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This course builds on prior coursework in civil practice, tort, legal writing, and law office technology. Students enrolled in this course will apply their knowledge in litigation practice and develop new skills in settlement negotiations, trial strategy, preparation of exhibits, and document management. Other topics covered will include alternative dispute resolution, motion practice, and post-trial appeals. This course is a legal specialty.
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3.00 Credits
This course consists of supervised, practical work experience in a law office, judicial office, nonprofit agency, or another entity which employs legal paraprofessionals.
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3.00 Credits
This course provides students with a series of simulated, experiential learning environments which give students an interactive law office environment suitable for the development and refinement of competencies needed for the real-world legal workplace. The simulation modules are supplemented with exercises and instruction geared toward preparing students for the transition from the academic environment to the workplace. This course is a legal specialty.
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This course introduces students to forms of literature that include short story, drama, poetry, and the novel. Students will read and critically analyze selected works from each literary genre. Students will learn how literary devices from all of the genres are used to create meaning for readers: plot, characterization, theme, point of view, symbol, irony, and figurative language. Students will engage in close reading: they will be asked to analyze literature inductively, using clues from the surface level of literature (literary devices) to create larger truths they see in the literature. Student analysis of literature will be expressed through essays, presentations, and other activities.
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This course presents students with the means for understanding and creating visual stories. Students will learn how to read, interpret, and discuss graphic novels, and also how to create and craft comic stories. Students will use various critical frames to read and analyze four graphic novels. Students will engage in close reading: they will be asked to analyze literature inductively, using clues from the surface level of literature (literary devices) to create larger truths they see in the literature. They will also use Scott McCloud's book, Making Comics, to better understand the choices writers and artists make when crafting visual stories and how those choices will affect their own comic stories.
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3.00 Credits
This course will survey American literature from the Colonial period to the present. Emphasis will be placed on writers who have significantly influenced the national literature, such as Native American writers, Thomas Jefferson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allen Poe, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen Crane, Mark Twain, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flannery O'Conner, and others. Students will use thematic and historical analysis (The Adventure of the Wilderness) as well as various critical frameworks (Structuralism, Formalism, Reader-Response, New Historicism, etc.) to understand, analyze, and synthesize the literature across genres and periods. Students will engage in close reading: they will be asked to analyze literature inductively, using clues from the surface level of literature (literary devices) to create larger truths they see in the literature. Student analysis of literature will be expressed through essays, presentations, and other activities.
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3.00 Credits
This course is designed to provide the opportunity for study and enjoyment of dramatic literature. Students will study the history of the theater and the forms of drama through the reading and analysis of representative plays. The course will focus on playwrights, periods, settings, characters, plots, and historical aspects of particular plays. Prereq: ENG 122
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3.00 Credits
At the end of this course, students will understand how to read literature to gain insight into cultures and human experiences different from their own, from both past cultures and present cultures. Student analysis of texts will allow them to grow in empathy and awareness that will help prepare them as they move into increasingly diverse personal and professional spaces. The readings selected will be a mixture of long form (book length) and short form (essay) readings. Students will engage in close reading: they will be asked to analyze literature inductively, using clues from the surface level of literature (literary devices) to create larger truths they see in the literature. Literary analysis will be communicated through essays, presentations, and other class activities in the rhetorical forms of description, analysis, and reflection.
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At the end of this course, students will understand how to read and interpret non-fiction literature to gain insight into the rhetorical tools used in non-fiction. Because of an increased emphasis on non-fiction in education and a societal emphasis towards increasing levels of literacy, this course was designed to help students with close-reading and analytical skills. Students will be asked to analyze literature inductively, using clues from the surface level of literature (literary devices) to create larger truths they see in the literature. The readings selected will be a mixture of long form (book length) and short form (essay) readings. Literary analysis expressed through written communication and other activities will take the rhetorical forms of description, analysis, and reflection.
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3.00 Credits
This course will prepare incoming graduate accounting students with a foundation in accounting principles. The topics covered in the course include the accounting cycle, books of original entry, preparation of journal entries, worksheets, the trial balance, and the statements of financial position and income. Emphasis is on the proper recording and reporting of assets, liabilities, and equity accounts. Graduate accounting students lacking six credits of undergraduate accounting are required to take this course as a prerequisite for the core MAC courses.
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