Courses
ESM 573 ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY 3.0 Credit(s)
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ESM 599 SPEC TOPICS ENV SYS ANALYSIS 1.0-6.0 Credit(s)
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
TSL 501 Adult Tesol Methodologies and Materials 3.0 Credit(s)
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
PS 590 COMPREHENSIVE EXAMINATION 3.0 Credit(s)
In this course, the student completes an applied comprehensive exam that covers material from core and concentration courses.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
TSL 503 Curriculum and Assessment for Adult 3.0 Credit(s)
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CM 505 THE ART OF STORYTELLING IN FILM & TV 3.0 Credit(s)
This course provides students with an understanding of how filmmakers create compelling stories in the moving image media, exploring aesthetic choices of cinematic storytelling from a critical perspective. Through lectures, screenings and class discussion, we examine the nature of storytelling for the moving image. Students consider how stylistic choices contribute to the development of plot and character in a variety of forms.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CM 515 DIRECTING FOR FILM & TELEVISION I 3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores the grammatical rules, stylistic techniques and narrative elements of cinematic storytelling, with instruction on lighting, staging and blocking. By completing a series of directing exercises, students start to develop their portfolios. Students are equipped to direct a scripted short film at the end of the course.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CM 525 WRITING FOR FILM & TELEVISION I 3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores the craft of screenwriting, including character, action, conflict, story structure and construction. Students write several short screenplays over the course of the semester, one of which they will select to produce as their first short film.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CM 535 PRODUCING FOR FILM & TV I 3.0 Credit(s)
This course covers major aspects of producing for film, television and new media, including set protocols, responsibilities and etiquette, script breakdowns, budget creation, production agreements, SAG paperwork, crew hiring, casting, locations, permits, shot lists and scheduling.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CM 594 CAPSTONE IN FILM PRODUCTION I 3.0 Credit(s)
In this TV Development class, students will learn an alternative to the solo screenwriting process as they collaborate to develop a television pilot as part of a course writers' room. Students work together to pitch ideas, develop a story, write a beat sheet, and complete at least one act of their pilot, creating characters, plot and story arcs. The focus is on the benefits of the hive mind as it relates to collaborative storytelling.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CM 595 CAPSTONE IN TV PROD. TV Dev. 3.0 Credit(s)
Students work collaboratively on each other's projects, while also completing an individualized television capstone project. Students will be given the opportunity to focus on their desired area of specialization (e.g., screenwriting, producing, directing, cinematography, post-production).
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CS 583 THEORY OF COMPUTER GAMING 3.0 Credit(s)
Computer game studies is an emerging field. This course provides a solid, theoretical background in the field of computer gaming to assist students in their pursuit of game development throughout their career. Prerequisite: Take CS-571
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CS 504 INTRO TO PROG USING SCRIPTING 3.0 Credit(s)
This hands-on course will introduce programming using Python on Windows and Linux platforms. Topics covered include basic programming concepts, regular expressions, basic data structures and algorithms, Boolean operations, and basic programming constructs including variables and types, string, arrays, sequential and parallel execution, assignments, decision and branching, loops, functions, procedures and calls, and basic debugging techniques.
Offered: Fall, Spring & Late Spring Sem All Years
CS 505 COMPUTER NETWORKS 3.0 Credit(s)
Students in this course will study networks and data communication concentrating on the Internet model. This is a laboratory-based course that includes projects implemented on both Unix and Windows machines using Wireshark. Students will review hex and binary number systems. Topics such as network architecture, the Internet protocol stack, LANs, WANs, and MANs, hardware, software, protocols, routing, circuit-switching and packet-switching networks, wireless networks, compression, and error handling are studied.
Offered: Fall, Spring & Late Spring Sem All Years
CJ 501 CRIME CAUSATION AND DEVIANCE 3.0 Credit(s)
This course examines the development and application of theories of crime causation and social deviance. The course includes an assessment of the issues and problems involved in controlling crime and deviance in society. Students learn about the nature of criminal behavior and the impact of this behavior on the victims, and study the development of programs and policies to control crime and assist the victims.
Offered: All Semesters All Years