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2022-2023 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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The number system reflects the level of course material and associated rigor. With the exception of upper graduate level and professional courses, any prerequisite restrictions limiting the level of a student accepted into a course shall be specified in a course prerequisites. Courses shall be numbered as follows:
| 001-099 |
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No credit, non-degree and/or developmental courses; |
| 100-199 |
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Freshmen level course; undergraduate credit only; |
| 200-299 |
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Sophomore level course; undergraduate credit only; |
| 300-399 |
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Junior level course; undergraduate credit only; |
| 400-499 |
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Advanced junior and senior level course; undergraduate credit only; |
| 400G-499G |
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Senior and first year graduate level course; graduate credit for non-majors only; |
| 500-599 |
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First year graduate level course; undergraduate and graduate credit; |
| 600-799 |
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Upper graduate level course; open only to graduate students; |
| 800-999 |
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Professional Programs course; open only to students in professional colleges and to students in other colleges offering professional degrees as defined by the Council on Postsecondary Education. |
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The letter R following the course designation and number indicates a remedial course. No course designated with an R will be counted as credit toward a bachelor’s degree at the University of Kentucky. |
Courses may be approved for variable credits, e.g., (1-3), (2-6), etc. In no case, however, may the total credits exceed the maximum number authorized for the course.
Repeated registration in a course may be allowed if the course description carries the statement: “May be repeated to maximum of … credits.” However, a student may enroll only one time in a specific course during a given semester. Courses with the same number are not considered to be the same course if different identifying titles are an integral part of the record.
Unless indicated in the course description, the number of credits for a course indicates the number of lecture or discussion or class hours.
Exceptions to the requirements for admission to courses may be made as follows:
Seniors with superior ability or preparation may be admitted to courses numbered between 600 and 799, upon approval of the instructor, the dean of the student’s college and the Dean of The Graduate School.
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ENG 210 - HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
A survey of the historical development of English from its Indo-European origins to the present. Includes an investigation of the principal changes which have affected English phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, and vocabulary, and of the ways in which these changes are reflected in contemporary English usage; and an examination of the socio-historical factors that have shaped the evolution of the English language.
Crosslisted with: LIN 210
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ENG 221 - INTRODUCTION TO LINGUISTICS
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This is an the introductory linguistics course designed for majors and minors in Linguistics. May be of use to students in other disciplines. Prerequisite for most LIN courses.
Prereq: This course is primarily designed for Linguistics major and minor students, but it is also suitable for students pursuing a major in the following disciplines: English, Modern and Classical Languages, and Communication Science Disorders, or consent of instructor.
Crosslisted with: LIN 221
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ENG 230 - INTRODUCTION TO LITERATURE: (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
An introduction to literary analysis through close reading and argumentative writing. The course involves studying selected texts from several genres and investigating a unified theme or set of topics indicated in the subtitle. Students will learn how to read closely, how to relate texts to contexts, and how to use basic literary terms and concepts. Attention will be paid to student writing, particularly to devising a thesis, crafting an argument, and learning how to use supporting evidence. See departmental listings for different offerings with different subtitles each semester. Offers UK Core credit for Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities. Fulfills ENG pre-major requirement. Provides ENG minor credit.
Prereq: Graduation Writing Requirement Course - Credit is awarded to students meeting the GWR prerequisites.
Meets UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in Humanities.
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ENG 241 - SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE I
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
A survey of British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the later seventeenth century, with emphasis on different genres, periods, and cultural characteristics of the early English literary tradition. Texts and authors covered may include Beowulf and Old English elegiac poetry; Middle English poetry and selections from Geoffrey Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales; Renaissance lyrics, sonnets, and narrative poetry; the drama of Shakespeare; selections from John Milton’s Paradise Lost; and more. Lecture. Fulfills ENG major Historical Survey Requirement and Early Period requirement. Provides ENG minor credit. Credit will not be given to students who already have credit for ENG 331.
Approved for Distance Learning.
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ENG 242 - SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE II
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
A survey of British literature from the seventeenth century to the present, with emphasis on different genres, periods, and cultural characteristics of the later English literary tradition. Authors covered may include the Augustan poetry of John Dryden and Alexander Pope; the early and later Romantic movements; novelists and poets of the Victorian period such as Charles Dickens, Alfred Tennyson, and Elizabeth B. Browning; the early twentieth-century Modernism of Virginia Woolf and T.S. Eliot; and more. Lecture or lecture with discussion. Fulfills ENG major Historical Survey Requirement. Provides ENG minor credit. Credit will not be given to students who already have credit for ENG 332.
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ENG 251 - SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE I
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
A survey of American literature from its colonial origins to the Civil War, with emphasis on different genres, periods, and cultural characteristics of the American Colonies and antebellum United States. The course explores both the social conditions in which authors lived and wrote?such as conflicts over land with Native Americans, slavery, and the emergence of women?s rights?as well as the key developments in literary form during this period, such as the rise of the novel, the slave narrative, and the changing shape of poetry. Texts and authors covered may include Susanna Rowson, Herman Melville?s Moby Dick, Frederick Douglass? Narrative, short stories by Edgar Allen Poe, the poetry of Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, and more. Lecture or Lecture with discussion. Fulfills ENG major Historical Survey Requirement and Early Period requirement. Provides ENG minor credit. Credit will not be given to students who already have credit for ENG 334.
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ENG 252 - SURVEY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE II
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
A survey of American literature from the Civil War to the present, with an emphasis on different genres, periods, and cultural characteristics of later periods in U.S. history. The course explores the changing social conditions in which American literature was produced?such as the Roaring 20?s, the Cold War, and the upheaval of the 1960?s?and several key literary movements, such as the Harlem Renaissance, Modernism, and Postmodernism. Texts and authors covered may include Edith Wharton?s House of Mirth, Nella Larsen?s Quicksand, Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison, the poetry of Marianne Moore and Elizabeth Bishop, and more. Lecture or Lecture and Discussion. Fulfills ENG major Historical Survey Requirement. Provides ENG minor credit. Credit will not be given to students who already have credit for ENG 335.
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ENG 260 - INTRODUCTION TO BLACK WRITERS
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
An introduction to written and oral works by Black authors of Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States. The course includes writers such as Chinua Achebe (Africa), Wilson Harris (Caribbean), and Toni Morrison (USA), as well as others from the diverse field of literature written by African-American authors and authors of color worldwide. Attention will be paid to student writing, particularly to devising a thesis, crafting an argument, and learning how to use supporting evidence. See departmental listings for different offerings per semester. Offers UK Core credit for Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities. Fulfills ENG premajor requirement. Can be taken for ENG Major Elective credit. Provides ENG minor credit. Credit will not be given to students who already have credit for ENG 264.
Prereq: Graduation Writing Requirement Course - Credit is awarded to students meeting the GWR prerequisites.
Meets UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in Humanities.
Approved for Distance Learning.
Crosslisted with: AAS 264
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ENG 265 - SURVEY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE I
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
A survey of African-American literature from the mid-eighteenth century to Reconstruction and after, with emphasis on selected genres, periods, and thematic characteristics of the early African-American cultural and literary experience. Topics include colonialism and abolitionism; early black aesthetics, narratives of enslavement, and drama, novels, and poetry. Authors may include Jupiter Hammon, Phillis Wheatley, William Wells Brown, George Moses Horton, Martin Delaney, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Wilson, Ellen Craft, and more. Lecture. Fulfills ENG major Historical Survey Requirement. Provides ENG minor credit.
Approved for Distance Learning.
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ENG 266 - SURVEY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE II
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
A survey of African-American literature from post-Reconstruction to the Black Arts Movement and beyond, with emphasis on selected genres, periods, and thematic characteristics of the later African-American cultural and literary experience to the present day. Topics include literature of the Reconstruction; poetry and dialect poetry, the ‘plantation tradition’ and black musical traditions; Black Modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; the Black Power movement and Civil Rights. Authors may include Pauline Hopkins, Frances Harper, Sutton Griggs, Oscar Micheaux, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, Gwendolyn Brooks, and more. Lecture. Fulfills ENG major Historical Survey Requirement. Provides ENG minor credit.
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ENG 271 - THE BIBLE AS LITERATURE
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
A course investigating selections from the Christian Bible (Old and New Testaments) in English, and from related sacred texts, as literary and cultural documents of great significance and literary achievement. Emphasis is on the careful analysis of literary forms and themes within a broadly historical and non-denominational context. Lecture. Does not fulfill ENG premajor requirement or provide ENG Major Elective credit. Provides ENG minor credit.
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ENG 274 - CLASSICS OF WESTERN LITERATURE
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
A study of selected works by major Western authors from the Bible and ancient Greek literature through the Renaissance and Enlightenment periods, and later. Emphasis is on the study of genres, themes, characters, and literary forms that have had an enduring presence in Western culture. Texts may include Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey; selections from the Old Testament; classical Greek drama; Virgil’s Aeneid; Dante’s Divine Comedy; Cervantes’ Don Quixote; and others. Lecture. Does not fulfill ENG premajor requirement or provide ENG Major Elective credit. Provides ENG minor credit.
Approved for Distance Learning.
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ENG 280 - INTRODUCTION TO FILM
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
An introduction to the study of films as narrative art and cultural documents. The course involves viewing and analyzing films from different genres and investigating a unified theme or set of topics. Students will learn how to view films closely, how to relate films to their contexts, and how to employ the basic terms and concepts of film analysis. Attention will be paid to student writing, particularly to devising a thesis, crafting an argument, and learning how to use supporting evidence. Viewing films outside of class is required. See departmental listings for different offerings per semester. Offers UK Core credit for Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities. Does not fulfill ENG premajor requirement. Can be taken for ENG Major Elective credit. Provides ENG minor credit.
Prereq: Graduation Writing Requirement Course - Credit is awarded to students meeting the GWR prerequisites.
Meets UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in Humanities.
Approved for Distance Learning.
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ENG 290 - INTRODUCTION TO WOMEN’S LITERATURE
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
An introduction to the rich traditions of women’s writing, focusing on some important issues and representative examples. Students will read canonical and non-canonical works, discuss continuities and differences among women writers, and master some of the concepts of gender studies. Attention will be paid to student writing, particularly to devising a thesis, crafting an argument, and learning how to use supporting evidence. See departmental listings for different offerings per semester. Offers UK Core credit for Intellectual Inquiry in the Humanities. Fulfills ENG premajor requirement. Provides ENG Major or Minor Elective credit.
Meets UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in Humanities.
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ENG 301 - STYLE FOR WRITERS
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed for those who wish to improve their own writing style or the style of others. While the course may include some account of historical changes in prose style and require some stylistic analysis of literary texts, the emphasis is on editing contemporary prose, both in exercises and in the students’ own writing. Students will learn and practice principles such as economy, coordination, subordination, precision, parallelism, balance, coherence, rhythm, clarity, and grace. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
Crosslisted with: WRD 301
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ENG 303 - CREATIVE WRITING IN THE DIGITAL AGE (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This is a creative writing course that explores creative composition in the digital age. Students will be required to write poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction in digital forms. How do authors express themselves in multimedia and digital formats? What are the constraints imposed by digital composition? How has digital writing inspired authors in the 21st century? Themes may include digital storytelling, literature and technology, and forms of literary and personal expression in online journals, blogs, vlogs and various social media platforms.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition & Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
Approved for Distance Learning. Repeatable up to 9 credit hours.
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ENG 307 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN CREATIVE WRITING: (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
An exploratory creative writing class (craft-based, cross-genre, or theme-based), this course is suitable for prospective English teachers, for those practicing creative writing who wish to explore cross-genre work, or for students with other majors who are interested in the given topic. May be repeated under different subtitles to a maximum of 6 credits.
Prereq: Completion of Composition and Communication requirement and consent of instructor.
Repeatable up to 6 credit hours.
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ENG 310 - AMERICAN ENGLISH
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
The study of the varieties of modern American English: regional, social, and ethnic varieties, gender differences in communication, creoles and pidgins, stylistic variation. History and methods of American dialect study. Same as LIN 310. No prerequisites. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Crosslisted with: LIN 310
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ENG 330 - TEXT AND CONTEXT: (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
The core course in the English Major focusing on the close reading and analysis of a single major literary text, or a focused set of texts, in historical and critical context. Students will develop analytical and interpretive skills that deepen their historical and conceptual understanding of literature, as well as their skills of critical reading, writing, and presentation. See departmental listings for different offerings per semester. ENG major and minor requirement. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 hours under different subtitles. Credit from this course applies to the following programs: Undergraduate.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent, and either ENG 230, or ENG 260, or ENG 290.
Repeatable up to 6 credit hours.
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ENG 333 - LITERATURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
Literature has found new platforms in the digital age. E-books, digital archives, electronic literature, audio books, podcasts, born-digital fiction, interactive fiction, and other digital literary forms have diversified the media for stories and altered traditional understandings of literature. This course will explore one or more forms of digital literature, introducing students to the principal theories and questions of this growing field. The course may examine subjects such as storytelling, active reading, hypertext, collaborative authorship, editing, publishing, digital aesthetics, poetry, and more.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition & Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
Repeatable up to 9 credit hours.
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ENG 337 - LITERATURE AND GENRE: (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
An advanced course exploring one or two literary genres or formal categories. It focuses on analyzing the parameters and practices of a broad generic category (e.g. the short story; lyric poetry; epic and mock-epic; autobiography; the bildungsroman; protest literature) or a genre specific to a particular period (e.g. mid-century American crime novels; Elizabethan songs and sonnets; Victorian drama). May be repeated up to 9 hours under different subtitles. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit. May fulfill ENG Early Period requirement depending on the course: see departmental listings for different offerings per semester.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
Repeatable up to 9 credit hours.
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ENG 338 - TOPICS IN LITERATURE: (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
An advanced course exploring a focused literary topic across various periods, genres, styles, and media. It focuses on the creative connections in literature unifying a shared set of themes or topical concerns (e.g., narratives of travel; the family through history; stories about work and play; ethnic identities; nature and the natural world). Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours under different subtitles. May fulfill ENG Early Period requirement depending on the course: see departmental listings for different offerings per semester.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
Repeatable up to 9 credit hours.
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ENG 339 - AUTHOR STUDIES: (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
An advanced course exploring the works of a single important author of English literature, or literature in translation, from any period or nationality. It focuses on developing a strong familiarity with the oeuvre of a specific important writer. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours under different subtitles. May fulfill ENG Early Period requirement depending on the course: see departmental listings for different offerings per semester.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
Repeatable up to 9 credit hours.
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ENG 341 - CHAUCER AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
A course covering medieval English literature from around the years 1350-1450 and centering on the works of Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400), particularly his early dream-visions and The Canterbury Tales. Other authors and texts may include William Langland’s Piers Plowman; the poetry of John Gower; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the works of the Pearl-Poet; Thomas Hoccleve; Margery Kempe; anonymous romances and Arthurian narratives; and more. Topics include courtly love and chivalry; Christian spirituality; women and gender roles; feudal politics and rebellion. Open to students from any major. Fulfills the ENG Early Period requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
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ENG 342 - SHAKESPEARE
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
A course offering advanced study of a representative selection of Shakespeare’s plays across the length of his career. It situates Shakespeare within Renaissance theatre culture: the playhouses and audiences he wrote for, the structure of his acting company, and the patronage system that supported their business. Students will learn how his plays departed from received ideas about dramatic genres and in some instances set new standards for how certain types of plays should look and feel. Students will also gain a sense of how interpretations of individual plays have changed over time and how later periods and audiences continue to make Shakespeare their own. Open to students from any major. Fulfills the ENG Early Period requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prerequisite: completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
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ENG 343 - RENAISSANCE DRAMA AND SOCIETY
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This course studies Elizabethan and Jacobean drama by Shakespeare’s predecessors and contemporaries. Although most people identify Shakespeare as the representative Renaissance playwright, he was only one member of a distinguished generation. Students will encounter a variety of popular dramatic genres in which Shakespeare either did not work or that he heavily adapted to his own ends: Turk plays, city comedy, unperformed ‘Closet drama,’ revenge tragedy, pastoral. Readings may include playwrights such as Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Elizabeth Cary, Lady Mary Wroth, Thomas Middleton, John Webster, and others; and topics such as tragedy and comedy, sex and romance, urban life and the value of money, and racial and religious difference. Open to students from any major. Fulfills the ENG Early Period requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
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ENG 345 - BRITISH POETRY
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This course provides a selective encounter with the poetry of the British tradition. Texts and topics may be drawn from the later Renaissance (16th c.) up through the present day, exploring the depth, history, and continued vitality of British poetry. Particular attention is paid to the formal aspects and skills of reading poetry in different periods and styles. Reading may include authors and texts such as the sonnets and songs of Philip Sidney and Shakespeare; the verse of John Milton and other seventeenth-century poets; Alexander Pope and his contemporaries; Victorians and pre-Raphaelites such as E. B. Browning and Christina Rossetti; Modernists such as Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, and H.D.; and contemporary British, Irish, and Scottish poets. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
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ENG 347 - THE RISE OF THE BRITISH NOVEL
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
What is the novel and how did it begin? Why did it develop at a specific moment in history and what counted as fiction before that time? What makes one novel literature and another trash? In this course we explore the early decades of the novel to better understand prose fiction and how it came to be a dominant genre in English literature. Readings can include works by Daniel Defoe, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Frances Burney, Mary Shelley, Jane Austen (including selected cinematic adaptations), and more. Topics can include the novel in history and the history of the novel; the evolving cultural practices of novel-reading; eighteenth- century fiction and contemporary popular culture. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
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ENG 348 - VICTORIAN NOVELS AND THEIR WORLDS
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This course examines the development of the novel as a literary and cultural form at the moment of its greatest impact during the Victorian era (1837-1901). It focuses on the emergence of the realist novel and other modes that intersected and competed with it (e.g. the gothic, the supernatural, sensation fiction, the New Woman novel), to explore the complex ways that represented different realities. The course also addresses contemporary issues such as new ideas about human psychology; gender, domesticity, and The Woman Question; social status and class conflict; science and religion; race and empire. Authors may include Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Oscar Wilde, Olive Schreiner, and more. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
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ENG 349 - MODERNISM
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
A course on Modernist Literature: British, Irish and American writing from the first half of the twentieth century. Virginia Woolf once tried to explain modernism by claiming, ‘on or about December 1910, human character changed.’ Much of the writing of the period might be read as an attempt to record and understand that change. Texts include the fiction, poetry, drama, and essays from writers such as Woolf, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats, Ezra Pound, Wyndham Lewis and Gertrude Stein. The literature of the period will be examined in relation to various contexts and backgrounds, including the experience of war, the breakup of empire, and other major events and upheavals. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
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ENG 352 - AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURES TO 1900
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This course focuses on selected literary movements and their relationships to American culture up through 1900. Authors studied may include Susanna Rowson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Walt Whitman, Harriet Jacobs, and Henry James. Topics may include American imperialism, slavery and abolition, the rise of the historical novel, Sentimentalism, Romanticism, and the emergence of psychological realism. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
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ENG 353 - AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURES POST-1900
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This course focuses on selected literary movements and their relationships to American culture since 1900. Authors studied may include Edith Wharton, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Allen Ginsberg, Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison, Thomas Pynchon, and others. Topics may include the literatures of World War I, the Cold War, the Beat Generation, the New Social Movements of the 1960’s, Postmodernism, and more. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
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ENG 355 - AMERICAN POETIC TRADITIONS
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
A course investigating contrasting traditions of American poetry from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Several poets are examined within historical and literary contexts, and their poems examined in detail through close reading, with attention paid in particular to stylistic/formal characteristics. Poets studied may include Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, and others. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
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ENG 357 - CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN LITERATURE
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
A course examining contemporary American fiction primarily since the 1970s and 1980s, as well as the diverse categories by which its critics and readers have sought to identify it: minimalism, hyperrealism, postmodernism, cyberpunk, the magical real. The class investigates contemporary authors in order to generate the key terms and problems for approaching work in diverse current genres, from science fiction and graphic novels to historical novels and self-consciously literary fiction. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
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ENG 359 - THE KENTUCKY LITERARY HERITAGE
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
A course exploring the rich literary heritage of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the greater Appalachian region, surveying its local history and diversity as well as its wider significance for American art. Authors covered may include early figures such as William Wells Brown, the first African-American novelist, and John Fox Jr., the first million-selling novelist; Robert Penn Warren, first Poet Laureate of the United States and author of All the King’s Men; Elizabeth Madox Roberts; Harriette Arnow, winner of the National Book Award in 1954 for The Dollmaker; counter-cultural writers of the 60’s and 70’s such as Hunter S. Thompson, Gurney Norman, and Ed McClanahan; contemporary Kentucky writers such as Wendell Berry, Erik Reece, Bobbie Ann Mason, Sara Jeter Naslund, C. E. Morgan, Kim Edwards, and Gayle Jones; and contemporary award-winning poets such as Frank X Walker, Nikky Finney, and Maurice Manning. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
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ENG 361 - EARLY AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This course investigates selected writers of the early African-American tradition, primarily from the mid-eighteenth century to post- Reconstruction. Inquiry focuses on the literary modes and genres that were central to the creation of a distinct African-American literary voice and canon, including slave narratives, folklore, poetry, drama, and more. Authors can include Phyllis Wheatley, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, William Wells Brown, Frances Harper, Charles Chesnutt, Martin Delaney, Sojourner Truth, and others. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
Approved for Distance Learning.
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ENG 362 - FLIGHTS TO FREEDOM: LITERATURE OF THE GREAT BLACK MIGRATIONS
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
Between 1910 and 1930 more than one million African Americans migrated from the rural South to the urban North. This course focuses on the development of African-American migration narratives from the slave era to the contemporary moment. It examines literary, musical, artistic, and journalistic representations of the Great Migrations that capture the experiences of African-Americana as they moved not only from the South to the North, but also from the South to the Midwest and the West in pursuit of better economic opportunities and political freedom. Readings are drawn from writers such as William and Ellen Craft, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, Jean Toomer, Nella Larsen, Ann Petry, Dorothy West, Pearl Cleage, August Wilson, Toni Morrison, Ishmael Reed, Colson Whitehead, and others. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit. ENG 260, 265, or 266 are recommended but not required.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
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ENG 368 - CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN-AMERICAN VOICES
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
Encompassing an array of genres and forms, this course examines black culture, literature, and performance from mid-20th century to present. It engages aesthetic, critical, and political issues related to seminal periods such as the Black Arts Movement of 1960’s, the Third Renaissance of 1980’s-90’s, and the ascent of the first U.S. president of African descent. This course examines how forms of performance such as folklore and work songs, the blues, jazz, and rap, all shape cultural and literary production. Authors may include Lorraine Hansberry, Ernest Gaines, Gloria Naylor, Ice Cube, Cornell West, Marlon Riggs, Tupac, India Arie, Percival Everett, Nikky Finney, Natasha Tretheway, Barack Obama, and others. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
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ENG 369 - AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN’S WRITING
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This course analyzes the literary and visual representation of black women from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. It explores how selected writers, working across different genres, render black female characters in ways that perpetuate, contest, or subvert stereotypical images of black women. Texts and authors may include Harriet Jacobs’ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Frances Harper’s Trial and Triumph, Nella Larsen, Zora Neale Hurston, Gwendolyn Brooks’ Maud Martha (1953), Toni Cade Bambara’s Gorilla, My Love (1972), Toni Morrison’s Sula (1973), and contemporary authors such as Ann Allen Shockley, Gayl Jones, Nikky Finney, and others. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
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ENG 370 - LITERATURE ACROSS BORDERS
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
A course examining literature as a product of multiple regional, national, and international contexts. How do texts, ideas, goods, and people move across borders? How are identities and concepts produced through transnational dialogue and exchange? Possible areas of study include transatlantic political or literary movements, border studies, multinational literatures, or literatures of migration and diaspora. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
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ENG 380 - FILM AND GENRE: (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
An advanced course exploring one or two film genres, styles, or formal categories. It focuses on analyzing the parameters and practices of a broad generic category (e.g. gangster films; documentaries; biographies; war films) or a genre specific to a particular period (e.g. early silent films; twentieth-century horror films). Viewing films outside of class is required. See departmental listings for different offerings per semester. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
Repeatable up to 9 credit hours.
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ENG 381 - HISTORY OF FILM I
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
An introduction to the history of film as art and industry from the invention of the moving picture to World War II. Emphasis is on the artistic development of the silent film in America and Europe, the rise of the American studio system, and the emergence of sound in film in the 1930’s. Filmmakers may include the Lumiere brothers, Georges Meliès, Buster Keaton, D. W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, King Vidor, Alan Crosland, Leni Riefenstahl, and others. Viewing films outside of class is required. Does not fulfill Historical Survey requirement. Can be taken for ENG Major Elective and FSS Major Elective requirement. Provides ENG minor credit. ENG 280 recommended but not required.
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ENG 382 - HISTORY OF FILM II
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
A chronological survey of narrative film (primarily American) from World War II to the present, concentrating on both canonical films (such as Hitchcock’s Vertigo) and often overlooked examples of cult, low budget, and independent film. Many paradigms of the major genres are included: musical, film noir, gangster, screwball comedy, horror and science fiction, western, and more. This survey also examines more idiosyncratic work of auteur directors (Nicholas Ray, Jane Campion), films capturing a specific sociopolitical moment (e.g. Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing), and larger cinematic movements such as Italian neo-realism, French New Wave cinema, and the New Hollywood of the 70’s. Lecture. Viewing films outside of class is required. Does not fulfill ENG Historical Survey requirement. Can be taken for ENG Major Elective requirement. Provides ENG minor credit. ENG 280 recommended but not required.
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ENG 383 - FILM IN THE DIGITAL AGE: WHAT IS DIGITAL CINEMA?
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
Once upon a time - like, 2005 - movie was a film: a series of photographic images, printed on celluloid, and projected at 24 frames per second to create what was thought to be magical: the world captured and brought to life. However, over the past 15 years, film production, distribution, and exhibition have undergone a digital revolution. Gone, for the most part, are the reels and projectors of old; we’re now in the world of Digital Cinema Packages and 4K resolution. Netflix and Amazon are more than digital streaming services: they’re studios vying with Disney, Fox and Warner. A phone can record with professional quality, and anyone can create an image that changes the world. What does this mean for the way we make movies now? What’s at stake when Sean Baker and Steven Soderbergh shoot on an iPhone, or when Christopher Nolan and Quentin Tarantino insist on 35mm, 65mm, and IMAX formats? What kind of stories do we tell when we’re limited only by the capacity of our servers? Does it matter whether we watch in a reclining chair at the Regal or in the old seats at the Kentucky or on our iPads, and if so, why? For better or worse, this is our cinema.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition & Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
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ENG 384 - LITERATURE AND FILM
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This course explores the relationship between two creative traditions, literature and film, focusing on film adaptations of literary works for the screen. Subjects can include the adaptation of works by a particular writer such as Shakespeare or Jane Austen, or it may range more widely among the thousands of innovative cinematic reinventions of literary texts, e.g. Richardson’s Tom Jones, Altman’s Short Cuts. In some semesters the course may focus on a particular topic or genre and its treatment in both literary and cinematic texts, or on a particular moment when cinema and literary writers exerted a strong mutual influence (such as Hollywood in the 1920’s). Viewing films outside of class is required. Open to students from any major. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
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ENG 391 - LITERARY THEORY
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
Since the 1940’s ‘literary theory’ has emerged as a vibrant and vital aspect of literary studies. The term covers a wide range of formal, historical, and critical approaches to literature and culture that have changed the ways we read. This course investigates selected trends and schools of modern literary theory in diverse texts and contexts. These can include formalism, Practical Criticism, and the New Criticism; French Structuralism and the various modes of post-structuralism (Semiotics, Deconstruction, Reader-response, Speech-act theory); historicism and the New Historicism; as well as broader modes of cultural critique such as Feminism, Marxism, Critical Theory and the Frankfurt School, Post-colonialism, Critical Race Theory, and more. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
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ENG 395 - INDEPENDENT WORK
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 1 - 3 (Variable)
For undergraduate majors in English with high standing. Students pursue an independent course of study, tutorial, or directed project under the guidance of a faculty member, with appropriate assessment and grading (e.g., term paper(s), examinations, final project). Projects are generally proposed and arranged by students themselves, reflecting individual interests and goals. Limited enrollment. Prerequisites: ENG major with a major GPA of 3.0 or above; prior permission of faculty advisor and ENG chairperson; approved Learning Contract. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 credits. Contact the Director of Undergraduate Studies for information. Provides ENG Major Elective credit.
Prereq: ENG major with a major GPA of 3.0 or above; prior permission of faculty advisor and ENG chairperson; approved Learning Contract.
Repeatable up to 6 credit hours.
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ENG 399 - INTERNSHIP IN ENGLISH-RELATED WORK EXPERIENCE
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 1 - 3 (Variable)
The Department of English internship is available for qualified students to receive academic credit toward the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Science in English through applied and practical experience with a variety of private and public entities, including but not limited to the University Press of Kentucky. The student will identify a field-, community-based, practical or applied educational experience and locate a sponsor to host their internship, which will be supervised by both a responsible person on site and by an English Dept. faculty member. The internship will provide supervised professional experience in public and private sector positions and is intended to introduce students to the skills and working environments of careers for graduates of the English Dept. Students should consult with an English faculty member in advance of registering for this class. A learning contract must be completed by the student, the faculty supervisor, and the on-site internship supervisor, then filed with the English Dept.’s Director of Undergraduate Studies (DUS) in order to receive credit for this course. Credits: 1-3 credit hours, depending on the time required and nature of the internship. Approximately 10 hours a week of internship work equals three credit hours. At midterm, the faculty and on-site supervisors will communicate about the student’s progress so that the faculty member can submit a midterm grade. English 399 will be graded only on a pass- fail basis. Repeatable for a total of up to 6 credit hours.
Prereq: To be eligible for the internship, students must (1) be sophomores, juniors or seniors, and (2) have completed both parts of the CCR/composition and communication requirement.
Repeatable up to 6 credit hours.
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ENG 401 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN WRITING (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
Studies of special topics in writing, in areas such as literary nonfiction (essays), responding to literature, cultural critique, and composing law and justice. Topics announced the preceding semester. May be repeated under different subtitles to a maximum of six credits. Does not fulfill ENG major 400-level course requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: Completion of UK Core Composition and Communication I-II requirement or equivalent.
Repeatable up to 6 credit hours.
Crosslisted with: WRD 401
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ENG 405 - EDITING ENGLISH PROSE
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed for students interested in the basics of editing and publishing and offers instruction and extensive practice in editing and revising both the student’s own writing and the prose works of others. In addition to learning techniques of revision, verification of sources, and preparation of manuscripts, students will be expected to learn about the editing profession generally and to follow trends in editing and publishing. Not for students with writing deficiencies. Does not fulfill ENG Major 400-level course requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG Minor credit.
Prereq: WRD 301, or WRD 306, or consent of instructor.
Crosslisted with: WRD 405
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ENG 407 - INTERMEDIATE WORKSHOP IN CREATIVE WRITING (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
Continued studies in the writer’s craft, focusing on student work but with increased emphasis on outside reading. Areas of workshop practice include Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Non-Fiction. Prerequisite ENG 207 in the same genre or consent of instructor. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 credits. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit. Can count only once for ENG Major 400-level course requirement. Required for ENG Creative Writing Option.
Prereq: ENG 207 in the same genre or consent of instructor. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 credits. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit. Can count only once for ENG Major 400-level course requirement. Required for ENG Imaginative Writing Option.
Repeatable up to 9 credit hours.
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ENG 425 - ENVIRONMENTAL WRITING
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
Students will consider the way writers address environmental issues by exploring various forms of environmental writing, from personal narrative to literary nonfiction to advocacy. Students will be required to take a mandatory day long field trip to UK’s Robinson Forest. All students must participate in this field trip.
Prereq: Completion of Composition and Communication requirement or consent of instructor.
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ENG 440G - STUDIES IN BRITISH LITERATURE: (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
An advanced British Literature course on a period, a theme, a genre, or one or more authors. See departmental listings for different offerings per semester. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours under different subtitles. Prerequisite ENG 330 Text and Context or consent of the instructor. Fulfills ENG Major 400-level course requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: ENG 330 Text and Context or consent of the instructor. Fulfills ENG Major 400-level course requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Repeatable up to 9 credit hours.
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ENG 450G - STUDIES IN AMERICAN LITERATURE: (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
An advanced American Literature course on a period, a theme, a genre, or one or more authors. See departmental listings for different offerings per semester. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours under different subtitles. Prerequisite ENG 330 Text and Context or consent of the instructor. Fulfills ENG Major 400-level course requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit.
Prereq: ENG 330 Text and Context or consent of the instructor. Fulfills ENG Major 400-level course requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit.
Repeatable up to 9 credit hours.
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ENG 460G - STUDIES IN AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE: (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
An advanced African-American literature course on a period, a theme, a genre, or one or more authors. See departmental listings for different offerings per semester. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours under different subtitles. Prerequisite ENG 330 Text and Context or consent of the instructor. Fulfills ENG Major 400-level course requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: ENG 330 Text and Context or consent of the instructor. Fulfills ENG Major 400-level course requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Repeatable up to 9 credit hours.
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ENG 470G - COMPARATIVE AND TRANSNATIONAL STUDIES IN LITERATURE: (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
An advanced literature course focusing on comparative or transnational periods, themes, genres, national or ethnic traditions, or one or more authors. Possible areas of study include transatlantic connections, diasporic communities, or comparisons between English language authors and foreign authors in translation. See departmental listings for different offerings per semester. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours under different subtitles. Prerequisite ENG 330 Text and Context or consent of the instructor. Fulfills ENG Major 400-level course requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: ENG 330 Text and Context or consent of the instructor. Fulfills ENG Major 400-level course requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Repeatable up to 9 credit hours.
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ENG 480G - STUDIES IN FILM: (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
An advanced course in the history, analysis, criticism, and theory of film. Viewing of films outside of class is required. See departmental listings for different offerings per semester. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours under different subtitles. Prerequisite ENG 330 Text and Context or consent of the instructor. ENG 280 strongly recommended. Fulfills ENG Major 400-level course requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: ENG 330 Text and Context or consent of the instructor. Fulfills ENG Major 400-level course requirement. ENG 280 strongly recommended. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Repeatable up to 9 credit hours.
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ENG 490G - STUDIES IN LITERATURE AND GENDER: (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
An advanced course focusing on any aspect of gender in literary studies, such as gender and genre, gender issues in a particular literary period, masculinity, minority women writers, or feminist literary theory. See departmental listings for different offerings per semester. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours under different subtitles. Prerequisite ENG 330 Text and Context or consent of the instructor. Fulfills ENG Major 400-level course requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: ENG 330 Text and Context or consent of the instructor. Fulfills ENG Major 400-level course requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit.
Repeatable up to 9 credit hours.
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ENG 491G - STUDIES IN THEORY:(SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
An advanced course on any aspect of literary or critical theory, in relation to selected texts. See departmental listings for different offerings per semester. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours under different subtitles. Prerequisite ENG 330 Text and Context or consent of the instructor. Fulfills ENG Major 400-level course requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: ENG 330 Text and Context or consent of the instructor. Fulfills ENG Major 400-level course requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Repeatable up to 9 credit hours.
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ENG 492G - CULTURAL STUDIES:(SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
An advanced course on any aspect of cultural studies, in relation to selected texts. See departmental listings for different offerings per semester. May be repeated to a maximum of 9 hours under different subtitles. Prerequisite ENG 330 Text and Context or consent of the instructor. Fulfills ENG Major 400-level course requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Prereq: ENG 330 Text and Context or consent of the instructor. Fulfills ENG Major 400-level course requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Repeatable up to 9 credit hours.
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ENG 495 - MAJOR HONORS SEMINAR: (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
An advanced undergraduate seminar in literature, film, or cultural study. Honors seminar topics will be announced the preceding year. Required for graduation with Departmental Honors in English. May be repeated up to 9 hours under different subtitles. Fulfills ENG Major 400-level course requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit. Prereq: ENG major; completion of premajor requirements and ENG 330; ENG major GPA of 3.5 or above. Enrollment limited to junior and senior ENG majors.
Prereq: ENG major; completion of premajor requirements and ENG 330; ENG major GPA of 3.5 or above. Enrollment limited to junior and senior ENG majors.
Repeatable up to 9 credit hours.
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ENG 502 - TECHNOLOGY IN LITERATURE AND FILM
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This course will explore one of the most popular storylines in fiction and film, and one that is relevant to life throughout our history: humans and their relationships to machines and technology. Literature and cinema have long provided a perfect medium for telling stories about such relationships, for exploring how they intersect with and shape our lives, and for documenting how this has changed over time. Credit for this course can be applied to the certificate in Liberal Studies and not toward the B.A., M.A., Ph.D., or M.F.A. in English.
Approved for Distance Learning.
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ENG 507 - ADVANCED WORKSHOP IN CREATIVE WRITING (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
For the student who has shown marked talent and commitment, this course provides a rigorous workshop among peers and includes additional attention to outside reading. Each student will produce a chapbook of poems or stories. See departmental listings for different offerings per semester.
Prereq: ENG 207 and ENG 407, or the equivalent, and consent of the instructor. May be repeated with a different subtitle (different or same genre) to a maximum of 6 credits. Required for the ENG Creative Option under two different subtitles. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Repeatable up to 6 credit hours.
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ENG 509 - COMPOSITION FOR TEACHERS
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
A course covering the basic studies helpful to teachers of English composition at the secondary level. Focuses on the teaching of grammar, punctuation, usage, etc., and on theme planning, correction, and revision. Students are required to do quite a bit of writing. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Approved for Distance Learning.
Crosslisted with: EDC 509
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ENG 510 - STUDIES IN ENGLISH FOR TEACHERS (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
Specialized advanced studies designed to increase a secondary school teacher’s knowledge in English literature and language arts, and to widen understanding of new developments and approaches to the teaching of English. May be repeated to a maximum of 6 credits. Same as EDC 510. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
Repeatable up to 6 credit hours.
Crosslisted with: EDC 510
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ENG 512 - SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This course provides students with the practical skills and the theoretical frameworks needed to understand current research in syntax. You will learn how linguists study the structure of sentences in the languages of the world. You will learn how linguists develop theoretical models to understand the human capacity for language and be introduced to some of these models. You will learn to conduct data analysis, how to evaluate formal hypotheses, and how to provide support for and against these hypotheses.
Prereq: LIN 221.
Crosslisted with: LIN 512
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ENG 513 - TEACHING ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
The course examines the current theories and methods of teaching English as a second language. The course will include (1) language learning theory as it relates to other disciplines; (2) methods and techniques of contrastive analysis. Prereq: One course in linguistics or consent of instructor. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit. Same as EDC/LIN 513.
Prereq: One course in linguistics or consent of instructor.
Crosslisted with: EDC 513, LIN 513
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ENG 514 - TESL MATERIALS AND METHODS
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
An extension of ENG/EDC 513, this course will include examination and evaluation of published materials designed for teaching English to speakers of other languages. Students will create individualized teaching materials and gain practical experience in applying the methods and using their own materials. Prereq: ENG/EDC 513 or consent of instructor. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit. Same as EDC/LIN 514.
Prereq: ENG/EDC 513 or consent of instructor.
Crosslisted with: EDC 514, LIN 514
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ENG 518 - ADVANCED HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This course explores the development of English from its roots in Indo- European, through Old, Middle, and Early Modern English(es), culminating with a review of the English languages of today. It focuses on the phonological, grammatical, and lexical changes of the language, as well as on the social contexts of the rise and spread of English as a contemporary world language. Special emphasis is given to a linguistically informed understanding of how the language has changed in response to political and historical pressures. Fulfills the ENG Early Period requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective Credit and ENG Minor credit.
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ENG 519 - INTRODUCTION TO OLD ENGLISH
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
An introduction to the study of the Old English language and its literature from the 8th to the 11th centuries. Emphasis on learning the basic vocabulary and grammar of Old English in the West Saxon standard written dialect. Readings include excerpts from prose and poetry, the basics of Old English verse forms and alliterative poetry, and some historical and cultural background. The course is particularly recommended for students of European languages (especially German) and Linguistics; some basic background in Linguistics is recommended but not required. Same as LIN 519. Fulfills ENG major Early Period Requirement. Provides ENG Major Elective credit and ENG minor credit.
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ENG 570 - SELECTED TOPICS FOR ADVANCED STUDIES IN LITERATURE
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
Study of special topics that cut across the normal divisions of genre or periods, such as the relations of literature to other disciplines; metaphor and symbolism; interpretative theory. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
Prereq: Junior standing or consent of instructor.
Repeatable up to 6 credit hours.
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ENG 581 - AESTHETICS OF FILM
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
An examination of theories of film. Emphasis on the establishment of criteria for the aesthetic response to film and the visual image. Viewing of films outside of class is required.
Prereq: Another ENG film course or consent of instructor.
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ENS 200 - INTRODUCTION TO ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
A broad-ranging multidisciplinary introduction to current environmental issues and problem solving presented through a series of case studies. Case studies incorporate contemporary environmental themes including industrialization, resource use, and pollution; changing land use patterns; global warming and deforestation; biodiversity; political regulation; economic resources; cultural attitudes toward nature. Each case study will present environmental issues as scientific problems with social, political, philosophical and economic causes and consequences. Emphasis is placed on understanding and combining different approaches to environmental problems and on proposing public policy solutions.
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ENS 201 - ENVIRONMENTAL & SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES I: HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This course will provide a foundation in the core ideas, theoretical concerns and practical approaches to environmental studies framed within the disciplines of the humanities and social sciences. Students will study human interactions with the environment, both natural and built, and inter-human relations conditioned by local and global environmental factors. Students will obtain a basic conceptual and historical understanding of the nature and value of their local, regional, and global environment.
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ENS 202 - ENVIRONMENTAL & SUSTAINABILITY STUDIES II: NATURAL SCIENCE AND POLICY
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This is an introduction to natural science and policy as they pertain to understanding environmental studies. The core ideas include understanding how the ecological theories of population dynamics, community structure, and ecosystems dynamics lay a scientific foundation to understanding the nature of current environmental issues and how they might be addressed individually and through governmental legislation.
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ENS 300 - SPECIAL TOPICS (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
Special topics in environmental studies. This course permits the offering of special topics in order to take advantage of faculty specialties. Course topic must be approved by the Environmental Studies Program Director. This course may be repeated up to a maximum of 6 credit hours under different subtitles.
Prereq: Variable, when topic is identified.
Approved for Distance Learning. Repeatable up to 6 credit hours.
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ENS 395 - INDEPENDENT WORK
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 1 - 4 (Variable)
Under special conditions selected students may investigate specific environmental issues and problems. The instructor and the student will agree on a formal semester plan/learning contract, which will be filed with the Environmental Studies Program Director and will include weekly reports to the instructor.
Prereq: Environmental Studies Minor, 3.0 G.P.A., consent of instructor.
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ENS 399 - INTERNSHIP IN ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABILITY
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This course provides supervised professional experience in public and private sector positions, and is intended to introduce students to the skills and working environments of careers in environmental and sustainability studies. Students should consult with a ENS faculty member in advance of registering for this class. This course may be repeatable up to a maximum of six credit hours.
Prereq: Consent of instructor.
Repeatable up to 6 credit hours.
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ENS 400 - SENIOR SEMINAR (SUBTITLE REQUIRED)
College of Arts & Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This course will draw on your interdisciplinary understanding of environmental issues and your problem-solving capacities developed while fulfilling Environmental Studies Minor requirements. It is a participatory capstone seminar designed to utilize and test your critical ability for independent thinking organized around specific environmental issues. Independent library work and writing assignments will be required in order to prepare for weekly, interactive topical seminar meetings. Group projects will culminate in individual term papers/projects on different aspects of the environmental issues under discussion. Specific topics will vary.
Prereq: 12 hours of course work from approved Environmental Studies courses (or instructor’s consent). This course is a Graduation Composition and Communication Requirement (GCCR) course in certain programs, and hence is not likely to be eligible for automatic transfer credit to UK.
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ENT 110 - INSECT BIOLOGY
College of Ag, Food and Environment
Credit(s): 3
Overview of the biology of insects. Emphasizes how this enormously abundant and important group of animals has resolved the basic challenges of survival and reproduction. Principles of physiology, behavior, ecology, and evolution are introduced using insects as examples. The roles of both beneficial and detrimental insects will be discussed.
Meets UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in the Natural, Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
Approved for Distance Learning.
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ENT 209 - BEES AND PEOPLE
College of Ag, Food and Environment
Credit(s): 3
Bees are a charismatic group of insects with important roles in human society. They are critical crop and wild flower pollinators, and have been cultivated for pollination, honey, and wax production for thousands of years. Some bee species live in social groups, including the honey bee, which lives in one of the most complex societies in the animal kingdom. This course will focus on bee biology, diversity, behavior, and basic beekeeping to teach students about scientific approaches in diverse areas of biology. We will also address the ways in which scientific consensus is reached around controversial issues, particularly those that threaten bee populations.
Meets UK Core: Intellectual Inquiry in the Natural, Physical and Mathematical Sciences.
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ENT 220 - PLAGUE, PESTS, AND PESTILENCE: HISTORY AND GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE
College of Ag, Food and Environment
Credit(s): 3
Vectors are living organisms that can transmit infectious diseases between humans or from animals to humans. Vector-borne diseases have impacted human lives and society through history. This introductory course examines the major vector-borne diseases affecting humans through multiple perspectives (biomedical, cultural, political, and social) on a global scale. Special attention will be paid to arthropod-borne diseases with the greatest impact on history such as mosquitoes, ticks, and lice. Lectures will be supplemented with readings and videos. The reasons why new pathogens emerge, and the risk of bio-terrorism and future outbreaks will also be addressed.
Meets UK Core: Global Dynamics.
Approved for Distance Learning.
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ENT 300 - GENERAL ENTOMOLOGY
College of Ag, Food and Environment
Credit(s): 3
Fundamentals of insect biology and relationships among insects, plants, and other organisms; identification of commonly encountered insects. Beneficial and detrimental effects of insects are discussed. Lecture, two hours; laboratory, two hours per week.
Prereq: One course in introductory biology.
Crosslisted with: BIO 300
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ENT 310 - INSECT PESTS OF FIELD CROPS
College of Ag, Food and Environment
Credit(s): 3
Identification, life histories and control of insects attacking field crops, especially those of importance in Kentucky. The damage that these insects cause, the reasons for their abundance, and alternatives in control practices will also be emphasized. Lecture, two hours per week; laboratory, two hours per week.
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ENT 320 - HORTICULTURAL ENTOMOLOGY
College of Ag, Food and Environment
Credit(s): 3
A detailed coverage of the insects and mites attacking turf, ornamentals, greenhouse plantings, vegetables and fruits, with emphasis on field recognition of the pests and their damage. Lecture, two hours per week; laboratory, two hours per week.
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ENT 340 - LIVESTOCK ENTOMOLOGY
College of Ag, Food and Environment
Credit(s): 2
Biology and behavior of insects and other pests attacking livestock, poultry, pets and wildlife. Current control methods are discussed. For students interested in livestock production, farm management, equine management, dairy science, poultry science, and preveterinary medicine, as well as general agriculture.
Prereq: One course in introductory biology.
Approved for Distance Learning.
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ENT 360 - GENETICS
College of Ag, Food and Environment
Credit(s): 3
The basic principles of heredity as currently understood from evidence accumulated in classical, cytogenetic, molecular, and quantitative genetic , experiments. Emphasis is placed on a thorough understanding of genetic principles and the relationship of genetics to all biological disciplines.
Prereq: BIO 148, BIO 152 and CHE 105 or consent of instructor.
Crosslisted with: ABT 360
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ENT 395 - INDEPENDENT WORK
College of Ag, Food and Environment
Credit(s): 1 - 3 (Variable)
Special problems for individual students who are capable of pursuing independent investigations in the various areas of entomology. May be repeated to a maximum of six credits.
Prereq: ENT 300.
Approved for Distance Learning. Repeatable up to 6 credit hours.
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ENT 399 - FIELD BASED/COMMUNITY BASED EDUCATION
College of Ag, Food and Environment
Credit(s): 1 - 6 (Variable)
Field-based or community-based experience in entomology under supervision of a faculty member. Pass/Fail only.
Prereq: Permission faculty member & dept chrmn & completion of dept lrning agree before registratn.
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ENT 460 - INTRODUCTION TO MOLECULAR GENETICS
College of Ag, Food and Environment
Credit(s): 3
Molecular genetics is the study of the biochemical basis of heredity and focuses on the structure and expression of DNA at the molecular and cellular level. The course will provide a detailed understanding of the biochemical events involved in genome replication, prokaryotic and eukaryotic transcription, and translation of DNA, as well as RNA processing, recombination and the theoretical underpinnings of genetic engineering.
Prereq: ABT/ENT 360 or BIO304 or consent of instructor.
Crosslisted with: ABT 460
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ENT 461G - INTRODUCTION TO POPULATION GENETICS
College of Ag, Food and Environment
Credit(s): 3
This survey course examines the population dynamics and equlibria of genes in nuclei, chloroplasts and mitochondria. Emphasis will be on biological relevance (in plants, animals, and micro-organisms), but some theoretical derivations will also be introduced.
Prereq: ABT 360 (or equivalent) and one course in probability/statistics.
Approved for Distance Learning.
Crosslisted with: BIO 461G, FOR 461G, ABT 461G
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ENT 502 - FOREST ENTOMOLOGY
College of Ag, Food and Environment
Credit(s): 3
Lectures primarily address principles and concepts. Laboratories use a hands-on approach to demonstrate insect collecting and identification techniques, ecological concepts and management approaches, and use of reference materials.
Prereq: a minimum of 3 credits of basic biology (BIO 103 or BIO 148 or equivalent) or consent of instructor.
Approved for Distance Learning.
Crosslisted with: FOR 502
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ENT 505 - EVOLUTION IN AGRICULTURE, MEDICINE AND CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
College of Ag, Food and Environment
Credit(s): 3
An introduction to modern evolutionary theory with emphasis on its application to current problems in agriculture, the biomedical sciences, and conservation biology.
Prereq: Genetics (ABT 360, BIO 304 or equivalent introductory genetics course).
Crosslisted with: ABT 505
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ENT 509 - BRAINS & BUDS: NEUROSCIENCE OF POLLINATION
College of Ag, Food and Environment
Credit(s): 3
Pollinators have tremendous agricultural and societal value, and to a neuroscientist, they showcase principles of cognition in the real world. Pollinator species present exquisite examples of co-evolution, physiological and dietary specialization, navigation in complex landscapes, collective decision-making processes, and the behavioral consequences of environmental toxins and disease. In this course, we will use pollinator species (honey bees and other insects, as well as vertebrate pollinators) to explore how critical features of pollination intersect at the level of brain function, covering important neuroscience topics including sensory ecology and evolution, neural energetics, mechanisms of addiction and reward, molecular neuroscience, cognition, and learning and memory.
Prereq: Students must have at least Junior standing in a life sciences discipline, or permission from instructor.
Approved for Distance Learning.
Crosslisted with: BIO 509
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ENT 520 - DIGITAL IDENTIFICATION: INSECTS & THEIR RELATIVES
College of Ag, Food and Environment
Credit(s): 3
A study of arthropod identification using digital tools instead of physical curation methods. Phylogenetic relationships and key characteristics are emphasized, along with the translation of Family- level identification to practical interpretation, including pest management and natural-resource education related to North American arthropods.
Prereq: Current student in STO (Science Translation and Outreach) graduate program, BIO 148, or consent of instructor.
Approved for Distance Learning.
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ENT 530 - INTEGRATED PEST MANAGEMENT
College of Ag, Food and Environment
Credit(s): 3
Principles of insect damage, populations and distributions. Various types of natural and and applied control, including problems of insecticide toxicity, resistance and residues.
Prereq: ENT 300 or ENT 310 or ENT 320 or equivalent course, or consent of instructor.
Approved for Distance Learning.
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ENT 550 - SPIDER ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR
College of Ag, Food and Environment
Credit(s): 3
Spiders are fascinating in their own right, and also are major predators in terrestrial food webs. This course examines the ecology and behavior of spiders as model predators in systems ranging from undisturbed forests and meadows to agroecosystems and the urban landscape. While focusing on spiders, the course also intertwines two general sub-themes: (1) the advantages of employing diverse approaches (e.g. field and laboratory experiments, non-manipulative observations, and meta-analyses) in ecological and behavioral research; and (2) the strengths, and limitations, of using model organisms to develop and test theory.
Prereq: One year of undergraduate biology.
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ENT 561 - INSECTS AFFECTING HUMAN & ANIMAL HEALTH
College of Ag, Food and Environment
Credit(s): 3
Discussion of arthropod parasites and disease vectors. Topics include an overview of disease transmission and public health, epidemiology, vector biology, important arthropod groups and their control.
Prereq: 3 credits of basic biology (BIO 103 or BIO 148 or equivalent) or permission of instructor.
Approved for Distance Learning.
Crosslisted with: CPH 561, BIO 561
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ENT 563 - PARASITOLOGY
College of Ag, Food and Environment
Credit(s): 4
Protozoan, helminth and arthropod parasites of man and domestic animals, emphasis on etiology, epidemiology, methods of diagnosis, control measures and life histories. Techniques for host examination and preparation of material for study.
Prereq: BIO 148, BIO 152, BIO 155 or BIO 198, or consent of Instructor.
Crosslisted with: BIO 563
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ENT 564 - INSECT TAXONOMY
College of Ag, Food and Environment
Credit(s): 4
A study of insect taxonomy including the collection, preparation, and identification of adult insect specimens.
Prereq: Consent of instructor.
Crosslisted with: BIO 564
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