Courses

Fundamentals of environmental engineering as they apply to the construction of the built environment and contemporary issues faced by engineers in developing nations such as Egypt. Topics include air pollution, solid waste management, water treatment, environmental ethics, etc.

Introduction to interdisciplinary aspects of engineering careers; work engineers perform in their field; engineering practice within realistic constraints, e.g., economic, environmental, ethical, health and safety, and sustainability; engineering design process; effective communication in engineering settings. Must be taken on a satisfactory/unsatisfactory basis.

An introduction to the study of language (linguistics) and to the history and development of the English language. The course also surveys current language controversies such as sexism, religious language, politics and advertising, free speech, bilingual education and approaches to the teaching of English in schools.

An introduction to the history and development of the English language combined with a consideration of related topics: grammar, dialects, linguistics.

A history of the British novel, with readings of, and reports on, novelists of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.

Period course in the poetry, prose and drama of England in the 16th century.

Students survey the major works of the Romantic Movement in England, focusing

A comparative study of outstanding figures in the literature and philosophy of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, including such writers as Voltaire, Diderot, Rousseau, Vico, Hume, Gibbon, and Lessing.

An exploration of the movement that dominated intellectual and cultural developments in 18th century Europe, seen within its broader political, social, and economic context.

The European Enlightenment was an intellectual and cultural movement in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries that emphasized the importance of reasoned, open-eyed investigations into nature and human society. Stimulated by the Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment philosophes prized skepticism and decried superstition and unquestioned faith. They are often credited with providing a theoretical basis for the American and French Revolutions.