Courses
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
THR 280 ACTING STYLES 3.0 Credit(s)
Students learn different genres and styles of acting from different historical periods. Students will study classical and contemporary acting techniques focusing on vocal and physical clarity, textual analysis, and scenic interpretation, diction, movement, imagery, and tone.
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 201 SCENE STUDY 3.0 Credit(s)
Students explore in-depth a series of assigned scenes and plays. Students will be required to complete close readings, discussion, and analysis of specific scenes and plays. Students will also apply their analysis to the performance of at least three different scenes in different styles.
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
EX 240L CONCEPTS IN SPORTS MEDICINE LAB 1.0 Credit(s)
This lab course introduces basic clinical skills for the examination of the musculoskeletal system. Skills instructed and assessed focus on the assessment of range of motion, muscle strength and basic skeletal alignment. Students will also be instructed and assessed on their understanding of human musculoskeletal anatomy. Prerequisite: EX-240 Lecture
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
HS 230 INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL HEALTH 3.0 Credit(s)
Why are some people in some countries so much healthier than others? This course will explore the factors that explain the unequal distribution of health and disease in the world. The course will begin with an introduction to the language of global health: the burden of disease, epidemiology, cost effectiveness, and health systems. It will then analyze the rationale for and modes of intervention to improve global health by exploring a number of high profile topics, including the HIV/AIDS epidemic, access to pharmaceuticals, human resources for health, and maternal and child health. The course will incorporate knowledge and views from multiple academic disciplines (public health, economics, politics, management, sociology) and does not require any background knowledge.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
MU 235 SIGHT SINGING & EAR TRAINING III 1.0 Credit(s)
This course further develops the musical skills achieved in Sight Singing I and II, including advanced melodies and basic harmonic recognition. A prerequisite to MU 236 Prerequisite: Take MU-116
Offered: As Needed All Years