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ENGL 226 - Creative Writing
This course introduces students to creative writing and includes fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Students learn how to tap their lives for writing material and how to use that material in various writing forms.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 230 - Post-Colonial Literature
Persons who have cultural ties to countries formerly ruled by colonial powers write post-colonial literature. This poetry, drama, and prose often describes how such persons are affected by both the legacy of colonialism, the systematic occupation and domination of one country by another, and decolonization, the process by which colonies become self-governing or independent. In addition, this literature often explores strategies former colonies have used to survive in a world dominated by global capitalism. This course examines post-colonial literature written in four regions of the world: Latin America and the Caribbean, Australia and Oceania, Asia, and Africa and the Middle East.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 231 - Tutoring in English
This course gives student peer tutors some pointers on how to communicate grammar,
syntax, and spelling rules to students for whom writing is difficult. The course
also offers suggestions for helping students develop and organize content, follow
directions for writing assignments, and deal with specific writing tasks, including
the research paper.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission of the Writing Center Director.
Credits: 1
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ENGL 232 - Tutoring in English Practicum I
This course is a practicum or internship as a peer tutor in the College Writing Center. Students tutor for a minimum of three contact hours per week throughout the semester. This course may be taken by Writing Center tutors with experience prior to the creation of ENGL 231.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission of the Writing Center Director.
Credits: 1
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ENGL 233 - Tutoring in English Practicum II
This course is a practicum or internship as a peer tutor in the College Writing
Center. Students tutor for a minimum of three contact hours per week throughout
the semester. This course may be taken concurrently with ENGL 232.
Prerequisites & Notes
Permission of the Writing Center Director.
Credits: 1
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ENGL 234 - Student Newspaper Practicum
This course is designed to provide students with practical experience in writing, editing, headline writing, and layout of a student newspaper. Each student receives a varied weekly assignment from the editor-in-chief of the College’s student newspaper. This course may be repeated up to a maximum of eight semester hours.
Credits: 1
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ENGL 241 - Survey of American Literature I
This course, covering American literature from approximately 1600 to 1865, examines the lives and works of the following authors: Bradstreet, Taylor, Franklin, Irving, Bryant, Poe, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Melville, and others.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is geared for ENGL, COSJ, AMST and Elementary Education majors. Readings will be more extensive than other 200 level courses.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 242 - Survey of American Literature II
This course, covering American literature from 1865 to the present, examines the lives and works of the following authors: Whitman, Twain, Dickinson, James, Crane, London, Wharton, Frost, Robinson, Wolfe, Eliot, Steinbeck, Hemingway, Faulkner, and others.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is geared for ENGL, COSJ, AMST and Elementary Education majors. Readings will be more extensive than other 200 level courses.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 251 - Survey of African American Literature I
This course traces African American self-expression in autobiographical and imaginative forms from 1760 to the 1930’s, noting the educational, social, economic, political, and legal limitations within which, or against which, they were produced.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 252 - Survey of African American Literature II
This course presents African American literary works from the 1930’s into the 1980’s and relates them to the literary efforts produced by other Americans and to the folklore, history, and socio-political backgrounds from which they came.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 261 - Survey of British Literature I
This course examines British literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the eighteenth century. The focus is on how the literature reveals the forces that influence the cultural and intellectual characteristics of the periods.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is geared for ENGL and COSJ majors. Readings will be more extensive than other 200 level courses.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 262 - Survey of British Literature II
This course surveys British literature from the beginning of the Romantic period to the present. It examines the work of individual authors within their literary period and also explores the way the larger socioeconomic and historical contexts shaped their works.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is geared for ENGL and COSJ majors. Readings will be more extensive than other 200 level courses.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 270 - American Nature Writers
This course introduces the student to a selection of American nature writers. The class examines nature writing as a unique and exceptional form of writing. Students read selections from such authors as Thoreau, Austin, Leopold, Beston, Carson, and Abbey.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 272 - Native American Literature
The focus of this course is on Native American oral and literary expression. Traditional Native American biographies, speeches, and legends, and contemporary Native American short stories and novels are read.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 274 - Asian American Literature
This course examines novels, short stories, poetry, essays, and political texts written
by Asain Americans. Students will attend to the form, content and context of the readings in order to develop their critical thinking skills in relation to a number of issues, themes, and concepts which emerge out of and in relation to Asian American literature and the American racial context; exclusion, group identity, community individualism, racial identity, and immigration.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 275 - Women and Literature
In this course, students read literature written by women and study the literary tradition and critical reception of women writers. Particular emphasis is placed on the cultural position of women in the United States, emphasizing racial, ethnic, and class diversity.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 301 - Advanced Composition
This course teaches selection, organization, presentation of material, and principles of writing.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 302 - Business and Technical Writing
This course includes instruction in various business writing situations, including letters, memos, reports, proposals, and job application materials. Students use their own area of study for developing suitable correspondence.
Prerequisites & Notes
ENGL 113 and ENGL 114.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 303 - Business and Professional Speaking
Individuals learn rhetorical techniques for effective speaking in the workplace in the context of their respective future careers. Students are required to make several effective oral presentations, proposals, informative lectures or briefings, progress reports, summaries, evaluations, budget reviews, etc. Participation in mock interviews and staff meetings and proper use of visual aids and equipment to enhance presentations are stressed.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 305 - Introduction to Writing as a Profession
This course offers students a practical overview of writing as a career. Magazine writing is the main focus, but literary writing, technical writing, and other types of writing are also introduced.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 306 - Advanced Creative Writing
This advanced course is intended to develop students’ skills in one area of creative writing (i.e., fiction, poetry, or drama). Students are expected to submit several written assignments during the course of the term, to prepare detailed and close peer evaluations, and to submit a significant portfolio (several stories, ten to twelve poems) at the end of the semester.
Prerequisites & Notes
ENGL 226.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 309 - Children’s Literature
This course familiarizes students with a variety of classical and contemporary prose and poetry and its ability to enrich children’s lives by meeting their needs for beauty, fantasy, knowledge, and emotional support. Students draw on the power of story for making connections between learning and discovery. Writing activities for extending literature across the curriculum are included in each class session.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 321 - Chaucer and the Middle Ages
This course involves close study of selections from The Canterbury Tales, and “Troilus and Criseide,” as well as other representative selections from Middle English literature.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 325 - Survey of American Drama
This course is a study of selected playwrights representing the development of American drama from the late nineteenth century through the present.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 332 - The Victorian Period
This course is a study of selected authors of the period, including Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Rosseti, and Carlyle. The course will look at the social, political, and cultural trends of the period.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 333 - English Romantic Literature
This course familiarizes the student with some of the finest poetry and prose written in early nineteenth century England.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 335 - Literacy, Hypermedia, and Modern Communication
Students in this course explore the relationship of technology and communication, focusing on hypertext and hypermedia’s power to redefine literacy in the classroom and in the workplace. Students work toward a definition of literacy’s historical evolution from oral to pictoral and graphic to print, focusing on the noetic demands and impact of that evolution. With hands-on use of the technology, the course investigates the shift from paper-bound to electronic literacy, particularly as embodied in hypertext and hypermedia. Cross-listed as CISC 335.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 343 - Film as a Narrative Art
Narrative films such as On the Waterfront, All the King’s Men, and Requiem for a Heavyweight are studied and discussed in terms of character, theme, structure, and style. Similarities between cinematic technique and the adaptation of material from literature to film are explored.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 346 - American Short Story
This course examines the historical significance and the artistic achievement of such writers as Hawthorne, F. O’Connor, Hemingway, Updike, Salinger, Carver, and those writers in the most recent edition of Best American Short Stories. Its objective is to help students become better readers of short fiction by emphasizing class discussion and short papers.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 349 - Modern American Poetry
This course is a survey from Dickinson to such poets as Frost, Stevens, Wilbur, and Silko. Modern poetic forms, diction, and content are emphasized. The course reflects the diversity of modern American poetry and its relevance to contemporary literary movements.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 350 - Modern American Novel
This course examines novels by selected twentieth century American writers such as Dreiser, Fitzgerald, Anderson, Hemingway, Wolfe, dos Passos, West, Faulkner, Wright, Ellison, Baldwin, Oates, Updike, Bellow, Pynchon, and others.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 352 - American Realism and Naturalism
This course focuses on the literary genre, criticism, and cultural context of America from 1865 to 1914. The course includes a study of the works of the following writers: Howells, Whitman, Twain, James, Harte, Garland, London, Norris, and Crane.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 353 - American Romanticism
This course focuses on the literary works of key nineteenth century authors in the American Romantic movement: Irving, Cooper, Poe, Hawthorne, Melville, Emerson, Thoreau, and Whitman. Romantic themes of individualism, imagination, and intuition are stressed.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 356 - Readings in the English Novel I
This course traces the rise and development of the English novel from the early eighteenth century until the mid-nineteenth century. Included in this examination are the evolution of narrative voice and structure, point of view, theme, and ideology.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 357 - Readings in the English Novel II
This course traces the development of the English novel from the mid-Victorian period through the middle of the twentieth century, focusing particularly on the modernist and postmodernist movements and their influence on narrative voice, point of view, structure, theme, and ideology. Authors included are Eliot, Gissing, Hardy, Joyce, Lawrence, Woolf, Burgess, Sillitoe, and Golding.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 362 - Celtic Literature
This course explores modern and contemporary Irish, Welsh, and Scottish literary traditions, with attention to the mythological and political backgrounds of the literature. Particular emphasis is given to the Irish Literary Renaissance and such writers as Yeats, J.M. Synge, James Joyce, Flann O’Brien, and Frank O’Conner.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 370 - Film Genre
Each semester it is offered, this course focuses on a specific film genre such as
athlete in film, crime film, women in film, science fiction film, or film comedy. Films
are analyzed in terms of character, theme, symbol, structure, and unique cimematic
techniques. It is suggested, but not required, that students take ENGL 343, Film
as Narrative Art, prior to ENGL 370.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course may be repeated (up to a total of 9 credit hours) if different genre topics are selected.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 375 - Structure of American English
This course is an introduction to the methods of descriptive analysis of contemporary American English (sounds, forms, and syntax), with special emphasis on language learning and social dialects.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 377 - The History of the English Language
This course analyzes the growth, structure, and development of the English language.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 388 - Special Topics in Narrative Film
Each semester it is offered, this course focuses on a specific film genre such as the war film, film comedy, or the western. Films are analyzed in terms of character, theme symbol, structure, and unique cinematic techniques. It is suggested, but not required, that students take ENGL 343 Film as a Narrative Art, prior to 388. This course may be taken for credit more than one time if different genre topics are selected.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 428 - Modern Drama
This course explores modern trends in the development of dramatic literature, with emphasis on Realism and Theatricalism.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 459 - The Contemporary Novel
This course seeks to investigate the novel from the point where traditional courses in American and European literature terminate. Current novels are read and discussed in an effort to evaluate their literary merit, popularity, and contribution to modern culture.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 467 - Shakespeare
This course develops the student’s appreciation of Shakespeare as a master dramatist through a study of selected tragedies, comedies, and histories. The emphasis shifts yearly from the tragedies to the comedies, with histories incorporated each year.
Prerequisites & Notes
ENGL 261 or 262. This course is geared for junior and senior ENGL and COSJ majors.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 482 - Seminar
Selected topics in British or American literature are assigned. The subject of the seminar may vary from year to year.
Prerequisites & Notes
ENGL 241 or 242. This course is geared for junior and senior ENGL and COSJ majors.
Credits: 3
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ENGL 488 - Special Topics
Varies.
Credits: 3
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English for Speakers of Other Languages |
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ESOL 250 - ESOL Reading and Writing I-Advanced
This is an advanced level reading a writing course designed for students whose native language is not English. It focuses on developing reading and writing skills to enable them to function effectively in an academic setting. Students should be placed in ESOL 250 through the placement exam or with the recommendation of an ESOL instructor. (Fall only) .
Credits: 3
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ESOL 251 - ESOL Speaking and Listening-Advanced
This is an advanced speaking and listening course designed for students whose native language is not English. It focuses on developing the speaking and listening skills to enable them to function effectively in an academic setting. Students should be placed in ESOL 251 through the placement exam or with the recommendtion of an ESOL instructor. (Fall only)
Credits: 3
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ESOL 260 - ESOL Reading and Writing II-Advanced
This is an advanced level reading a writing course designed for students whose native language is not English. It focuses on developing reading and writing skills to enable them to function effectively in an academic setting. Students should be placed in ESOL 260 through the placement exam or with the recommendation of an ESOL instructor. (Spring only)
Credits: 3
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ESOL 261 - ESOL Speaking and Listening-Advanced
This is an advanced speaking and listening course designed for students whose native language is not English. It focuses on developing the speaking and listening skills to enable them to function effectively in an academic setting. Students should be placed in ESOL 251 through the placement exam or with the recommendation of an ESOL instructor. (Spring only)
Credits: 3
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ESOL 288 - Special Topics
Three special topics courses are offered each semester. Topics may include TOEFL preparation, study skills, vocabulary development, pronunciation, or advanced grammar topics.
Credits: 1
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FREN 103 - The Culture of France and Francophone World
This course presents selected aspects of French culture through readings, and especially through the viewing of films. In the fall semester, the course emphasizes the French way of life, and in the spring, French history. The aim is for students to visualize a culture before examining it. Students discuss selected topics pertinent to the French civilization that are also relevant to them. In addition, students acquaint themselves with French-speaking countries by embarking on an intellectual voyage through discussions of each movie and each literary work, through individual research, and oral presentation.
Credits: 3
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FREN 111 - Elementary French I
This course is offered to students with no experience of the French language. Students are immersed in all the complexity of spoken French and are brought to speak with confidence and good pronunciation in familiar situations. By means of this immersion method, students use their creativity and coping skills to communicate and to reflect on the differing values in a foreign culture.
Credits: 3
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FREN 112 - Elementary French II
This course is for students with some experience of the French language. As in French 111, students are immersed in French by means of global media. Conversation skills are stressed. Students use their creativity and coping skills to communicate. They also study selected aspects of French culture and develop awareness of the differing values in another culture.
Prerequisites & Notes
FREN 111 or the successful completion of two years of French at the secondary school level.
Credits: 3
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FREN 211 - Intermediate French I
This course focuses on the practical and contemporary aspects of the French language by means of technology and multimedia, thus reinforcing the socio-cultural frameworks of language. Conversation skills are emphasized while students surf the net, watch movies, read poetry, sing songs, prepare French recipes, and make phone calls.
Prerequisites & Notes
FREN 112 or the successful completion of three years of French at the secondary school level.
Credits: 3
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FREN 212 - Intermediate French II
This course emphasizes the advantages of learning a foreign language as a means of communication and as the key to a different culture. Students gain a better understanding of how the French Language works in real life. The conversational method of the course stresses both verbal and non-verbal communication, gestures, looks, attitudes, behavior, intonation, i.e., cultural conventions and assumptions. Toward this goal, multimedia and global communication capacities through technology are used to expose students to French in its natural form.
Prerequisites & Notes
French 112 with a B+ average, French 211 or 4 years of French at the Secondary School Level, or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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GEOG 200 - World Regional Geography
This is a basic introductory course in geography designed to develop an understanding and perspective og the major regions of the world.
Credits: 3
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GEOG 210 - Cultural Geography
This course introduces students to cultural geography, the study of how various aspects of culture are expressed spatially. Global patterns of population, economic
organization, forms of government, religion, language and development are surveyed.
Credits: 3
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GERM 103 - German Culture and Language
This course, open to all undergraduates, provides a fundamental understanding not only of the German language, but also of the many people of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland for whom it is the major form of communication.
Credits: 3
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HSRS 201 - Introduction to Health Care Ethics
Health care ethics presents some of the most intriguing and perplexing issues facing the country today. This course introduces and explores issues such as scarce health care resources; the relationship between patient and health caregiver; experimentation with human subjects; social justice and the right to health care; assisted reproductive
technologies; and euthanasia and assisted suicide. We will discuss issues from the
standpoint of different kinds of patients, medical professionals, and citizens who shape policy in a democratice society. Ethical theories and concepts will be stressed.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 100 - Wellness: A Way of Life
This course provides students with a basic knowledge and practice of wellness and the
importance of lifelong healthful living. Students are acquainted with such topics as
healthy behavior change, stress management, mental health, nutrition and weight
management, sexuality, relationships, addictions and physical fitness and activity.
Emphasis is placed on decision-making and personal responsibility for one’s own health. The class is comprised of lecture and lab components.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 210 - Consumer Health Education
This course aids prospective health education majors, as well as interested student
consumers, in attaining a better understanding of individual human rights in consumer
health from conception until death and in realizing a maximum return for their
money and effort spent in the pursuit of optimal wellness.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 230 - Public Health Administration
This course acquaints the student with organization, administration, and management of public health programs. Discussion focuses on the political, social, cultural, and economic factors that determine current policies and practices.
Credits: 2
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HLTH 260 - Drugs and Society
This course provides students with a basic knowledge of current drug use and the adverse effects of drug misuse and abuse. The use and misuse of drugs are examined from physiological, psychological, sociological, and intellectual perspectives. This course provides students with an opportunity to examine the various components and issues of drug use, misuse, and abuse in society today.
Prerequisites & Notes
HLTH 103.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 261 - Introduction to Nutrition
In this course students will discover how the body uses food by learning various
functions of each key nutrient. An overview of digestion, absorption, and metabolism
is provided. Food sources of the key nutrients and recommended intakes are explored
in depth. The student’s own diet is evaluated, using a computerized diet analysis.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 304 - Methods and Materials in Health/Family and Consumer Science
This course analyzes the theories, practices and planning processes for school health
education. Readings, discussions, observations, lesson planning, practice teaching, and critical analysis emphasize quality teaching and professionalism in the health education field. The course analyzes how to teach students with special needs and how to develop, plan and implement IEP’s. Lecture sessions are focused upon the conceptual foundations related to the teaching and learning process when delivering health instruction. Laboratory sessions involve authentic ‘hands-on’ practical applications and observational assessments of lecture concepts in a controlled classroom setting.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 306 - Methods and Materials in Health/Family and Consumer Science-Lab
Lab component of HLTH 304.
Credits: 0
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HLTH 343 - Community Health Education
This course helps students become effective community health educators by increasing knowledge in community health areas and enhancing individual health skills and competencies essential to this career field. This course also provides an overview of the organization, role, and structure of community health agencies, with a specific emphasis on the health education services.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 355 - Human Sexuality
This course provides open discussion, debates, and reading materials to survey the dynamics of human sexuality, and to identify and examine the basic issues in human sexuality in relation to society as a whole.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 361 - Applied Nutrition
This course enables students to attain a better understanding of the dynamic relationship between nutrition and the human physiological process. This better prepares students to engage in preventive and management techniques as related to nutritional deficiencies and the human body.
Prerequisites & Notes
HLTH 261.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 386 - Pre-Practicum in Health/Family and Consumer Science PreK-8
This is a supervised pre-practicum in grades PreK-8 of a public school that includes
observatiuon and participation in the work of the school. This course provides the student with exposure to various teaching methods and learning experiences.
Prerequisites & Notes
Student must be an official candidate for teacher licensure.
Credits: 2
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HLTH 387 - Pre-Practicum in Health/Family and Consumer Science 5-12
This is a supervised pre-practicum in grades 5-12 of a public school that includes
observation and participation in the work of the school. This course provides the student with exposure to various teaching methods and learning experiences.
Prerequisites & Notes
Student must be an official candidate for teacher licensure.
Credits: 2
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HLTH 417 - Organization, Administration, and Assessment for the School Health Program
This course examines administrative relationships, procedures, and assessment techniques involved in the conduct of school health programs. Areas of study include: general policies, services and delivery systems, environment, reliability, personnel duties, curriculum development, and instruction. An emphasis on aligning program objectives and assessment strategies with the current Massachusetts Comprehensive Health Education Frameworks (MCHEF) will comprise a significant segment of required assignments.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 425 - Human Disease and Health Literacy
This course examines a wide range of contemporary health problems. Students examine the epidemiology and pathology of major diseases and the attendant psychosocial implications. The prevention and control are discussed through the lens of health literacy. Health literacy is the degree to which individuals have the capacity obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 450 - Workshop in Health
This workshop provides students with an understanding of the contemporary health problems of society. Provisions are made for students to seek solutions to these health problems through individual and group work. NOTE: A student may register for this course for credit more than once, provided the area to be included is different each time.
Credits: 1
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HLTH 460 - Health-Related Aspects of Aging
This course focuses on the various theories associated with biological aging, the identification of major health hazards, and provisions for their treatment, prevention, and control. Also, the health care delivery system is examined and discussed.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 461 - Advanced Nutrition
This course focuses on the functions of nutrients in human metabolism. Emphasis is placed on digestion, absorption, and metabolism of proteins, fats, carbohydrates, and the non-energy nutrients, vitamins, minerals, and water. Evaluation of nutritional status is also examined.
Prerequisites & Notes
CHEM 101-102, BIOL 130-131, 132-133, or BIOL 250-251, 252-253, and HLTH 361.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 470 - Gender and Health
Gender is one of the most researched factors affecting health status. Studies on gender and helath have resulted in extensive discourse on men’s earlier mortality and women’s higher rates of illness. This course introduces participants to theories and to
research regarding health differences and similarities between men and women. Participants will critically examine the assumptions of gender and how these
assumptions have health care consequences in their own, and other, cultures. The expected outcome of this course is to promote awareness, critical thinking skills, and personal, autonomy related to gender health issues.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 480 - Program Planning and Design
This course provides an overview of assessment, planning, implementing, and evaluating effective community health education programs. Students will develop their abilities in setting goals and objectives, coordinating provision of health education services and communicating health education needs, concerns, and resources.
Credits: 3
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HLTH 484 - Practicum in Health/Family and Consumer Science-Grades PreK-8
This is a supervised practicum under the direct guidance of a teacher-certified
health educator for a minimum of seven weeks at the PreK-8 level. Site assignments are made in consultation with and by permission of the Office of Educator Preparation. This course is for students seeking health/family & consumer science licensure at the elementary level.
Prerequisites & Notes
Health studies major, matriculation, permission of the department, and the following courses HLTH 304, 386 or 387, 417, and EDUC 237. Student must have passed MTEL exams and courses designated by their program.
Credits: 6-7
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HLTH 485 - Practicum in Health/Family and Consumer Science-Grades 5-12
This is a supervised practicum under the direct guidance of a teacher-certified
health educator for a minimum of seven weeks at the 5-12 level. Site assignments are made in consultation with and by permission of the Office of Educator Preparation. This course is for students seeking health/family & consumer science licensure at the secondary level.
Prerequisites & Notes
Health studies major, matriculation, permission of the department, and the following courses HLTH 304, 386 or 387, 417, and EDUC 237. Student must have passed MTEL exams and courses designated by their program.
Credits: 6-7
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HLTH 487 - Fieldwork in Health Studies
The fieldwork experience in health studies gives students the opportunity to apply
theory and knowledge learned in the classroom to the work situation through participation in a health organization’s daily activities. Students learn how to identify helath needs of individuals and groups, and how to plan, coordinate and implement health education activities.
Prerequisites & Notes
Students must have successfully achieved advanced standing in the Health Studies major. In addition, students must meet with their faculty supervisor to discuss planning information and selection of an appropriate agency, prepare a resume to present to the agency supervisor at the time of the interview (it is recommended that the resume be shared with the faculty supervisor first), and familiarize themselves with the selected agency and then contact the selected agency to arrange for an interview.
Credits: 6-12
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HLTH 488 - Special Topics in Health Studies
This course gives prospective classroom professionals an opportunity to study the special health issues and problems that arise in assisting students to change lifestyles or cope with special health needs. Through this course, students are better able to apply the communication and interpersonal skills necessary for promoting health and wellness.
Credits: 3
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Health, Physical Education and Recreation |
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HPER 350 - Wilderness First Responder
This course is designed to provide outdoor professionals with the knowledge and skills to deal with crisis in remote settings. The W.F.R. certification is the most widely
recognized certification for outdoor leaders. With an emphasis on prevention and decision-making, practical simulations and labs provide practice in backcountry leadership and rescue skills. *Students who successfully complete this course will receive a S.O.L.O. WFR certification card.
Prerequisites & Notes
18 years of age and permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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HPER 475 - Legal Issues in Sport and Recreation
This course offers an examination of general legal concepts, federal and state legislation, and legal liabilities as they impact the recreation and the sports profession. It is designed to assist administrators and supervisors to anticipate and cope with potential litigation.
Credits: 3
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HPER 478 - Budgeting for Sport and Recreation
This course focuses on the nature and concerns of sport and recreation professionals
as they prepare and defend operating and capital budgets. Topics will include
the preparation of financial plans, strategic budgeting, organizational structure,
collaborative efforts, and other methods used to fund and support facility operations.
Credits: 3
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SMRT 476 - Child Life Clinical Issues and Techniques
This course is designed to provide an overview of clinical issues and practical techniques related to the delivery of child life services and the specialized needs of hospitalized children, adolescents, and their families.
Prerequisites & Notes
SMRT 272 and 474 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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HIST 101 - Survey of the History of Western Civilization
This course examines the evolution of civilization from prehistoric culture through the ancient world to the seventeenth century. Emphasis is given to a global perspective, interrelationships between major world cultures, and the forces of change in political, economic, social, and intellectual institutions.
Credits: 3
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HIST 102 - The Making of the Modern World
This course surveys the development of ideas, institutions, and social processes in the modern world from the seventeenth century to the present. Consideration is given to both Western tradition and the diversity and interrelationships between the various cultures that comprise our contemporary world.
Credits: 3
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HIST 103 - World History
This course deals with the major developments and encounters of world civilizations from antiquity to the present. The aim is to develop a deeper understanding of the forces for change and patterns of continuity throughout history in order to better understand our global, yet diverse, world today.
Credits: 3
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HIST 105 - Colonial America to the Civil War
This is a survey of America’s history from the period of earliest explorations to the Civil War. Colonial settlement, the nature of the Revolution and U.S. Constitution, western settlement, and slavery are among the many areas covered.
Credits: 3
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HIST 106 - The Civil War to Modern America
This is a survey of America’s history from the Civil War period to the present. The impact of industrialization, America’s emergence as a world power, the New Deal, and more recent cultural, social, political, and economic trends are emphasized.
Credits: 3
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HIST 210 - African American History
This survey of Afro-American history includes the following topics the Atlantic slave trade, pre-Civil War conditions, lives and contributions of enslaved and free people, Civil War and Reconstruction doubts and hopes, post-Reconstruction struggles between Euro- and Afro-Americans through the 1950’s, and the Civil Rights activism of the 1960’s and early 1970’s.
Credits: 3
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HIST 223 - History of Russia
This course begins with a brief survey of Russian history from the earliest time through the nineteenth century. It concentrates on the reforms, revolutionary movements, and the decline of imperial Russia, and concludes with an overview of the Soviet period.
Credits: 3
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HIST 325 - The Ancient and Classical World
This is a survey of the political, social, and economic history of the Near Eastern, Mediterranean, and Western European world between 4000 B.C. and 500 A.D. The contributions of the major religious traditions and the Grecian and Roman cultures to modern civilizations are emphasized.
Credits: 3
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HIST 326 - Medieval History
This course examines developments and achievements of European civilizations from 350 to 1500 A.D. The division and decline of the Roman Empire, Byzantine reorganization and expansion, feudalism, urbanization, the social role of the Christian Church in Eastern and Western Europe, the universities, new art forms, the birth of national states, and the transition to modern history are emphasized.
Credits: 3
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HIST 327 - Early Modern Europe
This course begins with a consideration of Renaissance and Reformation of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as the harbinger of the modern age. It analyzes the evolution of modern science, Baroque and the Enlightenment, and concludes with a study of the background to the French Revolution.
Credits: 3
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HIST 335 - Modern China
China’s transformation between the Opium War (1839-1842) and the 1990’s may be seen as a progressive adjustment to the modern world or as an ever-intensifying revolution in Chinese government, society, and culture. This course combines the two approaches, exploring the problem of modernizing and revolutionary China through the eyes of participants and the debates of historians.
Credits: 3
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HIST 360 - Early American Thought and Culture
This course is a study of American ideas and culture from the Colonial Period to the mid-nineteenth century. Particular attention is given to such areas as social and political thought, religion, philosophy, literature, science, education, and reform.
Credits: 3
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HIST 361 - Modern American Thought and Culture
This is a study of American ideas and culture from the early nineteenth century to the early twentieth century. Particular attention is given to such areas as social and political thought, religion, philosophy, literature, science, and education.
Credits: 3
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