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Course Criteria
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3.00 Credits
In this course, we will isolate and study strategies for identifying issues, determining positions, assessing claims and reasons, locating and evaluating supporting evidence, and writing essays that represent clear and convincing arguments in themselves.
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3.00 Credits
Overview of basic grammatical concepts and structures, including punctuation and basic usage. Students will learn to recognize and correct grammatical errors in their writing and in everyday examples. They will also be able to explain why something is grammatically correct or incorrect, enabling them to impart their knowledge of grammar to others in their future professional workplace or classroom. While the course is designed with everyone in mind, the needs of future teachers are taken into special consideration. Additional topics will vary with instructor but might include differing approaches to grammar and style depending upon audience, purpose, and genre; the power of dynamics implicit in choosing one grammar over another; and the art of grammar - how writers use and abuse grammar artfully for expressive purposes.
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3.00 Credits
Focus on the development of students' ability to communicate in the business and professional world through the letter, memorandum, and in-house report. Emphasis on the importance of written communication as a tool for problem-solving in administrative and management settings.
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3.00 Credits
Workshop-oriented course in which students write, examine, and discuss the essay as a distinct mode. Through the course, students can expect to extend the range of their writing, their understanding of rhetorical traditions, and their freedom and flexibility as writers of essays.
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4.00 Credits
An historical survey of feature narrative and dramatic films from the beginnings through the late 1930s, through screenings, lectures, discussions, and analysis of selected works. Filmmakers studied include Porter, Griffith, Von Stroheim, Eisenstein, Pudovkin, Lubitsch, Hitchcock, Lang, and Renoir.
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4.00 Credits
An historical survey of feature narrative and dramatic films from 1940 through the present, through screenings, lectures, discussions, and analysis of selected works. Filmmakers studied include Welles, Huston, Capra, Hitchcock, Kurosawa, Godard, Truffaut, Bunuel, Fellini, Antonioni, and Altman.
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4.00 Credits
A study of films by and about women in global cinema. The course focuses on women filmmakers primarily, and their uses of documentary, experimental, and/or narrative forms.
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4.00 Credits
A study of American history and culture through film. Course may be taught as a survey, or may focus on the work of a particular director, a specific time period, or a topic such as dramatic narrative, documentary, or genre type.
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3.00 Credits
Introduction to major literary genres of classical Greece and Rome; emphasis on characteristic forms and themes. Readings in Modern English translations.
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3.00 Credits
A study of major Jewish writers from the Bible to the present. Emphasis will be on the literature and on the varieties of Jewish culture that it represents.
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