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  • ELEN 422: High Speed Circuits

    4.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    Students will learn about analog and mixed-signal circuits including high-speed clocks, phase-lock-loops, A/D and D/A converters, and amplifiers. Students will also learn about principles of high-speed communications, including energy and band-width constrained waveforms, and various forms of signal modulations, and data encodings (e.g. 8/10b encoding). Prerequisite:    CMPE 322 (Grade of C or Higher)
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  • ENGL 050: Basic Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    Offers development of skills necessary for writing effectively. Includes instruction in pre-writing, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading. In addition to assignments on vocabulary, sentence structure, mechanics, and usage, students will work on writing effective paragraphs and compositions. A documented essay is the final project. Required of students who exhibit need of preparation for ENG114. Prerequisite:    Writing Placement Test Score of 1 or Higher
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  • ENGL 113: Introduction to Academic Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    This is an introductory writing course designed to increase students? writing proficiency to the level required in ENG 114, a course that fulfills the General Education writing requirement. ENG 113 focuses on the writing process and provides an introduction to the kinds of critical and analytical writing that will be required in ENG 114. Students will read and respond to a variety of texts and strengthen their ability to develop a clear and focused argument. Particular attention is paid to essential writing skills, such as the ability to generate ideas, create a clear and focused argument, develop focused paragraphs, use sources and create error-free sentences. There will also be a sustained focus on grammar and usage so that students are better prepared for the rigor of ENG 114. This course DOES NOT fulfill the writing requirement. Not open to students who have successfully completed ENG 114. Prerequisite:    Writing Placement Test Score of 2 or Higher
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  • ENGL 114: Academic Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    Introduces thought provoking texts and subjects. Assists students in developing four foundational skills: writing, reading, discussion, and critical-thinking. Students learn to communicate more effectively as writers and learn to read, discuss, and think more deeply and successfully. Introduces some university resources, such as the library and the Writing Studio. Focuses on process writing that includes composing several drafts, revising, editing, and proofreading within a small, writing intensive course. Students are assigned to ENG114 on the basis of their performance on the SAT or after successful completion of ENG 113.
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  • ENGL 115: Advanced Academic Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    Provides well-prepared students with enhanced course work in writing effective essays in accordance with a process model of pre-writing, drafting, peer reviewing, revising, editing, and proofreading, as well as sophisticated rhetorical analysis of audience, form, and content. Students compose some writing from print, non-print and on-line sources, using such appropriate documentation formats as Modern Language Association (MLA) format for essays in the humanities. Students are assigned to ENG115 instead of ENG114 on the basis of their performance on the SAT. Prerequisite:    Writing Placement Test Score of 4 or Higher
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  • ENGL 130: Literary Studies for the English Major and Minor

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    Introduces the fundamental components of the three main literary genres (poetry, fiction, and drama) and emphasizes the use of close reading to support the interpretation of literary texts. Students are taught how to identify and utilize key literary devices as lenses through which to provide in-depth textual analysis across the three genres. Students will engage in this textual analysis through multiple writing assignments and intensive in-class discussion.
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  • ENGL 190: General Education Special Topics

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    Read poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and plays; learn techniques of creative writing like dialogue, image, narrative, point of view, scene and plot. Students will have the chance to apply what they learn to their own creative writing.
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  • ENGL 213: Writing and Research About Literature

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    Introduces the fundamentals of the research methodologies and critical approaches in the English major. Students are taught how to write and workshop a critically informed literary analysis involving both primary and secondary texts and using standard practices in the discipline (accessing authoritative criticism, cultural, and/or historical information using specialized research tools, and cultivating an ability to apply diverse critical perspectives). Course work includes reading and writing assignments that develop writing skills and original, critically informed analyses. Students should expect to write at least one documented paper.
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  • ENGL 222: Foundations in Grammar and Editing

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    A writing-intensive foundational study of grammar, syntax, style, and formatting with attention to effective communication as writers generally and as English majors specifically. Students will engage in exercises to understand and apply the interplay of content, form, and structure in writing, and the impact and methodologies of revision and editing. They will understand the context for editing from the entry-level job of copyediting to comprehensive editing, including the use of style sheets, and begin a portfolio of writing and editing samples.
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  • ENGL 224: Introduction to Creative Writing

    3.00 Credits
    Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

    Introduction to Creative Writing introduces elements of creative writing in a variety of genres, providing practice analyzing short stories, creative nonfiction pieces, poems and/or dramatic scenes from the point of view of a creative writer. In a series of creative assignments, students will learn to use the tools of creative writing?such as scene, dialog, imagery and description?to explore and improve their own creative writing. Students will write a series of short summary/analysis responses to reading assignments. Students will complete a series of short explorations of creative writing, with a culminating assignment of an expanded and revised creative work in a process portfolio. This course satisfies the requirement for a course in Writing.
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