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THEAT 130 - The Art of the Theatre
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
A broad examination into the whole theatre craft. The course will focus on script analysis from the point of view of the various theatre professions. Plays chosen will be from differing theatrical periods and reflect the department’s production season. An introduction to theatre vocabulary will also be included.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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THEAT 140 - Musical Theatre Workshop
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
This course studies the American musical theatre. It may include weekly private lessons for the development of the singing voice and acting styles for use in the musical theatre. Concentration is on the conveyance of image and dramatic meaning. (may be repeated for credit)
2 credits
Fall, Spring
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THEAT 141 - Musical Theatre Workshop
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
This course studies the American musical theatre. It may include weekly private lessons for the development of the singing voice and acting styles for use in the musical theatre. Concentration is on the conveyance of image and dramatic meaning. (may be repeated for credit)
1 credits
Fall, Spring
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THEAT 200 - Theatre Practicum
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
This course offers production experience directly related to other theatre courses. Students receive credit for supervised work in all areas of the department production program. These include all technical areas, running crews, design, directing, performance, and house management and publicity. One credit may be obtained for each semester in residence as a theatre major.
1 credits
Fall, Spring
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THEAT 210 - Acting II
Prerequisites: THEAT 110 or consent of the instructor
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
This course lays the foundation for a sound methodology and technique for approaching a role. Its practical work builds upon the character and scene analysis and presentations begun in Acting I.
3 credits
Spring
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THEAT 220 - Intermediate Design
Prerequisites: THEAT 120 or consent of the instructor
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
A detailed examination of technical theatre, the design process, and methods for lighting, scenery, and costuming. Sound design and technology will also be introduced. Discussions will include play analysis, period style, and the application of historical research to design projects. Students will be expected to narrow their focus to one or more design areas. The class will culminate in a portfolio review.
3 credits
Spring
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THEAT 230 - Theatre History I
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
This course surveys the history of theatre and drama in Europe and Asia from the ancient Greeks through the Elizabethan period.
3 credits
Fall
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THEAT 231 - Theatre History II
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
This course surveys the history of theatre and drama in Europe, Asia, and the Americas from the French neo-classic period through the development of modernism in the twentieth century.
3 credits
Spring
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THEAT 232 - Stage Management
Prerequisites: None
The duties and responsibilities of the stage manager, including scheduling, budgeting, audition and rehearsal procedures, technical rehearsals, supervision of shifts, closing, and moving. Students study various theories of the stage manager’s role in production, approaching them from educational, stock, and professional definitions. Provides practical experience through Studio and Main Season productions.
3 credits
Fall
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THEAT 300 - Drama in Production
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
An intensive course in the theory and practice of the theatrical arts. Each semester the course will focus on a particular playwright, period, or style. Study in the classroom will parallel the practical application of the material in the studio. The course will culminate in a workshop production. may be repeated for credit
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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THEAT 301 - Drama in Production
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
An intensive course in the theory and practice of the theatrical arts. Each semester the course will focus on a particular playwright, period, or style. Study in the classroom will parallel the practical application of the material in the studio. The course will culminate in a workshop production. may be repeated for credit
1 credits
Fall, Spring
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THEAT 310 - Acting Studio
Prerequisites: THEAT 210 or consent of the instructor
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
An advanced acting course that will examine particular acting problems and styles through analysis and presentation of dramatic writing selected from a variety of periods and cultures across time. Subject matter will vary each term. may be repeated for credit
3 credits
Spring
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THEAT 311 - Acting Studio
Prerequisites: THEAT 210 or consent of the instructor
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
An advanced acting course that will examine particular acting problems and styles through analysis and presentation of dramatic writing selected from a variety of periods and cultures across time. Subject matter will vary each term. may be repeated for credit
1 credits
Spring
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THEAT 312 - Acting Workshop
Prerequisites: Two semesters of introductory acting courses or their equivalent and a serious commitment to acting as a profession.
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
Advanced study of experimental theatre techniques. The aim of the work is to extend the creative range of the actor by developing his or her physical and vocal equipment, releasing the imagination so that the actor is able to bring a new freedom and a new depth to his or her work, whether in the experimental or the traditional theatre.
3 credits
Fall (London)
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THEAT 320 - Design Studio
Prerequisites: THEAT 220 or consent of the instructor
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
A focused examination of design processes and techniques. Much of the work will be through individual design projects. Students will engage in readings and research in their area of specialty. The class will culminate in a portfolio review. may be repeated for credit
3 credits
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THEAT 321 - Design Studio
Prerequisites: THEAT 220 or consent of the instructor
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
A focused examination of design processes and techniques. Much of the work will be through individual design projects. Students will engage in readings and research in their area of specialty. The class will culminate in a portfolio review. may be repeated for credit
1 credits
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THEAT 322 - Theatre Design Workshop
Prerequisites: THEAT 120, THEAT 220
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
Advanced design project in scenery, costume, or lighting. Each student submits a plan for his or her own course of study, augmented by museum visits and research checklists, using the various resources available in London. Ordinarily, the goal of this study is a major design project of portfolio quality.
3 credits
Fall (London)
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THEAT 330 - Theatre of Shakespeare
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
Critical analysis of selected comedies, tragedies, and histories, including a study of the Globe Theatre and of contemporary production techniques. Plays chosen reflect the announced seasons of local and nearby London theatre production companies.
3 credits
Fall (London)
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THEAT 331 - Modern Theatre and Drama
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
Examines the ideas and practices of the modern theatre. Beginning in the late nineteenth century with realism and the anti-realistic rebellion, the course follows the major theories, plays, and practitioners that shaped our contemporary theatre.
3 credits
Alternate Spring (Also taught in London)
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THEAT 332 - British Theatre and Performing Arts
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
A study of the contemporary performing arts in England through exposure to a broad range of theatre, dance, and musical events. The course emphasizes the historic development of various performance traditions. Theatre tours, classroom discussions, guest speakers, reading and writing assignments provide historic context and critical perspective.
3 credits
Fall (London)
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THEAT 333 - Asian Drama and Dance
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
Study of major traditional dance-drama forms in India, China, and Japan. The course will deal with traditions, texts, and performance practices for Kathakali, Peking Opera, Noh, Kabuki, and Bunraku in their traditional and modern manifestations demonstrating parallels and interactions between Eastern and European performance traditions.
3 credits
Alternate Spring
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THEAT 334 - Contemporary Drama
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
Concentrated study of major trends in the contemporary theatre. Each semester the class will focus on the work of one playwright or one aspect of the current theatre. Students are expected to do extensive research and analysis for seminar presentations.
3 credits
Alternate Spring
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THEAT 340 - Directing
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
The fundamentals of play direction, including script analysis, interpretation, blocking, focus and methods used to maintain directorial image. This course will include a study of the director’s role in the modern theatre and will include student direction of short scenes.
3 credits
Spring
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THEAT 341 - Seminar in Directing Problems
Prerequisites: Successful completion of a directing class, directing experience, or consent of instructor
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
Study of specific problems of play direction as seen in the current productions in the London theatres. Analyzes each production to identify directing problems and possible solutions. Class attendance at the productions and guest lectures by British directors, whenever possible, supplements the study.
3 credits
Fall (London)
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THEAT 400 - Theatre External Study
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THEAT 410 - Theatre Independent Study
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THEAT 431 - Drama Theory and Criticism
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
A study of selected ideas of theater from Aristotle to the present. Readings include Aristotle, Brecht, Artaud, Stanislavski, Craig, and Grotowski. A seminar course for upperclassmen in theatre and others by permission. Includes discussion, research papers, and classroom presentations. Greatest emphasis is placed on theorists and practitioners of the 20th century.
3 credits
Alternate Spring
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THEAT 441 - Theatre for Young Audiences
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
The study of techniques of creating theatrical productions and using theatre as a learning tool for children of various ages. Dramatic literature for children will also be surveyed. Students will test their theories and the range of their skills by creating productions for outreach in community schools.
3 credits
Special Offering
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THEAT 443 - Special Topics in Theatre
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
The course will focus on one aspect of theatre production such as vocal training, stage management, or playwriting. Work in the course will include both the theoretical basis and the practical application of the subject matter.
3 credits
Special Offering
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THEAT 490 - Cultures in Contact: British Heritage and Its Impact on Modern Man
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Theatre Core Concentration
Accompanied by lectures in English history, art, and mores, the bulk of the course is an on-the-street workshop exploring British culture. Includes individual visits to many important museums and galleries, and tours of London, Greenwich, Windsor, Hampton Court, St. Albans (Verulamium), Shaw’s Corner, Canterbury, and Stratford-upon-Avon. Required of all participating students.
3 credits
Fall (London)
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TLM 110 - Technology and Society
Prerequisites: None
Involves a review of the literature dealing with futuristic trends and projections for our technological society and their implications for future developments.
3 credits
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TLM 119 - Manufacturing Processes
Prerequisites: None
Study of materials, processes, and equipment used in industry today. Topics include ferrous and nonferrous metals, material testing, heat treatment, founding process output capabilities of machines, welding, and inspection. Field trips and industrial films augment the text material.
3 credits
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TLM 219 - Manufacturing and Environmental Issue
Prerequisites: IT 119 or consent of instructor
A continuation of Manufacturing Processes I. Includes the economics of metal cutting, production machines, abrasives, grinding operation, ultra-finishing, automation, and numerical control.
3 credits
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TLM 241 - Introduction to Environmental Studies
Prerequisites: None
Provides the student with a foundation in environmental management practices, including the laws and regulations, best management practices for environmental leadership, and compliance. Issues include: solid and hazardous waste management, emergency preparedness, clean water, clean air, pollution prevention, energy conservation, and other applicable laws and regulations.
3 credits
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TLM 255 - Studies in Technology
Prerequisites: None
An investigation into the common developmental and organizational factors in an industrial enterprise: corporate and managerial structure, product development and production analysis, labor and job training considerations. A corporation is created, industrial positions are role-played, a product is developed, produced and sold, and the enterprise is analyzed for production problems, overhead, and profit.
3 credits
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TLM 310 - Special Topics in Environmental and Occupational Safety and Health
Prerequisites: None
Students participate in workshops on topics pertinent to safety and health. Topics may include indoor air quality, noise analysis and control methods, loss control management, product liability, and bloodborne pathogens. May be repeated for additional credit.
1-3 credits
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TLM 311 - Water Quality Management
Prerequisites: None
Provides a working knowledge of the state and federal regulations which play an important role in the overall management of a facility. Topics include: properties and the use of water, water pollutants, assessment and management methods, water treatment systems, and pollution source reduction.
3 credits
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TLM 325 - Methods and Materials of Occupational Safety and Health Education
Prerequisites: None
Provides program development skills to those responsible for developing occupational safety and health education. Students will learn how to conduct needs assessments, set learner outcome goals, develop learning objectives, and program evaluation. Includes topics relative to in-house training principles and development as well as adult learning style theory. Students will become familiar with the availability of consultation, reference sources, and program resources.
3 credits
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TLM 328 - Ergonomics
Prerequisites: None
Provides a comprehensive overview to solve two complex occupational problems: cumulative trauma disorders (CTD) of the upper extremity and manual materials handling (MMH). Almost every occupational setting requires individuals to use their upper extremities and involves some form of materials handling. The objectives are to teach participants to recognize and evaluate the problem and then solve it through ergonomics, design, work practices, and engineering/ administrative controls. The overall focus will be on injury control, job evaluation and design.
3 credits
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TLM 341 - International Quality Standards
Prerequisites: None
This course exams compliance with ISO and other international standards and how such compliance impacts an organization’s role within the global economy. Topics will include business implications, the economic and market benefits, ISO registration and certification requirements, and background and scope of the standards.
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TLM 342 - Total Quality Management
Prerequisites: None
Examines TQM management methods and contrasts them with traditional methods in U.S. industry today. Participatory and authoritarian management approaches are reviewed. Case studies of successful applications are examined (e.g., FedEx, 3M, Dell) along with TQM attempts that have been unsuccessful.
3 credits
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TLM 343 - World Class Manufacturing
Prerequisites: None
Provides an overview of successful firms in today’s global economy and the factors which contribute to such success. Examines why some have not been successful. Stresses the value of strategic planning and team-based decision making, and focuses on how Fortune 100 companies have changed their goals, objectives, strategies and tactics in order to face global competition.
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TLM 357 - Occupational Safety and Health Regulatory Issues
Prerequisites: None
Students will develop an awareness of the historical events in occupational safety and health that led to the current regulatory process. They will identify health and safety concerns in previous jobs and present a proposal to correct the situation(s). The proposal will identify the hazard, methods to measure and contain the risk or hazard, and discuss cost of implementing the proposal and the cost of injury and illness to workers.
3 credits
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TLM 380 - Construction Project Safety
Prerequisites: None
Examines project control and the economics of accident prevention, methods of recognition/avoidance/prevention of unsafe working conditions, using reference material and advisory sources, construction site security and traffic control, project scheduling to prevent losses, hazard analysis, selection of safety methods and equipment, safety and loss prevention documentation, safety inspection and maintenance records, OSHA (Occupational Safety and Health Act) laws and regulations that apply.
3 credits
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TLM 411 - ISO 14000 Series of International Environmental Standards
Prerequisites: None
Review of the ISO 14000 series of standards which are being developed by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO). Topics will include background and scope of ISO 14000 and its subparts, business implications, the economic and market benefits, ISO registration and auditing standards, domestic and international implications.
3 credits
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TLM 412 - Pollution Prevention and Waste Minimization
Prerequisites: None
Allows students to develop a proactive hazardous waste management plan, which emphasizes waste minimization and reduction strategies. Topics include: pollution concepts, process evaluation and planning, impact assessments, waste reduction, inventory controls, and training.
3 credits
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TLM 430 - Special Topics
Prerequisites: None
In-depth study of some aspect of Technology and Manufacturing Management. Specific focus may vary from semester to semester and may include: Lean Manufacturing, Supply Chain Management, Ethics in Science and Technology, Organizational Change Management, Leadership, etc. May be repeated for credit, but students may study a single topic only once for credit.
3 credits
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TLM 440 - Industrial Technology Practicum
Prerequisites: None
Designed to allow students to investigate significant business or industrial problems or activities directly related to students’ employment. Because the content varies, this course may be taken three times.
3 credits
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TLM 455 - Production Planning
Prerequisites: None
Examines the fundamentals of production such as analysis, planning and control, organization of production, forecasting and master production schedules, procurement, stock of production, stock control, routing, scheduling and dispatching, and quantitative methods.
3 credits
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TLM 457 - Workplace Safety and Health Management
Prerequisites: None
Topics include: job safety analysis, plant inspection, accident investigation, safety education, and training. Special emphasis is placed on an introduction to the OSHA program and its application to industry.
3 credits
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TLM 458 - Quality Control
Prerequisites: None
Stresses applications of statistical theory with emphasis on developing a wide range of analytical techniques. Objective is to provide an understanding of the increasing value of quality control in the business and industrial community.
3 credits
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TLM 472 - Senior Seminar
Prerequisites: Senior standing
Students explore special topics and design projects of current interest.
3 credits
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TLM 474 - Facilities Planning and Design
Prerequisites: None
Introduces the types of plant layout and the factors influencing plant layout and design, selection and design of processes and machines, material handling systems, flow diagrams, evaluating alternative layouts, and installing the layout.
3 credits
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URBN 100 - Introduction to Urban Studies
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Urban Studies Minor and Core Concentration.
Cities give expression to our social, political and economic ambitions and are shaped by our relationship to one another, to nature and to technology. This course serves as a cross-disciplinary introduction to various ways of looking at and thinking about the city and its inhabitants. It analyzes cities from various perspectives within the liberal arts and social sciences as well as the fields of Historic Preservation, Planning, and Sustainability.
3 credits
Fall
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URBN 299 - Special Topics in Urban Studies
Prerequisites: URBN 100 or permission of the instructor
Fulfills a course requirement in the Urban Studies Minor and Core Concentration.
Special Topics in Urban Studies is a variable credit, variable content lower level course dealing with significant issues and themes in the field of Urban Studies.
3-4 credits
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URBN 400 - Urban Studies Colloquium
Prerequisites: URBN 100 and completion of /or enrollment in a 300 level elective
The Urban Studies Colloquium is the required multidisciplinary capstone course for the Urban Studies Minor and Core Concentration. The course will investigate how to integrate various perspectives by using diverse source material and research methods in the production of a common local urban research project. This will allow diverse ideas, sources and methods of analysis to focus on the selected local city or town that will become the laboratory for this collective research project.
3 credits
Fall
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URBN 430 - Advanced Special Topics in Urban Studies
Prerequisites: URBN 100 and junior standing or consent of the instructor
This course would fulfill the 300 level and above elective requirement in Urban Studies
Advanced Special Topics in Urban Studies is a variable credit, variable content advanced course dealing with significant issues and themes in the field of Urban Studies.
3-4 credits
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VARTS 101 - Foundations of Drawing
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Painting/ Drawing/ Printmaking, or Sculpture Core Concentration
Using various drawing materials, basic drawing methods will be introduced including composition, the effective use of positive and negative space, the relationship of image to page, methods of controlling spatial illusion, and various means to creating images.
3 credits
Fall, Spring, Summer
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VARTS 131 - Foundations of Sculpture
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Sculpture Core Concentration
This course introduces students to the materials, concepts and strategies for making 3 dimensional work, connecting idea to process and emphasizing personal creative inquiry. Materials and processes may include but are not limited to: wood, metal, fiber, kinetics, digital fabrication, installation, performance and video. Students develop the critical and practical tools necessary to approach art-making from various directions and consider how they might be incorporated into their own sculpture. Field trips and readings on the history and theory of sculpture will expand the students’ understanding of the range of possibilities in contemporary sculpture and its rich history.
3 credits
Fall, Spring, Summer
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VARTS 161 - Foundations of Photography
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Photography/ Digital Media Core Concentration
This studio course will introduce students to the fundamentals of film, darkroom, digital based photography, software and printing. This foundation course will form the basis of further studies within photography and digital media while emphasizing the rich vocabulary associated with this time and narrative based medium. Students must have an adjustable digital camera.
3 credits
Fall, Spring, Summer
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VARTS 181 - Foundations of Painting
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Painting/ Drawing/ Printmaking Core Concentration
Using water-based materials, students will explore color mixing and color theory as it relates to spatial and compositional problems in painting.
3 credits
Fall, Spring, Summer
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VARTS 201 - Drawing the Figure
Prerequisites: VARTS 101 or permission of instructor
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Painting/ Drawing/ Printmaking Core Concentration
This course continues to investigate the visual possibilities introduced in Foundations of Drawing. The student explores the visual impact and significance of the figure as a central subject of drawing. Inherent in this exploration is an understanding of its anatomical and expressive complexities.
3 credits
Fall, Spring, Summer
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VARTS 232 - Intermediate Sculpture
Prerequisites: VARTS 131
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Sculpture Core Concentration
This course builds on ideas and processes presented in Foundations of Sculpture and encourages students to pursue their individual artistic interests through work in both traditional and new genre sculptural practices, helping the artist express a vision in the most focused and dynamic way possible. The relationship of sculpture to time-based media, digital fabrication, installation and performance will be explored along with complex methods of construction, to aid the student in exploring personal content and developing technical expertise. Field trips and readings about the history and theory of sculpture will expand the students’ understanding of the range of possibilities in contemporary sculpture and its rich history.
3 credits
Annually
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VARTS 233 - Clay Studio: Hand-building
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Sculpture Core Concentration
This class explores numerous aspects of clay as an art medium. This versatile material shall be used to explore artistic issues related to sculpture, architectural ornamentation and vessel making. The course promotes an intense manual involvement and will concentrate on hand-building techniques such as: coiling, slab and mold making possibilities. Students will be exposed to numerous clay traditions from around the world in conduction and comparison with other artistic fields.
3 credits
Fall, Spring, Summer
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VARTS 234 - Clay Studio: Wheel Throwing
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Sculpture Core Concentration
A course designed to explore wheel throwing processes, with a focus on developing proficiency in the creation of functional and sculptural forms in the clay medium. Techniques will include mastery of throwing walls in uniform thickness, trimming, and the development of appropriate surface decorations will include glazing, slipping, under and over-glaze techniques. Since their oldest known manifestation in the fourth millennium BCE in Sumeria, thrown vessels have had diverse purposes and been used as utensils for drinking, eating and ritualistic purposes, as containers for the transportation of grains and liquids, as caskets for burials, trophies awarded as prizes, and also as sculptural artifacts for visual contemplation. Many contemporary artists across the globe continue to be inspired by this with this versatile form, which offers a unique opportunity to investigate the conceptual borders between art, design, and functionality.
3 credits
Fall, Spring, Summer
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VARTS 241 - Printmaking: Relief
Prerequisites: VARTS 101
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Painting/ Drawing/ Printmaking Core Concentration
Relief printmaking, in which the high parts of a plate are inked to create an image, is the oldest method of printing stretching back to the Chinese invention of paper. This course introduces students to the history and techniques of relief printmaking with the aim of producing prints primarily independent of a press. Western and Japanese woodcut, reduction, and multiple-plate color printing as well as pochoir, chine collé and monotype printing will be demonstrated. As the class evolves, the student will take greater care in using this medium as a means of expression through a final series or edition and completion of a portfolio of work.
3 credits
Fall
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VARTS 242 - Printmaking: Intaglio
Prerequisites: VARTS 101
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Painting/ Drawing/ Printmaking Core Concentration
In intaglio printing, an image is produced from ink pressed into incised lines and recessed textures below the surface of a plate. This course introduces students to the history, techniques and materials of traditional etching processes, including drypoint, line etching, hard and soft ground. As the semester progresses, students will be introduced to more advanced methods in order to incorporate color in print, multiple plate printing as well as techniques for the integration of digital imaging. A final edition and completion of a portfolio of all prints will be required.
3 credits
Spring
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VARTS 262 - Digital Tools and Methods
Prerequisites: None
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts Photography/Digital Media Core Concentration
This studio course introduces a wide array of digital media, animation, video and digital 3D fabrication production processes and tools to equip students to build 2D, 3D and 4D artworks. Emphasis is placed on identifying student interests, developing creative strategies to pursue these interests and interdisciplinary experimentation. Students engage in critical dialog about their work, gain a familiarity with contemporary art practices and begin to appreciate the history, theory and current trends in these media.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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VARTS 282 - Oil Painting
Prerequisites: VARTS 181
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Painting/Drawing/ Printmaking Core Concentration
This course builds on the theories and methods introduced in the Foundation of Painting course using oil-based materials. This course develops a student’s knowledge of the uses of color, including its psychological and expressive properties. Requires solution of more complex compositional and spatial problems. All aspects of making a painting from stretching a canvas to understanding the use of oil mediums will be investigated.
3 credits
Annually
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VARTS 330 - Special Topics in Visual Art
Prerequisites: Completion of at least 1 Foundations Studio
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Painting/ Drawing/ Printmaking, Photo Digital Media, Film Animation Video and Sculpture Core Concentrations
This course is designed to introduce the Visual Art student to a variety of media experiences based on faculty member’s expertise and interests. The topics include a wide range of possible media explorations in 2 and 3-dimensional art making. The history, craft and context of the medium will be discussed. Technical demonstrations and discussion of how the aesthetic choices associated with the medium affect the content of the student’s work will be a focus of this class.
3 credits
Special Offering
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VARTS 334 - Intermediate Wheel Throwing
Prerequisites: VARTS 234 or permission of the instructor
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Sculpture and Ceramics Core Concentration Prerequisite
Intermediate Wheel Throwing offers students the opportunity to create both functional and purely sculptural forms in clay, with the use of the potter’s wheel. While concentrating on techniques of clay construction and finishing, we will also explore the aesthetics and rich history of the material. Students will increase their control of the material as they explore making lidded forms, pouring vessels, and pots-out-of-round. Engobe and glaze testing will proceed as a way to enhance and both form functional. Kiln processes will be practiced, including kiln maintenance, proper loading, accurate firing, and theory. Each student will complete this class with a body of work which expresses a deeper and more personal understanding of ceramics as a useful and expressive medium.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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VARTS 335 - Intermediate Hand Building
Prerequisites: VARTS 233 or Permission of the Instructor
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Sculpture and Ceramics Core Concentration Prerequisite.
This course will expand upon preliminary building processes (slab and coil building, wheel throwing), glazing and surface decoration techniques acquired in the introductory course, and will develop them to meet the requirements of specific utilitarian and/or sculptural projects. Students will recycle clay, make their own glazes, learn to load, unload and program kilns, and fire their own work. Design principles relevant to artistic expression in the clay medium will be explored through functional and/or non-functional thematic and conceptual projects supported by research not only on historical and contemporary ceramics, but also on art works from other artistic fields. Students will be exposed to ideas regarding the position of ceramics within the art world, and engage the remarkable diversity in ceramic form and production techniques across cultures, in western and non-western cultures. Personalized projects will be generated through discussions around specific themes. Individual exploration and originality in expression will be cultivated.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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VARTS 351 - Intermediate Photography
Prerequisites: VARTS 161
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Photography/ Digital Media Core Concentration
This course builds on the ideas introduced in Foundations of Photography, strengthening the student’s aesthetic strategies, technical skills and historical knowledge of the medium. Ideas of representation and presentation, emphasizing solutions to visual, social and theoretical concerns are explored. Film and lab-based, digital imaging, and technical photographic applications with media crossovers will be explored.
3 credits
Annually
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VARTS 363 - Digital Media in 3D: Objects and Spaces
Prerequisites: VARTS 262
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Photography/Digital Media Core Concentration
This intermediate studio course focuses on creating experiential artworks which transform the perception of space though a combination of digital and physical fabrication strategies, including: video and sound installation, moving architecture, sculpture created for the lens and performance installation. Projects may utilize a range of methods including 3D computer modeling and printing, video projection mapping and physical fabrication. Emphasis is placed on understanding site specificity and pursuing efficient solutions to complex fabrication problems.
3 credits
Annually
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VARTS 364 - Film, Animation and Video
Prerequisites: VARTS 262 or permission of instructor
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Film, Animation and Video Core Concentration
This studio course focuses on individually proposed film, animation and video productions. Emphasis is placed on directing, editing, cinematography, animation, sound and lighting design as well as the history, theory and current trends of these media. Students in this course organize and direct the annual Roger Williams University Student Film Festival.
3 credits
Annually
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VARTS 381 - Painting the Figure
Prerequisites: VARTS 181 , VARTS 201
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Painting/Drawing/ Printmaking Core Concentration
The figure has been a subject of painting since prehistory. This course explores the insights and objectives artists have held in the past with regard to the figure. Furthermore, consideration of the figure’s role in the context of contemporary art and the student’s personal investigation are fostered in this course.
3 credits
Annually
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VARTS 392 - Intermedia
Prerequisites: VARTS 101 , VARTS 131 , VARTS 161 , VARTS 181 or VARTS 262
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Painting/ Drawing/ Printmaking, Photo Digital Media, Film Animation Video and Sculpture Core Concentrations
This class investigates a variety of art making genres and technical applications that challenge form and content. Multi-media applications may range from painting, drawing, photo, sculpture and digital processes to alternative modes such as Collaboration, Performance Art and social practice. Students will adopt these ideas and methods for their own work, continuing the development of formal and technical skills in relation to a personal evolution. Historical and contemporary precedents will be introduced. Possibilities for collaboration with other disciplines will be encouraged throughout the course.
3 credits
Annually
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VARTS 401 - Advanced Drawing
Prerequisites: VARTS 101 , VARTS 201
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Painting/Drawing/Printmaking Core Concentration.
Using skills developed in Foundations of Drawing and Drawing the Figure, students concentrate on personal exploration and individual expression through drawing as an independent art form. The course emphasizes the development of critical awareness and judgment. As students experiment with their own choice of imagery they will gain mastery of skills and techniques in various media.
3 credits
Annually
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VARTS 430 - Topics in Visual Arts
Prerequisites: Completion of at least 1 Foundations Studio
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Painting/Drawing/ Printmaking Core Concentration Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Sculpture Core Concentration Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Photography/ Digital Media Core Concentration
This course focuses provides an opportunity for students and faculty to examine special issues in Visual Arts Studies. This course will vary in emphasis based on a particular faculty member’s expertise.
3 credits
Annually
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VARTS 431 - Topics in Sculpture
Prerequisites: VARTS 131
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Sculpture Core Concentration
Offerings may include (among others): Installation Art, Stone Carving, Wood Sculpture, Jewelry and Light Metals, and a variety of other topics that require the student to explore personal content through focused processes and learn about one’s work through criticism and dialogue with individuals pursuing related goals with intensity. Inquiry into the nature of contemporary sculptural issues and forms will be examined through making, field trips, and through readings about the history and theory of sculpture.
3 credits
Annually
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VARTS 433 - Advanced Sculpture
Prerequisites: VARTS 131
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Sculpture Core Concentration
This course integrates student’s understanding of materials, techniques and concepts developed in Foundations and Intermediate Sculpture to create work that investigates an ambitious and personal direction in sculpture. Students’ conceptual intentions and how they take place in 3-dimensional form are expanded and challenged. Innovation, an expanded vocabulary of traditions and new directions in sculpture, and a depth of engagement with process, idea and form are expected. The relationship of site to space and inquiry into the nature of contemporary sculptural issues and forms will be examined through making, field trips, and through readings about the history and theory of sculpture.
3 credits
Spring
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VARTS 434 - Advanced Clay Studio
Prerequisites: VARTS 334 or VARTS 335
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Sculpture and Ceramics Core Concentration
This class will prepare students for self-directed advanced research, and help develop and build upon technical and conceptual ideas acquired from the Intermediate clay courses. They will develop a body of work that is diverse, and also focused on their individual interests and strengths. Students will identify goals they wish to pursue, and will refine skills in a particular area of technical mastery. Student’s artistic goals will be historically grounded in the aesthetics of the medium, and knowledge of current trends in ceramic arts and design. This course will not only strengthen students’ understanding of the processes of ceramic construction and its relationship with culture and history but will also engage students to reflect on what their art might mean to others, and where it stands in the history of civilization as a point of reference.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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VARTS 451 - Topics in Photography / Digital Media
Prerequisites: VARTS 161 and VARTS 262
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Photography/ Digital Media Core Concentration
Rotating content in these special studies in photography and digital media includes The Photograph as Social Document, Portrait Photography, Commercial Applications of Photography, Architectural Photography, and Advanced Digital Media Applications.
3 credits
Special Offering
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VARTS 452 - Advanced Photography
Prerequisites: VARTS 161 , VARTS 351 or permission of instructor
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Photography/Digital Media Core Concentration
This studio course emphasizes the development of independent projects that focus on the content, process, conceptualization and innovation in photographic image making. Students will develop an articulate personal voice versed in social, aesthetic and theoretical issues while building a professional portfolio that utilizes a full range of photographic processes, concepts and presentation methods.
3 credits
Annually
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VARTS 464 - Advanced Film, Animation and Video
Prerequisites: VARTS 364
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts Film, Animation and Video Core Concentration
This advanced studio course allows students to focus on an ambitious film, animation and/or video project. Emphasis is placed on advanced critical dialog, creating a unique voice and the ability to understand and articulate how the created project fits within the recent history and current trends of moving image media.
3 credits
Annually
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VARTS 469 - VARTS COOP
Prerequisites: Junior or Senior standing in VARTS and consent of instructor
This course is designed to prepare students for the transition from academia to working experiences that may form the basis of a career in disciplines in and related to the creative and visual arts. Prior to starting their internship, students are guided through the experience of preparing a resume, conducting a job search and applying for a position. Students may select from a variety of positions at galleries, museums, non-profit organizations or as assistants to photographers and artists. During the semester students perform 135 hours of work, usually without financial remuneration for their services. Students write a paper about their experience and receive feedback from their employers, their RWU Career Services advisor, and their faculty sponsor.
3 credits
Fall, Spring, Summer
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VARTS 471 - Visual Arts Professional Practices
Prerequisites: None
This class serves as a forum to prepare for the challenges of the professional art career. Emphasis is on the professional presentation of the work of an artist through the completion of a portfolio, an artist’s statement, and a resume. The students will be introduced to the workings of gallery representation; location and applying for grants, residencies and internships, and applications to professional graduate degree programs in the arts. Regular visits with local professionals in the arts such as working artists, gallery directors, curators and educators will be an important component of the course.
3 credits
Fall
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VARTS 472 - Visual Arts Thesis
Prerequisites: VARTS 471
In this course, Visual Arts students will produce a written thesis complementary to their artwork produced during their senior year. Investigating the layers of meaning and reflecting upon content within their work through the process of writing is the primary aim of the thesis. Taking the form of an extended artist’s statement, the thesis should illuminate the ideas and motives students bring to their visual work and the worldly and art historical contexts that inform it. The thesis forms conclusions about the work: its intent, sources, influences, implications and suggested content. Statements are to be prepared for submission with accompanying high quality documentation of the visual work and research.
3 credits
Spring
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VARTS 481 - Special Topics in Painting / Drawing / Printmaking
Prerequisites: VARTS 181
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Painting/Drawing/ Printmaking Core Concentration
This course provides an opportunity for students and faculty to examine special issues in Painting/Printmaking/Drawing. The course will vary in emphasis based on a particular faculty member’s expertise.
3 credits
Special Offering
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VARTS 491 - Senior Studio
Prerequisites: Completion of at least one VARTS Foundation course and Junior or Senior Standing
Fulfills a course requirement in the Visual Arts: Film, Animation and Video; Painting, Drawing and Printmaking; Photography and Digital Media; Sculpture and Ceramics Core Concentrations.
n Senior Studio, students develop a personal vision through assignments and individually proposed projects in a range of media of their choice. Each student-artist identifies content that is important to them as they create an original body of artwork. It is expected that students will explore and take risks with any media that suits the demands of their project: from drawing, printmaking and painting, to video, photography, sculpture, ceramics, installation or hybrid methods. Historical and contemporary precedents will be introduced. The course culminates in a portfolio, written statement and exhibition.
3 credits
Spring
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VARTS 492 - Senior Studio II
Prerequisites: VARTS 491
This advanced course requires a student to explore in depth a chosen direction for their artwork, constituting the final stage of the four-year Visual Arts Studies program. Three years of research and experimentation with different media and processes will culminate in a written statement and exhibition of a body of work produced for this class.
5 credits
Spring
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VARTS 530 - Special Topics in Visual Arts
Prerequisites: Prerequisite, Graduate standing, or Senior Standing with permission of the instructor
Variable content course dealing with significant themes, periods and individuals in the Visual Arts. The course is offered in a graduate seminar format, with graduate academic and scholarly expectations as well as support for faculty and student pursuits. The course may be taken more than once depending on topical content.
3 credits
Special Offering
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WTNG 100 - Introduction to Academic Writing
Prerequisites: None
This course does not fulfill University Core Curriculum writing requirements
Focusing on the connection between reading and writing, this first-year course emphasizes the development of academic arguments. In a series of increasingly complex assignments, students cultivate rhetorical and writing process knowledge as well as an understanding of the general expectations of the academic discourse community. Assignments focus on summary and analysis of academically oriented texts. Minimum Passing Grade: Students must write a series of compositions, submit a satisfactory portfolio, and earn a C- or higher in the course to enroll in WTNG 102 .
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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WTNG 102 - How Writing Works
Prerequisites: Placement in WTNG 102 or successful completion (C- or higher) of WTNG 100
Fulfills one of the two University Core Curriculum requirements in the University Writing Program Fulfills a course requirement in the Professional and Public Writing Core Concentration and Minor.
This first-year course helps students develop a conceptual map of how writing works by building their rhetorical and writing-process knowledge and by fostering genre and discourse community awareness. Students draft a minimum of four revised essays and complete a course portfolio. Students must submit a satisfactory portfolio and earn a C- or higher in the course in order to enroll in a 200- or 300-level WTNG course.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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WTNG 200 - Critical Writing for the Humanities and the Social Sciences
Prerequisites: Successful completion (C- or higher) of WTNG 102
Fulfills the second of two University Core Curriculum requirements in the University Writing Program Fulfills a course requirement in the Professional and Public Writing Core Concentration and Minor
This theme-based course focuses on the production of such scholarly texts as the annotated bibliography, the literature review, the research proposal, and the extended research essay. Students learn how to develop a research problem, critically investigate that problem, and advance a well-defined argument to address the problem.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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WTNG 210 - Critical Writing for the Sciences
Prerequisites: Successful completion (C- or higher) of WTNG 102 .
Fulfills the second of two University Core Curriculum requirements in the University Writing Program
A research-based course, Critical Writing for the Sciences focuses on the production of reports expected of science professionals, namely, a research (lab) report in the IMRD format, a review of literature paper based upon a current argument, and an article for a popular journal. Students learn how to assess an experiment, negotiate professional sources, defend an argument, create an annotated bibliography and an oral presentation, and write for various audiences.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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WTNG 220 - Critical Writing for the Professions
Prerequisites: Successful completion (C- or higher) of WTNG 102
Fulfills the second of two University Core Curriculum requirements in the University Writing Program Fulfills a course requirement in the Professional and Public Writing Core Concentration and Minor
A research-based course, Critical Writing for the Professions focuses on the guidelines for persuasive writing commonly used in business and industry: how to write for specific audiences, choose the appropriate style, design effective document formats, and use visuals to help achieve a documents purpose. The course emphasizes the composition of such professional documents as letters, proposals, and analytical reports.
3 credits
Fall, Spring
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WTNG 230 - Rhetoric of Film: Writing about Film
Prerequisites: Successful completion (C- or higher) of WTNG 102
Fulfills the second of two University Core Curriculum requirements in the University Writing Program Fulfills a course requirement in the Professional and Public Writing Core Concentration and Minor
This theme-based course focuses on critical analyses of films that explore issues of social justice and ethics. Students will be introduced to contemporary rhetorical problems filmic text pose, such as identification, signification and representation, and will write essays centered on these problems to gain further knowledge about persuasion and greater experience with the conventions of scholarly communication.
3 credits
Fall
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WTNG 250 - Advanced Composition
Prerequisites: Successful completion (C- or higher) of WTNG 102
Fulfills the second of two University Core Curriculum requirements in the University Writing Program Fulfills a course requirement in the Professional and Public Writing Core Concentration and Minor
This course provides writers with advanced practice in drafting, revising, and editing non-fiction prose, with particular emphasis placed on questions of voice and style. Students will experiment with invention strategies and editing techniques as they plan, draft, and revise essays for a variety of purposes and audiences. In addition, they will read and respond to their own and their classmates’ writing in order to propose ideas for revision and editing.
3 credits
Spring
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WTNG 270 - Travel Writing
Prerequisites: Successful completion (C- or higher) of WTNG 102
Fulfills the second of two University Core Curriculum requirements in the University Writing Program Fulfills a course requirement in the Professional and Public Writing Core Concentration and Minor
This course familiarizes students with some of the typical genres that make up the field of travel writing. Students will gain experience adapting to various professional and public writing situations as they focus on the rhetorical distinctions between these genres and on the challenges of writing about a place responsibly. The course emphasizes the ways in which effective travel writing depends on the study of rhetoric. Students will learn how to assess the rhetorical situation and to make genre decisions based on issues of exigence, purpose, audience, and kairos. Bristol, RI will serve as the site of exploration and inspiration for travel pieces that inform, persuade, and reflect. Students will become fluent in genre analysis and writing with clarity for different purposes to different audiences.
3 credits
Special Offering
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