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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Fall, Spring Accidents, crimes, terrorist activities, and natural events can result in harm to people and property. Forensic investigation uses the scientific method and principal laws of the natural sciences to explain facts surrounding these events. This course covers handling evidence, fingerprint identification, footprint identification, microscopic and trace element examination; and fire, structural failure, vehicular accident, crime scene, and various nondestructive material investigations. The laboratory instructs students in the techniques and science used and allows the student to judge which are the best techniques for determining important facts surrounding the event in question. (2 hours lecture, 2 hours laboratory.)
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1.00 Credits
This course will assist students in developing academic (e.g., reading; note taking; test taking), time management, communication, financial management, and wellness (e.g., managing stress and avoiding substance abuse) skills; gaining self awareness regarding personal learning styles; and becoming familiar with the various resources and support services available to students.Â
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3-4 Fall This course gives first-year students the opportunity to work in a seminar format with a member of faculty in an area of the faculty member's research interests. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: This course is open to first-year students only. Topics vary by semester. This course is offered for distribution credit; consult the Semester Planning Guide for proper category listing. Students may take only one 14F or 12F seminar and only one 14S or 12S seminar.
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3.00 - 4.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3-4 Spring This course gives first-year students the opportunity to work in a seminar format with a member of faculty in an area of the faculty member's research interests. Prerequisite(s)/Course Notes: This course is open to first-year students only. Topics vary by semester. This course is offered for distribution credit; consult the Semester Planning Guide for proper category listing. Students may take only one 14F or 12F seminar and only one 14S or 12S seminar.
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0.00 Credits
What are the possibilities for digital literacy or for electracy? What can we, as 21st-century writers, learn about the way we express and communicate in a Web 2.0 context? During the semester, students will read and write both print texts (“essay”) and e-texts (“e-say”). Students will also compose in new media to make digital arguments, in both voice and image, by availing of Web 2.0 tools, including blogs, wikis, youtube, and other social networking software.
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0.00 Credits
WSC 2A is a workshop in argument and exposition. It focuses on organization, what it means to make an assertion and the nature of evidence.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Periodically This course focuses on several women artists from the Renaissance through the emergence of feminism in the late 20th century to the present. This course also concerns feminism as a critical approach to art, and the efforts of women artists to gain respect as professionals in Europe and America.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Once a Year This course addresses the various ways that people imagine, represent, regulate, and discipline their own and others' bodies. For instance, how do understandings of the human body vary across cultures or at different historical moments within a culture Whose bodies are privileged and whose bodies are marginalized How are our bodies marked by social practices We will consider how science and medicine, law, philosophy, literature, and the media contribute to individual and shared understandings of our bodies. We will also explore how claims regarding the natural facts of the human body have been used to organize, justify, enforce, and resist unequal social relations.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 This course will offer an in depth study of major issues in Women's and Gender Studies. Topics will reflect current developments in the field and will address issues such as women's roles in work, family, sexuality, and reproduction; language, representation and performance; feminist politics and policies; transnational and cross-cultural perspectives of gender; and the impact of science and technology on women's livesPrerequisite(s)/Course Notes: Subjects will change from semester to semester and the course may be repeated for credit when topics vary.
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3.00 Credits
Semester Hours: 3 Once a Year This course will explore the theme of female identity as expressed in both literary and visual texts. What societal factors contribute to the shaping of one's identity What cultural stereotypes have been attached to women How have these stereotypes been upheld-or rejected-in Western art and literature Through our reading of critical essays, short fiction, drama, and poetry and our examination of visual texts (paintings, photographs, advertisements, films) we will explore these issues. We will also consider the correlation between the literary and visual arts-how they speak to and inform each othe
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