An introductory course in the reading of poetry, designed to help students improve their abilities to understand , analyze, enjoy, and exercise critical judgment.
This course examines the emergence of the Internet as a commercial business. It pays particular attention to the various business models and practices employed in media-related enterprises, tracing their development from the late 1990s to the most recent strategies and trends. Case studies include the Internet Service Providers (ISPs), portals, search engines, early game platforms, the Internet presence of traditional media organizations, social network platforms.
Designed to facilitate the student's move into the professional realm of the field of early childhood and special education. Topics include: working collaboratively with families, paraprofessional, and other professionals, advocacy for and with children and families, multicultural curriculum and social justice issues, and the role of observation and instruction.
Have you ever wondered how communication is actually accomplished or who rehabilitates it when it breaks down? This class provides an introduction to the underappreciated processes of speech, language and hearing and the research approaches used to study them. We will also explore disordered communication and the role of the speech-language pathologist and audiologist in facilitating communication. Learn about brain injury, hearing loss, autism, stroke, stuttering, literacy, research methods and more. Discover why communication is an art and a science.
Liberal Arts Core/MAP Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Societies and Social Sciences for non-CSD majors
This course provides a link between teachers' mathematical knowledge and understanding of the major skills and concepts of probability and statistics to the effective and appropriate teaching of these topics in grades 7 through 12.
This course explores the nature and function of higher learning beginning with the Greeks and the ancient academy through the medieval rise of the universities and the expansion of the corporate culture of higher education. Students will be exposed to a vast array of classical works from the fields of philosophy, sociology, economics and the humanities. Student will apply the works of such thinkers as Plato, Kant, Veblen as well as others to ask critical questions about what has shaped their contemporary college experience. Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Texts and Ideas
Course #
HSED-UE 1070
Credits
4
Department
Applied Statistics, Social Science, and Humanities
This course introduces non-majors to theatre as a live and performing art through a variety of experiences including attendance at live performances, readings of play scripts, and theoretical texts, and the creation of original plays. Through lectures, discussions, and written assignments, students will explore the roles of the playwright, actor, director, and designer in the production process, as well as examines the role of the audience in the live performance.
Liberal Arts Core/CORE Equivalent - satisfies the requirement for Expressive Cultures
An introduction to the tools and vocabulary needed for critically engaging with music from a broad range of styles and repertoire in preparation for upper-level courses in the music theory sequence.
Intermediate-level music theory. Courses under this general title provide an introduction to phrase structure, formal analysis, advanced diatonic harmony, basics in chromatic harmony including modulation and tonicization, and advanced topics in rhythm and meter relevant to a particular style of repertoire.
Theory and analysis of popular music. Popular music, defined broadly, includes pop, rock, hip hop, rap, metal, jazz, folk, and musical theater and film repertoire.
Theory and analysis of diatonic common-practice classical repertoire with
an introduction to chromatic harmony and small forms. Topics include phrase
structure, voice leading, sequences, secondary functions, tonicization,
modulation, and advanced topics in rhythm and meter in common-practice
Western music. The course builds on composition and analysis skills
developed in Theory & Practice I, and introduces students to techniques in
four-part contrapuntal writing, arranging, and model composition.
A philosophy underlying informal dramatics, materials for conducting improvised dramatic activities in elementary and secondary education and with adults.Laboratory experience is recommended.
This course introduces students to the intertwined histories of philosophy and the digital, from cybernetics and German Idealism to postmodernism, Machine Learning, and the platform economy. We will read Claude Shannon, George Boole, and Immanuel Kant; John von Neumann, Karl Marx, and Ada Lovelace. While the seminar aspect of the course builds this theoretical-historical understanding of the digital, the lab component will serve as ompetenceoriented
illustrations and live engagements with the theoretical materials. To live in the digital world is to engage both practically and theoretically with the processes and effects of ubiquitous computing. This course thematizes both and cultivates digital citizenry.
This course introduces students to the purposes, theories, & methods of a family of approaches to social science research variously called ethnographic, qualitative, case study, naturalistic, or interpretive. Throughout this course, we will draw on resources in anthropology & sociology to explore issues that are central to understanding the epistemology & methodology of interpretive inquiry. The purposes of this course are to: (a) examine the nature, purposes, theories, & methods of qualitative inquiry; (b) introduce several approaches to qualitative inquiry; & (c) learn how to assess the quality & trustworthiness of qualitative inquiry.
Focus on particular topics allows students to broaden skills and expression. Topics vary from semester to semester and are chosen as a result of both faculty and student interest.
Focus on particular topics allows students to broaden skills and expression. Topics vary from semester to semester and are chosen as a result of both faculty and student interest.
Focus on particular topics allows students to broaden skills and expression. Topics vary from semester to semester and are chosen as a result of both faculty and student interest.
Focus on a particular topic allows students to broaden skills and expression. Past topics have included animation, 3-D modeling, interactive design, digital printing in large format, and advanced PhotoShop. Topics are chosen as a result of faculty and student interest.
