well as beocme familiar with linguistics,
semiology, and comparative grammar. Students will expand
their vocabulary by learning to use a broad range of words
and by understanding their etymological roots, their
appropriateness to situational use, and their function in
smooth, concise syntax. Mastery of both grammar and
vocabulary is essential to professional-level reading,
writing, speaking, listening, and editing.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 302 - The 19th Century English Novel
Credits:
3.00
Select novels by major British authors of the nineteenth
century, such as Austen, the Brontes, Mary Shelley, Dickens,
Thackeray, George Eliot, Trollope, Hardy and Conrad are
read. Attention is given to the social, economic, political
and intellectual backdrop informing the content of the
novels. Secondary sources are required.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 306 - Transformation of America
Credits:
3.00
A detailed study of the technological, economic, social,
political, ideological and cultural transition of America
from a rural, agrarian republic to a complex,
industrialized, urban nation in the period from 1820-1920.
This interdisciplinary course uses primary and secondary
material to examine the effect of technology and
urbanization on American life. A multi-cultural and
cross-gender perspective will provide focus.
NOTE: STUDENT COMPLETING THIS COURSE MAY NOT RECEIVE CREDIT
FOR HIS 306 OR IDP 306.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 101 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 307 - Special Topics in Literature
Credits:
3.00
This course will enable students to explore intensively a
major author or literary theme, period or genre. The
subject for a particular semester will be announced prior to
registration. Topics may include love, lust and marriage;
persuasion and propaganda; and World War I writers,
among others. Short papers involving secondary sources
will be required.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 307W - Special Topcs-Lit-Writ Intsive
Credits:
3.00
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 308 - The City:Lit,Art,Film & Theatr
Credits:
3.00
This course examines depictions and interpretations of the
city through literature, film, theatre, photography, paintin
sculpture and architecture. Initially, the focus will be on
New York City, although subsequent semesters, it may
extend to other major world cities such as London, Paris,
Rome, or Athens. Students will gain an understanding of the
aesthetic value of the different art forms as well as develo
the critical vocabulary to help them evaluate the various
literary and artistic works. Course work includes assigned
readings, field trips to museums in New York City, and
extensive use of audio-visual material. Both informal and
writing (response journals) and more formal papers,
including a research paper utilizing primary research
(photographs, maps, interviews with artists, slides etc.)
and secondary critical and/or historical studies will be
required. Prerequisite: EGL 102
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 308W - The City;Lit,Art,Film&TheatrW
Credits:
3.00
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 310 - Technical Writing
Credits:
3.00
A detailed study of the fundamentals of writing technical
reports and other technical communications. Topics
emphasized include the elements of a technical report, the
interpretation of statistics and data, and the composition
of letters, memos, and informal reports containing technical
information. Assignments and student exercises are drawn
from the student's technical area.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
or EG 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 311 - Intro Writing Electronic Media
Credits:
3.00
Introduction to Writing for Electronic Media will give
students an overview of the issues concerning
electronic media, including legal and ethical concerns.
Students will also learn the history of the media, including
the Internet and World Wide Web. Students will learn
how to write for electronic media in hands-on training in
the school's computer labs using industry-standard programs.
Note: Students taking this course may not receive credit for
PCM 311.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
and BCS 102 Minimum Grade: D
or BCS 191 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 312 - Major Authors in American Lit
Credits:
3.00
An in-depth examination of the major trends in American
Literature as reflected specifically through the works of
individual authors. The instructor will select the two or
three authors to be studied each semester. Secondary
sources, a major research project, and an annotated
bibliography of criticism of a particular work will be
required.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 313 - Communication Theory
Credits:
3.00
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 314 - Major Authors in World Lit
Credits:
3.00
An in-depth examination of major trends in world literature
as reflected through the works of individual authors. One to
three authors are studied each semester. Requirements
include a substanstial research project involving critical
research.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 315 - Research Techniques
Credits:
3.00
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
EGL 317 - Studies in Shakespeare
Credits:
3.00
An analysis of Shakespearean plays, along with their
sources, the early modern period in England, and traditional
and contemporary critical commentary. Four or five plays
will be studied each semester. Requirements will include
examinations and analyses of plays.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
EGL 318 - Advanced Creative Writing
Credits:
3.00
An intensive workshop experience in which students are
taught to recognize and appreciate excellence in the poetry
and fiction of significant contemporary writers, and to
produce polished works in these genres. Students will be
required to keep a formal writer's journal and to
participate in formal readings of their works, as well as
provide pertinent critical evaluations of the writing of
others.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 216 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 320 - Communications in Business I
Credits:
3.00
This course is designed to help students develop
effective skills necessary for communications (both oral and
written) in business. It will provide an examination of
systematic practice in writing strategies and styles most
appropriate in interpersonal and organization contexts.
Emphasis is placed on the preparation of business and
organizational reports, as wells as on routine business
correspondence including letters, memos, and directives.
Although there will be a brief review of the fundamental
skills of effective writing, this course is not intended to
instruct students in the basics of grammar, mechanics and
usage.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
EGL 321 - Communications in Business II
Credits:
3.00
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 320 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 324 - Report Writing & Tech Communic
Credits:
3.00
A practicum in which students produce a variety of business-
oriented and technical documents. This course provides
students with a survey of current practices and techniques
appropriate to writing for forums, especially for technical
journals, newspapers and magazines. It is also designed to
make students proficient at writing technical/professional
articles and reports such as new product information sheets,
technical correspondence, periodic reports, summaries,
process and technical descriptions, instructions and
analysis, and to allow students to incorporate graphs,
tables and other illustrative matters with textual content.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 102 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 328 - Writing & Editing
Credits:
3.00
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 310 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 420 - Advanced Tech. Communications
Credits:
3.00
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 310 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 425 - Documentation Procedures
Credits:
3.00
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
Pre-requisites:
EGL 320 Minimum Grade: D
EGL 430 - History of the Eng. Language
Credits:
3.00
An introduction to the development of the English language
as a new universal language in the arts, sciences, and
commerce. The course will treat such subjects as the
ancestry of English, the history of English sounds and
inflections, the sources of vocabulary, the making of
words, meaning change, syntax and usage,
dialectical variations, and introductory linguistic
principles presenting language problems in the light
of language history.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
Technical Communications
EGL 450 - Internship-Tech Communication
Credits:
3.00
This course is an opportunity for communicaations majors to
incorporate field experience into their academic programs.
Students will work with local business, industry, civic, or
educational organizations in positions observing the
communications process and applying written, interpersonal
and communication skills to actual problems.
Lecture:
.00 Lab:
6.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
English/Humanities
| Environmental Sciences |
ENV 101 - Energy Sustainability & Enviro
Credits:
3.00
This is an introductory course to create and enhance the
critical awareness of the student regarding various forms of
energy, sustainability issues and the impact on the
environment through unbridled use of energy in the present
day context. A scientific and technological approach is used
to discuss various topics. The knowledge base of this course
is derived from certain natural sciences such as Physics,
Chemistry, Biology and Eco-Science. The main topics of
discussion are: Forms of energy, energy conservation,
impact on the environment by the use of energy, forms
of renewable energy and sustainability issues. The critical
policy issues related to energy are also discussed. The
course prepares the student to be a fully aware citizen
on energy issues facing the community and the world.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Engineering Technologies
Department:
Electrical Engr Technology
| English as a Second Language |
ESL 091 - Begin English as Second Lang
Credits:
4.00
A beginning course for non-native speakers of English
emphasizing basic listening, speaking, reading and writing
skills.
Lecture:
3.00 Lab:
2.00 Other:
1.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
Modern Languages
ESL 092 - Intermed English Second Lang
Credits:
4.00
A continuation of ESL 091. A course for the student who has
attained a degree of fluency in speaking English but needs
additional training in reading and writing skills.
Lecture:
12.00 Lab:
1.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
Modern Languages
Pre-requisites:
ESL 091 Minimum Grade: D
ESL 093 - Advance English Second Lang
Credits:
3.00
A continuation of ESL 092. An advanced course for the
non-native speaker of English who has already mastered basic
skills. This course is designed to bring the student to the
level of proficiency of a credit granting English
composition course.
Lecture:
3.00
College:
Arts & Sciences
Department:
Modern Languages
Pre-requisites:
ESL 092 Minimum Grade: D