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EETL 102 - Principles of AC Circuits Laboratory
This is a co-requisite laboratory course for EET 102 .
Co-requisite: EET 102
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EETL 111 - Digital Computer Fundamentals Laboratory
This is a co-requisite laboratory course for EET 111 .
Co-requisite: EET 111
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EETL 204 - Electromechanical Devices and Systems/Robotics Laboratory
This is a co-requisite laboratory course for EET 204 .
Co-requisite: EET 204
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EETL 211 - Computer Systems/Microprocessors Laboratory
This is a co-requisite laboratory course for EET 211 .
Co-requisite: EET 211
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EETL 213 - Semiconductor Devices and Circuits Laboratory
This is a co-requisite laboratory course for EET 213 .
Co-requisite: EET 213
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EETL 270 - Photovoltaic (PV) Systems Laboratory
This is a co-requisite laboratory course for EET 270 .
Co-requisite: EET 270
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Emergency Medical Technician |
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EMT 100 - Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation
This program meets the requirements of the American Heart Association’s Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers, and the American Red Cross’ CPR for the Professional Rescuer. This program is designed to teach techniques for basic airway assessment and management, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and management of foreign-body airway obstruction for adults, children, and infants. The student will also be introduced to the automated external defibrillator (AED), and will become proficient in its use. An American Heart Association or American Red Cross-certified instructor will teach this program. A course completion card will also be issued by the appropriate certifying agency.
1 lecture hour per week and is generally taught in (3) five hour sessions.
1 credit hour
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EMT 106 - Emergency Medical Technician
This course meets the requirements of the National Highway and Transportation Safety Administration’s Emergency Medical Technician National Educational Standards. The course is designed to instruct a student to the level of Emergency Medical Technician. The EMT serves as a vital link in the chain of the healthcare team. The student will learn all skills necessary to provide emergency medical care at a basic life support (BLS) level with an ambulance or other specialized service. Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be eligible to take the state certification exam, which is required to obtain an EMT provider card issued by the NJ Department of Health and Senior Services - OEMS.
Prerequisite: EMT 100 or proof of current CPR/AED certification at the healthcare/professional level by the American Heart Association, American Red Cross, ASHI, or National Safety Council.
4 lecture hours per week. 3 clinical hours per week.
10 credit hours
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Engineering |
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EGG 105 - Introduction to Fundamentals of Engineering
Introduction to engineering methods through the study of numerous problems. Orderly analyses and accurate computation are stressed. In addition, the course provides the student with a preliminary insight into the field of engineering and an acquaintance with various aspects of college encountered by engineering students.
Prerequisites: MAT 144 , ENG 097 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours.
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EGG 107 - Understanding Sustainability & Green Technologies
This course offers a study of the fundamentals of Sustainability and Green Technologies. Topics covered will include the history of environmentalism to the present; the interaction between humans and the environment, Triple Bottom Line, namely, economic prosperity, environmental quality and social equity, and how these aspects relate; green jobs in the present and future economy; environmental laws and regulations, from the local arena to the federal and global arenas. The economics of sustainability will be addressed. Focus is directed towards fundamental concepts rather than in-depth technical and scientific analysis in order to provide an overview of a broad subject.
Prerequisites:ENG 097 , MAT 022 , or approval of Division.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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EGG 111 - Engineering & Computer Graphics
This course is a fundamental study of the engineering drawing using computer-aided engineering software (Autodesk Inventor) to construct solid and parametric modeling drawings. Topics covered include 3-D solid modeling, 2-D multi-view drawings, parametric dimensioning, section views, auxiliary views, and assembly modeling. CAD projects include 3-D solid model drawings and 2-D orthographic drawings, which address topics such as geometric constraints, feature interactions, parametric dimensions, and associative functionality.
1 lecture hour and 3 laboratory hours per week.
2 credit hours
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EGG 201 - Engineering Mechanics (Statics)
A study of basic structural and mechanical systems in static equilibrium. Free-body diagrams, vector algebra, and scalar analysis are used to find resultants of forces and moments, and for solving equilibrium problems; applications including simple structures and machines, dry friction, center of gravity, centroids, area and mass moments of inertia by integration.
Prerequisites: MAT 171 , PHY 111 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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EGG 202 - Engineering Mechanics (Dynamics)
A study of the kinematics and kinetics of motion, including rectilinear and curvilinear motion, force and acceleration, work and energy, impulse and momentum, for particles and rigid bodies. Calculus is used throughout for problem solving.
Prerequisites: MAT 172 and EGG 201 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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EGG 203 - Applications of Computers in Science and Engineering
This course emphasizes hands-on experience with stand-alone microcomputers. Simulations, data analysis, graphics techniques, and structured programming are used to show the range of computer problem-solving techniques. Other topics covered are program correctness, operating systems, a survey of computer languages, the relationship of the components internal and external to the computer.
2 lecture and 3 laboratory hours per week.
3 credit hours
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EGG 205 - Surveying
Theory and practice of measurements and their applications. Topics include use of instruments, recording of data, computations and mapping; theory and use of simple curves; earthwork measurements and computation.
2 lecture and 3 field laboratory hours per week.
3 credit hours
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EGG 207 - Principles of Electrical Engineering
Introduction to the fundamental concepts of electric circuits. Course covers mesh and nodal analysis, network theorems and applications, steady state analysis, and phasor diagrams. Introduction includes time-varying analysis R-L, R-C, and R-L-C circuits.
Prerequisite: PHY 201 .
Co-requisite: EGGL 207 , MAT 272 .
3 lecture and 3 laboratory hours per week.
4 credit hours
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EGG 213 - 3-D AutoCAD
Through the user coordinate system (UCS) and viewports the student will learn to create 3-D wire frame drawings clad with 3-D faces and meshes in order to create realistic images via hidden line removal and perspective view. 3-D solid geometry techniques will be emphasized to increase drawing efficiency. Shade and Animator will be illustrated.
Prerequisite: MET 109 or permission of instructor.
2 lecture hours and 2 laboratory hours per week.
3 credit hours
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EGG 251 - Digital Design
A study of the fundamentals of digital computers including number state machines systems, Boolean algebra, Karnaugh maps, logic functions, logic gates, and the implementation of logic functions using discrete and integrated circuit components. Combinations of fundamental circuits are developed to form counters, registers, encoders, decoders, multiplexers, demultiplexers, arithmetic, and memory units.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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EGGL 207 - Principles of Electrical Engineering Laboratory
This is a co-requisite laboratory course for EGG 207 .
Co-requisite: EGG 207
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English |
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ENG 081 - Accelerated Introduction to College Reading II
This course is an accelerated version of the last course in a multi-level sequence designed to help the under-prepared student to improve reading skills and successfully complete freshman composition. Students in English 081 must take the designated paired ENG 101 course.
Prerequisites: Satisfactory Placement Test scores on the Reading, Essay and Sentence Sense tests. Placement into ENG 101 course.
2 lecture hours per week.
2 institutional credit hours
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ENG 087 - Introduction to Language Arts
This course is an introduction to Language Arts and is a preparatory Basic Studies Program course designed to create a context for developmental reading and writing. The primary objectives of the course are to develop in the students the ability to manage time, to assimilate diverse educational materials centered on a theme, and to assist in the expression of their ideas, both written and oral.
6 lecture hours per week.
6 institutional credit hours
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ENG 091 - Accelerated Introduction to College Writing II
This course is an accelerated version of the last course in a multi-level sequence designed to help the under-prepared student to improve writing skills and successfully complete freshman composition. Students in English 091 must take the designated paired ENG 101 course.
Prerequisites: Satisfactory Placement Test scores on the Reading, Essay, and Sentence Sense tests. Placement into ENG 101 course.
2 lecture hours per week.
2 institutional credit hours
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ENG 096 - Introduction to College Reading and Writing I
This course is a middle-level course designed to help students whose reading ability indicates the need for concentrated involvement in the reading process, particularly to improve comprehension, critical reading, and vocabulary. This course is also designed to help students whose writing indicates the need for concentrated attention to and practice in the process of language use. Particular attention is given to producing quality compositions.
Prerequisites: Successful completion of ENG 087 or Placement into ENG 096.
6 lecture hours per week.
6 institutional credit hours
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ENG 097 - Accelerated Introduction to College Reading and Writing II
This course is an upper-level course designed to help students whose reading and writing abilities indicate the need for concentrated involvement in the reading process, particularly to improve comprehension, critical reading and vocabulary, and in the writing process, particularly to learn and practice the conventions of college-level writing.
Prerequisites: ENG 096 , if required. Satisfactory Placement Test scores on the Reading, Essay and Sentence Sense tests.
6 lecture hours per week.
6 institutional credit hours
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ENG 101 - English Composition I
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course is the first half of a two-semester sequence, completed by either ENG 102 or ENG 122 as required by program of study, which focuses on the development of the student’s skill in writing expository prose.
Prerequisite: ENG 097 , if required.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 102 - English Composition II
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course is the second half of a two-semester sequence, which focuses on the continued development of the student’s skill in writing expository prose as well as an introduction to literature.
Prerequisites: ENG 101 or ENG 112 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 111 - English Composition for Speakers of Other Languages I
This course is designed as a writing course for students whose first language is not English. The sequence of ENG 111 and ENG 112 serves as a substitute for ENG 101 for which the student receives three credits. The other three credits counts towards humanities/language elective credits. English 111 improves students’ skills as successful academic writers. The focus of this course is to teach students the necessary steps involved in writing a research paper, including summarizing, paraphrasing, citing, and writing a bibliography using MLA style. Attention is given to the cultural implications of thought patterns, organization, and academic writing conventions in English.
Pre-requisite: ESL 067 or ESL 097 or ESL placement test.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credits
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ENG 112 - English Composition for Speakers of Other Languages II
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course is the second semester of a two-semester sequence of college composition for students whose first language is not English. The sequence serves as a substitute for ENG 101 for non-native speakers of English.
Prerequisite: ENG 111 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 122 - Introductory Technical and Business Writing
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course is the second half of a two-semester sequence, with focus on the types of writing used in business and industry, including process analysis, mechanism descriptions, summaries, proposals, research projects, letters, memorandums and resumes.
Prerequisite: ENG 101 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 128 - The Dynamics of Communication
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course involves the study of human relationships with emphasis on communication as a process. Topics covered will include self-concept, perception, listening, language, assertiveness, and conflict resolution and their roles in human relationships. Communication concepts will be supplemented by classroom exercises.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 129 - Public Speaking
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course provides instruction and practice in oral communication. The course includes training in impromptu and extemporaneous speaking, logical organization of material, methods of proof, persuasion, audience analysis, techniques of delivery, and fundamentals of group discussion and debate.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 201 - Literature of the Western World I
This course includes a survey of the major periods in the development of Western literature from ancient Greece and Rome through the Medieval era, with an emphasis on the major figures such as: Homer, Sophocles, Plato, Virgil, Paul, Augustine, Dante, and Chaucer. The place of literature in the social and political history of the West will also be explored.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 or ENG 122 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 202 - Literature of the Western World II
This course includes a survey of the major periods in the development of Western literature from the Renaissance to the postmodern with an emphasis on the major figures such as Machiavelli, Shakespeare, Voltaire, Goethe, Tolstoy, Kafka, Eliot, and Borges. The place of literature in the social and political history of the West will also be explored.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 205 - British Literature I
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course includes a study of the major British poets and prose writers from Beowulf to Pope and Swift, studied in their historical context and in their aspects of enduring merit.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 206 - British Literature II
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course includes a study of the major British poets and prose writers from the pre-Romantic poets to the present, studied in their historical context and in their aspects of enduring merit.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 207 - American Literature I
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course includes a survey of major works in American Literature from Colonial diarists to Whitman.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 208 - American Literature II
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course includes a survey of major works in American Literature from Dickinson to the present.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 209 - World Literature I
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course includes a comparative study of the foundational texts of world literature from antiquity to 1650. Representative works from Europe, East and South Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and Latin America will be read. Examples of readings include selections from the Bible, Homer’s Odyssey, the Ramayana, the Qur’an, and Sundiata. Through such texts, this course will expose students to a diverse range of cultures and their founding mythological and religious beliefs. Emphasis will be placed on understanding each work in its broader social and historical context and how these works, in turn, serve as common points of reference for the development of the cultures, literary traditions, and belief systems to which they give rise.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 210 - World Literature II
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course includes a study of major works of modern world literature from 1650 to the present. Through a comparative approach to representative works by European, East and South Asian, Middle Eastern, African, and Latin American writers, this course will expose students to a diverse range of cultures and literary practices. Emphasis will be placed on the social and historical context which informs the production and reception of these works. The relationship between that context and such major literary and cultural movements as Romanticism, Realism, Modernism, Postmodernism, and Postcolonialism will be examined as the basis for comparative study of these works. Major authors may include Rousseau, Tolstoy, Kafka, Pirandello, Lu, Neruda, Sembene, al-Saadawi, and Rushdie.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 213 - Advanced Writing
This course is designed to develop and refine the skills learned in ENG 101 and ENG 102 or ENG 122 that are essential for more advanced and extended writing required in academic, professional, and other settings. The course covers source evaluation, literary analysis, and exposition, along with a variety of other genres of communication. The course requires students to compose extended and revised writing that culminates with a final project.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 or ENG 122 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 215 - Creative Writing
This course provides an introduction to the various forms of creative writing with emphasis on the development of superior craftsmanship in imaginative writing. Assignments are given to encourage students who have demonstrated advanced skills in writing to experiment with various forms. (Note: This course does not fulfill the 200-level literature requirement.)
Prerequisite: ENG 102 or instructor’s permission.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 216 - Contemporary Literature
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course includes a study of writers from 1945 to the present, presenting major literary movements and their philosophical implications. Emphasis is on those novelists, playwrights, and poets who represent the contemporary trends in form, content, and style.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 217 - Literature and the Arts I
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course includes a period study of literature using the fine arts to reveal the artistic environment of each era. The fine arts, films, and other creative media are used to show how artists working in their various disciplines have handled the same themes as those which are read, from Ancient Greece to Impressionism.
Prerequisites: ENG 102 , HIS 101 - HIS 102 or permission of instructor.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 218 - Literature and the Arts II
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course includes a period study of literature using the fine arts to reveal the artistic environment of each era. The fine arts, films, and other creative media are used to show how artists working in their various disciplines have handled the same themes as those which are read, from Impressionism to the present.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 , HIS 101 - HIS 102 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 227 - African American Literature I
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course includes a survey of selected writings by African Americans emphasizing the literary significance of each work and author, studied in its historical and sociological contexts from slave narratives and early folk tradition to the beginnings of the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 228 - African American Literature II
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course includes a survey of the selected writings by African Americans emphasizing the literary significance of each work and author, studied in its historical and sociological contexts from the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s to the resurgent cultural self-consciousness of the 1960s to the present proliferation of African American literature.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 229 - Introduction to Poetry
This course includes an introductory study of the major poets and genres of poetry in English, beginning with early ballads and songs, visiting each of the major periods and styles, featuring in-depth views of major figures in the development of poetry (Shakespeare, Blake, Whitman, etc.) and concluding with a study of representative 20th Century voices. Technical aspects of poetry will be discussed, as well as the cultural context and enduring nature of poetic expression.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 230 - American Poetry
This course includes an introductory study of the major poets and genres of American poetry, beginning with Colonial and Federal era poets, visiting each of the major periods and styles, featuring in-depth views of major figures in the development of American poetry (Whitman, Dickinson, Williams, Eliot, Ginsburg, etc.) and concluding with a study of representative 20th and early 21st Century voices. Technical aspects of poetry will be discussed, as well as the cultural context and enduring nature of poetic expression within a specifically American idiom.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 235 - Introduction to Shakespeare
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course includes an introductory study of Shakespeare as poet and dramatist, with close reading of the representative plays. The enduring nature of Shakespeare’s ideas is stressed.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 245 - Women in Literature
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course includes a comprehensive study of major characters in Western culture and literature from ancient times to the modern period. The main emphasis is on examination of the changing role of and presence of women through the ages as reflected in various genres of literature, including drama, poetry, and fiction.
Prerequisites: ENG 102 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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ENG 247 - Women Authors
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course includes a study of major female authors, emphasizing the historical and literary development of female literacy and authorship in British and American poetry (but not limited to the English-speaking world), drama, fiction, and non-fiction.
Prerequisite: ENG 102 or ENG 122 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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English as a Second Language The Institute for Intensive English
Non-native students whose tests indicate insufficient fluency in English are required to take courses for Speakers of Other Languages, offered in the Institute for Intensive English or ENG 111 -ENG 112 .
Program of Study in the Institute for Intensive English
After placement testing, students enter an appropriate ESL level of instruction commensurate with their abilities. Upon completing each course, there is an exit test, to assess a student’s proficiency. Upon completion of Level 6, students take ENG 111 -ENG 112 , a two-semester sequence of college composition for ESL students (equivalent to ENG 101 ), along with other courses.
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ESL 037 - Intermediate I Grammar/Writing
This course is part of a multi-level English for Academic Purposes (EAP) sequence designed for students whose native language is not English. The purpose of this course is to develop the students’ ability to write academic compositions using intermediate level grammar and to improve fluency in written and oral communication.
Prerequisite: ESL Placement Test
Co-requisite: ESL 038 .
6 lecture hours per week.
6 institutional credits
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ESL 038 - Intermediate Reading/Listening/Speaking
This course is part of a mult-level English for Academic purposes (EAP) sequence designed for students whose native language is not English. The purpose of this course is to improve students’ ability in academic reading, listening, and speaking in academic and US cultural contexts.
Prerequisite: ESL Placement Test.
Co-requisite: ESL 037 .
5 lecture hours per week.
5 institutional credits
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ESL 047 - Intermediate II Grammar/Writing
This course is part of a multi-level English for Academic Purposes (ESP) sequence designed for students whose native language is not English. The purpose of this course is to develop the students’ ability to write academic compositions using intermediate level grammar and to improve fluency in written and oral communication.
Prerequisite: ESL 037 or ESL Placement Test.
Co-requisite: ESL 048 .
6 lecture hours per week.
6 institutional credits
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ESL 048 - Intermediate II Reading/Listening/Speaking
This course is part of a multi-level English for Academic Purposes (ESP) sequence designed for students whose native language is not English. The purpose of this course is to increase students’ ability to work with academic reading and listening texts. Emphasis will be placed on authentic texts and academic discussions.
Prerequisite: ESL 038 or ESL Placement Test.
Co-requisite: ESL 047 or ESL 037 .
5 hours per week.
5 institutional credits
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ESL 057 - Advanced I Grammar/ Writing
This course is part of a multi-level English for Academic Purposes (EAP) sequence designed for students whose native language is not English. This course teaches students to write clear, organized essays in a variety of rhetorical styles. The course presents and develops the grammar and editing skills required to express ideas clearly.
Prerequisites: ESL 047 or ESL 087 , ESL 038 , or ESL Placement Test.
6 lecture hours a week.
6 institutional credits
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ESL 058 - Advanced 1 Reading/Listening/Speaking
This course is part of a multi-level English for Academic Purposes (EAP) sequence designed for students whose native language is not English. The focus is on reading comprehension for academic purposes. Additionally, this course continues to develop level-appropriate conversation and listening skills, utilizing academic contexts. The purpose of this course is to enhance students’ language proficiency and academic skills.
Prerequisites: ESL 048 or ESL 088 , and ESL 037 or ESL 087 , or Placement Test.
5 lecture hours a week.
5 institutional credits
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ESL 067 - Advanced II Grammar/Writing
This course is part of a multi-level English for Academic Purposes (EAP) sequence designed for students whose native language is not English. This course teaches students to write clear, organized essays in a variety of rhetorical styles, incorporating from academic sources. The course presents and develops advanced-level grammar and editing skills required to express ideas fluently and accurately.
Prerequisites: ESL 057 , ESL 087 , or ESL Placement Test.
6 lecture hours per week.
6 institutional credits
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ESL 068 - Advanced II Reading/Listening/Speaking
This course is part of a multi-level English for Academic Purposes (EAP) sequence designed for students whose native language is not English. This course focuses on reading comprehension and fluency for academic purposes with an emphasis on responding to narrative and expository texts. Additionally, this course develops advanced level conversation and listening skills in academic contexts. The goals are to help students enhance their proficiency in reading, speaking, and listening in order to succeed at the college level.
Prerequisite: ESL 058 or ESL 088 or ESL Placement Test.
5 lecture hours per week.
5 institutional credits
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ESL 073 - Conversation/Pronunciation II
This course provides instruction in the intermediate aspects of pronunciation, stress, rhythm, and intonation of spoken American English. It expands communication skills in a conversational setting and builds fluency. Access to a computer with Internet and sound recording capabilities, and a headphone w/ microphone for recording is required either at home or in the ALC. This course meets the needs of intermediate students of English as a Second Language.
Prerequisite: ESL placement test or by recommendation of professor.
2 lecture hours per week.
2 institutional credit hours
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ESL 074 - Conversation/Pronunciation III
This course provides instruction in the advanced aspects of pronunciation, stress, rhythm, and intonation of spoken American English. This course reinforces communication skills in a conversational and academic setting. The goal is to expand aural/oral intelligibility and fluency. Access to a computer with Internet and sound recording capabilities, and a headphone w/ microphone for recording is required either at home or in the ALC. This course meets the needs of advanced students of English as a Second Language.
Prerequisite: ESL 047 and ESL 048 or by recommendation of professor.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 institutional credit hours
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ESL 077 - Accelerated Beginning Grammar/Writing
This course is an accelerated beginning-level ESL Level 1 and Level 2 Grammar/Writing course which is part of the second level of a six level English for Academic Purposes (EAP) sequence designed for students whose native language is not English. The emphasis of this course is to develop the students’ reading/listening/speaking skills in academic and U.S. cultural contexts. The goal is to help students enhance their language fluency in a more intensive setting.
Prerequisites: Placement Test and permission of instructor.
Co-requisites: ESL 078 and ESL 079 .
6 lecture hours per week.
6 institutional credit hours
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ESL 078 - Accelerated Beginning Reading/Listening/Speaking
This course is an accelerated beginning-level ESL Level 1 and Level 2 Reading/Listening/Speaking course which is part of the second level of a six-level English for Academic Purposes (EAP) sequence designed for students whose native language is not English. The emphasis of this course is to develop the students’ reading/listening/speaking skills in academic and U.S. cultural contexts. The goal is to help students enhance their language fluency in a more intensive setting.
Prerequisites: ESL Placement Test and permission of instructor.
Co-requisites: ESL 077 and ESL 079 .
6 lecture hours per week.
6 institutional credit hours
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ESL 079 - Beginning Individualized Language Learning
This course is a combined Level 1 and Level 2 individualized course, which enhances the students’ ability to develop and follow an independent learning plan with faculty assistance utilizing online and available software sources to address their individual language needs and develops the students’ ability to apply effective CALL learning strategies to complete their individualized language learning modules. The goals are to help students increase their language proficiency in order to succeed at the college level.
Prerequisites: ESL Placement Test and permission of instructor.
Co-requisites: ESL 077 and ESL 078 .
1 lecture hour per week.
1 credit hour
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ESL 083 - Advanced Reading in Business for ESL
This course is paired with and serves as a support course for ESL level six students enrolled in a sheltered section of Business 101. The purposes of the course are (1) to give students practice in reading and responding to academic texts in the area of business as presented in expository texts and (2) to help students develop reading skills and strategies they can apply in other academic work.
Prerequisite: ESL 057 and ESL 058 or ESL Placement Test.
Co-requisites: BUS 101 , ESL 067 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 institutional credit hours
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ESL 084 - Advanced Reading in Psychology for ESL
This course is paired with and serves as a support course for ESL level six students enrolled in a sheltered section of Psychology 101. The purposes of the course are (1) to give students practice in responding to expository texts, fiction and articles in the area of psychology and (2) to help students develop reading skills and strategies they can apply in other academic work.
Prerequisite: ESL 057 and ESL 058 or ESL Placement Test.
Co-requisites: PSY 101 , ESL 067 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 institutional credit hours
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ESL 086 - Reading II in Allied Health for ESL
ESL 086 is a Level 6 advanced reading course that is designed for students whose native language is not English and who plan to major in Allied Health careers. This course is grouped together with a specific sequence of ESL courses and a Biology course (ESL 061/062, ESL 096 and BIO 006) which focus on improving English language skills in the context of Anatomy and Physiology/Allied Health. The purpose of this course is to apply advanced reading skills and strategies for comprehending and responding to academic texts.
Prerequisites: ESL 057 and ESL 058 or ESL Placement Test.
Co-requisites: ESL 067 and BIO 006.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 institutional credit hours
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ESL 087 - Accelerated Intermediate Grammar/Writing
This course is an accelerated Levels ¾ intermediate grammar/writing English for Academic Purposes (EAP) sequence designed for students whose native language is not English. The purpose of this course is to introduce and develop the students’ ability to write academic compositions. Students will use intermediate level grammar and editing skills to improve fluency and clarity needed for written and oral communication.
Prerequisite: ESL 077 or ESL Placement Test, and permission of instructor.
Co-requisites: ESL 088 and ESL 089 .
6 lecture hours per week.
6 institutional credits
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ESL 088 - Accelerated Intermediate Reading/Listening/Speaking
This course is an accelerated Levels ¾ intermediate academic reading, listening, speaking English for Academic Purposes (EAP) sequence designed for students whose native language is not English. The purpose of this course is to introduce academic reading and listening texts. Emphasis will be placed on authentic texts and academic discussions.
Prerequisite: ESL 078 or ESL Placement Test, and permission of instructor.
Co-requisites: ESL 087 and ESL 089 .
6 hours per week.
6 institutional credits
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ESL 089 - Intermediate Individualized Language Learning
This is an accelerated Level 4 individualized course which enhances the students’ ability to develop and follow an independent learning plan utilizing online sources to address their individual language needs. The purpose of this course is to develop the students’ ability to apply effective CALL learning strategies while completing their individualized language learning modules.
Prerequisites: ESL 077 or ESL Placement Test, and permission of instructor.
Co-requisites: ESL 087 and ESL 088 .
1 lecture hour per week.
1 institutional credit hour
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ESL 097 - Accelerated Advanced ESL Grammar/Writing
This course is an accelerated ESL Level 5 and Level 6 Grammar/Writing. This course improves the students’ ability to write academic essays in a variety of rhetorical styles that are clear and organized expressions of ideas. The emphasis is on responding to academic texts/videos, paraphrasing, and summarizing in their essays. Additionally, this course develops the students’ ability to use advanced level grammar and editing skills needed for clarity in writing. The goals are to help students enhance their language proficiency in order to succeed at the college level.
Prerequisites: ESL 047 and ESL 048 or ESL 087 and ESL 088 or permission of instructor.
Co-requisites: ESL 098 and ESL 099 .
2 hours, 40 minutes, twice a week.
6 institutional credit hours
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ESL 098 - Accelerated Advanced ESL Reading/ Academic Listening and Speaking
This course is an accelerated ESL Level 5 and Level 6 Reading/Academic Listening and Speaking. This course focuses on reading comprehension and fluency for academic purposes. The emphasis is on responding to narrative and expository texts. Additionally, this course develops advanced level conversation and listening skills, utilizing academic contexts. The goals are to help students enhance their language proficiency in order to succeed at the college level.
Prerequisites: ESL 047 and ESL 048 or ESL 087 and ESL 088 and persmission of instructor.
Co-requisites: ESL 097 and ESL 099 .
2 hours, 40 minutes, twice a week.
6 credit hours
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ESL 099 - Advanced ESL Individualized Language Learning
This course is a Level 6 individualized course, which enhances the students’ ability to develop and follow an independent learning plan utilizing online sources to address their individual language needs and develops the students’ ability to apply effective CALL learning strategies to complete their individualized language learning modules. The goals are to help students increase their language proficiency in order to succeed at the college level.
Prerequisites: ESL 047 and ESL 048 or ESL 087 and ESL 088 and permission of instructor.
Co-requisites: ESL 097 and ESL 098 .
55 minutes per week.
1 institutional credit
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FIA 103 - Fundamentals of Music
This course focuses on the acquisition of basic music skills including learning to read music, playing simple instruments, conducting and teaching songs by note. This course should be of particular interest to those considering a career in elementary education.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 104 - Introduction to 2D Design
This studio art course using several mediums provides a practical and theoretical analysis of the elements of design (line, shape, color, texture, and value) in the image-making process. Additionally, this course examines the principles of organization and aesthetics that govern their interaction in a formal compositional setting. This course serves as an introduction and prerequisite to studio art and architecture courses.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 105 - Music Appreciation
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course focuses on development of a greater sensitivity for the “Aesthetic Experience” through music. The emphasis is on discussions of and listening to classical, non-western and women composers in music. This course also includes discussions of and listening to rock and jazz, where appropriate.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 106 - History of Music
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course provides an introduction to the development of different styles and periods of music. Discussions and listening illuminate differences and similarities of these various styles as well as their causes. A general look at how music reflects the period in which it was written provides a historical perspective.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 107 - Introduction to Dance
This course begins with the explanation of the elements of Modern Dance—time, space, and energy. During the last half of the semester these elements are applied to the fundamental study of ballet. The course is taught through basic studio movement (warm-up, technique, and dance phrases) and through concert attendance, readings, videotapes, lectures, and discussions.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 108 - Appreciation of Art
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course is a lecture course examining the aesthetics of the visual arts. The course will focus in on the many ways to see and understand two and three dimensional art forms. Studies include painting, sculpture, drawing, photography, the crafts, and other visual expressions examined through formal, iconographic, and conceptual means. A variety of art will be covered ranging from western, eastern, African, feminist, and other alternative, culturally significant art forms.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 109 - Introduction to Drawing
This course provides a study of basic visual elements in drawing, emphasizing observation, selection, and recording of perceptual form. Value relationships, spatial organization, linear gesture, composition, balance, and the human figure are explored using graphic media.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 110 - Introduction to Painting
This course provides an exploration of the basic visual elements using painting media and techniques.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 111 - Art History Survey I
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course offers an historical and visual survey of art and architecture from prehistoric beginnings through the Medieval Period. Study includes aesthetic, cultural, historic, and formal examination of works of art in a chronological, evolutionary sequence. A considerable amount of time is spent focusing on diversity and multicultural issues that have defined and shaped the process of development historic to human creative activity. Lecture course with supplemental visual presentation.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 112 - Art History Survey II
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This is a lecture course with supplemental visual presentation of art and architecture from the Gothic Period through the 19th Century. Study includes an aesthetic, formal, historic, and cultural examination of painting, drawing, sculpture, and architecture in a chronological, evolutionary sequence. Time is spent focusing on how issues of cultural diversity and gender define and shape creative activity. Lecture course with supplemental visual presentation.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 115 - Fundamentals of Figure Drawing
This course offers advanced drawing study using graphic media as a tool for expressive interpretation of the human figure and other visual problems. Study focuses on the tools, techniques, concepts, and approaches of two-dimensional image making.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 116 - Fundamentals of Painting
This course offers advanced study of painting concepts and technical processes involving light, shape, form, space, and composition.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 117 - Survey of Music in the Twentieth Century
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course offers an examination of the development of Classical, Film, Musical Theater, Non-Western, Jazz and Rock music composed in the twentieth century, including Women, Latino, and African-American composers and their contribution to twentieth century music.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 119 - Introduction to Architectural History
This course provides the student with visual literacy and an introduction to aesthetic concepts, its story, and methodologies within Western and Non-Western architecture. Integrated are the architectural processes, techniques, and their deployment within the literary and cultural history. A variety of art historical sources will be referenced to develop critical thinking, critiquing, and writing. The course will cover the period from primitive building structures, the Egyptian and Middle East to the Greco-Roman, early Christian, Islamic, African, Asian, Romanesque and Gothic.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 120 - Architectural History
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This course provides the student the visual and literary vocabulary that adds to the first semester course a fundamental perception of the aesthetics and construction techniques involved with the art of architecture. Included are the architectural advancements and styles within a variety of global cultural and literary history gleaned from a variety of sources. This will enable the student to critically think when writing the term paper. This course covers the occasion of the renaissance to the baroque, neo-classical and the Age of Reason, 19th century, and the modern period up to the post-modern, global period.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 121 - Introduction to Architectural Rendering
This course offers a study of graphic styles used in architecture and development of perspective renderings of interior and exterior buildings.
Prerequisite: FIA 109 or permission of instructor.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 122 - Introduction to Film Photography
This course provides an introduction to photography principles and practices including 35mm camera operation, film development, print processing, exposure technique, and some contemporary issues of photographic practice in the arts.
Prerequisite: Students must have their own appropriate camera (or access to one).
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 123 - Introduction to Color Film Photography
This course offers an introduction to color photography involving film exposure, print processing, color correcting and analysis, with an exploration of contemporary issues/techniques of color photography.
Prerequisite: FIA 122 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 125 - Introduction to Digital Imaging
This course provides students with an introduction to the technical and creative aspects of manipulating photographic and digitally generated images in a Macintosh computer environment utilizing state of the art hardware and software.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 127 - Introduction to Acting
This course offers basics of voice, movement, and interpretation. Course includes development of imagination and observation leading to the ability to present these skills in all forms of dramatic presentations.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 128 - Introduction to Illustration
This course is an introductory studio course which provides the student with a basic vocabulary and fundamental understanding of the concepts, techniques, and skills involved in the visual arts communication field of illustration. Along with a historic and contemporary examination of illustration, the student is taught to differentiate between product, journalistic, and advertising forms of illustration. Considerable time is spent on specific studio approaches to illustration including use of pencil and dry media, pen and ink, watercolor, oil, gouache, tempera, acrylic painting techniques and applied computer technology.
Prerequisites: FIA 109 or FIA 110 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 130 - Introduction to Graphic Design
This course is an introductory design studio course which provides a basic vocabulary and fundamental understanding of the technique, concepts, and processes involved in the visual communication field of Graphic Design. Topics include a historic and contemporary examination of graphic communication, paste-up, layout, preparation of comps, roughs, and mechanicals, and an introduction to computers and design-related software.
Prerequisite: FIA 104 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 132 - Introduction to Drama
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
This course offers a study of the classics of European drama both as “text” and “event.” Readings of selected masterworks together with active class participation in several modes of drama through scene study, criticism, improvisation, field trips and, for those interested, playwriting and directing. Readings include Aeschylus, the Elizabethans, and Moliere.
Prerequisite: ENG 101 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 220 - Introduction to History of Photography
▲ = Fulfills a General Education Requirement.
A course examining the history of photography from 1839 to the present. Emphasis is placed on a study of the evolution of photographic processes, art historical and sociological impact, trends and major artists.
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 222 - Advanced Black-and-White Film Photography
This course is an advanced black and white photography course with an emphasis on the zone system exposure and printing methods. Course includes an introduction to large format cameras and studio lighting.
Prerequisite: FIA 122 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 225 - Advanced Digital Imaging
This course provides students with advanced technical training in the field of digital imaging and an opportunity to apply learned skills to create digitally manipulated images from two-dimensional and three-dimensional photographic and computer generated sources. An integrated component of this course focuses on the use of “state of the art” digital hardware and software to output high resolution, exhibition quality, ink jet and dye sublimation images on a diversity of media. Students are required to complete study in Digital Imaging for Art and Photography I prior to enrollment in the Advanced Digital Imaging for Art and Photography course.
Prerequesite: FIA 125 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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FIA 227 - Advanced Acting
This course offers advanced work on developing voice, body, and imagination as components of the actor’s “instrument”. Course includes discovering styles suitable for works from different periods and the relationship between the actor and the text. Course also includes an examination of tradition and techniques of the principal modes of theater: tragedy, comedy, realism, fantasy, and farce.
Prerequisite: FIA 127 .
3 lecture hours per week.
3 credit hours
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