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2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Courses
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Academic departments and programs are generally listed in alphabetical order. All courses are listed under the department or program in which they are offered. Courses which are cross-listed will appear in more than one place.
Course Designations
Courses of instruction are designated by a system of four-digit numbers within each department. The first digit in the number indicates the class standing that a student must attain to be eligible for the course. To interpret the numbering system, students need to know that:
- Courses generally for freshmen are numbered in the series beginning 1000. Freshmen may not register for any course numbered 2000 or above, except by placement or with the permission of the instructor. Similarly, sophomores may not register for courses numbered 3000 or above, or juniors 4000 or above, with exceptions permitted only by the instructor.
- Cross-listed courses are courses appropriate to more than one department or area.
- The number of credit hours per course is indicated below the course title. Courses which may be taken for variable credit (applied music lessons, independent studies, internships, etc.) or which can be repeated for credit are so indicated.
- Prerequisites for each course are so indicated following the description.
- Special Topics, Internships, and Independent Studies courses are listed with numbers separated by semicolons. These courses may be taken in any order.
- The (FR) designation after a number indicates that the course is offered only as a first-year seminar.
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ENG 2120 - Editing for Publication Credits: 4
Exposure to the practices of professional editors and publishers. Students learn about copyediting and developmental editing, broader editorial decision-making, the publishing industry, and current publishing platforms. Specific attention is paid to the rhetorical choices that arise during the editing and publishing process.
Prerequisites ENG-1101
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ENG 2155 - Topics in Multicultural Literature Credits: 4
This course is an intensive thematic study of literature with a multicultural focus. The focus of the course will vary by semester and may be taken for credit multiple times with different foci. Examples of topics include: Passing in America; Slave and Neo-Slave Narratives; Multicultural Memoirs; and Asian-American Crime Fiction. While the course varies in its thematic focus, the primary method of study is textual analysis informed by a consideration of the cultural and historic contexts that have traditionally relegated the study of these literatures to the margins.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Textual Analysis
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ENG 2202 - Prizes, Prestige, and Profits Credits: 4
Prizes, Prestige, and Profits will examine literary prize culture. Why are there prizes in artistic fields? Whose interests are served by these prizes? It is often not the bestselling book or the biggest blockbuster movie which wins artistic awards, so what kinds of works win these prizes and what are the criteria used? With international literary prizes, how are the merits of works from different cultures and with different aesthetics judged? This class will consider these questions and read some works by winners and finalists for international literary prizes.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis and International
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ENG 2204 - Advanced News Reporting Credits: 4
Advanced skills in news reporting and writing. Students learn and practice interviewing and other forms of news gathering and apply those methods in a variety of news and feature stories.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
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ENG 2205 - Media Ethics Credits: 4
An examination of the various ethical dilemmas that confront members of the news media, including conflict of interest, “freebies,” invasion invasion of privacy, reporter-source problems, advertiser and corporate pressures, and the use of deception to gather news. Students analyze and debate actual ethical quandaries and attempt to find workable solutions.
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ENG 2206 - Creative Writing—Poetry Credits: 4
A workshop in writing poetry. Student poems will be critiqued weekly in the class workshop. Students will read and analyze modern and contemporary poetry by such authors as Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, Gwendolyn Brooks, Sylvia Plath, William Stafford, and Robert Hayden.
Prerequisites ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression.
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ENG 2207 - Creative Writing—Fiction Credits: 4
A workshop in writing short fiction. Student writing will be critiqued weekly in the class workshop. Students will read and analyze modern and contemporary short fiction by such authors as Welty, Hemingway, O’Connor, and Oates.
Prerequisites ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression.
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ENG 2208 - Advanced Composition Credits: 4
Designed to support writers’ development as prose stylists. Primary emphasis placed on students’ own nonfiction writing – about objects, places local or distant, and people familiar or famous. Students learn to generate material, to revise prose for fluidity and grace, and to recognize how style affects readers. Students also read published literary nonfiction (profiles, literary journalism, nature writing, memoir) to learn about craft in prose, imitate the techniques of published writers, and reflect on the creative process.
McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression.
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ENG 2209 - Memoir Writing Credits: 4
A creative-writing course in which students learn techniques for turning autobiographical experiences into nonfiction stories. Students read published works (memoir, essay) to explore the craft of creative nonfiction. Student writing will be critiqued regularly in the class workshop.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
Prerequisites/Co-requisites English 1101
McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression
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ENG 2211 - Grammar and Usage Credits: 4
An overview of the structure of the English language, introducing the discipline of grammatical analysis. Students encounter both traditional grammar and more recent linguistic approaches and consider some current problems in the teaching of grammar in the schools.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
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ENG 2212 - Professional Communication Credits: 4
An opportunity for students to practice and think critically about communication in the workplace. Assignments will focus on writing forms and topics suitable for students’ fields of major interest. Students will complete individual and collaborative projects designed to help them write clearly and effectively for audiences both within their professions and outside of them. Particular emphasis will be placed on electronic communication forms.
Prerequisites ENG 1101 and a minimum of 32 credits
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ENG 2213 - Literary Methods Credits: 4
An introduction to literary methods and critical approaches to literature through a variety of texts written in English. Students will master vocabulary and analytical methods needed to analyze texts, understand the outlines of literary history, explore major approaches to literary criticism, and gain experience in writing critical papers.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis.
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ENG 2214 - Editing and Desktop Publishing Credits: 4
Exposure to workplace practices of professional editors and desktop publishers. Students gain practice with developmental editing and copywriting as well as with the production of brochures, fliers, and newsletters. Special attention is paid to the rhetorical choices that arise in the editing and publishing process.
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ENG 2215 - Newspaper Practicum Credits: 2
This practicum is designed to provide students with real life experiences in newspaper publishing. The practicum involves story selection, research, editing, proofreading, layout, photography, graphics, ad sales and newspaper distribution. With the guidance of the instructor, students plan and create The McDaniel Free Press, which focuses on college life.
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ENG 2216 - Newspaper Practicum Credits: 2
This practicum is designed to provide students with real life experiences in newspaper publishing. The practicum involves story selection, research, editing, proofreading, layout, photography, graphics, ad sales and newspaper distribution. With the guidance of the instructor, students plan and create The McDaniel Free Press, which focuses on college life.
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ENG 2217 - Growing up in America Credits: 4
The journey from childhood to adulthood has always been a prominent theme in American literature. By studying a selection of bildungsromane and memoirs, we will be able to consider the psychological and social formation of these characters in relation to American culture. We will ask such questions as: “Do these works reflect the experience of growing up in America, or create it?” and “How do these works shape us as Americans?” We will also examine how the experience of growing up in America is affected by the race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and ethnicity of the protagonist—and how these differences alter his or her definition of the American dream.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural; Social, Cultural, and Historical; Textual Analysis
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ENG 2218 - Introduction to Peer Tutoring Credits: 2.00
This course prepares students to participate as peer-tutors in a college academic support center—and beyond. This course will stress learning center theory, tutoring pedagogy, the ethics and philosophy of tutoring programs, record keeping and documentation, cultural awareness, and intercultural communication.
McDaniel Plan: Experiential
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ENG 2219 - Multimedia Writing & Design Credits: 4.00
In this design sampler course, students are introduced to multimedia design principles. Students learn to use a number of design softwares to refine their abilities to mix imagery, words, typefaces, sounds, and music to construct persuasive arguments in a variety of genres (e.g., posters, video commercials, and websites). After completing the course, students will have the confidence to use design software and design effective and appealing documents for their audiences.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression
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ENG 2220 - World Literature Credits: 4
A survey of global literature from the earliest times to the present. Works will vary, but representatives from the world’s major literature will be included each semester. Significant eastern literary texts will be studied, but particular attention will be given to the founding texts of western literature.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: International Western; Textual Analysis.
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ENG 2225 - Dramatic Dark Ages Credits: 4
Yes, there was great drama before Shakespeare! In fact, medieval drama was a lively endeavor in which social commentary, religious instruction and entertainment often overlapped. This course will explore these and related tensions in plays from the medieval West. ca. 900-1500. As we analyze the literary qualities and conventions of both liturgical and popular medieval plays, we will explore how they offer a window into the
artistic, political, and devotional worlds of late medieval Europe and England. Special attention will also be given to conditions of literary and theoretical production in the historical period of the Middle Ages. This
course culminates with the writing and staging of an original play based on medieval forms.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis, Creative Expression, and Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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ENG 2226 - The Graphic Novel Credits: 4
Ever since Art Spiegelman’s Holocaust memoir Maus won the Pultizer Prize, graphic novelists have experimented with the serious storytelling capacity of long-form comics. The results - for power, variety, and sheer fun - represent an important contribution to literature. Autobiographical comics such as Maus, Fun Home, and Perepolis present provocative subject matter including faith, family, and politics. Many
works, fiction or nonfiction, take up stories of sexual identity and teen angst, sometimes in a very explicit fashion. Still others - like Alan Moore’s Watchmen and Neil Gaiman’s Sandman - provoke a serious, postmodern engagement with superheroes and fantasy. Students will learn technical approaches for analyzing these texts, paying particular attention to word-image fusion and to the relationship between visual elements and narrative structure. Students will practice mapping out pages and explore options in world-building and self-representation. Works will be studied in their cultural, historical, and aesthetic contexts. Some limited examination of Japanese manga.
McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression
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ENG 2228 - Scar Tissue Credits: 4
This course explores the intersections of history and literature, focusing on the literary representations of traumatic, repressed or controversial historical events. The focus of the course is on East-Central European developments of modern history, especially the manifold victimization suffered by ordinary citizens during and in the aftermath of World War II. A brief introduction to the theoretical issues of cultural and literary representations of trauma is followed by detailed discussions of literary works and films dealing with traumatic historical experiences. While most primary texts are selected from East-Central European literature, the secondary literature also provides a more global and general perspective on the role of literature in the representation of history and issues of cultural memory.
Offered at the Budapest campus.
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis
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ENG 2229 - Medieval Visions and Visionaries Credits: 4.00
An introduction to medieval English literary texts that chronicle or frame themselves as visionary accounts, including dream visions, folk stories of apparitions, and accounts of spiritual revelation. We will analyze both the flexibility and limitations of writing in these genres, and explore how literary texts about visionary experience - real or imagined - provide insight into how medieval people understood their world, states of consciousness, and the reliability (or lack thereof) of the physical senses.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding, Textual Analysis
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ENG 2230 - Age of Arthur Credits: 4
This course surveys English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the early 16th century, exploring how these literary works were shaped by and responded to the cultures in which they were produced. Readings cover the genres of medieval drama, Arthurian romance, epic, historical chronicle, Robin Hood legends, and dream vision, among others. Special attention is given to themes of imagination, courtly love, heroism, and the development of national identity.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Textual Analysis.
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ENG 2231 - Renaissance and Revolution Credits: 4
The English Renaissance was a time of tremendous social, political, technological, and literary transformation. Although the term “Renaissance” refers to a rebirth of classical culture, this period can be better described as revolutionary. In this course, students survey works of poetry, prose, and drama from 1530 (the revolutionary beginnings of Henry VIII’s Protestant Reformation) to the 1660s (the aftermath of the English Civil War). The course highlights topics such as generic experimentation, scientific advancement, and early imperialism. Students consider the works of Wyatt, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, and more.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis; International
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ENG 2232 - Enlightenment Literature Credits: 4
An exploration of the diverse body of literature after 1620 shaped by the movement toward modern scientific inquiry. Study of the writings of Enlightenment philosophers and scientists, such as Bacon, Locke and Newton, forms a basis for analysis of literary texts by Swift, Dryden, Pope, Behn, Johnson, Austen, Doyle and others.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis.
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ENG 2233 - The Romantics Credits: 4
A survey of the revolutionary literature of the late 18th- and early 19th-century “Romantic” movement in England. Students will explore Romantic poetry and prose in its historical context, beginning by examining how writers both perpetuate and rebel against Enlightenment ideas, and ending by considering how their legacy is felt today. Authors studied include Godwin, Wollstonecraft, Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Mary Shelly, P.B. Shelly, and Keats.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis
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ENG 2234 - Victorian Literature: Between the Covers Credits: 4
Vic Lit: Between the Covers is an introduction to Victorian literature and culture. What was considered proper moral and ethical behavior in the Victorian period? What aspirations and secret desires were considered outside the bounds of propriety? How do we understand a culture whose official values place a high value on propriety, and yet where prostitution, illegitimate pregnancy, and drup use were rampant? A reading
of works of Victorian literature ranging from Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre to R.L. Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde will cast light on these questions.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Textual Analysis.
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ENG 2235 - Advanced Peer Tutoring Credits: 2
This course prepares students to participate as advanced peer-tutors in the college writing center, and beyond. This course will stress advanced writing center theory, tutoring pedagogy, critical thinking, cross-cultural competence, and campus resource literacy.
Prerequisites ENG-2218
McDaniel Plan: Experiential
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ENG 2236 - Pretty New Technologies Credits: 4
In this course, students are introduced to a “pretty new technology” and how to use that technology persuasively, designing and creating objects, skills, or apps (all dependent on what the technology allows one to create). The technology or type of technology is emerging or is relatively new and changes each semester, depending on what has emerged and what we have access to. Along with learning a new type of technology (e.g., students may make a skill for Amazon’s Echo, use a video game generating software to create a game, or learn to design persuasive objects with a 3-D printer), students will reflect on how their designs use rhetorical theory to create meaning and present a point of view to the world.
Prerequisites ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: CE
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ENG 2241 - American Literature I: Liberty and Slavery Credits: 4
An exploration of America’s most important idea: liberty. Readings from the nation’s founders will be juxtaposed with accounts of colonial and early national life written by captives, slaves, transcendentalists, romancers, and poets with a focus on the idea of liberty, as the authors write it into being, exercise it, seek it, suffer from its lack, and celebrate it. Authors include Jefferson, Wheatley, Equiano, Franklin, Emerson, Stowe, Douglass, Jacobs, Hawthorne, Melville, Poe, Thoreau, Dickinson, Whitman, and Octavia E. Butler.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Textual Analysis.
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ENG 2242 - American Literature II: Realism and Naturalism Credits: 4
The course presents a survey of American literature from 1865-1914. Authors include Jewett, Twain, James, Gilman, Chopin, Crane, Norris, Wharton, Dreiser, and Cather. The course will examine literary works in depth as well as explore the social, cultural, and historical forces that contributed to the creation of a vigorous native literature during the dynamic five decades between the American Civil War and World War I.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis.
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ENG 2243 - American Literature III: Modern and Contemporary Credits: 4
This course presents a survey of American Literature from World War I to the present. Students examine the major movements of Modernism and Postmodernism by genre, starting with poetry and moving through short stories and novels to the popular novel. Students consider these texts in their historical, social, cultural, political, economic, and psychological contexts. This survey includes readings by Frost, Stevens, Hughes, Plath, Rich, Wright, Faulkner, Cheever, O’Connor, and Morrison.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Textual Analysis.
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ENG 2250 - Post-Colonial Literature Credits: 4
An exploration of literature written in English by people of the variety of races and cultures that once were part of the British Empire. Works covered reflect and represent their experiences and creative genius. Writers studied include Conrad, Rushdie, and Chinua Achebe.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: International Nonwestern; Textual Analysis.
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ENG 2254 - Nature Writing Credits: 4
A consideration of various responses to the natural world and the ways in which writers have described their encounters with it. Students focus on creative non-fiction, beginning with a brief foray into foundational work by nineteenth century authors such as Thoreau and John Muir, then concentrating on the work of more recent writers like Dillard, Berry, Abbey, and Lopez. Students will produce their own creative nonfiction responses to nature.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression, Textual Analysis
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ENG 2255 - Others: Short Story Cycle Credits: 4
This course examines the literary genre of the short story cycle, a novel-length grouping of inter-related stores linked by character, setting, and theme. Many of the cycles focus on ethnic and multi-cultural voices in 20th and 21st century American fiction. Works by such modern/contemporary authors as Steinbeck, Welty, Faulkner, Cisneros, Clair, Butler, Tan, Diaz, and Danticat may be explored
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural, Textual Analysis
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ENG 2256 - American Poetry Credits: 4
An examination of significant American poetry from colonial times to the present. Poets covered will include Bradstreet, Wheatley, Emerson, Poe, Whitman, Dickinson, Frost, Williams, Pound, and others.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis.
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ENG 2258 - African American Literature I Credits: 4
An examination of the African American oral and written literary legacy, tracing its history as a distinct literary tradition as well as an important part of the dominant American literary tradition. Students examine and discuss poetry, plays, short stories, essays, and novels from all literary periods.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural; Textual Analysis.
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ENG 2260 - Horror Fiction Credits: 4
An investigation of the dark and popular world of horror fiction, with special emphasis on the Gothic tradition within British and American literature since 1764. Students examine and discuss why horror stories fascinate, and how anxieties about sexuality, the unconscious mind, scientific discoveries, social injustice, and other topics are translated into the horror literature we read.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis.
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ENG 2261 - Literature by Women Credits: 4
A survey of literature written in English. Texts considered include poems, speeches, nonfiction, plays, short stories, and novels. Students examine selected works that explore women’s evolving roles in society and the many facets of women’s unique position, experience, and perspective on the world.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Textual Analysis.
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ENG 2265 - Special Topics in English Credits: 4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
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ENG 2268 - African American Literature II Credits: 4
An examination of the African American literary tradition as a distinct area of study both informed by and exerting influence upon the dominant American literary tradition. Students examine and discuss poetry, plays, short stories, essays and novels from the mid 20th through the early 21st century.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural, Textual Analysis
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ENG 2270 - Twentieth-Century British Literature Credits: 4
This course surveys twentieth-century British literature and the social, cultural, and historical circumstances in which these works of literature were produced. This course will examine literary and cultural developments including the impact of Freudian thought, the impact of the two world wars, stream of consciousness, fragmentation, Angry Young Men, “The Movement,” imperial devolution, and the growing diversity of British literature. Authors include a selection from among the following: Joseph Conrad, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, D.H. Lawrence, James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, W.H. Auden, Aldous Huxley, George Orwell, Stevie Smith, Phillip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, Kazuo Ishiguro, Salman Rushdie, Mark Haddon, Hanif Kureishi, Zadie Smith.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Textual Analysis.
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ENG 2272 - Popular Romance Fiction Credits: 4.00
An investigation of the most popular form of fiction in the western world: the romance novel. Readings begin with the advent of the modern form of the romance novel in England in 1740, but are drawn mostly from the nineteenth-through-twenty-first century American romance novel. Students explore the popularity of romance fiction and consider its depiction of courtship and sexuality through a variety of critical approaches including formalist, feminist, and gender studies.
Prerequisites Placement into ENG-1101
McDaniel Plan: Multiculutural, Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding, Textual Analysis
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ENG 2273 - Detective and Mystery Fiction Credits: 4
Whodunits, Howdunits, British Cozies, Hard Boiled Fiction, Locked-Room Mysteries, and Police Procedurals. Taking a historic approach, this course is a survey of detective fiction from its origins before Poe to the BBC’s wildly popular Sherlock. Students will explore the development of the genre and examine the cultural contexts within which these texts were written.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Textual Analysis
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ENG 2295 - Internship in English Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
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ENG 2298 - Independent Studies in English Credits: 0-4
Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors.
Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
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ENG 3120 - Writing Portfolio I Credits: 2
Designed for college juniors, this two-credit course supports students’ development as writers and editors. Review of student and sample published texts provide opportunity for continuing growth as an editor. Instructor guidance, peer review, workshop, and self-reflection inform each student’s creation of a preliminary portfolio of texts, typically chosen from those they have produced in courses for the major, bringing students to a clearer understanding of themselves as writers and of their progress toward their writing goals. Students develop, revise, or extend at least one project, chosen in consultation with the professor. Readings and class discussion address issues related to publishing, collaboration, and rhetorical, aesthetic, and professional considerations in order to support students in critical reflection and guided revision. Final writing products are accompanied by informed assessment of the work’s rhetorical and aesthetic merit, reflecting the student’s awareness of audience, genre, and style.
Prerequisites At least 20 credit hours in required courses for the Writing and Publishing major. Non-majors may enroll only with instructor permission.
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ENG 3306 - Approaches to the Study of Language Credits: 4
An introduction to the principles and methods of linguistics, the study of human language as a natural phenomenon. The course begins with an examination of the foundational subfields of morphology, syntax, phonetics, phonology, and semantics, then moves on to examine historical linguistics and the development of the many dialects of modern English.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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ENG 3307 - Social Media: Rhetoric and Design Credits: 4
Students explore the rhetorical and cultural effects of social media as well as the shifting expectations for writers in these environments. Along with investigating how self and society are shaped by the ways information is presented, collected, vetted, and shared, students work with a variety of social media platforms to create a coherent web presence designed for real audiences. In the course, students learn to effectively curate information, create infographics, podcast, blog, and vlog.
McDaniel Plan: Creative Expression.
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ENG 3308 - Writing in Law and Policy Credits: 4
A study of the conventions of legal and analytical writing. Focused on analysis of legal problems and the presentation of findings in forms employed by legal and paralegal professionals, attention will also be devoted to critiquing new developments in the profession.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding.
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ENG 3309 - Approaches to Everyday Discourse Credits: 4
An introduction to rhetorical methods for analyzing such “texts” as speeches, editorials, advertisements, sports writing, movie reviews, and talk radio programs. Students will learn to identify patterns in everyday discourse and to recognize and explain the persuasive powers these forms exert over audiences. The course develops students as critical observers and consumers of everyday discourse.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding; Textual Analysis.
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ENG 3310 - Autobiography & Theory Credits: 4
How do our lives become stories? What role do such stories play in the formation of identity and of public memory, e.g., of slavery, the Holocaust, and war. This course explores those topics as well as sex, faith, trauma, crime, and illness. Special consideration is given to the effects of sexuality, gender, and race/ethnicity on the practice of telling life-stories. Attention is paid to the complex cultural narratives that shape identity and life-writing practices, as well as to the ways style, voice, and narrative structure allow writers to authenticate difficult or non-mainstream experiences. In addition to autobiography and memoir, the course may examine related genres such as the essay, biography, and true crime. No instruction in creative writing, but students will come to understand how cultural narratives structure their own life stories.
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis and Multicultural
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ENG 3312 - Writing for Nonprofit Organizations Credits: 4
An introduction to the various genres produced by and for local, national, and international nonprofit organizations. Assignments may include the development of mission statements, fundraising letters, grants, brochures, podcasts, websites and other public relations material. Students will also analyze the contemporary social, cultural and economic trends, which create unique challenges and opportunities for the nonprofit sector. Integral to this course is the opportunity for students to work with and write for area nonprofit organizations.
Prerequisites/Co-requisites Junior or Senior Standing
McDaniel Plan: Departmental Writing; Experiential
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ENG 3319 - Digital Publishing Credits: 4.00
In this course focused on web design and analysis, students create persuasive arguments in the digital humanities and submit their projects to peer-reviewed magazines and journals. Students gain a basic understanding of web languages (i.e., HTML and CSS) and rhetorical theory for analyzing websites. Readings will focus on constructing digital arguments using the principles of digital rhetorical theory. In completing the course, students will be able to make a website from scratch, manipulate web templates, add interactive elements to a site, and communicate effectively with web designers about design.
Prerequisites ENG-1101
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ENG 3325 - Writing in English Studies Credits: 4
This course introduces students to a wide range of critical approaches to scholarly writing in the fields of literature, writing and rhetoric. Students practice analytical writing, informed by theoretical frameworks and existing scholarly research.
Prerequisites/Co-requisites English 2213
McDaniel Plan: Departmental Writing Requirement
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ENG 3341 - British Novel I Credits: 4
A survey of the British novel from its beginnings in the early eighteenth century through the mid-nineteenth century. In addition to studying theories explaining the novel’s relatively recent emergence as a dominant literary form, students will examine novels by DeFoe, Fielding, Richardson, Austen and others within their social, intellectual and historical contexts.
Prerequisites English 2213 or permission of instructor.
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis.
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ENG 3342 - British Novel II Credits: 4
A survey of the British novel from the Victorian era to the present day. Students address the social, intellectual, and historical contexts of significant works as well as the themes and continuing development of the form of the novel.
Prerequisites English 2213 or permission of instructor.
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis.
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ENG 3343 - The American Novel Credits: 4
This course surveys American novels from it inception, Charles Brockden Brown’s Wieland, to the present day. Topics addressed include social, intellectual, and historical contexts, as well as theme and the developing form of the novel.
Prerequisites ENG-2213 or permission of instructor
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis
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ENG 3344 - House of Fiction: American Stories Credits: 4
The house of fiction has … not one window, but a million.” - Henry James. This course will focus on exploring the best of the American short story. We will begin by delving into the work of Hawthorne, Poe, Twain, Jewett, Freeman, and Chopin and considering how each is open to a variety of theoretical approaches. The second half of the semester will be a student-run seminar surveying of the best stories of the 20th and 21st century by authors such as Cather, Faulkner, Porter, Hurston, O’Connor, Carver, McPherson, Tan, Mukherjee, Russell.
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis
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ENG 3350 - Shakespeare Credits: 4
A survey of Shakespeare’s major poetic and dramatic works. In addition to background on Shakespeare’s life and the Elizabethan theatre, the early portion of the course covers the narrative poem Venus and Adonis and the Sonnets. The remainder of the course is dedicated to the study of major comedies from Love’s Labors Lost to The Tempest, history plays from Richard II to Henry V, and the major tragedies.
Prerequisites English 2213 or permission of instructor.
Cross-listed with Theatre Arts 3350.
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis.
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ENG 3352 - Advanced Topics in Popular Literature Credits: 4.00
The study of a selected topic from a genre or genres of popular literature. Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’
interests and needs.
Prerequisites English 2213
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ENG 3360 - Chaucer Credits: 4
An examination of The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde, and the minor poems as well as focus on the influence of continental authors on Chaucer’s works.
Prerequisites English 2213 or permission of instructor.
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ENG 3362 - Austen Credits: 4
A study of Jane Austen’s novels and juvenilia with special focus on the place of women in regency society and Austen’s place in the history of the novel in English.
Prerequisites English 2213 or permission of instructor.
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis.
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ENG 3363 - Major Figures and Groups I (British) Credits: 4
An intensive study of the work of a major British writer or group of writers.
Prerequisites English 2213 or permission of instructor.
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ENG 3364 - Major Figures and Groups II (American) Credits: 4
An intensive study of the work of a major American writer or group of writers.
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis
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ENG 3365 - Special Topics in English Credits: 4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline.
Different topics are chosen for each offering, based on students’ interests and needs.
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ENG 3370 - Medieval & Renaissance Inquiries Credits: 4.00
An advanced seminar that engages critical theory in the field of literary studies to analyze a theme in medieval and/or Renaissance literary texts and the historical cultures that produced them.
Prerequisites English 2213 or permission of the instructor
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding, Textual Analysis
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ENG 3395 - Internship in English Credits: 0-4
Supervised field experiences in appropriate settings, usually off-campus, designed to assist students in acquiring and using skills and knowledge of the discipline unique to the selected topic.
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ENG 3398 - Independent Studies in English Credits: 0-4
Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors.
Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
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ENG 4120 - Writing Portfolio II Credits: 2
Designed for college seniors, this two-credit capstone course guides writers to review the entire range of their creative, digital, and professional writing and to develop, polish, and present their work for an online portfolio. Students create a defined purpose and audience for the portfolio, which they present in a manner that creates a narrative about themselves as writers and content creators. Readings and class discussion address issues related to publishing, collaboration, and rhetorical, aesthetic, and professional considerations in order to support students in critical reflection and guided revision. Editing and review of student and sample published texts requires advanced-level workshop participation. At the conclusion of the course, in consultation with the professor, students select materials for a formal, public presentation and an accompanying craft paper.
Prerequisites ENG-3120 or permission of instructor
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ENG 4492 - Senior Seminar Credits: 4
The capstone to the English major emphasizes techniques and methods of literary criticism. Seniors explore different themes, genres, or topics each semester, and each prepares a major paper.
Prerequisites Any 3000-level English course, a 2.00 GPA in major, and permission of instructor.
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ENG 4498 - Independent Studies in English Credits: 0-4
Directed study planned and conducted with reference to the needs of those students who are candidates for departmental honors.
Qualified students who are not candidates for such honors but who desire to do independent studies are also admitted with permission of the Department.
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ENR 1101 - Introduction to Engineering Credits: 4
Students in this course will gain an understanding of the field and profession of engineering. The topics covered in this course will include: Data collection and analysis, basic mathematical techniques for understanding and solving engineering problems, technical communication, conceptualization and engineering design, economic and technical constraints, and engineering as a creative endeavor. Students will also learn about the ethical and professional responsibilities associated with decision making, and how to recognize and understand the impact of engineering solutions on the environment, economy, and society.
Prerequisites Placement into MAT-1107 or permission of instructor
McDaniel Plan: Scientific Inquiry with Embedded Lab
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ENR 2001 - Analog and Digital Circuits Lab Credits: 0
Laboratory course to be taken concurrently with ENR-2201.
Co-requisite ENR-2201
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ENR 2201 - Analog and Digital Circuits Credits: 4
This course is an introduction to circuit design and computer interfacing. Specific topics include resistive, capacitive, and inductive circuits; DC and AC circuits and their analysis; RLC circuits and resonance; filters; Kirchoff’s laws; operational amplifiers; theory and applications of logical gates; integrated circuits and their applications; digital counters and timers; and principles of computer interfacing. The laboratory component of the course (ENR-2001) will focus on designing and constructing analog and digital circuits, employing diagnostic equipment, and using computer interfaces. The laboratory must be enrolled in separately.
Prerequisites PHY-1115 and PHY-2201
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ENR 2202 - Engineering Mechanics Credits: 4
In this course students will be introduced to the principles of statics and dynamics from the point-of-view of engineering. In particular, students will learn why materials and structures behave in particular ways and how to solve a variety of problems relevant to many fields of engineering. Topics covered will include: forces and torques, centroids and moments of inertia, conditions for equilibrium in rigid bodies and systems, friction, energy and momentum, virtual work, free and forced vibrations, and three-dimensional motion of rigid bodies.
Prerequisites PHY-2202
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ENR 3311 - Mechanics of Solids Credits: 4
This course introduces students to the fundamental principles of continuum mechanics with applications in a variety of fields. Topics covered include: Static equilibrium and elastic stability, two and three-dimensional theories of stressed elastic solids, states of stress (shear, bending, torsion), vibrations, force resultants, analysis of determinate planar structures, displacements and deformations, and failure of materials under various loading conditions.
Prerequisites ENR-2202
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ENR 3312 - Fluid Mechanics Credits: 4
Fluids mechanics is the study of how liquids and gases behave in static and dynamic situations, and this course will help students better understand engineering problems and natural phenomena associated with fluid mechanics such as airplane wing design, fountains, and pumps. Beginning with static fluid phenomena, students will learn about fluid density, buoyancy, and pressure. Building on those principles, students will gain and understanding of the fundamentals of fluid dynamics, including: Conservation laws for mass, energy, and momentum; generalized equations of motion and the Navier-Stokes equation; inviscid, constrained, and external flow; and forces associated with fluid motion.
Prerequisites ENR-2202
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ENR 4401 - Senior Engineering Laboratory Credits: 4
This course introduces students to the fundamental principles of continuum mechanics with applications in a variety of fields. Topics covered include: Static equilibrium and elastic stability, two and three-dimensional theories of stressed elastic solids, states of stress (shear, bending, torsion), vibrations, force resultants, analysis of determinate planar structures, displacements and deformations, and failure of materials under various loading conditions.
Prerequisites ENR-2202
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ENV 1131 - Environmental Problem Solving Credits: 4
This course is the introductory course for environmental science. An interdisciplinary study of environmental problems that considers world populations, energy, air and water pollution, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity and environmental health. Class discussion will center on solutions including technical and human behavioral modifications that can lead to the sustainable use of our environment.
McDaniel Plan: Scientific Inquiry with Embedded Laboratory
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ENV 1165 - Special Topics in Environmental Studies Credits: 0-4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Recent selections include Chesapeake Bay Blues and Field Guide to Maryland.
Prerequisites none or permission of the instructor as indicated.
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ENV 2116 - Energy and the Environment Credits: 4
Consumption of energy resources maintains and advances civilizations. Working from basic physical concepts and models of depletion and growth, we’ll learn how the human race exploits available renewable and non-renewable resources. We will also compare the relative advantages and disadvantages of various means of energy extraction, generation, and distribution associated with such energy sources as fossil fuels, solar, biomass, and nuclear. Finally, understanding energy also means considering environmental impacts. To this end, we’ll explore how energy extraction and consumption impact our Earth’s biosphere, hydrosphere, and atmosphere.
McDaniel Plan: Scientific Inquiry.
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ENV 2117 - Environmental Geology Credits: 4.00
How do geological processes on the surface of the Earth affect human societies? How do humans change Earth’s surface? These two questions will be addressed as this course explores the geological processes that interact with the global environment and human societies. Major environmental geological problems will be addressed such as water and soil resources, mineral resources, and geological hazards. Special attention will be given to local environmental geology problems in Maryland. Examples of laboratory activities include reading and interpreting topographic maps, slope stability, groundwater and surface water resources, and earthquakes.
McDaniel Plan: Scientific Inquiry with Laboratory
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ENV 2118 - Changing Food Systems Credits: 4
This course examines contemporary efforts and initiatives to address the challenges of sustainability, health, and equity in our agri-food systems. Globalization and neoliberalism, rapid technological change, human population growth and migration, environmental and resource degradation, climate change, and rising social inequalities together form an important backdrop for growing concern among consumers, citizens, civil society groups and social movements worldwide about the conditions and outcomes of agri-food systems.Governments at multiple scales, large corporations and smaller businesses have also responded to address some of these concerns about the environmental, economic, health, and social impacts of agri-food systems. How do these various efforts approach agri-food systems change? Where do they align? Where do they diverge? What do they accomplish? Who do they engage and prioritize? Focusing primarily, but not exclusively, on the North American context, this course considers multiple aspects of agri-food systems from “the farm to the fork” and back again.
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural
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ENV 2120 - Geographic Information Systems Credits: 4
This course will cover the fundamentals of Geographic Information System (GIS) technology, why it is important, and how it is being applied in such diverse fields as urban planning, marketing, health, criminal justice, political science, natural resources, and land conservation. The class will focus on practical applications of spatial research – such as data collection, utilizing local and global data, and analyzing spatial information to explore and investigate real-world applications of GIS. The overall goal of the course is to provide students with the theoretical and practical knowledge necessary to understand the uses and limitations of GIS, and conduct typical GIS operations and analyses.
Prerequisites ENV 1131, ENV 2151 or SOC 1104
McDaniel Plan: Quantitative Reasoning
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ENV 2151 - Sustainability Credits: 4
Sustainability in its simplest form is the continuation of a process. When proposed for human and natural systems, sustainability aims to meet the needs of the present while considering the needs of the future. To achieve this vision sustainability requires navigating many of the social and environmental challenges faced in our contemporary era. Within this course we will explore these challenges alongside the myriad of opportunities available to develop new solutions and scalae-up those solutions already available. To achieve these course goals, this class combines interactive lectures, discussions, and
individual and team-based assignments that examine sustainability globally, locally, and personally.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural and Historical and International Western
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ENV 2203 - Science of Soil, Water and Air Credits: 4
This course will focus on chemical cycles in the Earth’s natural environment. Topics introduced will include aqueous environmental chemistry, including water pollution and treatment, and atmospheric environmental chemistry, including air pollution, smog, and greenhouse gases, Additional topics covered will be soil chemistry, energy sources, and hazardous wastes. Laboratory exercises will address current environmental questions and students will learn specific instrumental and laboratory techniques in the chemical analysis of natural materials including rocks, soil, and water.
Prerequisites Two semesters in any of the sciences or permission of the instructor.
Course includes laboratory.
McDaniel Plan: Scientific Inquiry with a Laboratory
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ENV 2204 - Society and Natural Resources Credits: 4
This course will introduce students to the human dimensions of natural resource issues, including a variety of theories and concepts used in the multidisciplinary field of environmental studies to better understand the intersections of biophysical processes and socio-political systems. Specifically, this course takes a deep dive into trends and particular instances of environmental inequality in the United States / North America. We will use case studies throughout the semester to explore the wide range of people and places affected by environmental injustice, including urban and rural communities of color, low-income communities, indigenous peoples, immigrant populations - and the intersection thereof with other social identities (e.g., age, ability, gender, religion, occupation). This course will offer a mix of lecture and discussion sessions, asking students to experiment with multiple forms of critical analysis as individuals and groups, from writing book reviews to engaging with current events to a final case study analysis. After taking this course, students should be further prepared to engage in debates and action with other academics, politicians, and citizens to address environmental inequalities at home and beyond.
Prerequisites ENV-1131 or ENV-2151
McDaniel Plan: Multicultural
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ENV 2207 - Environmental Management Credits: 4
This course examines the concepts and practices used to maintain and develop Earth’s natural systems and humanity’s built environments. Specifically, the course is designed to review how the human and natural systems critical to biodiversity and human well-being can be developed and managed sustainably. Course topics include ecosystem and wildlife management, urban planning, climate change mitigation, and global environmental governance. An emphasis is placed on understanding how people individually and collectively influencenatural and built environments, as well as developing knowledge and skills useful to contemporary environmental managers. The course format includes class discussions, projects, and interactive lectures.
Prerequisites ENV 1131 or ENV 2151
McDaniel Plan: Scientific Inquiry with Lab; Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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ENV 2215 - Environmental Policy Credits: 4
This course is designed as a survey of the principles and practices of environmental policy. Using the case study approach, theories of public policy are linked to its application to understand existing approaches to environmental policy and how these approaches influence, and are influenced by, social and environmental change. An emphasis is placed on the design and evaluation of policy instruments, the diversity and trade-offs of environmental governance systems, and the democratic engagement required to achieve environmental sustainability. Students will learn the language of public policy and develop transferable professional skills, including memo writing and policy analysis.
McDaniel Plan: Social, Cultural, and Historical Understanding
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ENV 2265 - Special Topics in Environmental Studies Credits: 0-4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Recent selections include Chesapeake Bay Blues and Field Guide to Maryland.
Prerequisites none or permission of the instructor as indicated.
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ENV 3106 - Conservation Biology Credits: 4
The mission of conservation biology is the conservation of life on earth, and thus to balance the needs of people and biodiversity. To understand the promise and peril of conservation biology’s mission in a rapidly globalizing world, the course introduces students to the elements of the contemporary biodiversity crisis, the applied practices of professional conservationists, and the values and scientific theories that provide the discipline’s foundation. Coursework is designed to develop practical skills and disciplinary knowledge through interactive lectures, field trips, and group and individual projects.
Lab period included.
Prerequisites ENV 1131 or ENV 2151 or BIO-1111 and BIO-1117
McDaniel Plan: Scientific Inquiry Embedded Lab
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ENV 3110 - Climatology Credits: 4
Will future climate changes advance gradually, or abruptly and catastrophically, as they have in the past? Understanding processes that have affected climate in the past will help us predict future global warming. This course explores the mechanisms and indicators of global change, and treats topics such as the “snowball earth,” ocean fertilization, oceanic methane release and the ocean conveyor belt.
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ENV 3111 - Sustainable Agriculture Credits: 4
This course introduces students to the environmental, socio-political, and economic dimensions of agricultural production, particularly in the United States and the Chesapeake Bay region. Drawing upon current social and biophysical scientific research, case studies, and guest speakers who are experts in the respective agriculture-related fields, course topics will include a survey of principles, techniques, and concepts that engage students with the material dimensions and human experiences of food, fiber, and commodity production. The lab component of this course will tie together field trips and student research to explore how sustainable agricultural practices have been embraced by local producers and regional college farms and gardens. Lessons will be applied through student-led food production efforts at McDaniel College and creative science communication projects.
Prerequisites ENV-1131 or ENV-2151
McDaniel Plan: Experiential
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ENV 3113 - Conservation Ethics Credits: 4
What is the value of nature? As we face some of the most pressing and unprecedented environmental crises in human history, this question is fundamental to understanding conflicts that are grounded in divergent values related to natural resource access, use, and responsibility. In this course we will examine a wide range of intellectual efforts to address the ethical dimensions of our relationship with the Earth and the natural world, other species, and future generations. Students will be introduced to the major perspectives in traditional Western conservation ethical thought, as well as perspectives and debates overland and wilderness ethics, animal rights, biocentrism and deep ecology, social ecology and environmental justice, ecofeminism, green activism, and urban ecology and postmodernism. In addition, this course will use the analysis of contemporary texts to introduce multiple marginalized perspectives not traditionally included in American conservation programs or policies, including those of black, indigenous, and communities of color and/or limited wealth.
McDaniel Plan: Textual Analysis
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ENV 3120 - ENV Junior Seminar Credits: 4
This course introduces Environmental Studies majors to the science and practice of environmental studies. Designed as introduction to the Environmental Studies major, the course examines the interdisciplinary approaches used to study the environment, the theoretical underpinnings of the discipline, and how to find a successful career in the field. Students will explore these topics through a mix of lectures, individual projects, and class discussion.
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ENV 3365 - Special Topics in Environmental Studies Credits: 0-4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Recent selections include Chesapeake Bay Blues and Field Guide to Maryland.
Prerequisites none or permission of the instructor as indicated.
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ENV 4465 - Special Topics in Environmental Studies Credits: 0-4
The study of a selected topic in the discipline. Recent selections include Chesapeake Bay Blues and Field Guide to Maryland.
Prerequisites none or permission of the instructor as indicated.
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ENV 4494 - ENV Senior Seminar Credits: 4
Students will formally present a report from an internship program or independent research project that is focused on a specific environmental problem. This course is the capstone experience in ENV and is required of all ENV majors.
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