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3.00 Credits
Topic: The Fairy Tale. This course examines the fairy tale's roots in the folktale and the manner in which fairy tales have been collected, edited and published over the centuries. This course also investigates the ways in which fairy tales have been used and understood by educators, psychoanalysts, writers and others.
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1.00 - 3.00 Credits
Readings or analytical assignments in Comparative Literature in accordance with the needs and interests of those enrolled and agreed upon by the student and instructor.
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3.00 Credits
A study of the genre of mystical writing as it was developed and practiced throughout the Middle Ages and in 14th century England particularly. Attention will be given to the historical, religious, and cultural contexts that enabled and were created by mystical texts. In addition, the course will explore how traditional and contemporary trends in the fields of religious and literary studies can be brought to bear on the genre of mystical writing. (OC)
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3.00 Credits
This course will be taught in English, and will focus on the influence of Italian literary models for the construction of female literary types as well as female voices in France and Italy from 1300 to about 1600. Italian authors studied include three very influential Florentines, Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, as well as Castiglione and Ariosto. We will read women poets, patrons, prostitutes and queens from Italy and France such as Veronica Gambara, Isabella di Morra, Vittoria Colonna, Christine de Pizan, Louise Labe, and Marguerite de Navarre. At last issue will be women's roles and women's images in city and court culture during the early modern period, and the interaction of their writings with the literary canons of Italy and France. (OC).
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3.00 Credits
This course will be taught in English, and will focus on the influence of Italian literary models for the construction of female literary types as well as female voices in France and Italy from 1300 to about 1600. Italian authors studied include three very influential Florentines, Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio, as well as Castiglione and Ariosto. We will read women poets, patrons, prostitutes and queens from Italy and France such as Veronica Gambara, Isabella di Morra, Vittoria Colonna, Christine de Pizan, Louise Labe, and Marguerite de Navarre. At issue will be women's roles and women's images in city and court culture during the early modern period, and the interaction of their writings with the literary canons of Italy and France. (OC).
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3.00 Credits
Course covers historical, economic, theoretical and research foundations of various mass media of communication: newspapers, magazines, radio, television and others. Includes study of the functions of media, and their creative and destructive potential in society. Textbook study and critical analyses of media products: advertisements, news stories, TV programs. (F,W).
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3.00 Credits
Explores how public relations, as an area of communications management and production, can contribute to an organization's success. Provides a comprehensive introduction to the field of public relations, including: history and contemporary professional status of the public relations practitioner; role of public relations as a management discipline; major areas of public relations work, including media relations, public affairs, issues management, lobbying, organizational relations, development; techniques of public relations production - planning and presentation - with attention to the uses of specific tools available to practitioners, i.e., news releases, brochures, multimedia, Internet communications, special events. (YR).
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3.00 Credits
COMM 290 (Practicum) provides introductory instruction and practice in a number of practical communications skills, with the field and focus changing each time the course is offered. (AY).
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3.00 Credits
Gives detailed view of landmark research studies in the field. Acquaints students with logic of research inquiry, design and analysis, including questions of validity, reliability, causation, etc. Imparts basics of various research methods used in the communication field, such as survey interviews, depth interviews, focus groups, content analysis, and rhetorical analysis. Students design and conduct at least one study in communication, individually or in groups. (F,W).
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3.00 Credits
This course will confront and complicate the following key questions: what does it mean to be an American? What is American culture? Participants in this course will respond to the questions central to the American Studies field by reading and discussing historical, sociological, literary, artistic, material culture, political, economic, and other sources. Students will use this interdisciplinary study to examine the multiple identities of Americans - as determined by factors such as gender, race, class, ethnicity, and religion. While emphasizing the diversity of American culture, participants will consider some core values and ideas uniting America both in historical and contemporary society. Students will be invited to seek out and share fresh narratives of the American experience.
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