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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
Survey of workplace skills, including communication, team building, problem solving, and leadership. Emphasis on concepts of perception, attitude, motivation, and ethics.
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3.00 Credits
An outdoor, experiential-based program that provides learning in an extraordinary environment while building the foundation for transference of new skills, language, strategies, and knowledge into the classroom and dayto- day life. Through the utilization of games, initiatives, and elements that are both physically and intellectually challenging, one gains an enhanced awareness of and/or constructive behavior changes that can create powerful results.
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5.00 Credits
Surveys ways people through the ages, from around the world, have given expression to humanity through the arts. Overview of visual arts, dance, theater, film, literature, music, and architecture provides a framework for comparing unique qualities of various art forms. Serves as introduction to more specialized courses in the arts. Prerequisite: ENGL& 101. (H)
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5.00 Credits
Poetry and painting have been closely connected since early times: poets have been continually inspired to write about painting, and painters have wanted to put their color into words. The class will address this close relationship while providing a thorough introduction to poetry through the classic text, Western Wind, by John Nims. As a veteran poet but a novice lover of painting, the instructor will enhance the painting portion with guest speakers and student knowledge. Welcome all who wish to take a closer look at poetry, love painting, and want to see how poetry and painting have touched one another. Prerequisite: ENGL& 101. (H)
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5.00 Credits
A Glimpse into the Poetry and Prose of 20th Century's Outrageous Women. Examine the changing roles of women in the 20th century, and how women have given language to those changing roles. Authors include Carolyn Heilbrun, Camille Paglia, Simone deBouvier, Adrienne Rich, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Diane Wakoski, Marge Piercy, Carolyn Forche, Jane Hirschfield, and others. (H)
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5.00 Credits
In addition to writing in poetry, fiction, and other selected genres, students will explore creation in another chosen art form, such as dance, music, photography, drawing, painting, architecture, or journalism. The class will be conducted as a writing workshop and provide speakers in a variety of areas. (H)
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5.00 Credits
Historical as well as cross-cultural study of popular literary and nonliterary texts, novels, magazines, comic books, films, and television. Focus on popular myths, icons, heroes, and rituals that have affected people's lives and attitudes. Prerequisite: ENGL& 101 or permission of instructor. (H)
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5.00 Credits
Throughout history mankind's destiny has often been realigned by major intellectual advances made in science. Through readings, demonstrations, and discussions, participants will explore this process using the contributions of Newton, Lavoisier, Faraday, Darwin, Poincare, Freud, Curie, Einstein, Watson, and Crick. (H)
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2.00 Credits
Use of current media technologies, including video, desktop publishing, and web technology to research and document the oral history of specific aspects of the local community. Focus on research, writing, video production, and bringing anthropological perspectives to the gathering of oral history. Final products will be video interviews, short documentaries, a website, and a printed newsletter. (E)
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1.00 Credits
Provides an introduction to information skills, including how to develop search vocabulary relevant to an information need, use appropriate resources and effective search techniques, evaluate information, and cite information in a works-cited list using APA. Online Blackboard course. Microsoft Word required.
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