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ENGLIT 0621 - AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0625 - DETECTIVE FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines detective fiction in terms of its history, its social meaning and as a form of philosophizing. It also seeks to reveal the place and values of popular fiction in our lives.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0626 - SCIENCE FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the major ideas, themes, and writers in the development of science fiction as a genre. Discussions will help students to understand and use critical methods for the analysis of science fiction. The topics covered include problems describing and defining the genre, contrasting ideologies in soviet and American science fiction, the roles of women as characters, readers and writers of science fiction, etc.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0690 - LITERATURE OF TERRORISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 1021 - HISTORY OF LITERARY CRITICISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course concentrates on the major developments in the history of literary thought and criticism from Plato to the modern and post-modern developments. The major documents of literary criticism are studied in relation to the contexts- historical, cultural and philosophical—that gave rise to these responses.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1106 - MIDDLE ENGLISH LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The major works of English literature of the 14th and 15th centuries, exclusive of Chaucer, will be read in the original middle English.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1111 - THE RENAISSANCE IN ENGLAND
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A study of the historical background as well as the important social, political, and literary developments in 16th century England. Authors range from More to Spenser to Marlowe.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 of 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1116 - CHAUCER
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course closely examines major works by Chaucer - the Canterbury tales and Troilus and Criseyde. Students will view Chaucer’s work in its historical, social, artistic and intellectual contexts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1129 - ADVANCED SHAKESPEARE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will read several plays in different genres, to be analyzed in class discussion and to serve as the focus of students’ research writing, applying to the plays critical theory, performance theory and practice, and textual analysis. This course assumes a basic familiarity with Shakespeare’s dramatic genres and poetic techniques.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 1130 - 17THC ENGLISH LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A study of important ideas and forms in 17th-century England from Donne through Milton. Emphasis is on Hilton’s, “Paradise Lost.”
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1155 - 18TH CENTURY NOVEL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the literary and historical conditions that gave rise to the development of the novel in 18th-century England.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1175 - 19TH CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A study of the major writers and cultural issues of 19th century Britain situated in relation to the social and intellectual developments of the time.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1200 - AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1860
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys literature produced in America before the Civil War. In the process it explores the historical, political, social and cultural factors that affected the development of that literature. It examines the work of writers who saw themselves as powerful framers of the national experience yet fearful they would have little effects on a culture confronting problems of slavery, divisiveness, literacy, economic change, immigration, etc.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1241 - JANE AUSTEN: BOOKS & FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will cover four of the novels of Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey, Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Emma), and their film and television series equivalents, plus one very recent derivative novel, Helen Fielding’s, “Bridget Jones’s Diary” (and its film version). The point of the course would be to refine students’ sense of how to read both novels and films and simultaneously to sharpen their sense of a historical period in some cultural detail and examine the cultural and aesthetic values of their own post-modern era.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1248 - LITERATURE OF MINORITY WOMEN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Through a close study of literary works by minority women writers of North America, particularly African/Asian American writers, the course intends to help students develop a clear understanding and a critical appreciation of these different ‘strands’ in North American culture.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1252 - 20THC AMERICAN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Examines significant American writings published from 1900 to World War II, specifically American literature’s response to two World Wars, the introduction of narrative experimentation, economic booms and busts, the scientific revolution, political radicalism, the women’s movement, the emergence of ethnic literatures, and the beginning of the nuclear age.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1265 - SCIENCE FICTION AND VIRTUAL WORLDS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A literature course centered on concepts and representations of virtual reality in literature, film, and digital media. Drawing from several bodies of critical theory including game studies and post-humanistic models of subjectivity, the course interrogates the shifting boundaries between the real and the virtual, and it requires students to read, view, and interact with several advanced works of science fiction.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 1294 - FORM AND THEORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced seminar explores the interconnections between the disciplines of literature and creative writing. Students will study the history, criticism, and craft of modern and / or contemporary literary works. Through critical and creative writing assignments, students will engage these texts as both writers and readers.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1301 - 19TH CENTURY NOVEL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Deals with the rise of the English novel of the 19th century. The authors include Austen, Scott, Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, the Brontes, George Eliot, Hardy, and Butler.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1320 - THE 20TH CENTURY NOVEL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A study of the various transformations of the traditional novel in modern British and American fiction. Conrad, Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, Hemingway, and Faulkner are among the writers to be studied.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1326 - THE MODERNIST TRADITION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines major works in the modernist tradition—poetry, fiction, drama—to determine the role these texts have played in creating the world that seems so familiar to us now.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1360 - TOPICS IN 20TH CENTURY LIT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Considers thematic, formal historical or cultural topics in late 19th and 20th century literature. It ties these issues to critical and social concerns in international modernism and post modernism.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1361 - WAR LITERATURE AND ITS DISCONTENTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
War and its discontents is a course focused solely upon the literature that poignantly expresses the perspectives of soldier-authors whose experience in 20th and 21st century wars inspired them to craft novels that loudly protested war. It is a course that will interrogate the way in which war affects individuals, shapes them, radicalizes them, and makes them agents for social, cultural, and political change.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 1362 - WORLD WAR IN 20TH-CENTURY LITERATURE, FILM, AND DIGITAL ARCHIVES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will explore the cultural constructs of World War through the literature and film of the time, and they will use digital archives from England to investigate the unreliability of memory.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 1363 - SPY FICTION IN 20TH-CENTURY LITERATURE, FILM, AND DIGITAL ARCHIVES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will use digital archives from England to explore British and Irish spy fiction and films produced in the 20th century.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 1364 - LONDON IN CURRENT BRITISH FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores writers’ fascination with London in the literature that has been published in the last 15 years. It examines narratives that depict the city’s geography, history, anthropology, representation, and both its “psychogeography” and the relative modern multi-media fracturing of its utopian and dystopian narratives.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGLIT 1365 - CONTEM AMERICAN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Explores works that represent the defining literary movements of American literature from 1950 to the present, including post-Hiroshima realism, postmodernism, post humanism, cyber-realism, and post-postmodernism. Offers historical perspective on post-war American intellectual culture by examining the era’s defining theoretical/literary models.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1381 - WORLD LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines contemporary literature, primarily in English, written in eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, etc. It pays particular attention to its depiction of social, political and moral concerns.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1500 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
To be arranged in consultation with instructor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1553 - HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A survey of the linguistic development of English from Anglo-Saxon times to the present. Attention given to basic linguistic structures and discursive practices and to the social and historical conditions under which they change.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1630 - THE AMERICAN DREAM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An interdisciplinary examination of the American dream of success and the myth of the self-made individual.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1647 - LITERATURE FOR ADOLESCENTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will read classics as well as modern works written specifically for an adolescent audience. We will also read and discuss sociological and psychological constructions of adolescents and books on pedagogy.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1701 - TOPICS IN WOMEN’S STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Investigates issues raised by the woman’s movement in literature written by and about women. It ties these issues to critical and cultural concerns both at the time the text was written and to the present day.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1704 - WOMEN NOVELISTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the important role women have played in the development of the novel and how they have used and transformed its generic traditions. We will place novels in the contexts of issues important to their own time and discuss questions raised by recent feminist criticism.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1830 - FILM AS LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An in-depth study of film as literature, primarily dealing with objectively observing and evaluating the film experience. In alternating offerings the course may deal with directorial studies, mileu, genres, and literature into-film studies.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGLIT 1912 - SENIOR SEMINAR
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Intensive study of a single topic or figure that assumes previous work in related literary, historical, and critical areas. Each seminar moves toward a final paper that integrates earlier literary study with the specific critical perspective developed in this course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 or 0020 or ENG 0102
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ENGWRT 0050 - INTRO TO CREATIVE WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course offers students an introductory study of the written arts. Through the close reading of modern and contemporary texts and guided experimentation in a variety of genres (e.g. Poetry, fiction, drama, and creative nonfiction), students will examine, explore, and discuss the creative process.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006
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ENGWRT 0053 - INTRO TO PROFESSIONAL WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to several forms of professional writing, such as review and profile writing, public relations and marketing writing, and writing for the web. Students will compose, revise, and edit their own texts and also read and study “real world” examples of professional writing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006
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ENGWRT 0500 - CREATIVE NONFICTION WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the art and practice of creative nonfiction prose, including personal essay, memoir, and literary journalism. Students will explore the unique possibilities of the genre by reading and studying modern and contemporary authors, and composing and revising a variety of creative writing assignments.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006
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ENGWRT 0511 - WRITING FOR DIGITAL MEDIA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This intermediate writing course will teach students writing strategies for online media across a range of professional fields such as business and technology, journalism, public relations and marketing, and creative writing. Students will analyze the particular needs of digital media, inluding blogs, hypertext websites, social media, and collaborative media (e.g. Wikis), and then apply that knowledge to shaping clear, concise prose for a digital audience.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or ENGCMP 0006
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ENGWRT 0521 - FICTION WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to aspects of prose fiction - plot, point of view, characterization, conflict, etc. Students may write exercises on these aspects of fiction, or write one or more short stories and revise frequently. Students will also read representative stories and explore their use of particular fictional techniques.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006
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ENGWRT 0531 - POETRY WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Through writing exercises, close and extensive reading of modern and contemporary poetry, and intense revision of their own poetry, students will be introduced to the forms, elements, and techniques of poetry writing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006
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ENGWRT 0541 - PLAYWRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A beginning course in writing for the stage. Starting with short scenes, students will work towards understanding the craft and art of constructing theatre stories to be performed by actors. The final project will be a one-act play. Throughout there will be emphasis on the stage effectiveness of the writing and opportunity for informal performance of student scripts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006
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ENGWRT 0570 - DIGITAL POETRY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will read, critique, and experience poems by published authors who employ innovative media and forms. Students will also craft their own digital poems.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGWRT 1000 - ADV CREATV NONFICTION WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An advanced writing course designed to hone creative nonfiction writing skills through extensive writing, workshop style peer critiques, and in-depth reading. Several of the subgenres of creative nonfiction will be studied and practiced: memoir, personal essay, nature writing, travel writing, science writing, biographical profile, and historical incident. Accurate description, scenic representation, and narrative framing will be among the technical devices considered.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0050 OR 0053 OR 0500
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ENGWRT 1011 - DIGITAL STORYTELLING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An advanced creative and professional writing course on the nature and value of storytelling and the ways in which storytelling is changing in the digital era. Students compose narratives in a variety of multimedia formats, including digital images, audio and video recording, and hypermedia.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006 and ENGWRT 0050 or 0053
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ENGWRT 1021 - ADVANCED FICTION WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course assumes students know the basics of fiction. Students work on writing short stories and read a wide range of stories. Students can expect to revise their work regularly. Class sessions will address problems in fiction writing - from plot to characterization, from point-of-view to style.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0050 or 0053 or 0521
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ENGWRT 1031 - ADVANCED POETRY WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This upper level poetry writing course offers students who have mastered fundamental skills and who are familiar with basic issues of craft and form a workshop environment in which to compose and revise a significant group of poems. The course will include the close reading and study of some important works of modern and contemporary poetry.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0050 or 0531
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ENGWRT 1048 - NARRATIVE NONFICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This advanced writing course will provide students with an in-depth study of long-form, research-driven nonfiction writing through rigorous exercises, workshop-style peer critiques, and in-depth reading and analysis. Students will explore a variety of approaches to nonfiction subjects of their choosing for high-end magazine markets in print and online.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0050 or ENGWRT 0053 or ENGWRT 0500
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ENGWRT 1052 - WRITING INTERACTIVE NARRATIVES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A creative writing course that introduces students to the non-linear, non-hierarchical narrative models endemic to the digital environment. After studying interactive digital works, students will practice their own interactive storytelling, including learning the basic coding required to compose hypertext narratives as well as collaborative work on game development.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGWRT 1130 - GRAMMAR, USAGE, AND STYLE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Reviews essential grammatical principles traditionally and historically, including punctuation.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006
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ENGWRT 1140 - DIGITAL MAGAZINE PRODUCTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
After rigorous study of landmark print and online magazines, students will produce solo magazines and then work in an editorial team to build a single online magazine.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Workshop
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0050 or 0053 or 0511
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ENGWRT 1192 - TECHNICAL WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Prepares students to deal with problems of technological communication in various fields. Includes analysis, development, use and evaluation of various models employed in the process of technical writing.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0004 or 0006
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ENGWRT 1294 - FORM AND THEORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An advanced writing seminar designed to focus on matters of interest unique to the written arts. Specific topics will change from year to year, but assigned texts, class discussion, and student writing will deal with modern and contemporary issued of form and theory from the writers’ point of view.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0050 or 0053
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ENGWRT 1700 - ADVANCED SEMINAR IN WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This seminar provides a capstone experience for English writing majors and students intensely committed to writing. It is assumed that students come to the seminar having taken a fairly broad range of both English writing and literature courses. Students will complete an original manuscript in a genre of their choice (e.g. poetry, fiction, drama, creative nonfiction). Manuscripts will be evaluated by an approved outside reader as well as the instructor. Class hours will be devoted to workshop critiques and discussing contemporary issues of form and theory related to the written arts.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0050 or 0053; PLAN: Writing major or minor; LVL: Junior or Senior
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ENGWRT 1902 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
This option permits students to design their own course with the approval of a department faculty member. Students must submit a proposal to the faculty member.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGWRT 0050 or 0053
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ENGWRT 1950 - PROFESSIONAL WRITING INTERNSHIP
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 6
This course will allow qualified students majoring in English writing to work under an employer’s supervision while developing and completing tasks relevant to their eventual professional employment. In an internship, students could write in any number of forms (memos, letters, reports, web pages, press releases, etc.) And would devote at least 50% of their time to drafting, revising, and finalizing various documents for an employer. In addition, students will write a final report for the coordinator of professional writing in which they describe and assess their internship experience. Students must have junior or senior standing and a 3.0 Grade point average to be eligible.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
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ENTR 1680 - ENTREPRENEURS IDEA LAB
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed as a pragmatic approach to converting a new idea into a new venture. Students are led through a step-by-step process of developing an idea in context with a beachhead market so that it will be commercially viable. Students will present new ideas, select the best and work on the strongest innovations for presentation to local entrepreneurs at the end of the course. Local business experts and business owners will mentor students during the course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENTR 1685 - ENTREPRENEURS TOOLKIT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will provide students with knowledge of important tools and skills required for entrepreneurial success, including finding investors or financing; developing a leadership team; managing risk and change; legal considerations and protecting proprietary information; cash flow tracking; ethics; and exit strategies.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENTR 1686 - ENTREPRENEURS FIELD CAMP
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students will complete 150 hours in a local start-up, small business, or established company learning and applying skills in business planning, market research, product development, website development or social media marketing, investor or finance solicitation and planning, or business accounting.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENVSTD 0100 - INTRO TO ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Survey of environmental concepts and principles. Students evaluate contemporary environmental issues as they relate to the quality of life. Environmental topics are used to develop analytical skills. The natural and social (environ mental) consequences of population growth, food supply demands, pollution, and resource exploitation are discussed.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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ENVSTD 1700 - SENIOR SEMNR IN ENVIRON STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
The student undertakes a critical examination of the problems and issues associated with a particular dimension of environmental policy or environmental management, culminating in a final paper.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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FIN 0300 - PRINCIPLES OF FINANCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Focuses on how companies make investment and financing decisions, including capital formation and resource allocation. The concepts of time-value of money, security valuation, capital budgeting, and the tradeoff between risk and expected return are also introduced. Cost of capital, financial leverage, and capital structure policies are also presented.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ACCT 0115
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FIN 1270 - FINANCIAL REPORTING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Discussion of current issues in the financial reporting environment. Course reviews reporting for revenue and expenses, assets, liabilities and compensation in terms of current rules and practices, and examines aspects of the regulatory structure and applicable legislative-based reforms. Course coverage is applicable for accounting and non-accounting majors.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ACCT 0115 and FIN 0300
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FIN 1310 - INVESTMENTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Provides an understanding of the process of evaluating and selecting investments. Discusses investment techniques, vehicles, and strategies emphasizing the risk-return tradeoffs. The operations of securities markets are explained and investments in equities, fixed income securities, and other outlets are discussed. The course also familiarizes students with published financial data.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FIN 0300
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FIN 1315 - PERSONAL FINANCIAL PLANNING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduction and overview of personal financial planning. Topics include financial planning, managing assets, credit, insurance, investments and retirement and estate planning.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FIN 0300
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FIN 1320 - BANKING & FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A descriptive and theoretical examination of how the banking industry operates. Analyzes the role of banks and banking in the financial sector and the constraints under which they operate. Examines asset and liability management strategies and the organization of the banking function.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FIN 0300
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FIN 1330 - FINANCIAL STATEMENT ANALYSIS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course views financial statement analysis as an integral part of economic and financial decision theories with emphasis on the use of analytical techniques to predict corporate earnings, growth, and failure. Topics include credit and risk evaluation, profitability analysis, financial statement component analysis, and financial statement forecasting.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FIN 0300
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FIN 1355 - FINANCIAL MODELING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Covers the theory and practice of corporate finance. Topics include stock and bond valuation, fundamentals of risk management, financial analysis and planning and the techniques of short term financial management.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FIN 0300; CREQ: STAT 1040
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FIN 1356 - INTERMEDIATE FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Analyzes long term decision making for the firm. The course will investigate various techniques in capital budgeting. An emphasis on the impact on shareholder wealth will be stressed. Additional topics include the analysis of cost of capital and capital structure issues. Dividend policy will be presented as it impacts share value and financing. The course will use spreadsheet analysis models for case work.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FIN 0300 and STAT 1040; CREQ: FIN 1310
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FIN 1360 - ADVANCED TOPICS IN FINANCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Intensive study of one or more areas of finance.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FIN 0300 and FIN 1310
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FIN 1365 - FINANCE SPECIAL TOPICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Detailed analysis of a particular topic not covered by regularly scheduled courses.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FIN 0300 and FIN 1310
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FIN 1370 - PORTFOLIO THEORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The economics of pricing in the securities, options, commodities, and foreign exchange markets. Covers speculation and the nature of financial markets.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FIN 1310
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FIN 1379 - ENTREPRENEURIAL SEM IN FINANCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 6
Provides participants with real-life experience in researching and preparing business plans. Following formal training in small business marketing, strategy and finance, students are assigned to work with selected entrepreneurs. By the end of the seminar, a written business plan will have been prepared which will serve as an internal guide to operations and/or be submitted to local lending institutions.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
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FIN 1380 - DERIVATIVES AND ALTERNATIVE INVESTMENTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An overview of derivative securities and their use in corporate strategy and risk management, this course employs quantitative methods to analyze, design, price and use derivative instruments in a managerial context. Basic derivative contracts such as forward, futures, options and swaps are covered, as well as the pricing of these claims, arbitrage, and hedging in these markets. Students apply the analytical models to real-life situations through case studies.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Grad LG/SU3 Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FIN 0300 and FIN 1310
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FIN 1480 - FINANCE DIRECTED READING
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
The student undertakes a specified course of study, comparable in content to a special topics course, under the direct supervision of a faculty member.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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FIN 1482 - FINANCE DIRECTED RESEARCH
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
The student undertakes a defined task of research on campus under the supervision of a faculty member of an appropriate department, and in which the fruits of the research are embodied in a thesis, extended paper, laboratory report, or other appropriate form.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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FIN 1483 - FINANCE INDEPENDENT STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
The student undertakes, under specific conditions, an independent program of study, research, or creative activity usually off-campus and with less immediate and frequent guidance from the sponsoring faculty member than is typically provided in directed reading and directed research courses.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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FIN 1486 - FINANCE INTERNSHIP 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A beginning-level internship experience in which students provide technical expertise in finance to business, industry, government, or nonprofit organizations. Academic credits are proportioned on the basis of approximately 10 hours per week per term equal to 3 credits. Placements are arranged by the coordinator and supervised by a faculty member in finance. Students must write and present an extensive analysis of the internship experience.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
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FIN 1487 - FINANCE INTERNSHIP 2
Minimum Credits: 6
Maximum Credits: 6
An advanced internship experience in which students provide technical expertise in finance to business, industry, government, or nonprofit organizations. Academic credits are proportioned on the basis of approximately 10 hours per week per term equal to 3 credits. Placements are arranged by the coordinator and supervised by a faculty member in finance. Students must write and present an extensive analysis of the internship experience.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
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FA 0015 - HISTORY OF WESTERN ART 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introductory survey course that explores the major accomplishments in Western art (painting, sculpture, architecture, and the minor arts) from prehistory to the arrival of the Black Death. A strongly interdisciplinary approach is taken, one that considers how religious, political, economic and social conditions affected the creation of art.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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FA 0016 - HISTORY OF WESTERN ART 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introductory survey course that explores the major accomplishments in Western art (painting, sculpture, architecture, and the minor arts) from the Renaissance through the modern era. A strongly interdisciplinary approach is taken, one that considers how religious, political, economic and social conditions affected the creation of art. It is not necessary to have taken FA 0015 History of Western Art 1 before taking this course.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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FA 0031 - MODERN ART
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A period survey that examines the most influential art styles of the 19th and 20th centuries. The complex relationship between art movements and the societal conditions that affected the creation and meaning of this art is examined through readings, class discussion and visual/contextual analysis. Writing skills are emphasized.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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FA 0040 - INTRODUCTION TO ARCHITECTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introductory-level course that explores the structural, functional and aesthetic developments in architecture from the Neolithic age through the present day, focusing on major monuments as examples of how societal conditions helped shaped their design and meaning.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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FA 0050 - MEDIEVAL ART
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A period survey that examines the art and architecture of the European Middle Ages, beginning with the emergence and legalization of Christianity in the late Roman empire and ending with the arrival of the Black Death. Particular attention is paid to the evolution of Christian imagery as it relates to historical and theological developments over time, as well as the structural, functional and aesthetic characteristics of individual monuments. Writing skills are emphasized.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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FA 0054 - ART LOOTING AND DESTRUCTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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FA 0080 - WORLD RELIGIOUS ARCHITECTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introductory-level course that examines a rich variety of the world’s major religious buildings and complexes, focusing particular attention on understanding structural, functional and aesthetic characteristics of individual monuments. Societal conditions and religious beliefs that affected their design and meaning are examined through readings, discussion and visual/contextual analysis.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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FA 0150 - ANCIENT ART
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines in full or in part the artistic and cultural traditions of the ancient world, including the ancient near east, Egypt, the Aegean, Greece and Rome. Religious, literary and political documents are analyzed to better understand the form and function of ancient sculpture, painting and architecture.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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FA 0304 - RENAISSANCE ART
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the art and architecture created in Italy and in Northern Europe during the 15th and 16th centuries. Focus is placed on defining the term “renaissance,” as well as exploring the major artists, patrons and cultural centers of the period. Historical events, pertinent literary and philosophical sources, and religious figures are explored to contextualize the work of great masters such as Giotto, Masaccio, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Michelangelo, Titian and Palladio.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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FA 0351 - BAROQUE ART
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The Protestant reformation brought about not only a strong Catholic counter-reformation, but also entirely new economic and social conditions under which art and architecture thrived in 17th and 18th century Italy, Spain, Flanders, Holland, France and England. In this course we closely examine how societal conditions affected the creation, type, subject matter and meaning of this art, through readings, classroom discussion and visual/contextual analysis.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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FA 0440 - FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A comprehensive study of master architect Frank Lloyd Wright, this course carefully investigates his life, his career and his far-reaching beliefs on a number of topics. All of his major structures and creative periods are examined, including those buildings and projects Wright undertook in the Pittsburgh region, especially the world-famous Kaufmann House, Fallingwater. In addition, a broader discussion of modern architectural movements and relevant architects will be undertaken in order help students contextualize Wright’s ideas and achievements. Writing skills are emphasized.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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FA 0450 - TWENTIETH CENTURY ARCHITECTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course closely examines the development of architectural styles and building technologies from the late nineteenth century to the present. This is accomplished by thoroughly investigating (through assigned readings, classroom discussion and visual/contextual analysis) individual architects and their significant structures, as well as the relationship between the built-environment and societal conditions.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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FA 0521 - AMERICAN PAINTING 19TH CENTURY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the major movements, artists and cultural issues in the development of nineteenth century American painting. Chronologically or thematically this course addresses portraiture, landscape, still-life, genre and history painting, up to the 1913 Armory Show.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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FA 0621 - ART OF CHINA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces students to the rich artistic and cultural traditions of Asia, particularly China, but also India and Japan. Singular monuments of great importance receive intensive study, such as the Great Stupa at Sanchi, Taj Mahal, Angkor Wat, the Forbidden City and the Ise Grand Shrine. Other major topics include Chinese bronze ritual object, Hindu architecture, Chinese scroll painting and Japanese prints.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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FA 1170 - FA INTERNSHIP
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 12
Supervised internship working for a museum, arts organization or other relevant entity, arranged in consultation with instructor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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FA 1902 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Independent reading and research to be arranged in consultation with instructor.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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FDSED 0001 - HIST/PHIL OF ED: AMER EMPHSS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
American education is studied from a historical, cultural and philosophical perspective. Students will develop their philosophy of education, cultivate skills that enable them to analyze educational issues, and enhance their learning through local school classroom observations and reflective laboratory activity.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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FDSED 0002 - INTRODUCTION TO EDUCATION
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
This course is designed to help all first-time; full-time students develop the knowledge and skills to transition successfully to college life and prepare for a career in education. Students are provided with fundamental instruction in the development of critical thinking and analytical skills and will explore academic success strategies, as well as online learning and the University library. This course will assist students with major and career exploration in the field of education and provide an extended orientation to University resources and campus life.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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FDSED 1170 - TRENDS AND ISSUES IN EDUCATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A course in which the students and the instructor determine a collection of various contemporary topics including trends and issues in the field of education. Students are expected to research various topics. The topics are analyzed, encouraging various points of view. The course is designed to expand prospective educator’s professional knowledge by providing them sufficient background for understanding how critical issues impact teaching and learning and the profession, in general.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: FDSED 0001
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FDSED 1171 - EDUCATIONAL LAW, POLICY, AND ETHICAL LEADERSHIP
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to provide candidates with an overview and examination of laws and policies that govern K-12 education systems. Candidates will engage in an analysis of current trends in education, the roles of federal and local authorities, and issues of equitable educational opportunities for diverse communities. Lastly, candidates will develop a framework for the establishment and maintenance of professional relationships and networks with school/district personnel, related service providers and for ethical leadership practices governing one’s role as a professional educator.
Academic Career: Undergraduate
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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