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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
A survey of intellectual backgrounds, major works, and literary trends in American literature. Course content varies by instructor and is listed in the Schedule of Courses. Prerequisite: Any course from the HU 140 series.
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3.00 Credits
Students are exposed to the theater arts and especially to performance. They acquire acting skill through class exercises and performance assignments. Dramatic literature is studied with special attention given to its stage applications. Students may participate either as actors or technicians in the theatrical production, which entails out-of-class rehearsal. Prerequisite: COM 219.
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3.00 Credits
Musical works, musical instruments, and the important developments in the technology of making the music of a specific style, a group of related styles, or a historical sequence. Social and intellectual context of the music studied. Course content varies from semester to semester and is listed in the schedule of courses.
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3.00 Credits
This course continues the study of oral communication with emphasis on effective public speaking. It includes the analysis and practice of modern and traditional methods of persuasion within and beyond the classroom. Prerequisite: COM 219.
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3.00 Credits
Provides a survey of the major artistic monuments of Western culture and discusses the methods by which artistic productions are analyzed. Prerequisite: Any course from the HU 140 series.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces the study of the myths of humankind, both ancient and modern, using perspectives and methods from archeology, anthropology, psychology, literature, and film. It explores what myths reveal about the human psyche and about historical and modern cultures. It builds facility in symbolic thinking and critical understanding of how this thinking influences contemporary literature, art, film, communication, and politics. Prerequisite: Any course from the HU 140 series.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the art of the film. History of the cinema. Basic elements, photography, continuity and rhythm, movement, imaging, music and sound, script writing, directing, editing, acting, great film artists/directors, cinematographers, actors, etc. Prerequisite: Any course from the HU 140 series.
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3.00 Credits
This course focuses on the process of practical ethics as a way of resolving moral conflict and of understanding professional responsibility in a multiculturally diverse society without devaluating specific viewpoints of ethical or metaphysical theory, ideology, or religion. Students will use proposals, value judgments, observation statements, assumptions, and alternate-world assumptions in arguing contemporary issues of moral importance. With this basic moral logic, students will resolve issues in terms of rights, responsibilities, and the community of rational beings in terms of consequences and contingencies and in terms of habituated virtues and character. Free and unrestricted discourse will be encouraged to let students find common ground in diversity. Prerequisite: Any course from the HU 140 series.
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3.00 Credits
A humanistic analysis of technology, with special attention to its influence on modern American culture in a global context. Topics include the history and development of technology, the influence of technology on certain philosophies such as determinism and utilitarianism, the influence of technology on the ecosphere, and the depiction of technology in imaginative literature. Prerequisite: Any course from the HU 140 series.
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0.00 - 3.00 Credits
3 Credits This course entails the study of different approaches to gathering, analyzing, and interpreting information. Special attention is directed to recognizing connections between the boundaries of traditional disciplines. Study also involves in-depth research into a single reality-altering event. Investigation focuses on how people trained in different ways of thinking participate in and contribute to their society and the world by shaping new cultural meanings.
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