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3.00 Credits
The course reviews the concept of networking as explored in social psychology sociology of work and careers, neurobiology and communications. It examines the diffusion of information through social networks, adoption of new ideas, career placement through weak-ties and stimulation of new brain nodes. It includes movement science and exercise theory as ways of stimulating new brain growth and development.The course is an introduction to the academic study of network ideas from computer science and other scientific disciplines in which students will survey the principal thinkers, theories, and methodologies that have shaped this phenomenon. It has come to prominence through the idea of social networking and Facebooking, but the idea has had a long and storied history in science, mathematics and the history of ideas.
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This course is an introduction to several applications of mathematics to everyday life. It is designed to show students that mathematics is interesting and can explain everyday events by using basic topics from lower-level mathematics. Students are required to write about their experiences and the experiences of other that can easily be explained by mathematics.Prerequisite: ENGL 101 and 102 English Composition, "B" or betterCredit: three hours.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 101 AND ENGL 102
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys literature of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries dealing with the urbanimaginary - the ways in which cities are defined and invested with meaning as noteworthy sitesof aspiration and destruction, tradition and modernity, conflict and connection. The primaryobjective is to gain an understanding of the ways in which city literature both shapes and isshaped by the changing and varied conditions under which it is produced. Students developcritical thinking and communication skills through, discussion, exams, presentations, and aresearch paper as they engage with texts covering a wide range of themes, styles, and points ofview. American fiction, poetry, and drama serve as a primary focus, but the course incorporatesan array of works dealing with metropolitan areas around the world - Lagos, London, Tokyo,Paris, and others - as well as a range of visual media including film, photography, painting, andtelevision. Key topics to which the course returns throughout the semester include therepresentation of race, gender and class; social, economic, and geographic mobility; identity; andcommunity, among others.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 101 AND ENGL 102
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3.00 Credits
This course surveys post-colonial, psychoanalytic, Marxist, queer, feminist, and African American theories among others as well as the recent reaction against critical theory exemplified by such practices as surface, distant, and reparative reading. Critical theories are examined in the context of modern and contemporary literature. The primary objective is to gain an understanding both of the ways in which critical theory has evolved over the course of the last century and of the ways it has been critiqued in turn over the last decade.Prerequisites: ENGL 101, ENGL 102 with grade of "C" or better.Cumulative GPA of 3.25 or better.Credit, three hours.
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3.00 Credits
The honors colloquium applies a critical thinking approach to the linkage between religious/ethnic issues and media, the arts. While starting with a brief review of the religions, the emphasis is on how the larger culture, art, literature, reportage has woven these themes into text and visual messages.
Prerequisite:
ENGL 102
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3.00 Credits
This course is an independent Study under the McNair Program. The Ronald E. McNair Post-Baccalaureate Achievement Program is a research program is designed to encourage undergraduate students, who demonstrate strong academic potential, to pursue doctoral studies; preparing aspiring students for graduate studies. The goal of the McNair Program is to increase graduate degree completion among students from 1st generation college students/economically challenged backgrounds, and/or students who are underrepresented in graduate education.
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3.00 Credits
Credit, three hours.
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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary study and discussion based on required reading in primary sources. Specific content determined periodically by the Honors Council. Each colloquium meets once a week for three hours throughout the semester.Credit, three hours.
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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary study and discussion based on required reading in primary sources. Specific content determined periodically by the Honors Council. Each colloquium meets once a week for three hours throughout the semester.Credit, three hours.
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3.00 Credits
Interdisciplinary study and discussion based on required reading in primary sources. Specific content determined periodically by the Honors Council. Each colloquium meets once a week for three hours throughout the semester.Credit, three hours.
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