Undergraduate Bulletin 2022-2023 Archived Bulletin
Course Descriptions
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Computer Science |
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L.CSC 332 - Web Programming
Credits: 3
Students learn a programming language designed to be used on the internet. Then, by working on projects that use the language students learn about the different technologies used on the World Wide Web, such as network and inter-network protocols, process-to-process communication, interfacing to databases, human-computer interaction, and intelligent agents.
Prerequisite: L.CSC 115 or L.EGR 116
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CSC 337 - Database Programming
Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the fundamental concepts of relational databases, including how to properly design them. The primary focus will be on writing programmatic statements that retrieve, analyze, or modify data and combining these statements into short functions or programs stored within the database. Issues involving database security will also be discussed.
Prerequisite: L.CSC 115 or L.EGR 116
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CSC 340 - Machine Learning
Credits: 3
This course introduces students to topics in the Machine Learning area of Artificial Intelligence. It will include an introduction to some popular algorithms computers use to make decisions and predictions based on problems consisting of varied types of data. In addition to utilizing the algorithms themselves, students will learn about different methods of evaluating these algorithms and how to choose an algorithm for a particular problem.
Prerequisite: L.CSC 225
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CSC 350 - Computer Graphics
Credits: 3
This course provides an introduction to computer graphics. This will include some of the fundamental algorithms as well as experience in graphics programming using OpenGL.
Prerequisite: L.CSC 225
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CSC 394 - Internship
Credits: 1-6
This course provides structured experience in a work environment outside the classroom.
Prerequisite: Two courses in L.CSC; Minimum 3.0 overall GPA
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CSC 490 - Capstone Project I
Credits: 3
This course provides the experience of a semester-long group project. It requires the students to apply their hardware and software skills in a group setting where cooperation and coordination are necessary for the successful completion of the project.
Prerequisite: Four courses in L.CSC 200 level or above; Senior Standing
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CSC 490E - Comprehensive Examination
Credits: 0
A placeholder course which indicates attempt and completion of the required comprehensive examination.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
Pass/Fail Pass/fail only.
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L.CSC 491 - Capstone Project II-IN
Credits: 3
This course provides the experience of a semester long group project. It requires the students to apply their hardware and software skills in a group setting where cooperation and coordination are necessary for the successful completion of the project.
Prerequisite: L.CSC 490
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Integrative Capstone-IN
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Criminal Justice |
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L.CRJ 120 - Introduction to Criminal Justice-EI
Credits: 3
Introduction to Criminal Justice is designed to give students an academic and applied understanding of the criminal justice system. Students will be expected to conduct observations in law enforcement, courts, and corrections outside of class. Current research publications on immigration, sentencing reform, incarceration rates, street drugs, and evidence-based smart approaches to crime will be explored. Students will also learn about the history and philosophy of criminal justice through class discussions, assigned readings, observations, field trips, and guest speakers.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Identity, Culture, & Society-EI
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L.CRJ 224 - Criminal Law
Credits: 3
The history of criminal law, the elements of crime, and the development of both in the United States. Included also are arrest and courtroom procedures.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CRJ 251 - Introduction to Policing
Credits: 3
Introduction to Policing challenges students to critically think about 21st century policing and to evaluate the current role of police in modern society. Topics in the course include the foundations and systems of police work, the different functions of police, hazards involved in policing, strategies and the future of policing.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CRJ 252 - Criminology
Credits: 3
A comprehensive analysis of crime in the United States, emphasizing the causes and consequences of criminal activity. Consideration is also given to theories of crime and societal responses to criminal behavior.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CRJ 253 - Introduction to Corrections
Credits: 3
An introductory examination of the treatment of criminal offenders in the United States. The history of punishment and its relationship to current competing correctional philosophies is discussed. Major topics include probation, prisons and their operation, and parole.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CRJ 260 - Victimology
Credits: 3
A study of the origins of crime victimization and the various theories related to this area of criminal justice and an exploration of the historical trends and responses to the issue of crime victimization. Emphasis will be placed on the differences between violent and non-violent victimization, issues related to restorative justice, victim-offender mediation and the emergence of the movement to support victims’ rights.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CRJ 261 - Black American Experience-EI
Credits: 3
The course focuses on issues of diversity, equity and inclusion for Black Americans from slavery through to current day. The course examines the lives of a number of historical figures and events including: Father Augustus Tolton, the Dred Scott Trial, the Mark Twain Museum, an Underground Railroad station, the Lincoln Museum and tomb, and the Gateway Arch. The course also examines current figures and events including: discussions with activists and police in regarding the demonstrations in Ferguson, a service project with an agency serving the African-American population, discussions with young people about race, special dinner with simple cooking lesson, drive through Ferguson to site of Michael Brown’s death, and tour of New Cathedral in Saint Louis. Parallels are made between the Black American experience in the Catholic Church and the criminal justice system throughout United States history to current day. The course uses Critical Race Theory to study the topic and will require students to view these issues through the perspectives of Catholic Social Teaching and the Criminal Justice System.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Identity, Culture, and Society-EI
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L.CRJ 276 - Restorative Justice
Credits: 3
This course examines the development of restorative justice in the United States and other countries around the world. The impacts of culture, history, and socio-political contexts that have given rise to the implementation of restorative justice practices are identified and discussed.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CRJ 278 - Crime, Justice, and Pop Culture Diplomacy: Field Work in South Korea-EI
Credits: 3
This is a study travel course which offers a cross-cultural perspective to the comparative study of different criminal justice systems around the world, with an emphasis on the United States and South Korea. The course will cover historical and cultural legal traditions, emphasizing how culture, tradition, and geography shape legal systems and societal responses to crime. Students will explore the interdisciplinary nature of criminal justice through the interplay between criminal justice and other disciplines such as history, international affairs, art, and pop culture. The course includes a one-week cultural excursion to South Korea.
Prerequisite: Not open to First-Year Students; Minimum 2.5 GPA; Clean conduct record; Passport & Vaccinations
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Identity, Culture, & Society-EI
Requirements: Passport, vaccinations.
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L.CRJ 300 - Criminal Investigation
Credits: 3
The fundamentals of criminal investigation, including crime scene procedure, crime scene search, collection and preservation of evidence, a survey of related forensic science, police reports, interviews and interrogations, and methods of surveillance. Methods of preparing and presenting the case to the court are also studied.
Prerequisite: L.CRJ 120 ; L.CRJ 251 ; L.CRJ 252 ; L.CRJ 253
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CRJ 312 - Crime Prevention
Credits: 3
Familiarization with various theoretical approaches to crime prevention and the framework for describing and understanding current crime prevention initiatives. Emphasis will be placed on the examination and evaluation of current institutional and community crime prevention programs.
Prerequisite: L.CRJ 120 ; L.CRJ 251 ; L.CRJ 252 ; L.CRJ 253
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CRJ 320 - Juvenile Delinquency & Justice
Credits: 3
A sociological analysis of the nature of delinquent behavior and key components of the juvenile justice system. An examination of family, neighborhood, school, peer group, social class and cultural determinants of delinquency. In addition, societal attempts to control and prevent delinquency will be considered.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CRJ 321 - Police & Society
Credits: 3
An examination of the police image in a changing society, including police-citizen partnership in crime prevention. Issues in policing, including use of deadly force, stress, education, and corruption, together with administrative issues, including recruitment, promotion and management are considered.
Prerequisite: L.CRJ 120 ; L.CRJ 251 ; L.CRJ 252 ; L.CRJ 253
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CRJ 323 - Research Methods in Criminal Justice
Credits: 4
Course that will develop basic knowledge and skills of social research. Focus is on the research methods criminologists, sociologists, social workers, and other practitioners in the social sciences field employ to study social phenomena. Critical evaluation of all phases of the social research process. Requires that students memorize, comprehend, and apply social scientific terms to the analysis and evaluation of information.
Prerequisite: QR; Junior or Senior Standing
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CRJ 325 - White Collar Crime
Credits: 3
An examination of both occupational and organizational criminality. Special attention will be directed to the unique nature of white collar criminality in light of our traditional understanding of crime. The course will explore such issues as the evolution of regulatory law, corporate responsibility, and the limits of the law and law enforcement in combating white collar crime.
Prerequisite: L.CRJ 251
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CRJ 377 - Black and Blue: U.S. Law Enforcement-VX
Credits: 3
This course examines the difficult relationships between black Americans and U.S. law enforcement from the beginning of the country to today through the perspective of the Catholic moral tradition. The course further examines potential avenues for improving these relationships.
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Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Values in Action-VX
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L.CRJ 398 - Empirical Research
Credits: 1-3
Opportunity for student to conduct advanced research under the direction of criminal justice Faculty member. Faculty approval required.
Prerequisite: L.CRJ 323
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.CRJ 401 - Law Enforcement Decision-Making and the Use of Force: A Virtual Reality Training Ground
Credits: 3
This course examines law enforcement accountability in use of force incidents through a number of lenses. First, the students will examine historical and current elements of accountability and contemporary issues related to accountability for law enforcement agencies. Second, the students will experience decision-making and be held accountable for decisions they make in simulations of well-known use of force scenarios. Finally, students will compare and contrast their learning experiences regarding accountability in and out of the classroom. This course will be held off-campus at NICC in downtown Dubuque.
Prerequisite: Medical Release; Instructor Permission Required
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
Fee: This class includes a course fee of $350.
Restrictions: A medical release is required for this course
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L.CRJ 480 - Senior Seminar-IN
Credits: 3
As a senior seminar and portfolio course, this course has three primary foci. First, the course provides students with the opportunity to reflect upon their experiences at Loras College both within and without the criminal justice major and to identify the ways that these experiences have prepared them to move forward in their lives after college (fulfilling the Portfolio requirement). Second, the course provides students the opportunity to examine the causes of crime from the viewpoint of offenders and to integrate that examination into the knowledge gained in prior criminal justice courses. Finally, the course requires students to engage in an in-depth research paper regarding a criminal justice career to gain greater insight into their future profession.
Prerequisite: L.CRJ 120 ; L.CRJ 224 ; L.CRJ 252 ; L.CRJ 253 ; L.CRJ 320 ; L.MAT 115 ; L.CRJ 323 OR L.PSY 211 OR L.SOC 365 ; Senior Standing
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Integrative Capstone-IN
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L.CRJ 490 - Criminal Justice Field Instruction
Credits: 3-9
Individually planned and supervised experience in a criminal justice agency which will enable students to integrate criminal justice knowledge with practical experience. Students will earn 3-9 hours of academic credit for successful completion of their field instruction experience. Application for field instruction must be made to and accepted by the Criminal Justice Field Instruction coordinator.
Prerequisite: Criminal Justice Majors Only
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
Restrictions: This course is offered only to criminal justice majors who have completed most of the required courses.
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Data Science |
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L.DAT 100 - Overview of Data Science-QR
Credits: 3
Data Science is a developing field that combines computer science, statistics, and domain-specific knowledge. This course will introduce students to the field of Data Science via case studies and projects from various domains, including business, digital humanities, social sciences, and sports. Projects will include data visualization, summary, and prediction.
Prerequisite: Placement into L.MAT 114
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Quantitative Reasoning-QR
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L.DAT 200 - Tools & Methods for Analytics
Credits: 3
Analytics is the study of various models, methods and tools that can be applied to gain insights from data. It involves collecting, cleaning, analyzing, summarizing and presenting data in a scalable and generalizable manner. In this course, students will learn to implement each of these steps using appropriate programming environments.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.DAT 490 - Capstone-IN
Credits: 3
To be published.
Prerequisite: Senior Standing
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Integrative Capstone-IN
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Economics |
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L.ECO 221 - Principles of Microeconomics-QR
Credits: 3
Have you ever wondered why airlines charge higher prices when you walk in off the street than if you call in advance? (or why movie theaters charge children half-price tickets when they take up a whole seat? why bars have happy hours, or senior citizen discounts, or why the government taxes cigarettes and alcohol?) This class gives insight into the market system and how it works. Students will uncover the workings of the free market system to discover how prices are determined and how other economic decisions are made.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Quantitative Reasoning-QR
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L.ECO 222 - Principles of Macroeconomics-QR
Credits: 3
Why is the U.S. standard of living higher than that of most other countries, and what does the standard of living depend on? What causes the unemployment rate to rise, and why do some countries suffer from inflation? What determines the exchange rate between the dollar and the Euro? These questions and more will be discussed as students learn more about the economy in which they live. This course can be taken prior to L.ECO 221 .
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Quantitative Reasoning-QR
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L.ECO 321 - Intermediate Microeconomic Theory
Credits: 3
A theoretical analysis of the pricing and output decisions of firms and industries within a free market economy. Required for majors and minors.
Prerequisite: L.ECO 221 ; Not open to First-Year Students
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ECO 322 - Intermediate Macroeconomic Theory
Credits: 3
Our ability to achieve our economic goals (full employment, price stability and economic growth) depends upon a theoretical understanding of how these goals are measured, what causes the frequent ups and downs of the business cycle, and what policy prescriptions (monetary and fiscal) are available to mitigate these fluctuations. Required for majors and minors.
Prerequisite: L.ECO 222 ; Not open to First-Year Students
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ECO 334 - International Trade
Credits: 3
An introduction to the theory of international trade, balance of payments behavior, the causes and consequences of public policies to control trade and foreign exchange rates, the process of international payment mechanisms and their effects on national economies.
Prerequisite: Not open to First-Year Students
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ECO 335 - Comparative Economic Systems
Credits: 3
A study of the theoretical and institutional aspects of current economic systems throughout the world. Discussion focuses upon the different forms of capitalism in the Western world and various kinds of socialism, with particular emphasis upon countries that are in transition from socialism to capitalism.
Prerequisite: Not open to First-Year Students
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ECO 336 - Economic Development
Credits: 3
Why do some countries grow faster than others? Why is the standard of living so much higher in the U.S. than in, say, India? How can we be assured that a country’s standard of living will continue to increase so that its children can enjoy a better life? The study of economic development addresses these questions and many more.
Prerequisite: Not open to First-Year Students
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ECO 345 - Monetary Theory & Policy
Credits: 3
The recent financial crisis (2008-09) and subsequent recession has resulted in a greater emphasis upon the theoretical, institutional, and regulatory underpinnings of our (as well as the global) monetary and financial system. This course emphasizes the importance of money, interest rates, government policy, the Federal Reserve and their influence on the economy.
Prerequisite: Not open to First-Year Students
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ECO 346 - Public Finance
Credits: 3
The federal government spends trillions of dollars each year. What are the areas of expenditure and what would society gain or lose in each by spending more or less in each? Most of this money is raised by taxes. What is the effect of these taxes on the economy? Is there a way to make the tax and expenditure system more efficient and/or more equitable? These and other issues will be discussed, inclusive of taxes and spending at the state and local level.
Prerequisite: Not open to First-Year Students
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ECO 349 - Government, Business & the Public Sector
Credits: 3
A study of the relationship between market power and economic performance and the role of government in the U.S. economy combined with a survey of U.S. antitrust laws, taxation, and public utility regulation.
Prerequisite: Not open to First-Year Students
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ECO 351 - Labor Economics
Credits: 3
An overview of the factors affecting the labor market and their policy implications, along with a history and analysis of the labor movement and collective bargaining.
Prerequisite: Not open to First-Year Students
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ECO 353 - History of Economic Thought
Credits: 3
A study of the emergence of economics, the only social science to award a Nobel Prize, takes us down a fascinating road of ideas and individuals, but one filled with intellectual detours and analytical dead ends. We meet Adam Smith, the father of modern economics, who was reported to have been so lost in thought that he fell into a hole in the street as he was walking. After reading Thomas Malthus’ Essay on Population, Charles Darwin developed his main ideas contributing to The Origin of the Species.
Prerequisite: Not open to First-Year Students
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ECO 419 - Econometrics
Credits: 3
Econometrics is a primary tool for both macroeconomics and microeconomics. With help from the instructor, students will design, set up, and analyze econometric models on the cause and effects of economic and social issues that may include crime, inflation, economic growth, the stock market and education.
Prerequisite: L.ECO 221 ; L.ECO 222 ; L.BUS 250 or L.MAT 115 .
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ECO 490 - Economics Seminar
Credits: 3
The objectives of this course are to set up and seek solutions to economics issues: inflation, unemployment, crime, the interest rate, Federal Reserve Bank policy, international trade, economic growth and many other issues. Through the application of theoretical models such as the IS-LM, AS-AD, and the money market models, and the use of cost/benefit and econometric models, students will put economic theory to the test by completing a thesis that attempts to explain real life phenomena. Required for majors.
Prerequisite: Senior Standing
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EGR 105 - Introduction to Engineering Design-EC
Credits: 3
This course will focus specifically on the areas of problem solving and design. Students will learn to use modern tools to address engineering problems. As part of the design process, students will learn to draw both using manual sketches as well as SolidWorks CAD software. Students will then apply these skills to create a unique design.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.EGR 116 - Intro to Programming with Robotics-ES
Credits: 4
Students learn and practice scientific methodology as well as the basics of programming, variables, control statements, and functions as applied to programming real-time robotics. Learning to write computer programs requires some background in mathematics beyond basic algebra with knowledge of the properties of mathematical functions. A student with this knowledge may take the course without the math prerequisite.
Prerequisite: L.MAT 117 or higher or Instructor Permission
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Scientific Inquiry & Innovation-ES
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L.EGR 200 - Engineering Prototyping
Credits: 3
This course serves as an introduction to engineering design prototypes. The primary focus will be on the design, prototype, and test processes associated with creating a prototype. These prototypes will target designing electromechanical or biomedical systems. Skills practiced include teaming, project and time management, locating materials and services, conflict resolution, experimental design, oral and written reports. Students will complete self-reflection and self-assessment exercises.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission Required
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EGR 231 - Engineering Statics
Credits: 3
An introduction to engineering statics. Topics include vectors, resultants, equilibrium, structural analysis, centroids, shear and bending moment diagrams, friction, and moment of inertia.
Prerequisite: L.MAT 150 or higher
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EGR 232 - Engineering Dynamics
Credits: 3
An introduction to engineering dynamics. Topics include kinematics and kinetics (displacement, velocity, acceleration, work, energy, impulse, and momentum) for particles and rigid bodies.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing; L.EGR 231
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EGR 236 - Properties & Mechanics of Materials
Credits: 4
Introduction to materials and solid mechanics of typical engineering materials. Introduces basic theory of deformable bodies by analyzing stress/strain relationships in objects. Topics in solid mechanics include strains, stresses, Mohr’s Circle, deflections of beams, and simple structural members.
Prerequisite: L.MAT 160 or higher; L.EGR 231
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
Lecture/lab
Three lectures and one two-hour laboratory period per week.
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L.EGR 242 - Manufacturing Processes & Design
Credits: 3
Method of commercial manufacturing. Includes topics of casting, forging, forming, joining, cutting, drilling, milling, and lathe work. Also includes: designing parts to make them easy to manufacture, workshop laboratories where students learn basic use and safety of metal and wood working equipment; completion of a project where students design and construct a project of their choosing; and tours of local manufacturing facilities. There are no prerequisites although a CAD background may be helpful.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EGR 250 - NASA Astronautics
Credits: 3
Hands-on, engineering-based activities and with data collection technology integration for real-world analysis. Project-based learning that includes sustainable habitat construction, strategic scientific planning and investigations, a two-stage rocket launch, heat shield design, cryogenics chamber design, robotics underwater “astronaut training,” collaborative teaming and global awareness development. Behind-the-scenes access to including tours of actual astronaut training and work facilities, such as NASA Johnson Space Center, Rocket Park and the Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory. Hear from guest speakers about what it takes to work at NASA and the projects that prepare humans for space exploration.
Prerequisite: L.MAT 117 or higher
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EGR 294 - Engineering Internship
Credits: 1-6
An introduction to issues facing organizations in a global economy. Includes a study of the environmental factors affecting international business; the economic theories behind international trade, development and investment; and the strategies and structure of multinational enterprises.
Prerequisite: Two or more EGR courses; Program Chair Approval
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
Restrictions: Proposals must be arranged with and approved by Program Chair
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L.EGR 308 - Biomechanics and Biomaterials
Credits: 3
This course provides an introduction to the interaction of artificial components with both the in vivo mechanics and biochemistry. Specific topics include the structure, function, and mechanical properties of biological tissues and biomaterials as well as biological responses and toxicity. This information is used then to identify the optimal materials to use for a variety of biomedical applications (drug delivery, stents, replacement joints, etc.) This course is required for the Biomedical Engineering option but will also be open to other students on campus interested in the subject. This includes in particular pre-heath students who want to have a better understanding of biomechanics and biomaterials.
Prerequisite: L.CHE 111 ; L.PHY 223 or L.PHY 210
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EGR 333 - Fluid Mechanics
Credits: 3
The laws of fluid statics and dynamics. Topics include properties of substances, fluid statics, the energy equation, the momentum equation, and viscous effects in external and internal flows.
Prerequisite: L.EGR 232 ; L.MAT 260 ; L.PHY 223
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EGR 334 - Thermodynamics
Credits: 3
The laws of thermodynamics. Topics include: properties of substances and phase equilibrium, the first and second laws of thermodynamics, entropy, power cycles and refrigeration cycles.
Prerequisite: L.MAT 260 ; L.PHY 223
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EGR 335 - Electric Circuits
Credits: 3
Introduction to DC and AC circuit analysis using Laplace Transforms, Kirchhoff’s laws, network simplification, nodal and loop techniques. Consideration of amplifiers, power supplies and discrete circuit elements including resistors, capacitors, inductors, diodes, transistors, and operational amplifiers. Introduction to circuit analysis tools.
Prerequisite: L.PHY 224 ; L.MAT 310
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EGR 336 - Materials Science
Credits: 3
This is an introductory course in materials science and solid-state chemistry. Students will learn how basic chemical behavior, including crystallinity, bond type, and phase, affect macro-scale behavior such as strength, corrosion resistance, and thermal conductivity. This information is used to guide material selection and processing decisions in practical applications. This course provides an introduction to the principles of material science with emphasis on the relationship between structure and properties, and their control. Topics include material classification, microstructure, phase behavior, and material processing.
Prerequisite: L.CHE 111
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EGR 337 - Heat Transfer
Credits: 3
This is an applied design course. It will provide engineering students basic tools for the selection of appropriate components of a broader system. The class will also emphasize discovery and self-education in this field, as students will almost certainly be exposed to new and different technologies post-graduation. Introduction to the three modes of heat transfer: Conduction, Convection, and Radiation. Several Applications of heat transfer will be studied such as Extended fins, External flow over flat plate and bluff bodies, Internal flow, and Heat exchanger design. Students will practice the use of classical and numerical methods to solve standard heat transfer equations.
Prerequisite: L.MAT 310
Co-requisite: None
Pre or Co-requisite: L.EGR 334
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EGR 338 - Machine Design
Credits: 3
This is an applied design course. It will provide engineering students basic tools for the selection of appropriate components of a broader system. The class will also emphasize discovery and self-education in this field, as students will almost certainly be exposed to new and different technologies post graduation. Introduction to various tools for machine design. Topics include failure of solids, kinematics, and factors guiding the design and selection of various common machine elements, such as gears, bearings, fasteners, etc. Both empirical methods and those based on first principles with be developed, applied, and discussed.
Prerequisite: L.EGR 236
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EGR 339 - Numerical Methods
Credits: 3
This course presents students with tools for the numerical analysis of mathematical problems for which theoretical solutions may be untenable or impossible. Students will be expected to understand advantages and disadvantages of various methods, as well as convergence behavior, accuracy, and practical use. Coding will be a significant portion of the course to take advantage of techniques for practical problems. Students are introduced to tools and techniques for numerically or approximately solving complex mathematical problems that commonly arise in physical applications. Topics include systems of linear and nonlinear algebraic equations, eigenvalue problems, interpolation and mapping, and numerical integration and differentiation.
Prerequisite: L.MAT 260 and L.EGR 116 or L.CSC 115
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EGR 342 - Modeling & Control of Dynamic Systems
Credits: 3
Modeling and analysis of dynamic systems and controls in the electrical and mechanical realms. Categories of models include linear vs. nonlinear, 1st vs. 2nd order, continuous vs. discrete, transient, steady-state, and frequency responses. Open-loop and closed-loop control systems. Modeling will include computer simulations.
Prerequisite: L.EGR 232 ; L.MAT 310 ; L.EGR 116 or equivalent; L.PHY 224
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EGR 350 - Engineering Laboratory I
Credits: 1
This is a laboratory course associated with the L.EGR 335 - Electric Circuits course. A lab course in which students design, build and test electric circuits of various types. Circuits that interface with mechanical systems are emphasized.
Prerequisite: L.MAT 310 ; L.EGR 116 or equivalent; L.PHY 224
Co-requisite: L.EGR 335
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EGR 351 - Engineering Laboratory II
Credits: 1
This is a laboratory course associated with the L.EGR 333 - Fluid Mechanics . This course will be focused on examining phenomena in fluid flow such as fluid statics, fluid energy, momentum, internal flows, drag, and viscous effects. This course will integrate engineering topics such as thermodynamics, controls, dynamic systems, circuits, dynamics and statics.
Prerequisite: L.EGR 232 ; L.MAT 260 L.EGR 116 or equivalent; L.PHY 223
Co-requisite: L.EGR 333
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EGR 352 - Engineering Laboratory III
Credits: 1
This is a laboratory course associated with the L.EGR 342 - Modeling & Control of Dynamic Systems . This course will be focused on examining phenomena in modeling and control of systems in the mechanical and electrical realms. This course will integrate engineering topics such as thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, circuits, dynamics and statics.
Prerequisite: L.EGR 232 ; L.MAT 310 ; L.EGR 116 or equivalent; L.PHY 224
Co-requisite: L.EGR 342
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EGR 353 - Engineering Laboratory IV
Credits: 1
This is a laboratory course associated with the L.EGR 334 - Thermodynamics . This course will be focused on modeling of thermodynamic systems (such as heat transfer and power cycles) and design of thermodynamics systems. This course will integrate engineering topics such as fluid dynamics, dynamic systems, circuits, dynamics and statics.
Prerequisite: L.MAT 260 ; L.EGR 116 or equivalent; L.PHY 223
Co-requisite: L.EGR 334
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EGR 394 - Engineering Internship
Credits: 1-6
Engineering elective credit for structured work experiences in engineering practice within industry or government. Hours worked determine the number of credits.
Prerequisite: Two or more EGR courses numbered 300 or higher; Program Chair Approval
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
Restrictions: Proposals must be arranged with and approved by Program Chair
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L.EGR 490 - Engineering Capstone Design I-IN
Credits: 3
First part of year-long, multidisciplinary team-based, open-ended engineering design project. Projects will target designing electromechanical systems. Skills practiced include teaming, project and time management, conflict resolution, literature search, job search, experimental design, oral and written reports.
Prerequisite: L.EGR 105 ; L.EGR 116 ; L.EGR 231 ; L.EGR 232 ; Two 300 level L.EGR courses; L.MAT 310
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Integrative Capstone-IN
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L.EGR 491 - Engineering Capstone Design II
Credits: 3
Second part of year-long, team-based, open-ended engineering design project. Projects will target designing electromechanical systems. Skills practiced include teaming, project and time management, locating materials and services, conflict resolution, experimental design, oral and written reports. Design process will consist of students taking part in a simulated industrial work place setting. Students will interact with local companies to evaluate and access available resources and services. Students will complete self-reflection and self-assessment exercises.
Prerequisite: L.EGR 490
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EGR 492 - Engineering Capstone Design III
Credits: 3
Third part of year-long, team-based, open-ended engineering design project. Projects will target designing electromechanical systems. Skills practiced include analysis and assessment, testing, redesign, project and time management, oral and written reports. Culmination of the project will include a poster presentation, formal written report, and team oral presentation. Course will also include preparation and review of topics for taking of the FE Examination.
Prerequisite: L.EGR 491
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.EGR 494 - Engineering Internship
Credits: 1-6
Engineering elective credit for structured work experiences in engineering practice within industry or government. Hours worked determine the number of credits.
Prerequisite: Two or more EGR courses numbered 300 or higher; Program Chair Approval
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
Restrictions: Proposals must be arranged with and approved by Program Chair
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L.ENG 105 - College Writing-WC
Credits: 3
An aims-based writing course focusing on informative, analytical, argumentative, and expressive writing. Includes instruction on research-based writing. Emphasizes pre-writing, organization, revision, and editing.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Written Communication-WC
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L.ENG 111 - Critical Writing-WC
Credits: 3
A writing course which includes the analysis of short and/or long fiction, creative nonfiction, and emerging forms of public and/or popular culture writing, this class also stresses persuasion, argumentation, and research. Fulfills college writing requirement for students of advanced standing in English.
Prerequisite: Advanced standing in English
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Written Communication-WC
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L.ENG 135 - Intro to Creative Writing-EC
Credits: 3
In ENG 135: Introduction to Creative Writing, students will learn how to both reflect and give shape to human experience in their writing, by practicing fundamental techniques for writing fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. They will write and extensively revise their own work in all three genres, and will learn the professional skill of giving and accepting critical and constructive feedback through class workshops. This course also introduces students to the history of the various genres of creative writing, as well as vocational and historical opportunities for creative writers.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 145 - Literature and Public Life-EI
Credits: 3
This course introduces literary studies: writing, literature, public humanities, and critical theory in the context of contemporary issues. Literature actively engages with the world, and helps us examine our place in it. In addition to mastering the skills of analysis, inquiry, and argument, you will see how literature relates to the most pressing issues of our human experience, such as class, gender, ethnicity, race, immigration, political life, environmental concerns, sexuality, and many others. Through our practice of close and critical reading, we will see how literature in various forms and genres, and writing and speaking, prepare us for life as engaged citizens in professional roles. In this way, the course introduces students to the study of literature, and the pathways it opens into careers in law, journalism, communication, social justice, and management.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Identity, Culture, and Society-EI
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L.ENG 201 - Poetry in Performance
Credits: 3
An in-depth study of lyric and dramatic poetry for students who would like to approach the subject in an experiential way. Students will learn to understand and appreciate poetry by writing about poems, and by making poetry physically part of themselves through memorization and performance. They will learn to read aloud and recite poems in a way that develops their skills for reading expressively, and for public speaking. Topics will include the application of fundamental concepts in poetics, including image, trope, scheme, lineation, syntax, tone, sound, prosody, speaker, and addressee, and fundamental acting techniques, including control and variation of volume, tone, inflection, pitch, pacing, eye-contact, facial expression, gesture, body-language, and gaze. The course is open to all students who have taken one of the possible prerequisites, but would be of particular interest to those majoring or thinking of majoring in English Literature or Creative Writing (or minoring in English or Theater), as well as any student wishing to learn about poetry and develop their abilities in critical and expressive reading, critical writing, memorization, and public speaking.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 105 or L.ENG 111
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 221 - World Literature: Beginnings to Middle Ages-EC
Credits: 3
An in-depth study of selected works from classical Greece, India and China, and from medieval Arabia, Europe and Japan.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 222 - World Literature: Renaissance to Modern
Credits: 3
Selected works from European, Native and Latin American, African, South Asian and Asian cultures.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 224 - African American Literature
Credits: 3
This course surveys nineteenth- and twentieth- century African American literature. Poetry, speeches, fiction, folk tales, song, essays and autobiography will be examined, and an experiential, community-based component will be incorporated.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 234 - The Fractured Fairy Tale-EC
Credits: 3
This course is a hybrid of multiple genres (history, folklore, sociology, literature, and creative writing) which will explore the moral and sociological themes present in familiar canonical fairy tales such as “Snow White,” “Beauty And The Beast,” “Cinderella,” and “Little Red Riding Hood,” some of which linger to this day. These, however, will be coupled with more contemporary retellings that challenge some of the moral and gender-based prescriptions of the original stories. Lastly, as an additional way of understanding these texts, we will be choosing an original fairy tale and writing a revisionist response ourselves.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
Pre or Co-requisite: L.ENG 105 or L.ENG 111
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 236 - Writing the Midwest Landscape-EC
Credits: 3
Writing the Midwest Landscape is an introductory level creative nonfiction writing workshop focusing on Midwest nature writing. Students read published works of creative nonfiction thematically connected to the Midwestern landscape and workshop their own nonfiction writings, including a video-essay. Required full-day sessions include two required winter hikes to locations within a 15-minute drive for digital photography and a day-long writing retreat at Sinsinawa Mound.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 237 - Fiction Writing
Credits: 3
An introductory creative writing class focused on the short story. The class is conducted as a workshop/seminar of approximately 15 students, with heavy emphasis on student-composed fiction. To complete the course, students must write three short stories for a cumulative total of at least 25 final pages, participate actively in class, and critique other students’ work in writing.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 105 or L.ENG 111
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 238 - Poetry Writing
Credits: 3
An introductory workshop course in the art of writing poetry, and an introduction to poetics. Students will develop techniques for writing vivid descriptions and figures of speech, using precise diction, achieving rhythm and other pleasurable sound effects, deploying the energy of syntax, choosing rhetorical moods for emotional effect, and writing satisfying endings.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 239 - Creative Nonfiction Writing-EC
Credits: 3
An introductory level workshop in which students write, workshop, and receive feedback on creative nonfiction essay forms in a writing workshop setting. Students also analyze the writing techniques of published authors.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 240 - The Nature of Nature in Ireland-EC
Credits: 3
This course examines the intersection of the Irish people and landscape throughout history through creative nonfiction accounts and through informative readings and discussions about mythology, history, archaeology, and geology. Topics include the Neolithic, Celtic, and early Christian Irish people’s interactions with nature, and the impact of British colonial occupation and modern commercialism on the landscape. A final project has students write about place in their own local landscapes.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 241 - Mississippi River: Lore & Legacy-EC
Credits: 3
Writing the Mississippi helps students establish a sense of local place focused around North America’s most prominent river as groundwork for developing a sustainability ethic. Students read both literary (mostly creative nonfiction) and informational works to understand the river’s impact on individual lives as well as the geology, ecology, human history and culture surrounding it. Students write in the creative nonfiction genre to communicate an informed understanding and personal interaction with the river. The course requires two out-of-class local environmental study trips led by a cooperating faculty member.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 251 - Literature of the Frontier & American West-EC
Credits: 3
Students will focus on and discuss the aesthetic and cultural significance of the literature of discovery, conflict, adventure, and travel in the land west of the Mississippi River. They will examine the relationships between nonfiction (i.e., personal narratives, newspaper writing, diaries, letters, and travel logs) and fiction (short stories, myths and legends, oral narratives, and novels). Students will also explore the ways in which genre, environment, language and bilingualism, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, and personal politics all shape, reflect, and restrict artistic expression during the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. Representative authors: Bret Hart, Mark Twain, Willa Cather, Ambrose Bierce, Mary Hunter Austin, Stephen Crane, Zane Grey, Frank Norris, Hamlin Garland, Zitkala-Sa, Kate Chopin, and Laura Ingalls Wilder.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 252 - The Law in American Film & Fiction-EI
Credits: 3
Students will study the law in American literature and film, focusing on the issues and consequences of creating, breaking, enforcing, and challenging the law and/or legal system(s). They will consider the relationships between legal literature/film and such issues as humanity, justice, love, ethics, citizenship, community, criminality, victimhood, environment, revenge, and social responsibility. They will also participate in a mock trial.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Identity, Culture, & Society-EI
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L.ENG 253 - Native Voices Native Lives-EC
Credits: 3
This online literature and culture course encourages students to examine-through encounters with historical and popular literature and film, self-narrative reading and writing, and mythology-several aspects of Native American culture and its depiction. Topics include spirituality and religion, history and tradition, gender and identity, Native laws and US governance, and the importance of language, storytelling, and communication to those inside and outside of “the Reservation.” Students will read, reflect, write about, and discuss the impact of fiction and creative non-fiction written by and about Native/Indigenous people, including but not limited to the Cherokee, Ho-Chunk, and Oglala, and they will make direct connections to their own lives and lived experiences.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 267 - Gender, Disability, and War-EI
Credits: 3
This course traces cultural understandings of national, gender, and personal identity by examining texts that focus on the relationship between society and war, and on the resonance of these issues in American culture. Students will explore these issues by engaging with guest speakers, a day trip to the Wisconsin Veterans Museum in Madison, WI, and through community-based learning with the Veteran Community in Dubuque.
Approved for Community Based Learning.
Prerequisite: Not open to first year students
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Identity, Culture, & Society-EI
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L.ENG 270 - Bleak House in Context
Credits: 3
This course is an in-depth study course on a major British novel and author-Charles Dickens’ Bleak House. Students will read the novel in context: in the installment form (fortunately available in the Special Collections of Loras’ ARC), alongside other Victorian publications and cultural artifacts, and through “contact” with the Victorians via role play. The course will simulate the Victorian methodology of reading narratives in serial format. Students will generate a class e-periodical which involves assuming the “roles” or voices of particular Victorian figures as found through their wider reading in the Special Collections resources of All the Year Round and Household Words (both journals edited by Dickens), the Newgate Journal and other Victorian texts. They will also have the opportunity to present their research, role play, and reading experiences in the display cases outside of the Special Collections room in the ARC.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 277 - Rhetoric and Political Engagement-EI
Credits: 3
This course surveys the field of rhetoric (the study of argumentation), observing how these long-revered concepts come to life in political rhetoric of the twenty-first century.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 105 or L.ENG 111
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Identity, Culture, & Society-EI
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L.ENG 278 - Grant and Proposal Writing
Credits: 3
In this course students explore and learn the complex process of securing funding for non-profit organizations. Students gain actual experience in grant writing through partnerships with community organizations.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 105 or L.ENG 111
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 279 - Writing for New Media
Credits: 3
This course focuses on concepts of effective online writing. Although specific writing platforms (websites, blogs, social media, etc.) change constantly, these concepts prepare students to adapt to these changes thoughtfully, ethically, and strategically.
Prerequisite: L.ENG 105 or L.ENG 111
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 285 - Modern Irish Literature & Culture
Credits: 3
The course undertakes a literary oriented investigation and interrogation of modern Irish culture. Through the reading and discussion of selected 19th and 20th century Irish literary works, students in the course will explore various essential aspects of Irish communal life in order to apprehend the continuity and transformation of Irish culture over the last two centuries. Topics covered will include family structure, religious practice, economic conditions, education, attitudes toward land and language, relationships between the colonized and the colonizers, between classes, and between sectarian groups. Representative authors include Maria Edgeworth, Lady Gregory, W. B. Yeats, James Joyce, Brian Friel, Seamus Deane, Connor MacPherson, and Roddy Doyle.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 286 - Ireland in Film
Credits: 3
This course surveys a wide range of Irish-themed films in order to develop a deeper understanding of modern Irish cultural identity. Major thematic areas explored in the course include representations of the Irish West, the political struggle for independence, the role of Catholicism in Irish society, the status of minority groups such as the Irish travelers, and the urban working class in Ireland.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Not Applicable
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L.ENG 287 - Irish Women’s Writing-EI
Credits: 3
In this course, we will focus completely on reading texts by Irish women writers, placing various literary genres within the context of the socio-political and religious experience of Irish women. The diverse narratives represented highlight particular themes that featured in Irish women’s experience: religious oppression, motherhood, sexual abuse, marriage, education and work, political activism and repression, and individual rebellion. We will look at the wider literary and cultural contexts as we seek to understand the history, contributions and influence of Irish women’s writing.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Identity, Culture, & Society-EI
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L.ENG 290 - Canadian Imagination-EC
Credits: 3
An introductory course in Canadian literature, including fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and drama, with a focus on understanding the fundamental nature and conventions of literature as an art form and field of study, including the ways in which literature both reflects and shapes human experience. Students will engage with the literary works they read by asking questions and discussing them, by writing critical and personal essays, and also, in the case of poetry and drama, by memorizing and reciting poems and passages from plays using performance techniques. Authors may include Alice Munro, Mavis Gallant, Sheila Heti, Northrop Frye, Daryl Hine, P. K. Page, George F. Walker, Anne-Marie MacDonald, Gabrielle Roy, Marie-Claire Blais, Tomson Highway, John Glassco, Thomas King, Michel Tremblay, Robertson Davies.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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L.ENG 291 - Ancient Greek Literature-EC
Credits: 3
An introductory course in ancient Greek literature in English translation, with a focus on understanding the fundamental nature and conventions of literature as an art form and field of study, including the ways in which literature both reflects and shapes human experience. Readings will include epic and lyric poems, tragic and comic plays, and ancient critical works about literature. Authors may include Homer, Hesiod, Sappho, Pindar, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Plato, Aristotle, Longinus, Menander, and Theocritus. Students will engage with the literary works they read by asking questions and discussing them, by writing critical and personal essays, and also by memorizing and reciting poems or passages from plays using performance techniques.
Prerequisite: None
Co-requisite: None
General Education Classification: Creativity, Aesthetics, & Design-EC
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