May 07, 2024  
2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2017-2018 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Sociology

  
  • SOC 499C - Directed Individual Study

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Specialized individual study under the direction of a faculty member. Junior standing and permission of supervising faculty are required.
  
  • SOC 1010 - Introduction to Sociology

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Note:  this course was previously SOC 2010.

    Introduction to sociology as a scientific discipline. Subject matter includes sociological concepts, sociological processes, social structure, social organization, and social institutions, including family, education, politics, religion, and economy.

  
  • SOC 1040 - Social Problems

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Course Changes: Previously SOC 2045
    Description: A survey of social subjects including family, city, public health, alcoholism, drug dependency, racial and gender inequality, work, crime, and violence.
  
  • SOC 2500 - Cultural Anthropology

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: The theories and elements of culture are identified and applied to a variety of human societies. Emphasizes pre-modern society.
  
  • SOC 2700 - Sociology as a Profession

    Credit Hours: 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: SOC 1010  or Instructor approval
    Description: A presentation of career opportunities for sociology degrees.  The course will introduce students to practical professional skills including researching the market search, applying to graduate school and resume development.
  
  • SOC 2900 - Marriage and the Family

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Analysis of the family institution, its structure and function, and the dynamics of social change in family interaction and organization. The process of marriage examined includes dating, courtship, mate selection, engagement, and marriage. Attention to changes currently affecting the American family.
  
  • SOC 3040 - Rural Sociology

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Investigates the interrelationships between demographic, economic, environmental, and social changes that are transforming rural areas.  Focus ranges from the local to the global context.
  
  • SOC 3050 - Race and Ethnicity

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Analysis of how race and ethnicity are socially constructed and how these definitions have changed historically and continue to change today.  An examination of the relevant theories and research is reviewed.
  
  • SOC 3060 - Contemporary Issues in the Family

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Indepth examination of contemporary issues that affect family functions and relations.
  
  • SOC 3070 - Families Across Cultures

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Cross-cultural, multicultural, and historical influences on family functions, structures, and behaviors; focusing on the recognition and understanding of cultural similarities and differences.
  
  • SOC 3080 - Gender and Sexualities

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Gender and sexuality in American society and cross-culturally, with consideration to the role of gender in structuring identity, male/female interaction, and constraints on expanding opportunities.
  
  • SOC 3090 - Sociology of Education

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: An analysis of the American educational systems in historical, political, and economic terms in relationship to class, race, and gender stratification and social change.
  
  • SOC 3100 - Sociology of Popular Culture

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course examines the impact of the values, beliefs, and actions promoted by popular culture (ex. Movies, television, magazines, music, and fashion) on our daily lives. The course focuses on how popular culture is produced and consumed by society. The course also discusses the globalization of popular culture
  
  • SOC 3140 - Sociology of Deviance and Crime

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Contemporary theories of deviant behavior and crime in American society are examined.  The course emphasizes the relationship between norms, deviance, and forms of social control, and their role in social order and social change.
  
  • SOC 3150 - Social Psychology of Everyday Life

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: How principles of social psychology affect everyday human interaction. Covers such topics as mass media, leadership, personal attraction, communication, and the impact of the social environment on personality.
  
  • SOC 3250 - Social Institutions

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Examines one or more social institutions from a sociological perspective.  Social institutions may include, but are not limited to education, media, criminal justice, work, sport, religion, and globalization.  The institution(s) covered in any given semester is at the discretion of the instructor.  (Students may repeat this course a maximum of three times.)
  
  • SOC 3300 - Social Stratification

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Class analysis of the United States with focus on social and economic inequalities. Attention is given to such concepts as power, prestige, social opportunity, dependency.
  
  • SOC 3400 - Sociology of Religion

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Religion as a social institution with an analysis of the functions of religion for society and a comparison of major religious groups in America.
  
  • SOC 3500 - Sport and Society

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course encourages students to think critically about the organization of sports and how sports relate to their social lives. It critically analyzes gender, racial, socioeconomic, and body image issues relating to sport, and the functions of sport related to existing cultural ideologies.
  
  • SOC 3700 - Medical Sociology

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Sociocultural factors which influence the cause, recognition, definition, and treatment of illness: the development, organization, and role of the medical profession as a social institution.
  
  • SOC 3740 - Reading and Writing for Sociology

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course introduces students to the unique style and mechanics of writing sociology, emphasizing the guidelines of the American Sociological Association.  The course centers on writing a research proposal, with an emphasis on the literature review and familiarizes students with academic databases, professional journal articles, and grant writing skills.
  
  • SOC 3750 - Population Dynamics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course investigates the causes and consequences of population structure and change.  The interrelationship between population processes (fertility, mortality, migration) and social, economic, and environmental factors are examined.
  
  • SOC 3760 - Methods of Social Research

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: SOC 1010  with a grade of “C” or higher
    Description: Basic techniques in social research with emphasis on the collection, analysis, and interpretation of quantitative data.
  
  • SOC 3770 - Social Statistics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: SOC Major, SOC 1010  with a grade of “C” or higher and  MATH 1530  or permission of instructor
    Description: This course is designed to provide an introduction to statistics in the social sciences. Students will learn how to perform statistical calculations by hand, and how to execute and interpret basic SPSS programs.
  
  • SOC 3810 - Globalization and Social Movements

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course explores the process of globalization by examining the dynamics of the transformation of the world’s economy, environment, social institutions, and political structures including national sovereignty and democracy.  Current social movements are examined within the context of changing global power structures.
  
  • SOC 4000 - Sociological Theory

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: SOC 1010  with a grade of “C” or higher
    Description: Examination of the key questions addressed in sociology by reviewing the historical development and the current status of sociological theory.
  
  • SOC 4300 - Sociology of Work and Organizations

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Examines the development and role of organizations in contemporary society focusing on explanations of organizational structure, process and change.
  
  • SOC 4400 - Environmental Sociology

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: A comprehensive overview of the historical precursors to and the emergence of the field of environmental sociology. Topics include interactions between the physical environmental and the social world; perspectives in environmental sociology; environmental justice.
  
  • SOC 4410 - Environmental Policy

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course discusses public policy as it relates to the natural environment. The course focuses on how power/politics, science and social values influence decisions about the natural environment. The course discusses environmental policy at the local, state, regional, national, and international levels.
  
  • SOC 4420 - Environmental Justice

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: A study of the emergence and development of environmental justice. An understanding of the interaction between the human environment and inequality among different human groups, as defined by race, class, and gender will be addressed. Topic include environmental racism, the environmental justice movement, environmental attitudes, theories, and health, and race, class, and gender disparities.
  
  • SOC 4850 - Sociology Service Learning

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: SOC 1010  with grade of “C” or higher and permission of instructor
    Description: This course offers a collaborative service learning experience in which students work with other students, their teachers, and experts in their communities to develop deeper knowledge of the subject being studied.  Students will work to identify and solve challenges through engagement in their communities.  The substantive topic of the course varies by instructor’s expertise.  (Students may repeat course to a maximum of three times.)
  
  • SOC 4900 - Selected Topics in Sociology

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: Specially selected topics of current or continuing social significance from sociological perspectives. Subjects to be announced when course is scheduled. Seminar, with regular class meetings.
  
  • SOC 4910 - Senior Capstone

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: SOC 3760 , 4000 , sociology major or permission of instructor; Corequisite: SOC 3770 
    Description: This course is composed of academic activities that require students to review and integrate the areas of sociological theory, research methods and statistics as they apply to the most common fields of the discipline.

Spanish

  
  • SPAN 304A - Study Abroad - Latin America

    Credit Hours: 6-8 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of Spanish or by permission of instructor
    Description: A study program designed to provide students with a total Spanish-speaking environment which will allow a broadening of knowledge and appreciation of the Spanish language and culture. Not applicable toward major. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • SPAN 304B - Study Abroad – Spain

    Credit Hours: 6-8 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Basic knowledge of Spanish or by permission of instructor
    Description: A study program designed to provide students with a total Spanish-speaking environment which will allow a broadening of knowledge and appreciation of the Spanish language and culture. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • SPAN 1010 - Elementary Spanish

    Credit Hours: 4 Credit Hours
    Description: Extensive practice in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
  
  • SPAN 1020 - Elementary Spanish

    Credit Hours: 4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: SPAN 1010  or equivalent
    Description: Extensive practice in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.
  
  • SPAN 2010 - Intermediate Spanish

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: SPAN 1020  or equivalent
    Description: A comprehensive review of Spanish along with extensive reading, close textual examination, and discussion of representative works of Spanish literature.
  
  • SPAN 2020 - Intermediate Spanish

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: SPAN 2010  or equivalent
    Description: A comprehensive review of Spanish along with extensive reading, close textual examination, and discussion of representative works of Spanish literature.
  
  • SPAN 2100 - Basic Survival Spanish Conversation

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 2nd year proficiency in Spanish
    Description: Designed to give the student skills in conversational Spanish needed for effective communication.
  
  • SPAN 2420 - Introduction to Spanish Translation and Interpretation

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: SPAN 2020 
    Description: A discussion and discovery of basic concepts in the fields of translation and interpretation studies through hands-on practice and theoretical examination.
  
  • SPAN 3040 - Study Abroad Program in Spanish: Spain and Spanish-America

    Credit Hours: 6-8 Credit Hours
    Description: A total immersion program in Spanish and other disciplines in a Spanish-speaking country.
  
  • SPAN 3210 - Advanced Composition

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: SPAN 2020  or permission of instructor
    Description: Free composition on assigned topics and translations to and from Spanish from a variety of authors and topics to develop fluency and correctness in writing Spanish.
  
  • SPAN 3220 - Phonetics and Conversation in Spanish

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: SPAN 2020  or permission of instructor
    Description: A minimum of theory with extensive application in corrective phonetics to assure a high level of accuracy in Spanish pronunciation. Concentrated practice in oral command of Spanish. This course affords the student opportunities to discuss in Spanish assigned topics in order to develop confidence and accuracy in oral expression.
  
  • SPAN 3310 - Introduction to Hispanic Linguistics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: SPAN 3210 , 3220 
    Description: This course is an introduction to the various sub-fields of Hispanic linguistics from the perspective of contemporary linguistic theory.  Students will become familiar with common concepts associated with phonology and phonetics, morphology, syntax, history of Spanish, language acquisition, and sociolinguistics.
  
  • SPAN 3400 - Special Topics: Language

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: permission of instructor
    Description: Instruction and guidance in circumstantial Spanish, health care, police emergency, translators, religious crises, technical problems, etc.
  
  • SPAN 3410 - Business Spanish

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: SPAN 2020  or 3rd year proficiency
    Description: Vocabulary and concepts in Spain and Spanish-American business.
  
  • SPAN 3450 - Peninsular and Latin American Cinema

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: SPAN 2020 
    Description: History of Peninsular and Latin American cinema and study of representative films.
  
  • SPAN 3510 - Spanish Civilization I

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 3rd year proficiency in Spanish or permission of instructor
    Description: The culture and civilization of Spain from its origin to the 18th Century.
  
  • SPAN 3520 - Spanish Civilization II

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 3rd year proficiency in Spanish or permission of instructor
    Description: The culture and civilization of Spain from the 18th Century to the present.
  
  • SPAN 3610 - Spanish American Civilization I

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 3rd year proficiency in Spanish or permission of instructor
    Description: The culture and civilization of Spanish-America from its origin to 1810.
  
  • SPAN 3620 - Spanish American Civilization II

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 3rd year proficiency in Spanish or permission of instructor
    Description: The culture and civilization of Spanish America from 1810 to present.
  
  • SPAN 4100 - Special Topics: Literature

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
    Description: Individual projects, selected topics in authors or periods.
  
  • SPAN 4110 - Independent Study in Spanish

    Credit Hours: 1-4 Credit Hours
    Description: Students study independently in Spanish under instructor’s guidance. Studies are planned to satisfy special individual needs and interests.
  
  • SPAN 4120 - Independent Study in Spanish

    Credit Hours: 1-4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 3rd year proficiency in Spanish or permission of instructor
    Description: Students study independently in Spanish under instructor’s guidance. Studies are planned to satisfy special individual needs and interests.
  
  • SPAN 4320 - Sociolinguistics and Dialectology of Spanish

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: SPAN 3210 , 3220 
    Description: This course explores the factors that have contributed to the development of dialects in the Spanish speaking world.  Focus will be placed on social factors such as age, social class, gender and how these factors affect language variation and change
  
  • SPAN 4510 - Survey of Spanish Peninsular Literature I

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 3rd year proficiency in Spanish or permission of instructor
    Description: Peninsular literature from its origin to the 18th century.
  
  • SPAN 4520 - Survey of Spanish Peninsular Literature II

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 3rd year proficiency in Spanish or permission of instructor
    Description: Peninsular literature of the 19th and 20th centuries.
  
  • SPAN 4610 - Survey of Spanish American Literature I

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 3rd year proficiency in Spanish or permission of instructor
    Description: Pre-Columbian Spanish American literature to 1810.
  
  • SPAN 4620 - Survey of Spanish American Literature II

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: 3rd year proficiency in Spanish or permission of instructor
    Description: Spanish American literature from 1810 to the present.

Special Education

  
  • SPED 2300 - Introduction to Special Education

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone I  requirement
    Description: Identification of handicapping conditions, programs for educating the individuals with disabilities and public laws specifying responsibilities of school personnel.  5 hour field experience is required.
  
  • SPED 3000 - Introduction to Special Education

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II ;
    Description:  Identification of handicapping conditions, programs for educating the individuals with disabilities and public laws specifying responsibilities of school personnel.
  
  • SPED 3100 - Early Childhood Special Education

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone I  
    Description: Identification of handicapping conditions, programs and services for educating young children with disabilities (birth-five years), and public laws specifying responsibilities of programs/school personnel. A field experience is required (five hours).
  
  • SPED 3200 - Introduction to Autism

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone I  
    Description: This course is an introduction to Autism Spectrum Disorders (Autism, Asperger’s Syndrome, PDD-NOS), issues related to autism and the education of children with this diagnosis.  A five hour field experience will be required.
  
  • SPED 3300 - Characteristics of Students with Mild/Moderate Disabilities

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone I  
    Description: Develop an awareness of the educational needs and goals of a person with mild/moderate disabilities. The physical, emotional, and psychological characteristics will be stressed. Lecture/discussion and 15 hours of field based experiences.
  
  • SPED 3330 - Characteristics of Students with Severe Disabilities

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone I  
    Description: Developing and understanding of the physical, psychological, and emotional characteristics of individuals with severe disabilities. Personal and social needs will be stressed. Fifteen hours of field experience required.
  
  • SPED 3340 - Developing Consultative Skills: Parents and Professionals

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II  
    Description: Communication skills needed in working with parents and professionals regarding short and long range planning for the individuals with disabilities.
  
  • SPED 3350 - Diagnostic Assessment of Exceptional Students

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II  
    Description: Techniques used to evaluate a variety of disabling conditions, on an individual basis, in special education classrooms. The student will be required to administer an array of evaluative instruments to special children in public school classrooms.
  
  • SPED 3360 - Characteristics of Gifted Education

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II  
    Description: This course is designed to acquaint students with the tenets of gifted education. The focus will be on characteristics of gifted learners, the history of the field, assessment practices, and the need for differentiated instruction.
  
  • SPED 4330 - Behavior Management for Exceptional Students

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II  
    Description: Techniques of managing classroom and other behaviors at all levels and types of exceptionality.
  
  • SPED 4340 - Effective Inclusion Strategies

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II , HHP 1250 Corequisite: RDG 4010 , 4020  
    Description: Provide instructional strategies and techniques for teachers of the mild and moderately disabled. Students will be assigned 15 hours field experiences to facilitate application of classroom instruction.
  
  • SPED 4350 - Teaching Students with Severe Disabilities

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II  
    Description: Provide instructional strategies and procedures for teachers of students with severe/multiple disabilities. Emphasis will also be directed toward assessment techniques, use of commercial materials and use of technology. Course is part of Residency I semester.
  
  • SPED 4370 - Career/Vocational Education for Exceptional Students

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II  
    Description: Familiarize the student with techniques for determining job availability for students with disabilities, employer attitudes, necessary pre-job skills, and an awareness of community employment opportunities, and other transitions into past school life.
  
  • SPED 4390 - Assistive Technology in Special Education

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Milestone II  
    Description: Familiarize students with the special needs of students that can be met by the use of assistive technology and equipment that is available.

Statistics

  
  • STAT 3250 - Statistical Methods

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MATH 1910  or equivalent
    Description: An introduction to sampling and design methods, descriptive statistics, basic probability and probability distributions, parametric and non-parametric estimation and hypothesis tests, tests for goodness-of-fit and independence, utilization of statistical software.
  
  • STAT 4120 - Regression Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: STAT 3250  
    Description: Analysis of variance and multiple comparisons, elementary regression models, multiple regression and the general linear model, logistic regression.
  
  • STAT 4125 - The Generalized Linear Model

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: STAT 4120  or permission of instructor;
    Description: Topics include binomial and Poisson regression, overdispersion, negative binomial regression, nonparametric regression, random and fixed effects, repeated measures, survival analysis, and censored data.  Appropriate statistical software (such as R or SAS).
  
  • STAT 4130 - Experimental Design

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: STAT 4120  
    Description: Design concepts for experiments and studies: ANOVA for standard designs; analysis of covariance and other experimental designs.
  
  • STAT 4140 - Time Series Analysis

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: STAT 4120  or permission of instructor;

     
    Description: This course covers methods for analyzing data collected over time.  Topics include autoregressive-moving average models (MA, ARMA, ARIMA), exponential smoothing, model identification, estimation, diagnostic checking, forecasting.  Appropriate statistical software (such as R or SAS) used throughout.

  
  • STAT 4200 - SAS Programming

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description:  Creating and reading raw data files and SAS data sets, investigating and summarizing data; creating SAS variables and recoding data values; combining multiple SAS files and creating listings and HTML summaries.  Prepares students for the SAS Base Programming exam.
  
  • STAT 4240 - Probability

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Cross Listed MATH 4240 ;

     
    Prerequisite: MATH 1920 
    Description: A mathematical introduction to probability; sample spaces; probability functions; counting techniques; conditional probability; independence, total probability and Baye’s rule; discrete and continuous random variables; expectation, median, variance; joint and conditional distributions; moment generating functions; laws of large numbers and the central limit theorem.

  
  • STAT 4250 - Mathematical Statistics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: STAT 4240  or MATH 4240  
    Description: A mathematical treatment of statistics including;: properties of estimators; maximum likelihood estimation; confidence intervals; hypothesis testing; analysis of categorical data; non-parametric statistics.
  
  • STAT 4260 - Stochastic Processes

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Cross Listed MATH 4260 ;
    Prerequisite: MATH 4240  or STAT 4240 ;
    Description: An introduction to stochastic processes and their applications: Poisson and compound Poisson processes; discrete and continuous time Markov chains; renewal theory; random walks and Brownian motion.
  
  • STAT 4270 - Nonparametric Statistics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: STAT 3250  and (STAT 4240  or MATH 4240 );

     
    Description: Distribution free techniques for estimation of parameters and comparison of populations.

  
  • STAT 4290 - Predictive Analytics

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: STAT 4120  or permission of instructor;

     
    Description: Advanced statistical techniques for analyzing large and high dimensional data.  Topics include data mining strategy, data processing, predictive modeling techniques for decision making, model assessment and comparison.  This course will be taught using appropriate statistical software.

  
  • STAT 4810 - Senior Seminar

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Senior standing and permission of department chair;

     
    Description:  The threads that link concepts found in undergraduate mathematics and statistics will be discussed.  The transition from student to career will be addressed.  Students will propose and carry out a capstone project in statistics under the supervision of a faculty mentor.


Swedish

  
  • SWED 1110 - Swedish Lang and Culture I

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: At least one year of successfully completed full-time studies at the university level
    Description: The course provides an introduction to Swedish language and literature, as well as to Swedish culture and society. The students are expected to practice their skills in spoken and written Swedish. The course is required by all international students studying at Mid-Sweden University.
  
  • SWED 1120 - Swedish Lang and Culture II

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: SWED 1110  and at least one year of successfully completed full-time studies at the university level
    Description: The course provides an introduction to Swedish language and literature, as well as to Swedish culture and society. The students are expected to practice their skills in spoken and written Swedish. The course is required by all international students studying at Mid-Sweden University.

Theatre

  
  • THEA 303A - Summer Theatre

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
    Description: Intensive work in a summer theatre production, in which the student functions as a performer, technician, designer, or in a combination of duties.
  
  • THEA 303B - Summer Theatre

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
    Description: Intensive work in a summer theatre production, in which the student functions as a performer, technician, designer, or in a combination of duties.
  
  • THEA 1030 - Introduction to Theatre

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: A survey course to develop an awareness of the nature of theatrical art and its place in human culture.  Incorporates study of history, theory, and practice of theatrical art.  This is not a performance course.
     
  
  • THEA 1100 - Practical Theory I

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Course restricted to those pursuing theatre and dance majors, minors or concentrations or permission of instructor;
    Description: This course focuses on the fundamentals of music theory and aural skills for the Musical Theatre major.
  
  • THEA 1110 - Practical Theory II

    Credit Hours: 2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Course restricted to those pursuing theatre and dance majors, minors or concentrations or permission of instructor;
    Description: This course continues the material presented in theatre.  Interactive performance based methods will be utilized referencing Musical Theatre Scores.
  
  • THEA 1300 - Acting I

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Course restricted to those pursuing theatre and dance majors, minors or concentrations; or permission of instructor.
    Description: An analysis of the various styles and techniques of acting. Emphasis will be placed on performance through the use of improvisation, movement, and voice.
  
  • THEA 1301 - Beginning Acting for Non-Majors

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Description: This course is designed for non-theatre majors with an analysis of the various styles and techniques of acting. Emphasis will be placed on performance improvement through the use of improvisation, movement, and voice.
  
  • THEA 1500 - Stage Management

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Course restricted to those pursuing theatre and dance majors, minors or concentrations; or permission of instructor.
    Description: The study and application of the basic functions and responsibilties of professional stage managers.
  
  • THEA 1600 - Stagecraft I

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Course restricted to those pursuing Theatre & Dance Majors, Minors or Concentrations or permission of instructor;
    Description: Principles and techniques used in construction, rigging, handling and maintenance of stage scenery, soft good construction and manipulation, and scenic painting.
  
  • THEA 1700 - Elements of Design/Rendering Techniques

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Course restricted to those pursuing theatre and dance majors, minors or concentrations; or permission of instructor.
    Description: Exploration of various graphic media and techniques used to create visual images for the scenic and costume designer.
  
  • THEA 1880 - Theatre Performance Practicum

    Credit Hours: 1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Department consent
    Description: Practical experience rehearsing and performing a play or musical from audition to rehearsals through performance.
  
  • THEA 1900 - Drafting I

    Credit Hours: 3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: THEA 1600  and course restricted to those pursuing theatre and dance majors, minors or concentrations or permission of instructor;
    Description: Exploration of the techniques involved in the preparation of design and technical drawings for theatrical productions.  Student drafting projects will include scenic floor plan, scenic elevations, and pencil drawings.
 

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