Courses
ENG 271 WRITING SOCIAL FICTION 3.0 Credit(s)
An examination of fiction as a form of social and ideological critique and the society that provided the backdrop from which the fiction emerged. The course also examines the interconnection between embodied experience and political agency with particular emphasis on diasporic groups, working class, and women. Students will have an opportunity to create their own form of social fiction using new media technologies.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ENG 272 WRITING FLASH FICTIONS 3.0 Credit(s)
A course in writing very short narratives: flash fiction, prose poetry, prosetry, sudden fiction, micro-writing, and postcard stories. This is not traditional fiction writing or the writing of short stories. This is a literary form related to narrative poetry, fables, and writing that defines or describes "moments." It provides an additional avenue of literary experiment for students currently writing in more traditional forms. Workshop atmosphere allows peer interaction and frequent student/instructor consultation.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ENG 273 POETRY WRITING 3.0 Credit(s)
A seminar in the writing of poetry. The course includes various readings about poetry and its writing as well as background readings of contemporary American and world poetry. Discussion of student work will be the focus of the seminar. Workshop atmosphere allows peer interaction and frequent student/instructor consultation.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
ENG 274 TEACHING WRITING SECONDARY EDUCATION 3.0 Credit(s)
This course introduces students to pedagogical approaches to teaching writing in Secondary Education. Prerequisite: Take ENG-253, FYWS-125
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
HI 237 AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY 3.0 Credit(s)
This course considers the way in which Americans have imagined, experienced, and debated the natural world from European colonists' ideas about hunting, fishing, and farming to the political debates about climate change in the early twenty-first century. Prerequisite: Take HI-100 or HI-102 or HI-110 or HI-115
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ENG 265 CREATIVE WRITING:HEALTH & HEALING 3.0 Credit(s)
This course teaches students how to write creatively in response to narratives about illness, trauma, suffering, and healing. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: All Semesters All Years
SO 230 COMMUNITY, CULTURE & FOLKLORE 3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores the interrelationship of folklore, social life and cultural identity in the West of Ireland. This course will also examine the role of folklore in individual and community wellbeing.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
DA 206 DANCE FOR MUSICAL THEATRE II 3.0 Credit(s)
Study and directed practice of advanced individual and group dance in modern musicals. Students will also practice learning choreography under time constraints to better prepare them for the musical-theatre audition process.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
THR 212 HISTORY OF THEATRE II 3.0 Credit(s)
History of theatre from the nineteenth century to the present. Students will also learn advanced concepts and influential theories of theatre.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 202 SCRIPT ANALYSIS 3.0 Credit(s)
Students will develop their ability to analyze texts by reading a number of plays in the context of acting and directing. Students will learn different approaches to script analysis through readings, discussions, projects, and presentations through a close examination of representative texts from the dramatic canon.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ENG 238 AMERICAN LITERARY EXPERIENCES Literature 3.0 Credit(s)
A one-semester survey of the most important works of American literature. Required for English majors only. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
ENG 257 ART OF THE NON-ACADEMIC ESSAY 3.0 Credit(s)
Non-academic essay writing on various topics. Prerequisite: Take FYS-125, FYWS-125, ENG-253
Offered: Fall Semester Even Academic Years
CM 274 CONTEMPORARY SPORTS BROADCASTING 3.0 Credit(s)
Provides students with foundational skills in sports journalism for live broadcasts and recorded programs and segments. Students learn multiple roles both in front of and behind the screen. Classroom activities include applied learning methods that require students to actively acquire the real-time skills necessary to work in a sports media setting and to pursue a career in multimedia sports journalism. Students develop and apply written, oral, and problem-solving skills to create, host, and produce original sports programming. Prerequisite: Pre: CM-101
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
ENG 245 AM. LIT. FOR ELEMENTARY ED. 3.0 Credit(s)
This course surveys American literature from the early national period to the present, with an emphasis on twentieth-century texts. Students will read a wide variety of texts in different genres, including the essay, the short story, poetry, and the novel. Since the majority of the students enrolled in this course plan to teach at the elementary level, the course will emphasize close reading and other skills that will help the students make complicated ideas understandable and accessible. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
EX 240 CONCEPTS IN SPORTS MEDICINE 3.0 Credit(s)
This course will provide an introduction to sports medicine concepts as they relate to the exercise science professional. Course content will include emergency action planning and the physiological response to injury as well as the healing process. This course also explores basic functional anatomy along with common injuries and their mechanism and the role of the exercise science professional in the recognition and management of these injuries. Prerequisite: EX-100, BI-206 and BI-208
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years