Catalog: Boston College 2006-2007 University Catalog | |
| Research The CNRs central purpose is to serve as an institutional resource for ... support the purpose of the CNR: (1) to strengthen the research productivity of ... in the Connell School of Nursing, (2) to increase intradisciplinary and ... research and scholarship, and (3) to communicate research findings to ... as books and other materials related to quantitative and qualitative research ... in 1998. The goals of the Center are to promote research on retirement issues, ... to transmit new findings to the policy community and the public, to ... help train new scholars, and to broaden access to valuable data sources ... confronts the myriad issues surrounding how best to ensure adequate retirement ... ://www.bc.edu/ crr/), send an e-mail to crr@bc.edu, or call 617-552-1762. ... | |
| . Transcripts must be sent directly to Boston College by the sending ... institution. Transcripts issued to students and photocopies will not be ... four semester hours of credit. In order to be eligible for Boston College transfer ... , courses taken during the summer prior to enrollment at Boston College should be ... by the Office of Transfer Admission to avoid difficulty in the transfer of ... other high schools students can not be used for credit. These courses may be ... have attended only one school prior to Boston College and the loss of status ... is due solely to differences between academic systems, ... students will be allowed to make up their status and graduate with ... seniors). Thus, students are expected to have completed ten courses at the end ... For example, students completing eight to ten transferable courses are accepted ... | |
| language. Students who entered BC prior to the fall of 2005 can demonstrate ... language. Students who entered prior to the fall of 2005 can demonstrate ... offers a variety of assistance programs to help students finance their education. ... academic year. Students wishing to be considered for assistance from ... defined as the difference between the total expenses of attending Boston College ... the calculated ability of the family to contribute towards those expenses. ... financial aid programs, and thus, tend to receive larger financial aid awards. ... It is the students responsibility to know and comply with all requirements ... Nursing Student Loan are expected to accept responsibility for the ... in the students status must be reported to the Office of Student Services as it ... Federal Title IV funds are subject to the following withdrawal/refund process ... | |
| includes how costs for tuition and fees, room and ... considered in the calculation of need. how much of the students financial need, as ... been met. Students also have the right to request an explanation of each type of ... students receiving loans have the right to know what the interest rate is, the ... total amount that must be repaid, the length ... of time given to repay the loan, when repayment must ... offered a Work-Study job have the right to know what kind of job it is, what hours ... be, what the rate of pay will be, and how and when they will be paid. A student ... also has the responsibility to: pay special attention to his or her ... it accurately, and submit it on time to the right place. Errors can delay the ... of Student Services or the agency to which the application was submitted. ... | |
| context including, but not restricted to the following: Cheating is the ... . Cheating includes but is not limited to: the use or attempted use of ... or other manifestations of research to achieve a desired result; selective ... or during an examination; the use of purchased essays or term papers, or ... , and in any other matter relating to a course. Plagiarism is the act of ... quotation, and other forms of citation, to ensure that the original author, ... illustrator, or source of the material used is clearly acknowledged. Other breaches ... facts or circumstances in relation to examinations, papers, or other ... , essays, or research for fraudulent use; the alteration or falsification of ... University records; the unauthorized use of University academic facilities or ... | |
| distinguished in his/her: dedication to CSON; organization and interpersonal ... skills; thoughtful, careful attention to details large and small; ability to ... find humor no matter how difficult the situation; graceful, ... . Gorman, S.J., Leadership Award: Given to the student who, in the judgment of ... leadership and who has contributed to the Connell School of Nursing through ... of the Connell School of Nursing to honor the student whose presence ... of the Connell School of Nursing to honor the graduating senior who ... of the Connell School of Nursing to recognize seniors who have demonstrated ... of the Connell School of Nursing to recognize seniors who have demonstrated ... a substantial commitment to others in voluntary service over time ... with cancer. It is awarded annually to a masters or doctoral student. The ... | |
| All of them are designed to provide a coherent grouping of courses ... circumstances, students are advised to follow the formal educational programs ... Independent Major. Students who wish to apply for an Independent Major must ... should be equal in depth and coherence to a typical departmental major and should ... Each proposed major should be submitted to the Deans Office before March 1 of the ... year. The Dean will then present it to the Educational Policy Committee for ... aim for a coherent shape appropriate to the subject matter, and offer courses ... sense of movement from a beginning to a middle and an end, from introductory ... to advanced levels, or from general to specialized treatments. Students must ... approval of the program, students may use one Core course or one course from ... | |
| pursuing the minor are encouraged to take advantage of the partnership ... should contact Professor Marjorie Howes or Professor Robert Savage (617-552- ... The Jewish Studies Program seeks to examine the multiple dimensions and ... . In so doing, the program contributes to Boston Colleges efforts to ... Humanities and Social Sciences in order to understand the myriad expressions of ... minor in Jewish Studies consists of a total of six three-credit courses, including ... , take elective courses that will count toward the minor. Although the Minor in ... requirement, students are encouraged to take as many courses as possible in ... biblical and modern Hebrew. Note, however, that a maximum of six credits in Hebrew ... language may be applied to the minor. Students may participate in ... . For additional information, or to sign up for the Minor in Jewish Studies ... | |
| BK 110 Introduction to African Diaspora Studies BK 600 Senior ... media spirituality and social protest However, students are not required to use any ... -Americans from the pre-colonial period to the present. The first semester treats ... the emergence of protest movements up to the end of the Civil War. During the ... . Karen Miller BK 106 Introduction to Afro-American Literature (Fall: 3) ... literature from its oral beginnings to the present. Emphasis is on major ... . Joyce Hope Scott BK 109 Introduction to African Literature (Fall: 3) This ... . Pap Sarr BK 110 Introduction to African Diaspora Studies (Fall: 3) A ... . The purpose of the course is to introduce students to specific ... , cultural, social and political topics related to Africa and the African ... explore important issues and themes to give students a desire to further ... | |
| (slavery, colonialism, Nazism). How can we make sense of such a paradox? ... : 3) One of the goals of this course is to study the history of Puerto Rico and ... from the viewpoint of historians, as told by primary sources, literature and ... and ethnic ideologies in relation to process of social change. Chiwen Bao ... . The course is designed as a follow up to Locating Black Philosophy and therefore ... . Devonya Havis BK 200 Introduction to Black Aesthetic, Music and Empowerment ... principal vehicles Africans in Diaspora used to empower and galvanize their people ... to embrace an ancestral racial memory that ... ? Did the Africans who were brought to the New World just adopt the customs ... with them? This course will show how Africans adjusted to their conditions ... | |
| projects analyzing cell responses to DNA damage and control of apoptosis. ... Students will also use DNA transfection to construct cell lines with novel ... Taghian Ann Yee BI 420 Introduction to Bioinformatics (Fall: 3) Prerequisite: ... and computer science. It strives to better understand the molecules ... or programming. Students will learn how to use bioinformatic tools from the ... prediction, and other algorithms used in biomedical and biopharmaceutical ... laboratories, to mine and analyze public domain ... constraints, that have contributed to vertebrate structure. The course will ... , and will provide skills valuable to careers in a range of biological ... per week. Lab fee required. Laboratory to accompany BI 426. The Department BI 430 ... emphasis will be placed on learning how the structure of a tissue or organ ... | |
| numbers BI 461-466 and who desire to continue independent research projects ... in solid grounding for and exposure to academic research in biochemistry. ... under faculty supervision. In addition to formal lab training and discussions, ... students will have access to the lab outside class hours to work on ... projects intended to produce publication quality data. ... , polymerase chain reaction, and the use of computers and national databases for ... who desire a solid introduction to the methods of molecular biology ... ranging from protozoa like malaria to roundworms, tapeworms, fleas and ticks ... will study the adaptations of parasites to their ecological niches in their ... trafficking of macromolecules to different organelles inside the cell: ... . In addition, the course will analyze how different major human viruses exploit ... | |
| within molecular biology research. Topics will include the cloning of genes from ... animals. The goal of the course is to make the research-oriented student ... these processes will be examined together with structure/function relationships ... of the cells within the organ systems. Topics will include stem cells, several types ... diseases are an enormous burden to human society. Some diseases, like ... of concerted efforts have failed to eradicate these diseases. This course ... of infectious diseases. The course aims to provide students with a foundation in ... BI 304, BI 305 This course will cover topics related to the regulation and function ... and Schizosaccharomyces pombe. Topics will include both the molecular and ... the molecular and genetic methodologies used to obtain our current understanding of ... | |
| in CH 109-110. Discussion of lecture topics and problem-solving methods, in small ... thermodynamics and kinetics are studied to understand why chemical reactions occur ... start they cant go all the way to completion, and how molecules act as ... catalysts to speed up reactions without being ... that serves as the Honors alternative to CH 109-110. This course will build upon ... that were covered in the first semester to introduce organic chemistry as well as ... its physical basis. Topics to be covered include the structure and ... discovery-based experiments. It uses state-of-the-art instrumentation to ... in CH 117-118, and introduces students to techniques used in modern chemical ... will be made wherever possible to physiological processes and disease ... . The Department CH 222 Introduction to Inorganic Chemistry (Spring: 3) ... | |
| authors, must demonstrate the ability to read a modern foreign language (usually ... Classical Humanities requires admission to both the Lynch School of Education and ... to the Department of Classics. All masters ... programs leading to certification in secondary education ... practica experiences in addition to course work. Students seeking ... in Massachusetts are required to pass the Massachusetts Educators ... Test. Requirements vary according to a candidates preparation in both ... in Latin, will demonstrate the ability to read a modern foreign language (usually ... the Department Chairperson and refer to the Masters Programs in Secondary ... T. degree. Incoming students can expect to find major Greek and Latin authors and ... grammar and vocabulary. The aim is to prepare students to read simple Latin ... | |
| 3) Cross Listed with FM 275 Restricted to majors. This course is an introduction ... to Digital Video Editing using the Final ... environment. Final Cut Pro is widely used and is becoming more prevalent in the ... editing ranging from digitizing video to timelines to multiple tracks and mixing ... to transitions and more. Some equipment ... : 3) This course introduces the student to a broad sampling of broadcast writing ... (Fall/Spring: 3) An introduction to reporting for the media, this course ... organizational forms and writing styles used by newspapers. Students will be ... expected to read a newspaper daily. The Department ... is on writing stories editors will want to print and readers will want to read. ... magazine articles. Students will learn to apply the techniques of drama and ... | |
| . Students in the course are encouraged to evaluate their own communication ... at home all have a stake in being able to explain why one production is ... the extension of communication law to the Internet, assess a range of pending ... proposals designed to regulate free speech in cyberspace, and ... and international schemes intended to govern the developing global ... course will not cover issues related to electronic commerce or contracts, ... Speeches and speakers from World War II to the present will be studied. We will ... of rhetorical criticism. Areas to be covered include rhetoric of the ... major This course is designed to examine the interaction among new forms ... nature of society. The course seeks to explore the contours of the Information ... Society and to analyze the transformations that are ... | |
| of theory in the research process, and tools for evaluating theories. The course ... concepts of critical rhetorical theory to the analysis of news media. Students ... . This course will enable students to hone the skills they learned in ... client. The course will also explore how to create a program through real world ... such as formulating a script to meet specific client needs and planning ... while evaluating and organizing content to best communicate with a targeted ... form twentieth-century broadcast media. Topics will be examined within the context of ... their relationship to society and culture. Michael Keith CO ... our society. Students will examine such topics as the use of violence on TV, and the ... of texts and research methods will be used to help draw conclusions about the ... | |
| discussions will be applicable directly to relationships with friends, family, and ... you will have acquired a resource-base to (1) understand why and how nonverbal ... signals are used to communicate, (2) understand the role of ... theory related to nonverbal communication, and (3) ... improve your ability to apply these principles to your day-to- ... communication. These frames are then used to explore topics such as culture, ... /video documentaries. In addition to studying the role of producer, students ... will develop skills to handle practical requirements of the ... this class are strongly recommended to have taken CO 442 or its equivalent as ... communication majors an opportunity to pursue a partial internship in the ... theoretical constructs. Adherence to professional protocol is expected. A ... | |
| , CS 127 and CS 157. CS 021 is designed to teach students how to use computers ... in a business setting. Students learn to use a variety of application packages ... and Sciences students who know little to nothing about computing. It is an ... courses. Therefore, students who wish to take more than one course in computer ... science will need to take CS 101 sometime. The skills needed ... to write computer programs come easily to some people and less easily to others. ... in CS 101. CS 127 is an introduction to programming with an orientation to ... Computation. CS 157 is an introduction to programming with an orientation to ... in the College of Arts and Sciences. However, because the department serves both the ... Management, some courses are considered to be primarily management-oriented. These ... | |
| . Java is the language students will use for programming. The Department CS 127 ... Introduction to Scientific Computation (Fall: 3) Cross ... . The Department CS 157 Introduction to Programming for Management (Fall/Spring ... applications. Students will learn to design and implement software in the ... Science majors introduces the student to the fundamental notions of discrete ... on graph theory and applications. Topics include the basic notions of set theory ... coverage of database systems and their use. Topics include database design ... strategies, SQL queries, the use of Visual Basic to build sophisticated ... from the web. The goal of the course is to turn users into power users, people who ... have the knowledge and skills to use databases to their advantage in any ... | |
| and build digital circuits related to the topics in CS 272. Topics include: ... packages. Students will be exposed to the interactive interface design ... ) Prerequisite: CS 102 An introduction to the algorithms and techniques involved ... , and DArcy Wentworth Thompson. Topics include: cameras and image formation; ... . This course provides an introduction to the field of machine learning. Specific ... learning paradigms to be covered include decision trees, ... and fundamental tradeoffs. Applications to areas such as human-machine interaction ... CS 102 This course will not cover the use of commercial database systems; ... students interested in that topic should consider taking CS 257. An ... introduction to the internals of client-server database ... , one also learns techniques that apply to numerous other large systems. Topics ... | |
| CS 390 Topics in Computer Science (Fall: 3) ... and CS 271 This course will cover a topic that will vary from semester to ... , this course covers a broad range of topics and practices in computer security, ... what Computer Science can tell us about how easy or hard it is for a computer to ... play such games well. Well also see how the same ideas can be used to construct ... numbers, then go back to the world of play and look at the (very ... jump-peg solitaire and Rubiks cube. Howard Straubing CS 392 Art and Visual ... , computer science and visual art together in examining how we perceive light, ... the contribution of visual perception to the generation and viewing of pictorial ... the contribution of artistic rendering to the understanding of inner workings of ... | |
| Economics, Sweden; Ph.D., Universit de Toulouse, France Fabio Ghironi, Assistant ... provides a critical examination of how the economic system works in the United ... provides a general background that is useful to those planning careers in law, ... first if necessary. It is possible to take only one of these courses, but the ... for a well-rounded introduction to the U.S. economy and current policy ... major. The Economics major is meant to be structured. Students should take ... that late starters may not have time to follow this sequence precisely. ... Students who need to take an elective before completing a ... , with permission of the professor, to take a 300-level elective concurrently ... lecture format, with enrollments up to 40, and a smaller writing-intensive ... format, with enrollments capped at 15 to 25 depending on the size of the writing ... | |
| studies, so the work load is ambitious. Topics include elements of game theory, the ... is the social science that analyzes how to think (and act) strategically in ... Game Theory with its applications to real world situations. Tayfun Sonmez ... EC 309 Introduction to Scientific Computation (Fall: 3) Cross ... 203-204) The course is an introduction to the uses of calculus and other ... mathematical tools in economic analysis. Catherine ... is intended for students who plan to minor in Scientific Computation. It is ... component. This course extends EC 228 to present instrumental variables and GMM ... dependent variable models and selected topics in time series analysis. Christopher ... , we utilize microeconomic analysis to evaluate the performance of legal ... institutions with particular attention to the issue of economic efficiency. We ... | |
| George Washington University Marjorie Howes, Associate Professor; B.A., University ... ; B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of Toronto Laura Tanner, Associate Professor; B.A ... ., University of Pennsylvania Laurence Tobin, Associate Professor; B.A., Earlham ... in human experience, and its primary use is for the development of those who ... of behavior is valued. The tools used, because they deal with language and the ... English majors can develop these skills to a considerable degree while ... major at Boston College is designed to introduce students to a wide range of ... of the past and present. It aims to help undergraduate students develop a ... strengthened ability to work critically and sensitively with ... texts in poetry and prose, to write with clarity and grace, and to ... | |
| . Because Core classes are restricted to first-year students, students should ... plan to take both courses during the first year ... Year Writing Seminar helps students use their writing as a source of learning ... forms of nonfiction prose. In addition to regular conferences, the class meets ... two hours per week to learn and discuss writing processes and ... research, including an introduction to using the resources at ONeill Library. ... principal motives which prompt people to read literature: to assemble and assess ... shape and values of ones own culture, to discover alternative ways of looking at ... the world, to gain insight into issues of permanent ... as issues of contemporary urgency, and to enjoy the linguistic and formal ... ways these courses will strive to develop the students capacity to read ... | |
| Students may devote up to six of the required 30 credits to ... or more longer papers. Students wishing to pursue this option should consult with ... different skills or practices integral to advanced literary studies: the ability ... to analyze in detail a short poem or prose ... passage; the ability to place a number of passages in their ... , style, and content; and the ability to reflect on the theoretical, ... Program Director and with other faculty to plan an appropriate course of studies ... seeking the degree will be expected to complete within two years requirements ... , all candidates will be required to complete twelve credits of course work ... in the Irish language as a step toward achieving reading ability in modern ... OLeary, James Smith, and Marjorie Howes. In addition, the distinguished visiting ... | |
| two and one half hours long, explores a topical area in which the dissertation is ... likely to take place. All examinations are ... graded according to the University scale for graduate ... Director describing the thesis topic and including a working bibliography. ... This prospectus will be then submitted to two additional faculty members who will ... , fees, and deadlines pertinent to thesis submission and graduation. This ... area, and two more courses selected to provide the best range of teaching ... students lead discussions on literary topics. Graduate students and faculty are ... Candidates for the degree are expected to remain in good standing in accordance ... Spring: 3) A 15-student course designed to engage students with writing as a ... forms of non-fiction prose. In addition to regular conferences, the class meets ... | |
| readers, they open up privileged access to the formation of the modern subject. ... Well examine how that very curious subject, the Irishman ... will be on developing the ability to read contemporary literature in all ... focus on issues and strategies related to teaching the subject matter of the ... course to which it is attached. It is highly ... in the course, but is also open to any students interested in teaching. ... as well as on the rhetorical strategies used in academic essays. Review of selected ... topics in English grammar. This course ... writing of academic essays and exposure to English rhetoric, with emphasis on ... the logical support of ideas. Attention to skills such as paraphrase, summary, ... . Margaret Thomas EN 125 Introduction to Feminisms (Fall/Spring: 3) Cross Listed ... | |
| . This course is an introduction to American Literature from the Civil War ... to World War I. Topics cover include the rise of industrial ... covered: Mark Twain, William Dean Howells, Sui Sin Far, Charles Chesnutt, Pauline ... of American literature from 1914 to the present. Henry Blackwell George ... . James Smith EN 170 Introduction to British Literature and Culture I (Fall ... pre-1700 requirement. An introduction to major literary works from the medieval ... important changes from the Middle Ages to the early modern period? What crucial ... changes Amy Boesky EN 171 Introduction to British Literature and Culture II ( ... great British writers from 1700 to the present. This period includes ( ... within an emerging Irish nation. However, we also will bring to bear questions ... about how Irelands writers helped to reflect and shape the countrys role in ... | |
| , and prose romance. We will examine how gender operates in these texts, but ... also how these women writers engaged in the ... Aphra Behn. Katherine Kellett EN 303 Tolstoy and Dostoevsky (Spring: 3) Cross Listed ... . We will look at issues of language use, such as the notion of linguistic ... We will also take a historical approach to topics within the language itself, such ... Fall: 3) This course will be dedicated to an extended exploration of James Joyces ... . Most of our time will be devoted to an intensive reading of the novel ... works is required, just a willingness to tackle the challenges offered by his ... most influential masterpiece. Marjorie Howes EN 310 Shakespeare (Fall/Spring: 3) ... and theatrical contexts of his time. Topics will include Shakespeares professional ... | |
| nonfiction being written has expanded to include not only such traditional forms ... expression that serve as witness to contemporary urban life. Some of the ... best writing being produced today in poetry, prose, non-fiction, and ... journalism attempts to give voice to the citys silent ones, to its tensions ... and unresolved injustices, as well as to its vibrant grassroots and cultural ... did the experience of war trauma do to concepts of madness and sanity? Such ... Experience (Spring: 3) Designed as a topic seminar for concentrators in Asian ... American studies, this course is open to all students. What does it mean to be ... Filipino American? How is literature, film, and discourse by ... America? In this course, we will seek to understand texts by Filipino American ... | |
| cover a range of genres from fiction, to poetry, to film and advertisements, ... what literature tells us about how racial ideologies work in practice. ... , and genre theory. We will ask how these industries have been affected by ... globalization and how their relationship to Hollywood is ... each literary text, we will aim to situate it within the context of ... American cultural tensions and to explore in detail its construction as a ... . Writers may include Jhumpa Lahiri, Toni Morrison, Lorrie Moore, Gish Jen, ... and others in the hopes of discovering how to make readers laugh and think. We ... The rest of the course will be devoted to workshop. Steve Almond EN 526 ... one of the Roman plays. So, in addition to a small amount of contextual material, ... queer writers and readers often drawn to it as a mode of expressing their ... | |
| artists. From Londons darkest corners to the sheltered grandeur of its ... homes, Hogarths work will lead us toward some of the most pressing questions of ... of strange and brilliant works that far too many readers miss out on. Concentrating ... of creative non-fiction essays, we will use place as a lens through which to ... and belief, and the human relationship to both natural and peopled worlds. ... (Fall/Spring: 3) Enrollment limited to 15. This course provides encouragement ... discussion, a generous willingness to respond to others writing and to expose ... ones own work to such reactions is an essential ... discussions. Students are expected to produce a steady stream of new and ... preferences from the traditional to the experimental are welcome. Steven ... Fall/Spring: 3) This course is designed to expose students to the type of writing ... | |
| read some historical works in order to learn more about the culture in which ... and conceptual models that encourage us to think critically about those ... connections. Topics to be discussed may include: immigration, ... their insights with us and help us to appreciate the Capstone ideals of ... Vision Quest: A Multicultural Approach to Self-Discovery (Spring: 3) Cross Listed ... Diversity Core Requirement We will use the Vision Quest, a Native American ... College. Relating their own lives to the lives of the characters, who have ... at college have prepared them to face the great mystery of life ahead. ... Mountain, The Bonesetters Daughter, and How the Garcia Girls Lost their Accents,and ... personal meaning and purpose as we move toward understanding how our personal values ... | |
| other critical schools have reacted to or against New Historicism. Finally, we ... will consider how New Historicism has influenced the rise ... and Imperial Culture (Spring: 3) Topics will include antislavery poetry, early ... . Attention will be given as well to literary constructions of the Americas ... in this era and to the beginnings of Creole literary ... Spring: 3) This course is designed (1) to prepare graduate students to teach ... , college-level writing courses; (2) to introduce students to central issues, ... in composition studies; and (3) to examine ways in which contemporary ... of writing, this is not a prescriptive how to course. Instead, students are asked ... to consider pedagogical issues in the ... and theoretical perspectives. Laurence Tobin EN 887 Introduction to Advanced ... | |
| -called Dark Ages, from about 200 A.D. to around the year 1000 A.D. We will begin ... classical world where, in addition to the burgeoning imagery of early ... -Early Christian Ireland, and go on to a study of the Carolingian renaissance ... last part of the course will be devoted to the apocalyptic millennial art of tenth ... . We will pay particular attention to the new ways medieval men and women ... of the classical and medieval periods to their present form as public ... from the Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome. Topics include: selecting, researching and ... role of museums in creating culture; how practices of visual and material ... culture are linked to constructing meaning; the constituency ... in the Renaissance? What did it mean to its original audience? This course ... , and Albrecht Durer. We will discuss how the Renaissance in Northern Europe is ... | |
| began the twentieth century by looking to avantgarde European art for inspiration ... Judith Bookbinder FA 267 From Salt-Box to Skyscraper: Architecture in America ... Seventeenth to Twentieth Centuries (Fall: 3) Satisfies ... architecture from colonial times to the present. Particular attention will ... be paid to monuments in New England, with field ... trips to important buildings in the Boston area ... . In addition to studying stylistic changes, the class ... . This course will make extensive use of a networked archive of scanned ... the Boston College Infoeagle. Jeffery Howe FA 276 Islamic Art (Fall: 3) Satisfies ... in the Islamic lands from Spain to India between the 7th and 17th ... , ranging from great mosques to illustrated manuscripts. Particular ... collections of the Middle Ages to their present form as public ... | |
| of Mesopotamia with frequent reference to the broader archaeological contexts of ... read in translation will be employed to enrich our understanding. Kenneth ... sculpture, and metal work of the sixth to the ninth century, on understanding ... that served as a model for years to come. Some key themes include: the ... and artists, restoration of Rome to its ancient glory, and the competing ... of art after Raphaels death in 1520, to understand how Michelangelos art ... continuously evolved and how other artists reacted to the challenge ... Leone FA 335 Italian Palaces From 1450 to 1650 (Fall: 3) In mid-fifteenth-century ... then in centers like Rome and Venice, to express their status through grand ... objects) of Italian palaces from 1450 to 1650. Particular focus will also be ... | |
| Symbolist literature will be examined to enlarge the context of the inquiry. ... arts will also be included. Jeffery Howe FA 453 Psychoanalytic Approches to Art ... (Fall: 3) How can art be approached ... ideas that have been, and have yet to be applied to art. Our particular ... Meyer Schapiro and others have noted, to the historic, iconographic and ... of artistic expression. We will explore how the formal means of the artist might be ... used toward a psychoanalytic interpretation. ... color field with particular attention to issues of intellectual context, ... as Stamos, Poussette-Dart, Tworkov, Tobey, and Tomlin. Attention shall also be ... given to sculptural manifestations of Abstract ... spanned eight decades, from the 1880s to the 1950s. We will explore his roots in ... | |
| standard tool in the video, television, and film ... timeline, saving sequences, and output to tape. Adam Bush Michael Civille Chris ... . This course is an introduction to digital video editing using the Final ... environment. Final Cut Pro widely used and is becoming more prevalent in the ... editing ranging from digitizing video to timelines to multiple tracks and mixing ... to transitions and more. Some equipment ... has often served as a dramatic means to deliver an ideological message. Its ... roots go back to Griffiths Civil War epic Birth of a ... directors offered patriotic messages to an American audience with its recent ... of these and other works, we are able to analyze the dual components of drama ... civil rights movement of the Sixties to the promising Good Friday Accords of ... | |
| (Spring: 3) The aim of this course is to provide a history of the evolution of ... the documentary film, as well to develop a critical skill in ... film Birth of a Nation (1915). Today film critiques are found in our daily ... course will provide an introduction to the creation of authentic historical ... inspirational for scripting, and go on to look at the scripting process itself. ... Then students will be introduced to script breakdown, location scouting, ... undertake a research project related to the props, costumes, or architectural ... . From Elephant Man on disfigurement to Rain Man on the savant, the films will ... of disabilities, helping the viewer to grasp more fully the beauty and talent ... on several directors who have chosen to work on the East Coast rather than in ... | |
| fee required. This is an introduction to the materials, methods and vocabulary ... of painting. The course uses observation and learning to see as the ... than on copying. Students are expected to paint in class as well as at home. ... Sherman FS 103 Approaches and Issues to Studio Art (Fall: 3) Lab fee required. ... . This course enables students to develop skills and ideas by exploring ... , subjective, and conceptual approaches to a variety of materials, tools, and ... and provide an open forum for students to bring questions and problems for ... Requirement Offered Biennially Limited to 15 students from the Lynch School of ... level Fine Arts Studio Course designed to introduce student teachers to visual ... the young childs learning experience. To enable this to happen, the teacher must ... | |
| the study of fossils as a record of how life has evolved on Earth. Paul K. ... will deal with our understanding of how dinosaurs fit into the world. Although ... thought, the main emphasis will be on how we know what we know about dinosaurs. ... We will examine how different fields of study have ... increased our knowledge about how dinosaurs lived and we will spend some ... time every day learning how to interpret the information preserved in ... . Students will have opportunities to handle and work with actual dinosaur ... observations and theories date back to before the beginning of recorded ... of astronomy is closely tied to the growth of physics, mathematics, ... is on large-scale concepts and on how we know what we know about our universe ... , stars, and to some extent, planets and other bodies ... | |
| cause earthquakes and volcanos, and on how the earth compares with other planets ... in the solar system. Topics include the age of the earth, minerals ... The Living Earth II: From Outer Space to Life on Earth (Spring: 3) Corequisite: ... case study, students will be introduced to the underlying scientific concepts ... relevant to the problem being addressed. After this ... is developed, we will discuss how it needs to be considered as part of ... The course will also introduce students to how scientists and public policy makers ... The course offers an introduction to the understanding of the atmosphere ... events, and everyday experiences are used to illustrate some of these principles ... , illustrating their applications to environmental problems. Topics include ... and regulatory issues. Course includes use of 2-D ground water modeling software ... | |
| will be assesssed in the context of toxicity and risk, regulatory requirements and ... as seen in outcrops, or small areas, to gain an understanding of the geometries ... vertebrates. The goal of this course is to give students a better understanding of ... forming minerals, and an introduction to crystal chemistry and crystallography. ... microscopy (PLM) and its application to mineral identification using a ... of the polarizing miscroscopy to identify minerals in thin sections. ... , a continuation of GE 372, is devoted to an understanding of the petrology and ... rocks. Lectures on the petrology of how rocks form will be integrated with the ... laboratory (GE375) where students will use the petrographic microscope to identify ... rocks. Phase diagrams will also be used to help better constrain to origin of ... | |
| HS 180 Introduction to Black Urban History: Migration, ... Los Angeles. Students will be exposed to methodologies used to study black life ... and regional formations in relationship to migration and urbanization. Moreover, ... culture will help students understand how black people both shaped and were ... United States from a colonial appendage to a world power. The course seeks to ... study of the American past, but seeks to go beyond narrative and to provide ... is founded. Consideration will be given to continuity, change, and conflict in ... -Americans from the pre-colonial period to the present. The first semester treats ... States from the pre-Columbian period to the present. Topics will include ... of Native Americans themselves and how different disciplines seek to ... | |
| their proponents will allow students to analyze and compare the forces ... course engages culture as a method, a tool by which to engage, analyze and ... notions of popular culture, and common topics of authenticity, and selling out will ... status Each section offers a different topic. Required for history majors. The ... purpose of these courses will be to introduce students to the methodology ... of writing history by focusing on a topic for which a body of source material is ... HS 300.02 Study and Writing of History: Tony Blair and New Labor (Fall: 3) ... and analysis into the career of Tony Blair and his role in the rebirth of ... . The Labour Party, which did so much to create the welfare state just after the ... the Roman Empire. Before, they were not tolerated and subject to intermittent persecution ... | |
| world cities, Shanghai has managed both to fascinate and repulse locals and ... visitors alike since its rise to prominence in the nineteenth century. ... later, this metropolitan area continues to struggle with the legacies of that ... and write an original essay on the topic, making extensive use of local archives ... that surpass the facile solutions to inequality based on colorblindness, ... . Surveying radical visions from Harlem to Havana, Paris to Port au Prince, ... Birmingham to Bahia, we hope to reclaim radical possibilities from the ... past to devise blueprints for an adversarial ... citations and bibliographies, learn how to structure and outline a project of ... the approval of the History Department to enroll in a special honors project will ... that project. This course is open only to students who have been given approval ... | |
| The purpose of this course is to analyze the main cycles of rural unrest ... since the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. Case ... HS 094 Offered Periodically Not open to students who have taken HS 261 One of ... the chief objectives of this course is to understand Romes metamorphosis in the ... West, after the empires fall, and to come to grips with changing notions of ... centuries. The other objective is to understand the construction of power ... this period: who had it, who lost it, how it was flaunted and used. We will ... history. The course deals with such topics as the decline of Britains economic ... of famine in Ireland and attempt to place Irish experience in a wider ... 434 History of Northern Ireland, 1912 to the Present (Fall: 3) Prerequisites: ... | |
| from the end of the Franco-Prussian War to the outbreak of World War I. Particular ... emphasis will be given to the following themes: the political and ... war; the political progress that led to the apparent triumph of liberalism and ... main but not exclusive attention to the thinking and impacts of four, dead ... the development of Italy from 1815 to the present, explaining how during ... , and economically backward land to the united, prosperous, and democratic ... , if troubled, nation it is today. Alan Reinerman HS 510 Text and Context ... An interdisciplinary approach will be used to examine the historical, social, and ... historical and cultural analysis to bear on a single work of fiction, this ... in African American life from 1899 to 1950 including migration, urbanization ... | |
| in the United States from the 1890s to the present. Looking at the grassroots ... movement of the 1970s. In addition to the class, there is a community service ... of Americas role in the world and trace how that role has changed as the nation ... communities on the Atlantic coast to the greatest military, and economic ... superpower in history. Important topics include the territorial expansion of ... . Particular attention will be given to sociological theories of nationalism, ... include Germany, Russia and Ireland. Tom Garvin, Burns Scholar HS 654 Irish ... of emigration from Ireland to North America was the large number of ... . Emphasis in the course will be on the use of research tools in historical work on ... students who have taken Introduction to Feminisms and who have been chosen to ... | |
| , and gender. The crucial question to be addressed is whether, and on what ... terms, it is possible to construct a reliable identity and an ... HP 252 Senior Seminar: Odysseus to Ulysses (Spring: 3) HP 252 applies ... electronic technology to the study of texts from the Honors ... and pioneering expertise in the use of technology for the humanities. This ... other authors. Students should expect to leave the seminar with writing and ... thinking skills enhanced by the ability to incorporate hypertextual techniques and ... in managed care, etc. The goal is to have the students recognize ... difficulties in present practices and to formulate policies for new or ... issues in medicine. Class discussion is used to achieve this goal. John J. Paris, S ... : 3) This course considers Augustines use of the images which accompany the (new ... | |
| granted, the student is still required to complete a semester-long research paper ... academic major or the University Core to be counted also toward the requirements ... Freshmen who are considering applying to become International Studies majors in ... consider taking the following courses to fulfill their social science University ... Core requirement and to fulfill the core requirement in ... in Theology and History, and may be used to fulfill the International Studies ... thesis occurs, are strongly urged to plan ahead. They should try to ... establish a thesis topic and identify a faculty member who is ... willing to supervise their work before they leave ... Seminar (Fall/Spring: 3) Open only to seniors majoring in International ... and socially. It also examines how to integrate cultural questions and ... | |
| and well-prepared science majors. Topics covered include: complex numbers and ... , the residue theorem and applications to definite integrals. MT 481 Games and ... what Computer Science can tell us about how easy or hard it is for a computer to ... play such games well. Well also see how the same ideas can be used to construct ... numbers, then go back to the world of play and look at the (very ... applications of mathematics. Among the topics covered will be the following: first ... non-linear systems, and an introduction to stability and bifurcations. MT 412 ... and familiarity with using a computer Topics include the solution of linear and ... course provides a general introduction to modern probability theory. Topics ... weak law of large numbers. Applications to real data will be stressed, and we will ... | |
| first semester senior year in order to take the required Senior Seminar at BC ... acceptable offerings from abroad tend to lean towards courses in music history ... students complete six or nine credits; however, majors have had as many as twelve ... of the Undergraduate Program in Music, to plan an acceptable course of study for ... in music should try as freshmen to take or test out of MU 070 Fundamentals ... essential and necessary indicators of how well a student will be able to succeed ... in the major and to speak the language of music. Those who ... can test out of MU 070 and who wish to fulfill the Arts Core requirement with ... course should take MU 066 Introduction to Music, a general introduction to the ... courses in the department relevant to the particular emphasis the student has ... | |
| MU 066 Introduction to Music (Fall/Spring: 3) Satisfies Arts ... Requirement This course will attempt to develop essential and critical ... that the serious listener is exposed to today. The principal emphasis of the ... art music from medieval Gregorian Chant to twentieth-century electronic music but ... American popular song will be included to diversify and enrich the experience of ... listening critically to music. Ralf Gawlick Matthew Gelbart T ... Core course it includes speculations on how musical discourse informs our ... of the world around us. Students learn to acquire skills in music notation and ... study in music theory and will begin to question broader issues concerning the ... meaning and use of music. Michael Burgo Ralf Gawlick ... . Emphasis on the basic steps needed to execute ceili dances and demonstration ... | |
| : 3) Genre Course This course will show how composer/performers have explored and ... year period (from the Baroque through today), and specific knowledge of the ... (Spring: 3) Composers An introduction to Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827), ... heroic style of his best known works, to his feelings and expressions of musical ... all these labels have been attached to Johannes Brahms (1833-1897). This ... nineteenth century and that continue to influence the way we listen to his ... music today. We will consider ideas such as ... versus progressive approaches to musical traditions. We will sample ... . Matthew Gelbart MU 301 Introduction to World Music (Fall/Spring: 3) Satisfies ... This course provides an introduction to selected musical traditions from around ... cultural contexts. Our main goals are to study the connections between music and ... | |
| rary Anglo-American ethics, but also to a broader selection of issues addressed ... contemporary philosophy. The goal is to develop a more adequate understanding ... of what it means to be practically reasonable and of how ... of technology, the course will attempt to draw out the philosophical assumptions ... perspective in the resolution of day-to-day ethical dilemmas in health care. A ... practice, from Hippocratic regimen to hightech medicine, will be undertaken. ... Philosophy of Physics: An Introduction to its Themes (Fall: 3) The ways physics ... philosophical implications for how we conceptualize and know the world. ... helpful although the course is intended to be accessible without an overly ... : 3) The purpose of this course is to provide an introduction into the world ... worlds, participants will be encouraged to examine their experience in a more ... | |
| Romantic writers and German Idealists to provide a fresh account of the ... attempt, in The Critique of Judgment, to bridge the moral and natural realms ... in its lowest form as sense certainty to its highest form as absolute knowing, ... shapes experience takes in the ascent to Spirit in its purest form. It will ... , Spirit, and Religion, in order to arrive at a proper conception of the ... unmoved mover. Using this as a bridge to Metaphysics XII, we will consider the ... ) Cross Listed with TH 794 Introduction to the major Church Fathers and their ... varying attitudes towards philosophy. The role of philosophy in ... PL 803 Heidegger: Contributions to Philosophy (Fall: 3) This course is an ... introduction to Heideggers Contributions to Philosophy ... modern aesthetics. The classical themes to be discussed include natural and ... | |
| , based on their fitness for assignment to public offices. Marie Natoli PO 202 ... : 3) This course is an introduction to emerging issues in environmental ... also will provide an introduction to the central institutional actors in ... Civil-military relations is the term used to describe the interactions between a ... , and its military. Of interest is how this relationship manifests in American ... society. How should a nation which emphasizes ... discipline, and hierarchy as necessary to its proper function? We examine ... hypothesis, military advice on the use of force, women and homosexuals serving ... Environmental Law (Spring: 3) Not open to students who have taken PO 307 or PO ... 201 Course introduces students to the legal system and to environmental ... law and constitutional litigation to complex government agency regulations ... | |
| different perspectives, it attempts to understand the sources of stability and ... policy doctrines and priorities? How have U.S. foreign policy leaders ... attempted to spread core ideas and institutions to ... other countries? In particular, how have key American officials understood ... between markets and democracy? To what extent might US policies and ... decisions be expected to sprad liberalism to countries in the ... , we will explore intelligences role in todays most important international security ... the contending theoretical approaches to the politics of international economic ... and counter-terrorism. In additional to reviewing key theoretical works on ... pursuing wisdom? Does human virtue lead to happiness? To what extent is obedience ... to law an essential element of virtue? We ... | |
| . Almost all human beings agree that to live well one must live with others. ... But how are we to live together? What end or purpose orders our ... seminal thinkers, this seminar seeks to shed light on these questions which are ... . Nasser Behnegar PO 662 Introduction to Legal Reasoning (Fall: 3) We shall ... argument. In so doing, we shall explore together, as an organizing theme, how lawyers and ... judges seek to cope with and exploit the limitations, ... examine the meaning and effect assigned to a variety of legal concepts, the manner ... as political institutions, asking how judges shape public policy, how ... affects judicial behavior, and how the role of the federal courts has ... changed over the past 50 years. Topics include desegregation, voting rights, ... law, statutory interpretation, and torts. We will also review and critique ... | |
| K. Faulkner PO 985 Rome: From City to Empire (Fall: 3) In Rome as well as in ... extreme extension in Rome. We will try to illuminate these diverging paths with ... Doctoral Comprehensive but prefer not to assume the status of a non- ... student for the one or two semesters used for preparation for the comprehensive ... 1) All students who have been admitted to candidacy for the Ph.D. degree are ... required to register and pay the fee for doctoral ... , Professor; B.Sc., University of Toronto; Ph.D., University of Waterloo Hiram H ... Psychology is the scientific study of how and why people think, feel, and behave ... the breadth, depth, knowledge, and tools necessary for students to prepare for ... required courses: Introduction to Psychology as a Natural Science (PS 110 ... ) and Introduction to Psychology as a Social Science (PS 111 ... | |
| approaches, and students are expected to develop competence in a variety of ... communities are studied. In addition to the resources in the department, ... found on our website as well. Students use the same forms to apply to both the M.A ... which program they are applying to. The Psychology Department website is ... further information, direct inquiries to, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, ... ://www.bc.edu/psychol ogy/. Applicants to the Ph.D. and M.A. programs should ... applications is January 2. Applicants to the B.A./M.A. program should submit: ... : 3) Prerequisite: Consent of Learning to Learn Program This course does not ... requirement and does not provide credit toward completion of the Psychology major. The ... course is a practicum designed to provide students with strategies to ... | |
| PS 110 Introduction to Psychology as a Natural Science (Fall/ ... bases of behavior and with the attempt to characterize in physiological and ... . Julia Fisher PS 111 Introduction to Psychology as a Social Science (Fall/ ... be taken without having taken PS 110. However, taking PS 110 before PS 111 is ... . This course introduces students to the basic questions, perspectives, and ... . Michael Moore PS 120 Introduction to Behavioral Statistics and Research I ( ... and statistical procedures used in psychological research. The course ... tests so that students will learn both how to use statistics in an applied context ... and how to do methodologically sound research. In ... this course students will be introduced to topics such as self-report, ... Bond Alan Scott PS 121 Introduction to Behavioral Statistics and Research II ( ... | |
| conditions. Examples of specific topics include the developmental impact of ... : Do they believe that objects continue to exist when they are no longer visible? ... Do they have an inborn capacity to do simple arithmetic? Can they tell the ... minds? We will look at Piagets answers to such questions, as well as at what more ... of the issues, including those related to memories of abuse, identification of ... relies on information processing theory to unravel how the mind works. Pure forms ... , and emotion are among some of the topic areas to be examined. Scott Slotnick ... vista (room-sized) and environmental. Topics will be reviewed from cognitive, ... The field of memory research studies how people organize, maintain, and access ... findings in current memory research. Topics, among others, include memory structures ... | |
| , and massive public responses to catastrophes like 9/11. Readings will ... course reviews research that examines how individuals construct their subjective ... reality. Topics include cognitive processes that guide ... provide students with an opportunity to integrate theoretical and empirical ... clinical setting. Students will select, together with the professor, a field placement ( ... reaction, and dissociative disorders. Topics include sexual and physical abuse in ... Thesis I (Fall: 3) Students may elect to write a thesis during the senior year. ... obtain the consent of a faculty member to serve as thesis advisor. Students who ... choose to write a thesis are encouraged to take an Independent Study with a ... thesis advisor during the junior year to develop a thesis proposal. The ... | |
| tinuing to contemporary controversies about the ... of emotion. Some of the questions to be considered are whether or not there ... basic emotions, the relation of emotion to cognition and action, and whether ... a social psychological perspective. Topics include the role of social context in ... . Lisa Feldman Barrett PS 569 Special Topics in Developmental Psychology (Spring: 3 ... ) Offered Periodically The topic of this advanced seminar will vary from ... year to year, with an eye to covering in depth an issue of current ... concern to the field. In 2006-07, the topic will be Play: Its Developmental and ... and will be taught by Peter Gray. To understand better the functions of play ... and function of the nervous system. Topics covered in the first semester include ... BI573 A continuation of Neuroscience I. Topics covered in the second semester include ... | |
| the churchs educational ministry serves to enlighten its present pastoral praxis. ... : 1) Pastoral theology challenges us to integrate the interests of academic, ... and writing which students will adopt to complete a project of their own ... choosing. Topics include: how to raise, formulate and refine research ... questions, topics and problems; how to move from questions to sources and how ... to use those sources; how to make research claims and support them; ... how to prepare and revise drafts with special ... attention to organization and pastoral style; and ... how to frame introductions and conclusions. ... , liberationist and feminist approaches to Christology, and the issue of the ... : 3) Issues of embodiment relating to theology, spirituality and ministry ... | |
| RL 376 Conversational Approach to Contemporary France (Spring: 3) ... in French. Counts as an elective towards the French major. This course is ... designed to familiarize students with the political ... contemporary France while helping them to develop oral communication skills in ... in Spanish. Offered Periodically Open to undergraduates with permission of ... ties. This course is designed to help those contemplating a career ... involving the Italian business world to develop the necessary language skills ... social life. The course will also be useful to students seeking further ways to ... of spoken and written Italian and to acquaint themselves better with the ... is limited and the course is designed to allow for small group work, debates and ... ) RL 395 Contextos: Introduction to Literary Analysis in Spanish (Fall/ ... | |
| and Korea through selected illustrative topics from language and literature, history ... economy, philosophy and religion, and to some extent, art and archaeology. Sing ... periods, with particular attention to connections between his aesthetics, ... include Glory, The Defense, Invitation to a Beheading, The Gift, Pnin, and Lolita ... Offered Periodically An examination of how we use language to regulate power ... relations among social groups and of how individuals define personal identity ... that spanned the period from 1890 to 1930. The reading will include works by ... or are doing thesis work on advanced topics.The precise subject matter is determined by ... or are doing thesis work on advanced topics. The precise subject matter is ... and II (Fall/Spring: 4) An introduction to the fundamentals of modern Chinese ( ... | |
| and mens social lives in history. Its topics include (1) gendered differences in the ... analysis of intimate relations how they are sought, sustained, and fail. ... analysis of theoretical perspectives used to explain, study and control deviance ... construction of these categories and how they are connected. We will then look ... at how these social identities shape and are ... Periodically The aim of this course is to provide a broad overview of how Africa ... has impacted the world and how the world has impacted upon Africa. The ... course is divided into six basic topic of units . Each unit deals with a major ... and the formation of the modern world. Topics covered include colonialism and the ... and social responsibility, and impact how individuals prepare for employment, ... | |
| is holistic and feminist. In order to understand womens position in the work ... American society. It not only describes how the rich, the poor, and the middle ... classes live, but also how they relate to one another. Topics include the ... strategies used by the rich for maintaining the status ... SC 078 or SC 154 (not both) will count towards Sociology major requirements. This ... course will provide an introduction to the sociology of health and illness. ... and perspectives will be applied to a variety of topics including the ... The purpose of this course is to increase the understanding of how the ... operates in American society, and how and why media products take the form ... among students, and other routes to peace. Charles Derber SC 094 Social ... end of the Cold War has not put an end to either war or violent conflicts within ... | |
| Course Offerings SC 378 Introduction to Social Work (Fall/Spring: 3) Cross ... , SW 600 The purpose of this course is to give students an overview of the field ... and the relevance of values and ethics to the practice of social work, the course ... Students are provided the opportunity to apply social and behavioral science ... are provided. Students are encouraged to plan to participate during the full ... academic year to derive maximum benefit. SC 507 ... : 3) The purpose of this seminar is to consider what a sociological ... perspective brings to our understanding of mental health and ... illness. The goal throughout will be to examine critically how history, ... ill persons. We will especially examine how a medical model has triumphed in ... illness. Students will be expected to participate in weekly discussions, to ... | |
| our industries and corporations to compete globally; our social crisis ... and current character of war and the use of power in contemporary society. ... Proper/improper uses of war and power from utilitarian and ... perspectives will be examined. Specific topics include growth of the national security ... state, the increasing use of force and violence to resolve ... in contemporary society. Alternatives to war will also be discussed. SC 591 ... From Poor Law to Working Poor: Low-Income America (Fall ... : 3) From warning off paupers to getting welfare mothers to work this ... , national debates and public policies toward low-income families and their ... and language describing the poor and how these may influence public opinion and ... Although we will pay careful attention to the historical foundations for many of ... | |
| .bc.edu/courses /. CT 060 Introduction to Theatre (Fall/Spring: 3) Satisfies Arts ... for primarily non-majors, its aim is to impart an appreciation of the theatre ... of the various elements that contribute to the development of theatre as a ... intended for, though not limited to, Theatre majors. Students will study a ... series of plays in order to familiarize themselves with varying ... dramatic structures and genres, and to build an understanding of how plays ... , with a larger consideration of how the theatre functions both practically ... , including vocal and physical warm-ups to free the body and voice, improvisation ... and group performance exercises to free emotional spontaneity and ... , and beginning monologue/scene work to attain an understanding of the craft of ... I (Fall: 3) This course is designed to challenge both the experienced and ... | |
| developed through these exercises to two scenes from the modern theatre ... Requirement This course is designed to develop the students knowledge and ... as an art form. The elements of dance used in ballet, modern and jazz will be ... a groundwork for students who wish to do further work in technique, ... Dance for Musicals I (Fall: 3) Designed to improve the dancing ability and ... three dance techniques most often used in musical theatre: modern, tap, and ... of instructor This course is designed to challenge the intermediate dancer who ... ballet vocabulary and who has had two to three years of secure ballet training ... solving, students will be introduced to the body as an instrument of the actor ... and the viewers response and try to understand how the body can be used to ... | |
| for Musicals II (Spring: 3) Designed to elaborate upon knowledge and skills ... . Individual attention will be given to perceive technical and artistic aspects ... while encouraging new approaches to the interplay of movement and sound. We ... , the teacher will introduce the basic tools of choreography. Looking at the works ... constructed, the class will then learn how to turn theory into effective dance ... and model-making, skills that then are used to create a culminating final design ... production. This course is designed to help students develop the fundamental ... skills used by costume designers, focusing ... a series of exercises and projects to develop skills in figure drawing, ... and color. Students will learn how to communicate character, mood and style ... one sense, the purpose of this class is to review the development of modern drama ... | |
| issues in todays world; interreligious dialogue today; ... Peace (Spring: 3) Of special interest to International Studies and Faith, Peace ... almost as war. Then those who aspire to peace, need all the advantages they can ... marshal. Toward this end, the course presents the ... These include origins of violence, the use of force, just and unjust war, pacifism ... conflicts. Particular attention is paid to how Christian discipleship and ... makes a distinctive contribution to the analysis of our contemporary crisis ... , and the Human Body (Fall: 3) Limited to 20 students. The scandal in the church ... prompts us to reexamine in-depth on how church teaching on each of these three ... topics has evolved historically (surprisingly ... on church members. We will then turn to contemporary proposals, to see what ... | |
| only. The Majors Seminar is designed to help majors extend their understanding ... provides students with an opportunity to synthesize aspects of their course work ... advanced students are urged to take the seminar in junior year. ... Nielsen TH 360 Living Truthfully: Way to Personal Peace and Social Change ( ... ) The primary purpose of this course is to examine the proposition that it is ... better to tell the truth than tell the lie. Too ... often, we are tempted to live out an illusion. The personal and ... on the truth of our identity and dare to live it. In short, this course proposes ... life is possible when we come home to the smaller life that defines us as ... account be considered reliable? How do theological interests and narrative ... , but attention will also be given to the philosophy of history. David ... | |
| and peer advisors address specific topics relative to college requirements, ... grades. Students will be exposed to theoretical approaches to both oral and ... language development in addition to a wide variety of teaching methods. ... Students will have the opportunity to apply their learning through practical ... lesson development, and encouraged to reflect on their experiences via the ... their experiences in their prepractica to apply and reflect on learning as they ... : ED 039 This course is designed to offer preservice teachers theoretical ... and experience into teaching literacy to elementary age students. Emphasis will ... . Students will also be expected to spend time in a context where they can ... elementary teachers with opportunities to develop social studies and arts ... | |
| be taken in the senior year. Open to majors in Child and Society only. This ... center on themes or problems relating to the child in the context of the family ... with MT 290 Focuses on the wealth of topics that relate specifically to the natural ... be treated as motivational problems to be used in an activity-oriented ... approach to mathematics in grades K-9. Demonstrates ... effective ways to use the calculator and computer in ... mathematics education. Topics include prime number facts and ... with MT 291 This course is intended to fill a basic need of all teachers of ... -based program will be stressed. Topics to be covered include: geoboard and other ... , and suggestions for using Logo as a tool to enhance teaching and learning ... learning that enables each student to construct knowledge (skill, affective, ... | |
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