Courses
DA 200 DANCE HISTORY I 3.0 Credit(s)
A survey of the purposes, functions, and manifestations of dance forms from early civilization to the present. Relationships are examined between dance and cultural developments.
Offered: All Semesters All Years
THR 203 HISTORY OF THEATRE I 3.0 Credit(s)
History of theater from antiquity through early nineteenth century. Students will also learn the foundational concepts and theories of theatre.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
THR 213 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: Spring Semester All Years
DA 210 SOCIAL ISSUES THROUGH DANCE 3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores various current events and historical, social, and political issues as represented through dance. Through this course students will have a deeper understanding of a range of social issues as well as knowledge of how greater global awareness can be achieved through dance.
Offered: All Semesters All Years
AC 223 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING & TECHNOLOGY 3.0 Credit(s)
This course builds on financial accounting fundamentals introduced in AC-221. Topics include the accounting cycle (from journalizing transactions to financial statement preparation), bank reconciliations and managing inventory. Students will also gain knowledge of QuickBooks Online and how to account for business transactions in the accounting software.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
THR 214 PLAYWRITING II 3.0 Credit(s)
In this course students will hone their playwriting abilities through the development of advanced techniques. Students will engage in peer critique in order to develop their original works. Students will also learn the role of the playwright in the production process through the staging of an original one-act play. Prerequisite: Take THR-204
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MECH 213 STATICS AND DYNAMICS 4.0 Credit(s)
Equilibrium of forces and moments; mechanics of deformable bodies including stress, strain, material behavior, and Hooke's law. Applications: axial loading, torsion, bending, shear, deflection, and stress transformations. Vector-based kinematics and kinetics of particles and rigid bodies using Newton's laws, energy, momentum, and vibration analysis in 1D and 2D engineering systems.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
MECH 215 ENGINEERING GRAPHICS AND CAD 3.0 Credit(s)
An introduction to engineering graphics and computer-aided design (CAD) using a 3D solid modeling software package. Topics include geometric construction, sketching, orthographic projection, isometric, sectional, and detailed views, geometric dimensioning and tolerancing, engineering drawings, and assemblies. Drawing and CAD laboratory classes will consist of short demonstrations, lectures, and exercises.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
MECH 216 MATERIAL SCIENCE 3.0 Credit(s)
Introduction to materials science, including the structure of metals, plastics, polymers, ceramics, and composites, testing of mechanical properties of materials, failure mechanisms, the relationship between material properties, structure, and processing techniques, general concepts of stress-strain-temperature relations, yield criteria, torsion of shafts, bending of beams, and introduction to stability and buckling.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
ENG 234 THE GILDED AGE IN AMERICAN LITERATURE 3.0 Credit(s)
This course examines American literature from 1865-1914, a most complicated and transformative moment in American literature and culture. It is a time period when America experienced great growth and wealth, dire poverty, rapid urbanization, accelerated industry, unprecedented immigration, and racial conflict and reconstruction. American writing developed its identity in forms of realism and naturalism as ways of representing and shaping the social forces of race, gender, and class during this Gilded Age in America. Prerequisite: Take FYWS-125
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
THR 263 IMPROVISATION AND LIVE PRESENCE 3.0 Credit(s)
This course offers students a hands-on introduction to theories and practices of theatrical improvisation as a method for understanding and developing stage presence, executive presence, presence of mind and body, and extemporaneous presentation skills. No prior improv experience necessary.
Offered: As Needed All Years
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
PO 226 RECOGNITION & REPRESENTATION 3.0 Credit(s)
Examines how political communities decide who counts, who speaks, and who is heard. The course analyzes competing models of representation and the trade-offs they create. Emphasis is placed on conflicts over identity and status, including how marginalized groups demand recognition and how dominant groups defend existing arrangements. Topics include citizenship, voting rights, and electoral equity.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CIT 220 GOD, CONQUEST & REBELLION 3.0 Credit(s)
This interdisciplinary course explores the unique combination of historical, cultural, intellectual, and religious elements that combined in the development of the Zapatista movement. The Zapatistas announced themselves to the world in 1994 when their guerrilla army of masked Indigenous Mayans took over several towns in southern Mexico, saying, "We are the product of 500 years of struggle." We will examine this 500 year struggle for Mayan rights, from the Conquest of the Americas to the Mexican Revolution, through the 20th century and culminating in the Zapatista Uprising and their ongoing struggle for autonomy from the Mexican government. Along the way we will study the Zapatistas' varied blend of influences: Emiliano Zapata, hero of the Revolution; clandestine cells of Marxist intellectuals and revolutionaries; traditional Mayan spirituality; and Catholic liberation theology, brought to the Mayans by a radical bishop. Finally, we will study the Zapatistas themselves, looking at the history of their founding and training of a guerrilla army, their writing, their unique political philosophy, their ecological vision, their striving for political and economic autonomy, and their understanding of liberation. This course will challenge students to wrestle with these questions: is the Zapatista movement a success or a failure? Is it a helpful model or a doomed Quixotic dream? Does the Zapatista struggle have anything to teach us in our own efforts to affirm human dignity and to struggle for a more just society?
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
SP 356 LOVE & POWER IN SPANISH LITERATURE 3.0 Credit(s)
The study of literature from Spain, from various time periods and covering different genres, exploring the intersection of love and power. Prerequisite: SP 201 and SP 202
Offered: As Needed Contact Department