LIT-3540 American Women Writers–Sp 3 hours Study of American Women writers between 1790 and 1940, covering diverse women writers, genres, themes, and current scholarship. Authors may include, but are not limited to Murray, Rowson, Child, Sedgwick, Kirkland, Fuller, Farnham, Cary, Cooke, Sara Payson Willis Parton (Fanny Fern), Cummins, Warner, Beecher, Keckley, Stowe, Wilson, Alcott, Jacobs, Southworth, Davis, Evans, Ruiz de Burton, Phelps, Stoddard, Harper, Freeman, Winnemucca Hopkins, Jackson, Woolson, Jewett, Chopin, Pauline Hopkins, Austin, Zitkalla-SA, Sui Sin Far, Wharton, Larsen Fauset, Cather, and Hurston. Prerequisite: ENG1400 Composition. (even years) LIT-4100 Studies in Integrated Language Arts–Sp 3 hours This course is designed to explore the various methods and theories essential to the teaching of English language arts. In this course, students will discuss and practice with theories of Backward Design, Long-term Planning and Assessment, 21st Century Skills, and High-leverage practices as they are specifically demonstrated in writing, reading, speaking, listening, and language development. Prerequisites: ENG-1400 Composition; EDUC-2050 Teaching Diverse Learners, currently enrolled in LIT-3100 Principles of Teaching Adolescent and Young Adult, or permission of instructor. LIT-4220 English Seminar–Sp 3 hours Research seminar designed to help the student synthesize the skills emphasized in the English major. Required of all senior English majors. Upper-level literature courses cannot be used as a substitution for the general education literature requirement. Capstone course. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. LIT-4230 Independent Study in Literature–Fa, Sp 1–3 hours Independent study in a selected field for students with special interests and demonstrated ability. Upper-level literature courses cannot be used as a substitution for the general education literature requirement. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. LIT-4310 Literary Theory–Fa 3 hours A study of theoretical literary contexts. Special consideration will be given to economic, political, psychological, linguistic and cultural contexts. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. LIT-4420 European Novel–Sp 3 hours Study of the 19th- and 20th-century influences on the novel from Dostoevsky to Camus. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. (even years) LIT-4450 Milton: Poetry and Selected Prose–Fa 3 hours A study of Milton’s early poetry, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, Samson Agonistes, and selected prose works. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. (even years) LIT-4490 Special Topics–Fa, Sp 1–3 hours Investigation of such literary phenomena that have intrinsic worth and engage student interest. Upper-level literature courses cannot be used as a substitution for the general education literature requirement. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. LIT-4510 3 hours Recent American Literature 1945–Present–Fa A study of the social, political, economic, and religious issues that defined the American experience in the last half of the 20th century. Diverse poetry, short stories, drama, novels, and films will be analyzed to give students an understanding of the myriad subjectivities that have shaped American values and attitudes since World War II. Prerequisite: ENG-1400 Composition. (even years) Mathematics (MATH) MATH-1700 4 hours Calculus and Dynamical Systems for the Life Sciences–Fa, Sp An introductory calculus and dynamical systems course for majors in the life sciences. Discrete and continuous dynamical systems, limits and derivatives, including derivatives of trigonometric, exponential, logarithmic and inverse trigonometric functions, applications of derivatives and dynamical systems, including related rates and optimization, differential equations, integrals - both definite and indefinite - and their applications, and possibly analysis of autonomous differential equations. Prerequisite: GMTH-1030 Precalculus or equivalent; or permission of instructor. MATH-1710 Calculus I–Fa, Sp 5 hours First course of a two-course sequence covering basic concepts of analytic geometry and single variable calculus. Includes limits and single variable calculus. Includes limits and derivatives of algebraic and transcendental functions, applications of the derivative, single variable integration, including the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus and integration by substitution, and applications of integration, including solving differential equations and finding volumes of revolution. Prerequisite: GMTH-1030 Precalculus or equivalent; or permission of instructor. MATH-1720 Calculus II–Fa, Sp 5 hours The second course of a two-course sequence covering the basic concepts of analytic geometry and single variable calculus. Includes techniques of integration such as integration by parts, trigonometric substitution and partial fractions, improper integrals and L’Hopital’s rule, sequences, series, expansion of functions into Taylor and power series, conic sections, plane curves, calculus of parametric equations and polar coordinates, vectors and geometry in three-space, vector-valued functions and curvature. Prerequisite: MATH-1710 Calculus I or equivalent; or permission of instructor. MATH-1880 Topics in Calculus–Fa, Sp, Su 1–3 hours This course is for students who are attempting to transfer credit for MATH-1710 or MATH-1720 Calculus I and II when those transferred courses lack some of the topics contained in MATH1710 or MATH-1720. It requires full participation in a MATH-1710 or MATH-1720 course during the sections in which the student’s transferred course is found to be deficient or in a stand-alone course offered during Summer School I. Prerequisite: GMTH-1030 Precalculus or equivalent; permission of instructor. Corequisite: partial transfer credit for MATH-1710 and/or MATH-1720 or approved transient credit for a Calculus I or II course that will provide less than full credit for MATH-1710 or MATH 1720. MATH-1990 3 hours Beautiful Math Structures and Thinking–Fa This course introduces freshmen math majors to interesting mathematical ideas and applications beyond the usual scope of standard math courses. Topics include an introduction to propositional logic, function theory, and infinite sets. Other topics will be chosen from elementary number theory, modular arithmetic, error-correcting codes, Fibonacci numbers and the golden ratio, fractals, discrete dynamical systems and chaos, Euler and Hamilton Circuits, democracy and impossibility theorems, game theory, the Platonic solids, n-dimensional space, and other topics up to the discretion of the instructor. MATH-2210 Logic and Methods of Proof–Fa 3 hours Introduction to formal mathematical logic; emphasis on preparing students for the abstraction of upper-division courses. Special attention is given to the development of students’ skills with a variety of methods of proof, using examples from numerous areas. Prerequisites: MATH-1720 Calculus II; MATH1990 Beautiful Math Structures and Thinking; or permission of instructor. 2024–25 Undergraduate Academic Catalog Page 273 Course Descriptions LIT-3540 – MATH-2210
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