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Course Criteria
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4.00 Credits
Explores the development of women’s lives, from childhood through adolescence to maturity. Focuses on the family, school, sexuality, and career options, and how these experiences and choices are affected by race, class, religion, ethnic origin, and gender. Readings include fi ction, autobiography, history, and social science. Offered every semester. Prerequisite: BE II placement.
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This course explores the relationship between popular culture and U.S. society through readings of movies, television, newspaper, advertising, and popular music. It is specifically designed to reinforce and develop basic reading, writing and analytical skills. Prerequisite: BE II placement.
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4.00 Credits
Designed to introduce students to reading and writing short stories, tales and other forms of fiction. Familiarizes students with how a story is put together, how characters are developed, the use of details and other techniques of fiction. Offered every other year. Prerequisite: ECI placement
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4.00 Credits
The basic material of this course consists of weekly writings about the student's own life. Focus on the most important elements of identity in America: class, race, gender. Students read about author's and students' autobiographies to learn about writing as a craft, finding one's own style, developing confidence in it and working at it. Offered every other year. Prerequisite: ECI placement
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4.00 Credits
Examines the development of the mass communications industries in the U.S.: newspapers, advertising, T.V., film and radio are among the media explored. This course is primarily concerned with the impact of media on our lives. It emphasizes the content of media, the patterns of control, and the impact of developing technologies. Offered every year. Prerequisite BEII placement.
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4.00 Credits
This course will explore the cultural landscape in the United States as represented through ethnicity, religion and class.Topics will include an introduction to ethnicity, religion and class in the U.S.;diversity within the contexts of democracy, immigration and globalization; issues of pluralism, prejudice,discrimination and inequality.A special focus of the course will be the examination the Long Island region.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores the Writings of activists, political leaders and other social reformers to discover how they used the wrtten word as a vehicle for change. Students will read articles, speeches, memoirs, poems and short fiction and dicuss the various societal issues that they would like to address through writing. Students will reserach and produce written, spoken, visual and/or multimedia projects, includi- ng newsletter articles, brochures and fact sheets, which directly benefit the partnership organizations that they serve through their Community Engagement field placements. Their work will reach audiences beyond their class and serve tangible purposes for community groups and the students themselves.
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4.00 Credits
Professional journalists are competing with a new type of amateur reporter: citizen journalists. Equipped with digital cameras and the recorders these reporters cover their own communities posting multi-media content online. This source is an introduction to projects. This course is an introduction to citizen journalism, Students collaborate in the creation of community based new media.
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4.00 Credits
This course explores social control as the means by which power is exercised and maintained in American society: repression, racism, sexism, education, media, work, class divisions, and political parties. In other words, who controls whom and how? The course emphasizes the balance between social control, social protest, and social change. Prerequisite: ECI placement
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4.00 Credits
An introduction to social, economic and political stratification in the United States. Sources and consequences of inequality are explored through an examination of educational, political, and occupational structures. Prerequisite: EC I .
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