|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Course Criteria
Add courses to your favorites to save, share, and find your best transfer school.
-
3.00 Credits
3 Credit Hours Fall/Spring Sems. In this course the student learns by writing and by analyzing essays, both professional models and student themes. Students will analyze contemporary writers as an aid to the study of style and technique. (3 hours lecture). Prerequisite: Communication Foundational Experience.
-
3.00 Credits
3 Credit Hours Fall Sem. From the Exploration and Colonial Periods to the Civil War, this course surveys the writings of explorers and Americans of diverse backgrounds in an attempt to understand the character of the American experience. In addition to studying such classic authors as Franklin, Thoreau, Poe, and Whitman, students will read the journals of explorers, diaries of colonial settlers, slave narratives and Native American poetry and prose. (3 hours lecture). Prerequisite: Communication Foundational Experience.
-
3.00 Credits
3 Credit Hours Spring Sem. This course forms the second half of a survey of the rich literary life of the United States. From Reconstruction, Westward Expansion, and the era of industrial and urban development to more recent times, the writings of our many peoples will be examined as they comment on the nature of the American story. Selections from Native American, Hispanic, Afro-American, Jewish, and other traditions will be read along with the work of such traditional figures as Twain, James, Hemingway, Frost, and Faulkner. (3 hours lecture). Prerequisite: Communication Foundational Experience.
-
3.00 Credits
3 Credit Hours Spring Sem. Workshop in the writing of poetry, fiction and drama; the emphasis may vary. (3 hours lecture). Prerequisite: Communication Foundational Experience.
-
3.00 Credits
3 Credit Hours d.b.a. This course will focus on American and English women writers and critics studied in relation to literary developments defining and affecting women's roles in society and the arts. Primary texts are studied, along with critical theory of writing by women. (3 hours lecture).
-
3.00 Credits
3 Credit Hours Fall Sem. This upper-division literature course will survey contemporary non-fiction and literary journalism that focuses on issues in nature, natural history, the environment, and related topics. Students will examine literature that reveals and interprets the environment and its social, philosophical, economic, and cultural contexts and implications. Readings may include works by noted contemporary writers such as E. O. Wilson, Barry Lopez, Edward Abbey, Terry Tempest Williams, Bill McKibben, Wendell Berry, Sue Hubbell, Farley Mowat, Gary Paul Nabhan, Rick Bass, Annie Dillard, Peter Matthiessen, Stephen Jay Gould, and David Quammen. (3 hours lecture). Prerequisites: Human Condition Foundational and Structural Experiences.
-
3.00 Credits
3 Credit Hours Spring Sem. This course is a study of the interconnections among literatures from a wide variety of cultures, eras, and genres. An upper-division survey course, World Literature examines the roles literature plays within cultures. (3 hours lecture). Prerequisite: Communication Foundational Experience.
-
3.00 Credits
3 Credit Hours d.b.a This course is designed as an upper-division writing workshop and students will learn to use the range of writing and editing skills necessary to interpret the environment and its social, philosophical, economic, and cultural contexts and implications. This course will also expose the advanced writing student to techniques in non-fiction and literary journalism employed by contemporary writers on issues in nature, natural history, the environment, and related topics. A student's final project will include a publishable work - review, feature, essay, study, or memoir - to be presented to the College community, as well as submitted for possible publication in a regional or national periodical. (3 hours lecture). Prerequisites: Human Condition and Communication Foundational Experiences.
-
3.00 Credits
3 Credit Hours Spring Sem. This course is designed to introduce non-environmental major students to key concepts and principles that govern how nature works. Students will gain an understanding of and appreciate the need to deal with environmental issues such as sustainability, the inter-connection of the economy and the ecosystem, and the balancing of problems and solutions in an integrated manner on a personal, local, regional, national and global basis. Introductory Environmental Science and Environment, Resources & Society I (SOC 105) cannot both be taken to satisfy graduation requirements. This course will not satisfy graduation requirements for the Environmental Studies Programs. (3 hours lecture).
-
3.00 Credits
3 Credit Hours Fall Sem. In this course, students will be introduced to the Adirondack Park. The class integrates lectures with visits to various field sites and institutions/businesses throughout the region. Topics will span disciplines from management to science and include the history of the Adirondack Park, land use, natural resources, the physical environment, ecosystems and regional environmental issues. In addition, students will be acquainted with current research or environmental activities in the Adirondacks. (3 hours lecture).
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
Privacy Statement
|
Terms of Use
|
Institutional Membership Information
|
About AcademyOne
Copyright 2006 - 2025 AcademyOne, Inc.
|
|
|