2020-2021 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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ENG 450 Senior Thesis
3 credits
Students will write an independently chosen critical or creative thesis under the careful supervision of a faculty mentor. For critical theses, students will master all the phases of the research process, including the gathering of research from traditional and electronic bibliographical sources, standard systems of bibliographical citation, and organization of a developed and original argument. For creative theses, students will master all phases of the creative process, including drafting, work-shopping, and revising based on their faculty mentor’s feedback. This course may be taken twice for a total of six credits toward the degree if the student is completing both the English major and the Creative Writing minor.
Prerequisite(s): ENG Core. Students may only complete a creative thesis if they are on the major’s writing track or completing either track in the Writing Minor.
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ENG 451 Professional Writing Thesis
3 credits
Students will write an independently chosen professional writing thesis under the careful supervision of a faculty mentor. Students will master all phases of the writing process, including drafting, work-shopping, and revising based on their faculty mentor’s feedback.
Prerequisite(s): English literature core
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ENG 452 Creative Thesis
3 credits
Students will write an independently chosen creative thesis under the careful supervision of a faculty mentor. Students will master all phases of the creative process, including drafting, work-shopping, and revising based on their faculty mentor’s feedback.
Prerequisite(s): English Literature core
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ENG 470 Internship
1-6 credits
Academic study combined with work experience in the community at newspapers, radio and TV stations, public relations offices, and other media outlets requiring good communication skills. Internship may be taken a maximum of four (4) times, and may not exceed a maximum of twelve (12) credits in total.
Prerequisite(s): University Writing Seminar (in any discipline) and completion of English core requirements
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ENG 480 Independent Study
1-6 credits
Special investigation of a selected literary topic. English majors only.
Prerequisite(s): Literature core
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Exercise Science |
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HPE 201 Personal Training I
3 credits
This course will cover fitness goals and workouts, cardiovascular training equipment, free weight and fixed weight strength training equipment, basic American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) and testing protocols including circumference measurements, skinfolds, and fitness evaluations and interpretation of charts in the classroom and LCCC Fitness Center. At the completion of the course, students will have the opportunity to test for certification as a Personal Trainer Level I through the ACSM organization through a computer implemented examination for a separate fee of $150.
Offered at Luzerne County Community College
Lecture: 3 hours
Prerequisite(s): HPE 128 or BIO 211
Active major in Health Science, Exercise Science specialization
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Fine Arts |
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FA 103 Fundamentals of Drawing and Composition
3 credits
Fundamentals of Drawing & Composition is an introductory studio drawing course with emphasis on learning to see and developing basic drawing skills using various media by employing fundamental design and composition concepts. In addition to technical skills, an exploration of creative thinking, problem solving, and critical analysis will be studied. During the semester, students will explore different drawing techniques and media. Students will be encouraged to develop an expression of individual style.
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FA 124 Fundamentals of Painting
3 credits
This introductory studio course focuses on the basic techniques and materials of painting, employing a wide range of painting media and subject matter. Topics include basic color theory, materials, development of both representational and abstract approaches, and strategies for intuitive, individual response to subject matter and materials in directed assignments.
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FA 133 Fine Art Photography
3 credits
This course provides an introduction to the theory and application of photography as a fine art. Basic digital photographic skills and techniques are emphasized. Primary emphasis on the place of photography in art history, current art theory, and issues in photographic representation. This course requires the use of a laptop computer and appropriate software.
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FA 152 Ceramics I
3 credits
The intent of this course is to gain understanding and to recognize and appreciate the nature of clay and the processes used in working with the medium. The course will concentrate on the basic techniques of creating forms in clay through hand-building and the use of the wheel. Techniques of pinching, molding and slab will be employed to create a variety of projects. Students are expected to bring a sense of creativity and a level of enthusiasm that will complement the technical skills that will be learned, and are required to use patience and an innate sense of design to produce objects that are sophisticated, neat, well thought and creative.
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FA 158 Sculpture I
3 credits
This course is an introduction to sculptural approaches in a variety of media including the traditional and experimental. The aim of this course is to enable students to explore sculptural processes through the body and space, considering visual aesthetics. Students will be required to produce a new body of work and to talk and write about it. Emphasis will be on the integration of studio practice and critical thought.
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FA 190 Printmaking
3 credits
Students will learn techniques of fine art printmaking, e.g. relief printing, monotype, intaglio, collagraph and collage. This course covers the distinctive nature of printmaking including: tools, inks, paper, plate preparation, registration, printing processes and qualities of prints e.g overlays, transparency, offset, and multiple images. The goal is for students to gain the skills and confidence to produce multiple images by hand printing and on a press while exploring personal visual expression. Hand printmaking techniques will engage the student with problem solving in drawing, design and color. Topics may include editions, suites and designation systems. Class sessions will comprise independent and collaborative printing and, lecture, demonstrations, discussion, and critique. Students will be introduced to the work of artists and the history/tradition of fine art prints.
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FA 203 Subjects and Symbols
3 credits
The arts are filled with obscure ideas, symbols and metaphors that can often be very difficult for the non-initiated to access or understand. This course will explore what is essentially the psychology of art itself, through the use of symbolism, metaphor and archetypes. Through the basic study of signs, or semiotics, students will develop an understanding of the meaning artists, and society, impart to the works themselves.
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FA 204 Beauty and Ugliness
3 credits
What is art? Why is some art considered beautiful? Or ugly? What are the criteria for judging art? This course will explore, and attempt to answer, these questions through the theories that define the arts, with close examination of specific works from both Western and non-Western cultures, from the ancient to contemporary eras.
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FA 207 World Music
3 credits
This course focuses on the critical role of music in indigenous societies and its permeation into the mainstream. It will also study the varying functions of music within those societies and the intersection of tradition with innovation. Other areas of inquiry for the class include: how does music participate in identity politics? How does music serve as a social force across the globe? How does music connect our lives, our communities and the world in which we live? Special emphasis will be placed on the role of emerging technologies in globalization.
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FA 208 Pop Music: Diversity and Identity
3 credits
This course is designed to encourage students to think critically about popular music, as well as its social and historical meanings and contexts in relation to issues of identity. While the focus of the class is primarily on American popular music of the last century, European and non-Western forms will also be explored, with particular attention to: the role of pop music as a symbol of identity (i.e., race, class, gender, generational issues, ethnicity); the interaction of Colonial and Postcolonial traditions (European, African, Asian, and Native American traditions); and the influence of multimedia and technology (radio, video, internet).
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FA 209 Themes in Art
3 credits
This course is focused on diverse art historical traditions, not limited by interdisciplinary scope. Topics will include, but are not limited to: death; literature; medicine; magic and alchemy; opera; design; fashion; religion; technology. It is designed to complement an instructor’s specialized area of research and/or academic publication.
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FA 211 Global Contemporary Art
3 credits
This course will introduce the difficulty globalization poses to canonical contemporary art from the 1970s to the present day, drawing attention to problems involved in defining what the term “contemporary art” actually means. This course spans aesthetic and ideological strategies that negotiate complex subject matter, ranging from gender, sexuality, and race, to war, colonialism, social media, and nature, among others. Students will develop the necessary tools to interpret, understand, and evaluate contemporary artistic practices in a global context.
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FA 213 Themes in Medical Humanities
3 credits
Medical Humanities is an interdisciplinary field that attempts to explore, and provide insight into: the human condition, personal identity, ethical and moral responsibilities, as well as individual and collective rights related to personhood. This will be observed, analyzed and applied through the specific lens of the Fine Arts, and how the various disciplines within it are synthesized with medicine and healthcare.
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FA 230 Imagining the State: Music and Nationalism
3 credits
This course explores the ways in which music participates in cultural life by engaging in the political process of nation building. In doing so, it examines the extent to which music has shaped individual and collective identities over time. The primary scope entails the long nineteenth century (or the French Revolution to the First World War) with a secondary emphasis devoted to the spread of these ideas across the Atlantic world in the early 20111 century. As such, this course provides a comprehensive critique of the ways in which music and the arts participated in the complex process by which subjects of a monarchy became citizens of a state.
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FA 232 Women, Music, and Culture
3 credits
Human identity is not a fixed or static property, but a fluid process that is continually under revision. As such, this course explores the ways in which music has participated in shaping unstable concepts of gender over time. The scope of the course spans the Ancient world to the contemporary moment. By examining the different roles and occupations of women over time, students are given an interdisciplinary context for comparing the many ways in which music has contributed to the performance of identity across Western cultures. As such, the course critiques the manner in when gender roles have served as mechanisms of power and sources of ongoing debate.
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FA 260 Introduction to Film Studies
3 credits
This course is as an introduction to the discipline of film studies, which encompasses film history, theory, and analysis from a global perspective. During the semester, we will consider a wide range of types of movies from classic and global art films to contemporary science fiction and documentary films. We will view work by Lucrecia Martel. Bong Joon-ho, Lynne Ramsay, Alfred Hitchcock, Bing Liu, Boots Riley, and Kelly Reichardt, amongst many others. We will consider how films are made, what they are telling us, and how to analyze them using a variety of modalities. This semester will consider issues such as sound, editing, cinematography, mise en scene, ideology, narrative forms, and the film industry. We’ 11 also pair our viewing and formal analysis with academic articles, interviews, and other writing that will contextualize the films within larger discussions in film history and theory and serve as the basis for our discussions.
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FA 261 Critical Media Studies
3 credits
Who actually owns traditional and social media companies and why does that matter? What are advertisers selling to us? How do they do it? What messages are they telling us? How do we define ourselves in the age of social media? Are we all stuck in our own curated social media bubbles? When you Google something, do you trust the results? Is Google’s algorithm biased?
Every day, we are bombarded by a series of visual messages, social media notifications, television shows, news media, Y ouTube videos, and advertisements on a multitude of screens. When we want to know something, we Google it. This comprehensive media culture that we all inhabit profoundly influences what we consume, know, think, feel, and believe. It alters the way we feel about ourselves and others. Yet, we often don’t take the time to analyze this media and the environment it creates. In this course, we will take a critical approach to studying the media that surrounds us. You will develop an understanding of the profound role that digital media and infrastructures play within society and will acquire the skills to analyze, interpret, write, and speak about this dense media fabric in a more critical and effective manner.
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FA 262 Film History
3 credits
This class will introduce you to some key movements and moments in the history of world film, from its origins at the end of the nineteenth century through to the present era. It will consider the earliest years of cinema; Russian montage and German Expressionism; the development of the classical Hollywood system and specific genres; the relationship of propaganda media to the Second World War; postwar art cinema; Italian neo-realism; the decline of the studio system and the French New Wave, and finally, the contemporary arthouse film. It will include comparative selections from other influential movements in international filmmaking including French actualites, German expressionism, Soviet montage, the international avant-garde, and Japanese, Italian and New Zealand cinema.
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FA 263 Global Contemporary Cinema
3 credits
This course serves as an introduction to the vibrant world of contemporary global cinema. We will discuss the histories and development of various national and transnational cinema practices with close attention paid to contemporary social-political contexts. We will study the films of many well- known and emerging international directors such as Claire Denis (France), Lucrecia Martel (Argentina) Christian Petzold (Germany), Mattie Do (Laos), Annemarie Jacir (Palestine), Asghar Farhadi (Iran), Alankrita Shrivastava (India), Hawa Essuman (Kenya), Lee Kyoung-Mi (South Korea), and Jia Zhangke (China). In addition to a wide range of viewing, you will read a diverse array of academic articles, filmmaker interviews, and histories to contextualize the filmsyou have seen. Our discussions and analysis will focus on the development of film language and aesthetics as well as the formation of specific national film styles, genres, and cultures within a dynamic, transnational, and globalized world.
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FA 264 American Independent Cinema
3 credits
This course serves as an introduction to the vibrant world of contemporary American independent cinema. We will discuss the histories and development of independent cinema practices with close attention paid to the film business and industry, aesthetics, genre, narrative, film form, gender, sexuality, and race. We will study the films of many well-known indie directors such as John Cassavetes, Charles Burnett, Jim Jarmusch, Spike Lee, Sofia Coppola, Kelly Reichardt, Quentin Tarantino, the Coen Brothers, and Ava Duvernay. In addition to a wide range of viewing, you will read a diverse array of academic articles, filmmaker interviews, and histories to contextualize the films you have seen and provide a multi-faceted lens for film analysis.
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FA 265 Documentary Film and Video
3 credits
How does representing a “real” event, story, person etc. through film change our relationship to reality? Does it get us any closer to the “truth?” How can documentary impact the world around us?
This course serves as an introduction to the history and theory of international documentary film. During the semester, we will consider a wide range of cinematic, social, ethical, political, and ideological issues raised by documentary films and videos. These issues include the status of the documentary image, uses of editing, soundtrack, sound/image relationships, as well as the shaping of material into narrative and non-narrative forms. In sum, we will examine the different choices available to filmmakers who seek to represent reality as well as the implications of such choices. To do so, we’ll view a wide range of documentaries from all over the world, including the work of Kirsten Johnson, Ava Duvernay, Bing Liu, Ramona Diaz, Werner Herzog, Fredrick Wiseman, and Rithy Panh. We’ll also pair our viewing with academic articles, interviews, and other writing that will contextualize the visual material and serve as the basis for our discussions.
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FA 270 Art Historical Methods
3 credits
This course will introduce students to the methodologies of art history and to the historical development of the discipline itself. Students will learn to analyze and interpret art and visual culture through an array of lenses, including connoisseurship, iconography, psychoanalysis, formalism, social history, and feminism. In tracing the history of the discipline, students will critically engage with the ever-changing possibilities, limitations, biases, and priorities of the field.
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FA 271 Global Modernisms
3 credits
What is modernity and what is “modern art”? This course will explore these questions through a global lens that will move beyond the traditional Eurocentric study of the new forms of art that developed from the middle of the 19th to the middle of the 20th century. By examining diverse approaches to modernity from around the world, including East Asia, Latin America, India, Europe, and the United States, students will be able to critically consider themes of the local and global; tradition and avant-garde; and the art historical canon, within broader socio-political developments, such as the Industrial Revolution, urbanization, World War I, and World War II.
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FA 272 Art and Everyday Life
3 credits
What is the relationship between art and everyday life? How have artists attempted to blur or fully collapse the distinction between the two? Focusing primarily on works made in the 20th and 21st centuries, this course asks what “life” and “art” refer to in any given work, which are two historically, contextually, and personally defined concepts. Students will study artists’ tactics and strategies for mediating between art and life from modernism to postmodernism by considering themes such as junk aesthetics, performance art, alternative art spaces and exhibition strategies, and social media.
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FA 273 History of Video Art
3 credits
This course is a survey of the history of video art, from the advent of the Portapak in the 1960s through today’s digital media landscape. In addition to the technical history of video art, students will be introduced to key figures, themes, and styles of video art, along with various methodological approaches to the interpretation of the medium. We will also trace the development of the medium alongside corresponding socio-political concerns, including surveillance, identity and representation, and mass media.
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FA 274 History of Photography
3 credits
Is photography an artistic medium? A scientific tool? Or purely a documentary device? This course will historically contextualize these questions and the shifting debates over the definition and function of photography. We will survey the medium from its beginnings in Great Britain and France in the early nineteenth century through postmodernism and our digital moment. Course participants will learn about the key figures, artistic movements, and technical histories, and study various methodological approaches to the interpretation of photographs.
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FA 275 Mysticism and Modern Art
3 credits
Mysticism and Modern Art shows the relationship between spiritual philosophies and the rise of abstract modern art. Mystics wrote copious doctrines, founded their own societies, and accumulated large followings, many of whom were artists and writers. These creators were propelled to paint and sculpt the unseen world. They channeled spirits in search of eternal truths, heralded scientific discoveries as proof of the spiritual dimension, and saw art as the visible revelation of the invisible world. As such, this course traces spiritualism and the visual arts through key movements from the 18th to the 21st centuries, including Romanticism, Symbolism, Expressionism, and Minimalism.
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FA 276 Transoceanic Encounters
3 credits
This course will introduce students to art traditions that result from cross-cultural encounters during the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries. Students will analyze the exchange of ideas and artistic techniques resulting from transoceanic and fluvial movements of scientists, missionaries, and merchants. Areas of interest will include port cities around the Indian Ocean, the Pacific Rim, and the Atlantic Ocean, as well as river networks that served the continental interiors.
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FA 277 Arts of Asia-Pacific
3 credits
In this course students will explore art and architectures of the Asia Pacific, including South Asia, Pacific Asia, and East Asia. Students will study the proliferation of ideas and visual expression through a range of media from two-dimensional painting to sculpture and the built environment. Students will connect these artistic movements to social and historical contexts including transitions of political and religious systems.
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FA 278 Cultures of Collecting
3 credits
This course will explore the history of collections, museums, and exhibitions from a global perspective. From private cabinets of curiosity to extensive complexes such as the Smithsonian Institution, we will examine traditional exhibit spaces as well as alternative points of access, such as street art and digital exhibitions.
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FA 279 Selections of Vernacular Architecture
3 credits
This course will begin with an introduction to basic concepts of architecture. From this introduction, students will examine how societies both respond to geographical conditions and assert their cultural values through the built environment. Selected structures will represent a historical and global range of architectural traditions and address domestic and public spaces.
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FA 299 Special Topics-Core
3 credits
Selected topic course at that will satisfy core curriculum requirements. Topics vary from semester to semester and will be announced with preregistration information and course outline.
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FA 320 Art History Survey I: Prehistoric to Gothic
3 credits
This course is a general survey of art and visual culture from the prehistoric era to the 14th-century Gothic period. Students will be introduced to movements and styles from both Western and non-Western cultures. Emphasis will be on cultural/technical influences of art production; analysis of movements, styles, and works; comprehension of relevant theories; as well as basic identification of civilizations, eras, and movements.
Prerequisite(s): FA 203 or FA 204
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FA 321 Art History Survey II
3 credits
This course is a general survey of art and visual culture from the early years of the Renaissance to the 21st century. Students will be introduced to movements and styles from both Western and non-Western cultures. Emphasis will be on cultural/technical influences of art production; analysis of movements, styles, and works; and comprehension of relevant theories. Art History Survey I is not a prerequisite for this course.
Prerequisite(s): FA 203 or FA 204
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FA 330 American Art
3 credits
This course surveys the art of the United States from the Colonial era through the 21st century. We will consider broad stylistic tendencies in various regions and periods, and examine specific artists and works of art in historical and social contexts. Students will trace varying perspectives of an “American Art” through an array of themes, that may include the landscape (wilderness, Manifest Destiny, rural settlement, and urban development); the family and gender roles; the founding rhetoric of freedom and antebellum slavery; notions of artistic modernism through the dawn of the 20th century; and the national identity of “America” in today’s globalized world.
Prerequisite(s): FA 203 or FA 204
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FA 335 Special Topics in Art History
3 credits
Topics vary from semester to semester and will be announced with pre-registration information.
Prerequisite(s): FA 203 or FA 204
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FA 342 Intermediate Painting
3 credits
This course explores both traditional and nontraditional concepts and techniques of painting and the development of style. Topics may include color theory, two-dimensional design, and the nature of representation.
Prerequisite(s): FA 124
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FA 352 Ceramics II
3 credits
The principles of ceramic materials, techniques, and design within a problem solving environment. Specific aesthetic and technical criteria will be examined and individual development will be emphasized. Health and safety concerns are stressed. Students will broaden their knowledge, skills and sensibilities in working with the ceramic medium. The course will introduce the second semester student to the various advanced techniques and concepts of using clay for creative expression. The student is expected to further develop their skills in various advanced forming methods. Increase their sensitivity to the materials, to aesthetic design, and to further develop individual and imaginative use of the materials.
Prerequisite(s): FA 152
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FA 358 Sculpture II
3 credits
This course builds upon fundamentals learned in Sculpture I with an emphasis on materials and site selection, scale, and individual expression.
Prerequisite(s): FA 158
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FA 360 Music & the Crisis of Modernism
3 credits
What is modernity? How did it affect the arts and science, forming new cohesions between the disciplines? What aspects of modernity are uniquely Western in their appeal; which are universal? This course is intended as an interdisciplinary exploration of the modernist crisis with a special emphasis on Viennese culture during the period 1880–1914. The topical survey will explore how the leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that forever changed how we think about the human mind. Our final stop will be the idea of globalization as we examine how our shifting worldviews have spawned new crises in meaning, the arts, and society.
Prerequisite(s): FA 203 or FA 204
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FA 361 Music & the Mind
3 credits
This course explores the cognitive foundations of music through the intersection of psychology and music. We will examine the full range of physical, psychophysical, and cognitive mechanisms that lead to musical experience. This survey begins with the physics of musical instruments and the physical qualities of musical pitch. Key topics include: the psychophysics of hearing; perceptual organization; memory; and biological responses to music. Finally, we examine the structures in working memory that allow individual pitch events to be organized into musical expressions. Along the way, we will look at the general principles that govern the structure of music and the ways in which music psychology influences our health and society.
Prerequisite(s): FA 203 or FA 204
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FA 362 Music, Ecology & the Environment
3 credits
The theory of evolution as adaptation can’t explain why nature is so beautiful. It took the concept of sexual selection for Darwin to explain that a process has more to do with aesthetics than with the practical. Through an interdisciplinary lens, we will examine the “survival of the beautiful” as the interplay of beauty, art, and culture in evolution. Taking inspiration from Darwin’s observation that animals have a natural aesthetic sense, this course will investigate why animals (humans included) have innate appreciation for beauty-and why nature is, indeed, beautiful. Moreover, we will study the ecology of humans, their response to the environment, and the way in which art mediates our experiences in society.
Prerequisite(s): FA 203 or FA 204
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FA 363 Sacred Sounds: Music & Religion
3 credits
This course provides a basic framework for understanding the development of the vast treasury of psalms, hymns, canticles, spiritual songs, and other sacred music within the Christian tradition. Through primary readings and listening activities, we will address the nature of church music from both a historical and theological context. In addition, non-Western traditions will be examined alongside variable definitions of spirituality in practice. The course will conclude by exploring shifting boundaries between sacred and secular in popular culture.
Prerequisite(s): FA 203 or FA 204
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FA 364 Music, Philosophy & Meaning
3 credits
This class surveys various answers to two broad and deceptively simple questions: What is music?, and Why does it matter? Both questions have spawned a significant discussions and a variety of answers. In this class, we will examine some of these answers with an eye towards helping students develop thoughtful views of their own as to the nature of music and its cultural value. These questions will be addressed with respect to a variety of musical styles, from “classical” music to jazz, pop and rock. No formal background in music or philosophy is required.
Prerequisite(s): FA 203 or FA 204
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FA 365 Special Topics in Music & Culture
3 credits
Topics vary from semester to semester and will be announced with pre-registration information.
Prerequisite(s): FA 203 or FA 204
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FA 366 Collegium Musicum
3 credits
This course combines theory and practice with an active approach to early music. Through group performance and guided study, students will be immersed in music and culture of the Medieval, Renaissance and Early Baroque periods. The class meets each semester and performs throughout the academic year. Students may repeat the course in subsequent semesters, but the class may only be taken once to satisfy requirements for the Music and Culture Minor.
Prerequisite(s): FA 203 or FA 204
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FA 373 Intermediate Drawing
3 credits
An intermediate level course that expands upon skills learned in Fundamentals of Drawing & Composition (FA 103) and other introductory art courses. Specialized drawing techniques in dry and wet media will be introduced as well as contemporary, experimental, and conceptual approaches and issues.
Prerequisite(s): FA 103
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FA 374 Anatomical Drawing
3 credits
Students will learn to master the shapes and lines of the body, including muscles and bone structure. Movement, shape, speed line and mass will be reviewed and incorporated into the work in an attempt to redefine the human body as a much-needed subject of art making. Students will be required to participate actively in conceptualization and aesthetic critiques as well as discussions on technical issues. The class intends to create in the students a mature aesthetic vocabulary. Readings and other resources of study will be distributed, which will help foster a critical mind as well as a resource of intellectual, art making.
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FA 380 Jewelry Design I
3 credits
This course offers a progressive, hands-on introduction to the fundamental technical, conceptual, and aesthetic issues of jewelry and metalsmithing. Through a series of explorational assignments and technical exercises, students will be introduced to a broad range of processes, progressing from the simpler to the more complex. This class is highly structured with demonstrations and instruction each class time.
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FA 381 Introduction to Textile Design
3 credits
This course is an introduction to textiles that provides a broad view of the development, production and utilization of fabrics and the impact they have on design and construction. The characteristics of different fibers, yarns, fabrics, and finishes are investigated.
Prerequisite(s): FA 103 or FA 124
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FA 403 Advanced Drawing
3 credits
This course will focus on expanded definitions and practices of marking space, and aims to introduce, contextualize and explore a wide variety of drawing methods including the more traditional practice of “dragging a tool across a receptive background, usually a piece of paper”, as well as spatially focused practices, such as such as marking the landscape, as well as process-oriented methods that document the artist’s action and the passage of time.
Prerequisite(s): FA 373 or FA 374
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FA 410 Jewelry Design II
3 credits
This course aims to advance the building skills acquired in FA 380 (Jewelry Design I), and surveys a variety of casting and forming processes. The emphasis is on form and textural development. Integration of elements with other forms and processes is stressed. Technical information is introduced to increase the artistic range of the materials and techniques previously covered in Jewelry I, and will examine the interdependence of medium and image.
Prerequisite(s): FA 380
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FA 441 Advanced Painting
3 credits
This course is the capstone of the painting track within the Studio Arts. Assignments are comprised of projects intended to bring out individual tendencies and potential combined with continued work from life in both the oil and more difficult watercolor mediums.
Prerequisite(s): FA 342
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FA 452 Ceramics III
3 credits
Advanced study of ceramic techniques with emphasis on surface, various firing skills, ceramic history, and design.
Prerequisite(s): FA 352
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FA 480 Independent Study
1-3 credits
Special investigation of a selected topic.
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FA 604 Chamber Singers
1 credit
A student-only chorus specializing in the performance of music appropriate for a small ensemble, including a cappella vocal chamber music and jazz harmonies. Some travel for off-campus performances is likely. May be repeated for credit; up to 3 credit hours can be accumulated toward graduation.
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GEO 202 Cultural World Geography
3 credits
A survey of the earth’s people and their relationship to the environment. Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Australia, Asia, the area comprising the former Soviet Union, Latin America, the United States, and Canada will be studied.
Spring only
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GEO 413 Geography Cooperative Education
3-12 credits
Academic study combined with work experience in the community.
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GEO 480 Independent Study
1-3 credits
Special investigation of a selected topic.
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Geriatric Care Manager |
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GCM 500 Geriatric Care Manager I
3 credits
This course will cover an introduction to geriatric case management, review standards and practice guidelines, cover geriatric assessment, psychopathologic conditions common in the elderly, ethics, care planning, communication issues, and other related issues.
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GCM 501 Geriatric Care Manager II
3 credits
This course will cover an understanding of the continuum of care, providing for nutrition, senior community centers, adult day care, home health organizations, housing options, transferring from home to institutional settings, report writing, counseling and other related topics.
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GCM 505 Anatomy & Physiology of Aging
3 credits
This online course provides an overview of the basic structure and functions of the human body, emphasizing anatomy and physiology. With this foundation, age-related characteristics and some dysfunctions associated with the aging process are studied. Students will utilize the tools of analysis, synthesis and evaluation to assess body functions and age related changes.
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GCM 510 Dementia
3 credits
This course will concentrate on dementia’s that afflict the elderly in ever increasing numbers, focusing on the magnitude, pathology, progression, treatment and interventions of these diseases. Client, family, human service systems, long term care as well as personal care issues will be studied in depth. The course will offer opportunities for geriatric care managers to gain a pragmatic experience in dealing with dementia clients, their families and other care providers.
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GCM 515 Geriatric Assessment
3 credits
This course will cover the numerous assessments available to the geriatric care manager. The assessments address ADL’s, psychological, sociological, medical and spiritual aspects of client served by the geriatric care manager.
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GCM 520 Ethics of Aging
3 credits
This course will address the various aspects of ethics that a geriatric care manager will confront in his or her practice. This will include bioethics, business ethics, social ethics and philosophy of a personhood.
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GCM 590 Geriatric Care Manager Seminar
1-3 credits
An in-depth course of study of a specific aspect of geriatric care management. This would entail small groups of advanced level students.
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GER 241 Introduction to Social Gerontology
3 credits
Introduction to the study of aging as just one of many normal life processes in contemporary culture. Issues discussed include the biological, psychological, and sociological aspects of aging and the implications of those aspects. GER 241 is a for all other gerontology courses.
Fall
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GER 277 Adult Development and Aging
3 credits
This course provides an overview of adult development from early adulthood through death and focuses on both normative changes and individual differences. Topics discussed include biological changes, changes in health and health habits, cognitive and intellectual changes, sex roles and family roles, work and work roles, development of relationships, changes in personality and motive, mental health and psychopathology, and death and dying. Developmental theories, models, and research methods will also be discussed.
Prerequisite(s): PSY 123
Fall
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GER 341 Substance Abuse and the Aged
3 credits
Focuses on the use patterns, diagnosis, and treatment methods specific to the aged substance abuser. Issues examined will include misuse and abuse of prescription drugs, behavior and risk factors, factors related to underdiagnosis, and relationship to depression and suicide.
Spring/alternate years
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GER 358 Counseling the Older Adult
1-3 credits
The effective use of individual and group counseling techniques for older persons with emotional or social difficulties in adjusting to the aging process.
Alternate years
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GER 365 Alzheimers Disease
3 credits
Exploration of the many facets of Alzheimers Disease and other dementias. Assessment, intervention, and psychosocial implications of treatment for patients, families, and caregivers.
Fall
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GER 370 Remotivation Therapy
3 credits
Development of a group therapy approach applicable to varied populations including children, young adult, aged, and special needs. Emphasis on learning and practicing techniques to motivate and prepare these populations for more advanced group therapies
Spring
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GER 375 Aging Policies and Programs
3 credits
The historical development and current implementation of social policies for the aging. Discussion of policies affecting income, health care, social services, and volunteerism.
Spring
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GER 392 Seminar
3 credits
In-depth study of a special topic or area of interest. Small group discussion format for advanced students.
(On demand)
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GER 393 Seminar
3 credits
In-depth study of a special topic or area of interest. Small group discussion format for advanced students.
(On demand)
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GER 410 Adult Protective Services
3 credits
Examination of the needs and potentialities of the most vulnerable and frail of the nation’s elderly population. Study of the philosophy and delivery of protective services for the elderly.
(On demand)
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GER 413 Gerontology Cooperative Education
3 credits
Academic study combined with work experience in the community.
(On demand)
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GER 470 Practicum
3 credits
Work experience in a selected agency, which provides services to the aged. Practicum supervised by an agency representative; education directed by faculty. Direct service to clients.
(On demand)
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GER 480 Independent Study
1-3 credits
Special investigation of a selected topic.
(On demand)
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HCA 501 Introduction to the U.S. Health System
3 credits
This course describes the stakeholders composing the health care industry: patients/families, providers/professionals, product companies, government, payers, etc., their interplay and the challenges facing leaders to successfully create and deliver value for these varied stakeholders. The roles of these varied stakeholders in creating quality health care will be explored. Specific emphasis will be given to the intersection between health care and health including health disparities. Focus will be placed upon the appreciation of system thinking and the roll of leaders in providing value in this diverse environment.
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HCA 502 Introduction to Health Care Quality
3 credits
This course introduces the history and contemporary landscape of health care quality and patient safety. Familiarity with the constructs and concepts of quality and patient safety as well as the variety of measures including public policy drivers of health care quality improvement will be gained. Special attention will be given to the patient/family perspectives associated with health care quality and safety. An understanding of the complexities and challenges in the health care arena consisting of varied organizations, professions, etc. including organizational and professional cultures related to healthcare quality will be explicated. Additionally, this course will introduce the status, challenges and opportunities associated with the inter-professional work environment of the health care setting.
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HCA 503 Healthcare Quality Measurement Literacy
3 credits
This course familiarizes the student with the measurement landscape associated with health care quality- data sets as well as data collection and analytical techniques. Exercising critical thinking, students will learn how to create and use data to answer empirical questions. Public and proprietary measures will be reviewed including different data sets upon which various measures are based.
Prerequisite(s): HCA 501 , HCA 502
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HCA 504 Population Health
3 credits
Population health has introduced new concepts and approaches to the design, delivery and reimbursement of health care. Further, it provides an alternative framework of health care quality and is related to health status with an appreciation of the social determinants of health. This course is aimed at exploring this new phenomenon and analyzing health care quality, patient safety and health status related to it.
Prerequisite(s): HCA 501 , HCA 502
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HCA 505 The Ethics of Healthcare Quality
3 credits
This course introduces the ethical principles, concepts and challenges associated with the health care quality and patient safety landscape in which leaders function.
Prerequisite(s): HCA 501 , HCA 502
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HCA 506 The Patient Experience in Health Care
3 credits
This course emphasizes the view of the patient/family in health care quality. This unique perspective and the manner in which it is included in contemporary U.S. health care will be illuminated. Special emphasis will be placed upon diversity and cultural competencies. Attention will be given to diverse groups and health status issues in the U.S.
Prerequisite(s): HCA 501 , HCA 502
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HCA 600 Improvement in Health Care
3 credits
The focus of this course is on changing systems of care. The field of quality improvement is broad, therefore, this course will cover a number of concepts, approaches and tools but avoid prescribing a specific approach. These include: Continuous Quality Improvement, PDSA cycles, Microsystems, Reliability Science (HROs), Lean, Six-sigma, etc. An appreciation of teamwork and skills to foster a teamwork environment will be emphasized. Additionally, change management will be explored, including understanding of the change process, reactions to change and leadership skills for successful change.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of all Healthcare Data Analysis and Quality Improvement Core courses
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HCA 601 Advanced Healthcare Quality
3 credits
Advanced theory (improvement science) content and related skills for quality improvement leadership and practice will be presented. This course will focus on leadership skills, Just Culture concepts and practice, Human Factors engineering basics, assessment of risk using FMEA and Root Cause Analysis. The application of these concepts and practices across varied health care contexts will be emphasized, for example, surgery, ambulatory care, transitions of care, etc.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of the Healthcare Analytics core requirements
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HCA 602 Healthcare Reimbursement Paradigms
3 credits
This course familiarizes students with the paradigms associated with health care delivery in the US and the determination of value/quality. Fee-for-service, pay-for-performance, value-based purchasing, etc. as arrangements in reimbursing professionals and hospitals will be explored. The dynamic relationship composed of public and private payers, profit and non-profit providers, public policy entities (Affordable Care Act), employers/industry and patients/consumers will be explored related to quality healthcare. Particular attention will be given to Population Health and its unique attributes. A systemic view will be stressed to illustrate the sensitivities existing among the entities of the health care, for example, how does quality as inpatient admission reduction impact hospitals, payers, etc.
Prerequisite(s): HCA 501 , HCA 502
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HCA 603 Healthcare Policy
3 credits
This course provides a foundation in U.S. health care policy pertinent for the health care leader focused on quality improvement and patient safety, for example, The Center for Medicare and Medicaid policies and mandates.
Prerequisite(s): Completion of all Healthcare Analytics program core requirements
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