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MUS 485 - Senior Project
This course is designed to tie together students’ academic career at Rollins. Individual focus area may include a recital performance, student teaching, or a research project directed by the appropriate music faculty member. Previously offered as MUS 495. Prereq(s): Senior standing.
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Communication |
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COM 100 - Introduction to Communication Studies
Provides an overview of the history, practices, and key areas of research that inform the discipline of communication studies. Students will be introduced to the applied concentrations within the major and will develop an understanding of various research methods and theories relevant to the discipline of communication.
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COM 130 - Event Planning and Communication
Provides a comprehensive overview of elements and factors involved in the planning, production, and assessment of special events as well as the communication factors that dominate each phase of the process. Through a review of the literature, interaction with guest presenters, interviews with professionals including site visits, and a class produced half-day conference; students will learn both the components of a successful event and the required communication skills. Prereq(s): COM 100
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COM 203 - Communication Ethics
Develops the cognitive flexibility required to appreciate, explore, dissect, and defend ethical arguments and behaviors within communication-related contexts. Formerly numbered COM 303. Students with credit for COM 303 may not receive credit for COM 203.
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COM 210 - Public Speaking
Explores research, organization, writing, delivery, and critical analysis of oral presentations.
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COM 212 - Persuasion Theory
Examines persuasion at the intrapersonal, interpersonal, small group, organizational, and mass media levels. Based on an understanding and application of classical and contemporary empirical research, students design practical persuasive media. Formerly numbered COM 312. Students with credit for COM 312 may not receive credit for COM 212.
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COM 220 - Interpersonal Communication
Explores dyadic communication with significant others in personal and career situations.
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COM 230 - Listening
Explores the art of listening and its importance in our personal and professional lives. Students learn to analyze, assess, and improve their own listening abilities.
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COM 240 - Intercultural Communication
Examines concepts, constructs, theories, and empirical research pertinent to communication within and between cultures, with primary foci on contexts and relationships.
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COM 285 - Research Methods in Communication
Introduces the fundamentals of communication research. Topics include the scientific method, quantitative and qualitative approaches, research ethics, hypothesis testing, measurement issues, survey design, data analysis, and more. Previously offered as COM 295.
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COM 295 - Topics in Communication
Provides an introduction to selected areas of communication studies. Topics for consideration are at the discretion of the instructor and will change with each course offering. Previously offered as COM 215.
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COM 301 - Designing Effective Organizations
Explores strategic planning, management, organizational effectiveness, and organizational culture relevant to the design of effective organizations.
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COM 302 - New Media and Public Relations
Explores new media communication practices in Public Relations to deconstruct the communication and business impact of these techniques.
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COM 310 - Family Communication
Explores communication within the family unit, specific family relationships, and elements inherent in relationships. Content is designed to improve specific communication skills and positively guide family communication behavior.
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COM 311 - Conflict and Communication
Studies human behavior with particular attention to the role of conflict across various contexts (interpersonal relationships, group/team, organizational settings, and multi-cultural settings). Formerly numbered COM 412. Students with credit for COM 412 may not receive credit for COM 311.
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COM 313 - Mass Media and Society
Studies the impact of the media on the habits, customs, and thinking of our times. Students explore topics that include the relationships between mass media and society, social and ethical issues, and the media’s role in the nation’s history.
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COM 316 - Training and Development
Focuses on the role of communication in the training and development of human resources with a leadership and organizational focus.
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COM 318 - Contemporary Public Relations
Explores the study of public relations principles applied to organizations. This course examines the ways in which public relations theories and principles are applied to specific business situations.
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COM 319 - Leadership and Effective Communication
Studies leadership, leadership styles, and leadership effectiveness in organizations. Students explore the connection between leadership and organizational communication.
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COM 321 - Organizational Communication
Analyzes the role and importance of communication in organizations with special emphasis on corporations, not-for-profit institutions, government agencies, and other structures in which people work. Formerly numbered COM 421. Students with credit for COM 421 may not receive credit for COM 321.
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COM 322 - Computer Mediated Communication
Addresses the study of the communication processes affected by our interactions with technologies. Students analyze the benefits and challenges that modern technology creates for effective human communication.
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COM 324 - Self-Leadership and Communication
Explores the many ways that self-leadership skills may be enhanced through effective communication principles, strategies, and techniques. Offered on a credit/no-credit basis only.
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COM 325 - Communication Campaigns
Introduces the planning, organizing, implementation, and evaluation of various educational, health, political, religious, and commercial campaigns. Communication campaigns are focused, large-scale efforts to exert social influence.
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COM 326 - Small Group Communication and Leadership
Examines communication, leadership, participation, and decision-making within groups and teams.
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COM 327 - Servant-Leadership
Designed to introduce students to the study and application of servant-leadership, including concepts and tools that allow the serving leader to empower and equip all stakeholders of the organization.
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COM 330 - Health Communication
Introduces theory and research on communication in health and illness contexts, focusing on how messages from interpersonal, organizational, and media sources affect health belief and behavior.
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COM 331 - Communication and Social Change
This course approaches the study of communication and social change through direct community engagement activities. It uses communication theories and practices to demonstrate how communication strategy can help individuals and organizations advocate for social change.
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COM 336 - Communication Across the Lifespan
This course adopts a communication perspective of development over the lifespan. We examine what it means to age, the impact of aging on relationships and organizations, and communication patterns in contexts impacting and involving older adults.
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COM 340 - Health Policy and Advocacy Communication
Introduces concepts, and strategies for policy changes to improve health, based on current health issues. Course will include situational analysis, communication strategies, and messaging to advocate for policies affecting health.
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COM 345 - Leadership, Film, and Communication
Initiates a thoughtful consideration of the nature of leadership as depicted in film. Film provides unique insights to investigate culture, character, and motive, to access meaning and significance through theoretical, analytic, and dialogic inquiry.
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COM 351 - Writing for Public Relations
Teaches students the basic principles of writing public relations materials for a diverse audience using diverse media. Students will practice gathering, organizing, and checking information to write a variety of PR documents.
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COM 355 - Global Health Communication
Introduces important issues and key concepts of communication in global health. Focus will be placed on determinants of health, the burden of disease, health disparities, risk factors, and communication strategies.
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COM 395 - Topics in Communication Studies
Provides intensive study with selected areas of communication studies. Topics for consideration are at the discretion of the instructor and will change with each course offering. Previously offered as COM 315.
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COM 397 - Internship
Provides on-the-job experience. Students may choose internships from approved list provided by Career Services, or they may make own arrangements within established guidelines by Career Services.
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COM 398 - Independent Project
Offers an opportunity for specialized study and to encourage intellectual curiosity, initiative, and sustained effort. Independent Studies must be sponsored by a faculty member, and approved by an academic department. Proposal forms for Independent Studies are available (in electronic form suitable for download) on the Student Records web site (www.rollins.edu/student-records).
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COM 400 - Advanced Project in Communication Studies
This course will give students an opportunity to develop advanced research skills necessary to design, execute, write, and present communication research in a particular area of interest identified by individual students. Prereq(s): COM 285 or consent of the instructor.
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COM 418 - Advanced Public Relations
Addresses the advanced study of the discipline of public relations. Students develop skills in written and oral communication, critical thinking, problem solving, research, and strategic planning. Prereq(s): COM 318 or consent of the instructor.
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COM 480 - Senior Seminar in Communication
Provides an end-of-the-program opportunity for the advanced study of communication in multiple contexts. This capstone course is taken in the senior year by students majoring in Communication Studies/Organizational Communication. Prereq(s): COM Majors Only; Senior Standing.
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Computer Science |
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CMS 167 - Problem Solving I with Selected Topics
Introduction to fundamental aspects of programming using high-level language, focusing on problem solving, software design concepts, and their realization as computer programs. Topics include: variables, using existing classes, selection and iteration, and arrays. Classroom activities are used to gain mastery of these principles. Co-requisite(s): CMS 167L
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CMS 167L - Problem Solving I Lab
Develops proficiency in using the programming principles introduced in CMS 167 and experience in incorporating those principles into working computer programs. Co-requisite(s): CMS 167
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CMS 170 - Problem Solving II with Selected Topics
Develops discipline in program design, problem solving, debugging, and testing, with an introduction to data structures. Topics include: abstract data types, complexity analysis, and recursion. Basic data structures (queues, stacks, trees, and graphs) and transformations (sorting and searching) are introduced as representative of the fundamental tools that are used to aid in software development. A high-level programming language is used to construct programs of a moderate size. Prereq(s): CMS 167 /CMS 167L .
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CMS 215 - Business Applications of Computer Science
Overview of key computer science concepts in the context of business applications, including advanced spreadsheet programming, data management, information security, and data analytics. Includes use of common software packages such as Microsoft Excel, relational database systems, and an introduction to programming in a general-purpose language such as Python or R.
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CMS 230 - Introduction to Computer Systems
Introduction to the study of how software controls the critical hardware components of a computer’s architecture, the CPU and RAM. Topics include development of C language programs, comparison of high-order procedural languages to machine language programs, CPU organization and functionality at the register/bus level, instruction formats, and development of machine language and assembly level programs using multiple addressing modes, flow-of-control branching and subroutine calls. Prereq(s): CMS 170 .
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CMS 270 - Object-Oriented Design and Development
Object-oriented programming, event-driven programming, UML, unit testing, virtual machines, design patterns, exception handling, and user interfaces. Uses Java and assumes knowledge of a procedural or object-oriented language. Prereq(s): CMS 170 .
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CMS 330 - System Software Principles
Short history of programming languages and their construction. Techniques of language translation including lexical analysis, grammars, and parsers. Analysis of the structure and functionality of modern operating system software, with emphasis on concurrent processes. Topics include: process scheduling, communication, and synchronization; API services; and, design and development of concurrent program using OS features. Prereq(s): CMS 230 .
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CMS 341 - Mobile App Development
Covers the development of mobile apps using an emulation system. Topics covered include application architectures, user interface design, graphics, location services, data persistence, web and network services and sensors. Prereq(s): CMS 270 .
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CMS 352 - Web Application Development
Programming techniques and frameworks for Web-based applications. Topics include Javascript and server-side development using the model-view-controller design pattern. Prereq(s): CMS 270.
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CMS 375 - Database Design and Development
Introduces design and implementation of database systems. Using a relational database as a backdrop, this course addresses design issues, structured query language (SQL), data integrity, normalization, transaction processing, writing triggers and stored procedures, and developing applications using a custom database language and with Java and JDBC. This course also explores NoSQL data models. Students will need access to a PC or Mac on which to load the database software that will be used in the course. Note: System requirements may vary from year to year. Prereq(s): CMS 270 .
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CMS 380 - Simulation Analysis and Design
Explores the use of probability theory and statistical methods in the development of computer simulations used to study/model real-world phenomenon. Prereq(s): CMS 270 .
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CMS 395 - Special Topics
An intensive introduction to a specialized area of computer science. Example topics are: user interface design, parallel and distributed processing, multimedia development, theory of computation, network programming, modeling and simulation, and software development tools. Prereq(s): CMS 270 and instructor consent.
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CMS 430 - Artificial Intelligence
Selective survey of key concepts and applications of artificial intelligence and an in-depth experience with a language commonly used for building AI systems (e.g., LISP or Prolog). Subtopics include knowledge representation, state space/searching, heuristic search, expert systems, expert system shells, natural language processing, propositional logic, learning and cognitive models, and vision. Prereq(s): MAT 310 .
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CMS 441 - Advanced Systems
Further topics in computer systems, including computer architecture, virtual memory, storage, and distributed systems. Substantial programming projects in the C language are required. Prereq(s): CMS 330 .
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CMS 450 - Networks
Study of the technology, architecture, and software used by systems of network-connected computers. Topics include data transmission, local area network architectures, network protocols, inter-networking, distributed systems, security, and network applications such as email, WWW, and FTP. Students will develop programs that run concurrently on multiple computers. Prereq(s): CMS 330 .
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CMS 460 - Algorithm Analysis
Detailed study of algorithm design and analysis, including greedy algorithms, divide and conquer, dynamic programming, backtracking, and brance and bound. Emphasis on verification and analysis of time space complexity. NP theory is introduced. Prereq(s): CMS 270 and MAT 140 .
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CMS 480 - Programming Language Translation
An in-depth study of the principles and design aspects of programming language translation. The major components of a compiler are discussed: lexical analysis, syntactic analysis, type checking, code generation, and optimization. Alternate parsing strategies are presented and compared with respect to space and time tradeoffs. A course project consists of the design and construction of a small compiler. Prereq(s): CMS 270 and CMS 330 .
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CMS 484 - Senior Computer Science Capstone
The Senior Capstone course provides a culminating and integrative educational experience. While participating on a team with other students, students will design and implement a large-scale software project. Class meetings will be used for teams to demonstrate the progress of their project as well as for the teams to meet and work. Team meetings outside of class will be required. Prereq(s): one 400-level CMS course.
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CMS 495 - Topics in Computer Science
An intensive exploration of a specialized area of computer science. Prereq(s): CMS 270
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CMS 499 - Independent Study
Covers selected topics in computer science. May be repeated for credit.
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Critical Media and Cultural Studies |
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CMC 100 - Introduction to Media and Cultural Studies with Lab
Orients students to the major’s “triple critical” focus: 1) on critical thinking, 2) on critical theory’s analysis of social systems, including mass media, and the distribution of power and inequality, and 3) on critical issues in our world today. The 1-credit lab builds competency in photo, sound, and video editing.
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CMC 110 - Digital Storytelling
Develops the ability to use and understand digital technologies as tools for creative multimedia expression. Students study how narrative and symbols structure meaning and create multimedia projects.
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CMC 150 - Topics in Media and Cultural Studies
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CMC 155 - Solidarity, Equality, Community
We explore a spectrum of sexual orientations and gender identities with particular focus on LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, and more!) identities, histories, and social movements. A welcoming, inclusive environment for the serious and the playful. Expand creative horizons. Engage seasoned activists. See how you can answer Gandhi’s call: “Be the change you wish to see in the world.”
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CMC 200 - Researching Media and Culture with Lab
What issues keep us awake at night? How might we address pressing challenges like climate change, war, and economic inequality? What separates assumption, belief, and knowledge about those challenges? How can we best translate knowledge into evidence-based arguments? This course explores multiple ways of researching culture and media. Each of us undertakes a project on a topic of our choosing, conducting both background (library) research and original research. The 1-credit lab builds information literacy, helping us find, evaluate, and synthesize information from multiple reputable sources.
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CMC 220 - Writing Lives
The title of this course has at least two meanings, and we will explore both. We will become more introspective about our lives as writers, and we will write creatively and analytically about lived experience, our own and that of others. This class is for those who yearn to read and write in order to understand and bring meaning to their journey.
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CMC 230 - Media and Disability
Using media as text, this course examines the (mis)representation of people with disabilities in TV, film, documentary, graphic novels, and digital media. We will analyze disability at the intersection of culture and identity and consider how media vary when created by and for the non-disabled. Several problematic implications include able-bodied actors in disabled roles (“crip face”) and acquired disability as a fate worse than death (Million Dollar Baby). Using a hands-on approach, we will engage in analysis to understand how emerging media challenge stigma and employ contemporary disability theory.
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CMC 240 - Making Documentary
Documentaries can be powerful tools for engaging the world, and imagining and advocating social change. By both making and studying documentaries, students will develop video production skills and explore a fascinating mix of storytelling, truth claims, expression, persuasian, power, ethical concerns, and other issues central to critical media studies and critical cultural studies.
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CMC 250 - Topics in Media and Cultural Studies
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CMC 270 - Media, Gender and Sexualities
Examines how media portray gender and sexuality; how those portrayals intersect with race, class, and other identities; and how television, music, social media, etc., shape and constrain personal and social power.
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CMC 300 - Critical Frameworks for Contemporary Culture
What is reality? What is truth? What is history? Who gets to decide? Through reading critical and cultural theory as well as discussion and writing, we will examine through multiple lenses cultural texts such as mainstream and independent news media, cinema, TV, music, and social media. Prereq(s): CMC 100 .
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CMC 310 - Media, Peace, and Justice
How can we use media as tools for change? How can we raise consciousness, our own and others’, then translate that into action? In this course, we not only study media but also engage in hands-on learning, developing and applying our talents to the pursuit of peace and justice.
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CMC 320 - Political Economy of Body and Food
What’s wrong with the ways we relate to our own bodies, to others’ bodies, to eating, and to food - and what can we do about it? This course examines the political and economic interests behind body and beauty ideals, body image, body dissatisfaction, eating disorders, steroid abuse, our cultural fear and hatred of fat, weight-based prejudice, and inequalities related to the current food system.
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CMC 325 - Incarceration and Inequality
As of 2013, U.S. jails and prisons held 2.2 million people-the same as work for Wal-Mart worldwide. The U.S. incarcerates more people than any other country. Class, race, nationality, and sex profoundly affect a person’s interactions with official “justice” systems, influencing who gets stopped, patted down, searched, arrested, and/or charged; who receives what kind of legal representation (if any); who is prosecuted, pressured to plead guilty, and/or convicted; who does time and how much. This course examines ways privilege and inequality manifest in, for example, the War on Drugs; the militarization of policing; prison privatization; solitary confinement; the death penalty; and extrajudicial imprisonment, torture, and killing.
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CMC 330 - Native American Media and Cultural Studies
Through investigating visual and cultural representation, this course explores how contemporary indigenous peoples reclaim textual production to form identity, reconstruct the past, revitalize culture, and assert sovereignty and treaty rights.
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CMC 335 - Critical Disability Studies
This course provides an interdisciplinary introduction to disability studies. We examine disability not solely as a medical condition but also as an issue of social and structural inequality. Disability will be studied through a variety of perspectives: culture and identity, gender and sexuality, stigma, media and digital culture, critical race theory, and queer theory. Through hands-on activities and media screenings, you will understand the shifting landscape of disability studies and question “normative” concepts of the body, self, and sexuality.
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CMC 350 - Topics in Media and Cultural Studies
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CMC 400 - Senior Seminar/Research Practicum with Lab
This course builds on and advances CMC core course material and discussions pertaining to power and inequality; justice and peace; and cultural identities such as gender, race, class, sexuality, nationality, religion, and dis/ability. Each of us will complete a capstone project that: reflects the critical approach to research, has a significant library research component, has a significant original research component, and communicates an evidence-based argument through documentary short film. Lab builds competency in documentary filmmaking. Prereq(s): all core courses, plus at least four electives for the major.
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Dance |
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DAN 135 - Freedom to Move
Covers a variety of techniques that lead to more efficient use of the body. Methods learned will include various forms of dance and may also include Body Mapping, Alexander Technique, Nia, Laban, Body-Mind Centering, yoga, and Feldenkrais. Suitable for all students, particularly actors, dancers, singers, instrumentalists, and athletes.
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DAN 155 - Musical Theatre Dance
Provides an understanding of the structure of musical stage choreography and an insight into the skills necessary to perform that choreography. Students will expand their technical abilities by studying and learning a variety of choreographic styles of major musical theatre choreographers.
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DAN 170 - Ballet I
Introduces fundamental concepts and historical background of ballet.
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DAN 175 - Tap Dance I
Explores the fundamentals, vocabulary, and historical background of tap dancing.
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DAN 177 - Jazz I
Provides a sequence of physical experiences designed to introduce the fundamentals, vocabulary, and historical background of jazz dance.
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DAN 179 - Modern Dance I
Introduces fundamental concepts and historical background of modern dance.
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DAN 203 - Dance History
Studies the history of dance from antiquity to 20th century. Examines the social, political, and cultural forces on the development of early and current dance theories and practices that have led to the art of dance as we know it today.
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DAN 225 - Dance Improvisation
An introduction to the spontaneous movement form known as improvisation. Through guided movement exercises and experiences, readings, discussions, observations, and journaling, students will broaden self-awareness and physical and expressive skills in the movement aspects of time, space, energy, shape and dynamics. This course will delve into the basics of improvisation as self-exploration, technique, choreographic tool and performance form through various approaches and styles.
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DAN 270 - Ballet II
A continuation of ballet with an increase in the level of technical difficulty, historical research, critical studies, and vocabulary building. Prereq(s): DAN 170 or instructor consent.
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DAN 275 - Tap Dance II
A continuation of tap dancing with an increase in the level of technical difficulty. Prereq(s): DAN 175 or instructor consent.
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DAN 277 - Jazz II
A continuation of jazz dance with an increase in the level of technical difficulty. historical research, critical studies, and vocabulary building. Prereq(s): DAN 177 or instructor consent. May be repeated for credit.
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DAN 279 - Modern Dance II
A continuation of modern dance with an increase in the level of technical difficulty, historical research, critical studies, and vocabulary. Prereq(s): DAN 179 or instructor consent.
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DAN 300 - Dance Composition
Introduces dance composition. Highlights personal invention, solo and group focus, and evaluative process in basic choreography. Includes readings and writings on choreographers and choreography. Prereq(s): DAN 394 or instructor consent. May be repeated for credit. Intended for dance minors.
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DAN 320 - Dance Teaching Methods
Methods and skills for teaching in the dance genres of ballet, modern, tap and jazz, including theory and
practice. Prereq(s): DAN 300
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DAN 370 - Ballet III
Provides an increased level of technical difficulty. Attention is given to alignment, musicality and a broader knowledge of ballet terminology. Prereq(s): DAN 270
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DAN 377 - Jazz III
Explores an increased level of technical difficulty. Attention is given to alignment, musicality, and a broader knowledge of jazz dance vocabulary. Prereq(s): DAN 277
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DAN 379 - Modern III
Provides an increased level of technical difficulty. Attention is given to alignment, musicality, and a broader knowledge of modern dance vocabulary. Prereq(s): DAN 279
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DAN 380 - Studies in Dance
Delves into particular period, choreographer’s work, or special issue, depending on interest of students and faculty. May be repeated for credit.
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DAN 394 - Intermediate/Advanced Dance Technique
Offers heightened movement experience with greater emphasis on technical development and performance. Includes weekly classes in ballet, jazz, and modern dance. Prereq(s): instructor consent. May be repeated for credit.
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DAN 420 - Dance Production I
Designed to prepare students to conceptualize as choreographers and producers of the annual fall dance concert which is produced during the fall semester. The students will be guided through the process of dance production which includes elements of composition, costumes, music, and lighting design.
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DAN 421 - Dance Production II
This class prepares students as choreographers and producers of the fall dance concert. The students will be guided through the process of dance production which includes elements of composition, costumes, music, and lighting design. Prereq(s): DAN 420
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Economics |
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ECO 121 - Economics of Contemporary Issues
Applies elementary tools of economic analysis to issues of national and social importance. Not open to students who are enrolled in or have completed ECO 202 . Suitable for all majors.
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ECO 126 - Economics and Public Policy
Examines U.S. macroeconomic policies and effects on inflation, unemployment, rate of growth of GDP, budget deficit, and other current policy questions. Not open to students who are enrolled in or have completed ECO 202 . Suitable for all majors.
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ECO 130 - Democracy and Economics
Assesses difficulties, successes, and potentials of economic institutions with democratic rules. Evaluates nature of democratic control both for economic efficiency and alternative criteria. Highlights traditional analysis based on property rights. Suitable for all majors.
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