2013-2014 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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EJA 4840 - Senior Internship
This course enables students of advanced standing and achievement the opportunity to participate in “on-the-job” work experience in media-related situations separate from the classroom. Students must apply for a co-op in advance, and must meet with their academic advisor for materials, application form, and procedural details. See also the section on cooperative education elsewhere in this catalog. All students applying for co-op placements in EJA must receive departmental approval of the co-op placement and plan.
Prerequisites & Notes
VCCJ students applying for co-op placement must have successfully completed EJA 3810.
Credits: 1 to 6
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EJA 4850 - eJ Convergence Portfolio - I-Team
This portfolio course applies investigative-reporting techniques to the online (converged) newsroom environment of the Vermont Center for Community Journalism. Students produce in-depth, broadcast-quality reports with companion web-content through beat reporting, document research, and public meetings coverage. A minimum of 8 hours each week reporting beyond classroom meetings is required.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisites are EJA 4810 and EJA 4222 or permission. This course must be taken concurrently with EJA 4822. The course may be taken concurrently with EJA 4810 by permission only. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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EJA 4851 - eJ Convergence Portfolio - Photojournalism
This portfolio course allows students to explore and practice the art of photojournalism utilizing both the still and video mediums. Photographers develop visual storytelling techniques in the style and tradition of the National Press Photographers Association. Students enrolled in this class may also work with other students enrolled in the I-Team and/or ENG 4030 publication section of the class.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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EJA 4852 - NewsLINC Special Projects
This course expands upon the VCCJ Practicum III, allowing students to focus on e-journalism. Students work for NewsLINC, the e-journalism platform, producing web-only content and anchoring (with permission) web only segments. Approximately 10-15 hours per week in NewsLINC is required.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is by permission only. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every semester.
Credits: 3
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EJA 4853 - Print & Digital Journalism Portfolio
This course serves as an opportunity for students to demonstrate their level of competency and depth of understanding. Students produce a portfolio and/or to develop a senior-level project incorporating their mastery of Print and Digital Journalism techniques. This work will be published on the platforms of the Vermont Center for Community Journalism and may be part of in-depth coverage coordinated with students in the other EJA Convergence Portfolio courses (I-Team, Photojournalism, and NewsLINC Special Projects).
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is EJA 4830. This course is offered every semester.
Credits: 3
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EJA 4900 - Special Studies in Community Journalism
This course provides an opportunity for advanced students to pursue topics of specific interest. Study contracts must be submitted to the department chair prior to registration.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is permission. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 1 to 6
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ENG 0030 - Basic Reading and Writing
This course is designed to meet the needs of incoming students whose tested reading and writing abilities fall short of a standard needed to complete college-level work. The course covers study skills including note-taking, outlining, skimming, and vocabulary development, as well as critical reading skills including recognizing essential points, evaluating the relevance of supporting information, and asking questions about the text. Intensive instruction in writing process provides students with basic English literacy and competence. Paragraph and short essay forms will be covered, and a review of grammar, punctuation, spelling, and sentence mechanics and structure will prepare students to write on a college level. Students receive individual help in order to master the conventions of standard English. 3 hours of lecture, 1 hour of laboratory per week. *Credit hours are listed for scheduling purposes only; the course does not confer credit toward graduation.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is offered every semester.
Credits: 4
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ENG 0035 - Reading and Writing Laboratory
This course is designed to support students whose tested reading and writing abilities fall short of a standard needed to complete college-level work while they are concurrently enrolled in a first-year writing course. The course provides individualized and/or small group instruction in planning, writing, and editing strategies, as well as various strategies for reading effectively, such as skimming, previewing, annotation, and review. 2 hours of laboratory per week. *Credit hours are listed for scheduling purposes only; the course does not confer credit toward graduation.
Prerequisites & Notes
The co-requisite is ENG 1051. This course is offered every semester.
Credits: 2
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ENG 1051 - Introduction to College Writing
This writing course introduces students to the study of language fundamentals and provides practice in organizing and writing paragraphs and short essays. While emphasizing sentence structure, grammar, diction, and punctuation, this course also provides instruction in collecting or researching information, developing a thesis, and organizing the material into a coherent whole. Competency may be fulfilled by exam.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is offered every semester.
Credits: 3
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ENG 1052 - Exposition and Analysis
This writing course provides an opportunity for study and practice in the principles of rhetoric, evidence, analysis, exposition, and argument as the basis of college-level writing. Students will be expected to analyze source material from across the disciplines. The course includes a review of grammar and research process.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1051 or placement. This course is offered every semester.
Credits: 3
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ENG 1080 - Expository Speaking
Expository Speaking provides the theory and practice of formal speaking for public gatherings or for specialized events. The course includes oral presentations of information in clear, precise form for a variety of circumstances and purposes. The instruction focuses on research, writing, and presentation skills for the speaking event.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite or co-requisite is ENG 1051. This course is offered every semester.
Credits: 3
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ENG 1310 - Introduction to Literature
[LGWL2] This introductory class consists of the study of short stories, poetry, drama, and nonfiction and requires frequent student compositions. It develops the ability to read perceptively and to write effectively about literature.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is offered every semester.
Credits: 3
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ENG 2020 - Understanding the Writing Process
This course provides a close study of the writing process and extensive practice in each of its component parts: pre-writing, composition, revision, and editing. The instruction offers students an opportunity to practice a variety of modes of writing.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission. The course is required for English Secondary Education Licensure. This course is offered every semester.
Credits: 3
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ENG 2040 - Journalistic Writing
This writing-intensive course teaches the basics of news writing and editing for print, broadcast, and online media with emphasis on weblog creation, research, presentation, and citation. Weekly assignments include commentary, analysis, and multimedia news stories adhering to Associated Press style. Instruction covers story formats across platforms, journalistic style and grammar, interviewing techniques, and news values.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1051. There is a lab fee. This class is offered every semester.
Credits: 3
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ENG 2060 - Technical Writing
This course introduces the principles of technical communication by stressing clear, correct writing of technical reports, manuals, correspondence, memos, proposals, articles, instructions, job descriptions, and specifications.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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ENG 2130 - Introduction to Writing Poetry
[LGAD3] This course explores the art and the craft of writing poetry and offers an opportunity to practice concepts learned in class in a variety of written exercises. While the instruction encourages students to study published poetry, the emphasis will be on writing poetry for an audience of poetry readers. The course will also cover the rudiments of narrative structure. No previous creative writing experience is required.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission. This course is offered every fall.
Credits: 3
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ENG 2140 - Introduction to Writing Fiction
[LGAD3] This course explores the art and the craft of writing fiction and offers an opportunity to practice concepts learned in class in a variety of written exercises. While the instruction encourages students to study published fiction, the emphasis will be on writing original fiction. No creative writing experience is required.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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ENG 2155 - Introduction to Multimedia Storytelling
[LGAD3] This course explores the theory and practice of reporting across media platforms. The instruction allows students to construct narratives using a mix of text, photography, audio, video, and graphics. The course emphasizes development of multimedia offerings for online presentation.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every semester.
Credits: 3
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ENG 2240 - Greek and Roman Classics
[LGCC4] This course examines (in translation) classical texts such as Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Virgil’s Aeneid, and selected Greek tragedies as works of art, as products of a specific culture, as sources and archetypes of our literary tradition, and as expressions of a mythology that has informed and shaped western consciousness and its values.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission. This course is offered every fall.
Credits: 3
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ENG 2250 - Critical Approaches
[LGWL2] This course provides an introduction to methods of critical analysis of narrative and other forms of storytelling, textual and visual. Beginning with an exploration of the essential categories and vocabulary of critical analysis, this course briefly surveys classical theories, such as those of Aristotle and Plato, and focuses on recent theoretical approaches such as reader-response theory, deconstruction, feminist and gender theory, new historicism, psychoanalytic approaches, semiotics, film theory, and cultural criticism. Students will learn how these theories can be applied to specific genres, texts, and media.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052. This course is required for English Secondary Education Licensure. This course is offered every fall.
Credits: 3
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ENG 2290 - Survey of British Literature and Culture
[LGWL2] This course explores the roots and transformations of British literature and culture from the Medieval through the Modern periods through representative major figures such as Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Swift, Wordsworth, Dickens, Yeats, and Woolf.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission. This course is required for English Secondary Education Licensure. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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ENG 2325 - Survey of American Literature and Culture
[LGWL2] This course explores the roots and transformations of American literature and culture from the pre-Colonial period to the twentieth century through representative major figures such as Bradford, Franklin, Poe, Hawthorne, and Dickinson, as well as the poetry and short fiction of the twentieth century.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission. This course is required for English Secondary Education Licensure. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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ENG 2390 - Survey of World Literature: Explorations
[LGCC4] Focusing primarily but not exclusively on the modern era, this course explores the representations, ideas, and concerns of a variety of cultures through selected literary works that are considered significant by the culture that each embodies. Texts to be considered might include Kafka’s The Metamorphosis and Achebe’s Things Fall Apart. The emphasis throughout will be on the ways in which the texts address issues of identity, gender, and cultural differences.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission. This course is required for English Secondary Education Licensure. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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ENG 2410 - Mystery and Detective Fiction
[LGWL2] This course will explore the genre of mystery and detective fiction from its roots in the nineteenth century to its contemporary development. British and American texts, representing the development of a variety of subgenres within the larger genre, will be considered both from the aesthetic perspective of themes, styles, and forms and in terms of their historical, social, intellectual, and cultural contexts.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052. The course is offered every odd-numbered spring.
Credits: 3
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ENG 2480 - Survey of Literary Non-Fiction
[LGWL2] A survey of the forms of non-fiction in various historical periods, this course emphasizes examples of literary non-fiction such as biography, personal narrative, new journalism, essay, straight journalism, and humor.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission. This course is offered every fall.
Credits: 3
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ENG 2540 - Global English: Forms, Roles & Issues
[LGCC4] This course addresses the importance of language in general as a means of understanding ourselves and the world around us. Topics include, but are not limited to, history of the English language, dialects of American English, World Englishes, language acquisition and language pathology, language and culture, gender difference, language policy and planning.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission. The course is required for English Secondary Education Licensure. The course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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ENG 2710 - Topics in English
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 2000-level not offered in the general English curriculum.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 3010 - Advanced Composition and Rhetoric
This course offers advanced study of and practice in analytical, argumentative, persuasive, and expository writing, as well as rhetorical strategies. There is a substantial focus on the formal aspects of writing: grammar, mechanics, syntax, structure, and style. In addition, the course explores logic and rhetoric, techniques of rational and emotional persuasion, and the power of language.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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ENG 3080 - Strategic Media Communications
This writing-intensive course introduces the principles and practice of public relations and advertising in a multimedia environment. The instruction covers the history of public relations and advertising and explores the role of strategic communications in society. The course offers practical experience in the techniques of writing news releases and advertising messages for print, broadcast, and online.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission; ENG 2040 is strongly recommended for Media Communications majors. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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ENG 3135 - Writing Lyric: Form and Theory
[LGAD3] This course examines various theories, both ancient and modern, of how lyric poetry works to convey an emotion. The class will study lyrical moments, not only in poetry and song, but also in fiction, film, drama, essays, and photography. Students will also write lyrical pieces of their own and workshop them in class.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 2130 or ENG 2140 or ENG 2155. This course is offered every even-numbered spring.
Credits: 3
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ENG 3145 - Writing Narrative: Form and Theory
[LGAD3] This course examines various theories of how narrative structure works to convey meaning and make sense of the world. The class will study a range of narratives from fiction and poetry to history and clinical case studies. Students will also write narratives of their own and workshop them in class.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 2130 or ENG 2140 or ENG 2155. This course is offered every odd-numbered spring.
Credits: 3
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ENG 3240 - The Bible as Literature
[LGCC4] The Bible as Literature features the study and discussion of the principal books of the Bible, while emphasizing the complexity of the Biblical text as literature, including the historical shaping of the canon, its literary traditions, languages, symbols, myths, and narrative forms.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission. This course is offered every even-numbered fall.
Credits: 3
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ENG 3250 - Myths and Mythologies
[LGCC4] This course explores myths and legends as manifestations and articulations of the cultures out of which they arise. The language and conceptual structures of these forms of cultural expression will be considered in terms of the ways in which the human imagination configures meaning and of the ways that “stories” articulate and reshape cultural beliefs, norms, and expectations. While the primary focus of the course will be classical mythology and the western tradition, we will also consider material from the African, Near Eastern, Native American, and Asian traditions.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission. This course is offered every odd-numbered fall.
Credits: 3
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ENG 3255 - Folklore, Fairytales, and Children’s Literature
[LGWL2] This course explores folklore, fairytales, and children’s literature both as a developmental process and as manifestations and articulations of the cultures out of which they arise. These forms of cultural expression and their interconnections will be considered in terms of the ways in which the human imagination configures meaning and of the ways that “stories” articulate and reshape cultural beliefs, norms, and expectations. The primary focus of the course will be the western tradition, but the folklore in particular of other traditions and cultures will be considered as well.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission. This course is offered every even-numbered spring.
Credits: 3
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ENG 3330 - The Novel in England
The instruction considers—both critically and historically—the tradition of the novel in England from the eighteenth to the twentieth century, as represented in works of major British novelists such as Defoe, Fielding, Austen, Bronte, Dickens, Eliot, Conrad, and Woolf.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 3340 - The Novel in America
This course presents the American novel as an aesthetic form worthy of close study. The instruction examines representative works of such major American novelists as Hawthorne, Melville, Twain, James, Cather, Hemingway, McCarthy, and Faulkner.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 3385 - Genre Seminar
This seminar will explore a variety of literary and cultural genres, from epic poetry to short fiction to film and electronic media. This course may be repeated with a change of genre but may be counted only once toward program requirements.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 3399 - Gender Issues in Literature and Culture
This course explores issues related to gender constructs and identities from the point of view of Literary and Cultural Studies. Students explore and analyze the historical and cultural construction of gender as a concept and an artifact of culture, as well as the implications and consequences of such constructions.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is sophomore standing.
Credits: 3
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ENG 3420 - Issues in British Literature and Culture 750-1750
[LGWL2] This course examines the literature and culture of England from the Old English oral tradition to the mid eighteenth century by exploring various themes and issues. Specific themes or issues that might be explored in any given semester include: “The Subject” (tracing the rise of early modern subjectivity), “Representing Women” (representation of and by women throughout the period), and “The Globe” (Shakespeare’s theater and his world). This course may be repeated with a change of issue or theme but may be counted only twice toward program requirements.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission. ENG 2290 is recommended. This course is offered every fall.
Credits: 3
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ENG 3450 - Issues in British Literature and Culture 1750-present
[LGWL2] This course examines the literature and culture of England from the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution to the present by exploring various themes and issues. Specific themes or issues that might be explored in any given semester include: “Representing Women” (representations of and by women throughout the period), “Poetry, Philosophy, Politics” (considering their intersections during the Romantic period), “Victorian Noon” (exploring the major issues of religion, science, literature, and social transformation through the focal point of Tennyson’s In Memoriam), “Rage for Order” (Modernism’s connections to fascism and its response to World Wars I and II), and “Novel Economy” (exploring the industrial novels of the nineteenth century). This course may be repeated with a change of issue or theme but may be counted only twice toward program requirements.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission. ENG 2290 is recommended. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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ENG 3540 - Writing for Teachers
This course introduces the different types of writing that both students and teachers are expected to do in Vermont preK to 12 schools and puts them in the context of basic theories and practices current in literacy instruction. The course covers functions, purposes, and processes of writing, and offers students practice in creating and editing, as well as responding to writers and identifying standard written English conventions.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052. This course is offered every fall.
Credits: 3
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ENG 3710 - Topics in English
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 3000-level not offered in the general English curriculum.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 3811 - Professional Experience
This experiential course includes supervised educational and professional activity at a conference, symposium, workshop, or related event relevant to the Journalism & Writing or the Literature & Cultural Studies concentrations. This course may be repeated when no duplication of experience results.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is permission. There is a lab fee.
Credits: 1
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ENG 4015 - Covering Disaster
This course will provide basic content and skills to help students understand and respond to traumatic stress in work-related settings. Content will cover the effects of psychological trauma on adults and children, including risk and resilience factors, Acute and Posttraumatic Stress Disorders, and strategies for prevention and coping. The final session requires participation in a disaster drill. This course is particularly relevant for journalism, television studies, and human services majors who may be exposed to trauma themselves or deal with trauma victims in the workplace.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 1
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ENG 4020 - Law of the Media
Law of the Media offers a study of the rights and responsibilities imposed upon and exercised by the media under the American system of law. The course includes a discussion of FCC regulatory issues, freedom of the press, the right to know, and how those and other issues affect the media.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is ENG 1052 or permission. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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ENG 4030 - Writing and Publication Workshop
Students in the journalism workshop work on special term-length projects in many areas of print and electronic journalism. Students work on one of the campus publications, such as the student newspaper, the Critic, or the literary magazine, or may design projects of their own. Emphasis is placed on gaining day-to-day practical knowledge of reporting, writing, and other journalistic and publication skills under deadline pressure. This course may be repeated once with permission, but may count only once toward program requirements.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisites are ENG 1052 and two writing courses at or above the 2000 level, or permission. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every semester.
Credits: 3
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ENG 4080 - Advanced Creative Writing Workshop
This workshop focuses on the advanced study of a particular genre of creative writing of the student’s choosing. In consultation with the instructor, the student will choose a creative writing genre and a suitable project to pursue. Student work-in-progress is critiqued through class discussion and frequent conferences with the instructor and fellow student writers. This course may be repeated once with permission but may be counted only once toward program requirements.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee. The prerequisite is ENG 3110 or permission. This course is offered every fall.
Credits: 3
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ENG 4240 - Major Author Seminar
[LGWL2] This seminar provides the opportunity for students to explore a particular major author in depth. Authors to be considered in different semesters might include Dante, Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Austen, Dickens, Melville, Twain, Yeats, James, Woolf, Stevens, Frost, Eliot, Faulkner, or Kerouac. This course may be repeated with a change of author but may be counted only once toward program requirements.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisites are ENG 1052 and junior standing, or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 4710 - Topics in English
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 4000-level not offered in the general English curriculum.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisites are ENG 1052 and junior standing, or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 4750 - Senior Seminar
[LGWL2] This course provides students the opportunity to design a seminar topic of their own choosing. The instructor will offer a variety of possible choices, but students are encouraged to develop the topic on their own. Enrolled students will meet with the instructor before the end of the preceding semester to discuss possibilities and determine the seminar topic and texts. This course may be repeated with a change of topic but may be counted only once toward program requirements.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisites are ENG 1052 and junior standing, or permission.
Credits: 3
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ENG 4810 - Internship in English
The co-op in English provides students with practical experience in the application of their previous course work in the major. Arrangements for placement must be made with the supervising faculty member, faculty advisor, the employer, and the Office of Cooperative Education. Following approval of the work experience, students are required to submit a learning contract and biweekly reports. See also the section on Cooperative Education elsewhere in this catalog.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is permission. The internship may be taken for up to 15 credits, but only 3 may be counted toward the degree program.
Credits: 3 to 15
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ENG 4820 - Media Communications Practicum
This course provides students with the experience of designing and carrying out a public relations campaign for an on-campus or off-campus client. Instruction covers the conception and execution of a media communications strategy that meets professional standards. The course allows students to work collaboratively under the direction of an instructor.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisites are senior standing and instructor permission. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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ENG 4830 - Media Communications Internship
This course provides students with practical experience in the application of their previous course work in the major. The internship requires arrangements for placement to be made with the supervising faculty member, faculty advisor, the employer, and the Office of Cooperative Education. The internship requires the student to submit a learning contract and biweekly reports; see also the section on Cooperative Education elsewhere in this catalog.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisites are senior standing and permission. The internship may be taken for up to 15 credits, but only 3 may be counted toward the degree program.
Credits: 3-15
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ENG 4900 - Independent Study in English
Independent Study offers students of English an opportunity to concentrate on an area of interest or to extend their range. The details of study are arranged between each student and the instructor. The course may be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is permission.
Credits: 1 to 3
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ENG 4910 - Portfolio/Thesis
This course serves as an opportunity for students to demonstrate their level of competency and depth of understanding. Students meet independently with a mentoring professor to produce a portfolio and/or to develop a senior-level thesis or project.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is offered every semester.
Credits: 3
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ENV 1080 - Introduction to Environmental Science
[LGNR7] Environmental science is the study of the environment and solutions to environmental problems. As an interdisciplinary academic field, it lies at the intersection of physical and biological sciences. This course introduces students to fundamental concepts in physical and ecological processes that shape our environment and the role that human civilizations have in shaping the environment. Emphasis is placed on examining solutions to current environmental problems including aspects of soil, water and air pollution, ecosystem services, biomimicry, environmental toxicology, living machines, phytoremediation, bioremediation and green chemistry. Central to this course are semester-long student projects.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 4
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ENV 2040 - Introduction to Environmental Restoration
[LGNR7] This course introduces students to the theory and practical applications of environmental restoration. A diverse array of habitat restoration techniques are addressed, including artificial cavity nest construction for birds, vernal pool creation for amphibians, streambank restoration, invasive exotic species control, and reptile hibernacula formation. The vast majority of the course is spent in the field involving hands-on restoration activities in local habitats working in concert with area landowners. The course emphasizes restoration techniques that may be readily used in area high school and junior high school science programs.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is SCI 1030. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every summer and as needed.
Credits: 4
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ENV 2060 - Energy, Environment, and Society
[LGNR7] This course focuses on such topics as energy sources and transformations, energy use and crises, environmental impact, alternative energy systems, solar energy, energy conservation, problems associated with nuclear power, and relations between energy use and environmental pollution. This course is cross-listed with PHY 2020.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 4
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ENV 2090 - Sustainable Living
[LGNR7] This course addresses the global environmental consequences of contemporary human lifestyles and ways to live more sustainably, ranging from specific everyday measures that anyone can take to policies and approaches that can bring about broad societal change. Topics covered include solid waste reduction, recycling, composting, energy and water conservation, household heating, transportation of goods, paper and plastics industries, ore and mineral extraction, rainforest conservation, localvorism, informed consumerism, and green product alternatives.
Prerequisites & Notes
There are no prerequisites.
Credits: 3
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ENV 3060 - Waste Reduction and Management
Important issues concerning waste management such as landfilling, recycling, and waste reduction will be discussed. The relationship between solid waste, and environmental quality will be investigated. Methods that reduce waste or use certain wastes as a resource will be introduced.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is junior standing. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every even-numbered fall.
Credits: 2
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ENV 3110 - Environmental Pollution
This course focuses on applying concepts of sustainable environmental management of chemicals. Emphasis is placed on the remediation of contaminated land and water with living technologies such as living machines, phytoremediation, bioremediation, and biomimicry. Discussion of current issues in environmental pollution including state, federal, and international legislation, current events, and emerging technologies occurs throughout the course.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisites are one chemistry course and MAT 1410, or permission. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every even-numbered spring.
Credits: 4
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ENV 3120 - Environmental Modeling
This course is designed to introduce the students to the basic concepts of modeling of various processes in the environment. The emphasis will be on the understanding of scientific principles underlying the models and software that describe typical models.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisites are junior standing, and MAT 1410, passed with a grade of C or higher, or permission. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every odd-numbered fall.
Credits: 2
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ENV 3140 - OSHA Safety Course
This course covers processes, techniques, and procedures that will enable students to identify, evaluate, and control hazardous situations. They will acquire the knowledge and capability to develop safety plans and select the proper materials, and equipment for hazardous situations.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is CHE 1032. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every even-numbered spring.
Credits: 2
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ENV 3180 - Ecology & Landscape History of the Green Mountains
In this course, students will spend three weeks in the field, exploring the ecology, natural history, cultural history, and modern issues found in the diverse ecosystems of the Green Mountains. During this time they will hike along America’s oldest long-distance hiking trail, the Long Trail. The formative ecological and geologic processes, historical movements, cultural patterns, and current issues in this landscape that will be our classroom are often similar across the globe. Through gaining first-hand experience investigating these processes, students develop a “tool kit” that they can use to self-educate, teach, and lead wherever they go. Students participating in the class will learn through a combination of fieldwork (labs), ecological interpretation, facilitated discussion, and lectures.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee. Permission is required
Credits: 4
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XSC 1090 - Introduction to Exercise Science
This course offers an overview of the professional study of exercise science. Topics of study will include career options, professional standards, history of exercise science, research and analysis, measurement techniques, human anatomy, human physiology, epidemiology, components of fitness, nutrition, biomechanics, motor control, and sports psychology.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee.
Credits: 3
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XSC 1255 - Fitness for Health and Performance
This course will introduce students to the health related components of fitness (muscular strength, muscular endurance, cardiorespiratory fitness, flexibility, and body composition) and the performance-related components of fitness (speed, power, agility, neuromuscular coordination, reaction time, balance, and muscular strength). Lectures and physical activity sessions will emphasize these components.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee. This course is offered every semester.
Credits: 3
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XSC 1260 - Professional Experience
This experiential course includes supervised educational and professional activity at a conference, symposium, workshop, or related physical education, exercise science, or sports medicine event. The course may be repeated when no duplication of experience results.
Prerequisites & Notes
The pre-requisite is XSC 1090. There is a lab fee.
Credits: 1 - 3
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XSC 2050 - Human Gross Anatomy
[LGSE8] This course will examine regional, systemic, and clinical study of the structure of the human body. Topics will include but are not limited to the skeletal, muscular and nervous systems.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is offered every fall. There is a lab fee. The prerequisite is BIO 1210 or BIO 1212.
Credits: 4
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XSC 2055 - Human Physiology
This course will examine regional, systemic, and clinical study of the function of the human body. Topics will include but are not limited to homeostatic control mechanisms as a function of the cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, thermoregulatory, muscular, and skeletal systems.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is XSC 2050. This course is offered spring semester. There is a lab fee.
Credits: 4
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XSC 2060 - Sport and Exercise Psychology
This course explores theory, research, and application in sport and exercise psychology with the intent to educate coaches, athletes, parents, exercisers, fitness professionals, and aspiring allied health professionals (AT, PT, OT, PA) about the psychological aspects of their sport or activity. A primary goal of this course is to identify strategies to facilitate optimal involvement, performance, enjoyment, and behavioral change in sport and exercise.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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XSC 2111 - Care and Prevention of Injuries
This course introduces the sport medicine and pedagogy students to the methods and theories of proper treatment of injuries. The practicum involves the application of preventive, supportive, and special padding techniques which are used in injury management.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee. This course is offered every fall.
Credits: 4
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XSC 2140 - Personal and Community Health
A study of the human organism in today’s changing society, this course stresses discussion and involvement in topics that shape students’ futures. The instruction seeks to increase student awareness of personal health topics and to help them make decisions suitable to their personal health needs.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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XSC 2153 - Evaluation & Management of Lower Extremities
This course provides an in-depth study for the theories of evaluation, mechanisms of injuries, and management of specific problems commonly encountered in athletic injuries for the joints and regions of the lower extremities. In addition, the course provides application of advanced preventive measures, reduction methods, special padding, and immobilization techniques.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is XSC 2111.
Credits: 3
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XSC 2154 - Evaluation & Management of Upper Extremities
This course provides an in-depth study for the theories of evaluation, mechanisms of injuries, and management of specific problems commonly encountered in athletic injuries for the joints and regions of the upper extremities. In addition, the course provides application of advanced preventive measures, reduction methods, special padding, and immobilization techniques.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is XSC 2111.
Credits: 3
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XSC 3020 - Therapeutic Modalities
This course provides an in-depth study and the application of therapeutic modalities used in rehabilitation. The instruction includes such areas as ultrasound, electrical stimulation, iontophoresis, hydro and cryotherapy, with an emphasis on record keeping and legal documentation, pair theories, and the normal response of the human body to trauma, the physiological process of wound healing and tissue repair.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisites are XSC 2153 and XSC 2154. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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XSC 3060 - Physical Disabilities
This course focuses on the medical, educational, sociological, and scientific bases for identifying individuals having physical impairments. Intervening activities, understanding, physical education and recreational opportunities to those individuals will be presented in an adapted physical education laboratory experience. Students will also observe and analyze current settings and programs that provide such opportunities for these individuals.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is junior standing. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 4
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XSC 3080 - Personal Fitness
This course is designed to provide students with instruction in the fundamental concepts necessary to provide fitness instruction. Content areas will include exercise programming, instructional technique, basic exercise science, nutrition and fitness assessment, spotting techniques, and professional responsibility. This course will prepare students to sit for the National Strength and Conditioning Association Certified Personal Trainer certification (NSCA-CPT).
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is XSC 3150. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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XSC 3120 - Kinesiology
Kinesiology offers a scientific study of the dynamics of biological motion with an emphasis on kinematic and kinetic analysis of morphological, environmental and biomechanical adaptations to movement. The course integrates mechanical theory, vector analysis, anatomy, and physiology.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisites are XSC 2050 and XSC 2055. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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XSC 3130 - Coaching Principles
The course is designed to introduce students to the fundamental principles of coaching. Topics studied include developing a coaching philosophy, sport pedagogy, communicating with your athletes, the management functions and roles of a coach, and elements of sport physiology related to athlete/team conditioning and preparation. Students will learn via lecture material, role playing, and considerations of the practical application of coaching principles to real-life situations.
Prerequisites & Notes
There is a lab fee. This course is offered in the spring.
Credits: 3
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XSC 3150 - Physiology of Exercise
This course provides a systematic study of human physiological, biochemical processes, activities and phenomena as observed during and after physical exercise.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is XSC 2055. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every fall.
Credits: 4
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XSC 3810 - Practicum in Phys Ed and/or Exercise Science
This course will provide students in the Department of Exercise Science with an experiential opportunity in physical education and/or exercise science as a potential precursor to an internship. The course may be repeated for credit, but the total may not exceed 6 credits. The practicum must be pre-approved by a mentoring faculty member in the Department of Exercise Science.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is junior standing and permission. This course is offered every semester.
Credits: 1 to 6
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XSC 4010 - Motor Development
This course offers a study of sensory-motor integration through the human life-span. The instruction emphasizes models, theories and experiments which assess motor learning and control through tests of motor performance.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is XSC 3150. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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XSC 4071 - Assessment of Exercise Science
This course is designed to focus on the development, evaluation and practical application of assessment techniques used in Exercise Science areas such as teaching physical education, physical therapy, sport management and athletic training. It will include the practical application of measurement devices pertaining to those areas; the application of statistics in administering and analyzing measurement in those areas; and a review of current research in those areas.
Prerequisites & Notes
This course is offered every fall. The prerequisite is senior standing or permission.
Credits: 3
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XSC 4072 - Research Methods in Exercise Science
This course provides the senior capstone experience for all Exercise Science majors. The format for the research varies according to students’ selected track. A student must have the sponsorship of a department faculty member and departmental approval of a research contract.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is XSC 4071. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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XSC 4080 - Fundamentals of Physical Conditioning
This course will provide advanced study of the components of fitness. Topics of study will include, but are not limited to the following: fitness assessment testing, individualized exercise prescriptions, team conditioning programs, risk factor analysis and chronic disease prevention, behavior modification, nutrition and weight control, body composition analysis, hydration and heat illness prevention, physiological effects of training and overtraining. This course will incorporate principles of exercise physiology, nutrition, sports medicine, health, and wellness programming. Emphasis will be placed on theory of and participation in physical activity (anaerobic and aerobic systems training). Student instructed fitness laboratory sessions will be used to enhance lecture and activity understanding. The knowledge, skills, and abilities governing the National Strength and Conditioning Association’s Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist (CSCS) examination will serve as foundations for content covered.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisites are XSC 3120 and XSC 3150. This course is offered every spring.
Credits: 3
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XSC 4090 - Exercise Testing, Interpretation, and Intervention
This course will introduce students to the principles and practices underlying accurate and appropriate exercise testing methods and prescription of exercise as an intervention for a broad spectrum of participants. This course will provide students with opportunities to practically apply didactic information studied in anatomy, physiology, exercise physiology, and kinesiology. Course topics will include: preliminary health screening and risk classification, assessing and designing cardio respiratory exercise programs, assessing and designing strength, muscular endurance, and resistance training programs, assessing flexibility and designing stretching programs, and assessing body composition and designing weight management and body composition programs. The laboratory component will focus on risk stratification and acquisition of knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to sit for the American College of Sports Medicine Health Fitness Specialist (HFS) certification.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is XSC 3150 and co-requisite is XSC-4130. There is a lab fee. This course will be offered every fall.
Credits: 4
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XSC 4130 - Practical Applications in Exercise Science
This course reinforces and expands academic, laboratory, and practical components of exercise applications prior to a senior practicum or internship. This course will elucidate the foundation of standards and guidelines for students to serve as practitioners of exercise science.
Prerequisites & Notes
The co-requisite is XSC 4090. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every fall. This course may be repeated for credit.
Credits: 2
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XSC 4140 - Emergency Medical Technician
This course is designed to introduce the skills that lead to Emergency Medical Technician - Basic (EMT-B) certification. Students who successfully complete the course are eligible to take the Vermont written and practical examinations that lead to certification and licensure in the state of Vermont. Students are also eligible to obtain National Registry status for EMT-B. The course content meets the Department of Transportation guidelines that have been established for the EMT-B course curriculum. Current affiliation with a rescue organization is required upon course registration.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is permission. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every other spring.
Credits: 3
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XSC 4150 - Clinical Exercise Prescription
This course offers comprehensive study of applied clinical exercise physiology and its application in exercise prescription for clinical populations. Topics of study will include exercise prescriptions for coronary artery disease, arthritis, diabetes mellitus, dyslipidemia, hypertension, obesity, metabolic syndrome, respiratory tract infections, osteoporosis, peripheral arterial disease, pulmonary disease, and pregnancy. This course includes academic content necessary for candidacy for certification as a Health Fitness Specialist (American College of Sports Medicine).
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is XSC 4090 and co-requisite of XSC 4130. There is a lab fee. This course is offered in the spring.
Credits: 3
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XSC 4710 - Topics in Exercise Science
This course offers an opportunity for students to concentrate on topics and issues related to the field of Exercise Science. The course may be repeated for credit but the total may not exceed four credits.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisites are junior or senior standing and permission.
Credits: 4
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XSC 4810 - Internship In Exercise Science
The internship offers a full or part-time placement in an approved Exercise Science setting under the direct supervision of a qualified professional.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisites are senior standing and permission. The internship may be repeated for up to a total of 12 credits. This course is offered every semester. There is a lab fee.
Credits: 3 to 12
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XSC 4820 - Practicum in Exercise Science
This course provides students with an experiential opportunity to actively design, implement, and administer strength and conditioning programs or health fitness instruction to local teams, organizations, and community members. A portfolio demonstrating completion of contractual course objectives is required. The practicum must be pre-approved by the Department of Exercise Science.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisites are XSC 3810, senior standing, and permission. This course is offered every semester.
Credits: 1 to 6
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XSC 4910 - Independent Study
This course provides students the opportunity to become involved in a project not offered in the general Exercise Science curriculum. The course requires work with a faculty member in designing and evaluating the project. The course may be repeated for credit but the total may not exceed six credits.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisites are junior or senior standing and by arrangement with a departmental faculty member.
Credits: 1 to 6
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FLM 1055 - Film Analysis and Appreciation
[LGAD3] This course is an introduction to the basic scholarly and evaluative approaches to film and video art, through critical analyses of narrative, documentary, animated, and experimental cinematic works.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite or co-requisite is ENG 1051 or permission. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every semester.
Credits: 3
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FLM 2010 - History of Cinema
[LGAD3] This course surveys the social and aesthetic impact and development of cinema from its literary and technological origins in the nineteenth century through the French and American development of the early silent cinema, Soviet expressive montage, German expressionist cinema, the French surrealist avante garde, the studio years of Hollywood, Italian neo-realism, the French new wave, and contemporary developments, including the recent influence of electronically generated and broadcast cinema.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is FLM 1055 or ENG 1052 or permission. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every odd-numbered spring.
Credits: 3
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FLM 2020 - Semiotics and Cinema
[LGWL2] This course focuses on the interpretation of cultural values inherent in the typical signs found in common genres of popular American movies. Comparing classic and contemporary examples of these genres, a semiotics approach highlights the cultural significance manifested in the artistic choices of filmmakers.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is FLM 1055 or ENG 1052 or permission. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every odd-numbered fall.
Credits: 3
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FLM 2710 - Special Topics in Film Studies
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 2000-level not offered in the general Film Studies curriculum.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is FLM 1055 or permission.
Credits: 3
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FLM 3010 - Auteur Filmmakers Seminar
[LGAD3] The subject of this course varies each semester and offers the advanced student of cinema intensive study of the works of a single premier filmmaker or of a group of closely related filmmakers. This course may be repeated with a change of topic, but may count only once toward program requirements.
Prerequisites & Notes
The prerequisite is FLM 1055 or ENG 1052 or permission. There is a lab fee. This course is offered every odd-numbered fall.
Credits: 3
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