Courses

    PS 219 SPSS AND DATA MANAGEMENT   1.0 Credit(s)
    This course covers database management skills using SPSS, such as data entry, importing/merging datasets, data transformations, conducting descriptive statistics to clean data, safeguarding data, and creating graphs, tables and figures.
    Offered: As Needed Contact Department

    ENG 270 SHORT STORY WRITING   3.0 Credit(s)
    An introductory course and workshop on the history and craft of the short story. The first part of the course is comprised of reading and using interpretive techniques for close reading of both canonical and new canonical versions of the short story. In the second part of the course, students will write a short story using some of the strategies and techniques of the short stories read in the first part of the course. Prerequisite: Take ENG-253 and FYWS-125
    Offered: As Needed Contact Department

    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

    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 INTRODUCTION TO SCENE STUDY   3.0 Credit(s)
    Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of acting through 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 in performance.
    Offered: Fall Semester All Years

    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

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