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CIS 4350 - Advanced Computer Security
Credit(s): 4
This course presents and in-depth look at how computer and information security is handled in
the corporate environment. An advanced course for network, computer and information security
specialists that analyzes the various methodologies used to attack and defend networked systems. Topics covered may include development of security policies, cryptography, access control mechanisms, vulnerability analysis, network intrusion, and security auditing.
Prerequisites: The prerequisite is CIS 3240. There is a course fee. This course is offered every even-numbered spring.
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CIS 4520 - Advanced Software Technologies
Credit(s): 3
This course provides students the opportunity to explore current software technologies. Students will learn about and get hands-on experience with current and emerging software platforms, frameworks, and programming language technologies in the context of enterprise applications. Students’ exposure to industry standard technologies that have been recently established will be reinforced through in-class labs and a major software project. This course may be repeated once for credit with a change of topic(s).
Prerequisites: The prerequisite is CIS 2032. This course is offered every even-numbered fall. There is a course fee.
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CIS 4710 - Special Topics in Computer Science
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 4000-level not offered in the general Computer Science curriculum.
Prerequisites: This course may be repeated with a change of topic.
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CIS 4810 - Internship in Computer Science
Credit(s): 3
As arranged.
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CIS 4910 - Johnson - Independent Study in Computer Information Systems
Credit(s): 1-12
Students plan and complete an approved independent study in consultation with their faculty supervisor.
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CIS 4950 - CIS Capstone
Credit(s): 3
This course serves as a senior capstone project. Students develop a project that demonstrates the technical and cognitive skills mastered in their undergraduate CIS courses. Students work in teams that engage in and complete the design and implementation of a significant information
system.
Prerequisites: The prerequisite is senior standing or permission. There is a course fee. This course is offered every spring.
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CRJ 1010 - Introduction to Criminal Justice (J)
Credit(s): 3
In this course we begin to examine the human beings who are labeled criminal in America and question why they break the law. Are those violations the result of genetics, free will, social and economic forces? Is criminal behavior caused by inherent character weaknesses or the malfunction of an unequal society? We will also examine the institutions created to deal with and prevent criminal behavior: the law, the courts, the government, the police and the jails. Further, we will study the social context of crime and ask the most important question: Can we reasonably imagine the possibility of a human community without crime or criminals, a world without police, punishment or prison?
Offering Location: Johnson Campus, NVU Online
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CRJ 1010 - Introduction to Criminal Justice (L)
Credit(s): 3
This course provides an overview of the American criminal justice system, tracing its history and development and assessing its strengths and weaknesses. The roles of the agencies that comprise the criminal justice system (representing law enforcement, courts, and corrections) are examined.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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CRJ 1710 - Special Topics in Criminal Justice
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 1000-level not offered in the general Criminal Justice curriculum.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic.
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CRJ 2010 - Law Enforcement in America
Credit(s): 3
This course provides an examination of the history and evolution of law enforcement in the United States. Among the topics examined in this course are law enforcement careers; the police role; selection, recruitment, and training of personnel; occupational socialization and the police subculture; discretion; management and organizational behavior; and patrol/investigative functions. Other issues considered include police use of force, police-community relations, job stress, and corruption/ethical problems.
Prerequisites: CRJ 1010 or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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CRJ 2020 - American Judicial Process
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the American judicial process through an examination of its history, structure, and operation. The topics considered include court organization and administration, the courtroom “work group,” the trial and appellate processes, problems that plague the courts, and alternatives to courts for conflict resolution.
Restrictions: Sophomore standing or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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CRJ 2030 - Victimology
Credit(s): 3
This course explores the role of victimology in the criminal justice system, examining the consequences of victimization and the various remedies available for victims. In addition, this course analyzes victimization patterns and trends, and theoretical reasoning and responses to criminal victimization.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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CRJ 2050 - Criminology
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed to explore the nature and causation of crime by examining theories of criminal behavior and the factors which affect crime distribution and displacement. The course introduces the student to research methods used in analyzing crime typologies and measuring criminal behavior.
Prerequisites: CRJ 1010
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus, NVU Online
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CRJ 2150 - Community & Restorative Justice (J)
Credit(s): 3
This course provides students with an understanding of restorative justice principles and practices. Topics include the evolution of different models of justice, differences between retributive and restorative justice, and restorative models that involve victims, communities and offenders as active partners.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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CRJ 2150 - Community and Restorative Justice (L)
Credit(s): 3
This course examines the needs and obligations of all stakeholders in dealing with the aftermath of crime. It also critically examines the traditional government responses to crime in the United States and how the principles and practices of an approach broadly known as restorative justice may improve that response, as well as examine the challenges of a restorative approach.
Restrictions: Sophomore standing or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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CRJ 2160 - Juvenile Justice
Credit(s): 3
This course is an examination of the procedures used in dealing with juveniles who come into conflict with the law. The course includes critical appraisal of the history and role of juvenile courts and assessment of correctional strategies currently in use to treat juvenile offenders.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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CRJ 2170 - Ethics and Professionalism in Criminal Justice
Credit(s): 3
This course introduces students to ethical theories and helps them apply these theories to real world dilemmas they may confront as professionals in the criminal justice system. Topics may include the meaning of morality and ethics and the connections between law, morality, and justice, standards and professional responsibilities of criminal justice practitioners, including those found in law enforcement, the judicial system, corrections, and criminology. The course provides a forum for students to discuss and process field experiences, explore current issues pertinent to becoming professionals, and examine career options.
Restrictions: Sophomore standing. CRJ Majors Only.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus, NVU Online
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CRJ 2210 - Death Penalty
Credit(s): 3
This course provides a comprehensive history of the death penalty, including its legal foundations, its justifications, and its empirical, historical, and policy dimensions. Students will explore judicial decisions involving the constitutionality of the death penalty and its administration, relevant social science research findings, and the key arguments for and against capital punishment.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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CRJ 2220 - Environmental Justice
Credit(s): 3
This course introduces students to the developing area of green criminology and solutions to environmental problems. Issues addressed include the nature of environmental offenders and victims, the variety of approaches to achieving environmental justice, and criminal solutions to specific environmental problems.
Restrictions: Sophomore standing or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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CRJ 2230 - Introduction to Criminal Law
Credit(s): 3
This course examines the development of substantive criminal law. Topics include common law vs. statutory crimes, elements of a crime, parties to a crime, defenses to criminal culpability, as well as selected aspects of the Vermont criminal code.
Prerequisites: CRJ 1010
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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CRJ 2410 - Race, Class, Gender, and Crime
Credit(s): 3
This course examines the issues and theories relating to the administration of justice in a culturally diverse society. Topics may include the challenges of navigating the criminal justice system and the opportunities and challenges of providing criminal justice services within a multicultural society.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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CRJ 2510 - Criminal Law
Credit(s): 3
This course is an examination of the evolution and development of substantive criminal law. The topics examined include common law vs. statutory crimes, elements of a crime, parties to a crime, criminal responsibility, and defenses to criminal culpability. Selected portions of the Vermont criminal code are also examined.
Prerequisites: CRJ 1010
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus, NVU Online
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CRJ 2710 - Special Topics in Criminal Justice
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 2000-level not offered in the general Criminal Justice curriculum.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic.
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CRJ 3070 - Media and Crime
Credit(s): 3
This course allows students to analyze the images of crime and the criminal justice systems being presented through the major mass media within America (Crime dramas, movies, news, etc.). A major topic that will be covered is the media’s institutional structure and its portrayal of crime and how this influences citizen’s perceptions of it.
Prerequisites: CRJ 1010 or sophomore standing, or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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CRJ 3085 - Research Design and Analysis
Credit(s): 3
This course develops the skills to successfully undertake an independent research project within the criminal justice field, and includes the review of historical, descriptive, correlational, experimental, and field-study methods. Topics may include the language and syntax of scientific research as well as sampling, analysis techniques, and the drawing of logical conclusions. The laboratory sessions provide an overview of different statistical tests.
Restrictions: Junior standing.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus, NVU Online
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CRJ 3120 - White-Collar Crime
Credit(s): 3
This course is an exploration of work-related violations of criminal and regulatory law. Topics considered include employee theft and misconduct, “crime in the suites” committed by corporations and corporate officers, and offenses committed by government officials, and medical, legal, and other professionals. Theories of causation and suggested strategies developed to identify and control this serious, but often hidden, crime problem are also examined.
Prerequisites: CRJ 1010
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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CRJ 3130 - Wrongful Convictions
Credit(s): 3
This course examines wrongful conviction errors in the criminal justice system. Topics may include eyewitness misidentification, invalidated forensic science, false confessions, government misconduct, snitches, and legal misconduct.
Prerequisites: CRJ 2050
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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CRJ 3145 - Criminal Justice Administration
Credit(s): 3
This course offers an examination of organizational and management theory as it applies to criminal justice agencies. Topics may include the organizational environment, employee motivation, job design, communication in the workplace, leadership and the use of power, organizational socialization, and managing organizational change.
Restrictions: Junior standing.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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CRJ 3155 - Investigation Sciences
Credit(s): 3
This course introduces students to the principles and procedures used in crime scene investigations. Topics covered include: problem solving, scientific approaches to solving crimes, the crime scene search, documenting the crime scene, types of evidence, techniques for recognizing, collecting, and preserving crime scene evidence, and introducing evidence in court.
Prerequisites: CRJ 2010
Restrictions: Junior standing. CRJ majors/minors only.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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CRJ 3160 - Juvenile Justice
Credit(s): 3
This course is an examination of the procedures used in dealing with juveniles who come into conflict with the law. The course includes critical appraisal of the history and role of juvenile courts and assessment of correctional strategies currently in use to treat juvenile offenders.
Prerequisites: CRJ 1010
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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CRJ 3165 - GIS Applications in Criminal Justice
Credit(s): 3
This course introduces students to current GIS platforms for use in data acquisition, spatial analysis, and crime mapping and analysis.
Restrictions: Junior standing or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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CRJ 3210 - Punishment and Corrections
Credit(s): 3
This course offers a sociological view of punishment and corrections in the United States and seeks to place the study of jails, prisons, capital punishment, probation, parole, and community corrections in a macro-sociological and historical perspective.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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CRJ 3220 - International Criminal Justice
Credit(s): 3
This course examines the different types of criminal justice systems that exist around the world. It examines the interconnections between crime and religion, cultural values, and societal norms. Using historical analysis, the course explores issues in the globalization of criminal justice systems as they deal with murder, terrorism, drug trafficking, prostitution, etc. The course further traces the globalization of U.S. Law Enforcement and provides students with an understanding of the problems and challenges that agencies and personnel face, operating within a foreign criminal justice system, religion, and culture.
Prerequisites: CRJ 1010 or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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CRJ 3250 - Terrorism
Credit(s): 3
This course offers an investigation of the context, causes, correlates, consequences, and responses to the crime of terrorism from a variety of perspectives. Individual, group, and organizational factors that shape terrorism and responses to terrorism will be explored. Strategies for reducing the threat of terrorism and its consequences will be examined.
Prerequisites: CRJ 1010 or sophomore standing, or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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CRJ 3310 - Applying Restorative Justice Methods
Credit(s): 3
This course explores how relationships can be restored, built, or deepened by recognizing the capacity of the individuals and community to identify and to resolve by implementing restorative principles. Emphasis is placed on the challenges of creating and sustaining restorative environments, initiatives, and resources to support communities in developing safer, healthier, and sustainable relationships.
Prerequisites: CRJ 2150
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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CRJ 3410 - Peace Making
Credit(s): 3
This course surveys the growing field of justice and peace studies. Topics may include historical and contemporary analyses, critical issues of militarism, inequality, and injustice, emphasizing the development of viable alternatives.
Prerequisites: CRJ 2150
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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CRJ 3710 - Special Topics in Criminal Justice
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 3000-level not offered in the general Criminal Justice curriculum.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic.
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CRJ 4020 - Criminal Justice: Who is “Criminal”?
Credit(s): 3
The U.S. criminal justice system has seen dramatic changes in the last several decades. Imprisonment has expanded more than fivefold since the 1980s, and immigration imprisonment has quadrupled since 2001. This intensive seminar examines current developments and controversies confronting the U.S. criminal justice system, with a focus on the “war on drugs” and the expansion of imprisonment – mass incarceration. The course explores how this has occurred, its consequences, and its attendant dynamics of race and class through recent non-fiction and class screenings of the HBO series The Wire , hailed as a masterpiece of U.S. television that dramatically portrays Baltimore’s police, the illegal drug trade, and the struggles of urban U.S. neighborhoods.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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CRJ 4710 - Special Topics in Criminal Justice
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 4000-level not offered in the general Criminal Justice curriculum.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic.
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CRJ 4730 - Topical Seminar in Criminal Justice
Credit(s): 1-3
This course introduces students to emerging developments and controversial issues in the field of criminal justice. Students also meet experienced professionals and academic experts in the field, who may serve as future internship supervisors and offer research and career opportunities. This course is repeatable for credit.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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CRJ 4770 - Criminal Justice Internship Seminar
Credit(s): 1
This course is part of the Criminal Justice capstone experience for seniors and must be taken in conjunction with three credits of CRJ-4810, Internship in Criminal Justice, which must be arranged the semester prior to the semester when it is to take place. Students will reflect upon and process their experiential learnings, as well as explore current topical issues in criminal justice and related fields.
Prerequisites: CRJ 1010
Corequisites: CRJ 4810
Restrictions: Senior standing or permission of the instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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CRJ 4810 - Internship in Criminal Justice (J)
Credit(s): 1-12
Students plan and complete an approved internship in consultation with their faculty supervisor.
Restrictions: Permission of Internship Coordinator
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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CRJ 4810 - Internship in Criminal Justice (L)
Credit(s): 3-6
This course combines 45 hours per credit of student participation in the operation of one host criminal justice agency with instructor-led seminar meetings held throughout the semester. The course is designed to give upper-level criminal justice majors the opportunity to have responsible work-related experience in the field. Students must apply and be accepted into the internship program by both social science faculty and the supervising agency. Both the social science faculty instructor and the on-site supervisor will provide direction and supervision throughout the internship.
Prerequisites: CRJ 2170
Restrictions: By Permission (contract required).
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: Yes, for up to six credits but onyl 3 may be counted toward program requirements.
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DAN 1010 - Fundamentals of Dance
Credit(s): 3
This course provides an introduction to dance and movement with a studio component.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 1020 - Fundamentals of Jazz Dance
Credit(s): 3
This course is an introduction to the principles and techniques of jazz dance.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 1030 - Body Awareness
Credit(s): 3
This course is designed to awaken an awareness of one’s body through yoga, dance, massage techniques and reading assignments. Emphasis is on the importance of proper alignment, energy flow, flexibility and strength, body/breath coordinations, tension relief exercises and philosophies. There are also exercises in postural re-education and simple body-care techniques. A strong emphasis is placed on the correct and natural use of the body.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 1035 - FYS: Perfect Body/Perfect Exercise
Credit(s): 3
This course examines body image and exercise through history and across cultures. It also explores some of the many aspects of exercise and “fitness” and why they are good for us.
Restrictions: First-year students only
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 1111 - Modern Dance
Credit(s): 3
This course provides an introduction to the principles and techniques of modern dance.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 1210 - FYS: If I Can’t Dance, Keep Your Revolution
Credit(s): 3
History is not just about important revolutions, battles, politicians and changing borders. It also is about everyday people and what is important in their everyday lives. This course is a multicultural exploration of the simple things that give people pleasure: their dances, games, social activities, cuisine and other things that comprise a nation’s culture. We see how geography, climate, work, religion/ritual, gender and age all have their impact on a country’s customs. This course investigates the similarities and differences among various cultures of people around the globe, celebrating what Emma Goldman called “everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things.”
Restrictions: First-year students only
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 2010 - Folk Dance
Credit(s): 3
This course provides an introduction to folk dance and the joyous art of communal dancing of selected international origins. Includes instruction in appropriate styling as well as cultural and historical information pertinent to the countries involved. Outside readings and oral presentation are expected of the student.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 2030 - Improvisation/Composition: Intermediate/Advanced Level
Credit(s): 4
This course explores the nature of movement qualities and textures and the elements of dance: space, time and force. The lab requires the development of improvisation and composition experiments into fully realized compositions intended to be presented before an audience.
(includes a choreography lab)
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 2040 - Beginning Tap Dance
Credit(s): 2
This course offers students the opportunity to study the fundamental structure of tap technique and learn basic tap dance vocabulary. Students learn to put this vocabulary together into phrases and combine these phrases into a choreographed dance. They explore the unique role tap dance plays in the history of American dance from its beginnings to the present day, and research performers who have affected its change and place in the dance world. Additional work includes a focus on speed, flexibility, strength and emphasis on styles and genres of dance that have affected tap.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 2131 - Ballet
Credit(s): 3
This course studies the structure and form of classical ballet.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 2730 - Topical Seminar in Dance
Credit(s): 0.5-4
This course supplements the regular dance program, offering students the opportunity to study a broad range of topics, which vary from semester to semester.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites may vary depending on topic
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 2910 - Independent Study in Dance
Credit(s): 1-12
Students plan and complete an approved independent study in consultation with their faculty supervisor.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 3010 - The Renaissance Spirit
Credit(s): 3
This course is a survey of the Renaissance as experienced through dance and other arts of the period. Manners, morals, music, movement, culinary delights and eccentric clothing are some of the aspects of Renaissance life explored. Come and leap through the Galliards, strut through Pavans, listen to sackbuts and crumhorns and feast on authentic food and drink of the period.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 3020 - Intermediate Ballet: Technique & History
Credit(s): 3
This course is a continuation and progression of the work begun in DAN 2131 with a further exploration of classical ballet vocabulary and technique through the execution of more accelerated bare and center floor exercises. Emphasis is on proper body alignment, development of rhythmic attack, musicality, clarity and precision, increased strength, flexibility and flow of movement. This course includes a survey of the history of ballet from its beginnings in the courts of Renaissance Europe to the present.
Prerequisites: DAN 2131 or permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 3030 - Improvisation/Composition: Intermediate/Advanced Level
Credit(s): 4
This course is a continuation of DAN 2030 .
(includes a choreography lab)
Prerequisites: DAN 2030 or permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 3032 - Body Awareness II
Credit(s): 3
Designed to awaken an awareness of one’s body through yoga, dance, massage, techniques and reading assignments. Emphasis is on the importance of proper alignment, energy flow, flexibility and strength, body/breath coordination, tension relief exercises and philosophies. There are also exercises in postural re-education and simple body-care techniques. A strong emphasis is placed on the correct and natural use of the body.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 3112 - Intermediate Modern Dance: Technique & History
Credit(s): 3
This course is a continuation of the work begun in DAN 1111 . Movement combinations are longer, more rhythmically complex and more varied in dynamics and quality. Emphasis is on developing a sense of theatrical style as well as continuing technical growth. This course includes a history component which traces the development of modern dance.
Prerequisites: DAN 1111 or permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 3130 - Jazz Dance
Credit(s): 3
This course is an introduction to the movement vocabulary and style of jazz, a performance-oriented form. Students of jazz dance learn to incorporate balletic and modern dance techniques into the specialized jazz style. They also develop the ability to handle their bodies as instruments, smoothly, sharply, lyrically, percussively and rhythmically. The course includes an historical survey of jazz dance from its roots in Africa through vaudeville, musical theater, movies and today’s jazz artists.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 3140 - African/Caribbean Dance & Culture
Credit(s): 3
The dances of Africa and the Afro-Caribbean Islands share components true of all dance forms which arise out of polytheistic cultures; they celebrate and acknowledge the complexity of the human psyche and of the forces of nature and also through the human form. Many of these dances are practiced as part of religious celebration and ritual; others are secular. Our exploration of these dances is through the lens of a living mythological system. We delve briefly into the realm of Carl Jung’s collective unconscious and the phenomenon of archetypes, then look at how these archetypes are expressed in mythology, particularly as studied by Joseph Campbell. We then examine myths and archetypes embodied by the dances and experience the actual rhythms and dances, with live drumming accompaniment. Readings by Africans, Afro-Caribbean and Westerners, and films portraying the great diversity within this dance form, deepen our understanding and experience.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 3180 - Folk Dance II
Credit(s): 3
Folk dance explores the joyous art of communal dancing from selected international origins. The ways that music, food, clothing, rituals, climate, geography, religion, work, art, culture and history influence the dances of these regions are explored. Outside readings, research and oral presentations are expected of students.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 3210 - The Emperor Ain’t Naked: A History of Western European Fashion & Social Dance from the Mid-14th Century to the Early 20th Century
Credit(s): 3
What do the clothes we wear and the dances that we perform socially tell us about who we are and when we lived? How does clothing inform us about a person’s occupation or class? How do styles indicate age and sex roles? What can we learn about people’s moods and opinions by looking at what they wear and how they move? How does underwear cosmetically redistribute the body to conform to the aesthetics of a particular time period, and why do these aesthetics change? How does clothing affect posture and the way that a person moves? How do clothing and dance affect one’s health? What are the important social dances of each era? We will be looking at these questions in this hands-on, eye-opening course on the history of Western European fashion and social dance.
Restrictions: Junior standing
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 4130 - Advanced Ballet/Modern Dance: Technique & History
Credit(s): 3
This course solidifies the knowledge and technique acquired in intermediate ballet and intermediate modern dance with an increasing complexity of movement combinations, a broader range of movement and a greater emphasis on performing skills. This course requires an in-depth project on some element of dance history.
Prerequisites: DAN 3020 or DAN 3112 or permission of instructor
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DAN 4910 - Independent Study in Dance
Credit(s): 1-12
Students plan and complete an approved independent study in consultation with their faculty supervisor.
Offering Location: Johnson Campus
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DES 1015 - Typography
Credit(s): 2
This course offers a study of the design and use of basic letterforms. Topics may include typographic contrast and characteristics of major type families. Students explore the expressive qualities of type and communications. After the preliminary introduction to type, appropriate projects to demonstrate the specific dynamics and interrelationships of type are assigned.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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DES 1020 - Design
Credit(s): 3
This course provides an in-depth study of composition for two-dimensional design. Students will express concepts in a visual fashion and develop compositional skills through the completion of problem-solving experiences. Instruction includes the fundamentals of color theory and in-depth study of the elements of art and principles of design.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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DES 1025 - Image Manipulation
Credit(s): 3
This course focuses on the use of the design industry’s standard electronic image alteration program(s). The instruction consists of exercises that focus on both articulation and visualization of design principles and concepts including manipulating and altering photographic imagery. The instruction includes creative challenges involving typographic and photographic special effects.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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DES 1035 - Vector Graphics
Credit(s): 3
This course concentrates on visual principles and techniques for illustration design using the design industry’s standard vector-based illustration program(s). Topics may include the production process, creating and editing paths, and utilizing tools, panels, and keyboard shortcuts for an efficient workflow. Student’s work will be critiqued and evaluated on both aesthetic and technical merits.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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DES 1045 - Page Layout
Credit(s): 3
This course covers the technical and creative applications of the industry standard page layout program. The instruction introduces the student to page composition and aesthetic principles involving typographic and spatial interrelationships with exercises involving text manipulation, multi-page document setups, style sheets, and master pages. Instructional emphasis is concentrated on principles of creative layout design as they can be furthered by a technical mastery of this powerful electronic tool.
Prerequisites: DES 1015 , DES 1020 , and DES 1025 .
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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DES 1710 - Special Topics in Design
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 1000-level not offered in the general Design curriculum.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic.
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DES 2010 - Moving Image Fundamentals
Credit(s): 3
This course focuses on moving image mechanics, video compositing techniques, and motion graphics applications for animation, cinema post-production, and web, app, and game design.
Recommended: DES 1025
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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DES 2015 - Web Design I
Credit(s): 3
This course examines social media and web design and development in commercial and professional environments through the use of current software and scripting languages. Students will also learn how to include interactivity into their web designs.
Prerequisites: CIS 2141 , DES 1020 , and DES 1025 .
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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DES 2030 - Fundamentals of Web Design
Credit(s): 3
This course provides students with the fundamentals of web design. Students will learn how to design and produce an image-based web site. Web site rapid-prototyping uses the “What You See Is What You Get” (WYSIWYG) web-design model. This course requires the development of a web site. This course is designed for and open only to non-Visual Arts students.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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DES 2710 - Special Topics in Design
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 2000-level not offered in the general Design curriculum.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic.
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DES 3110 - Interactive Media Design
Credit(s): 3
This course explores the practice of interactive media design and game development using current development engines.
Prerequisites: DES 2010 or permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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DES 3111 - Print Production
Credit(s): 3
This course addresses the methods related to print production from design to the finished product. Through real-world projects, students gain experience in various printing techniques in prepress, preflighting of files, requests for estimates, and preparation of files for production. Attention will be given to how to work with graphic imaging and printing services to assure print quality.
Prerequisites: DES 1045
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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DES 3112 - Digital Production
Credit(s): 3
This course explores the production and distribution of digital content through websites, social media platforms, and email marketing. Topics may include web file structure, rapid prototyping, image optimization, Internet Service Providers (ISP), File Transfer Protocol (FTP), and domain naming.
Prerequisites: DES 1020 and DES 1025
Recommended: DES 1015
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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DES 3115 - Web Design II
Credit(s): 3
This course explores advanced web design, including e-commerce and portfolio websites. Students will be required to engage in individual and collaborative projects with a web and interactive design emphasis.
Prerequisites: DES 2015
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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DES 3150 - Packaging Design
Credit(s): 3
This course investigates the packaging industry and its impact on the consumer in retail environments. Principles of three-dimensional design will be explored as students design and construct packaging and point-of-purchase displays. Course topics include printing and finishing methods, UPC codes, FDA regulations, merchandising systems, marketing strategies, and brand identity.
Prerequisites: DES 3111
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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DES 3710 - Special Topics in Design
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 3000-level not offered in the general Design curriculum.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic.
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DES 4010 - Branding
Credit(s): 3
This course offers an advanced study of design principles by focusing on branding and corporate identity. Individually and in design teams, students will use knowledge of design principles to create flexible design systems. This can include collateral designs, design campaigns, and corporate identity standards.
Prerequisites: DES 3111 or DES 3112 .
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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DES 4020 - Advanced Typography
Credit(s): 3
This course provides an increased study of the use of type. By mastering type forms, students learn to transform simple communication into visually powerful statements. Students explore space, proportion, rhythm and composition in a variety of print and multimedia formats. This study of type provides a profound look into both the personality to each typeface and the aesthetic principles involved in the selection of type.
Prerequisites: DES 3111 or DES 3112 .
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Notes: There is a course fee.
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DES 4550 - Design Studio
Credit(s): 3
This course will provide students with advanced team building experience while working collaboratively to gain practical work experience. Students design for not-for-profit organizations under the advisement of a faculty supervisor. Students are expected to follow best practices for workplace and client relations. Students will generate original designs; hold meetings with clients, and produce either a print or digital project or both. Students will negotiate with the necessary vendors to complete each particular project. In addition, focus will be placed on the development of production schedules, job documentation, and other project management skills.
Prerequisites: DES 3111 , DES 3112 , and permission (with portfolio).
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: Once.
Notes: There is a course fee.
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DES 4710 - Special Topics in Design
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 4000-level not offered in the general Design curriculum.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic.
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DES 4810 - Design Internship
Credit(s): 1-6
This course offers students the opportunity to gain “on the job” work experience in design. Job-site supervisors serve as mentors to students, offering their individual expertise and guidance. Students must apply for an internship in advance and meet with their academic advisor to discuss procedural details. A contract must be established between the student, job-site supervisor, and faculty supervisor, subject to the departmental approval.
Prerequisites: DES 3111 , DES 3112 , and permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
Repeatable for Credit: Yes, not to exceed 12 credits total.
Notes: Apply with Portfolio.
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DES 4910 - Independent Study
Credit(s): 1 to 3
This course gives the advanced student an opportunity to work on a special area of interest that is not possible through the standard curriculum.
Restrictions: Permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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DES 4950 - Design Portfolio
Credit(s): 3
This course, structured for senior design majors, enables students to create, organize and design a portfolio based upon personal strengths and interests, with professional standards, and career expectations in mind. Each student produces a portfolio exhibiting a full range of skills, as the designer possesses.
Restrictions: Senior standing. By permission.
Offering Location: Lyndon Campus
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ECE 1710 - Special Topics in Early Childhood Education
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 1000-level not offered in the general Early Childhood Education curriculum.
Offering Location: Online
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic.
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ECE 2710 - Special Topics in Early Childhood Education
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 2000-level not offered in the general Early Childhood Education curriculum.
Offering Location: Online
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic.
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ECE 3710 - Special Topics in Early Childhood Education
Credit(s): Variable
This course provides students the opportunity to pursue topics appropriate to the 3000-level not offered in the general Early Childhood Education curriculum.
Offering Location: Online
Repeatable for Credit: With a change of topic.
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ECE 3820 - Infant and Toddler Techniques
Credit(s): 3
This course provides students with an opportunity to develop teaching skills for working with children age 0-35 months. The course requires students to integrate theories of child development and pedagogical strategies into their teaching practice. Students assume increasing responsibility for curriculum development, classroom management, and instruction in a single setting. There is a field work component.
Prerequisites: EDU 1030 with a C or better, 2000 hours of experience with children age 0-5, and permission.
Offering Location: Online
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ECE 3830 - Early Childhood Techniques
Credit(s): 3
This course provides students with an opportunity to develop teaching skills for working with young children. The course requires students to integrate theories of child development and pedagogical strategies into their teaching practice. Students assume increasing responsibility for curriculum development, classroom management, and instruction in a single setting. There is a field work component.
Prerequisites: EDU 1030 with a C or better, 2000 hours of experience with children age 0-5, and permission.
Offering Location: Online
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ECE 3840 - Advanced Early Childhood Development
Credit(s): 3
This course examines the development of young children (Birth-Age 5) with an emphasis on the physical, cognitive, language, social, and emotional domains and the concept of the whole child. This course requires students to apply child developmental theory to teaching and learning best practices for young children.
Prerequisites: EDU 1030 with a C or better, 2000 hours of experience with children age 0-5, and permission.
Offering Location: Online
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ECE 3850 - Managing an ECE Classroom
Credit(s): 3
This course explores developmentally appropriate classroom management techniques for young children (Birth-Age 5). Topics covered include pro-social child development, teaching social skills, managing challenging behaviors, and the social context of classroom management. The role of the classroom environment in managing behavior and promoting pro-social interactions will be explored. There is a field work component.
Prerequisites: ECE 3820 , ECE 3830 , and ECE 3840 , each with a C or better, or permission.
Offering Location: Online
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ECE 3860 - Ethical Considerations for Early Childhood Educators
Credit(s): 3
This course provides students with the training necessary to develop skills and knowledge in professional ethics for teachers. Topics explored include the NAEYC Code of Ethical Conduct, how to use professional ethics to guide interactions with families and students, applicable educational laws related to ethical behavior, and the ethics involved in creating a culturally responsive curriculum for students.
Prerequisites: ECE 3820 , ECE 3830 , and ECE 3840 , each with a C or better, or permission.
Offering Location: Online
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ECE 3870 - Inclusive Teaching for Early Educators
Credit(s): 3
This course explores the methods and best practices for including children special needs in the typical early childhood classroom. Topics include best practices for inclusion, collaboration with families and other special education team members, and curriculum design that addresses all learners. Teaching children who are English language learners will also be addressed. There is a field work component.
Prerequisites: ECE 3820 , ECE 3830 , and ECE 3840 , each with a C or better, or permission.
Offering Location: Online
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ECE 3920 - Educational Theory for Teachers of Young Children
Credit(s): 3
This course explores theories of education which relate directly to children age 0-5. Instruction focuses on learning theories, motivation of young children, effective teaching, and instructional planning from a developmental perspective.
Prerequisites: ECE 3850 , ECE 3860 , and ECE 3870 , each with a C or better, or permission.
Offering Location: Online
Notes: There is a course fee.
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ECE 3940 - Developmentally Appropriate Programming: Infants & Toddlers
Credit(s): 3
This course intoduces developmentally appropriate curriculum planning for children birth to age 35 months. The instruction focuses on play-based planning using the Vermont Early Learning Standards, authentic approaches to child assessment, culturally responsive planning, and planning activities across all domains. The role of the classroom environment is also explored.
Prerequisites: ECE 3850 , ECE 3860 , and ECE 3870 , each with a C or better, or permission.
Offering Location: Online
Notes: There is a course fee.
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