Courses

This course is designed to prepare students for the professional world of acting - encompassing theatre, film, and television. Students will gain an understanding of the business of acting as well as learn how to promote and market oneself as a business. Students will select and rehearse scenes, monologues and/or songs for a final professional showcase.

This course will provide students with an understanding of how films, from blockbusters to micro-budgets, are developed, financed, marketed and distributed both inside and outside established circuits of audiovisual trade. Course restricted Film & Video Production (3808) AND Mass Communications (3800) Students.

The history of the Civil Rights Movement with emphasis on major leaders, organizations and events in the twentieth century black freedom struggle.

A political and social survey of the origins of the Cold War, its development and conclusion.

A study of innovation and creativity in the context of an entrepreneurial organization. The course will include an analysis of the search process for new products and services and an overview of creating a start-up organization designed to build business models that deliver customer value.

A pre-theory course focusing on the study of the common elements of music (i.e.: melody, harmony, rhythm, timbre, texture, form, and expressive qualities) and their interaction, and the ability to employ this understanding in aural, verbal, and visual analyses. Includes an introduction to the keyboard and use of the singing voice. Uses the tools of music technology. Course intended for non-music majors or for those students who are not prepared to enroll in MUSC 1301 and/or MUSC 1401.

An exploration of the movement that dominated intellectual and cultural developments in 18th century Europe, seen within its broader political, social, and economic context.

Examines the political, economic, social, cultural, and military history of what George Ken-nan called the seminal catastrophe of the twentieth century.

Explores the social, political, cultural, economic, and diplomatic history of the U.S. from the end of Reconstruction to the aftermath of World War I.

Examination of history as a discipline and as a craft, concentrating on the research and interpretive skills used by historians. Should be taken in the second year of the history major's degree program.