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2021-2022 Westminster College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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ENG 439 - Africian-American Literature Semester Hours: 4
ENG 401 -ENG 499 - These seminars study literary texts from several critical and theoretical stances. The courses help students develop strategies for assessing the ways that meaning becomes evident in texts, in readers, and in writers. In addition to reading and interpreting texts within contexts, the 400s seminars regard works through or in the light of perspectives offered by critical theories. Not only do students in these seminars complete a higher degree of creative and critical thinking, but they also participate more fully in leading the courses. The inquiry into theory, and when appropriate, its application, stresses independent assessment, peer evaluation, and assertion of ethical choices as they pertain to meaning and contexts.
Prerequisite: successful completion of ENG 240 , ENG 250 , and one ENG 300.
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ENG 440 - After Crusoe Semester Hours: 4
Americans are fascinated by survivor stories. So let’s look at their literary history. Daniel DeFoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe will serve as the central story in this course that considers the literary representation of castaways and survivors. Most importantly, we will look at the tendency of castaways to reconstitute their homeland’s social systems as they colonize “new” or “uncivilized” worlds. To understand this phenomenon, we will begin with Shakespeare’s castaway drama, The Tempest, which offers a seminal view of the struggle between the colonizer, Prospero, and the colonized, Caliban. Sometimes, the colonized write back. We will consider this act in at least one novel, including the South African novelist J.M. Coetzee’s novel Foe, a postcolonial revision of the Robinson Crusoe story. Finally, we will look at how the castaway or survivor story figures into modern and contemporary American culture through a consideration of films and “reality” TV.
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ENG 441 - Emerson and Thoreau Semester Hours: 4
ENG 401 -ENG 499 - These seminars study literary texts from several critical and theoretical stances. The courses help students develop strategies for assessing the ways that meaning becomes evident in texts, in readers, and in writers. In addition to reading and interpreting texts within contexts, the 400s seminars regard works through or in the light of perspectives offered by critical theories. Not only do students in these seminars complete a higher degree of creative and critical thinking, but they also participate more fully in leading the courses. The inquiry into theory, and when appropriate, its application, stresses independent assessment, peer evaluation, and assertion of ethical choices as they pertain to meaning and contexts.
Prerequisite: successful completion of ENG 240 , ENG 250 , and one ENG 300.
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ENG 442 - Whitman and Dickinson Semester Hours: 4
Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman wrote during one of the great “flowerings” of American literature, the American Renaissance. They remain in the 20th century, without a doubt, two of the most influential writers in American literature, influencing poets as disparate as Ezra Pound, Hart Crane, Allen Ginsberg and Carolyn Kizer. This course will allow you to study the work of these poets in depth and help you understand not only their enormous influence on 20th century poetry but also the context in which they lived and worked. We will read a great deal of Whitman’s Leaves of Grass and a large selection of Dickinson’s poetry, including a close reading of one of the “fascicles.”
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ENG 443 - World Fiction Semester Hours: 4
This advanced course allows students to engage with significant, groundbreaking masterworks of world fiction that they would not otherwise encounter in major courses confined to national literatures in English. The focus of ENG 443 is the nature of inventive narrative play operating in representative 20th/21st-century prose fiction from Europe, Latin America, the Mideast, and Asia. The class will read (in English translations) short works (and two full-length novels) originally written in French, Russian, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, Turkish, Japanese, and Korean. Students will demonstrate their ability to discuss issues of literary analysis, much as they do in their courses in British and American Literature. Authors include Chekhov, Colette, Unamuno, Kafka, Bulgakov, Mann, Bombal, Allende, Valenzuela, Kim, Pamuk, Murakami, Daoud, Ferrante, and Antoon.
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ENG 444 - Contemporary Poetry Semester Hours: 4
ENG 401 -ENG 499 - These seminars study literary texts from several critical and theoretical stances. The courses help students develop strategies for assessing the ways that meaning becomes evident in texts, in readers, and in writers. In addition to reading and interpreting texts within contexts, the 400s seminars regard works through or in the light of perspectives offered by critical theories. Not only do students in these seminars complete a higher degree of creative and critical thinking, but they also participate more fully in leading the courses. The inquiry into theory, and when appropriate, its application, stresses independent assessment, peer evaluation, and assertion of ethical choices as they pertain to meaning and contexts.
Prerequisite: successful completion of ENG 240 , ENG 250 , and one ENG 300.
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ENG 445 - British Drama Semester Hours: 4
This seminar course will immerse students in the essential, ground-breaking theater plays of the British and Irish stage of the last 150 years, stretching from the era of Victorian melodrama to the radical, sexy, and provocative drama of today. We shall introduce ourselves to the landmark playwrights who have notably influenced the way we dramatize stories on stage, in film, and on television. They include James M. Barrie, George Bernard Shaw, J. M. Synge, Cecily Hamilton, Noel Coward, John Osborne, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill, Joe Orton, Enda Walsh, Tom Stoppard, and Martin McDonagh. We shall endeavor to understand these works as reflections of their times in Britain’s sociopolitical history. Class meetings will include video selections of productions and suggested film versions to sample.
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ENG 446 - The Empire Writes Back Semester Hours: 4
Oppression is never fun, but it can spark creativity. Beginning with a study of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest, we will investigate and discuss what it means to speak, write, create, govern, etc. in the language of one’s oppressor, which is the situation of most people living in colonial and postcolonial cultures. We will read, discuss and employ significant criticism on and about postcolonial literature as we undertake analysis of texts such as Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Foe by J.M. Coetzee, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte, and The Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. As with most oppressive situations, there will be tests and papers. In other words, you’ll be able to write back. Discussion will be democratic and mandatory. Creativity is encouraged.
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ENG 447 - American Gothic Semester Hours: 4
What macabre anxieties lurk in the shadows of the American psyche? Why is the American literary imagination-an imagination ostensibly born of Enlightenment ideals-obsessed with the horrific, the insane, and the grotesque? This course will devote special emphasis to these and other questions related to how the Gothic literary mode became, and remains, so popular in America. In addition to viewing a particularly spooky film, we will read disturbing works by Charles Brockden Brown, Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Prescott Spofford, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott, Henry James, Charles W. Chesnutt, Edith Wharton, H. P. Lovecraft, Zora Neale Hurston, Flannery O’Connor, and others.
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ENG 448 - The Roaring Twenties Semester Hours: 4
Gangsters, flappers, expatriates. Prohibition, jazz, cinema. These are just a few defining features of the decade that we now call “the Roaring Twenties,” a time marked by substantial urban and commercial developments in America. In this course, we will study how the literature of this period responds to the rapid modernization of culture with optimism and cynicism, faith and doubt, hope and despair. Authors whose works we’ll read include (but are not limited to) F. Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, Nella Larsen, Gertrude Stein, and August Wilson. We will also study several musical and film texts, including the jazz of Ma Rainey, Fletcher Anderson, Bessie Smith, and Louis Armstrong, and films such as The Gold Rush and Chicago.
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ENG 449 - Confessions Semester Hours: 4
ENG 401 -ENG 499 - These seminars study literary texts from several critical and theoretical stances. The courses help students develop strategies for assessing the ways that meaning becomes evident in texts, in readers, and in writers. In addition to reading and interpreting texts within contexts, the 400s seminars regard works through or in the light of perspectives offered by critical theories. Not only do students in these seminars complete a higher degree of creative and critical thinking, but they also participate more fully in leading the courses. The inquiry into theory, and when appropriate, its application, stresses independent assessment, peer evaluation, and assertion of ethical choices as they pertain to meaning and contexts.
Prerequisite: successful completion of ENG 240 , ENG 250 , and one ENG 300.
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ENG 450 - London Novel Semester Hours: 4
ENG 401 -ENG 499 - These seminars study literary texts from several critical and theoretical stances. The courses help students develop strategies for assessing the ways that meaning becomes evident in texts, in readers, and in writers. In addition to reading and interpreting texts within contexts, the 400s seminars regard works through or in the light of perspectives offered by critical theories. Not only do students in these seminars complete a higher degree of creative and critical thinking, but they also participate more fully in leading the courses. The inquiry into theory, and when appropriate, its application, stresses independent assessment, peer evaluation, and assertion of ethical choices as they pertain to meaning and contexts.
Prerequisite: successful completion of ENG 240 , ENG 250 , and one ENG 300.
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ENG 451 - Science Fiction Semester Hours: 4
Warp speed. Wormholes. Time travel. Transporters. Androids. Aliens. Space cowboys and Saurian brandy. This is the stuff of science fiction, of future worlds and alternate universes. Syd Mead’s definition focuses our study since science fiction stories should lie within the realm of scientific possibility. (Think Captain Kirk’s communicator and then look down at your cell phone.) In this course, we’ll boldly explore what critics call the “literature of ideas,” the genre that bridges the arts and sciences, and we’ll discuss how writers have used science fiction as a vehicle for social criticism and a commentary on the human condition.
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ENG 452 - Modernism Semester Hours: 4
In her essay “Mr. Bennett and Mrs. Brown,” Virginia Woolf declared that: “In or about December 1910, human nature changed…. All human relations…shifted–those between masters and servants, husbands and wives, parents and children. And when human relations change there is at the same time a change in religion, conduct, politics, and literature.” The writers we will read-Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, Wallace Stevens, William Carlos Williams, Langston Hughes, Willa Cather, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Nella Larson–all engaged actively in the debates over what literature should be and were breaking new ground in poetry and the novel through formal experimentation, such as stream-of-consciousness, temporal disruption, multiple points of view, and the reshaping of relationships between self and “other.” These writers sought to re-define reality in the 20th century and re-examine the role of the artist within that society. We will explore these issues within the context of not only what was happening in narrative as well as poetry, but what was happening in art, architecture, music, and philosophy. Modern writers were influenced by Freud’s theories of the unconscious, the paintings of Picasso and Georges Braque, Stravinsky’s music, jazz, popular culture, women’s suffrage, and, of course, the First World War.
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ENG 453 - The Short Story Semester Hours: 4
ENG 401 -ENG 499 - These seminars study literary texts from several critical and theoretical stances. The courses help students develop strategies for assessing the ways that meaning becomes evident in texts, in readers, and in writers. In addition to reading and interpreting texts within contexts, the 400s seminars regard works through or in the light of perspectives offered by critical theories. Not only do students in these seminars complete a higher degree of creative and critical thinking, but they also participate more fully in leading the courses. The inquiry into theory, and when appropriate, its application, stresses independent assessment, peer evaluation, and assertion of ethical choices as they pertain to meaning and contexts.
Prerequisite: successful completion of ENG 240 , ENG 250 , and one ENG 300.
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ENG 454 - Best Sellers Semester Hours: 4
ENG 401 -ENG 499 - These seminars study literary texts from several critical and theoretical stances. The courses help students develop strategies for assessing the ways that meaning becomes evident in texts, in readers, and in writers. In addition to reading and interpreting texts within contexts, the 400s seminars regard works through or in the light of perspectives offered by critical theories. Not only do students in these seminars complete a higher degree of creative and critical thinking, but they also participate more fully in leading the courses. The inquiry into theory, and when appropriate, its application, stresses independent assessment, peer evaluation, and assertion of ethical choices as they pertain to meaning and contexts.
Prerequisite: successful completion of ENG 240 , ENG 250 , and one ENG 300.
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ENG 455 - Keats in Context Semester Hours: 4
ENG 401 -ENG 499 - These seminars study literary texts from several critical and theoretical stances. The courses help students develop strategies for assessing the ways that meaning becomes evident in texts, in readers, and in writers. In addition to reading and interpreting texts within contexts, the 400s seminars regard works through or in the light of perspectives offered by critical theories. Not only do students in these seminars complete a higher degree of creative and critical thinking, but they also participate more fully in leading the courses. The inquiry into theory, and when appropriate, its application, stresses independent assessment, peer evaluation, and assertion of ethical choices as they pertain to meaning and contexts.
Prerequisite: successful completion of ENG 240 , ENG 250 , and one ENG 300.
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ENG 499 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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ENG 520 - Travel Semester Hours: 2
Travel Course
Intellectual Perspective: HC
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ENG 590 - Field Experience/Internship Semester Hours: 1-4
These courses are designed to foster on-campus or off-campus participation in a variety of areas. Students select experiences under the guidance of an adviser and are encouraged to consider community service projects as well as more traditional internships and field experiences related more closely to the English major.
Prerequisite: junior standing.
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ENG 601 - Capstone I Semester Hours: 4
A course concentrating on the advanced bibliographical tools available to students of literary texts. Students will review, expand, deepen, and broaden their familiarity with library resources and research methods suited particularly to the creation and study of literary texts. The course will culminate in each student’s production of a comprehensive proposal for the final independent study project to be completed as part of the requirement for ENG 602 . (See also guidelines for College Honors in English.)
Prerequisite: advanced junior standing and permission of the department.
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ENG 602 - Capstone II Semester Hours: 2
An independent study, supervised by a department member, which completes the research proposal developed in ENG 601 . The student produces a major paper, series of essays, and creative work and presents the results to the department in an appropriate forum.
Prerequisite: successful completion of ENG 601 and senior standing.
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ENG 620 - Independent Study Semester Hours: 1-4
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ENG 660 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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ENG 670 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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ENG 680 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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ENG 690 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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English Language Learners |
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ELL 199 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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ELL 206 - English Language Learners Semester Hours: 3
The exploration of language, culture, standards-based instruction, assessment, and professionalism to understand and teach linguistically diverse learners effectively. Careful attention is given to the design of learning environments and curriculum to meet the teacher competencies related to fulfilling the instructional needs of English language learners. Teacher certification students ECE PreK-4/SED PreK-8, 7-12, and PreK-12 are required to take this course. PDE Stage 1 - Observation required: 05-10 hours.
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ELL 299 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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ELL 399 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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ELL 499 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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ELL 590 - Field Experience/Internship Semester Hours: 1-4
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ELL 620 - Independent Study Semester Hours: 1-4
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ELL 660 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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ELL 670 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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ELL 680 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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ELL 690 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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Environmental Science |
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ES 122 - Introduction to Environmental Inquiry Semester Hours: 2
Students participating in this course study a local/regional environmental issue of interest. When appropriate, the study is a service learning project, done in collaboration with a non-profit organization to provide meaningful community service. The approach is inquiry-based, in which students are mentored on the design and implementation of a study based on a question that they have developed in consultation with a faculty mentor and/or collaborating professionals. The study includes field work, lab work, library research, and/or other data collection methods, performed with guidance by the faculty member and/or collaborating professionals. Scientific data and/or other information from the inquiry is compiled and analyzed in consultation with the faculty mentor and/or collaborating professionals to draw conclusions regarding the original question of interest. The faculty member facilitates student learning the context of the environmental issue of interest including scientific, societal, political and economic factors. The project culminates in a public presentation of the environmental inquiry given by the students and a written reflection on the experience.
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ES 160 - Concepts Environmental Science Semester Hours: 4
An investigation of the effect of humans on the Earth’s environment and on the other species that inhabit our planet. The course will look at the impact that an increasing human population has on the resource utilization, pollution production, habitat degradation, and the extinction of species. It will include a brief look at the policies and laws that specifically relate to environmental problems. Meets Scientific Discovery Intellectual Perspective requirement (SD).
Intellectual Perspective: SD
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ES 170 - Project-Based Environmental Science Semester Hours: 4
A survey of the major environmental issues facing our planet, with an in-depth focus on one environmental issue of local/regional interest. The course emphasizes the science of environmental issues but also explores the social, political, and economical factors that are involved. The first half of the course involves traditional lab and field experiences, while the laboratory portion of the second half of the course is dedicated to a research project related to the environmental issue of local/regional interest.
Intellectual Perspective: SD
Lab Included: LB
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ES 199 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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ES 230 - Chemical Analysis Semester Hours: 4
A study of the theoretical foundation and skills necessary for the solution of problems encountered in the area of quantitative chemical analysis, including classical and modern methods. Emphasis is given to the evaluation and presentation of data, sampling, equilibrium dynamics of analytically important reactions, experimental design, volumetric techniques, absorption and emission spectroscopy, electrochemical methods, and analytical separations. Examples and laboratory exercises will include environmental air, soil and water systems.
Prerequisite: CHE 117 , and MTH 135 or MTH 150 or BIO 206 (may be co-requisite).
Cross-Listed: CHE 230
Lab Included: LB
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ES 231 - Environmental Analysis Semester Hours: 4
A study of the theoretical foundation and skills in the area of quantitative chemical analysis, including classical and modern methods, as applied to environmental measurements. Emphasis is given to the evaluation and presentation of data, sampling, equilibrium dynamics of analytically important reactions, experimental design, volumetric techniques, absorption and emission spectroscopy, electrochemical methods, analytical separations, and field measurements. All examples and laboratory exercises will focus on environmental applications of chemical analysis.
Prerequisite: CHE 117 , and MTH 131 , MTH 135 , MTH 150 , or BIO 206 .
Cross-Listed: CHE 231
Lab Included: LB
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ES 251 - Introduction to GIS Semester Hours: 4
This course is an introduction to the theory and use of Geographic Information Systems, including the fundamental concepts of GIS, capabilities of GIS, and applications for dealing with spatial data. Key issues for discussion will include data input, data models, database design and database queries, sources of information for spatial databases, spatial analysis, computational algorithms, and information presentation. Other issues such as the nature of geographic phenomena to be represented in a GIS, comparisons of different GIS representational schemes, and appropriate use of geographic information will also be covered. These topics will be discussed within an environmental context using ArcView, a PC-based GIS software package,
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ES 299 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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ES 360 - Ecology Semester Hours: 4
A study of the structure of ecological populations, communities, and ecosystems, and the processes that affect them. Topics include population growth, regulation, and dynamics, population interactions, food webs, species diversity, succession, biogeography, and energy flow and nutrient cycling. Laboratories stress experimental design and data analysis.
Prerequisite: C- or better in BIO 202 .
Cross-Listed: BIO 360
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ES 399 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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ES 499 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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ES 590 - Field Experience/Internship Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: ES 160 and consent of the Environmental Science Committee for proposed internship.
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ES 601 - Capstone Semester Hours: 4
Interdisciplinary senior research project designed to study an environmental problem from an integrated, multidisciplinary viewpoint. Students work collectively to develop testable hypotheses, design and implement experiments to test their hypotheses, and present their results in comprehensive written and oral reports.
Prerequisite: successful completion of all required courses in the major
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ES 620 - Independent Study Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: completion of an acceptable proposal of an original experimental or observational project dealing with an environmental topic; minimum GPA 2.750 in the major; completion of ES 160 ; and consent of the ES committee
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ES 660 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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ES 670 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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ES 680 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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ES 690 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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Environmental Studies |
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ENV 199 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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ENV 201 - Contemporary Environmental Issues Semester Hours: 4
This course investigates complex, real-world environmental issues facing our world today. Students will use case studies to explore environmental issues from multi-disciplinary perspectives and contexts including scientific, economic, political, social, historical, and cultural. Stakeholder identification and analysis, environmental justice, and risk assessment are additional themes considered in this communication-intensive course. A major component of this course will be a project in which students will have the opportunity to engage in in-depth research on the many nuanced perspectives, positions, and stances of a specific environmental issue. Students will communicate findings and advocate for a particular viewpoint as well as suggest possible solutions. Research projects may include topics such as climate change, hydraulic fracking, loss of biodiversity, habitat destruction, deforestation, water and air pollution, natural resource distribution, and sustainable food supplies.
Intellectual Perspective: ST
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ENV 299 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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ENV 399 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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ENV 499 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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ENV 590 - Field Experience/Internship Semester Hours: 1-4
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ENV 601 - Capstone Semester Hours: 4
The Environmental Studies Seminar is an integrative experiential and project-based course that is a capstone experience for ENV majors and minors. Students are expected to bring their disci-pline-specific expertise to the group and collaborate on a class project that identifies a problem, examines it from a multidisciplinary perspective and provides practical solutions. Prerequisites: ENV 201, at least 16 hours of additional core environmen-tal studies courses, and a 300-level or higher course from a discipline combined for the major.
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ENV 620 - Independent Study Semester Hours: 1-4
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ENV 660 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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ENV 670 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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ENV 680 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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ENV 690 - Honors Research Semester Hours: 1-4
Prerequisite: Honors status and departmental approval.
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Film Studies |
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FS 101 - Introduction to Film Studies Semester Hours: 4
This course focuses on the major language systems of film: photography, mise en scene, movement, editing, sound, acting, sets and costumes, writing and narrative structure, and ideology. Emphasis is on how formalist and realist filmmakers use these language systems to create meaning. Through lecture, reading, discussion, and screening of films, the students will become informed, sophisticated, active observers of cinema. Meets Humanity and Culture Intellectual Perspective requirement (HC).
Intellectual Perspective: HC
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FS 102 - History of Film Semester Hours: 4
This course is designed for students to develop a greater comprehension of the historical evolution of cinematic art. Though the course focuses primarily on cinema in the United States, some important and representative films from other countries will be studied. In addition, emphasis will be given to films that represent the development of film as an industry and how this corresponds to (and conflicts with) artistic endeavor. Students will write analyses of both films they watch for the course and films they choose to watch on their own. In keeping with the goals of the course, these analyses will require the students to fit the films into the context of cinema as a greater whole and to demonstrate an understanding of film as both art and industry. In addition, mid-term and final exams will require students to analyze certain films and their contributions to the development of cinema. Meets Humanity and Culture Intellectual Perspective requirement (HC).
Intellectual Perspective: HC
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FS 104 - War Literature and Film Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
Intellectual Perspective: HC
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FS 105 - Alfred Hitchock Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
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FS 107 - Detective Fiction: Novels and Film Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
Intellectual Perspective: HC
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FS 109 - The Sporting Spirit Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
Cross-Listed: ENG 109
Intellectual Perspective: HC
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FS 116 - It’s Monstrous Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
Cross-Listed: ENG 116
Intellectual Perspective: HC
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FS 124 - African American Drama and Film Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
Cross-Listed: ENG 124 , THE 213
Intellectual Perspective: HC
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FS 134 - Shake, Rattle and Roll: Natural Disasters Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
Intellectual Perspective: HC
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FS 136 - Classic Greek Literature and Film Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
Cross-Listed: ENG 136
Intellectual Perspective: HC
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FS 140 - Queer Literature and Film Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
Cross-Listed: ENG 123
Intellectual Perspective: HC
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FS 141 - The Journalist in Film Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
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FS 142 - Genres: General Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
Intellectual Perspective: HC
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FS 142A - Genres: The Musical Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
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FS 142B - Genres: Crime Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
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FS 142D - Genres: Science Fiction Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
Intellectual Perspective: HC
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FS 142E - Genres: Romantic Comedy Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
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FS 142F - Genres: Children’s Literature and Film Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
Intellectual Perspective: HC
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FS 142G - Genres: Arthurian Legend Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
Intellectual Perspective: HC
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FS 142I - Genre: Italy in Literature and Film Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
Intellectual Perspective: HC
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FS 142L - Genres: Law Literature and Film Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
Intellectual Perspective: HC
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FS 142M - Genres: Marvel Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
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FS 142N - Genres: Native American Literature and Film Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
Intellectual Perspective: HC
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FS 147 - Disability in Literature and Film Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
Cross-Listed: ENG 147
Intellectual Perspective: HC
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FS 148 - Sexuality in Literature and Film Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
Cross-Listed: ENG 148
Intellectual Perspective: HC
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FS 152 - Political Films Semester Hours: 4
Selected topics courses study films in a more specific fashion than a survey course would do; for example, a student might examine the work of a particular director; films united by a particular theme, philosophy, or discipline; or films produced during a specific historical period. They will help students develop strategies and skills for assessing the accomplishments of filmmakers and their films and to understand how film may fit into a larger context. Thus, the Topics courses may be taught from the point of view of any discipline or theoretical approach so as to view the infinite possibilities of film. Students will apply and further develop skills they have learned in introductory courses to achieve a higher level of critical thinking regarding their comprehension of the film text.
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FS 199 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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FS 212 - Film Adaptation Semester Hours: 4
Students will study the challenging process of adapting literature, drama, and true-life stories to film-what goes, what stays, and what changes. By working closely with different types of texts, students discover how the texts complement each other and how they often resist each other. Meets Humanity and Culture Intellectual Perspective requirement (HC).
Intellectual Perspective: HC
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FS 299 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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FS 356 - Screenwriting Semester Hours: 4
This workshop gives students the knowledge and tools necessary to write original screenplays from the story concept to the final draft. Students will have two or three completed short film scripts or one feature-length script by the end of the semester. Elements covered in the course include the three-act structure, main plot, subplots, scene writing, cohesiveness and momentum, tran-sitions and turning points, conflict, character functions and development, dialogue and description, and theme. Students will also learn to use the Final Draft software program. (Also listed as WRI 356.)
Cross-Listed: WRI 356
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FS 399 - Experimental Course Semester Hours: 1-4
Experimental course.
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FS 404 - Film Criticism Semester Hours: 4
This course teaches the basic concepts and critical approaches of film analysis. Some of these analytical methods include humanism, auteurism, genre studies, social science criticism, cultural criticism, semiology, structuralism, psychoanalytic criticism, Marxism, and feminism. Looking at the films through a critical lens while incorporating an analysis of its basic language systems offers students a better understanding of what filmmakers are saying as well as how they are saying it.
Cross-Listed: ENG 404
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