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SED 555 - Transition Services for Students with Disabilities
Explores models of career preparation for students with disabilities, including postsecondary opportunities.
Prerequisites & Notes
SED 402.
Credits: 3
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SED 556 - Severe Disabilities: Assessment II
Provides advanced training in assessing individual learning needs of students with severe disabilities, emphasizing ecological inventories, person-centered planning and quality of life indicators.
Credits: 3
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SED 570 - Technology for Individuals with Disabilities
Develops strategies for identifying and implementing adaptive and assistive technology in educational settings. Explores current technology available to assist students with disabilities.
Prerequisites & Notes
EDT 520.
Credits: 3
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SED 572 - Educational Needs of Students with Physical and Medical Disabilities
An overview of the physical and medical aspects of children and youth with severe and multiple handicaps. Course taught by skilled health, medical and special education professionals who work directly with students with severe handicaps. Course is appropriate for educators, therapists and other professionals who work directly with students with severe handicaps.
Credits: 3
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SED 575 - Consultation, Collaboration and Teamwork in Special Education
Discusses background information and field-tested recommendations for helping teachers, parents, administrators and support personnel work together within their school context. Stresses the importance of word analysis and semantics, school context, processes and content.
Credits: 3
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SED 598 - Special Topics in Special Education
Concentrated study of designated topics in special education. Topics may vary depending on faculty and student interest. May be repeated for credit. Some sections may have prerequisites beyond the following:
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission.
Credits: 1-3
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SED 605 - Seminar in Special Education
Advanced study of current issues, problems, and controversies in special education. Typically taken as the final course in the master’s program in special education.
Prerequisites & Notes
permission.
Credits: 3
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SED 610 - Internship in Special Education Teaching
Supervised student teaching experience in special education. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites & Notes
M.Ed. student in special education and permission.
Credits: 3
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SED 620 - Practicum in Special Education
Supervised practice to develop and apply advanced professional skills for certified special education or related services professionals. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites & Notes
M.Ed. or C.A.S. student in special education, certification in special education or related services, and permission.
Credits: 3
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SED 630 - Internship in Special Education Administration
Supervised school-based practice in special education administration. Requires mentoring by a certified special education administrator. May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites & Notes
M.Ed. or C.A.S. student in special education, Maine teacher certification in special education or related services, three years teaching experience, and permission.
Credits: 3
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SED 651 - Seminar in Emotional & Behavioral Disabilities
Advanced study of recent research, educational practices and policy analyses in the field of emotional and behavioral disabilities. Topic varies by semester. May be repeated for credit with permission of instructor (maximum of six credits).
Prerequisites & Notes
Experience working with students with emotional and behavioral disabilities and a minimum of 15 graduate credits completed in Special Education or a related field.
Credits: 3
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SED 697 - Independent Study in Special Education
Provides graduate students with an opportunity to increase professional competence through independent readings and research. Students plan individual projects to gain competencies in special education.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission.
Credits: 1-6
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Education-Technology |
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EDT 400 - Computers in Education
An introduction for students majoring in education. Nature and use of the computer and its impact on the curriculum and other areas of education are studied. Laboratory experience in developing practical programs using the computer included.
Prerequisites & Notes
Elementary and secondary education majors; CHF-Early Childhood Education option majors; KPE-Exercise Science and Administration option or permission.
Credits: 3
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EDT 520 - Methods of Teaching with Computer Technology
Provides practical and understandable information about integrating technology in K-12 classrooms. Examines tool applications (WD, DB, SS and Telecommunications), multimedia and categories of software. Explores ways these support learning.
Credits: 3
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EDT 525 - Telecommunication in K-12 Classrooms
Telecommunications used to support teaching and learning in K-12 environments.
Prerequisites & Notes
EDT 400 or EDT 520 or permission.
Credits: 3
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EDT 527 - Networking and Troubleshooting Basics for Educators
The basics of networking and troubleshooting for designing, building, and managing a Local Area Network (LAN) in a classroom environment.
Prerequisites & Notes
EDT 520.
Credits: 3
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EDT 530 - Introduction to Hypermedia in Education
Presents hypermedia tools for Macintosh and/or PC platforms. Emphasizes writing code for Hypermedia applications.
Prerequisites & Notes
EDT 400 or EDT 520.
Credits: 3
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EDT 535 - Multimedia Design for Teaching and Learning
Develops skill in educational multimedia design and development using educational software found in most schools.
Prerequisites & Notes
EDT 530.
Credits: 3
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EDT 540 - Instructional Design
Principles of strategic and systematic design, implementation and evaluation of instruction with emphasis on integration of technology.
Prerequisites & Notes
EDT 520.
Credits: 3
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EDT 545 - Information Security in the K-12 Environment
Covers privacy and security in the educational environment from several perspectives: legal issues, social and ethical concerns, standards and policy development.
Prerequisites & Notes
EDT 520 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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EDT 550 - Video Communication in the 21st Century
Examines roles of video in education and the technology behind video as an information medium.
Prerequisites & Notes
EDT 520.
Credits: 3
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EDT 555 - Computers and Cooperative Learning
Strategies for using computer technology in cooperative learning environments. Topics include theoretical explanations of cooperative groups, online cooperative learning projects, criteria for evaluating resources, and lesson plans.
Credits: 3
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EDT 560 - Applying Technology to Assessment in Education
Evaluation and integration of technology-based assessment tools for K-12 schools, including electronic portfolios, digital grading programs and relational databases.
Prerequisites & Notes
EDT 540 and EDS 520.
Credits: 3
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EDT 580 - Instructional Technology Institute
Provides understanding and insight into the area of instructional technology. Attention given to literature, research, practices and materials.
Credits: 1-6
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EDT 598 - Special Topics in Instructional Technology
Concentrated study of designated topics in instructional technology. Topics may vary depending on faculty and student interest. May be repeated for credit. Some sections may have prerequisites beyond the following:
Prerequisites & Notes
Graduate student or permission.
Credits: 1-3
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EDT 616 - Seminar in Educational Media
Discussions and individual reports on current research and activities in the field of instructional technology.
Prerequisites & Notes
EDT 520.
Credits: 3
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EDT 697 - Independent Study in Instructional Technology
Provides graduate students with an opportunity to increase professional competence through independent readings and research. Students plan individual projects to gain competencies in instructional technology.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission.
Credits: 1-6
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Education-Workshops |
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EDW 462 - Workshop in Elementary Education (Activity)
Designed to increase the competence of the elementary school teacher, supervisor, curriculum director, administrator, and other school personnel. Considers literature, research and materials concerned with a special aspect of elementary education.
Credits: 1-6
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EDW 472 - Workshop in Secondary Education (Activity)
Designed to increase competence of the teacher, administrator, and other school personnel. Considers literature, research and materials concerned with a special aspect of secondary education.
Credits: 1-6
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Electrical and Computer Engineering |
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ECE 414 - Feedback Control Systems
Analysis and design of continuous control systems using transfer function and state variable system representations. Covers signal flow graphs and Mason’s gain formula, decomposition of transfer functions, controllability and observability, root locus techniques, Routh-Hurwitz criterion, Nyquist criterion, controller design in time and frequency domains, State feedback, phase lead and lag controllers, PID type controllers. Lec 3. (Spring.)
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE 314, basic knowledge of matrix algebra.
Credits: 3
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ECE 417 - Introduction to Robotics
Introduces robotics and operation of microcomputer-controlled manipulators with their applications in automation. Includes a general review of robot structure, current application of robots in automation, spatial descriptions and coordinate transformations, manipulator kinematics and solutions, robot control and path planning, dynamics and vision in robot application. Lec 2, Lab 3. (Fall.)
Prerequisites & Notes
COS 215 or COS 220; MAT 228; knowledge of matrix algebra and some familiarity with basic control and rigid body mechanics suggested.
Credits: 3
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ECE 427 - Electric Power Systems II
Power system models, power flow solutions, fault analysis, protective relaying. Lec 3. (Fall.)
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE 323.
Credits: 3
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ECE 435 - Network Engineering
Focuses on the engineering aspects of data networks including physical media and interconnections, signals and noise, modulation, multiplexing, frame and packet transmission, routing, network design and network management. Problem solving and diagnostic methods, legal and professional issues, ethics and policies, and security aspects of interconnected networks are discussed. Students gain hands-on experience and complete networking projects.
Prerequisites & Notes
COS 231 or equivalent proficiency.
Credits: 3
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ECE 444 - Analog Integrated Circuits
Considers topics in the internal circuit design and system applications of analog integrated circuits. Concerns addressed include temperature and power supply sensitivity, gain, bandwith, stability and I/O characteristics. Specific topics include current sources, differential amplifiers, level shifters, op-amps, regulators and phase-locked loops. Lec 3. (Spring.)
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE 314 and ECE 343.
Credits: 3
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ECE 445 - Analysis and Design of Digital Integrated Circuits
Reviews device characteristics with emphasis on switching behavior. Considers ramifications of need for designs to be compatible with IC processing technology. Emphasis on CMOS and ECL based systems. Explores interface and optimization problems as related to timing and loading. Brief look at significant parameters needed for accurate computer modeling. Lec 3. (Fall.)
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE 342.
Credits: 3
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ECE 453 - Microwave Engineering
Topics include: rectangular and cylindrical waveguides, transmission line models, impedance matching, Smith chart methods, microwave circuits and components, s-parameter measurement techniques and antennas. (Spring.)
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE 351.
Credits: 4
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ECE 462 - Introduction to Basic Semiconductor Devices and Associated Circuit Models
Introduces the fundamental device material that is basic to electronics engineering. Initial concepts include diamond (zinc-blende) crystal structure, holes, free electrons, drift, diffusion, and the energy band model. These are then used to explore p-n junction and MOS structures including the extraction of SPICE model parameters. A more detailed look at reasons behind the characteristics of p-n and Schottky diodes, MOSFETs and BJTs follows. The goal is an understanding of the behavior of the basic semiconductor devices, their limitations and their models. If time permits additional topics from the following list will be discussed: Power Semiconductors, Photonic Devices, Semiconductor Reliability. Lec 3.
Prerequisites & Notes
MAT 228, ECE 342.
Credits: 3
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ECE 464 - Microelectronics Science and Engineering
The science and engineering of CMOS and deep sub-micron semiconductor device fabrication. Semiconductor process steps including: diffusion, oxidation, reactive ion etching, chemical etching, surface cleaning, lithography, ion implantation, thin film deposition and chemical-mechanical polishing. A CMOS process flow is outlined. Computer simulation is utilized to provide insight into ion implantation, diffusion and lithography. Lec 3 (Spring.)
Prerequisites & Notes
CHY 121, PHY 122.
Credits: 3
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ECE 465 - Introduction to Sensors
Various types of conductometric, acoustic, magnetic, thermal and optical sensors are presented. Techniques for interfacing the sensors using microprocessor control systems and signal processing are discussed. Applications of sensor systems in medicine, environmental monitoring, the automotive industry, the chemical industry, manufacturing and construction are given. (Spring.)
Prerequisites & Notes
junior level standing in engineering.
Credits: 3
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ECE 466 - Sensor Technology and Instrumentation
Design and fabrication techniques for piezoelectric, thin film, fiber optic and silicon based sensors. Topics include: cutting, polishing and cleaning crystals, the deposition of electrodes and sensing elements and sensor characterization. Students will design, fabricate and test a sensor. Lec 3, Lab 3. (Fall.)
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE 465 or permission.
Credits: 4
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ECE 471 - Microprocessor Applications Engineering
Application of micro-processors to the solution of design problems, including hardware characteristics, peripheral control techniques and system development. Lec 2, Lab 3. (Fall.)
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE 171.
Credits: 3
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ECE 473 - Computer Architecture and Organization
Historical computers and topics of importance in the design of modern computer
systems including memory technology, memory system design, and parallel processing.
Lec 3. (Fall.)
Prerequisites & Notes
at least a C- in ECE 171.
Credits: 3
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ECE 477 - Hardware Applications Using C
Emphasizes the use of the C programming language to control hardware devices. Review of the necessary features of the C programming language will be included. Lec 3. (Spring.)
Prerequisites & Notes
COS 220 or ECE 171 and ECE 271, or permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 478 - Industrial Computer Control
Design of computerized systems for industrial applications. These include programmable logic controllers, personal computers and embedded controllers. Interface electronics, communication strategies, design for hostile environments, fault tolerance and fail safe design will also be covered. Lec 3. (Spring.)
Prerequisites & Notes
COS 220 or ECE 177 or permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 486 - Digital Signal Processing
A study of discrete-time signals and systems, Z-transforms, discrete Fourier series and transforms. Efficient implementations of discrete-time system and design of IIR, FIR and multirate digital filter structures. Lec 3, Lab 3. (Spring.)
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE 314 and COS 220.
Credits: 3
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ECE 498 - Selected Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Topics in electrical engineering not regularly covered in other courses. May include advanced microprocessor applications, robot applications, instrumentation semiconductor technology, introduction to VLSI design and microwave acoustics. Content can be varied to suit current needs. May be repeated for credit, with departmental permission. (Fall and Spring.)
Prerequisites & Notes
permission.
Credits: 1-3
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ECE 512 - Linear Systems Analysis
Analysis of linear dynamic systems using matrices and linear vector spaces, internal and external models, state variable analysis, controllability and observability, stability. (Spring.)
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE 314, MAT 262.
Credits: 3
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ECE 515 - Random Variables and Stochastic Processes
Engineering applications of probability theory. Analysis of random variables, random processes and stochastic models. Introduction to the analysis and optimization of linear systems with random inputs. Lec 3. (Fall.)
Prerequisites & Notes
graduate standing, MAT 332 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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ECE 533 - Advanced Robotics
Introduces intelligent robot control system and programming. Robot dynamical equations, path planning and trajectory generation, control system, off-line simulations, robot languages and vision integration in robot applications will be discussed. Lec 2, Lab 3. (Spring.)
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE 417.
Credits: 3
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ECE 535 - Computer Vision
Topics include: image generation, the physics of images and sensors, binary images, image processing and understanding, computational methods for recovery and representation of visual information, review of available vision systems and their applications in automation. Lec 2, Lab 3. (Spring.)
Prerequisites & Notes
COS 215 or COS 220 and ECE 314 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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ECE 543 - Microelectronic Devices I
Physics, engineering and design of deep-submicron Si devices used in microelectronic circuits; non-Si devices used for Photonics; and novel quantum-mechanical single-electron devices. (Fall.)
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE 343.
Credits: 3
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ECE 547 - VLSI Design/Layout
Integrated circuit design methodologies. Semi-custom ASICs, logic synthesis and simulation, design automation techniques and designing for testability. Chips designed in this course will be fabricated and tested in ECE 548. (Fall.)
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE 343
Co-requisite: ECE 445 or ECE 444.
Credits: 3
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ECE 548 - VLSI Test/Characterization
Laboratory course covering the testing and characterization of integrated circuits designed in ECE 547 and fabricated externally. (Pass/Fail Grade Only.) (Spring.)
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE 547.
Credits: 1
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ECE 550 - Electromagnetic Theory
Reviews of Maxwell’s Equations and waves in dielectric and lossy unbounded and layered media. Covers plane cylindrical and spherical wave functions; reflection and transmission properties of layered media, electromagnetic radiation and antenna theory. Lec 3. (Spring.)
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE 351 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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ECE 552 - Wave Propagation
Theory of the propagation of electromagnetic and sound waves in unbounded and layered isotropic and anisotropic solids and liquids. Specific applications to wave propagation in the ocean and crystals are also presented. Lec 3. (Summer.)
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE 453 or permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 565 - Solid State Device Theory I
A study of physical principles underlying solid state devices. Topics include: crystalline structure, x-ray diffraction, reciprocal space, lattice vibrations, phonons, specific heat and introduction to quantum mechanics. Lec 3. (Fall.)
Prerequisites & Notes
permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 571 - Advanced Microprocessor-Based Design
Includes techniques for developing software and hardware for microprocessor-based systems, computer aided design using a multistation logic development system, use of components commonly found in microprocessor-based systems. Lec 2, Lab 3. (Spring.)
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE 471 or permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 573 - Microprogramming
Fundamentals of microcoding and the design of microcoded systems including bit slice design. Lec 2, Lab 3. (Fall.)
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE 471, ECE 475.
Credits: 3
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ECE 574 - Cluster Computing
Advances in high-end computational technology continue to bring the digital revolution into academic, industrial and commercial areas. A popular approach for achieving high performance for these application domains is to use parallel computers. Introduces the primary parallel computer architectures, as well as the programming techniques applicable to concurrent, parallel and distributed computations. Students will gain experience in developing parallel computing solutions for challenging problems. Lec 3. (Offered one every two years - Spring.)
Prerequisites & Notes
At least a C- in ECE 177 or permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 577 - Fuzzy Logic
This course covers the fundamentals of fuzzy logic and its application in control, model identification, information systems, and pattern recognition, as well as in conjunction with artificial neural networks and genetic algorithms.
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE 477 or permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 580 - Communications Engineering
Topics include: probability theory, random processes, optimum receivers, vector channels, matched filters, block orthogonal signaling, time-bandwidth product, channel capacity, and implementation of coded systems. Lec 3. (Spring.)
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE515 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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ECE 585 - Fundamentals of Wireless Communication
Aims to present the modern wireless communication concepts in a coherent and unified manner and to illustrate the concepts in the broader context of the wireless systems on which they have been applied. Recent wireless standards will be studies in depth and emphasized through a course project.
Prerequisites & Notes
CHB 350 or ECE 383 or ECE 515 or MAT 332 or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 590 - Neural Networks
Introduces artificial neural networks. Provides supervised and unsupervised learning in single and multi-layer networks, software implementation, hardware overview. Applications in pattern recognition and image analysis. (Fall.)
Prerequisites & Notes
permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 598 - Selected Advanced Topics in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advanced topics not regularly covered in other courses. Content varies. May be repeated for credit. (Fall and Spring.)
Prerequisites & Notes
permission.
Credits: 1-3
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ECE 599 - Selected Study in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Advanced independent study for qualified students who present suitable projects for intensive investigation in the area of faculty interest. (Fall/Spring.)
Prerequisites & Notes
permission.
Credits: 1-3
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ECE 643 - Microelectronic Devices II
A continuation of topics undertaken in ECE 543. (Spring.)
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE 543.
Credits: 3
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ECE 662 - Microwave Acoustics
A study of the theory of acoustic wave propagation in piezoelectric media. Focuses on bulk acoustic waves and guided acoustic waves and use of these waves in microwave acoustic devices such as sensors. Lec 3. (Fall.)
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE 550, ECE 552 or permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 663 - Design and Fabrication of Surface Wave Devices
Covers the design, fabrication and measurement of surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices, e.g. delay lines, filters, resonators, oscillators, convolvers and sensors. Topics include: planar fabrication techniques, surface properties of piezolectric crystals, photolithography, vacuum technologies for thin film deposition, electronic systems for the measurements of impulse and frequency response, phase and group velocity, insertion loss, distortions and spurious effects. Lec 2, Lab 3. (Spring.)
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE 550, ECE 662 or permission.
Credits: 3
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ECE 667 - Solid State Device Theory II
Theory of electronic properties of solids. Topics include: statistical mechanics, free electron theory, thermoelectric effects semiconductor theory and electronic transport properties in semiconductors. Lec 3 (Summer.)
Prerequisites & Notes
ECE 565.
Credits: 3
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ECE 699 - Graduate Thesis
Selected research problems.
Credits: Ar
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English |
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ENG 405 - Topics in Creative Writing
A senior level course designed to provide students with an opportunity to work intensively in a specifically defined genre, form,, or methods of creative writing. May also address the broader issues of production and publication. Sample topics: graphic novel, hypertext, mixed-media, electronic writing, translation, traditional poetic forms, the epic, publication, book-making, magazine editing, the serial poem, the long poem, collaboration. ENG 405 and/or ENG 406 may be taken for credit up to a total of 6 credit hours.
Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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ENG 418 - Topics in Professional Writing
Topics vary according to changes in the field, expertise of the faculty, and needs of the students. Possible topics include editing, document design and desktop publishing, and professional writing in intercultural contexts. May be repeated for credit.
Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 credits in writing, including ENG 317, and permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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ENG 429 - Topics in Literature
Recent topics have included Literature of the Sea, Representing the Holocaust, and Black Women Writers.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 430 - Topics in European Literature
Varies in content from generic studies (the novel, the drama) to period studies (the Renaissance, Neo-Classicism.) (This course is identical to MLC 430.)
Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 435 - The Bible and Near Eastern Literature: A Multicultural Perspective
Focuses on the Bible as an anthology of fiction, myth, and polemic arising out of specific cultural and philosophical contexts; exploration of the relationship between Hebrew, Canaanite, Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Greek, Roman, and Christian literature.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 436 - Topics in Canadian Literature
An intensive study of a major Canadian writer or a small group of Canadian writers, or an examination of a major theme in Canadian literature. Specific topic varies from semester to semester.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 440 - Major American Writers
An in-depth study from one to three major American writers. Topics vary, depending on the professor; student writing and revision will be emphasized. May be repeated for credit when writers differ. Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive and Ethics Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 442 - Native American Literature
Surveys literature by Native American authors from a wide range of tribal backgrounds. Considers the development of a written tradition over time in relation to oral genres.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 443 - The American Romantics
Major works of such early and mid-19th century writers as Irving, Cooper, Emerson, Fuller, Thoreau, Whitman, Poe, Hawthorne, and Melville.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 444 - Contemporary American Fiction
A survey of major trends in American fiction since 1945, such as the continuing tradition of realism, black humor, metafiction and postmodernism, magical realism, hyper-realism, and fiction from African-American, Asian-American, and Native American writers.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 445 - The American Novel
Readings from the major American novelists: Stowe, Melville, James, Twain, Dreiser, Wharton, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Cather, and Faulkner, among others. Focus on thematic, technical, and narrative developments in the 19th and 20th century American novel.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 446 - American Poetry
Readings from the major American poets. One third of the course is devoted to the 19th century and earlier. The last two thirds covers the 20th century: Robinson, Frost, Pound, Eliot, Williams, H.D., Moore, Stevens, H. Crane.
Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive and Ethics Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 447 - American Drama
A study of 20th-Century American dramatists, including O’Neill, Hellman, Williams, Miller, Albee, Shepard, Mamet, and Henley.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 449 - Contemporary American Poetry
American poetry written after World War II. Provides students of poetry with both an historical context for the present practice of poetry in the United States and an introduction to the diverse schools of contemporary poetry and poetics. Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 450 - Cultural Borderlands in Contemporary American Literature
Explores the psychic middle ground where tensions between competing claims for identity, myth and belonging play out. The tenacity of cultural distinctions, the deep hunger of people for roots, and conflicts between national and cultural mythos will be explored in fiction and nonfiction from contemporary American writers whose native cultural traditions strongly inform their work, including Franco-American, Native American, Latino-Latina and African-American writers.
Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 451 - Chaucer and Medieval Literature
Readings from Chaucer and his English contemporaries. Focus on understanding the nature of the Medieval world and its expression in the literature of the time, and on developing reading skill in Middle English.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics, Writing Intensive and Western Cultural Tradition Requirements.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 453 - The Works of Shakespeare
Readings in the plays of Shakespeare, with some additional attention to his sonnets and narrative poems.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 454 - Elizabethan and Seventeenth Century Lyric and Narrative Poetry
Readings in the lyric and narrative poets, with particular emphasis on the Elizabethan sonnet, the erotic and religious verse of Donne, the narrative poetry of Spenser and Milton, and the metaphysical and Cavalier poetry of the 17th century.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 455 - Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Satire, and Poetry
Readings from the major 18th-century prose writers, such as Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Sterne, Smollett, Burney, Addison, Steele, Boswell, Johnson, and Goldsmith; the poets and satirists, Dryden, Swift, Pope and Gray, among others. Focus on the legitimation of emotion and of individualism in literature.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 456 - The English Romantics
The works of the major Romantic poets including Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, and Keats, with some attention to their critical writing. Focus on close reading of texts as well as on developing a sense of the historical and intellectual context of Romanticism.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 457 - Victorian Literature and Culture
Readings from the major Victorian British poets, such as Tennyson, Browning, and Arnold; the major essayists, such as Carlyle, Mill, Newman, and Pater. Focus on the major literary and intellectual issues from Romanticism to the beginning of modernism.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 458 - British Modernism
Readings from British fin de siecle and modernist writers such as Thomas Hardy, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, W.B. Yeats, D.H Lawrence, Wilfred Owen, Edith Sitwell, H.G. Wells, Rebecca West, Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, James Joyce, and Virginia Woolf. The course studies the evolution of British modernism from its roots in the late nineteenth-century through and beyond its climax in the early 1920’s.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 459 - Contemporary British Literature
Readings from contemporary British writers such as Auden, Orwell, Beckett, Pinter, Spark, Lessing, Stevie Smith, Murdoch, Dylan Thomas, Seamus Heaney, and Hugh MacDiarmid. Studies the various traditions that have emerged since the advent of modernism and their place in the English tradition. Examines the concepts of “modernism” and “postmodernism,” in particular.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 460 - Major British Authors
An in-depth study of from one to three major British writers. Topics vary, depending on the professor; student writing and revision will be emphasized. May be repeated for credit. Satisfies the General Education Ethics and Writing Intensive Requirements.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 465 - The English Novel
Readings from the major English novelists: Defoe, Richardson, Fielding, Austen, The Brontes, Gaskell, Eliot, Dickens, and Hardy, among others. Focus on the development of the genre, its characteristic themes and methods, from “low entertainment” to respectable art form.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 467 - British Drama
Readings in the major British dramatists, such as Marlowe, Jonson, Middleton, Webster, Congreve, Sheridan, Wilde, Shaw, Synge, Beckett, and Stoppard. Focus on Renaissance tragedy, Restoration comedy, and modern absurdist drama with some attention to the historical/generic shifts from tragedy to melodrama and from comedy to farce and tragic farce.
Satisfies the General Education Ethics Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 470 - Topics in Literary Theory and Criticism
Studies in the history of literary criticism, in selected theoretic perspectives, or in the application of specific critical approaches. Specific topic varies from year to year. Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 471 - Literature, Gender, and Gender Theory
Introduction to gender theory and issues of gender as reflected in the reception, interpretations, and transmission of literary texts. Emphasis on cultural assumptions surrounding gender, which involve both women and men.
Satisfies the General Education Writing Intensive Requirement.
Prerequisites & Notes
6 hours of literature.
Credits: 3
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