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ECE 4710 - Communications
Explores the statistical methods of analyzing communications systems: random signals and noise, statistical communication theory, and digital communications. Analysis of baseband and carrier transmission techniques; and design examples in satellite communications.
Prerequisite: APMA 3100, ECE 3750
Credits: 3
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ECE 4715 - Communication Systems Laboratory
Provides first-hand exposure to communications practice, including response of systems, signal theory, modulation and detection, sampling and quantization, digital signal processing, and receiver design. Prerequisite: ECE 3760; corequisite: ECE 4710.
Credits: 1.50
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ECE 4750 - Digital Signal Processing
An introduction to digital signal processing. Topics include discrete-time signals and systems, application of z-transforms, the discrete-time Fourier transform, sampling, digital filter design, the discrete Fourier transform, the fast Fourier transform, quantization effects and nonlinear filters.
Prerequisite: ECE 3750
Credits: 3
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ECE 4784 - Wireless Communications
This is a survey course in the theory and technology of modern wireless communication systems, exemplified in cellular telephony, paging, microwave distribution systems, wireless networks, and even garage door openers. Wireless technology is inherently interdisciplinary, and the course seeks to serve the interests of a variety of students. Prerequisite: ECE 3750 and 4710.
Credits: 3
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ECE 4850 - Linear Control Systems
Explores the modeling of linear dynamic systems via differential equations and transfer functions utilizing state space representations and classical input-output representations; the analysis of systems in the time and frequency domains; study of closed-loop systems; state-space methods and the classical stability tests, such as the Routh-Hurwitz criterion, Nyquist criterion, root-locus plots and Bode plots. Studies compensation design through lead and lag networks, rate feedback, and linear state-variable feedback. Prerequisite: ECE 3750 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 4855 - Control Laboratory
A laboratory consisting of design, analysis, construction, and testing of electrical and electromechanical circuits and devices. Corequisite: ECE 4850.
Credits: 1.50
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ECE 4860 - Digital Control Systems
Analyzes the design of dynamic systems that contain digital computers; the Z transform; block diagrams and transfer functions in the z-domain; block diagrams, frequency response and stability in the z-domain; state space methods; and design using the z-transform and state methods. Prerequisite: ECE 4850 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 4907 - Electrical Engineering Projects
Under faculty supervision, students plan a project of at least one semester’s duration, conduct the analysis or design and test, and report on the results. If this work is to be the basis for an undergraduate thesis, the course should be taken no later than the seventh semester. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ECE 4908 - Electrical Engineering Projects
Under faculty supervision, students plan a project of at least one semester’s duration, conduct the analysis or design and test, and report on the results. If this work is to be the basis for an undergraduate thesis, the course should be taken no later than the seventh semester. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ECE 4991 - MDE-Capstone Design
MDE - Capstone Design - this is a one semester course to satisfy the MDE requirement. Students perform a self directed design in teams of 3-5 individuals. The project includes design, fabrication, and test components, along with a final presentation.
Prerequisite: Fourth-Year Standing
Credits: 4.50
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EGMT 1510 - Aesthetic Engagement
In this class students will learn to identify, describe, and analyze aesthetic phenomena, understand the social role and ongoing evolution of human creative expression, and develop their own approach to creative expression.
Credits: 2
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EGMT 1520 - Empirical & Scientific Engagement
In this class students will learn to analyze claims about the material and social worlds through formulation and testing of new questions and hypotheses based on observation and experience.
Credits: 2
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EGMT 1530 - Engaging Difference
In this class, students will learn to critically reflect on one’s own situation and perspective in relations to one’s expanding knowledge of other human experiences, seeking to cultivate a framework for informed reflection on human diversity and social complexity while developing empathy as a foundation for democratic citizenship.
Credits: 2
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Engaging the Liberal Arts |
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ELA 1500 - Engaging the Liberal Arts: The First Year
Courses designed for first-year students that will help them adjust and adapt to college and learn about the many resources and opportunities available to them as they pursue their liberal arts degree.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ELA 2110 - Academic Realities and Strategies for Success
Academic Realities & Strategies for Success is a 1-credit, graded course that introduces students who have struggled academically in the previous semester to effective study strategies, University resources & life skills that support student success. Class covers a range of content relevant to academic performance, including time & stress management, critical thinking skills, & life strategies for achieving success in the college environment.
Credits: 1
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ELA 2500 - Engaging the Liberal Arts: The Second Year
Courses designed for second-year students that will help them adjust and adapt to college and learn about the many resources and opportunities available to them as they pursue their liberal arts degree.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ELA 2600 - Collect, Select, Reflect
Transcripts and resumes in the 21st century have to be more than documentation on paper. This is not only because computers have become ubiquitous, but also because digital technology allows us to represent who we are to others and to ourselves in more multi-dimensional ways than print can. In this class you will assemble three e-portfolios. Together students will view, critique, and give feedback to each other’s work.
Credits: 1
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ELA 2610 - Liberal Arts and the Health Professions
Students explore how insights from various disciplines inform their understanding of healthcare. Guest lectures and informational interviews connect students with healthcare professionals to gain a better understanding of the various health professions and to assess their own career goals. Students develop skills in interdisciplinary research and problem solving, in oral and written communication, and the integration of diverse perspectives.
Credits: 1
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ELA 2890 - Strategies for Academic Achievement
This course introduces strategies that will enable students to be effective learners. These tools include methods for learning, planning, and critical thinking. Specific topics include: methods for time management, prioritization, note-taking, test preparation, habit formation, assessment of arguments and data, productive approaches to challenges, and utilization of University resources.
Credits: 3
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ELA 2910 - Academic Adulting: Skills for Critical Reading and Thinking
Academic Adulting: Skills for Critical Reading and Thinking is a course that assists students attain their academic goals at the University of Virginia. The class addresses strategies for dealing with lengthy and complex readings, the analytical and evaluative skills of scholarship, time and stress management techniques, and individually targeted strategies for academic achievement.
Credits: 3
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ELA 3300 - Designing Your Professional Summer Experience
This course supports students in securing and preparing for a professional summer internship through career exploration, self-assessment, skill development, & search strategies. Students connect the skills & competencies to a liberal arts education with the core proficiencies sought by employers. Students utilize the Career Center resources including counseling & Virginia Alumni Mentoring.
Credits: 1
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ELA 3500 - Engaging the Liberal Arts: The Third Year
Courses designed for mostly third-year students that will help them adjust and adapt to college and learn about the many resources and opportunities available to them as they pursue their liberal arts degree. Some topics may focus on career exploration.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ELA 4500 - Engaging the Liberal Arts: The Fourth Year
Courses designed for fourth-year students that will help them adjust and adapt to college and learn about the many resources and opportunities available to them as they pursue their liberal arts degree.
Credits: 1 to 3
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Engineering |
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ENGR 1410 - Synthesis Design I
Prerequisite: first-year Rodman scholar status.
Credits: 3
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ENGR 1420 - Synthesis Design II
Prerequisite: first-year Rodman scholar status.
Credits: 3
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ENGR 1501 - Special Topics
Student led special topic courses which vary by semester.
Credits: 1
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ENGR 1520 - Explorations in Engineering
This course introduces students to engineering, including the role of engineers in modern society, engineering subdisciplines, & methods used by engineers to solve problems. A key component is a hands-on design-build project in which students work in small teams to develop a solution to a problem. This activity culminates in demonstration of a design solution prototype. Students should be able to make clearer choices when deciding a career path. Prerequisite: Instructor consent.
Credits: 3
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ENGR 1595 - Explorations–First-Year Engineering Seminar
This is a seminar course for first-year students in the School of Engineering and Applied Science to acquire information about engineering careers, what different majors do, etc.
Credits: 1
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ENGR 1620 - Introduction to Engineering
ENGR 1620 is a cornerstone course for first year engineering students. They are introduced to the philosophy and practice of engineering through hands-on experience in developing solutions for various open-ended, realistic challenges while considering the various contexts in which these challenges occur. Students will also learn about the majors SEAS offers and receive advisement about careers, plans of study, and major declaration. Prerequisite: First year enrollment in SEAS; exceptions are by instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ENGR 1621 - Introduction to Engineering Lab
ENGR 1620 is a prerequisite for this course. If you have not taken ENGR 1620, take ENGR 1624 instead of this course. If you have already completed ENGR 1620, take this course. Introductory course in the use of quantitative engineering tools to model, characterize and predict system behavior. Excel and Matlab are applied to engineering problems posed in each of the engineering majors offered and several cross-curricular engineering endeavors.
Credits: 1
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ENGR 1624 - Introduction to Engineering
Cornerstone course for first-year SEAS undergraduates, introducing them to engineering practice and design philosophy, via exposure to open-ended, realistic , hands-on challenges. Students engage in both individual and team work, and consider the contexts in which engineering challenges arise. SEAS majors and potential career paths are also introduced. Students who have taken ENGR 1620 or 1621 or both, can’t enroll in ENGR 1624.
Credits: 4
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ENGR 2500 - Introduction to Nanoscience and Technology
A hands-on introduction to nanoscience for students of all majors: Microfabrication, nanoscale chemical and biological self-assembly, applications, technological and ethical challenges; Labs ranging from use of scanning tunneling and atomic force microscopes to DNA fingerprinting. No prerequisites. Lecture/discussion meeting + one lab. For first two weeks of registration, enrollment will be limited to 1st and 2nd years (then opened to all).
Credits: 3
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ENGR 2555 - Special Projects in Engineering Education
A project in the engineering education field that requires individual investigation. Each student works on an individual project in the engineering education research area of a supervisor. The student is required to conduct investigations that are summarized in a written report at the end of the experience.
Credits: 1 to 6
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ENGR 2595 - Special Topics in Engineering
Special Topics in Engineering.
Credits: 1 to 4
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ENGR 2993 - Independent Study
Special tutorial with a topic declared in advance. The topic, work plan, and conditions are arranged by contract between instructor and student and approved by the department Chair, with a copy to be filed in the department office.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ENGR 3020 - Introduction to Engineering in Context
This course provides students with realistic and contemporary perspectives on the practice of engineering. A key objective is to improve understanding and appreciation for the role of contextual factors in engineering practice, with emphasis on the interactions between technological, organizational and cultural aspects. Invited speakers from industry, community organizations and academic research present and discuss their perspectives on these contextual interactions and professional challenges. The course helps students prepare for their senior thesis by structuring the search for topics, which are of strong interest to the student and likely to provide real benefits to the client and other stakeholders. Finally, students may generate proposals leading to funded, multidisciplinary team capstone projects in their 4th year. Prerequisite: 3rd year standing.
Credits: 1
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ENGR 3501 - Special Topics in Engineering
Special topics in engineering will vary based upon student and faculty interests.
Credits: 3
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ENGR 3502 - Special Topics in Engineering
Special topics in engineering will vary based upon student and faculty interests.
Credits: 3
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ENGR 3580 - Rodman Scholars Seminar
Special Topics Restricted to Rodman Scholars. Prerequisites: Rodman Scholar Status.
Credits: 1
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ENGR 3610 - Nanoscale Devices & Systems
The ability to spatially localize, pattern and interconnect structures with nanoscale resolution is critical for emerging technologies. This course utilizes a hierarchical approach to survey nanotechnologies, beginning with the emerging phenomena at the nanoscale; their device application for electronics, photonics, biosensing and tissue regeneration; the fabrication of integrated nanosystems; and finally their impacts on environmental systems.
Prerequisite: APMA 2130, and SEAS-required physics and chemistry courses.
Credits: 3
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ENGR 4010 - Multidisciplinary Design and Development I
A two-semester, multidisciplinary, capstone engineering design sequence; the primary objective of ENGR 4010/4020 is to provide students with a realistic and rigorous, culminating engineering design experience, which is reflective of contemporary professional practice. Key course attributes include the multidisciplinary composition of the engineering design teams (students and faculty from any department within SEAS, Commerce, Darden, Nursing, etc.), emphasis on aspects of modern practice (e.g. concurrent engineering, total quality management, and balanced consideration of the technological, organizational and cultural context) and realistic problems and client-stakeholders. A disciplined design/development process is followed that incorporates the important activities of contextual analysis, problem definition, customer needs definition, concept generation and selection, product specification, modeling and engineering analysis, proof of concept prototyping, design verification, cost analysis and project management and scheduling. Prerequisite: 4th year standing.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ENGR 4020 - Multidisciplinary Design and Development II
A two-semester, multidisciplinary, capstone engineering design sequence; the primary objective of ENGR 4010/4020 is to provide students with a realistic and rigorous, culminating engineering design experience, which is reflective of contemporary professional practice. Key course attributes include the multidisciplinary composition of the engineering design teams (students and faculty from any department within SEAS, Commerce, Darden, Nursing, etc.), emphasis on aspects of modern practice (e.g. concurrent engineering, total quality management, and balanced consideration of the technological, organizational and cultural context) and realistic problems and client-stakeholders. A disciplined design/development process is followed that incorporates the important activities of contextual analysis, problem definition, customer needs definition, concept generation and selection, product specification, modeling and engineering analysis, proof of concept prototyping, design verification, cost analysis and project management and scheduling. Prerequisite: ENGR 4010; 4th year standing.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ENGR 4595 - Special Topics in Engineering
Advance projects course to be taken in parallel with STS 4010, 4020, or can be used for an advanced undergraduate course on a topic not covered in the course offerings. Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ENGR 4599 - Special Topics in Engineering
Prerequisite: instructor permission.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ENGR 4880 - Business and Technical Leadership in Engineering
This course on Business and Technological Leadership is normally taught by a senior level corporate executive with broad experience who serves as the Brenton S. Halsey Distinguished Visiting Professor of Chemical Engineering and Related Disciplines. The instructor provides experienced insight on business and professional issues likely to be faced by engineers early in their careers. The course normally covers major business skills and competencies in career management, leadership, working in teams, problem solving, and change management as well as international issues facing global companies. Guest speakers will provide additional insights on theses topics.
Credits: 3
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ENGR 4920 - Engineering License Review
Overview of registration laws and procedures. Review of engineering fundamentals preparatory to public examination for the ‘Engineer in Training’ part of the professional engineers examination. Three hours of lecture up to the licensing examination. Corequisite: formal application for state registration.
Credits: 0
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English as a Second Language |
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ESL 886 - Listening and Speaking I
This course focuses on vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and key communication functions to help students develop their listening and speaking skills. Open to intermediate students.
Credits: 0
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ESL 887 - Listening and Speaking II
This course focuses on vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and key communication functions to help students develop their listening and speaking skills. Open to high intermediate/low advanced students.
Credits: 0
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ESL 896 - Reading and Writing II
This course focuses on vocabulary, structures, reading strategies, and writing tasks to help students develop their reading and writing skills. Open to intermediate students.
Credits: o
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ESL 897 - Reading and Writing II
This course focuses on vocabulary, structures, reading strategies, and writing tasks to help students develop their reading and writing skills. Open to high intermediate/low advanced students.
Credits: 0
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ESL 2915 - English for Academic Purposes (EAP)
English for Academic Purposes (EAP) is an intensive language and culture course, for nonnative speakers of English who have been admitted to an undergraduate or graduate degree program at the University of Virginia or who are prospective UVA research associates or visiting scholars. Participants fine-tune the language skills required for success in US higher education through exercises in writing, reading, oral communication and pronunciation.
Credits: 6
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ESL 3010 - ESL - Classroom Communication - Undergraduate
Students whose first language is one other than English develop advanced aural/oral communication skills required for success at a U.S. university. Topics include classroom discussion, oral presentation, and group participation sills. Academic vocabulary, reading strategies, and writing strategies that facilitate participation in academic discourse are also addressed.
Credits: 2
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English-Academic, Professional, & Creative Writing |
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ENWR 1505 - Writing & Critical Inquiry Stretch I
Part I of the two-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement. For placement guidelines see http://professionalwriting.as.virginia.edu/requirements. Topics vary each semester and can be found using the SIS Class Search.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 1506 - Writing & Critical Inquiry Stretch II
Part II of the two-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement. For placement guidelines see http://www.engl.virginia.edu/undergraduate/writing/placement. Topics vary each semester and can be found using the SIS Class Search.
Prerequisite: ENWR 1505.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 1507 - Writing & Critical Inquiry Stretch I for Multilingual Writers
Part I of the two-semester ESL option for meeting the first writing requirement. For placement guidelines see http://www.engl.virginia.edu/undergraduate/writing/placement. Topics vary each semester and can be found using the SIS Class Search.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 1508 - Writing & Critical Inquiry Stretch II for Multilingual Writers
Part II of the two-semester ESL option for meeting the first writing requirement. For placement guidelines see http://www.engl.virginia.edu/undergraduate/writing/placement. Topics vary each semester and can be found using the SIS Class Search.
Prerequisite: ENWR 1505
Credits: 3
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ENWR 1510 - Writing and Critical Inquiry
The single-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement– intended to be taken during the first year of study– this course approaches writing as a way of generating, representing, and reflecting on critical inquiry. Graded A, B, C, or NC. Students whose last names end in A-K must take ENWR 1510 in the fall; those with last names ending in L-Z take it in the spring.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 2150 - Pavilion Writers I
Part I of a two-semester workshop option for completing the first writing requirement. Focusing on framing and developing effective academic arguments. Both ENWR 2150 and ENWR 2160 must be completed to receive credit for either course and to complete the first writing requirement. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 1
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ENWR 2160 - Pavilion Writers II
Part II of a two-semester workshop option for completing the first writing requirement. Focusing on advanced argument patterns, syntax, and cohesion. Both ENWR 2150 and ENWR 2160 must be completed to receive credit for either course and to complete the first writing requirement. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 1
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ENWR 2510 - Advanced Writing Seminar
A single-semester option for meeting the first writing requirement– intended to be taken during the first year of study– this course approaches writing as a way of generating, representing, and reflecting on critical inquiry. Enrollment limited to students meeting benchmarks determined by the Writing Program.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 2520 - Special Topics in Writing
Includes courses on writing studies, corporate communications, and digital writing. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: Completion of first writing requirement.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 2610 - Writing with Style
Develops an understanding of the wide range of stylistic moves in prose writing, their uses, and implications. Students build a rich vocabulary for describing stylistic decisions, imitate and analyze exemplary writing, and discuss each others writing in a workshop setting.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 2620 - Reviewing Popular Culture
A writing workshop that focuses on critical approaches to popular culture. Students will read, analyze, and write a variety of critical essays on pop culture artifacts.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 2630 - Writing About Work
We will use inquiry-based writing to explore the role that work plays in the good life. We’ll critically analyze how and why we write about work to refresh our thinking about real-world experiences both familiar and unfamiliar to us. We will develop as writers by generating and exploring complicated questions. Why do we do the things that we do? What work do we value, and how do we communicate that?
Credits: 3
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ENWR 2640 - Composing Digital Stories and Essays
A workshop in which students produce stories and essays as both conventional print texts and multimodal electronic texts. Through a mix of theory and example students explore how emerging technologies changed the genres and modes of writing inside and outside the academy.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 2700 - News Writing
Introductory course in news writing, emphasizing editorials, features, and reporting. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 2800 - Public Speaking
An inquiry-based approach to the development of a confident, engaging, and ethical public speaking style. Beyond practical skills, this course emphasizes rhetorical thinking: what are the conventions of public speaking? Where are there opportunities to deviate from convention in ways that might serve a speech’s purpose? How might we construct an audience through the ways we craft language and plan the delivery of our speech?
Credits: 3
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ENWR 3500 - Topics in Advanced Academic Writing
A course for students who are already proficient academic writers and wish to develop their writing skills further in a workshop setting.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 3640 - Writing with Sound
This course trains students to become attuned, thoughtful listeners and sonic composers. In addition to discussing key works on sound from fields such as rhetoric and composition, sound studies, and journalism, we will experiment with the possibilities of sound as a valuable form of writing and storytelling. Students will learn how to use digital audio editing tools, platforms, and techniques for designing and producing sonic projects.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 3650 - Digital Writing: Remix Culture
This course explores the remix as a transformative compositional practice. Remix culture raises poignant questions about originality, creativity, and the ethical and legal implications of twenty-first century forms of composition. Students will examine remixing through theoretical, historical, aesthetic, and political lenses in order to cultivate a deep understanding of the rhetorical and affective power of this genre.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 3660 - Travel Writing
This course will explore travel writing using a variety of texts, including essays, memoirs, blogs, photo essays, and narratives. We will examine cultural representations of travel as well as the ethical implications of tourism. Students will have the opportunity to write about their own travel experiences, and we will also embark on “local travel” of our own.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 3665 - Writing about the Environment
This course focuses on creating meaningful, responsible, and engaged writing in the context of significant environmental issues. Analysis of representative environmental texts, familiarity with environmental concepts, examination of ethical positions in private and public spheres of writing, and sustained practice with form, style, medium, and genre will drive a variety of writing projects.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 3700 - Intermediate News Writing
Writing news and feature stories for magazines and newspapers. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses. Prerequisite: ENWR 270 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 3710 - News Magazine Writing
A course in weekly news magazine writing. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 3720 - Magazine Writing
A course in writing non-fiction articles for general magazines. Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 3800 - Academic and Professional Writing
Prepares students for professional or advanced academic writing; also prepares students to manage (assign, edit, supervise, and coach) the writing of others. Lectures present principles based on research in writing studies; seminars allow students to master those principles in the context of projects keyed to their specific interests and career plans. Meets second writing requirement. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENWR 3900 - Career-Based Writing and Rhetoric
Develops proficiency in a range of stylistic and persuasive effects. The course is designed for students who want to hone their writing skills, as well as for students preparing for careers in which they will write documents for public circulation. Students explore recent research in writing studies. In the workshop-based studio sessions, students propose, write, and edit projects of their own design.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3110 - American Literature to 1865
Surveys American literature from the Colonial Era to the Age of Emerson and Melville. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3120 - American Literature Since 1865
Surveys American literature, both prose and poetry, from the Civil War to the present. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3130 - African-American Literature I
Analyzes the earliest examples of African-American literature, emphasizing African cultural themes and techniques that were transformed by the experience of slavery as that experience met European cultural and religious practices. Studies essays, speeches, pamphlets, poetry, and songs. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3140 - African-American Literature II
Continuation of ENAM 3130, this course begins with the career of Richard Wright and brings the Afro-American literary and performing tradition up to the present day. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3150 - The American Renaissance
Analyzes the major writings of Poe, Emerson, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Thoreau, and Dickinson. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3160 - Realism and Naturalism in America
Analyzes American literary realism and naturalism, its sociological, philosophical, and literary origins as well as its relation to other contemporaneous literary movements. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3180 - Introduction to Asian American Studies
An interdisciplinary introduction to the culture and history of Asians and Pacific Islanders in America. Examines ethnic communities such as Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Korean, Asian Indian, and Native Hawaiian, through themes such as immigration, labor, cultural production, war, assimilation, and politics. Texts are drawn from genres such as legal cases, short fiction, musicals, documentaries, visual art, and drama. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3240 - Faulkner
An intensive study of the works of William Faulkner in the contexts of American literature, southern literature, and international modernism.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3280 - Reading the Black College Campus
Historically Black Colleges and University campuses are records of the process of democratizing (extending to excluded social groups such as African-Americans) opportunities for higher education in America. Through landscapes, we trace this record, unearthing the politics of landscapes via direct experience as well as via interpretations of representations of landscapes in literature, visual arts, maps, plans, and photographs. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3300 - American Poetry
Studies theme and technique in major American poets. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3321 - Race and Ethnicity in Latinx Literature
This course examines the construction of race and ethnicity in Latinx literature by examining key texts by individuals from varying Latinx groups in the US. We will examine how US-American identity shapes Latinx notions of race and how the authors’ connections with Latin America and the Caribbean do the same. We will explore from a hemispheric perspective how race and ethnicity are depicted in Latinx literature and culture.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3400 - American Fictions
Classic American fiction 1800-1900. Readings vary but may include Cooper, Sedgewick, Stowe, Hawthorn, James, Twain, Chestnutt, Chopin, Dreiser, Crane, Melville
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3450 - American Short Novel
Examines American short novels since 1840 by such authors as Poe, Melville, James, Jewett, Crane, Larsen, Faulkner, Reed, MacLean, Auster, and Chang. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3465 - America and the Global South in Literature and Film
Students in this course will examine and interpret conceptions of America from the point of view of novelists, filmmakers, journalists, and scholars in the Global South. American and Global South landscapes will be a focus of the class, as will images, artifacts, and material culture that reveal Global South views of the United States.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3500 - Studies in American Literature
For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3510 - Studies in African-American Literature and Culture
Intensive study of African-American writers and cultural figures in a diversity of genres. Includes artists from across the African diaspora in comparative American perspective. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3520 - Major American Authors
Studies the work of one or two major authors. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3570 - Contemporary Ethnic American Fiction
This course introduces students to the growing body of fiction by recent American writers of ethnic and racial minorities. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3750 - Sex and Sentiment
Focuses on the rise of sentimental novels and sensational novels between the American Revolution and the Civil War. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3770 - Women in American Art
Analyzes the roles played by women as artists and as the subjects of representation in American art from the colonial period to the present. Some background in either art history or gender studies is desirable. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3780 - Science and Identity in American Literature
Studies literary representations of science, pseudo-science and technology in nineteenth century America, particularly works that explore the possible effects of science on personal, civic, and social identity. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3850 - Folklore in America
Surveys the traditional expressive culture of various ethnic and religious groups in America, including songs, folk narratives, folk religion, proverbs, riddles. Emphasizes southeastern Anglo-Americans. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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ENAM 3870 - Literature of the West
Analyzes selected works by writers of the Western United States from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Emphasizes the Anglo-American exploration, settlement, and development of the West, as well as readings from other ethnic groups, including Native and Hispanic Americans. For more details on this class, please visit the department website at http://www.engl.virginia.edu/courses.
Credits: 3
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