A study of modern English grammar accomplished through a variety of language analysis approaches, including traditional, structural and transformational.
Introduces students interested in questions of language acquisition to the theories and practices relating to learning to read in a second language or second dialect. Topics included are models for acquiring foreign language reading skills, teaching strategies for second language/dialect literacy, evaluating literacy skills, current research about acquisition of literacy skills, and political and social implications of second language/dialect literacy.
Introduction to second language acquisition (SLA) theory and the application of SLA theory to second/foreign language teaching practices. Explores what it means to know a language and, hence, how one learns a second language.
A study of major British literature during the reign of Queen Victoria. Writers studied may include Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Carlyle, Newman and Ruskin.
Contemporary trends in U.S. literature from 1970 to the present. Writers may include McCarthy, DeLillo, Shepard, Tyler, Vonnegut, C. Johnson, Albee, Kincaid, Morrison, Walker, Silko.
An examination of selected topics of linguistics as they relate directly to first and second language learning. The course may focus in different semesters on such topics as phonology and language learning, syntactic theory and language learning, or discourse and language learning.
Systems of heavy particles and rigid bodies at rest and in motion. Force acceleration, work energy and impulse momentum relationships. Motion of one body relative to another in a plane and in space.
Introduction to the principles of thermodynamics and thermodynamic properties of matter. Topics include the first and second laws of thermodynamics, heat, work, temperature, entropy, enthalpy, cycles, reactions, mixtures, energy balances, and mass balances. A design project related to the material is given.
Prepares physics and engineering students for subsequent courses requiring computation with MATLAB. Covers the basics of MATLAB, including simple commands, variables, solving equations, graphing differentiation and integration, matrices and vectors, functions, M-files and fundamentals of programming in the MATLAB environment.
Interdisciplinary study of environmental issues with content that may vary semester to semester. A selected environmental topic is covered in depth from the perspective of different disciplines. Challenges students to evaluate environmental issues under differing contexts and perspectives.
Interdisciplinary investigation of the social, cultural and physical aspects of the Chesapeake Bay and its associated human communities. Special attention to the environmental impacts of human actions and decisions in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and the ways in which environmental factors have in turn impacted human communities.
Field course taught abroad or in a remote setting within the United States. Particular attention to the interdisciplinary environmental issues associated with a particular location in which the field study occurs from a primarily humanistic or social science perspective. May be taken twice for different field courses.
Introduces the student to the study and application of contemporary techniques for individual retirement planning. The instruction will include the retirement field as a profession, as well as the personal financial planning process (budgeting, emergency fund planning, credit and debt management) and personal financial statements. Other specific topics covered include: the Social Security system and Medicare, defined benefit plans versus define contribution plans, vesting, tax effects of investing, qualified versus nonqualified plans and tax-advantaged retirement plans (401K, 403b, etc. accounts).
