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2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin [Archived Bulletin]
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CJFS 3750 - Theories of Criminal Behavior
Goal: The objectives for this course are for students to understand the causes of crime and why individuals commit crimes.
Content: The focus of this course are theories of crime and of criminal behavior and the contexts (individual and societal characteristics, family, and neighborhood) associated with crime and offending.
Taught: Fall and spring
Prerequisites: CJFS 1120 with a grade of C- or better; one course in statistics is recommended (CJFS 1140, MATH 1200, PSY 1340, or QMBE 1310)
Credits: 4
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CJFS 3780 - International Crime and Justice
Goals: Introduce students to both the rates and definitions of crime and administration of justice from a global perspective.
Content: This course presents an introduction to crime and criminal justice systems in a global perspective. We compare crime and criminal justice in the United States to countries around the world to understand the interconnections between culture, politics, crime, and the administration of justice. Beyond this, we focus on inherently international (and contentious) issues in criminal justice including globalization, terrorism, drug trafficking, war crimes, human rights, and the International Criminal Court (ICC).
Prerequisite: CJFS 1120 or LGST 1110 or SOC 1110, or instructor permission
Note: Students seeking a major in political science are invited to explore the content of this course with the professor for enrollment.
Credits: 4
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CJFS 5400 - Forensic Science Seminar
Goals: To foster awareness and recognition of: the professional responsibilities of forensic scientists that go beyond the examination of physical evidence; and legal and scientific challenges to the interpretation of physical evidence examinations.
Content: To investigate issues that affect the practice of forensic science in the US, such as: challenges to the scientific basis and reliability of forensic science disciplines and techniques; key legal rulings on the admissibility of scientific evidence; laboratory accreditation and professional certification; ethics; and expert testimony.
Taught: Annually, spring
Prerequisites: CJFS 3400 and 12 credits in forensic science courses
Credits: Credits: 4
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CJFS 5660 - Senior Capstone and Internship in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Goals: To reflect and summarize the CCJ major experience. To enable students to pursue internships and explore the connections between criminal justice knowledge and skills and experiences in professional workplace settings.
Content: A reflection and culmination of the CCJ major experience. Also a transition from Hamline to career. An exploration and application of criminology and criminal justice concepts to professional workplace practice; independent research projects and frequent on-campus seminars are designed to connect academic and internship experiences.
Taught: Fall and spring
Prerequisites: CJFS 1140, CJFS 3750, and senior standing
Note: The internship must be completed concurrently with the course. Students should contact the instructor well in advance of the beginning of the semester to discuss their internship placement site to assure prompt commencement of the internship.
Credits: 4
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CJFS 5790 - Crime Policy Evaluation
Goals: The goal for this course is to cover “hot topic” crime programs and policies from a practitioner and research perspective. This course will be both writing and speaking intensive. By the end of the course, students will be able to describe and evaluate both the justification for use and efficacy of special criminal justice and crime policies using the crime policy evaluation hierarchy.
Content: Topics covered include, but are not limited to: Supermax prisons, juvenile waiver and transfer laws, drug policy, sex offender laws, and prisoner reentry initiatives.
Taught: Every other year
Prerequisites: CJFS 1120, CJFS 1140, CJFS 3750, and junior or senior standing, or instructor permission
Credits: 4
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COMM 1100 - Introduction to Communication Studies
Goals: To introduce students to the field of communication studies by providing an overview of approaches to studying communication in a variety of contexts.
Content: An examination of the research and theory related to the dynamics of human communication. The process of attributing and sharing meaning, the effects of nonverbal behavior on interpretation and meaning attribution, the factors influencing interpersonal, small group, organizational, intercultural, and media in the digital age.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 4
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COMM 1110 - Public Speaking
Goals: To help students gain real-life skills in speaking in public, gain confidence, and enhance their ability to deliver oral presentations; to help students achieve the ability to undertake the research process, reason, and effectively identify what needs to be said in a given situation as well as the best way to say it; to practice the skills of critical listening, critical analysis of arguments, and effective advocacy that can enable students to become more engaged in effective and ethical public discourse.
Content: Theories of communication in public settings; factors influencing message creation, construction, and interpretation; utilizing research and evidence in creating effective arguments; adaptation to the communication situation and audience; addressing the diversity of values and viewpoints held by audience members; ethical issues in public communication; factors influencing effective delivery; stagefright.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 4
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COMM 1320 - Introduction to Critical Media Studies
Goals: To introduce students to conceptual frameworks of critical media studies; to create savvy media consumers by teaching them to understand forces behind media institutions that influence the ways they create messages; to learn to construct and express oral arguments pertaining to media issues more effectively and more academically.
Content: New media and old media, media theory, communications infrastructure, media ownership, media impact, media policy and law, media ethics.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 4
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COMM 1650 - Argumentation and Advocacy
Goals: To study argumentation theories, including historical perspectives and current approaches; to understand arguments as a method of inquiry and advocacy, and as a problem-solving tool; to consider the ethical implications of formal and informal argument; to increase skills in critical thinking, in evaluation of evidence and reasoning, in developing strategies for the invention of persuasive argument, in evaluating formal and informal argument, and in justifying argumentation choices. To learn to construct and express oral arguments effectively in a public setting.
Content: Analysis of theories and strategies of argumentation; application of principles and theories of argumentation; emphasis on critical assessment of argumentation in a variety of contexts and media.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 4
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COMM 3300 - Communication Research Methods
Goals: To introduce a range of research methods used in studying communication; to develop an understanding of the purposes of communication research; to learn how to design a research project; to identify strengths and limitations of various research methods; to develop an appreciation of ethical issues in research.
Content: Various types of research methods, both qualitative and quantitative, such as experimental research, survey research, ethnographic research, textual analysis, content analysis, historical/critical research.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: COMM 1100 or consent of the instructor
Note: This course must be completed by the end of the junior year to be eligible for departmental honors. It is also a prerequisite for the Senior Research Seminar (COMM 5900).
Credits: 4
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COMM 3320 - Media in the Digital Age
Goals: To develop a capacity for strategic thinking and understanding of the creation, dissemination, consumption, and impact of mass media messages in the digital age.
Content: Analysis of theoretical approaches to studying and understanding traditional and convergent mass media messages in the digital age. The course examines historical development, current trends in media and communication technology as well as legal and ethical issues that affect individuals, society, democracy and a global community.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: COMM 1100 or COMM 1320, acceptance into the international journalism certificate program, or consent of the instructor
Credits: 4
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COMM 3360 - Interpersonal Communication
Goals: To help students understand more about the ways communication functions in individual face-to-face interactions, including factors that influence interpretation, relationship development, and conflict managements. Students have opportunities to examine their own individual communication interaction patterns in interpersonal situations.
Content: Examination of communication and self-image, impression management, self-disclosure, verbal and nonverbal codes, listening, relationship development and maintenance, conflict in face-to-face situations, interpersonal interaction and social media, analysis of communication interactions. Attention is given to theoretical as well as practical applications.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisites: None
Credits: 4
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COMM 3370 - Family Communication
Goals: To introduce students to a wide variety of theories that attempt to describe, explain, and analyze the different kinds of issues and interpersonal dynamics in the field of family communication; to become familiar with the ways that research is conducted in family communication and to gain an understanding of the results of that research.
Content: Theories of family communication. Interpretative, quantitative, and critical approaches to doing research in the field of family communication. Spousal, sibling, and parent/child communication patterns. Cultural differences in family functioning and family communication. Conflict management in families. Changes in family dynamics over the lifespan of a family. Single parent families, stepfamilies, blended families, and gay and lesbian families. Communication patterns in families with adopted children and biracial children. Families dealing with crisis.
Taught: Alternate years
Prerequisite: None
Credits: 4
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COMM 3380 - Small Group Communication
Goals: To provide real-life experience in small task-oriented groups in order to examine communication interaction in small groups and teams; to gain an understanding of how group interactions and processes are influenced by communication, and how group interactions and processes in turn affect communication patterns; to gain an understanding of task issues as well as interpersonal relationships in groups and teams, and how communication affects both; to provide opportunities to examine individual communication interaction patterns.
Content: Theories of communication as it functions in teams and small groups; problem-solving processes; phases of small-group interaction; development of norms, roles, group cohesiveness, climate, productivity, and leadership; analysis of the impact of power, status, conflict, and conformity on small-group and team interaction; pragmatic skills related to group presentations; methods to enhance group productivity.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: COMM 1100 or junior/senior standing
Credits: 4
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COMM 3390 - Organizational Communication
Goals: To introduce the role of communication in organizational settings, with particular emphasis upon examining organizational dynamics as communication processes; to introduce classic and contemporary organizational communication theoretical approaches; to gain skills in applying theoretical concepts to the investigation of communication issues in actual organizations; to examine processes of organizational communication, including culture, socialization, leadership, technological processes, and diversity management processes.
Content: Organizational communication theories, approaches, perspectives, functions, and structures; organizational culture; communication processes in organizations; methods for conducting research in organizational settings.
Taught: Annually
Credits: 4
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COMM 3420 - Media in Global Perspective
Goals: To help students gain a theoretical and practical perspective on global mass media systems, both as national and international purveyors of information and culture. To examine and critically analyze the factors influencing media operations and content, including foreign policy, transnational media corporations, global civil society movement and digital media technology.
Content: Examination of social, cultural, political, technical, regulatory, economic, and linguistic factors that influence media systems around the world; examination of foreign policy, transnational media corporations, global civil society movement and digital media technology; analysis of national laws, ethics, and norms in relation to media systems, including patterns of import and export of media products, analysis of the relationship between media and culture.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisites: COMM 1100 or COMM 1320 or consent of the instructor or the director of the international journalism certificate program
Credits: 4
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COMM 3460 - Intercultural Communication
Goals: To study the nature of communication as it is affected by cultural and co-cultural variables; to become familiar with philosophies and approaches to the study of communication and diversity; to experience dynamics of intercultural communication; to examine the relationship between culture and perception, thought, language, and behavior; to examine how culture influences and plays a role in public and private communication interactions (e.g., interpersonal relationships, communication in small-group and organizational settings, argumentation, mass communication).
Content: Philosophies and theories of intercultural communication; application of concepts and issues to actual experiences; discussion of the influence of culture on all aspects of communication; emphasis is on understanding the relationship of culture to communicative practices and meaning systems.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: COMM 1100 strongly recommended
Credits: 4
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COMM 3480 - Media and Global Environmental Conflicts
Goals: This course examines the role news and popular media (e.g. advertising, micro-marketing, social networking such as web 2.0) play in setting agenda and constructing meanings of various issues in global environmental discourse. The students will learn to expand understanding in how language and image shape human perception about the natural world; to critically examine the structures and implications of environmental representation; to analyze the ways in which environmental issues are framed by different media; and to understand the complex relationship between economic development that fosters consumer culture and the environment.
Content: The course is presented in the forms of both theoretical analysis and practical media writing. The coursework involves general reading and discussion on different stages of world development, social change, environmental impacts, and the global politics of sustainable development with a central focus on how mass media make meanings of these issues.
Note: Student evaluation is based on class participation, discussion, examinations, essays and the student’s weblog production.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: COMM 1100 or COMM 1320
Credits: 4
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COMM 3560 - Communication in Conflict Situations
Goals: To learn about the dynamics of communication interaction in conflict situations; to explore approaches to dealing with conflict, including examining the strengths and weaknesses associated with communication styles, tactics, strategies, uses and expressions of power, the impact of “face,” the impact of culture, and framing; to become familiar with and examine the role of third-party intervention; to develop greater awareness of the consequences associated with one’s own communicative choices in conflict situations.
Content: The role that communication plays in conflict situations, the general principles of communication in conflict, including the way communities develop and share symbolic world views that may come into conflict with those held by different communities. Examination of approaches to dealing with conflicts, such as problem resolution approaches, mediation, and negotiation strategies. Students will apply the theoretical perspectives to individual interpersonal conflict situations as well as to contemporary societal conflicts.
Taught: Alternate years
Prerequisite: None
Credits: 4
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COMM 3630 - Persuasion
Goals: To develop insight into the role of strategic communication in advocating ideas, establishing identification, and influencing policy and people; to learn how to analyze the components of strategic communication and persuasive campaigns in a variety of fields; to apply rhetorical and persuasion theory in creating, analyzing, and critically examining strategic messages.
Content: The diverse purposes of strategic communication and the influence of communication environments on strategic communicative choices. Discussion of attitude and behavioral change as influenced by symbolic processes. Critical analysis of persuasive messages and campaigns. How to undertake research and planning in developing communication approaches to a variety of situations.
Taught: Alternate years
Prerequisite: COMM 1100 or COMM 1650, or consent of the instructor
Credits: 4
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COMM 3639 - Persuasive Cases and Campaigns
Goals: In this course we use a rhetorical perspective to investigate the relevance of campaigns and messaging in civil, democratic societies. The course familiarizes students with the practice of campaigning and building cases by groups, institutions, and corporations. Students will explore the properties of public campaigns, and they will practice varied critical approaches used by communication theorists studying campaigns. Students will be challenged to critically consume public relations messages, and they will be asked to practice the skills associated with excellent public campaigning.
Content: This course explores theoretical understandings of how media figures, individuals, politicians, government organizations, nonprofits, corporations, and other organizations communicate with public audiences. Students will investigate how messages are tailored to fit campaigns, political ideologies, corporate frameworks, and institutional goals. The class will examine the history of public relations, the ethical questions associated with campaigns and messages, and critical issues in public campaigning. Students will encounter various theoretical approaches from the rhetorical, critical and excellence models. Students will analyze historical cases and discuss the role of public relations in civil society.
Taught: Alternate years
Prerequisite: COMM 1650 is recommended
Credits: 4
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COMM 3670 - Gender, Communication, and Knowledge
Goals: To increase awareness of the relationship of communication and gender; the portrayal of gender in public discourse; the influence of gender socialization in developing communicative behaviors and interpretive frames; and the implications of societal response to communication as it relates to gender.
Content: Examination of research into gender differences and communication; examination of public messages as they influence perceptions of women and men; analysis of historical processes as they have influenced current perceptions of gender.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: COMM 1100 or WSTD 1010 strongly recommended
Credits: 4
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COMM 3960 - Field Experience Seminar
Goals: To support and strengthen the academic component of internships and field experiences.
Content: A focus on the workplace experience in the context of the liberal arts and communication research findings.
Taught: Periodically
Prerequisite: Consent of the instructor
Note: All planning and paperwork for internship placement must be completed in the fall term preceding the spring internship. See departmental guidelines.
Credits: 4
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COMM 5650 - Western Rhetorical Theory
Goals: To gain an understanding of how Western theorists have attempted to explain communication processes, in particular how public communication has been studied, explained, taught, and criticized. To examine the ways in which these theoretical approaches have influenced current thinking about the kinds of communications and voices that are considered legitimate, dismissed or discounted and why that might happen. To consider the implications of these perspectives and limitations on what is taken to be knowledge.
Content: Theories of public communication from the sophists and philosophers of ancient Greece and Rome, through the Medieval period, Renaissance and the Enlightenment, to contemporary times. Emphasis is on understanding how ideas about communication evolved over time, the implications of these perspectives for those who do not have power in society as well as for those who do, and the application of these ideas in the world of today.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: None, but junior/senior standing is recommended
Credits: 4
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COMM 5900 - Senior Research Seminar
Goals: To synthesize prior learning in the communication studies discipline through a senior capstone experience; to explore significant issues in communication studies through intensive individual research.
Content: Individual students will engage in and present the results of major independent research projects that apply the knowledge and skills they have gained in the discipline. The seminar affords an opportunity for students to pursue individual interests in communication studies in depth.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisites: COMM 1100, COMM 3300, completion of at least 32 credits in the major, senior standing, and consent of the instructor
Note: Course is restricted to senior majors only.
Credits: 4
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CSCI 1250 - Introduction to Computer Science
Goals: To help students develop greater precision in their algorithmic thinking by writing moderate-sized programs for a variety of applications, including but not limited to biology, chemistry, economics, literary studies, and mathematics.
Content: Students will learn the fundamentals of computer programming (loop structures, if-else statements, Boolean expressions, and arrays) to solve problems from different disciplines. A short introduction to object-oriented programming is also given. This course is taught using C++.
Prerequisite: High school algebra
Credits: 4
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CSCI 1500 - Introduction to Databases
Goals: To understand the basics of designing, implementing, and using a database management system; to understand the difference among the three basic types of database systems: relational, hierarchical and network; to learn to use a commercially available database management system. In past years, this course has been taught using Microsoft Access.
Content: Theoretical foundations of databases, query languages such as SQL, hands-on experience implementing a relational database.
Taught: Periodically
Credits: 4
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CSCI 3150 - Data Structures
Goals: The student will start from a basic knowledge of programming acquired in CSCI 1250 and further that knowledge by a study of recursion, pointers, and common programming structures needed for implementation of larger and more complex programs.
Content: Linked lists, stacks, queues, sets, trees, graphs.
Prerequisite: CSCI 1250
Credits: 4
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CSCI 5850 - Numerical Analysis
Crosslisted
See MATH 5850.
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DMA 1100 - Introduction to Digital Media Arts
Goals: To outfit students with a conceptual and technical foundation for making digital media art.
Content: This course positions digital media arts as the interdisciplinary intersection of art and media. Combining hands-on projects with readings and discussions, students will consider key concepts of new media and question the impact of these media on contemporary culture through creative production. Students will spend the semester studying and developing art projects in a range of digital forms: web pages, raster images, motion graphics, 3d images and prints, and interactive games.
Taught: Annually, fall and spring
Credits: 4
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DMA 1120 - Fundamentals of Design
Goals: To enable students to apply basic formal principles of visual design in the creation and analysis of simple 2d digital media projects. Enable students to apply design thinking strategies to develop an effective work process in design.
Content: Through a series of hands-on projects utilizing a variety of materials and methods, this course introduces students to the fundamental concepts of visual design: picture plane, figure/ground relationships, scale and proportions, pattern, composition, value, color, methods for conveying time and spatial illusion. In addition to introducing formal design strategies, the course examines issues of content and the historical/cultural context in which works of art are produced.
Taught: Fall and Spring semesters
Credits: 4
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DMA 1410 - Digital Photography I
Crosslisted
(Also listed as ART 1900)
Goals: To develop fundamental abilities in photography including mastering technical vocabulary, understanding of the photographic process, managing digital files, basic photo editing and adjustment, printing techniques.
Content: Technical vocabulary and required skills, parts of the camera, understanding camera controls and options, framing a shot, shooting successfully in different conditions. Participants will also gain knowledge of the history of the development of photography and practice in analyzing and critiquing photographic images.
Taught: Annually, fall and spring
Note: Students with extensive experience in Digital Photography should contact the Department for a portfolio review to see if their work qualifies them for a 3000 level photography course.
Credits: 4
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DMA 1420 - Introduction to Digital Video
Goals: To enable students to develop an informed and personal approach to making digital video art. To master contemporary production techniques. To develop and refine perceptive, expressive and critical skills.
Content: This course is a hands-on workshop in the fundamentals of using digital video as an expressive time-based medium. By solving a series of creative challenges students will learn the basic properties of video form and master rudimentary technical skills required to shoot, edit, and finish HD video.
Taught: Annually
Note: Students with extensive video production experience should contact the Department for a portfolio review to see if their work qualifies them for a 3000 level video course.
Credits: 4
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DMA 1450 - Introduction to Graphic Design
Goals: To develop basic skill sets and fundamental conceptual frameworks for both creating and analyzing graphic communications across a variety of communication uses.
Content: The course covers the process of research, ideation, digital concept development and final execution to deliver design solutions that follow rules and trends found in the study of graphic design. Students will study how a page/screen is “read” by a viewer, theories of design and emerging trends in graphic communication.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: DMA 1120
Credits: 4
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DMA 1460 - Web Design
Goals: To develop basic technical skills and conceptual framework for creating engaging web sites using HTML and CSS.
Content: Web Design is a project-based course covering an overview of internet operations, hand-coding pages with HTML5/CSS3, utilizing an editor, optimizing media for web use, managing site materials, applying visual design principles to web products, analyzing interactive design and usability. Students spend the semester building a web site with industry standard tools.
Taught: Annually
Credits: 4
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DMA 1470 - Introduction to Animation
Goals: To develop basic skills in the creation of animated characters and environments sufficient to sustain a short narrative. To develop the critical and technical skills necessary to form and evaluate animated work for its abilities to sustain a narrative and/or critically communicate to an intended audience.
Content: An overview of the development of digital animation as an artist’s tool, work flow processes in animation design and realization, software options and uses for digital animation, storyboard creation and constructing an animation sequence. Students will be working on a number of animation projects during the semester.
Taught: Every year
Credits: 4
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DMA 1480 - Introduction to Digital Audio
Goals: To develop basic skills in the creation and critical analysis of digital audio production and playback.
Content: The course provides basic skills in both field and studio audio recording techniques. Technical content includes operation of sound boards, microphone selection and placement, working with both spoken word and musical performances in live settings, and editing techniques and practices. The course also includes units on critical analysis of sound production, copyright issues, and the development of audio recording.
Taught: Annually
Credits: 4
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DMA 3410 - Digital Photography II
Crosslisted
(Also listed as ART 3900)
Goals: To build on the skills developed in DMA 1410 through more advanced camera operations, enhanced editing work (including Photoshop), understanding of the advantages and disadvantages of different file formats, advance printing and image manipulation work.
Content: Camera control in manual operations under different conditions, managing technically complex shots, effectively using lenses and filters. Image adjustment in Photoshop. History of recent developments in digital photography. Tutorials in analyzing and critiquing photographic work.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisites: DMA 1410 or approval of instructor based on portfolio review
Credits: 4
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DMA 3420 - Advanced Video Production
Goals: Building on the fundamentals learned in Introduction to Digital Video, students will develop advanced and emerging video production techniques to create work that is targeted towards understanding and developing specialized contemporary forms.
Content: Advanced video production techniques will be realized through hands-on video projects geared towards a specialized topic. Students will learn the history and theory of the video production topic at hand and apply that knowledge to contemporary practices.
Taught: Once per year, alternating semesters
Prerequisites: DMA 1420 or approval of instructor based on portfolio review. DMA 1480 is strongly recommended.
Credits: 4
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DMA 3450 - Advanced Graphic Design
Goals: To build project development skills: idea generation, sketching, refinement, project planning and timely completion of projects. To refine graphic design software skills, develop the ability to evaluate design using advanced principles and proper industry vocabulary. To extend knowledge of the historical influence on design.
Content: This is a studio-based project course in which students utilize their knowledge of design, typography, and production techniques to produce a portfolio of designed artifacts. The course combines seminar, critiques and lab production. It includes extensive development of design skills through critiques, practice articulating design concepts through peer evaluation, the application of effective design strategies and the study and discussion of design history.
Taught: Alternate years
Prerequisite: DMA 1450
Credits: 4
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DMA 3460 - Advanced Web Design
Goals: To enable students to integrate Javascript, HTML, CSS for control of visual appearance and interactivity of web pages and apply basic principles of interactive design.
Content: This is a project-based course in which students learn to harness the full power of HTML5 through the integration of three web technologies: HTML, CSS and Javascript. By building highly interactive web experiences, students learn the fundamentals of controlling visual appearance of the web page through JavaScript programming. In addition, the course explores the basic principles of interactive design.
Taught: Alternate Years
Prerequisite: DMA 1460
Credits: 4
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DMA 3480 - Advanced Digital Audio
Goals: To teach the technical and analytical skills required to produce clean and well-balanced audio from live or pre-recorded sources. To learn how to mix a number of independent sources into a well-balanced composite for live feed or for recordings, whether music or spoken word.
Content: This is a theory to practice course that includes microphone selection and placement, understanding audio flow and manipulation, recording and mixing using a digital workstation, mixer board set-up and signal amplification.
Taught: Alternate years
Prerequisite: DMA 1480
Credits: 4
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DMA 5910 - Digital Media Arts Senior Seminar I
Goals: To integrate core formal principles, technical skills and critical analysis of digital media in the proposal and design of a senior project and to develop an effective work process for independent creation.
Content: This is the first part of the two semester capstone sequence in the Digital Media Arts major. In this course each student synthesizes technical and critical learning in the discipline toward the proposal and development of a major media art project. Students will spend two semesters working closely with faculty to develop a project from initial concept to final exhibition.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisites: Open to DMA majors only. DMA 1100 and the completion of a significant part of the course work for the major.
Credits: 2
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DMA 5920 - Digital Media Arts Senior Seminar II
Goals: To integrate core formal principles, technical skills and critical analysis of digital media in the completion of a senior project and to present and reflect upon that work.
Content: This is the second part of the two semester capstone sequence in the Digital Media Arts major. In this course each student synthesizes technical and critical learning in the discipline through the realization of a major media art project and its exhibition. On completion of the project, students compose a reflective analysis of the realized project and discuss their work with a faculty committee.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: DMA 5910
Credits: 2
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ECON 1310 - Microeconomic Analysis
Goals: To introduce students to theory relating to the economic decisions made by individual consumers and firms in a market economy and to examine the role of government in domestic and international markets.
Content: The topic of this course, deals in depth with choices, especially consumer behavior and the spending decisions, the production decisions of the business firm and how prices and wages are determined in the output and input markets. In addition, this course analyzes consumer and business behavior under various competitive and imperfect conditions, as well as the implications of these for society. We will also study the ramifications of various government policies, predicting the effects of those policies, both positive and negative, on market participants using events and situations in the world.
Credits: 4
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ECON 1320 - Macroeconomic Analysis
Goals: To acquaint students with the structural framework and principles involved in the determination of the level of aggregate economic activity: national income, output, employment, money supply and demand, price levels and open economy macroeconomics.
Content: Analysis of problems of unemployment, inflation, economic growth, trade, money and credit, balance of payments and government policy.
Credits: 4
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ECON 1500 - Methods and Modeling for Economics, Finance, and Analytics
Goals: To understand the basic modelling and methods essential for undergraduate students of economics or other quantitative business-oriented disciplines.
Content: Preparation for students to structure and analyze quantitative problems, providing the mathematical foundation for future study of econometrics, economic theory, or other upper-level analytics topics. Main topics include linear equations, matrices, and nonlinear optimization.
Credits: 4
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ECON 3110 - Intermediate Microeconomics
Goals: To deepen students’ understanding of microeconomic theory, building on the foundation they received in Microeconomic Analysis. Students will learn how to express, analyze, and interpret models of individual behavior using graphical, algebraic and calculus-based methods.
Content: This course will examine theories of consumer and producer behavior in a variety of economic contexts. Optimization techniques, graphical analysis, and game theory methodology will be used to explore allocation decisions made inside households, firms or governmental units.
Prerequisites: ECON 1310, ECON 1320, QMBE 1310 or PSY 1340 or MATH 1200, and MATH 1170 (grade of C- or better required for all courses), or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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ECON 3120 - Intermediate Macroeconomics
Goals: To understand and apply methods used in economics to analyze the gross domestic product, inflation, money supply and demand, employment levels, exchange rates and economic growth.
Content: The course explores theories that explain the behavior of GDP and related variables. Keynesian, monetarist, and other models are studied.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisites: ECON 1310, ECON 1320, QMBE 1310 or PSY 1340 or MATH 1200, and MATH 1170 (grade of C- or better required for all courses), or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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ECON 3710 - Labor Economics
Goals: To provide students a well-balanced presentation of models of labor economics, applications, policies, and major analytic areas within labor economics. This course will also address labor market issues with race and gender perspectives.
Content: Labor market analysis, labor unions and collective bargaining, government and the labor market, theories of labor market discrimination, wage differentials, poverty and income inequalities, and race and gender issues of the labor market.
Prerequisites: ECON 1310; ECON 1320; and QMBE 1310 or PSY 1340 or MATH 1200 (grade of C- or better required for all courses) or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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ECON 3720 - International Economic Development
Goals: To gain understanding of the problems and issues of economic development and to examine and appraise the major prevailing approaches to those problems.
Content: Developing as well as high-income market economy perspectives; concepts of growth and development; major contemporary approaches; diversity among the Third World countries; dualism; cultural factors; population, labor, migration and education; poverty and inequality; strategies for investment and structural transformations; international trade, investment and development; planning, control, and macroeconomic policies.
Prerequisites: ECON 1310; ECON 1320; QMBE 1310 or PSY 1340 or MATH 1200; and QMBE 1320 or MATH 1170 (grade of C- or better required for all courses), or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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ECON 3730 - International Trade and Finance
Goals: To acquaint students with the evolving patterns of trade and investments in the global economic environment and with the major issues confronting national and international institutions of trade and finance.
Content: Topics covered include theories of foreign trade with perfect and imperfect competition. Trade policy issues, protectionism, and U.S. trade policies and its institutional settings. The effects of growth and factor mobility on trade, balance of payments, foreign exchange markets, foreign exchange regimes, foreign exchange determination, and economic policy in open economy.
Prerequisites: ECON 1310, ECON 1320, QMBE 1310 or PSY 1340 or MATH 1200, and QMBE 1320 or MATH 1170 (grade of C- or better required for all courses), or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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ECON 3740 - Economics of Public Finance
Goals: To study the theoretical and empirical issues surrounding governmental decisions. Students will analyze and debate public finance topics and examine the implications of policy options for society.
Content: This course focuses on governmental revenues, expenditures, debt-financing and related policy decisions. Effects of the budget and policy on income distribution, stabilization, efficiency and economic growth are also considered.
Prerequisites: ECON 1310 and ECON 1320 (grades of C- or better) or consent of the instructor
Credits: 4
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ECON 3750 - Behavioral and Experimental Economics
Goals: To broaden the students’ understanding of economic theory by incorporating knowledge from other social sciences and by expanding traditional economic models to better understand and predict human behavior.
Content: Evidence suggests that human beings often do not behave according to the strict rational-actor assumptions inherent in traditional economic theory. This new and growing field of economics seeks to improve our ability to predict and understand phenomena including altruism, trust, reciprocity, and loss-aversion. The course will incorporate economics experiments and game theory methods to examine human behavior. These concepts will be applied to a wide range of contexts, from consumer or investor behavior to health care, dating, and procrastination.
Taught: Alternate years
Prerequisites: ECON 1310; ECON 1320; and Statistics (QMBE 1310, or PSY 1340, or MATH 1200); grade of C- or better required for all courses, or consent of the instructor
Credits: 4
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ECON 3770 - Environmental Economics
Goals: To introduce students to the study of environmental issues and resource use, applying economic perspectives and tools.
Content: This course examines various environmental issues (e.g., pollution, climate change, energy sources) from an economic perspective. Topics include market failures, challenges of economic development, resource management and allocation, and public policy options. Particular attention is paid to cost-benefit analysis, as it is applied to environmental problems.
Prerequisite: ECON 1310; ECON 1320; QMBE 1310, or PSY 1340, or MATH 1200 (grade of C- or better required for all courses), or consent of the instructor
Credits: 4
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ECON 3860 - Junior Seminar in Economics
Goals: To prepare students for the Senior Seminar in Economics, where they will complete an independent research project with theoretical and empirical components.
Content: This course will guide the students through the development of an independent research proposal, including literature review, hypothesis construction and model development. Students will create a written proposal and deliver presentations.
Prerequisite: ECON 3110 or ECON 3120 (grades of C- or better) or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 2
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ECON 3960 - Internship with Seminar
Goals: To provide an opportunity to apply students’ skills and knowledge in a working/learning context. To complement internships by providing discussion groups for sharing and crosschecking students’ experiences.
Content: Students must hold an internship and will also meet once a week as a group to articulate and assess their experiences.
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing, or consent of the instructor. Primarily intended for economics and management majors, but other majors with administrative internships are welcome.
Credits: 2
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ECON 5820 - Econometrics
Goals: To enable students to understand and use economic indicators, time series, and regression analysis in model building and forecasting.
Content: Estimating model parameters, hypothesis testing, and interpreting economic data.
Prerequisites: ECON 1310; ECON 1320; QMBE 1310 or PSY 1340 or MATH 1200; ECON 3110 or ECON 3120; and MATH 1170 (grade of C- or better required for all courses), or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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ECON 5860 - Senior Seminar Economics
Goals: To develop and test economic models through in-depth, independent research in theoretical and applied economics.
Content: Research methodology and recent analytical and theoretical approaches to questions on topics such as the environment, health care, industrial organization, international economics, labor, money and banking, regional and urban economics, and welfare economics. Students choose a research topic, review the literature, construct a theoretical model, and collect and analyze data for final presentations.
Prerequisites: ECON 3110, ECON 3120, and ECON 5820 (grade of C- or better required for all courses), or consent of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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EDU 1150 - LAB: Schools and Society
A 0-credit course lab during which students complete a 20-hour required clinical in a local school. Students who have transferred in the equivalent course content without clinical experience should see the Program Coordinator to enroll in a 1-credit Independent Study to earn the course equivalency.
Taught: Fall and spring terms
Corequisite: This lab must be taken concurrently with EDU 1150 - Schools and Society.
Credits: The lab itself has zero credit value.
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EDU 1150 - Schools and Society
Goals: To understand the profession of teaching from historical, philosophical, sociological, and practical viewpoints. To understand the development of our public school systems and the role schools can play in a pluralistic society such as the U.S.
Content: Important events and personalities that have shaped the public school system in the United States; theories of education; the major professional and political issues facing teachers, students, and parents, especially as related to standards and testing; school-based classroom observation and teacher assistance.
Taught: Fall and Spring terms
Co-requisite: EDU 1150 - LAB: Schools and Society
Notes:
Students enroll in a 0-credit course lab during which students complete a 20-hour required clinical in a local school. Students who transfer in the equivalent of the course content without clinical experiences should see the Program Coordinator to enroll in a 1-credit Independent Study to earn the course equivalent
Concurrent registration in EDU 1250 - Educational Psychology if pursuing teaching license.
Credits: 4
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EDU 1250 - Educational Psychology
Goals: To develop a working knowledge of various principles and theories based in the discipline of psychology, for example, theories of cognitive, social, and emotional development and the practical application of these principles and theories to the teaching/learning process.
Content: Survey theories of learning, motivation, and intelligence; theories of cognitive, social, and emotional development; and, influences of social and cultural background on development and learning. Learn about assessment and evaluation and the theoretical bases for instructional models. Conduct a case study analysis of a K-12 student.
Taught: Fall and spring terms
Note: Concurrent registration in EDU 1150 - Schools and Society if pursuing a teaching license.
Credits: 4
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EDU 3500 - LAB: Diversity and Education
A 0-credit lab during which students will complete a 20-hour required clinical in a local school. Students who have transferred in the equivalent course content without clinical experience should see the Program Coordinator to enroll in a 1-credit Independent Study to earn the course equivalency.
Taught: Fall and spring terms
Co-requisite: This lab must be taken concurrently with EDU 3500 - Diversity and Education
Credits: The lab itself has zero credit value.
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EDU 3660 - Crucial Issues in Education
Goals: To research and critically examine a particular set of issues connected with the profession of education.
Content: Topics will vary from year to year. Recent topics have included education and the media, immigrant and refugee students in U.S. schools, the achievement gap, educational policy.
Taught: Winter term
Credits: 4
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ENG 1100 - English for International Students
Goals: As preparation for ENG 1110 the course will help international students develop the writing skills necessary for college-level course work.
Content: Focus on writing and rewriting with an emphasis on the particular needs of non-native speakers of English.
Taught: Annually.
Credits: 4
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ENG 1110 - Writing and Reading Texts
Goals: To develop critical writing, reading, and thinking skills needed in academic courses in order to achieve greater effectiveness and analysis in writing. To understand the dynamic relationship between language and culture and to begin to explore how one is shaped by language and shapes the world through language.
Content: Critically reading a variety of literary, nonliterary, and visual texts and developing research skills for providing cultural, social, political, and historical contexts. Frequent writing and rewriting in a variety of genres, at least one of which includes research strategies and incorporation of sources. Focus on the elements of successful written communication, including invention, purpose, audience, organization, grammar, and conventions.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: None. Required of all first-year students. Open to others with permission of the department. ENG 1110 does not apply to the English major but instead counts toward a student’s breadth of study.
Credits: 4
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ENG 1210 - British Literatures to 1789
Goals: To survey British literature to 1789 in its cultural and intellectual contexts.
Content: Selected works by such authors as Geoffrey Chaucer, Margery Kempe, Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, John Donne, John Milton, Andrew Marvell, and Jonathan Swift.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or its equivalent, or concurrent registration.
Credits: 4
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ENG 1220 - British Literatures after 1789
Goals: To survey British literature after 1789 in its cultural and intellectual contexts.
Content: Selected works by authors such as Mary Wollstonecraft, William Wordsworth, Jane Austen, Robert Browning, Oscar Wilde, Virginia Woolf, and Tom Stoppard.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or its equivalent, or concurrent registration.
Credits: 4
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ENG 1230 - American Literatures to 1860
Goals: To survey American literature to 1860 in its cultural and intellectual contexts.
Content: Literary forms such as sermon, oral narrative, autobiography, journals, essays, poetry, and fiction. Possible authors and texts: Native American poetry and tales, Cabeza de Vaca, Mary Rowlandson, Sor Juana, Benjamin Franklin, William Apess, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Frederick Douglass, Emily Dickinson, and Walt Whitman.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or its equivalent, or concurrent registration.
Credits: 4
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ENG 1240 - American Literatures after 1860
Goals: To survey American literature from about 1860 to the present in its cultural and intellectual contexts.
Content: Literary forms such as the novel, poetry, and drama that develop themes such as the rise of the city, changing social and personal values, industrialism, and individual alienation. Possible authors: Mark Twain, Kate Chopin, Langston Hughes, William Faulkner, Adrienne Rich, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Maxine Hong Kingston.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or its equivalent, or concurrent registration.
Credits: 4
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ENG 1250 - World Literatures
Goals: To survey literatures of the world in their cultural and intellectual contexts.
Content: Selections and emphasis will vary from semester to semester. Students will gain understanding of literary forms such as the novel, drama, poetry, and essay in different cultural contexts. Typical topics for discussion may include the cross-cultural comparison of forms, colonial and postcolonial experiences, and the effects of globalization.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or its equivalent, or concurrent registration.
Credits: 4
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ENG 1270 - African-American Literatures
Goals: To survey African-American literary tradition as influenced by oral and written forms of expression. To heighten the student’s awareness of the particularity of African-American cultural expression as well as its connections with mainstream American writing.
Content: Selections of texts may vary from semester to semester. Typically, the course will survey prose, poetry, and drama from the 18th to the 20th centuries. Selected works by such authors as Phillis Wheatley, David Walker, Frederick Douglass, Frances Harper, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Jean Toomer, Sterling Brown, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Toni Morrison, Lorraine Hansberry, and Alice Childress.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or its equivalent, or concurrent registration.
Credits: 4
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ENG 1800 - Introduction to Professional Writing and Rhetoric
Goals: To have students understand fundamental principles of rhetorical theory and how they can be applied – analytically, ethically, and/or persuasively – in a variety of organizational frameworks and in the production of common genres of professional communication, including memos and reports, job letters, policy documents, and public relations.
Content: Using readings in rhetorical theory and case studies in professional communication, the course will focus on the ethical, technological, legal, and pragmatic elements of producing professional writing in various genres and media and for diverse audiences and purposes.
Taught: Annually in fall and spring semesters.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing and ENG 1110 or FSEM 1020.
Note: ENG 1800 is required in the English major with a concentration in professional writing and in the professional writing minor. ENG 1800 replaces one of the two required survey (12XX) courses for the professional writing concentration and serves as the required survey course for the professional writing minor. ENG 1800 may count as one of the two required survey courses (12XX) in the English major and the English major with a concentration in creative writing, but it may not be taken as the required survey course in the English or creative writing minors.
Credits: 4
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ENG 1900 - Introduction to Literature and Criticism
Goals: To introduce readers to a critical relationship with literary form that is the foundation of the discipline of English. The course investigates literature and writing as a site of cultural production and consumption, leading to a self-reflexive development of critical thinking through the close reading of texts in different genres. Students acquire critical terminology and practice interpretive strategies.
Content: Close reading of and writing about selected works from various cultures, genres, and periods.
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 (may be taken concurrently)
Credits: 4
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ENG 3020 - Literary and Cultural Theory
Goals: To introduce students to theoretical approaches to texts and to the practical applications of literary theory. Students should take this gateway course in the sophomore year in conjunction with declaring a major/minor. This course builds on the learning experiences introduced in 1110, the surveys, and ENG 1900: Introduction to Literature and Criticism and prepares students for success in 3000-level writing and literature courses and the senior seminar. Required for many 3000-level courses.
Content: Reading and discussing representative 20th-century critical approaches to the study and understanding of written texts and producing analytical essays that apply critical methods to selected texts.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: One survey course (ENG 1210, 1220, 1230, 1240, 1250, or 1270) completed. While in rare cases ENG 3020 may be taken concurrently with ENG 1900, It is strongly recommended that ENG 1900 be completed first. Not recommended for first-year students. Nonmajors and nonminors need the permission of the instructor.
Credits: 4
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ENG 3100 - Introduction to African-American Studies
Crosslisted
Also listed as PHIL 3100.
Goals: To develop an understanding of several key issues in African American Studies emphasizing close textual reading and analysis. Additionally, students participate in academic service learning to synthesize textual and experiential learning.
Content: The course materials will focus on critical readings about construction of race as a concept; intersections of race, class and gender; afrocentrism; pan-africanism; diasporic connections; nationalism; religious dimension; literary theory and popular culture.
Prerequisite: Sophomore standing or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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ENG 3190 - Introduction to Linguistics
Goals: To examine the scientific study of language and language analysis.
Content: Analysis of language in terms of phonetics and phonology (sounds), morphology (word formation), semantics (the meaning system), syntax (sentences and their structure), and language change. Discussion of the relationship between language and neurology, psychology, society, and culture.
Taught: Alternate years.
Prerequisites: ENG 1110 or equivalent; ENG 3020 recommended.
Credits: 4
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ENG 3320 - Fundamentals of Journalism
Goals: To develop skills in writing for mass media.
Content: Techniques and practice of news, feature, and interpretive reporting combined with reading and discussion of principles and ethics of journalism.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or equivalent.
Credits: 4
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ENG 3330 - Special Topics in Journalism
Goals: To explore special topics in news reporting and writing.
Content: Build on basic writing techniques and formats with concentration on interviewing, fact gathering, editing, and design. Exposure to print, broadcast, or online media. Topics vary. Check section title and description.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or equivalent. ENG 3320 is recommended.
A student may register for this course more than once for different topics.
Credits: 4
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ENG 3340 - Organizational Writing
Goals: To develop strategies for writing in organizations.
Content: Focus on inter- and intra-organizational correspondence, proposals, and reports, with emphasis on the principles and techniques for writing in for profit and non-profit organizations—business, government, and industry.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: ENG 1110 or equivalent. Senior status recommended.
Credits: 4
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ENG 3370 - Topics in Professional Writing
Goals: An intensive study in a particular area of professional writing.
Content: Based upon the principles and practices of professional writing and communication, this course requires that students write for multiple, complex audiences and purposes. Topics vary. Check section title and description. Examples include “research and report writing,” “writing for new media” and “professional and technical writing.”
Taught: Annually
Prerequisite: ENG 1800 or ENG 1900 (formerly 3010) or instructor permission
Note: A student may register for this course more than once for different topics
Credits: 4
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ENG 3450 - Studies in Literatures Across Cultures
Goals: A critical study of a specific topic in world literature.
Content: Intensive analysis of texts in their cultural contexts. Topics vary from year to year. Recent examples: passages to India, the empire writes back, Harlem renaissance, pan-African oratory, 20th-century Irish literature.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ENG 1900 (formerly 3010); ENG 3020 strongly recommended.
A student may register for this course more than once for different topics.
Credits: 4
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ENG 3510 - Studies in a Single Author
Goals: A critical study of a specific author.
Content: Intensive analysis of texts in their cultural contexts. Topics vary from year to year. Examples include Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Edmund Spenser, John Milton.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ENG 1900 (formerly 3010); ENG 3020 strongly recommended.
A student may register for this course more than once for different topics.
Credits: 4
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ENG 3530 - Studies in British Literatures
Goals: A critical study of a specific topic in British literature.
Content: Intensive analysis of texts in their cultural contexts. Topics vary from year to year. Recent examples: medieval lowlife, Arthurian legends, Renaissance drama, Romantic poetry, Victorian novel, modernism, contemporary novel.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: ENG 1900 (formerly 3010) and ENG 3020 (may be taken concurrently).
A student may register for this course more than once for different topics.
Credits: 4
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ENG 3540 - Studies in American Literatures
Goals: A critical study of a specific topic or period in American literature.
Content: Intensive analysis of texts in their cultural contexts. Topics vary from year to year. Recent examples: American Literature of Landscape and Nature; Walt Whitman and Modern American Poetry; Beats, Bop, and the Status Quo; Comedy and Postmodernism; Women’s Bildungsroman and Kunstlerroman; Science and Literature.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisites: ENG 1900 (formerly 3010) and ENG 3020 (may be taken concurrently).
A student may register for this course more than once for different topics.
Credits: 4
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ENG 3570 - Women and Literature
Goals: To understand women writers’ representations in literature by closely examining their work in historical and cultural contexts through the theory and practice of feminist criticism.
Content: Focus varies. Recent examples: writers of color, wandering women, black women writers.
Taught: Annually.
Prerequisite: ENG 1900 (fomerly 3010) or WSTD 1010 or GLOB 1910.
A student may register for this class more than once for different topics.
Credits: 4
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ENG 3710 - Critical Digital Media Theory
Goals: To have students intervene in current scholarly debates on how digital media has transformed, or should transform, our conceptions of politics, communication, art, law, and life.
Content: Whatever 21st century technologies – or human reactions to them – are most scandalous or interesting when the class meets, which are studied via current scholarship in the digital humanities, drawing primarily from the traditions of rhetoric, media, and cultural theory.
Taught: Once per year.
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or its equivalent.
Credits: 4
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ENG 3720 - Teaching Writing: Theory and Practice
Goals: To learn a range of theories of how writing works and how it is best learned, to apply these theories to develop informed writing processes and teaching practices, and to hone advanced skills in expository and argumentative writing and research.
Content: Theories of composition and writing pedagogy.
Taught: Annually in spring semester
Prerequisite: ENG 1110 or its equivalent
Credits: 4
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ENG 5960 - Senior Seminar
Goals: This course provides the capstone experience in the major. The goal of this course is to practice and polish previously learned skills and experiences to produce an analysis of literary texts of article length and quality. This essay marks the student’s entrance into the profession as a participant in an on-going and dynamic conversation about specific works and the discipline as a whole.
Content: Varies from year to year. Recent examples: Twice-Told Tales; Salman Rushdie and Transnationalism; There is No Place Like Home: Literature of Exile; Slavery, Women and the Literary Imagination; Narratives of National Trauma; Propaganda and the Literature of Commitment; 20th Century Drama; Hard-Boiled Fiction; Hawthorne and “a Mob of Scribbling Women”; Renaissance Self-Fashioning; American Melancholy: Readings of Race, Sexuality and Performance Culture.
Taught: Three senior seminars are offered each year.
Prerequisites: ENG 3020 and at least one 3000-level literature course and consent of instructor. Grade of C- or better required for said courses.
Credits: 4
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ESL 6620 - TEFL Certificate Course
Live your dream, teach overseas!
Experience another culture while living and working overseas after earning a Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL) certificate. Gain hands-on experience, spending over 40 hours teaching, observing, and giving feedback in a classroom with English language learners. Our nationally recognized program was established in 1991 and over 1,200 Hamline graduates have taught in more than 40 countries worldwide. Join them!
Note: Application is required for participation in this program. Please visit www.hamline.edu/tefl for course details and an online application.
Credits: 8
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ESL 7502 - Language and Society
Focus on the varieties of language and how they reflect social patterns. Explore the importance of language in all our interactions.
Examine the social nature of language, and how language reflects social situations. Study the issues of language and social class, ethnic group, and gender, as well as topics in language and nationality, language and geography, and the social nature of writing. Learn to pay particular attention to the social-linguistic situations of second language learners (i.e., those who are not native speakers of a socially dominant language or dialect) as well as the sociolinguistics of language in the classroom.
Target audience: language arts, modern language, and ESL teachers; educators; K-adult; administrators.
Credits: 4
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ESL 7650 - Basics of Modern English
An overview of English grammar designed for teachers of ESL grades K-12. Develop an understanding of the basics of English grammar both descriptively and pedagogically, particularly in areas that cause difficulties for learners of English as a Second Language. Improve your skills at error analysis and your ability to effectively incorporate grammar instruction into your classroom in a way that is meaningful and interesting to your learners.
NOTE: Should be taken after or concurrently with a linguistics course.
Credits: 4
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