Courses
THR 206 CONTEMPORARY DRAMA 3.0 Credit(s)
This course examines significant developments in drama and performance in the 21st century by focusing on characters in scripts, and the playwrights, actors, directors, and designers, who help bring those characters to life and have influenced theater practice, theory, and scholarship.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 208 COSTUME DESIGN 3.0 Credit(s)
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of costume design including basic design elements, script, and character analysis and historical period and genre research.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
THR 209 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: Spring Semester All Years
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
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
PS 335 HUMAN & ANIMAL LEARNING 3.0 Credit(s)
Explores theories of learning from their historical origin to the present and focuses on how these theories can be applied to the real world. Students will gain insight into the factors that influence their own behavior, as well as the behavior of others. Prerequisite: PS 110
Offered: All Semesters All Years