This course introduces freshman students to poets with intrinsic literary merit. In addition to broadening the student’s understanding and appreciation of literature, the chief aim of the course is to develop the student’s critical thinking and analysis and to encourage original responses to literary expression in well-developed oral and written criticism.
Co-requisite: ENGL 210.
This course introduces literature through works of fiction, poetry, and drama. It introduces students to the pleasures of reading literature and to interpretative approaches to literature. It aims to provide students with competence in critical thinking and practice in close reading and analysis, knowledge of the formal characteristics of each genre, and appreciation of literary excellence. Readings include a variety of short stories, poems, and plays selected from a wide range of British, American, and World literature.
Students study Shakespeare's representative comedies, histories, and tragedies in this course. The plays are read intensively and understood in the context of the period's theatrical conventions, the culture of play in early modern England, and the social, cultural, religious, and intellectual history of the period.
This broad survey course provides a narrative of British history from 1066, including political, social, and cultural developments.
This is an elective course whose major objectives are to familiarize students with contemporary issues to enhance their level from historical and cultural points of view.
This course examines the ties between Europe and the Middle East in the 19th and 20th centuries, focusing on the reaction of Middle Eastern societies to European intervention and influence.
This elective course aims to familiarize students with various events that shaped the evolution of social and economic developments in the Middle East to enhance their level from the historical and economic dimensions.
This is a study of some major topics in philosophy. The course emphasizes theory of knowledge, theory of mind, determinism and free will, and morality and ethical values. Along with some assigned readings, students will watch movies, the analysis of which will help them comprehend the content of the course better.
This course is a standard introduction to the formal techniques of argument analysis. Formal logic was invented to mirror and evaluate mathematical reasoning; however, this course will concentrate on the relationship between formal logic and everyday reasoning and language usage in general.
People often wonder about what makes good ways to live and the right ways to act. They also speculate about the best way of life, what action is right, and what authority moral claims have over us. The course introduces students to the major moral theories and thinkers addressing these questions.
This course introduces contemporary philosophical thinking on ethical issues in business. Students will be exposed to important ethical issues they might face, asked to give sound ethical judgment to problems they might face in their line of work, helped become armed with a set of codes that will prepare them to confront and resolve ethical dilemmas they might encounter at work, and enabled to apply the techniques for analyzing and resolving ethical problems when they arise.
This course introduces students to peace building and conflict prevention by examining the main theories on peace and security. It examines the ideas of Thucydides, Aristotle, Erasmus Grotius, Kant, Gandhi, and other thinkers who believed that the whole peace was of high value. It develops students’ critical skills and understanding necessary to translate their academic learning to specific practical situations, such as those posed by peace building either with the UN, governments, or NGOs. It helps understand the complex and interconnected challenges to peace and provides knowledge to meet them.
Venture and innovation opportunities; concept and strategy; the Technopreneur; planning; resource acquisition and organization; financing, marketing and sustainability of enterprise. Prerequisite: ENGR 300. Annually.
This course focuses on the analysis and design of systems control. Measure control system performance; Transient and steady-state response analyses; Topics include analytical solutions analysis in time, and S domain, root locus, Bode, Nyquist, Lead Lag controller design, and PID compensator design are covered, Analysis and design control systems in state space. Control system analysis and design using MATLAB and SIMULINK; set up a control system and understand and optimize its performance;
Prerequisites: MECA 340. Annually.
This course focuses on the basic concepts of finite element methods; formulating shape functions and basic structural elements equations; modeling and analysis of 1-D, 2-D, and 3-D structural analysis and heat transfer problems; finite element modeling and analysis using MATLAB and ANSYS.
Prerequisites: MECH 320 and MATH 421. Annually.
This course covers Free Vibrations, Vibrations with Damping, Harmonically Excited Vibrations, Complex N Degree-of-Freedom Systems, Continuous Vibrations, Fundamentals of Sound Waves and Acoustics in addition to Basic Machinery Vibration.
Prerequisite: MECA 340. Annually.
A team-oriented project includes conducting and formulating experimental laboratory work and design problems on a specific approved specialty topic. The project includes a literature review and scope of work as well as project proposal.
Prerequisite: Senior Standing, ENGL 217. Annually.
A team-oriented project includes conducting and formulating experimental laboratory work and design problems on a specific approved specialty topic. The project includes a literature review, design work, data collection, experimentation, data analysis, and technical writing.
Prerequisite: MECH 595A. Annually.
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