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This "Individual and Society" course focuses on the culture shock experienced by immigrants to America and on the tension between foreign-born parents and their American-born children. Many of the readings reveal the conflicts generated by the parents' desire to hold on to their homeland's culture as opposed to their American-born children who, in the face of discrimination, struggle to become assimilated into mainstream American life. 3 credits
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Writing for Leadership is a writing intensive course "Values" course designed for students of all majors. In this course, students will study a variety of modes of professional communication-including leadership statements, mission statements, email, performance reviews, and SWOT analyses-to communicate in ways that are complementary to both organizational mission and leadership style. Applying contemporary case studies, students will learn how to communicate with a variety of stakeholders, relay important information, address conflict, evaluate employees, and articulate important plans and projects from multiple organizational positions. Offered each spring. 3 credits.
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This course is designed to equip students with the written communication skills necessary to their chosen professions. In this class, students will be presented with vocational case studies and will learn how to respond to a variety of stakeholders through the lens of roles and positions identified with the professional workplace environment (e.g., administrator, consultant, and mediator). Students will become familiar with the most common written forms in their professions, and they will learn to tailor their messages in ways that are appropriate, expedient, and understandable to a variety of audiences. 3 credits
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In this "Heritage" course students will survey many women's studies issues, such as work, sexuality, violence, and gender roles. By examining the tradition of women's writing, deconstructing the controlling images of women in the media, and analyzing how women define their experiences through language, we will contemplate how a tradition of women's literature has evolved-one that both reflects and impacts the place of women in contemporary Western and non-Western societies. 3 credits
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In this "Heritage" course students will trace the ethos of African-American literature from roughly pre-Civil War to the present day by examining a variety of genres, such as narratives of slavery, poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, protest essays of the Black Arts Movement, and modern African-American novels. Throughout the semester we will focus on the cultural importance of literary, artistic, and musical production and consumption throughout African-American history. 3 credits
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This Aesthetics course helps students develop an appreciation of contemporary film adaptations and the literary texts on which they are based. Screening of films by both American and foreign directors will complement course discussion and writing about screenplay adaptations of literary sources, the novels and short stories students will read in this class. 3 credits
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