2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
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2019-2020 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions

Courses that meet the General Education Curriculum (GEC) are so noted at the end of their individual course description.

Courses noted as “shared” are also offered at one or more of the other Vermont State Colleges.
 

English
  

  • ENG 2710 - Special Topics in English

    Credit(s): Variable

    This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 2000-level not offered in the general English curriculum.

    Prerequisites: This course may be repeated with a change of topic.
  

  • ENG 2810 - Internship

    Credit(s): 1-12

    Students plan and complete an approved internship in consultation with their faculty supervisor.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 2815 - On-Site Experience

    Credit(s): 1-3

    This course provides students with an immersion experience away from the Lyndon campus, such as a film festival, theater performance, a professional conference, or travel to a culturally significant locale. Students will be expected to attend meetings prior to, during, and after the experience. The academic content of the course will focus on participation in the experience activities, group discussions, and reflection papers about the experience. Students registered for 2 or 3 credits will be required to complete extended analytical or research papers.

    Restrictions: By Permission.

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

    Repeatable for Credit: May be repeated for credit (but no more than three credits may be counted toward English program requirements).

    Notes: There is a course fee.
  

  • ENG 2910 - Independent Study in English

    Credit(s): 1-12

    Students plan and complete an approved independent study in consultation with their faculty supervisor.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3010 - Advanced Composition and Rhetoric

    Credit(s): 3

    This course offers advanced study of and practice in analytical, argumentative, persuasive, and expository writing, as well as rhetorical strategies. There is a substantial focus on the formal aspects of writing: grammar, mechanics, syntax, structure, and style. In addition, the course explores logic and rhetoric, techniques of rational and emotional persuasion, and the power of language.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1082  or permission. 

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

    Notes: There is a course fee.
  

  • ENG 3020 - Feature Writing

    Credit(s): 3

    An advanced course in the preparation and production of feature articles and essays, this course includes close examination of contemporary features writing in both national and regional newspapers and magazines. Opportunities for the publication of student work in this course may be available in the college newspaper and other college publications.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1072  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3022 - Advanced News Publishing

    Credit(s): 3

    This class is available to students who have taken ENG 2052  and choose to return to the newspaper staff a second semester. Responsibilities include more page layout, more investigative reporting and more line editing and rewriting.

    Prerequisites: ENG 2052  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3025 - Media and Society

    Credit(s): 3

    This course explores the history, functions, and social effects of mass communication media, both within the United States and internationally, to provide a framework for the critical analysis of the politics, economics, and structure of the media. Topics include the roles and responsibilities of mass media in the context of a robust democracy, media law and ethics, technological developments related to the delivery and consumption of mass media, philosophical and psychological approaches to understanding the media’s influence on individuals and society, and possible future scenarios of the field.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1082  or permission. 

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
  

  • ENG 3032 - Literary Publishing in the 21st Century: Green Mountains Review

    Credit(s): 3

    This course builds on ENG 2031 , teaching the basic principles and fundamentals of literary magazine editing, production and layout. This includes the fundamentals of editorial selection, the processing and managing of submissions, editorial discussions of submitted material, editorial correspondence (rejections and acceptances), ordering of the final manuscript and preparation of the electronic manuscript for typesetting. Students are responsible for producing and publishing an edition of the journal over the course of the semester. Students act as editors and editorial assistants, reading, identifying and selecting well-written manuscript submissions, as well as selecting art. They also work in both production and marketing; develop skills in evaluating and reading copy and editing prose and poetry; evaluate art and photography; developing skills in layout and production; and interview and write articles on contemporary writers. This is primarily a lab course, academic in nature.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1071  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3090 - Horse & Human Culture

    Credit(s): 3

    Horses and humans have lived in close contact with each other for centuries, beginning with the domestication of the horse by humans 6,000 years ago. The horse has served throughout history as food, transportation, machine, god, athlete and companion, and is second only to the dog in its effects on human culture. In the 20th century, horses have assumed the role, for the most part, of recreational partner or pet. In some ways, however, we are only starting to understand the potential of horse-human relationships. This course will engage with questions of how the horse has shaped human culture and how human culture has shaped the horse, through the study of anthropology, history, art and literature, psychology and business, starting even before domestication and continuing into the present day.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1072  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3110 - Creative Writing Workshop

    Credit(s): 3

    [LGAD3] This workshop studies the techniques of creative writing in various genres, including fiction, poetry, drama, screenplays, and creative non-fiction, and offers practice of those techniques in a workshop setting. Student work-in-progress is critiqued through class discussion and frequent conferences with the instructor and fellow student writers. This course may be repeated once for credit with permission but may count only once toward program requirements.

     

    Prerequisites: There is a course fee. The prerequisite is ENG 2130 or ENG 2140 or permission. This course is offered every fall.
  

  • ENG 3120 - Poetry Workshop

    Credit(s): 3

    Student poems serve as the basis and focus of this advanced writing workshop. Intensive and extensive writing is expected, and revisions of poems are required. Students also study the poetry and poetic theory of contemporary writers to discover how their work fits into the contemporary poetic tradition.

    Prerequisites: ENG 2101  or permission of instructor

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3130 - Fiction Workshop

    Credit(s): 3

    This upper-level course concentrates on the short story. Weekly class discussion ranges from critiquing fellow students’ work to examining work by professional writers. Students write at least three full-length stories by the end of the semester.

    Prerequisites: ENG 2101  or permission of instructor

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3135 - Writing Lyric: Form and Theory

    Credit(s): 3

    [LGAD3] This course examines various theories, both ancient and modern, of how lyric poetry works to convey an emotion. The class will study lyrical moments, not only in poetry and song, but also in fiction, film, drama, essays, and photography. Students will also write lyrical pieces of their own and workshop them in class.

    Prerequisites: The prerequisite is ENG 2130 or ENG 2140 or ENG 2155. There is a course fee. This course is offered every even-numbered spring.
  

  • ENG 3140 - The Creative Essay

    Credit(s): 3

    The essay as creative nonfiction is analyzed as a model for students, and emphasis is placed on helping students to frame eloquent and artistic prose. Students write essays as well as study classic essays from academic and popular writing. The goal of the course is to encourage and help students become writers of essays that move as well as inform readers.

    Prerequisites: ENG 2051 ; ENG 2101 ; or permission of instructor

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3145 - Writing Narrative: Form and Theory

    Credit(s): 3

    [LGAD3] This course examines various theories of how narrative structure works to convey meaning and make sense of the world. The class will study a range of narratives from fiction and poetry to history and clinical case studies. Students will also write narratives of their own and workshop them in class. 

    Prerequisites: The prerequisite is ENG 2130 or ENG 2140 or ENG 2155. There is a course fee. This course is offered every odd-numbered spring.
  

  • ENG 3270 - Myth & Myth Making

    Credit(s): 3

    An interdisciplinary, team-taught inquiry which provides an overview of myth and the myth-making process, this course focuses especially on quest myths and on myths concerning sacrifice, death and rebirth. Though most myths read will be Greek, students will also be encouraged to explore Native American and other mythologies. The course will emphasize the ways myth has been used by dramatists, poets and visual artists.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1072  and ENG 1310 ; and also one of the following 2000-level survey courses: ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322  or ENG 2510  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3320 - The English Novel

    Credit(s): 3

    This course surveys the English novel from Sterne, Richardson and Austen to Conrad, Lawrence and Woolf. Dickens, Hardy, Forster and other recent novelists are stressed.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1072  and ENG 1310 ; and also one of the following 2000-level survey courses: ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322  or ENG 2510  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3345 - Contemporary Canadian Literature

    Credit(s): 3

    Students in this course will gain an appreciation for the literature of the U.S. neighbor to the north. Through close reading and discussion of novels, poems and stories, students will consider not only the individual voices and concerns of Canadian writers but also what makes Canadian writing distinctive. How is it different, if at all, from American writing? How is it similar? How does Canadian literature speak to us on a personal level, and what can it contribute to the literature of the world?

    Prerequisites: ENG 1072  and one of the following courses:  ENG 1310 , ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322  or ENG 2510  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3380 - British Romantic Literature

    Credit(s): 3

    In this investigation of English romanticism, students engage in close readings of poetry and prose by the major writers in the tradition: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats and Mary Shelley.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1072  and ENG 1310 ; and also one of the following 2000-level survey course: ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322  or ENG 2510  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3385 - Genre Seminar

    Credit(s): 3

    This course will explore a variety of literary and cultural genres at an advanced level. Specific genres that might be explored in any given semester include: Folklore, Fairy Tales, and Children’s Literature; Gothic Literature; and Travel Literature.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1082  or one ENG 2000-level literature course, or permission. 

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

    Repeatable for Credit: With a change of genre (but may be counted only twice toward English program requirements).
  

  • ENG 3390 - Literature of the Grotesque

    Credit(s): 3

    This course includes historical, literary, philosophic and aesthetic approaches to the grotesque, especially examining the mix of humor and horror so essential to the genre. Rabelais, Swift, Poe, Dostoevski, Baudelaire, Beckett, Nathanael West and Flannery O’Connor, among others, will be studied, as well as slides of grotesque art works, from Hieronymous Bosch to Salvadore Dali.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1072  and ENG 1310 ; and also one of the following 2000-level survey courses: ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322  or ENG 2510  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3395 - Satire in Literature

    Credit(s): 3

    This course is an introduction to the vast and varied genre of satire, tracing origins to Old Comedy and Roman Verse satire, tracing satire theory from classical models up through 20th-century structuralism and postmodern theory. We’ll study Aristophanes, Horace and Juvenal, Menippean satire of Lucian and Petronius, bits of Rabelais, Chaucer, Donne, Butler and Marvell, as well as whole works from neoclassic masters Alexander Pope, John Dryden and Jonathan Swift. As satire has evolved in the last two centuries into a predominately narrative, not verse, form, we’ll study a number of anti-utopian novels such as Animal Farm, Brave New World, Memoirs From a Bathtub, as well as view Metropolis and Modern Times as cinematic satires.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1072 ; and one of the following courses: ENG 1310 , ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322  or ENG 2510  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3405 - Literary Journalism

    Credit(s): 3

    Students are expected to analyze and understand the techniques of journalistic prose that have led to memorable stories and columns. Among those studied are muckrakers such as Steffens and Woodward, war correspondents such as Pyle and Herr, commentators such as Lippmann and Broder and many other literary journalists.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1072  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3435 - Practical Grammar

    Credit(s): 3

    This course is intended to enhance readers’ appreciation of elegance of expression in literature; to expand available rhetorical choices for writers; to increase precision and efficiency of expression; and to help prospective teachers of English respond to student writing with thorough, accurate and helpful instruction. Weekly activities include short writing assignments that expand the writer’s tools, grammatical analysis of passages and editing exercises.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3480 - Modern Literature

    Credit(s): 3

    Students engage in close readings of representative works of major poets and fiction writers from the start of the 20th century to World War II. The course includes British and American writers such as Joyce, Yeats, Woolf, Eliot, Stevens, Faulkner and Hemingway.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1072  and ENG 1310 ; and also one of the following 2000-level survey courses:  ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322  or ENG 2510  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3510 - Contemporary Literature

    Credit(s): 3

    Students read representative works of major poets and fiction writers from the end of World War II to the present. The course includes writers such as Lowell, Plath, Ginsberg, Bellow, Rich, O’Connor, Atwood, Morrison and Carver.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1072 ; and one of the following courses: ENG 1310 , ENG 2171 . ENG 2172 . ENG 2281 . ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322  or ENG 2510  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3520 - American Poetry

    Credit(s): 3

    This is an examination of important works by major American poets, including such representative poets as Whitman, Dickinson, Stevens, Eliot, Pound, Williams and Moore, with special emphasis on the Americanness of American poetry, as distinct from other traditions.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1072 ; and one of the following courses:  ENG 1310 , ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322 , ENG 2510 , ENG-2260 (CU course) or ENG-2270 (CU course)

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3525 - Victorian Literature

    Credit(s): 3

    This course examines poetry, prose, drama and nonfiction selections from the Victorian period in Great Britain (1837-1901). It will consider pressing issues of Victorian culture as these intersect with literature, such as science, politics, economics, morality, sexuality, and gender. The semester is divided into four units. Unit 1 looks at representations of and expectations for women and attempts to enlarge or change women’s roles and relationships. Unit 2 examines rising industrialization and resulting political and economic effects for the individual and society. Unit 3 considers the role of science and imperialism in unsettling certainties regarding religion and personal relationships. Unit 4 looks at various responses to previous Victorian ideologies of empire, the self and the role of art. As we move through the course, students will analyze overlapping concerns among the unit readings in order to gain a broader understanding of how views on, for example, women’s roles in society, the economic benefits of capitalism and the British imperialism were contested and developed.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1072  and ENG 1310 ; and also one of the following 2000-level survey courses:  ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322  or ENG 2510  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3530 - The American Novel

    Credit(s): 3

    This course examines novels by Americans in historical context, beginning with the first half of the 19th century and including major works by novelists such as Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, James, Crane, Faulkner, Hemingway and Fitzgerald.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1072 ; and one of the following courses: ENG 1310 , ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322 , ENG 2510 , ENG-2260 (CU course) or ENG-2270 (CU course)

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3545 - Literature and Culture Seminar

    Credit(s): 3

    This course examines advanced topics at the intersection of literature and culture by exploring various literary themes and issues in their cultural contexts. Specific themes or issues that might be explored in any given semester include: The Bible as literature; Myths and Mythologies; Slave Narratives; The Self and Society; Poetry, Philosophy, and Politics; and Performing Gender. 

    Prerequisites: ENG 1082  or one ENG 2000-level literature course, or permission. 

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

    Repeatable for Credit: With a change of issue or theme (but may be counted only twice toward English program requirements).
  

  • ENG 3565 - Shakespeare

    Credit(s): 3

    This course studies the poetry and drama of Shakespeare. It focuses on major themes and conventions in his works through the accurate and imaginative analysis of the texts. It also considers the context of reception and production through relevant cultural, political and religious questions of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1071  and  ENG 1310 ; and also one of the following 2000-level survey courses: ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322  or ENG 2510  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3580 - African American Literature

    Credit(s): 3

    This course examines the literary traditions of African Americans, beginning with slave narratives and the oral tradition (as seen in popular song and folk tales) and including poetry, autobiography and fiction by important African American writers of the 20th century.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1310 ; and one of the following courses: ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322 , ENG 2510 , ENG-2260 (CU course) or ENG-2270 (CU course)

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3680 - Linguistics & Language History

    Credit(s): 3

    This course examines the English language from a theoretical, developmental and practical perspective and is intended for students with a general interest in language and expression as well as those students preparing to teach language arts and literature at the secondary level.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1072  

    Recommended: ENG 2281  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 3710 - Special Topics in English

    Credit(s): Variable

    This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 3000-level not offered in the general English curriculum.

    Prerequisites: This course may be repeated with a change of topic.
  

  • ENG 3999 - Writing Proficiency Exam

    Credit(s): 0

    Prerequisites: All on-campus baccalaureate- and associate-level students must pass the Writing Proficiency Exam or the course ENG 2005  -The Self-Sufficient Writer in order to graduate. (Distance Learning students must pass ENG 1220  - Rhetorical Expression or pass the Challenge Exam in order to graduate.) Students should take the exam when they have accumulated between 15-60 credits to ensure completion of this graduation standard. Students who fail the exam once may attempt it a second time; those who fail twice must take and pass ENG 2005 .

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 4010 - Media Ethics

    Credit(s): 3

    This course is a senior-level seminar that leads students through an examination of current ethical problems and issues in journalism: truth vs. accuracy; information biases: problems of personalizing, dramatizing, reenacting and manipulating the news; image making in politics, First Amendment vs. rights to privacy: naming names; photojournalism ethics; and the transformation of news into entertainment (the rise of images and the decline of meaning).

    Prerequisites: ENG 2051  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 4080 - Advanced Creative Writing Workshop

    Credit(s): 3

    This workshop focuses on the advanced study of a particular genre of creative writing of the student’s choosing. In consultation with the instructor, the student will choose a creative writing genre and a suitable project to pursue. Student work-in-progress is critiqued through class discussion and frequent conferences with the instructor and fellow student writers. This course may be repeated once for credit with permission but may be counted only once toward program requirements.

    Prerequisites: There is a course fee. The prerequisite is ENG 3110 or permission. This course is offered every fall.
  

  • ENG 4110 - The Form & Theory of Fiction

    Credit(s): 3

    This study of novels and short stories focuses on their structure and on the ideas that give life to that structure. It is a workshop-oriented course primarily for writers, and much of the criticism read has a practitioner’s focus. Topics include the form of the novella, tone and texture in the contemporary short story and the novel as memoir. Major fiction by American and European writers is studied, along with representative novels and short stories by non-western and third world writers.

    Prerequisites: ENG 3130  or permission of instructor

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 4120 - The Form & Theory of Poetry

    Credit(s): 3

    This course examines the theoretical writings of 19th and 20th century poets on the process of poetic creation. Theories about the source of inspiration, the origin of poetic structure and technique, the relationship between theory and practice, the responsibilities and uses of poetic imagination, and the relationship between artist and society are explored.

    Prerequisites: ENG 3120  or permission of instructor

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 4130 - The Form & Theory of Nonfiction

    Credit(s): 3

    The structure and technique of creative essays are examined and analyzed, with stress on development and organization. Particular attention is paid to literary essays that have withstood the critical test of time and to modern essays that consciously strive to incorporate literary techniques. Discussion focuses on audience, allusion, research, patterns of development and organizing elements, as well as those literary techniques such as symbolism and irony that apply to non-fiction prose.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1072  

    Recommended: At least one 3000-level writing course

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 4150 - Literary Criticism & Theory

    Credit(s): 3

    This investigation of 20th century approaches to literary criticism and theory focuses on major “schools” of criticism and on the critics and theorists associated with them. Students develop a definitive, historical perspective on this kind of discourse, including the goals criticism and theory have striven to reach and the effects such discourse has had on the study of literature. Students are encouraged to draw upon their own inclinations as readers and scholars, trying out some of these critical stances and evaluating their usefulness and their value to us as individuals and as members of various interpretive communities.

    Prerequisites: ENG 1072 ; two of the following survey courses: ENG 2171 , ENG 2172 , ENG 2281 , ENG 2282 , ENG 2321 , ENG 2322 , or ENG 2510  ; and one of the following upper-level literature courses: ENG 3270 , ENG 3320 , ENG 3345 , ENG 3380 , ENG 3390 , ENG 3395 , ENG 3435 , ENG 3480 , ENG 3510 , ENG 3520 , ENG 3525 , ENG 3530 , ENG 3565 , ENG 3580  or ENG 3680 .

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 4160 - Investigative Journalism

    Credit(s): 3

    This course focuses on best practices for in-depth reporting- reporting that goes beyond the immediate facts and official accounts. Students learn to use public records, databases and fieldwork to probe deeply into stories, with greater focus on the who, the why and the overall context than is provided in the usual daily fare. Students will have a chance to grapple with complex stories that help define the political, social and environmental realities of Vermont. Good investigative reporting, however, involves more than focused research techniques; students will learn how to hone analytical skills and to understand the legal and ethical issues involved in the craft. This class will emphasize stories that require planning, research and clear goals toward greater understanding of important public issues.

    Prerequisites: ENG 2051 ; ENG 2052 ; ENG 3022  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 4250 - Advanced Critical Approaches

    Credit(s): 3

    This course provides an intensive examination of contemporary theories and methods of critical analysis of textual and visual forms of storytelling. The focus is on understanding criticism both as a mode of thinking and as an art in its own right, including philosophical, social, and literary dimensions, through the careful reading of preeminent theoretical writings.

    Prerequisites: FLM 3010 , FLM 3610 , or one ENG 2000- or 3000-level literature course, or permission. 

    Recommended: ENG 2250  

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
  

  • ENG 4510 - Literary Research Tutorial

    Credit(s): 3

    This course in bibliographic methods, research and writing represents the culmination of the undergraduate B.A. in English. Students will work intensively on a project of their own design, practicing the essential steps in literary research, writing and presentation.

    Restrictions: Senior standing

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 4710 - Special Topics in English

    Credit(s): Variable

    This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 4000-level not offered in the general English curriculum.

    Prerequisites: This course may be repeated with a change of topic.
  
  

  • ENG 4750 - Senior Seminar

    Credit(s): 3

    This course examines a single, advanced literary theme, author, or text in great detail. Specific topics that might be explored in any given semester include: Shakespeare’s Globe; the Austen industry; Twain’s America; The Canterbury Tales; Derrida and deconstruction; and Frost’s poetry.

    Prerequisites: One ENG 2000- or 3000-level literature course, or permission.

    Restrictions: Junior standing.

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

    Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic (but may be counted only once toward English program requirements).
  

  • ENG 4810 - Internship (J)

    Credit(s): 1-12

    Students plan and complete an approved internship in consultation with their faculty supervisor.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 4810 - Internship in English (L)

    Credit(s): 2-15

    The internship provides students with practical experience in the application of their previous course work in the major. Arrangements for placement must be made with the supervising faculty member, faculty advisor, the site supervisor, and the Career Services office. Following approval of the work experience, students are required to submit a learning contract and biweekly reports.

    Restrictions: By Permission.

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

    Repeatable for Credit: Yes, but only 3 credits many be counted toward program requirements.
  

  • ENG 4900 - Independent Study in English

    Credit(s): 1 to 3

    Independent Study offers students of English an opportunity to concentrate on an area of interest or to extend their range. The details of study are arranged between each student and the instructor. The course may be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisites: The prerequisite is permission.
  

  • ENG 4900 - Independent Study in English (J)

    Credit(s): 1-12

    Students plan and complete an approved independent study in consultation with their faculty supervisor.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 4910 - Senior Portfolio

    Credit(s): 3

    This course provides students the opportunity to demonstrate their competency and proficiency in writing. Students meet independently with a professor to produce a portfolio of written work.

    Prerequisites: The prerequisite is permission. This course is offered every semester.
  

  • ENG 4920 - Senior Thesis

    Credit(s): 3

    A substantial writing project is required of students pursuing a B.F.A. in creative writing. Normally this project is completed during the final semester of the senior year. Students may work in any genre. The thesis is optional for students pursuing a B.A. Consult the Writing & Literature faculty for detailed information about developing a thesis project, finding a thesis adviser and carrying out the project.

    Restrictions: Permission of instructor

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENG 4950 - Senior Capstone

    Credit(s): 3

    This course integrates the student’s understanding of the history, issues, and demands of Literature or Film Studies through advanced readings, group discussions, and individually mentored projects. It culminates with a final project on a topic of interest to the student, which will require substantial research, writing, and reflection. 

    Restrictions: By Permission.

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

Environmental Science
  

  • ENV 1040 - Introduction to Oceanography

    Credit(s): 3

    Oceanography is a broad and multidisciplinary field in which many sciences are focused on the common goal of understanding how oceans work. This class is designed for the non-science major and will emphasize the role of basic scientific principles in the geological, biological, physical and chemical processes that govern the oceanic realm and how those oceanic processes affect the terrestrial realm. In addition, the connection between various oceanic processes and their impact on human existence and development will be explored.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 1050 - Introduction to Earth Science

    Credit(s): 4

    An introduction to earth systems and processes, this course emphasizes understanding the reasons for the distribution patterns of minerals, rocks and continents, as well as a basic understanding of the principles of geology, geomorphology, meteorology and climatology. It is recommended as a beginning course for students in the environmental sciences major.

    (includes a lab)

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 1060 - FYS: Nuclear Power & Society

    Credit(s): 3

    This introductory, interdisciplinary course examines several aspects of nuclear power. Students will be introduced to the basic science behind nuclear power (unstable isotopes, mining, nuclear power plants and waste disposal), the environmental and biological effects of the use of nuclear power, our economics and politics of nuclear power and the use of nuclear weapons throughout the world. Guest speakers will be invited to make presentations; field trips will allow students to engage activities, business and legislators in discussions related to nuclear power; and some of the class time will be devoted to the use for computer technology to develop presentations (e.g., Adobe Illustrator and Microsoft PowerPoint, Excel and Word).

    Restrictions: First-year students only

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 1080 - Introduction to Environmental Science

    Credit(s): 4

    This course studies the environment and solutions to environmental problems. As an interdisciplinary academic field, it lies at the intersection of physical and biological sciences. This course introduces students to fundamental concepts in physical and ecological processes that shape our environment and the role that human civilizations have in shaping the environment. Emphasis is placed on examining solutions to current environmental problems including aspects of soil, water and air pollution, ecosystem services, biomimicry, environmental toxicology, living machines, phytoremediation, bioremediation and green chemistry. Central to this course are semester-long student projects.

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

    Notes: There is a course fee.
  

  • ENV 1090 - Introduction to Weather, Climate & Climate Change

    Credit(s): 3

    This course is designed to give students an appreciation of the difference between weather and climate and to have them develop an understanding of how weather phenomena are generated and the role/importance of weather in daily life.  Also in this course, students will be exposed to one of the most hotly debated issues of the modern era, the topic of human-induced climate change.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 1110 - Introduction to Environmental Problems

    Credit(s): 3

    This course surveys environmental issues that arise from their interaction, with particular emphasis on the impact of and on human beings.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 1710 - Special Topics in Environmental Science

    Credit(s): Variable

    This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 1000-level not offered in the general Environmental Science curriculum.

    Prerequisites: This course may be repeated with a change of topic.
  

  • ENV 2025 - Nature Photography

    Credit(s): 3

    Nature photography is the particular application of digital photography to convey information about the natural world through artful and compelling images as well as written narrative to produce gallery-quality exhibits and articles that inspire stewardship of the environment and promote the respectful treatment of all animals and plants.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 2040 - Introduction to Environmental Restoration

    Credit(s): 4

    [LGNR7] This course introduces students to the theory and practical applications of environmental restoration. A diverse array of habitat restoration techniques are addressed, including artificial cavity nest construction for birds, vernal pool creation for amphibians, streambank restoration, invasive exotic species control, and reptile hibernacula formation. The vast majority of the course is spent in the field involving hands-on restoration activities in local habitats working in concert with area landowners. The course emphasizes restoration techniques that may be readily used in area high school and junior high school science programs.

    Prerequisites: The prerequisite is SCI 1030. There is a course fee. This course is offered every summer and as needed.
  

  • ENV 2050 - The Natural History of Vermont

    Credit(s): 3

    This course explores the historical development of the geology, weather, wildlife and vegetation of Vermont. Field work is required.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 2060 - Energy, Environment, and Society

    Credit(s): 4

    This course focuses on such topics as energy sources and transformations, energy use and crises, environmental impact, alternative energy systems, solar energy, energy conservation, problems associated with nuclear power, and relations between energy use and environmental pollution.

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus

    Notes: There is a course fee.
  

  • ENV 2080 - The Anthropocene

    Credit(s): 3

    A large, dominating human population has made lasting impacts on Earth.  The choices we make today have a profound and lasting effect on Earth systems.  We will explore the physical, chemical, and biological impacts preserved in the rock record that serve as a permanent testament to the expanding human population and discuss the influences that drive the choices that we make each day.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 2090 - Sustainable Living

    Credit(s): 3

    This course addresses the global environmental consequences of contemporary human lifestyles and ways to live more sustainably, ranging from specific everyday measures that anyone can take to policies and approaches that can bring about broad societal change. Topics covered include solid waste reduction, recycling, composting, energy and water conservation, household heating, transportation of goods, paper and plastics industries, ore and mineral extraction, rainforest conservation, localvorism, informed consumerism, and green product alternatives.

    Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
  

  • ENV 2210 - Current Topics in Science

    Credit(s): 1

    A number of current environmental topics are explored in a seminar setting with a presentation by a speaker or panel followed by time for discussion. Presenters will be researchers or practitioners in environmental science. Students will keep a journal of all presentations.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 2401 - Student Knowledge Improvement & Leadership Learning Seminar I

    Credit(s): 2

    Be part of a group of science majors who believe that there are a number of skills and frames of mind, that when nurtured during the first year of college, have long-lasting benefits. Start your college science education by building connections and learning the basics of what it takes to be a successful scientist in college and beyond.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus

    Repeatable for Credit: Yes.
  

  • ENV 2402 - Student Knowledge Improvement & Leadership Learning Seminar II

    Credit(s): 2

    Be part of a group of science majors who believe that there are a number of skills and frames of mind, that when nurtured during the first year of college, have long-lasting benefits. Start your college science education by building connections
    and learning the basics of what it takes to be a successful scientist in college and beyond.

    Prerequisites: ENV 2401 .

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus

    Repeatable for Credit: Yes.

    Notes: (This course builds upon the objectives of ENV 2401.)
  

  • ENV 2710 - Special Topics in Environmental Science

    Credit(s): Variable

    This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 2000-level not offered in the general Environmental Science curriculum.

    Prerequisites: This course may be repeated with a change of topic.
  

  • ENV 2810 - Internship in Environmental Science

    Credit(s): 1-12

    Students plan and complete an approved internship in consultation with their faculty supervisor.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 2910 - Independent Study in Environmental Science

    Credit(s): 1-12

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 3010 - Land Use Planning

    Credit(s): 3

    This course covers the nature and characteristics of the land base and constraints on land use. It also looks at the institutional framework and techniques of land use control and planning. Topics such as the use of zoning, easements, variances and subdivisions are discussed.

    Prerequisites: ENV 1110  

    Restrictions: Junior standing

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 3020 - Environmental Law

    Credit(s): 3

    This is an examination of the legal profession’s involvement in management of natural resources. Students analyze major court decisions, federal and state statutes, federal rule-making procedures and administrative hearings.

    Prerequisites: POS 1010   or POS 1020 ; and ENV 1110  

    Restrictions: Junior standing

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 3030 - Water Resources

    Credit(s): 3

    This course provides a comprehensive look at global and U.S. water resources by a detailed examination of the hydrologic cycle, precipitation distribution patterns and water quantity and quality. Both surface and ground water sources are examined, as are various water uses and conflicts.

    Prerequisites: ENV 1050 ; ENV 1110 ; CHE 1031  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 3040 - Energy & Mineral Resources

    Credit(s): 3

    This course considers the extent and geographical location of our mineral and energy resource base. It looks at the historical developments, changes through time, current usage and environmental impacts of resources use. Geological constraints, transportation, pricing policies, shortages, governmental regulations and pollution problems are some of the topics covered.

    Prerequisites: ENV 1050 ; ENV 1110 ; CHE 1031  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 3060 - Waste Reduction and Management

    Credit(s): 2

    This course discusses Important issues concerning waste management such as landfilling, recycling, and waste reduction. The relationship between solid waste, and environmental quality will be investigated. Methods that reduce waste or use certain wastes as a resource will be introduced.

    Prerequisites: The prerequisite is junior standing. There is a course fee. This course is offered every even-numbered fall.
  

  • ENV 3070 - Environmental Site Assessment

    Credit(s): 2

    This course will cover methods of measuring and monitoring the environment. Properties and uses of sensors and analyzers such as gas chromatographs, infrared spectroscopes, radioactivity sensors, and pollution detection/measurement equipment will be investigated. Also, methods of obtaining, and processing computer compatible data will be covered.

     

     

    Prerequisites: The prerequisites are CHE 1032 and PHY 2032, or permission. There is a course fee. This course is offered every odd-numbered spring.
  

  • ENV 3110 - Environmental Pollution

    Credit(s): 4

    This course focuses on applying concepts of sustainable environmental management of chemicals. Emphasis is placed on the remediation of contaminated land and water with living technologies such as living machines, phytoremediation, bioremediation, and biomimicry. Discussion of current issues in environmental pollution including state, federal, and international legislation, current events, and emerging technologies occurs throughout the course.

     

    Prerequisites: The prerequisites are one chemistry course and MAT 1410, or permission. There is a course fee. This course is offered every even-numbered spring.
  

  • ENV 3120 - Environmental Modeling

    Credit(s): 2

    This course is designed to introduce students to the basic concepts of modeling of various processes in the environment. The emphasis will be on the understanding of scientific principles underlying the models and software that describe typical models.

    Prerequisites: The prerequisites are junior standing and MAT 1410, or permission. There is a course fee. This course is offered every odd-numbered fall.
  

  • ENV 3130 - Environmental Geology

    Credit(s): 4

    Environmental geology focuses on the relationship between people and the physical environment. This course will expose students to hazardous earth processes such as floods, seismic activity, landslides, volcanic activity and coastal threats. A limited understanding of soil formation, soil texture, porosity and permeability is of utmost importance to environmental issues and will also be addressed in this course.

    (includes a lab)

    Prerequisites: ENV 1050  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 3140 - OSHA Safety Course

    Credit(s): 2

    This course covers processes, techniques, and procedures that will enable students to identify, evaluate, and control hazardous situations. Students will acquire the knowledge and capability to develop safety plans and select the proper materials, and equipment for hazardous situations.

    Prerequisites: The prerequisite is CHE 1032. There is a course fee. This course is offered every even-numbered spring.
  

  • ENV 3150 - Toxic & Solid Waste Management

    Credit(s): 3

    This course investigates the problems associated with the handling and disposal of wastes, both ordinary solids and those that are hazardous and radioactive. The course looks at topics such as waste disposal methods currently utilized; the laws and regulations governing transport , storage and disposal of toxic substances; how and where disposal can best be accomplished; the costs involved and who pays them; and how great a risk such materials pose to human health and the environment.

    Prerequisites: ENV 1050 ; ENV 1110 ; CHE 1031  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 3160 - Coastal & Marine Resources

    Credit(s): 3

    This course examines the physical, chemical, biological and geological processes of the world’s oceans and how these processes interact to provide resources. Utilization of marine pollution, coastal and resources use of wetlands and coastal development are discussed.

    Prerequisites: ENV 1050 ; ENV 1110  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 3180 - Ecology & Landscape History of the Green Mountains

    Credit(s): 4

    In this course, students will spend three weeks in the field, exploring the ecology, natural history, cultural history, and modern issues found in the diverse ecosystems of the Green Mountains. During this time they will hike along America’s oldest long-distance hiking trail, the Long Trail. The formative ecological and geologic processes, historical movements, cultural patterns, and current issues in this landscape that will be our classroom are often similar across the globe. Through gaining first-hand experience investigating these processes, students develop a “tool kit” that they can use to self-educate, teach, and lead wherever they go. Students participating in the class will learn through a combination of fieldwork (labs), ecological interpretation, facilitated discussion, and lectures.

    Prerequisites: The prerequisite is permission There is a course fee. 
  

  • ENV 3230 - National Parks & Wilderness Management

    Credit(s): 3

    This study of national parks and wilderness area management covers the historical, functional, ecological and evolutionary aspects of these areas. Special attention is directed to the significance of these areas in the modern world and the management options offering the best chances of meeting both the needs of users and protecting the resource.

    Prerequisites: ENV 1110  

    Restrictions: Not open to first-year students

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 3240 - Fundamentals of Soil Science

    Credit(s): 4

    This is an introduction to the formative processes of soils, their organic and inorganic constituents and physical properties. Topics include weathering processes and the role of climate and vegetation in development of soil types. Textural and structural analysis of soils, retention and movement of soil water and soil management practices are also covered.

    (includes a lab)

    Prerequisites: CHE 1031  or CHE 1055  

    Restrictions: Not open to first-year students

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 3250 - Meteorology & Climatology

    Credit(s): 4

    This course provides a comprehensive look at the processes that interact together to form various types of weather and weather-related phenomena. The major processes that are explored include the composition of the atmosphere, atmospheric pressure and pressure gradients, atmospheric warming and cooling, atmospheric moisture and cloud formation, air movement and frontal boundaries along with a description of severe weather events such as hurricanes and tornadoes. This course also examines the link between weather and climate and how we can utilize past climate change along with current weather patterns to make predictions for future climate change.

    (includes a lab)

    Prerequisites: CHE 1031  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 3260 - Global Climate Change

    Credit(s): 3

    This course will focus on the scientific principles underpinning climate change and the differences between natural climate change/climate variability and human-induced (anthropogenic) climate change. It will explore what processes/factors have led to climate change in the geological past and how these have shaped the world as we experience it today. Discussion of traditional fossil fuel energy resources as agents of climate change and the value of alternative energy strategies will be explored. The course will also examine the social, economic and political factors that are being and have been used to frame our current understanding of this issue, especially with regard to how we mitigate its impacts.

    Prerequisites: ENV 1050  or equivalent

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 3310 - Applications in GIS

    Credit(s): 4

    Geographic Information Systems (GIS) have been designed as electronic ways to store large volumes of data. In the environmental field, GIS systems have become a very important tool for storing environmental data, as a way to produce maps and encode valuable information and data about map features that can be readily accessed for environmental projects. This class is designed to give students in the environmental field and other science disciplines a working knowledge of how GIS systems are compiled and utilized.

    (includes a lab)

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 3400 - Advanced GIS: Spatial Modeling

    Credit(s): 4

    This course focuses on using spatial reasoning to create spatially and time explicit models. Topics include how statistics can be used to quantify existing patterns, advanced suitability modeling, dynamic modeling and reserve design. The course also teaches the fundamentals of scripting programming in the object-oriented environment, which is necessary for customizing the GIS environment and developing more complex relationships.

    (includes a lab)

    Prerequisites: ENV 3310  

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 3710 - Special Topics in Environmental Science

    Credit(s): Variable

    This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 3000-level not offered in the general Environmental Science curriculum.

    Prerequisites: This course may be repeated with a change of topic.
  

  • ENV 4010 - Global Environmental Issues

    Credit(s): 3

    This seminar focuses on international environmental issues such as destruction of the tropical rain forests; ozone depletion; international movement of endangered species, pelts and live animals; the increasing transport of inadequately tested pharmaceuticals and pesticides; and the export of toxic waste from industrial to less developed countries.

    Prerequisites: ENV 1110  

    Restrictions: Junior standing

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 4710 - Special Topics in Environmental Science

    Credit(s): Variable

    This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 4000-level not offered in the general Environmental Science curriculum.

    Prerequisites: This course may be repeated with a change of topic.
  

  • ENV 4710 - Special Topics in Environmental Science (J)

    Credit(s): 1-3

    The topics addressed in this course vary and are noted prior to the registration period.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 4720 - Senior Thesis

    Credit(s): 3

    Students conduct an individual research project, write a thesis, give an oral presentation and prepare a paper for publication. This capstone course allows the student to combine the skills and knowledge gleaned from previous courses with a self-designed research project that requires the student to ask a good question, develop appropriate techniques and conduct appropriate research. The research topic is to be chosen by the student in consultation with a member of the faculty. A thesis outline must be submitted to the supervising faculty member (or members) prior to commencement of research. This type of practical, hands-on experience may be conducted at locations off campus, in conjunction with a work-study project, internship or on-campus research. The project must be completed within two semesters.

    Restrictions: Senior standing

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 4730 - Senior Seminar

    Credit(s): 3

    Through this seminar, students have an opportunity to apply what they have learned by developing and completing a library or field research project under faculty guidance. The project culminates in an oral presentation and a final research paper or project report.

    Restrictions: Senior standing

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
  

  • ENV 4810 - Internship in Environmental Science

    Credit(s): 1-12

    Students plan and complete an approved internship in consultation with their faculty supervisor.

    Offering Location: Johnson Campus
 

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