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3.00 credits LVA2411 Literary Culture of the U.S. (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This is an "American literature" course informed by recurring questions: what do we mean when we say "literature" How is the concept "American" defined and problematized How do we construct such a slippery term as "culture" The course assumes a plurality of cultures, not a single, hegemonic "American" culture, and the cultures in question are limited geographically, to the territory of what is now the United States. Texts range from the 17th to the 20th century, are organized by topic rather than by chronology, and form a narrative that includes "classic" as well as recently discovered voices. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H
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3.00 credits LVA2432 Foundations of Western Art (Intermediate Liberal Arts) This course is designed to introduce students to painting, architecture, and sculpture from the Renaissance to the early 20th century and to give students an understanding of the general principles governing the visual arts. Topics such as the role of the artist, the functions of art in society, and the nature of visual language, among others, will be discussed as major artists and their works are presented in this survey of Western art. Class lectures and discussions are based on the presentation of slides. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation H&S and A&H
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3.00 credits LIT2447 The Stranger in Literature Intermediate Liberal Arts This course will explore the allure -- and perceived danger -- of "the stranger" in literature. Many authors have considered the question of the Other, exploring the meaning of difference (e.g. racial, gender, class) and defining themselves in relation to what they are not. A foray into unknown regions can be both threatening and exhilarating, an act of daring and of joy. We will examine the different ways in which several works of literature construct interactions with strangers, and the "social work" undertaken by these texts. Our discussions may include such topics as nationalism, gender identity, racial difference, colonialism and sexuality, as we read texts by such authors as William Shakespeare, Emily Bronte, E.M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, John Keats and Flannery O'Connor. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation HSF & AHF
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3.00 credits LVA2448 Sports and Literature (LIT) (Intermediate Liberal Arts) "Most of what I know about writing I've learned through running every day. How far can I take something and still keep it decent and consistent " So says Japanese writer Haruki Murakami in his memoir about how long-distance running influenced his livelihood as a novelist. This course will examine the intersections of sport and literature, guided by the many and varied representations that fiction writers, poets and essayists have made of individual and team sports and their players. We will study theoretical examinations of sport and its roles and values in culture; for example, Roland Barthes's critical question "What is Sport " and Theodor Adorno's assertion that "sport is the imageless counterpart to practical life". We will study a portrait of boxing and gentlemanly conduct in William Hazlitt's nineteenth-century The Fight; "people who risk death for a living" in Alison Kennedy's On Bullfighting; Conor O'Callaghan's poems about the socio-political perils of playing cricket in Ireland, where English games were banned for a long time. In this course you will work with such topic areas as sport, nationalism and fascism; sport and gender; sport and violence; sport and class distinctions. Above all you will examine the efforts of diverse writers to capture the workings, euphoria and 'meaning' of sport in their work. Other texts may include Nick Hornby's novel of soccer fanaticism in Fever Pitch; Richard Ford's The Sportswriter; and yes, baseball through John Updike's writing on the Boston Red Sox. Prerequisite: RHT and Foundation AHF and HSF
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3.00 credits LVA2449 Seeking Enrichment: Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in Literature (Intermediate Liberal Arts) The novelist Joyce Carol Oates has said, "To be an American is to be a kind of pilgrim ... a seeker after truth. The pilgrim is our deepest and purest self." In this course we'll explore the character of the pilgrim in selected fiction, essays, and poems, using questions such as: What inspires someone to take and retake pilgrimages: long, often difficult journeys far from home What friendships and other communities form along the way and why What besides self-enrichment do pilgrims hope to find, or possibly lose Through close reading, discussion, and written analyses, we'll study how writers use setting, plot, and theme to consider these questions. There will also be one field trip, which will serve as a local pilgrimage. Course texts may include contemporary works by Kurt Vonnegut, Ursula Le Guin, and Curtis Sittenfeld, as well as selections from Dante, Petrarch, Chaucer, Basho, and Thoreau. Prerequisite: RHT and Foundation HSF and AHF
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3.00 credits LVA2458 Ethnic Identities: Magical American Stories Intermediate Liberal Arts In this course, we will examine works of fiction and film that use magical realist techniques to portray ethnic American experiences. Magical realism allows a narrator to represent both the natural and supernatural (e.g., ghosts, cognizant butterflies) together, as normal parts of the same world. Concentrating on ethnicity and magical realism gives us the opportunity to identify and discuss the multicultural composition of the United States, while exploring the boundaries of the filmic and fictive forms. We will examine the work of scholars, writers, and filmmakers from the 19th Century to the 21st Century. These artists may include Nathaniel Hawthorne, W.E.B. Du Bois, Toni Morrison, Woody Allen, Ana Castillo, Karen Tei Yamashita, Jonathan Safran Foer, and Jim Sheridan. RHT and Foundation A&H and H&S
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3.00 credits LVA2460 Tales of the City: Exploring Urban Literature 3 CREDIT Intermediate Liberal Arts This course will focus on the changing and diverse portrayals of cities and urban life in western literature from the earliest days of industrialization to the present. Inspired by Plato's observation, "this City is what it is because our citizens are what they are," we will explore the mutually-constructed relationship between a city and its citizens, asking such questions as: What does it mean to be an urban dweller How does a city shape its residents' identity, and how do its residents influence a city's development What are the delights and dangers of urban life Where does one's sense of community/neighborhood overlap with - and diverge from - living in a particular city We will read novels, short stories, poems, and essays, focusing primarily on London, but also likely including Dublin and New York City. To what extent can the concerns of a community within a city diverge from the concerns of the city as a whole Prerequisites: RHT & Foundation A&H and H&S
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3.00 credits LVA2467 Film and the City Intermediate Liberal Arts The birth of cinema coincided with a period of urbanization and a new sense of life in the modern metropolis. From the beginnings of film history to the present, movies have come to grips with the complexities of the urban environment. They have shaped our sense of cities as symbolic sites signifying opportunity, progress, and the promise of social integration but also danger, alienation, and the collision of distinct cultures. Ranging from neon-lit wonderlands to post-apocalyptic wastelands, cinematic cities have mapped our cultural aspirations and anxieties. This course will explore how cities have been represented in movies from the silent era onward. Weekly film viewing assignments will be complemented by readings in film and urban history. Prerequisites: RHT and Foundation AH & HS
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3.00 credits MCE: Finance Intermediate Core (3 credits) The finance stream of MCE is designed to develop student understanding of the role of finance in the management of a business venture. Effective financial management, whether performed by the general manager in a small business, or by the finance organization in a large corporation, is necessary if a venture is to succeed and grow. A successful financial manager must have skills, abilities, tools, and a theoretical understanding in many areas, including financial analysis, financial forecasting, valuation, capital budgeting, investor expectations regarding risk and return, the cost of investor supplied capital, and financial strategy. Student skills will be developed in all of these areas in the MCE finance stream through readings, lectures, class discussions, exercises, and analytical projects. A successful financial manager must also understand the venture's economic environment, its products, services, and market position, its operational capabilities, and its organizational behavior characteristics. The MCE finance stream will link financial management analysis and decisions to these other critical functional areas, so the student will understand its part in achieving overall success for the venture. Prerequisites: ACC1300, QTM 1300, QTM1310 and (FME1001 or (MIS1000 and MOB1000))
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3.00 credits MCE2312: Microeconomics Intermediate Core (3 credits) Microeconomics is basically the study of "scarcity". Raw materials are not available in infinite quantities; neither is human labor or productive capital. The reality is that managers must deal with real-world constraints in making decisions about what to produce, how to produce it and who to produce it for. The question is then, what rules or principles do we have to help us make allocation decisions To that end, the microeconomics stream of the MCE module looks at the interaction of supply and demand in the determination of prices, the role of government in redressing issues of market failure and other externalities, the responsiveness of consumers to changes in prices and income, the behavior of consumers in the market place and through rational choice theory, costs and efficient methods of production, the structure of product and service markets, and the application of microeconomic principles to important issues such as labor negotiations, wage determination, game theory and firm interdependence, and pricing strategy. This stream of your MCE curriculum introduces you to these important ideas, and gives you analytical frameworks and tools to help you interpret the economic world around you. At the same time we will explore the many key links between economic analysis and marketing, strategy, accounting, finance, operations and organizational behavior. Prerequisites: ACC1300, QTM 1300, QTM1310 and (FME1001 or MIS1000 and MOB1000))
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