Courses

A course designed to allow students to conduct faculty-directed, independent research projects in areas of the biological sciences. The course may be repeated, but credit for BIOL 4983 may be applied toward biology degree requirements for a maximum of 4 credit hours.

This course continues to address articulation difficulties and unwanted regionalisms that impede the actor's versatility. Dialect work will be covered, starting with Standard British speech, moving into a London Dialect (formerly called Cockney) and finishing with Irish and Jamaican dialects.

This course focuses on current industry best practices used to develop dynamic, interactive, multi-page websites. Topics include user-interface development, common web components, database interactions, and security.

Advanced composition course focusing on syntactical and rhetorical skills necessary for effective communication in a variety of professional settings and disciplines. Students will study the principles of sentence construction and persuasion, and learn to perform structural and functional analyses of both in order to address particular audiences in specific situations. They will also explore the relationship between multimodality and accessibility in the creation and reception of meaning.

The integrative role of advertising in persuasive communication in business and related fields. Includes strategies for organizing, developing, implementing, and evaluating effective media decisions in the digital age.

A vigorous activity designed to improve muscle tone and heart-blood-lung system through a well planned program of aerobic dance.

This course is designed to teach students the proper technique for step aerobics, as well as introduce them to a new form of lifetime aerobic activity utilizing steps.

This course is designed to prepare the student to experience all phases of exercise (warm-up, flexibility, aerobic activity, and toning) in a swimming pool. Water aerobics will be fully developed through these four phases enabling the student to become fit as they desire. Health-related components of physical fitness, advantages and benefits of water aerobics as well as nutrition and weight control will be discussed.

This course presents the theory of flight and aircraft design as it applies to the manufacturing and repair processes. Topics include: terminology, theory of flight, structural design, control surfaces, and stress and fatigue.

Introduces the student to the concept of Aerospace Quality Management Systems used in the American workplace. Topics include: history of quality management, principles of quality, tools used in quality systems, quality team building.