Fall 2015 UTEP Graduate Courses for
High School Teachers Interested in Dual Credit Credentialing
Chemistry
Course
Number
Course Name
CRN
Format
Days
Time
Location
CHEM
5301
Modern General
Chemistry
1776
1
FTF
M
05:00 pm-07:30 pm
CRBL C203
CHEM
5369
Contemporary
Topics Inorganic
Chemistry
1495
7
FTF
T
04:30 pm-07:20 pm
PSCI 403
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Date
Comments
08/2412/03
An intensive course intended for school
teachers, which presents a thorough
grounding in the basic principles of
chemistry. May not be counted toward the
M.S. degree in chemistry.
08/2412/03
Selected topics in Inorganic Chemistry.
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Communication
Course
Number
COMM
COMM
COMM
COMM
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Course Name
CRN
Format
5300
Intro to Graduate
Studies
14321
FTF
W
06:00 pm-08:50 pm
HSSN 215
08/2412/03
An introduction to theories, methods and
styles of research in the communication
discipline.
5311
Qualitative Research
Methods
FTF
T
06:00 pm-08:50 pm
HSSN 216
08/2412/03
Introduction to methods used in
conceptualizing, planning, and designing
critical or interpretive methods for
communication research problems.
5337
Organizational
Comm.
Topic:
Communicating in
Healthy Communities
5343
Seminar Communication
Theory
Topic: Popular
Culture
12843
12325
12844
FTF
FTF
Days
Time
Location
M
06:00 pm-08:50 pm
LART 206
W
06:00 pm-08:50 pm
HSSN 216
Date
08/2412/03
08/2412/03
Comments
Explores and reviews theory and research
regarding communication processes used
in organizing in various contexts of
complex human organizations.
Study of recent non-traditional
contributions to theories of human
communication. Investigates the
application of models, the implications of
recent developments in social psychology,
and the results of experimental research.
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Creative Writing
Course
Number
Course Name
CRN
Format
Days
Time
Location
Date
Comments
08/2412/03
Intensive readings in literary theory and criticism as they
relate to aesthetics, form, and the creative process. The
course will cover a spectrum of critical reflection by
philosophers, theorists, fiction writers and poets regarding
poeisis and the making of fiction. Students will undertake a
research paper or project. Prerequisite: Department approval
CRW
5321
Narrative
Theory and
Poetics
12654
FTF
W
06:00 pm08:50 pm
UGLC 334
CRW
5364
Forms &
Techniques of
Fiction
15961
Online
Online
08/2412/03
A course in directed reading and writing that leads the
student to an understanding of the creative process through
analysis and imitation of important works of fiction.
CRW
5365
Forms &
Techniques of
Poetry
13624
FTF
T
06:00 pm08:50 pm
UGLC 334
08/2412/03
A course in directed reading and writing that leads the
student to an understanding of the creative process throught
analysis and imitation of important works of poetry.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
CRW
5366
Advanced
Fiction Writing
18071
Online
Online
08/2412/03
Intensive study and practice in the various forms and
approaches of fiction writing, including workshop discussion
and individual student manuscripts.
CRW
5367
Advanced
Poetry Writing
12478
Online
Online
08/2412/03
Intensive study and practice in the various forms and
approaches within the writing of poetry, including workshop
discussion of individual student poems.
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CRW
5368
Var Topics in
Creative Writing
16170
CRW
5378
The Politics of
Narration
18070
CRW
5382
Studies in Form
15869
CRW
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5387
Contemp. Latin
American Novel
18068
Online
Online
Online
Online
Online
Online
FTF
M
06:00 pm08:50 pm
HUDS 213
08/2412/03
08/2412/03
Genres and forms not normally covered in the MFA
curriculum, eg., the short novel, libretti, the dramatic
monologue. Writing consists of both criticism particular to the
course focus, and writing representative of the form or genre
itself. May be taken once as a workshop course and once as a
literature course.
In this course we will investigate the ways in which fiction
writers through the twentieth century begin to question the
"politics" of narration-that is, the ways in which narration in
fiction models, replicates, and reinforces political systems in
the real world. Reading short stories, novels and theoretical
essays, we will further examine the ways in which writers,
through what are ordinarily understood to be "aesthetic"
experiments, reconfigured their narrative models in an effort
to discover a more ethical, and sometimes more democratic
politics (of narration).
08/2412/03
Advanced literary and critical focus on a single author,
movement, or period within a single major form, e.g. novel,
drama, poetry, essay, screenplay.
08/2412/03
This is a survey of the most important works of literature
published in Latin America in the past thirty years. The novels
selected are intended to show a panoramic view of the poetics
that have emerged as a response to the success of the Latin
American "boom" of the 1960s, but also a number of
overlapping poetics, and their corresponding narrative devices
and the ideas that inform them. Designed to elicit both
creative and analytical responses, this course counts towards
the literature requirement.
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English
Course
Number
Course Name
5300
ApproachMethods &
Bibliog.
5301
British
Literature to
1485
5305
Am. Lit:
Exploration to
1800
ENGL
5309
Intro to Rhet
&Writing
Studies
ENGL
5311
ENGL
5312
ENGL
ENGL
ENGL
ENGL
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5313
CRN
11171
15477
Format
Days
Time
Location
FTF
R
03:30 pm04:50 pm
UGLC 220
FTF
W
6:00 pm 8:50 pm
HUD 313
Date
Comments
08/2412/03
Introduces students to the range of scholarly endeavors in
English studies; to the standards, methods, and tools of
research in the field; and to theoretical assumptions implicit
in the various analytical and critical approaches to texts.
Course work will include a substantial research project carried
out under close faculty supervision.
08/2412/03
Study of two or more major schools, literary trends, or
genres from the beginnings of literature in Old English
through the Middle English period.
08/2412/03
Study of two or more major schools, literary trends, or
genres from the Age of Exploration to 1800.
FTF
TR
4:30 pm 5:50 pm
Hud 213
11172
FTF
TR
04:30 pm05:50 pm
Hud 114
08/2412/03
A comprehensive introduction to the discipline and sub-fields
of Rhetoric and Writing Studies, and to relevant empirical,
historical, and theoretical methodologies. Course work will
include a substantial research project carried out under close
faculty supervision.
Persuasion and
Argument
14709
Online
Online
08/2412/03
A writing course stressing the application of classical and
contemporary rhetorical theory to a variety of practical
writing tasks involving argument and persuasion.
Technical
Writing Seminar
15457
Online
Online
10/2612/12
A writing course focusing upon rhetorical techniques for
technical writing, graphics, and editing. May be repeated
when topic varies.
08/3110/18
Principles and practical applications of writing grant proposals:
analyzing requests for proposals, anticipating the needs of
reviewers as audience, conforming to application guidelines,
preparing executive summaries, project descriptions, outcome
measures, and budgets. Course work will include preparation,
under close faculty supervision, of a substantial grant proposal.
Grant Writing
17707
13474
online
online
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English
Course
Number
ENGL
ENGL
ENGL
ENGL
ENGL
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5321
5328
Course Name
Literature of the
Americas
Latina/o Lit
Abroad: Exile,
Translation,
Queering the
Market
Sp.Topics
Rhetoric &
Composition.
Intercultural
Rhetoric and
Risk
Communication
5341
English Ed in
the Borderlands
5350
Seminar:
Special Topics
Native American
Literature
5380
Special Topics in
English Ed
Education and
the Media
CRN
14453
14711
17708
17709
17710
Format
Days
Time
Location
Date
Comments
FTF
M
06:00 pm08:50 pm
HUDS 313
08/2412/03
Study of one or more authors; or advanced study of a school,
literary trend, or genre in the Literature of the Americas.
FTF
MW
04:30 pm05:50 pm
HUDS 213
08/2412/03
Seminar on topics in rhetoric and composition, such as
borderlands rhetoric, transformational pedagogy, or material
rhetoric.
FTF
T
06:00 pm08:50 pm
HUDS 200
08/2412/03
The study of Border issues as they relate to the field of
English Education.
FTF
T
06:00 pm08:50 pm
HUDS 213
08/2412/03
Studies in comparative literature, current literary thought or
techniques, or a focus on a prescribed area such as a
subgenre or literary group. May be repeated once for credit
when the topic varies.
FTF
T
06:00 pm08:50 pm
HUDS 114
08/2412/03
The study of a seminal issue as it relates to the field of
English Education.
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Geology
Course Number
GEOL
GEOL
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5115
5401
Course Name
Selected
TopicsGeological
Science Intro
GIS
Fundamentals
of Earth
Science
CRN
16046
15447
Format
FTF
FTF
Days
Time
Location
M
04:30 pm-06:20 pm
GEOL 302
W
04:30 pm-06:20 pm
GEOL 302
T
05:30 pm-08:20 pm
GEOL 320
Date
08/2412/03
08/2412/03
08/2412/03
Comments
Study of advanced topics in such fields as
structural geology, economic geology,
paleontology, petrology, and geochemistry.
Overview of earth science principles and
processes and their relationship to
environmental issues. Topics will include
fundamentals of physical geology and their
applications to geo hazards, engineering
geology, surface and ground water,
erosion, and environmental geochemistry.
Atmospheric and climate topics will include
global change issues. Labs will feature
hands-on experience with earth materials,
maps, analytical techniques, and
environmental problem solving.
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History
Course Number
HIST
HIST
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5305
5306
Course Name
Studies in
United States
History
Topic:
American
Indian History
Studies in
World History
Topic: Gender
and Sexuality
in Pre-Modern
History
CRN
13291
15685
Format
FTF
FTF
Days
Time
Location
W
04:30 pm-07:20 pm
LART 322
M
04:30 pm-07:20 pm
LART 322
Date
Comments
08/2412/03
Focuses in depth on a theme, movement, or
period of significance in United States
history. Past topics have included the family
in colonial America, quantification in history,
American slavery, the West in fact and
fiction, U.S. foreign policy in Southeast Asia,
Progressivism, and great American
historians. Historical interpretation is usually
emphasized.
08/2412/03
Survey of a major topic, period, or region in
World history, with special emphasis on
reading and discussion of significant
historiographical interpretations. Topics
might include comparative colonialism,
migration, trade and development, racism,
comparative social structures, cultural
exchange, and movements and methods of
resistance.
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Mathematics
Course Number
MATH
MATH
MATH
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Course Name
5311
Applied
Mathematics
5321
Principles of
Analysis
5360
Intro to
Research in
Math Ed
CRN
15693
12279
13214
Format
Days
Time
Locatio
n
Date
Comments
FTF
TR
06:30 pm-07:50 pm
BELL 130
08/2412/03
Mathematics 5311 is designed to introduce the
student to those areas of mathematics that
are useful in engineering and science. Topics
are chosen from differential equations, Fourier
series, calculus of variations, and theory of
algorithms. The course may be repeated once
as content changes. .
FTF
MW
04:30 pm-05:50 pm
BELL 130A
08/2412/03
Investigation of convergence, continuity,
differentiability, compactness and
connectedness, the Riemann-Stieljes integral,
and sequences of functions.
08/2412/03
An introduction to how to navigate, evaluate,
and synthesize the research literature in
mathematics education (or statistics
education), formulate a compelling and
feasible research question, and conduct a
thorough literature review that can serve as
the basis for a future educational research
study.
FTF
TR
06:30 pm-07:50 pm
BUSN 330
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Mathematics
Course Number
Course Name
CRN
Format
Days
Time
Locatio
n
Date
Comments
5364
Quant.
Research in
Math Ed.
17495
FTF
W
05:00 pm-08:00 pm
BELL 130
08/2412/03
An introduction to the fundamentals of
descriptive and inferential statistics including:
sampling, regression, multiple regressions,
chi-square, analysis of variance,
psychometrics, and the appropriate use of
technology. Additional topics are selected
from: analysis of covariance, logistic
regression, factor analysis, and nonparametric
statistics. Emphasis is on practical usage and
the conceptual understanding of data analysis
and experimental designs that are commonly
used in the research literature for the specific
context of mathematics education or statistics
education.
MATH
5370
Seminar
Fostering
Algebraic
Reasoning
15862
FTF
M
05:00 pm-08:00 pm
PSCI 314
08/2412/03
Various topics not included in regular courses
will be discussed.
MATH
5370
Seminar
16203
FTF
TR
05:00 pm-06:20 pm
BELL 130A
08/2412/03
Various topics not included in regular courses
will be discussed.
MATH
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Political Science
Course
Number
POLS
5300
Course Name
Seminar In Quant
Research
Methods I
5330
SeminarInternational
Politics
5331
Seminar-Intn'l
Organ/Intn'l Law
POLS
5336
SeminarSouthwestern
Border Political
POLS
5339
Sem. Comp. Pol.
Institutions
POLS
POLS
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CRN
14036
Format
FTF
Days
Time
Locatio
n
M
06:00 pm-08:50 pm
LART 403
Date
Comments
08/2412/03
Basic introduction to principles of scientific
inquiry, research design, and quantitative
methodological techniques used in political
analysis.
FTF
T
06:00 pm-08:50 pm
HUDS 300
08/2412/03
Examines the structures and the interactions
that characterize the politics of the
international system. Attention is paid to
various theoretical perspectives of
international relations scholarship and other
topics of world politics.
FTF
T
04:30 pm-07:20 pm
BEND 205
08/2412/03
Focuses on the creation and operation of
international organizations, both state and
non-state based, and on the continuing
evolution of international law.
17418
FTF
R
06:00 pm-08:50 pm
BEND 205
08/2412/03
17420
FTF
W
06:00 pm-08:50 pm
BEND 205
08/2412/03
14446
17419
United States-Mexico relations as they effect
the international frontier, with emphasis upon
political leadership, ethnicity, and institutions.
.
The comparative analysis of political
institutions, such as electoral systems, party
systems, legislatures, judiciaries,
parliamentary vs. presidential systems, crossborder institutions, system of interest
representation, and intergovernmental
relations.
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Sociology
Course
Number
SOCI
SOCI
SOCI
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5311
Course Name
Prof Development
in Sociology
5320
Seminar in
Quantitative
Method
5322
Seminar in
Qualitative
Methods
CRN
14703
14704
14705
Format
FTF
Days
Time
Location
W
06:00 pm-08:50 pm
MAIN 102
Date
Comments
08/2412/03
This course introduces students to major
components of their professional roles as MA
students and MA degree graduates. These
include: (1) developing a professional CV,
surveying the job opportunities for Sociology
MAs, and engaging in a professional job search;
(2) engaging in professional writing, such as
abstracts, peer reviews, job applications,
professional papers, and applied documents;
(3) developing skills at substantive and
constructive criticism, such as peer reviews; (4)
applying social sciences in public and private
sector settings; (5) developing teaching skills,
such as goal setting, syllabus construction,
lecture, and discussion strategies, and
assessment strategies.
FTF
R
06:00 pm-08:50 pm
MAIN 102
08/2412/03
Focus on understanding, interpreting, and
critically evaluating information obtained from
quantitative methods and the sampling
procedures these methods employ, including a
general overview of relevant social science
research methods.
FTF
M
06:00 pm-08:50 pm
MAIN 102
08/2412/03
The field research process from initial proposal
to final report, emphasizing participantobservation and in-depth interview methods
and the analysis of qualitative materials.
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Spanish
Course
Number
SPAN
SPAN
SPAN
5301
5314
5388
Course Name
Critical Approaches
Hispanic Lit
19th Century Span
American Lit
Bilingualism
SPAN
Special Topics
SPAN
CROSSROADS OF
MEDIEVAL SPANISH
LITERATURE &
MODERN CRITIQUE
Special Topics
5303
5303
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NOVELA
ARGENTINA
CRN
12524
17345
17778
12805
18533
Forma
t
Days
Time
Locatio
n
Date
Comments
08/2412/03
Examination of historical and contemporary
literary analysis, techniques, and theories
and their application to Spanish-language
prose, poetry, theater, and essays.
Required of all MA candidates.
08/2412/03
Study of major Spanish-American works of
the nineteenth century exclusive of
Modernism; notably, Neoclassic and
Romantic poetry, Romantic and Realist
narrative, and Gauchesque poetry.
FTF
W
06:00 pm-08:50 pm
CRBL C303
FTF
M
06:00 pm-08:50 pm
CRBL C303
FTF
R
06:00 pm-08:50 pm
CRBL C201
HYBRID/MEETS THURSDAY
ONLY
8 WEEK 1 AUGUST-OCTOBER
08/2410/17
A study of the formal and sociolinguistic
dimensions of bilingualism. Attention to
aspects of languages planning and
linguistics as a contributing factor in the
devising of public policy.
FTF
T
04:30 pm-07:20 pm
HSSN 216
08/2412/03
Examination of a particular area of
Hispanic languages or literature. May be
repeated once for credit as topics change.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
FTF
M
06:00 pm-08:50 pm
CRBL C303
08/2412/03
Examination of a particular area of Hispanic
languages or literature. May be repeated
once for credit as topics change.
Prerequisite: Department approval.
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