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The Alexander Technique is an educational method that focuses on teaching individuals efficient, coordinated use of their bodies in everyday activities. Whether standing, sitting, bending, or lifting, students learn to accomplish activities from a place of balance and support. Enhances performance in music, dance, theater, and sports as it minimizes effort, tension, and fatigue. Simple principles realign the body for maximum health and function, thereby reducing stress and injury and improving mental acuity and physical appearance. Noncredit. SIEGLER
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Yes, do the right thing. But is it always that simple We will look at old "classics", controversial films, character studies, some quirky pieces both dark and uplifting -- works that focus on characters, ideas, and eternal questions, in order to study how films are structured to express their content. A few short response papers, in-class discussion, and devoted attendance required. Noncredit. MEADER
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3.00 Credits
Exploration of classic photographic techniques using digital cameras, scanners and PhotoShop Elements. Principles of composition will be applied to increase visual impact. Basics of hardware and software, sizing and cropping, color and tonal adjustments, other image manipulations and corrections. Input options, file formatting, and output processes required for print and electronic viewing. Four projects will explore ways digital imaging can be used in art, business, science, or communications. Noncredit. HIGGINS
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Introduces students to fundamental concepts of Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Emphasis on learning ArcGIS Desktop 9.2 software and using its tools and capabilities to solve real-world problems. Students will apply their GIS skills by designing and completing an independent project. Prerequisite: Fundamental computer skills. Not open to students who have completed Environmental Studies 212. Students must submit a brief essay to the instructor explaining why they want to learn GIS and how they will use it in their discipline. Noncredit. GIMOND
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Good graphic design skills are essential in today's technology-driven world, no matter what career path you take, but are seldom acquired in the rush to learn technical applications and programming. A project-based introduction to the basics of graphic design, using Photoshop or Photoshop Elements. Includes use of type, images, and graphics to produce effective, attractive advertising materials and business packages for both print and multimedia output. Noncredit. HIGGINS
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3.00 Credits
An overview of what is involved in becoming a successful freelance writer. Topics may include: motivation, training/education, market choice, writing a query letter, research, rewriting, working with editors, the finished piece, building a business, marketing, website set-up, use of a blog, writing for print vs Internet, and ghostwriting. Possible adjunct material: the mechanics of freelance photography (to be taught by a professional freelance photographer). Noncredit. WUORIO
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was the term Nazis applied to any music influenced by jazz, the avant-garde, or written by composers of Jewish descent. This music was banned, its composers driven into exile and/or murdered in concentration camps, creating a lost generation that altered the direction of 20th-century musical development. Now there is a worldwide effort to find a historical place for these artists, and this course contributes to that effort. Topics include German anti-Semitism, anti-Semitic thought in works of Wagner, Nazi racial laws targeting Jewish musicians, official agencies and cultural policies, performers and composers as victims and survivors. Three credit hours. A, I.
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1.00 - 4.00 Credits
One to four credit hours.
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4.00 Credits
Latin America's search for political stability and economic development from the origins of the indigenous American civilizations to the present. Major themes include the Aztec and Inca imperial conquests of the 14th century, Spanish and Portuguese colonization, the Bourbon and Pombaline rationalization of the 18th century, the independence wars and national civil wars of the 19th century, and right- and left-wing dictatorships. Four credit hours. H, I. FALLAW
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4.00 Credits
An intensive, cross-disciplinary introduction to Latin American society and culture. Elite and popular search for identity through writings and art (music, painting, murals). Institutions and structures found across Latin America such as frontiers, the landed estate, urban shantytown, religious syncretism. Formerly listed as Latin American Studies 171. Four credit hours. H, I. FALLAW
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