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EDHS 356 - Elementary Physical Education Pedagogy
Study of elementary curriculum and instruction in physical education. Examines the principles of planning (i.e., SOLs), implementing, and evaluating sound elementary physical education programs. (Y)
Credits: 2
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EDHS 357 - Teaching Elementary Physical Education
This field practicum provides pedagogical skills for teaching elementary physical education. Instructional strategies consistent with the instructional designs emphasized in EDHS 356 are examined and practiced. (Y)
Credits: 1
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EDHS 358 - Teaching Secondary Physical Education
This field practicum provides pedagogical skills for teaching secondary physical education. Examines and practices instructional strategies consistent with the designs emphasized in EDHS 359. (Y)
Credits: 1
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EDHS 359 - Secondary Physical Education Pedagogy
Study of secondary curriculum and instruction in physical education. Examines the principles of planning (i.e., SOLs, safety, legal issues, and child abuse), implementing, and evaluating a sound secondary physical education curriculum. (Y)
Credits: 2
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EDHS 377 - Teaching Assistant Program in Adapted Physical Education
Should be taken in conjunction with EDHS 545-Adapted Physical Education. Prospective teachers work with a variety of students with disabilities in a physical education setting. Students are assigned to, and supervised by, an adapted physical educator in one of the local schools. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Corequisite: EDHS 545.
Credits: 1
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EDHS 441 - Exercise Physiology
A study of the physiological adaptations to exercise. Emphasis is placed on energy metabolism, physiological responses to exercise and exercise training techniques. (F)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: BIOL 201-202, or 206 or equivalent.
Credits: 3
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EDHS 445 - Motor Development
Describes and analyzes normal motor development across the lifespan, from pre-natal development through older adulthood. Emphasizes identifying and classifying motor behaviors across the lifespan, as well as understanding the interaction of environmental and biological factors that affect acquisition of these movement behaviors. Laboratory experiences are included. (SI)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Kinesiology students or permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
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EDHS 446 - Practicum in Health or Physical Education
Section 1: Health Education Section 2: Physical Education Section 3: Sports Medicine (S)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Consent of advisor and completed “contract”.
Credits: 1 to 6
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EDHS 450 - Contemporary Health Issues
Analyzes current health problems and interests relative to various stages of the life cycle. Major discussions deal with human sexuality, modification of disease risks, emergency health care, drug use/abuse, mood alteration, death, and dying. Emphasizes the physiological, psychological, sociological, and ethical factors involved in individual health-related decision making. Taught at the graduate level as EDHS 550; credit may not be earned for both EDHS 450 and 550. (S)
Credits: 3
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EDHS 451 - Emergency Medical Care
Examines current approaches to the management of accidental and medical emergencies. Investigates appropriate procedures for reducing the severity of injury as well as possible preventive actions. Considers cardiopulmonary difficulty, temperature-related injuries, poisoning, hemorrhaging, diabetes, coronary artery disease, cardiac arrest, emergency childbirth, epilepsy, fractures, and major forms of shock. Develops an understanding of community organizations specializing in providing emergency medical treatment. Investigates the components of a comprehensive emergency medical care system. Successful completion of appropriate examinations will result in CPR certification. Taught at the undergraduate level as EDHS 451; credit may not be earned for both EDHS 451 and 552. (S)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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EDHS 453 - Nutrition
Studies the basic principles of nutrition, including psychosocial-cultural considerations in dietary intake. Focuses on nutrient sources and actions, digestion, special population needs, weight control, food faddism, international problems, nutrition education, and nutrition-related disorders. Taught at the graduate level as EDHS 553; credit may not be earned for both EDHS 453 and 553. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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EDHS 457 - The Art and Science of Sports Medicine
A week-long conference that begins with lectures, visitations, and observations of surgery and prosected cadaver joints. Continues with presentations by nationally known physicians, athletic trainers, and physical therapists, and concludes with a written examination and submission of a literature review paper on a selected topic in sports medicine. Taught at the graduate level as EDHS 557; credit may not be earned for both EDHS 457 and 557. (SS)
Credits: 3
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EDHS 458 - Sport Psychology Conference
Analysis of psychological variables related to motor skill and athletic performance. Includes motivation, goal setting, mental rehearsal, coaching styles, personality variables in sport, youth sport, anxiety, and performance enhancement. Specific applications to teaching, counseling, and coaching are emphasized. A conference fee is required. Taught at the graduate level as EDHS 558; credit may not be earned for both EDHS 458 and 558. (SS)
Credits: 3
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EDHS 481 - Problems of Personal Adjustment
Examines social and emotional adjustment within the context of normal development. Encompasses problems associated with the developmental process. (S)
Credits: 3
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EDHS 493 - Independent Study
(SI)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 1 to 6
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EDHS 497 - Directed Research
(SI)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Credits: 1 to 6
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EDHS 501 - Phonetics
Studies the structure and function of speech sound production. Teaches the basic skills of phonetic transcription using the International Phonetic Alphabet, and introduces basic theoretical issues in the study of phonology. (Y)
Credits: 2
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EDHS 502 - Introduction to Speech and Hearing Science
Examines principal concepts and procedures for the study of physiologic, perceptual, and acoustic aspects of voice, speech, and hearing. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: EDHS 501 and 505.
Credits: 3
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EDHS 505 - Anatomy and Physiology of Speech and Hearing Mechanisms
Examines the anatomical and physiological substrates of hearing, speech perception, language comprehension, speech production, language production, and swallowing. (Y)
Credits: 3
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EDHS 508 - Introduction to Audiology
Introduces the profession of audiology. Examines common pathologies of the auditory system; the impact of hearing loss; conventional procedures used to assess hearing; and interpretation of audiological test findings. (Y)
Credits: 3
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EDHS 515 - American Sign Language I
This is a co-listing of ASL 101. Introduces receptive and expressive American Sign Language skills, including basic vocabulary, sentence structure, classifiers, use of space, non-manual type indicators, and fingerspelling. Examines signing deaf people as a linguistic/cultural minority.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Communication Disorders students.
Credits: 4
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EDHS 518 - American Sign Language II
An intermediate course, assuming a beginning skill level in American Sign Language (ASL). (SI)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: EDHS 515 or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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EDHS 524 - Substance Abuse in Society
Investigates substance abuse and use in contemporary society. Treats topics from a multi-disciplinary perspective, including biological, pharmacologic, cultural, social, psychological, political, economic, and legal aspects of substance abuse. Analyzes patterns of addiction, intervention, and rehabilitation with respect to alcoholism and other drugs. Examines assessments of the costs, options, and alternatives to addiction, along with educational efforts toward prevention. Class discussions are an integral part of this course. Credit may not be earned in both EDHS 224 and 524. (S)
Credits: 3
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EDHS 533 - Communication Skills: Interpersonal Process Recall (IPR)
Continuous and interrelated experiences provide an opportunity to learn more about communicating with other people. Focuses on effective communication skills and personal communication styles. Effective communication responses are practiced in class and through required laboratory experiences. (Y)
Credits: 3
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EDHS 543 - Social Processes and Individual Differences in Sport and Exercise Psychology
Focuses on the social and psychological factors related to participation in sport and exercise. Includes socialization into and through exercise and sport; observational learning of motor and psychological skills; feedback, reinforcement, and leadership behaviors; competition and competitive stress; and character development and self-perception in sport and exercise. Cross-listed with EDLF 543. (S)
Credits: 3
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EDHS 544 - Athletic Injuries
An course in principles, procedures, and techniques in the prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of athletic injuries. A one-credit laboratory experience is available in addition to the regular course. (F)
Prerequisites & Notes
Coerequisite: Anatomy, instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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EDHS 545 - Adapted Physical Education
Examines the nature and causes of disabling conditions and the motor needs and tolerances associated with these conditions. Enhances experience and skill in planning, assessing, prescribing, teaching, and evaluating instruction for children with disabilities in mainstream physical education settings. (Y)
Credits: 3
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EDHS 546 - Assessment in Kinesiology
Introduces assessment strategies and techniques in physical activity settings (i.e., motor skills and fitness self-assessments). Although the focus is on general concepts and techniques of assessment in physical activity settings, the course also addresses strategies for the selection and administration of assessment tests. (Y)
Credits: 3
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EDHS 547 - Motivational Processes in Sport and Exercise Psychology
Focuses on factors related to motivation in sport and exercise settings. Antecedents and consequences of motivated behavior are examined from theoretical, research, and application perspectives. Emphasizes participatory motivation in sport; intrinsic/extrinsic motivational orientations (cognitive evaluation and competence motivation); achievement goals; causal attributions and effective responses; and exercise motivation and behavior. (Y)
Credits: 3
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EDHS 548 - Qualitative Analysis of Motor Patterns
Experienced teachers analyze and enhance their qualitative assessment skills. The course identifies and works on approximately 10-15 qualitative skills chosen by the class. (SS)
Credits: 3
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EDHS 549 - Sport Psychology Interventions
Focuses on psychological skills and methods in sport and exercise settings. (E)
Credits: 3
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EDHS 550 - Contemporary Health Issues
Analyzes current health problems and interests relative to various stages of the life cycle. Major discussions deal with human sexuality, modification of disease risks, emergency health care, drug use/abuse, mood alteration, death, and dying. Emphasizes the physiological, psychological, sociological, and ethical factors involved in individual health-related decision making. Taught at the undergraduate level as EDHS 450; credit may not be earned for both EDHS 450 and 550. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: graduate student status.
Credits: 3
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EDHS 551 - Teaching School Health Education
Introduction to current instructional approaches appropriate to a comprehensive K-12 health education curriculum. Designed for elementary and secondary school health instructors; the course stresses specific roles for schools in preventing health problems and promoting high-level wellness among students and the community through well-planned health instruction. Emphasizes organization for planning, implementation techniques, SOLs, instructional strategies, and the evaluation of instruction. (E)
Credits: 3
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EDHS 552 - Emergency Medical Care
Examines current approaches to the management of accidental and medical emergencies. Investigates appropriate procedures for reducing the severity of injury as well as possible preventive actions. Considers cardiopulmonary difficulty, temperature-related injuries, poisoning, hemorrhaging, diabetes, coronary artery disease, cardiac arrest, emergency childbirth, epilepsy, fractures, and major forms of shock. Develops an understanding of community organizations specializing in providing emergency medical treatment. Investigates the components of a comprehensive emergency medical care system. Successful completion of appropriate examinations will result in CPR certification. Taught at the undergraduate level as EDHS 451; credit may not be earned for both EDHS 451 and 552. (S)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: graduate student status and instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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EDHS 553 - Nutrition
Studies the basic principles of nutrition, including psychosocial-cultural considerations in dietary intake. Focuses on nutrient sources and actions, digestion, special population needs, weight control, food faddism, international problems, nutrition education, and nutrition-related disorders. Taught at the undergraduate level as EDHS 453; credit may not be earned for both EDHS 453 and 553. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: graduate student status and instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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EDHS 554 - Modalities in Athletic Training
Study of the theoretical foundations and principles of the therapeutic modalities used in the physical medicine environment. Includes theory and clinical techniques used to enhance the treatment and rehabilitation of athletic injuries. (S)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Graduate student or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
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EDHS 557 - Sports Medicine Conference
A week-long conference that begins with lectures, visitations, and observations of surgery and prosected cadaver joints. Continues with presentations by nationally known physicians, athletic trainers, and physical therapists, and concludes with a written examination and submission of a literature review paper on a selected topic in sports medicine. Taught at the undergraduate level as EDHS 457; credit may not be earned for both EDHS 457 and 557. (SS)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: graduate student status.
Credits: 3
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EDHS 558 - Sports Psychology Conference
Analysis of psychological variables related to motor skill and athletic performance. Includes motivation, goal setting, mental rehearsal, coaching styles, personality variables in sport, youth sport, anxiety, and performance enhancement. Specific applications to teaching, counseling, and coaching are emphasized. A conference fee is required. Taught at the undergraduate level as EDHS 458; credit may not be earned for both EDHS 458 and 558. (SS)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: graduate student status.
Credits: 3
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EDHS 561 - Computer Applications in Physical Education
Provides hands-on experience with specific programs designed to introduce students to using the microcomputer as an object of instruction, a medium of instruction, and a management tool. Develops computer skills that can be used immediately by physical education professionals to improve their efficiency. (Y)
Credits: 3
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EDHS 563 - History, Principles, and Philosophy of Physical Education
Analyzes the heritage of physical education in terms of historical and philosophical foundations, as well as the cultural significance of sport and physical activity. Examines specific issues and principles related to physical education, such as Title IX, advocacy, and block scheduling. (E)
Credits: 2
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EDHS 589 - Selected Topics
These are designed as pilot courses to meet new program requirements, and changing needs in the field. Used also to offer experimental courses, and courses under development, these are announced and offered on a semester-to-semester basis. May be graded or S/U, depending on the instructor, and may be repeated. (S)
Credits: 1 to 6
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ISHU 301 - Humanities I
The first half of a two-semester survey designed to introduce students to dominant humanistic traditions of Eastern and Western civilizations. This course addresses topics in philosophy, art, literature, religion, and cultural history. Part one covers the period from early recorded history to the dawn of the modern age. Can be taken after ISHU 302. (SI)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 302 - Humanities II
The second half of a two-semester survey designed to introduce students to dominant humanistic traditions of Eastern and Western civilizations. This course addresses topics in philosophy, art, literature, religion, and cultural history. Part two covers the period from the late European Renaissance to the twenty-first century. Can be taken before ISHU 301. (SI)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 303 - The Tragic and the Demonic
Students address issues of evil in the more specific context of the tragic and the demonic. The tragic will be explored through the genre of tragedy, which reveals the intertwining of guilt, innocence, accountability, and divine malice. Emphasis will be placed on close readings of philosophical, theological, and literary texts. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 304 - Home Runs, Assassinations, and Surgical Strikes: Contemporary American Literature in the Age of Television
Through post-WWII novels and essays, this course examines claims about truth and authenticity in a world largely experienced through the mass media. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 305 - Issues in Philosophy
Students practice skills and methods of philosophical inquiry and analysis. Issues of free will and determinism, ethical decision-making, the mind-body problem, the nature and existence of God, and the relationship of the individual to society will be explored. Tensions among various conceptions of human existence are a central theme. Emphasis is placed upon writing critical responses to articles written by leading philosophers. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 306 - Religious Diversity and Assimilation in American Life
This course explores the links—and sometimes conflicts—between American culture and religious life. The nature of religious diversity and pluralism in America and the specific challenges the major religious groups have experienced as they adapted to are examined. Students consider the cultural dilemmas faced by indigenous religious communities, especially the Mormons in the nineteenth century and “new religious movements”—or cults, in the twentieth century. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 307 - Prophets and Prophec
This course examines the phenomenon of prophecy in anthropological and theological perspective. While drawing on a wide range of examples, particular focus is placed on the way prophecy operated in ancient Israel. Students will explore how prophecy embraces, but also moves beyond, prediction of future events. The area beyond prediction – social context, ethics, theology, gender, politics, literature, psychology, rhetoric – will be looked at most closely. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 310 - Advanced Writing I
Students read, study, and practice a variety of prose forms, including narration, short stories, and non-fiction and critical essays. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 311 - Aspects of Narrative I
This course focuses on the writing and analysis of narrative prose, fiction or non-fiction. Full-group workshop discussion of works in progress are accompanied by discussion of short examples of published fiction and memoir and occasional writing exercises on aspects of narrative, including revision. Students write and revise at least two separate works, totaling at least 20 pages. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 312 - Aspects of Narrative II
This course focuses on the writing and analysis of narrative prose, fiction or non-fiction. Full-group workshop discussion of works in progress will be accompanied by discussion of short examples of published fiction and memoir and by occasional writing exercises on aspects of narrative. Students will write and revise at least two separate works, totaling at least 20 pages. Readings, exercises, and topics focused on will be different from those in ISHU 311. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 313 - The Writing Side of Children’s Literature
In this course, students will immerse themselves in the best of children’s literature while learning the basic tenet of effective writing for any age: easy to read, hard to write. Students will read within seven genres of children’s literature, examine how nonfiction writers for children research, organize, and document information, examine how fiction writers create setting, plot, tone, voice, dialog, and characters. Students will also learn how published writers self-edit and revise. Children’s literature will also serve as a model while completing short writing exercises. By the end of this course, students can expect to become masters of compression as they write and revise one piece of nonfiction and one piece of fiction. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 315 - Reading Poetry Aloud
Students will read a variety of poems out loud. By comparing what is written with what is read, students will arrive (maybe) at what is said. If a reader can hear a poem as a living voice, as vivid as a friend talking over the telephone, and can reproduce what the friend has said either as a mimic, or as a reporter, then the reader understands the poem. Further analysis is just that, a separate venture. Understanding poetry is much like understanding other people: No two poems are alike, and there are no right answers or this-is-it meanings. By the end of the course, students will develop an appetite for reading poetry, and confidence in hearing and responding to others’ voices. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 316 - Poetry: A Form of Suspension
Poetry, a fundamental way of articulating experience without diminishing it, will be the focus of this course. Conducted in a workshop fashion, each class will examine a specific element of poetry in much the same way an anatomy class might focus upon distinct parts of the human body. Students will be expected to write one poem and one annotation each week and will critique each other’s poems in a carefully guided workshop. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 317 - The Writer as Cartographer: A Class in Poetry and Memoir
Just as a cartographer is one who makes maps, projecting an area of the earth’s surface on a flat plane, so is a writer able to transform an imagined shape into real shape. In much the manner of a cartographer, a writer must “brave the elements” in order to come closer to an understanding of what is mysterious. With a focus upon poetry and memoir, this class will ask students to read widely, to respond to assigned readings through essays and annotations, to produce creative work on a weekly basis, and to share such work openly in a workshop setting. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 318 - Roots and Stems of Effective Writing – The Essay
Writing begins with intuition, moves towards consciousness and strives for clarity. Such movement, such unfolding, calls for a steady eye and an enduring approach. Accordingly, this class will focus upon resurrecting the fading art of patience, a faculty required for writing. The focus of the class will be on creative essays and academic essays.
To convey thoughts effectively one must be willing to take the time to observe one’s subject, accurately. It is necessary to attend ardently to the language in order to articulate our explorations, to argue our viewpoints. One must keep the hand practiced in the actual activity of writing. This class will ask students to read widely, to respond to assigned readings through weekly essays and to share work openly in a workshop setting with a focus on revision. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 319 - Writing for Your Life
This course gives students a general overview of prose writing and teaches them strategies of rhetoric and composition for their own work. The course has four components, given approximately equal portions of the semester: (1) the personal essay and fiction, (2) professional writing, (3) research and journalism, and (4) opinion/analysis. Each reading assignment has a companion writing assignment, which will be critiqued and edited by peer students and by the instructor. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 322 - American Autobiography
In this course, students explore through reading and writing the ethics and mores of autobiography, and consider how memoir-making plays a part in American reinvention of self. Students focus on critical writing and reading skills. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 323 - Poetry and the African-American Experience
Students will explore the diverse history of African-American poetry, focusing on intersections between religion, history, and literature, and exploring how interdisciplinary approaches can enhance our understanding of American culture. Beginning with the work of eighteenth-century writers like Jupiter Hammon and Phillis Wheatley, students will consider the “vernacular traditions” of spirituals and secular music, and later writers including Paul Laurence Dunbar, Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes, as well as contemporary poets. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 324 - American Literature of the Twentieth Century
Study of the fiction and poetry of U.S. writers ranging from the early modernists to contemporary writers, including such prose writers as Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Faulkner, Ellison, and Morrison and poets such as Frost, Eliot, Stevens, Bishop, and Williams. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 330 - Socrates at the Cinema
Students will examine major topics in Philosophy through the discussion of the issues raised in contemporary cinema. Students will view films, whether in whole or in part, both individually and in class, with a focus on the critical issues raised by those films. Films will include: The Matrix, Being John Malkovich, Citizen Ruth, Bruce Almighty, and Lord of the Flies. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 335 - Close Encounters with American Culture: Alien Imagery in Contemporary Popular Discourse
“The truth is out there” – and the truth is that in many ways UFOs and concepts of the alien (and the extraterrestrial) have come to constitute a quintessential part of contemporary grassroots American mythos. This course explores the dynamics of UFO-based cultural discourse in contemporary American life. Students will ask profound and probing questions about the construction of cultural discourse in both twenty-first century American society and throughout the evolution of American history. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 380 - Important Issues in Art Since 1945
This course covers the development of high modernism, beginning with Abstract Expressionism, and continue through postmodern practices of conceptual art, feminism, performance art, and site-specific installation art. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 390 - Identity and Culture in Contemporary Dance
This course examines the ways in which dance creates and expresses ideas of personal and cultural significance in ritual, theatrical, and social contexts. By observing dance on film and reading ethnographic, historical and theoretical texts, students explore the emergent meaning of dance from the perspective of both performers and spectators. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 395 - Acting
This course will introduce students to the craft of acting. Students will learn fundamental techniques for the actor, including defining the character through text analysis, creation of subtext, analysis of the structure of the text (beats) and of the character motivations (objectives and obstacles). (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 396 - The Elements of Action
This course explores the concept of Action, the basic fundamental tool of all theatrical art, and how it informs the creation of performance for the stage. Through games, improvisations and scene work, ranging from Shakespeare to Sam Shepard, students experience and develop the idea of what it takes to be fully Alive in the Present Moment, and connect that with the imaginative craft of acting. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 400 - Writing the Unwritten
Since the Romantic era, writing has often been motivated by the desire to say what has not been said, whether through neglect or through social censorship. Reading works by American and British novelists from the 19th century to the present, students will explore changing definitions of the unwritten during this period as well as write their own personal narratives, analytic essays and prose fiction as a means to discover and bring forth the unwritten in their own experience. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 401B - Art and Society
This course proposes to examine the history of western culture through the history of the performing arts beginning with plays of ancient Greece and ending with musicals of twentieth-century Broadway and Hollywood. The class will examine different works of art in order to discover what they can tell about the aspirations, fears and basic conflicts of the societies from which the emerged. Individual artists, including Sophocles, Shakespeare, Mozart, Wagner and even Richard Rodgers, among others, will be studies to understand the changing and constant meaning of artistic genius. The courses will be divided into eight different parts: Golden Age Greece; Shakespeare’s Globe; Monteverdi’s Venice: Mozart’s Vienna and Salzburg: Wagner’s Bayreuth: Fin-de-Siecle Vienna; Black Gospel: Ragtime and American Opera: and twentieth century New York and Hollywood. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 403 - Religion and the Quest for Meaning
This course examines the religions of the world as ways of finding patterns of meaning and value for our personal and social existence. Students will survey the major religions of the world, using both primary and secondary sources. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 404 - Authenticity: American Literature and Culture
This course scrutinizes several theoretical, dramatic and fictional responses to this crisis. We’ll read from Walter Benjamin who examines what happens to art in an age of mechanical reproduction. We’ll see how Oscar Wilde not only accepts but embraces in authenticity as a way to mock repressive late Victorian sexual and social norms. We’ll examine Jean Hegland’s scathing novelistic attack on modernity while pondering her radical solution: a return to primitivism. This class will take place in seminar form and will have a substantial writing workshop component. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 405 - Knowledge, Truth, and Objectivity
This course examines some of our most basic beliefs about the world we think we know and the nature of our knowledge about that world. The goals of the course are to understand what these philosophers took to be the important questions concerning the nature of knowledge and then see to what degree these insights are relevant in our own everyday dealings with the world. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 410 - Writing Narrative
This course focuses on developing the techniques of prose narrative. Students work on a short story, novel, memoir, or any combination of these. The course is structured as a workshop: each week, four or five works by students are discussed in full-class workshop led by the instructor. Issues to be addressed include characterization, voice, creating and sustaining tension, plotting in long and in short narratives, and the skills of critical response. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 412 - The American Short Story: The Writer and Tradition
This course examines the American short story from the perspective of the both reader and writer. Defining recurrent themes and conventions of the genre by reading major stories spanning the last 200 years of American literature, students explore the importance of tradition to the writer analytically in critical essays and experientially in their own short stories. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 415 - Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman
This course compares the work of America’s two 19th-century poetic giants. Reading substantial selections from the work of each poet, students will examine their visions of the nature of consciousness and the individual’s changing relationship to God, death, nature, society, love, and art. The course also examines the influence of the Enlightenment, Puritanism, Romanticism, and Transcendentalism, and considers each poet’s work in the context of an America transformed by the Civil War, increasing commercialism, the influx of immigrants, the decline of Calvinism, and ascendancy of science. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 420 - Homer and the Old Testament
This course covers all of Homer’s two epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, and generous selections from the 5 Books of Moses and the historical books of the Old Testament (the Hebrew Bible). These works can be read in many ways: as history, as legend, as entertainment, as links to the unknown, unremembered and invisible, as models for imitation in art and/or life, as maps of reality. The goals of the class are: to understand the difference between the Classical and the Hebraic accounts of human origins, motives, actions, authority and meaning; to practice steering by the text, rather than by pre-conception; and to articulate thought, aloud and in writing. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 421 - Shakespeare
In this course explores the plays of Shakespeare and his non-dramatic poetry. The course considers key philosophical, religious, political, and literary milieus. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 422 - Blake and Milton
Students will read most of the poetry and some of the prose written by the two great, impolite, English poet-prophets, beginning with Blake. William Blake has many sides. Poet, painter, printer, seer, Blake regarded Isaiah, Ezekiel and company as the first poets. He also waged mental war upon the Classical tradition, from Homer on down. John Milton, the subject of one of Blake’s visionary poems, was a hero of the imagination and an opponent of tyranny. The most learned man of his age, Milton wrote as a Hebrew prophet in the guise of an English poet. Poetry has roots in song as well as prophecy, so students will read many of these musical works aloud. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 426 - Apocalyptic Tradition
This course explores early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic texts and their interpretation. The seminar will focus chiefly upon the ancient texts themselves, from “proto-apocalyptic” texts to full-blown apocalypses, as well as some works which contain apocalyptic elements or are said to betray an apocalyptic worldview. In addition to ancient material, the seminar will more briefly treat what happens with these texts and the beliefs found therein after their period of origin. The approach will be both historical and rhetorical, examining carefully the context for apocalyptic writing as well as the way that writing attempts to form its readers. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 430 - Framing Modern America
This course studies the evolution of American society in the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries by exploring the creation and reception of art. Students analyze selected paintings, sculptures, photographs, films, architecture, and music to understand how these art works and the artists who created them shaped and reflected some of the central political, social, cultural and intellectual developments in modern America. This course helps students deepen their awareness of key artistic developments and improve their ability to analyze various art forms critically and creatively. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 481 - Religion and Technology
This course examines how technology and religion encounter each other, clash with each other, enable each other, and co-create each other. Students will take a broad view to discuss some topics: historical perspectives on religion and technology, how they function as interpretive structures, virtual communities, etc., but will also take a narrower view, examining particular issues such as genetic manipulation, or global warming and Christianity. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 483 - A Philosophic History of American Environmentalism
The course gives a philosophic history of American environmentalism by examining some of the ‘classic’ works within this tradition which have had world-wide influence, such as Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, Aldo Leopold’s A Sand County Almanac, and Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring. It will also look at how some contemporary American environmental thinkers have critically appropriated the ideas defended in these ‘classics’. Finally, we shall see how these “classic” ideas connect to current American cultural values and to such current social issues as consumerism, global warming, preserving endangered species, animal liberation and achieving sustainable food production. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 485 - The Ethics of Sustainability
The idea of sustainable development first gained currency with the release of the 1987 UN report on the environment and economic development, Our Common Future. Today many writers speak of a 21st century “sustainability revolution” which aims at: 1) “correcting” the negative environmental consequences of the industrial revolution, 2) continuing with but redefining “economic growth”, and 3) moving beyond the relatively narrow concerns of late 20th century “environmentalism” by integrating environmental issues into issues of social and economic justice. All this means addressing not only such traditional “environmental” problems as preserving biodiversity, upgrading air and water quality, and countering global warming, but also addressing such “non-environmental” questions as how best to defend human rights, create an alternative to “consumerism”, restructure the contemporary corporation, combat pandemics like HIV/AIDS, alleviate “world hunger”, reform energy policies, and assess the welcome and unwelcome consequences of both globalization and nationalism.
Indeed, some type of long term ‘social revolution” is being contemplated under the banner of “Sustainability”. What would be the ethical justification for such dramatic change? Is it really necessary for human survival or the quality of human life? Is it politically feasible even in the long term? Such broad questions will be examined. (IR)
Credits: 3
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ISHU 499 - Independent Study
In exceptional circumstances and with the endorsement of an approved faculty member and the B.I.S. director, a student may undertake an independent study in humanities. Such study is designed to explore a subject not currently being taught and/or to expand upon regular offerings. (IR)
Credits: 1 to 3
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EVHY 544 - Catchment Hydrology: Process and Theory
Introduces current theories of the hydrological response of catchments. Using an integrative approach, the course illuminates the derivation of theory in light of the time and location of the process studies on which they were based. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: EVSC 340 or equivalent.
Credits: 4
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EVHY 545 - Hydrological Transport Processes
Studies the physical principles governing the transport of dissolved substances and of sediment and particulate matter in the terrestrial portion of the hydrological cycle. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: EVSC 280 and 340 or equivalent.
Credits: 4
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EVHY 546 - Forest Hydrology
Study of hydrologic processes characteristic of forested regions. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: introductory hydrology or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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EVHY 547 - Environmental Fluid Mechanics
Studies the mechanics of fluids and fluid-related processes occurring at the Earth’s surface, including laminar, inviscid, and turbulent flows, drag, boundary layers, diffusion and dispersion of mass, flow through porous media, and effects of the Earth’s rotation. Emphasizes topics related to the environmental sciences. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: Integral calculus and calculus-based physics, or instructor permission.
Credits: 4
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EVHY 578 - Groundwater Hydrology
Introduces physical and chemical groundwater hydrology including such topics as the mechanics of groundwater flow, emphasizing geological factors influencing groundwater occurrence and movement; the influence of natural geological heterogeneity on groundwater flow patterns; and mass and heat transport in groundwater flow systems. The accompanying laboratory examines methods of hydrogeological data acquisition and analysis. (Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: EVSC 280, 340 or equivalents, two semesters calculus, CHEM 141, 142 or equivalents.
Credits: 4
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IT 320 - Introduction to Information Technology
Explores the fundamental concepts, theory, and technology involved in information systems. Topics include client/server technology, computer organizations, operating systems, basic programming concepts, and Internet technologies.
Credits: 3
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IT 321 - Programming with Java
Studies key structures, concepts, and applications needed to write programs with Java, an object-oriented programming language used for developing user interfaces on the Web.
Credits: 3
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IT 322 - Information Technology Business Operations
Sharpens finance, marketing, and management skills. Training focuses on developing the expertise to operate in today’s technology-enhanced and technology-dependent business environment.
Credits: 3
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IT 323 - Basics of Web Design
Master the basics of Web site construction, design, and maintenance. The course provides an overview of aesthetic, business, and technical Web concepts. Apply course content to developing Web applications using HTML.
Credits: 3
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IT 324 - Systems Analysis and Design
Students learn how to assess user requirements, system development life cycles, data flow diagrams, business process modeling, software design techniques, object oriented analysis and design concepts, quality assurance, and software testing.
Credits: 3
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IT 325 - User Requirements and Quality Assurance
Develops the skills needed to understand user requirements, meet customer needs, and ensure client satisfaction. Emphasizes the importance of quality assurance through instruction and class exercises.
Credits: 3
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IT 326 - Project Management
Participants learn how to apply the basic concepts of project management, project planning and control techniques, and the importance of interpersonal relations in a dynamic project environment. Also emphasizes the application of project management techniques to practical situations.
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisites: Completion of all required coursework.
Credits: 1
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IT 327 - Introduction to Programming Concepts
An introductory course in programming that provides the necessary stepping stones for more advanced computer programming. Introduces the basic concepts of programming, enabling students to develop fundamental skills in translating business problems into programming solutions. This course follows the object-oriented emphasis of Java.
Credits: 3
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IT 332 - Advanced Web Technologies
Survey emerging technologies and the tools available for Web professionals. Students are exposed to the latest software in order to gain an understanding of what tools work best to solve problems and meet goals.
Credits: 3
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IT 334 - Fundamentals of E-Business and Web Marketing
Study how business is conducted online with a review of e-commerce terminology and industry practices. Concentration is given to sharpening Web marketing skills and developing strategies to reach your intended audience.
Credits: 3
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ENGR 141R - Synthesis Design I
(Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: first-year Rodman scholar status.
Credits: 3
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ENGR 142R - Synthesis Design II
(Y)
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite: first-year Rodman scholar status.
Credits: 3
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