Course Descriptions

VPD 252 - Introduction to Tap

VPD 253 - Introduction to Jazz Dance

VPD 254 - Modern Dance Technique

VPD 255 - Ballet I

VPD 256 - Dance for Musical Theatre

VPD 257 - Introduction to Dance Composition

VPD 355 - Jazz Dance II

VPD 356 - Ballet II

VPD 357 - Dance Company

VPD 360 - Dance Outreach

VPD 490 - Directed Study

DSC 201 - Introduction to Data Science

DSC 395 - Data Science Integrated Project

DMP 215 - Digital Media Production I

DMP 315 - Digital Media Production II

DMP 320 - Writing for Digital Media

DMP 475 - Digital Media Internship

DMP 497 - Thesis Film Project

ECO 110 - The Economics of eBay (First-Year Seminar)

ECO 111 - The Undercover Economist (First-Year Seminar)

ECO 112 - Humans Behaving Badly: Economic Perspectives (First-Year Seminar)

ECO 176 - Microeconomic Principles

ECO 178 - Macroeconomic Principles

ECO 205 - Economics of Social Issues and Public Policy

ECO 206 - United States Economic History

Three Credits
Alternate Years: Fall Semester 2016, 2018

Basic economic analysis is used to study important aspects of the economic history of the United States. Concentration is on the period from 1830 to 1945, when the U.S. became a major industrial power. Emphasized are the development of big business, the effect of race and gender on markets, opportunities and incomes, and government policy.

Crosslisted with HIS 251 .
Not open to first semester students.

Course may be applied to the American Studies program.

ECO 211 - Economics of Labor Unions

ECO 217 - Economic History of the 20th Century American Family

ECO 219 - History of World Economic Development

ECO 230 - Development Economics

ECO 241 - Economic Statistics

ECO 242 - Econometrics

ECO 244 - The Economics of Sports

ECO 246 - Forensic Economics

ECO 301 - Intermediate Microeconomics

ECO 303 - Intermediate Macroeconomics

ECO 305 - Public Sector Economics

ECO 309 - Money and Banking

ECO 311 - International Economics

ECO 316 - Markets and Morality

ECO 317 - Economics and the Law

ECO 319 - Urban and Regional Economics

ECO 321 - Economics of Healthcare

ECO 323 - Labor Economics and Manpower Policy

ECO 327 - Environmental Economics

ECO 329 - Industrial Organization

Three Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016 (next offered Spring 2017)

Analysis of industries with varying degrees of monopoly power and influence: monopolies, cartels, oligopolies, monopolistic competition, and dominant firms.  Firm strategies and likely outcomes, under both collusive arrangements and competitive pressures.  Policy implications like antitrust and regulation.  Effects of asymmetrically held information - how parties with information try to use it, those lacking information respond.

 

Prerequisite(s): ECO 176  and ECO 178  (or their corresponding First-Year Seminar equivalents), and one Statistical Reasoning course.

ECO 337 - Mathematics for Economists

ECO 343 - International Finance

Three Credits
Offered Periodically (Spring 2016)

Different aspects of the international financial markets, international trade, and balance of payments are studied by using analytical models of an open economy. This course examines the structure and the performance of the foreign exchange market through an extensive use of the Bloomberg technology. Using Bloomberg, students learn the interactions between economic news, global financial markets and exchange rates. Particular emphasis is placed on current issues related to the global financial crisis, international monetary system, the European Union and The European Bank. Other topics include money and financial management for international corporations, interest and commodity arbitrage, spot and forward currency markets. Bloomberg Financial Terminals and Bridge Telerate are used in the course in order to give students a more hands-on knowledge of the international financial markets.

Prerequisite(s): ECO 176  and ECO 178  or their corresponding First-Year Seminar equivalents. 
May not receive credit for both ECO 343 and BUS 425 .

Course may be applied to the Asian Studies minor and Middle Eastern Studies minor.
 

ECO 420 - Fixed Income Analysis

ECO 421 - Seminar in Economic Research

Three Credits
Fall Semester

Students gain experience in reading and doing economic research.  Students write a major research paper, provide each other and receive intermediate feedback, and present their research to the department.

Prerequisite(s): Senior Economics major, ECO 241  (or equivalent), ECO 301  and ECO 303 .

 
This course fulfills the Capstone requirement in Economics.

ECO 423 - Capstone Seminar in Economic Policy

ECO 449 - Economics Honors Thesis I

ECO 450 - Economics Honors Thesis II

ECO 475 - Internship in Economic Research

ECO 490 - Directed Study

EDU 102 - Foundations of Education

EDU 104 - Early Care and Education

EDU 125 - Learning to Teach I

EDU 201 - Developmental Theories

EDU 202 - Reading: Theory and Instruction

EDU 207 - English Language Learners in Classrooms

Three Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters

 

Course will prepare teachers with knowledge and skills to accommodate English Language Learners in schools. Topics will include language and literacy development, vocabulary and academic language development, diversity issues and current policy requirements, with focus on implications for second language learners and Sheltered English Immersion (SEI) classrooms.

EDU 208 - Planning for Multicultural Learning

EDU 209 - Creating an Inclusive Learning Environment

Three Credits
Fall and Spring Semesters

Examines disabling conditions, legal requirements, and the instructional methods/techniques used for serving exceptional children and youth in the regular classroom, with strong emphasis on inclusion, diversity, and multiculturalism. Fieldwork with students with special needs is required.

Pre-practicum required. Not open to first-year students.

EDU 210 - Children in Preschools and Kindergarten

EDU 213 - Inclusive Learning in Early Education

EDU 220 - Children’s Literature

EDU 225 - Learning to Teach II

EDU 301 - Assessment and Analysis in Education

EDU 306 - Speech and Language Development

EDU 307 - Classroom Management

EDU 312 - Art, Music and Movement

EDU 315 - Curriculum and Instructional Design

EDU 316 - Classroom Theater

EDU 320 - Teaching Math, Science & Technology

EDU 325 - Learning to Teach III

EDU 327 - Diagnosis and Remediation of Reading Disabilities

EDU 330 - Reading & Writing in the Content Areas

EDU 333 - Topics in Education

EDU 430 - Practicum: Early Childhood Education

EDU 435 - Practicum: Elementary Education

EDU 437 - Practicum: Secondary Education 5-12 Level

EDU 439 - Practicum: Secondary Education 8-12 Level

EDU 440 - Practicum: Reflective Seminar

EDU 475 - Senior Field Project

EDU 476 - Internship in Education

EDU 490 - Directed Study in Education

EDU 496 - Independent Research in Education

ENG 100/110 - Island Living/Island Leaving (Core/First-Year Seminar)

Three or Four Credits
Spring Semesters

This seminar explores the literature of islands. This will be a semester-long inquiry into how the unique conditions of island living shape literature and culture. We will study texts about castaways, pirates, tourists, islanders, and adventurers in order to discern what makes stories about islands so compelling and enduring.

Prerequisite(s): ENG 110 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.

 
When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 110, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.

ENG 100/111 - Rites of Passage: Metamorphosis in Western Literature (Core/First-Year Seminar)

Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016

This course introduces students to the methods and strategies of critical thinking and writing, focusing on the theme of transformation (physical and otherwise) in Western literature, from Ovid through Shakespeare and on to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Through close reading of our key texts, we will explore issues of language, power, gender, race, class, and identity formation, and consider the ways in which literature is itself a process of metamorphosis.

Prerequisite(s): ENG 111 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
 

When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 111, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
 

ENG 100/112 - First Person: Film Theory/Film Practice (Core/First-Year Seminar)

Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016

This seminar will introduce students to film, and film representation, through theory and practice: intensive study of film language, technique, and theory will be followed by a basic introduction to film-making (creating short films). This will enable students to apply the theories and techniques they have learned in class.

Prerequisite(s):  

ENG 112 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
 

When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 112, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.

ENG 100/113 - Machine Culture: Our Technology, Ourselves (Core/First-Year Seminar)

Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016

This course explores the representation of technology as created by artists from ancient Athens to the 21st century. Questions we will pursue: is technology the friend or foe of humanity? Will machines enable our perfection or enhance our flaws? Should our machines be more or less like us?

Prerequisite(s): ENG 113 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
 

When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 113, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.

ENG 100/115 - The Importance of Being Lazy: Idlers, Loafers, and Slackers in Literature (Core/First-Year Seminar)

Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016

The figure of the shiftless lounger who resists the powerful imperative to work hard (or to work at all) has long been a literary mainstay. In this course we will read works from Shakespeare to Melville and beyond to ask questions about the cultural opposition of work and leisure. You will get acquainted with famous slackers from various significant moments in western cultural history, in poems, dramas, novels, and films-from Shakespeare’s history play Henry IV, Part 1, for instance, in which the heir to the English throne prefers to hang around with sketchy characters in taverns rather than toil at the palace; to Herman Hesse’s novel Narcissus and Goldmund, about an overachiever and a gifted bum; to the “Dude,” a bowling slacker from Los Angeles in the Coen brothers’ The Big Lebowski. You will also read widely in social and cultural history on the subject of idleness, and become familiar with key literary terms and concepts.

Prerequisite(s): ENG 115 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
 
 

When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 115, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
 

ENG 100/116 - Literature in Translation? (Core/First-Year Seminar)

Three or Four Credits
Spring Semester

Many of the texts that you read in your core courses are translations into English. What exactly does it mean to read a text in translation? We will ask and answer that question, using these 19th-century texts: Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal/Flowers of Evil; Flaubert, Madame Bovary; Tolstoy, Anna Karenina.

Corequisite(s): ENG 116 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
 
 

When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 116, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
 

ENG 100/117 - The Subject of Travel (Core/First-Year Seminar)

ENG 100/118 - War and Gender in Literature and Film (Core/First-Year Seminar)

Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016

How do cultures and societies as well as individual artists narrate the experience of war and what it means to be a soldier? We will explore how writers and filmmakers have addressed the tensions between societal expectations and the reality of war, as well as the challenges they see in telling stories about what are essentially often traumatic experiences. How does trauma or memory affect the stories we tell about war? What is the relationship between the ‘front’ and the ‘home’, between those who serve and those who don’t? In addition, we will discuss societal gender norms and expectations and the insights we might gain about how these norms operate in a particular society by looking at them in the context of war. How, in other words, does the experience of war a society goes through crystallize what that society thinks of the role of men and women, of “proper” masculine behavior, of what makes a “real” soldier (aka a “real” man), and so forth. In order to explore these and other questions, we will study poetry, short stories, letters, novels, as well as films dealing with World War I, Vietnam, and more recent wars in the Middle East and Afghanistan. Likely texts include the “Trench Poetry” of World War I, short fiction by Ernest Hemingway and Tim O’Brien, letters written by soldiers fighting in Vietnam, recent “war bloggers,” and films such as Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, Jarhead, and Black Hawk Down.

Prerequisite(s):  ENG 118 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
 
 

When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 118, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.

ENG 100/119 - Gods and Monsters (Core/First-Year Seminar)

Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016

This course focuses on the dialogue between classical authors and later artists who re-visit, revise, re-voice the epic tradition. We will work on certain skills: close reading, engaging with and applying secondary literature, thinking through complex ideas, formulating readings of these texts. Authors will include Euripides, Homer, Ovid, Virgil, and Anne Carson We will also examine film, music, and dance.

Prerequisite(s): ENG 119 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
 
 

When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 110, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.

ENG 100/120 - “The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet”: Metaphor and the Unconscious (Core/First-Year Seminar)

Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016

This course explores the connections between reading strategies encouraged by lyric poetry, fairy tales, and Freud’s account of the operation of dream narratives. Texts to be examined include drama, fiction, and essays by such authors as William Shakespeare, Charles Perrault, Sigmund Freud, and Angela Carter, as well as poetry by W.H. Auden, W.S. Merwin, Sylvia Plath, Wallace Stevens, Adrienne Rich, and William Carlos Williams. We will also look at films from Alfred Hitchcock, David Kaplan, and Wes Craven.

Prerequisite(s):  ENG 120 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
 
 

When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 120, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.

ENG 100/121 - Violence and Nonviolence (Core/First-Year Seminar)

Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016

We only have to look around us to see that our world is defined in a fundamental way by violence. Writers and thinkers from various historical moments have both recognized the problem of violence in society and have offered critiques of it. Our study this term will be guided by the following question: what perspective does literature provide on the issues of violence and nonviolence in the world? We will encounter novelists, poets, playwrights, and essayists whose work contains original, thought-provoking, and moving representations of and reflections on violence and nonviolence. We will pose a number of additional questions of our readings: how do these texts represent the causes and consequences of violence? How do the texts convey the relationships among different types of violence - interpersonal, political, psychological, and socioeconomic? Is nonviolence a viable ethical position in these texts? How is nonviolence defined, and what, if any, are the impediments to lessening the violence of the world? Lastly, what might the role of literature, and art more generally, be in our imagining of nonviolence?

Prerequisite(s): ENG 121 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
 
 

When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 121, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.

ENG 100/122 - Seven Nobel Laureates (Core/First-Year Seminar)

Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016

In this course students will read from and write about the work of seven recent winners of the Nobel Prize in Literature who write in English. The seven laureates whom we’ll read are from various parts of the globe, but their recognition by the Nobel Committee suggests that their work speaks not just about its place of origin but to something beyond national borders. Is this perhaps what is meant by “world literature”? We’ll explore this question and others via the fiction of South Africans Nadine Gordimer and J. M. Coetzee, American Toni Morrison, and Trinidadian-born Briton V. S. Naipaul; the poetry of Seamus Heaney of Ireland and Derek Walcott of Saint Lucia; and the plays of London-born Harold Pinter. Naturally, we’ll read and discuss their Nobel lectures, too, as well as other prose works wherein our writers discuss why they write, for whom they write, and what they imagine the role of literature to be in the world.

Prerequisite(s): ENG 122 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
 
 

When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 122, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.

ENG 100/123 - “In Sickness and in Health”: Bodies in Literature (Core/First-Year Seminar)

Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016

This course presents an introduction to the study and appreciation of literature. Our thematic focus is the representation of human bodies in the works of poets, dramatists, novelists, and essayists at various significant moments in western cultural history. As we read some famous and influential literary texts alongside less familiar works, we will become acquainted with key concepts and methodologies employed in literary studies. We follow, more or less, a historical track and begin the semester with Ovid’s Metamorphoses, which set the standard for literary representations of the body, before turning to one of Shakespeare’s more obscure works, Titus Andronicus, a bloody revenge drama, Miss Evers’ Boys, a play about the infamous Tuskegee experiment, and finally Franz Kafka’s The Metamorphosis, a tale about a man who wakes one morning to find that he has turned into an insect. Midway through the course we will also read poetry by physicians and other health care workers. We examine films that deal with questions about human embodiment, but most of our time is devoted to the close reading of texts, to formulating arguments about literature, and to exploring methods of interpretation.

Prerequisite(s): ENG 123 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
 
 

When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 123, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.
 

ENG 100/124 - On the Road: Encounters with the “Other” (Core/First-Year Seminar)

Three or Four Credits
Not Offered 2015-2016

In this course we will ask how authors from Homer to Kerouac write about journeying and encounters with “other” people, places, ideas, values, and modes of conduct. The texts we read come from disparate historical periods and from a variety of cultural contexts. As we investigate their formal and stylistic elements and their possible meanings, we will become acquainted with different literary modes, from poetry, to drama, to prose. Although the overarching theme of the course is the journey and the encounter with “otherness,” the individual texts we read present very different engagements with the subject. The journeys about which we read may be mythic, factual, intellectual, spiritual, and/or artistic; they may constitute a rite of passage or initiation; they may be brief or interminable, alienating or rewarding; they may end tragically or lead to new understanding. The course emphasizes close reading and open questioning of cultural meaning. And these are some of the works you will encounter this semester: Homer’s Odyssey; selections from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales; Shakespeare’s Tempest; Goethe’s Faust; and Kerouac’s On the Road.

Prerequisite(s): ENG 124 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
 
 

When offered as ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone Requirement.
When offered as ENG 124, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone Requirements.