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Course Criteria
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2.00 Credits
Advanced study of corporations, partnerships, estates and trusts, gift taxes, specially taxed corporations, capital changes and securities. Prerequisite: ACCT 419. Spring semester.
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2.00 Credits
A study of advanced accounting topics including business combinations, equity method of accounting for investments, purchase methods, consolidated financial statements, various inter-company transactions, multinational accounting, foreign currency transactions and translation of foreign financial statements. Prerequisite: ACCT 326. Spring semester. For descriptions of BUAD courses, see section on Business Administration.
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3.00 Credits
6The course will trace the political, socioeconomic, diplomatic and cultural development of the U.S. from its pre- Columbian origins to the present. Fall and Spring semesters.
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3.00 Credits
A survey of the U.S. political system at the national, state and local levels; including examination of constitutions, social and political ideology, mass political behavior, parties and interest groups, Congress, the presidency, the courts and the development of national public policy. Focuses on the problems of policy-making in a pluralistic democratic system. Fall and Spring semesters.
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6.00 Credits
Examines the historical development of religious movements in America, both mainstream and peripheral groups and analyzes the religious perceptions by which Americans have viewed themselves as a nation and culture, including a contemporary assessment. Fall semester.
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1.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the major writers, literary movements and cultural and historical contexts in the United States from its origins to the end of the Civil War. Students examine American Indian creation stories, trickster tales, encounter narratives, Puritan prose and poetry, the literature of the Enlightenment and Revolutionary War, slave narratives and the rise of romanticism. Writers include Cabeza de Vaca, Bradford, Bradstreet, Rowlandson, Edwards, Wheatley, Rowson, Irving, Equiano, Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Poe, Melville, Whitman, Harding Davis and Dickinson. Fall semester.
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3.00 Credits
This course introduces students to the major authors, periods and literary movements in the United States from the end of the Civil War to the present. Students read the works of poets, fiction writers and dramatists from the rise of realism and naturalism, through the modernist movement in the U.S. to the postmodern era. Writers include Dickinson, Clemens, Crane, Jewett, Chopin, Black Elk, Frost, Stevens, Faulkner, O'Neill, O'Connor, Updike, Erdrich, Ginsberg and Plath. Spring semester.
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6.00 Credits
As an introduction to the field of American Studies, this course assumes an interdisciplinary perspective on the question of what "American" means in the world ofideas using a variety of genres: history, fiction, poetry, film, sociology, journalism, speeches and essays. This course analyzes several myths that pervade American culture, always bearing in mind that while myths tend to exaggerate, they also hold grains of truth. The course examines how the notion of the American Dream, for example, has both fostered and hindered progress for individuals within this nation. Potential authors include Barbara Ehrenreich, Ernest Gaines, F. Scott Fitzgerald, W.E.B. DuBois and Sandra Cisneros. Fall semester each year.
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3.00 Credits
This is a seminar course that is offered whenever a mutual interest in a more specialized topic in American Studies exists for a member of the faculty and a sufficient number of students. An example of a 289 Special Topics course in the past is "The Automobile and American Culture." Prerequisite: Instructor's consent.
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10.00 Credits
A study of the major movements and figures in American philosophy and intellectual history. The course will examine the diverse philosophical themes in the American tradition, including idealism, 18th century political theory, transcendentalism and pragmatism. Figures studied include Edwards, Adams, Jefferson, Emerson, Thoreau, James and Dewey. Fall semester, alternate years.
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