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THEA 331 - Rendering Media for Theatre Design Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring, odd years
This course provides a practical study of rendering techniques for various media and presentation formats used to create accessible visual presentations for theatrical design. |
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THEA 332 - Costume Design Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall, even years
Costume designing from a production approach through design theory, figure drawing, and a study of fabric. Prerequisite: THEA 230 . |
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THEA 350 - Acting IV: Period Styles Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall, even years
An approach to performing in a range of historic works through reorganization of basic acting methods. Scenes and monologues will draw from Greek, Roman, restoration, and 19th century plays. Prerequisite: THEA 226 . For theatre majors only. |
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THEA 353 - Acting V: Acting V: Stanislavski/Method Acting Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Summer
An exploration and practical application of method acting using exercises from Stanislavski, Stella Adler, and Robert Lewis. Prerequisite: THEA 226 and THEA 325 . For theatre majors only. |
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THEA 360 - Musical Theatre Performance Workshop Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring, even years
Provides advanced training in the performance of musical theatre. Students learn techniques for singing, dancing and acting within the framework of musical scenes in a workshop atmosphere. This course cannot be taken simultaneously with THEA 460 . Prerequisite: THEA 226 . For theatre majors only. |
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THEA 411 - Private Voice for Musical Theatre Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 1 Credit Hours: 1 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
Private weekly instruction in proper vocal placement and singing technique for theatre majors pursing musical theatre track. May be repeated eight times. Note: Students taking voice for the first time must have a placement interview with theatre department. |
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THEA 421 - Advanced Jazz Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 1 Terms Offered: Spring, even years
Provides advanced training in jazz dance technique for the musical theatre. Emphasis on placement, fluidity, musicality, execution, and style as it applies to professional auditioning and performing. Fulfills a PEAC activity credit. Prerequisite: THEA 221 or permission of instructor. For theatre majors only. |
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THEA 422 - Advanced Ballet Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 1 Terms Offered: Fall, even years
Provides advanced training in ballet dance technique for the musical theatre. Emphasis will be placed on alignment, placement, fluidity, execution of steps and style as it applies to professional auditioning and performing. Fulfills a PEAC activity credit. Prerequisite: THEA 223 or permission of instructor. For theatre majors only. |
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THEA 423 - Advanced Tap Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 1 Terms Offered: Spring, odd years
Provides advanced training in tap dance technique for the musical theatre. Emphasis on rhythm, musicality, syncopation, execution, and style as it applies to professional auditioning and performing. Fulfills a PEAC activity credit. Prerequisite: THEA 221 or permission of instructor. For theatre majors only. |
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THEA 424 - Advanced Modern Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 1 Terms Offered: Spring, odd years
Provides advanced training in modern dance technique for the musical theatre. Emphasis on placement, fluidity, strength, emotional connection, execution, and style as it applies to professional auditioning and performing. Fulfills a PEAC activity credit. Prerequisite: THEA 224 or permission of instructor. For theatre majors only. |
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THEA 425 - Advanced Dance Auditioning Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 1 Terms Offered: Spring, odd years
Provides advanced training in dance auditioning technique for the musical theatre. Emphasis on memorization, style and performance as it applies to placement, fluidity, musicality, and execution relational to professional auditioning and performing. Fulfills a PEAC activity credit. Prerequisite: THEA 221 -THEA 224 or permission of instructor. For theatre majors only |
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THEA 430 - Advanced Costume Design Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring, even years, as needed
Continued study of the role of the costume designer, conceptualizing designs with a focus on style and theatrical genre, rendering media and technique, and the production of resume and portfolio. Prerequisite: THEA 332 . For theatre majors only. |
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THEA 454 - Beginning Directing Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall
Basic principles governing play structures, choice, and casting are discussed. Requires student-directed scenes with lab. Laboratory graded and credited with course. Prerequisite: THEA 226 and THEA 227 . For theatre majors only. |
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THEA 455 - Acting VI: Shakespeare Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring
Advanced techniques in acting Shakespeare using soliloquies, monologues and duet scenes. Resources from Royal Shakespeare Company Master Classes. Prerequisite: THEA 226 and THEA 325 . For theatre majors only. |
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THEA 456 - Acting VII: Auditioning Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring, odd years
To equip the Acting IV: Shakespeare student with necessary information for a professional career. Includes resumes, photos, cold readings, monologues, and information regarding Equity, U/RTA, and film. Prerequisite: THEA 226 and THEA 325 . For theatre majors only. |
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THEA 457 - Playwriting Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall, odd years
A basic method of developing a play script with critiques and readings by actors. Includes workshop by professional playwright. Same as ENGL 324 . |
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THEA 460 - Musical Theatre Directing Workshop Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring, even years
Provides advanced training in the direction of musical theatre. With guidance from the instructors, students will direct peers in multiple workshop musical scenes, applying techniques of staging, analysis, and prompting with a musical theatre knowledge base. This course cannot be taken simultaneously with THEA 360 . Prerequisite: THEA 454 . For theatre majors only. |
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THEA 461 - Children’s Theatre Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall, even years
An overview of children’s theatre: understanding the literature, acting techniques, design concepts, and the production presentation. |
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THEA 463 - Educational Theatre Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring, even years
Prepares students to teach high school theatre. Emphasizes classroom theatre activities and curriculum, mounting a production, and managing a theatre program. Prerequisite: Junior standing and 9 hours of theatre courses. |
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THEA 466 - Scene Design Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring, odd years
The theory of scene design and its relation to the director, actor, and other elements of production. Prerequisite: THEA 227 . |
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THEA 467 - Theatre Lighting Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring, even years
A historical survey of lighting and its effect on designing, directing, and acting. Prerequisite: THEA 227 . |
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THEA 469 - Stage Makeup Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring
Practical application of all processes and types of stage makeup. Prerequisite: THEA 226 . For theatre majors only. |
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THEA 470 - Advanced Directing Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring, odd years
Principles of directing various styles and periods focusing on the ability of the director to bring a creative viewpoint to bear on the work. Requires student-directed scenes with lab. Laboratory is graded and credited with course. Prerequisite: THEA 454 . For theatre majors only. |
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THEA 480 - Arts and Culture: A Christian Aesthetic Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring
The arts from a Christian viewpoint as both practitioner and audience/patron, applying biblically based strategies to assess, enjoy, and participate in the forms of art prevalent in the culture while remaining faithful to the call of Christ. Same as BIBM 480 . A capstone course. |
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THEA 490 - History of Theatre Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall, odd years
Theatre history from ritual theory and Greek origins to modern theory and practice. Includes focus on cultural and political contexts for theatre events and progressive influences of writers, designers, directors, and performers. Prerequisite: THEA 220 . A writing-intensive course. May be used to satisfy University Requirements. |
University Courses |
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UNIV 011 - Learning Strategies Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
An intensive, holistic, academic program which provides the cognitive, affective, and applicative skills useful for helping students experience academic success. This course is available for variable credit. Please see your advisor for more information. Prerequisite: Placement by department chair or program director. |
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UNIV 012 - Student Success Workshop Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 5 Credit Hours: 1 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring
An intensive, individualized, academic workshop designed to accelerate the cognitive, affective, and applicative skills experienced in UNIV 011 . Course may be repeated. Prerequisite: UNIV 011 . |
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UNIV 111 - Foundations for Success Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
A comprehensive course designed to enhance academic proficiency, career planning skills, financial literacy, and life management skills useful for helping students experience academic and personal success. |
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UNIV 245 - Leadership Foundations Lecture Hours: 3 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 3 Terms Offered: Spring
An introduction to the field of leadership, with an emphasis on current leadership concepts and theories, self-assessment, and personal development within a Christian context. |
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UNIV 419 - Research Readings Lecture Hours: 0 Lab Hours: 0 Credit Hours: 1 Terms Offered: Spring
Designed to introduce undergraduates in the McNair Scholars Program to general research principles and techniques used in their particular field of study. Students will be required to read a set of selected research readings, select and read various research readings related to their discipline, identify a research topic, and begin to conceptualize a research project with the help of a faculty mentor. Prerequisite: Selected to be a McNair Scholars research intern. |
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UNIV 420 - Basic Research Methods Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 1 Credit Hours: 1 Terms Offered: Summer
Introduces new McNair Scholars to basic research concepts and skills. The focus on preparing McNair Scholars to conduct a research project and to write a research paper, which are required as part of the program’s summer research internship. Prerequisite: Selected to be a McNair Scholars research intern. |
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UNIV 421 - Research Writing Lecture Hours: 1 Lab Hours: 1 Credit Hours: 1 Terms Offered: Summer
Introduces undergraduates in the McNair Scholars Program to the process of writing an extended research paper. Students will be given instruction on outlining, organizing, drafting and revising an extended research paper. A portion of each meeting will consist of lecture while the remainder of each meeting will be given to drafting and work shopping. Corequisite: UNIV 420 . |
American Studies Program |
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CPOL 4A0 - Topics in Leadership and Vocation Credit Hours: 3 The course introduces concepts for Christian responsibility and involvement in public issues. By focusing on a public topic relevant to the internship, basic techniques for issue analysis and the narrative pattern of the Bible as an analytical framework will be taught. |
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CPOL 4A1 - Topics in National Affairs Credit Hours: 3 The course exposes students to the Washington leadership networks that are engaged in the complex dynamic of national public policy formation and decision-making. Coursework includes policy analysis, political studies, sociology, ethics, theology, and biblical studies. |
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CPOL 4A2 - Topics in Leadership Management Credit Hours: 3 The course studies the strategic responsibilities of business in shaping the compliance environment of policy regulation and enforcement. Coursework involves concepts important for business, leadership development, business administration, management economics ethics, theology, and biblical studies. |
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CPOL 4A3 - Topics in International Affairs & Globalization Credit Hours: 3 Through field research and face-to-face meetings with experts in Washington’s international community, you are challenged to develop a biblical perspective, either on foreign affairs or on globalization. |
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CPOL 4A4 - Internship Credit Hours: 6 The internship links public-sector employment with classroom work. Students are placed in agencies and offices through the greater Washington metropolitan area. |
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CPOL 4A5 - Mentorship Course (optional) Credit Hours: 1 Students have the opportunity to meet with a professional mentor in their field four times during the semester. |
Australia Studies Centre |
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CHIS 4S0 - Indigenous History, Cultures and Identity Credit Hours: 3 The course will look at the concept of Country, spiritual belief systems, kinship and family relationships, totemic systems, foods and medicines, education systems, and spiritual beliefs including the Creation stories. Students will identify and challenge assumptions that underlie the beliefs, ideas, values and actions that are taken for granted by themselves (as learners). |
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CINT 4S0 - View From Australia: Issues in Religion, Politics Credit Hours: 3 The emphasis of this course is on historical and current local and world issues which affect Australia. Students should develop a basic understanding of the Australian culture and worldview. They will critique their own cultural value structures through Biblical reflection and begin to distinguish these cultural virtues from Christian truth relating to several themes presented in the course. |
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CTHE 4S0 - Faith and the Contemporary Artist I Credit Hours: 4 Terms Offered: Spring
Course content invites investigation of the breadth of human experience through the lens of cultural studies. It explores the contribution of the arts to contemporary culture and enables students to reach for an integration of their faith and their art form in the context of cultural communication. |
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CTHE 4S0 - Faith and the Contemporary Artist II Credit Hours: 4 Terms Offered: Fall
Course content invites investigation of the breadth of human experience through the lens of cultural studies. It explores the contribution of the arts to contemporary culture and enables students to reach for an integration of their faith and their art form in the context of cultural communication. |
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CXXX 4SX - Discipline courses in dance, drama, music, drawing/graphic design, theology/ministry Credit Hours: 7 Discipline selection and courses are subject to availability. Check with the Registrar’s Office. This course is available for variable credit. Please see your advisor for more information. |
China Studies Program |
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CART 4C0 - Chinese Painting Credit Hours: 1 Students will learn to paint from a Chinese artist. They will practice the basics of Chinese water-based brushwork, painting traditional pictures of bamboo, flowers, etc. |
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CBUS 4C0 - International Business in China Credit Hours: 3 Lectures are presented by Christians who have done business in China for years. They cover issues such as fair and ethical business practices and factors involved in out-sourcing jobs to China. Students prepare a paper in which they describe and analyze the differences in the way that an American or international company markets its products or its franchise in China. |
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CBUS 4C1 - Business Internship Credit Hours: 3 Students are placed in jobs that provide meaningful work experience. Students engage in three-week internships, working full-time (40+ hrs/week) for either Western or Chinese companies. In the first part of the semester, all students in the China program will complete the history study tour around China. |
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CEXS 2C0 - Tai Chi Credit Hours: 1 The course emphasizes traditional Chinese forms of stylized self-defense, which tones the body and concentrates the mind. Exercises may focus either on the gentler form of tai chi, or on the more vigorous wu shu, depending on the instructor. |
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CFOR 1C0 - Chinese I Credit Hours: 3 This course focuses on acquiring survival fluency in spoken and written Mandarin Chinese, the national language of China. Chinese I classes will include explanations on aspects of learning the language such as Pinyin (the spelling system used on mainland China) and tones. This course is available for variable credit. Please see your advisor for more information. |
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CFOR 1C1 - Chinese II Credit Hours: 3 Chinese II focuses on acquiring low-intermediate fluency in spoken and written Mandarin Chinese so that a student can handle situations such as travel planning, illness, making appointments, etc. This course will include how Chinese as a language differs from European languages (including English), Chinese dialects, etc. Chinese II students must translate a Chinese pop song. |
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CHIS 3C0 - Chinese History Credit Hours: 3 This course covers the history of China from its earliest beginnings to the present. Students become familiar with the major dynasties of China, their character and contributions, and their major figures. |
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CHUM 4C1 - Dimensions of East Asian Culture Credit Hours: 3 This course introduces students to visual, physical, medical and culinary arts. The majority of the course involves “hands-on” practice. Lectures will be presented about the history & symbolism of Chinese art, explanations and guidelines about Chinese cooking & cuisines, and unifying Chinese philosophy that underlies dimensions of Chinese culture. |
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CINT 4C0 - Intercultural Communication Credit Hours: 3 This course covers issues intended to help students understand and adjust to Chinese culture. The focus will be on how students demonstrate their beliefs in their daily lives within the context of China. Topics include culture and basic values, culture shock, introductory linguistics, contextualization, and factors involved in successful cross-cultural interaction. |
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CPHI 4C0 - Eastern Philosophy and Religions Credit Hours: 3 The course focuses on the teachings, history, and development of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism, and folk religion. It also introduces concepts embedded in Chinese culture such as Yin & Yang, “the Five Phases,” etc. |
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CPOL 4C0 - Contemporary Society: Public Policy and Economic Development Credit Hours: 3 This course examines two key and inter-related aspects of modern China: government policy and economic reforms. Policy covers the structure of the Chinese government, social rights and the legal system, as well as issues such as ethnic minorities, family planning, and education. Economic Development covers the government policies from 1949 to the present, from the commune system to the current market-oriented reforms. |
India Studies Program |
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CART 4I0 - Indian Design: Traditional Costumes and Textiles Credit Hours: 3 A course designed to help students explore the relationship of cultural traditions, customs, and everyday life as expressed in design, clothing and other forms of decoration and adornment. Student will learn firsthand about production of articles of clothing and explore India’s fashion and textile industry. |
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CART 4I1 - Indian Arts & Paintings Credit Hours: 3 Students will have the opportunity to enhance basic drawing and painting skills while examining Indian schools of art, color and technique. The course will emphasize human form drawing, floral design, and birds and animals in their natural environment. |
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CBIB 4I0 - India Religious Landscape Credit Hours: 3 This course provides an introduction and comparative study of the major religious traditions and influences in Indian society and culture. Students will examine the challenges and opportunities for expressing a Christian world and life view in a religiously diverse culture. |
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CBUS 4I0 - Current Perspective of Business In India Credit Hours: 3 An international business course focusing on marketing and management practices in India and its relationship to the global economy. The evolution of retailing in the Indian market and the role of entrepreneurship in economic development and the global economy will be examined. Similarities and differences in Indian business practices compared with Western/US practices will be analyzed. |
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CENG 4I0 - Indian Literature Credit Hours: 3 A survey course examining five major streams of Indian literature. Students will read and examine works of poetry, prose, a variety of short stories, and longer works of fiction. |
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CFAM 4I0 - Culinary Dimensions of Culture: Indian Cuisine, Traditions and Festivals Credit Hours: 3 A study of the expression of cultural, religious and social values expressed through diet, food preparation, and related customs and traditions. The course will explore dietary beliefs and practices common across India and influences that have shaped Indian cooking. |
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CSOC 4I0 - Contemporary India: Culture, Society, Challenges Credit Hours: 4 This course presents an overview of India’s history, development and emergence as a global partner; examining people cultures and social fabric. Designed to provide an integrating context and foundation for the entire semester. |
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CSOC 4I1 - Indian Society & Social Work Intervention Credit Hours: 3 The course will explore the key dimensions of Indian society and related social problems and challenges (past and present). Throughout the course students will interact with local social work students and participate in a variety of field and research projects. |
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CXXX 4I? - Field Experience & Internship Credit Hours: 3 Students may complete an individually designed 90-hour supervised field based internship or practicum. The learning contract will include learning outcomes, specific on site responsibilities and supervisor feedback. |
Latin American Studies Program |
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CBIO 4L0 - Environmental Science Seminar Credit Hours: 4 Students explore the natural sciences in a tropical setting and study their influence on the process of sustainability. Students will participate in research projects, examine sustainable development and management of Costa Rica’s protected natural areas, investigate the ecology of tropical biomes, including highland cloud forest, mangrove forest, coral reefs, lowland rain forests and dry forests. |
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CBIO 4L1 - Field Research Credit Hours: 2 Research coincides with the participants’ interest and focus in the Seminar. |
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CBUS 4L0 - Business Seminar Credit Hours: 3 Within the historical, political, social, religious and economic context and realities of Latin America, the course addresses the role of the Christian business person. In this role students examine how to make effective and ethical business decisions as they relate to issues of social justice. |
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CFOR 2L0/3L0 - Spanish Language Study Credit Hours: 6 Students attend the Spanish Language Institute for an intensive period of four weeks, Monday through Friday, four hours per day. The language is taught as a second language. The course materials are utilized within a native language immersion context, and practiced through exercises in the classroom via workbook assignments, and after class assignments in the city of San José. Pre and post tests will be given to ensure proper placement. |
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CFOR 4L0 - Perspective on Latin American History and Contemporary Issues Credit Hours: 3 This seminar introduces social, historical, political, economic, and religious currents that constitute Latin American society. Students are introduced to historical development of Latin America; a variety of analytical perspectives; the character, past and present, of U.S. policy, as well as the economic reality in the region. |
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CFOR 4L0 - Practicum/Internship/Case Study Credit Hours: 3 The internship/practicum/case study is integrated with the non-core course associated with each concentration. |
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CFOR 4L1 - Travel Practicum Credit Hours: 3 Travel opportunities are available (some required) through other Central American nations to discover the rich diversity of cultures and peoples in the region. This course is available for variable credit. Please see your advisor for more information. |
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CFOR 4L2 - Language and Literature Seminar Credit Hours: 3 Students will examine how Latin Americans view their neighbors to the north and around the world through conversations, conferences and related literature. Latin American society and culture will be studied through its literature, interaction with prominent literary figures, and through local theatrical and film productions. The seminar is taught exclusively in Spanish, including written assignments. |
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CINT 4L0 - Responses to Third World Reality Seminar Credit Hours: 3 Students are challenged in a seminar that includes diverse perspectives, broad readings and hands-on experience in a practicum setting. Participants will re-examine their worldviews and articulate faith-informed positions on several issues concerning relationships of North Americans serving in Latin America. |
Los Angeles Film Studies |
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CJMC 4F0 - Faith and Artistic Development in Film Credit Hours: 3 This course provides students with basic theological underpinnings for their lives as entertainment artists or consumers. Discussions, screenings and readings will seek to place the student’s work in the context of the Christian’s call to serve and spread the Gospel. |
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CJMC 4F1 - Internship: Inside Hollywood Credit Hours: 1 The internship is a nonpaying position primarily in an office setting such as development companies, agencies, producer’s offices, etc. Students work 20-24 hours a week throughout the length of the semester. |
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CTHE 4F0 - Hollywood Production Workshop Credit Hours: 4 Students make a motion picture using Hollywood locations, resources, and protocol. Students participate in a competitive vetting process of scripts, pitches, and meetings. Small group tutorials are offered for each student’s production position. Note: $250 lab fee required. May be applied toward the film production elective requirement of the ACU film minor. |
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CTHE 4F2 - Professional Screenwriting Credit Hours: 3 A course in contemporary screenwriting, including an understanding of dramatic structure, character and dialogue development, and the writing process. Students complete a full-length screenplay for a feature film. May be applied toward the writing for film elective requirement of the ACU film minor. |
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CTHE 4F3 - Independent Study Credit Hours: 3 Course may be set up by special request. Students must submit a portfolio and project proposal. Note: This option is not guaranteed and is limited to students with experience who may need to complete a senior project for graduation. |
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CTHE 4F4 - Professional Acting for Camera Credit Hours: 3 A workshop in the practice and process of acting for the camera designed for students who plan to pursue acting as a career. Instruction includes an overview of camera acting techniques and discussion of the art of acting. |
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CTHE 4F5 - Narrative Storytelling Credit Hours: 3 Concentrating on the art form of narrative storytelling, the course places special emphasis on the visual aspect of the discipline. Two tracks are offered. The Structural track covers topics ranging from the history of story in culture and film to the mechanics of story creation to the development of story-writing skills. Instruction in the Technical Story track focuses on advanced methods of cinematography and post-production and how those techniques can be used to improve visual storytelling. Students will make two short films that demonstrate their ability to utilize storytelling theory on screen. May be applied toward the writing for film elective requirement of the ACU film minor. |
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CUNI 4F0 - Internship: Inside Hollywood Credit Hours: 6 The internship is a nonpaying position primarily in an office setting such as development companies, agencies, producer’s offices, etc. Students work 20-24 hours a week throughout the length of the semester. This course is available for variable credit. Please see your advisor for more information. |
Middle East Studies Program |
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CANT 4e0 - Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East Credit Hours: 4 This course examines the variety of peoples and cultures in societies such as Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, and Turkey. The course seeks to introduce students to patterns of thought and behavior that characterize the region generally without losing sight of important differences across countries. |
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CFOR 1E0 - Introduction to Arabic Language Credit Hours: 4 Taught by Egyptian instructors affiliated with the American University in Cairo, this course aims to help students acquire basic skills in Egyptian Arabic, a dialect widely understood in the Arab world. The course should bring students to the intermediate level of Egyptian colloquial Arabic. |
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CHIS 3E0 - Islamic Thought and Practice Credit Hours: 4 This course examines many dimensions of Islamic faith from early times to the present. While emphasis is on the early period and its influence on latter events and people, it also attempts to relate these early developments to contemporary issues in the Middle East. Students are encouraged to examine both commonalities with and differences between themselves and their Muslim counterparts. |
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CHIS 4E0 - Conflict and Change in the Middle East Credit Hours: 4 The course examines the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, or what many scholars now call “the 100 years war.” Beginning with the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the course traces the origin of the conflict from early encounters between Arab and Jew in Palestine to the contemporary struggle to achieve a final status agreement between Israelis and Palestinians today. |
Oxford Scholars’ Semester |
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CENG 4O1 - Tutorials Credit Hours: 9 The tutorial is the heart of undergraduate teaching at Oxford. It is an hour long conversation between a tutor who is engaged in research and one student who has spent the week reading and writing an essay in answer to an assigned, searching question. The tutorial gives students the chance to read in depth, to formulate their views on a subject, and to consider those views in the light of the detailed, analytical conversation in the tutorial. Students may choose tutorials within the disciplines of classics, English language and literature, history, philosophy, and theology. |
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CENG 4O2 - Integrative Seminar Credit Hours: 4 Students must attend two University of Oxford lecture courses (normally eight weeks). These are in addition to lecture courses attended in conjunction with tutorials. Students should choose a methodological lecture in preference to a purely empirical one, depending on availability. |
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CENG 4O3 - British Landscape Credit Hours: 4 Students study how the British landscape was formed and reformed by societies which successively conquered and settled in it, looking at the dialectic relationship between culture (the economic, social, intellectual, religious, and artistic aspects of each group) and landscape (the natural landscape and the human imprint on that landscape. |
Oxford Summer Program |
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CENG 4O4 - The Christian Tradition in the British Isles Credit Hours: 3 The course explores key moments in the development of Christianity in the British Isles, from the Celtic peoples of Britain under the Roman Empire, to the Anglo-Saxons, the medieval Church, and the emergence of a variety of traditions in the reformation and beyond. |
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CENG 4O5 - Topical Seminars and Tutorials Credit Hours: 3 Students participate in two different seminars which take place during the first two weeks of the program and in a set number of individual tutorials during the second two weeks of the program. |
Uganda Studies Program |
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CBIB 4U0 - Faith and Action in the Ugandan Context Credit Hours: 4 This course combines a traditional classroom component with experiential learning. It explores how exposure to Ugandan Christianity challenges our own faith. Interspersed throughout is a survey of contemporary political, social, economic and religious issues confronting African peoples and countries. |
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CBIB 4U1 - Cross Cultural Immersion/Missions Practicum Credit Hours: 3 Issues and questions explored through readings and experience will include: defining missions, biblical foundations of missions, theology of missions, missions in Uganda, the role of the church, and contextual missions today. The course will ground students in basic aspects of missions’ theory and practice and expose them to related issues and questions. |
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CBIB 4U2 - African Traditional Religions, Christianity and Islam in Contemporary Uganda Credit Hours: 3 Religion dominates the social, political and economic lives of Africans. Three religions have had a strong influence in Uganda; ATR, Christianity and Islam. This course, will survey religions in Uganda, emphasizing ATR and Islam. The study of ATR will be phenomenological in its view, looking at the scheme of ideas that help us appreciate the nature of African religions. The study of Islam will emphasize a basic understanding and appreciation of the life of Prophet Muhammad, its formative influence on Islam as a religion, and its attendant cultural influence in Uganda. In this course, we will also examine the influence of Christianity in Uganda. A very important aspect of our study will be the historical interaction between the three religions-ATR, Islam and Christianity. |
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CBIB 4U3 - Uganda Studies Emphasis Practicum Credit Hours: 3 Students will have opportunities to practice and integrate theory and practice in a cross-cultural setting as they complete a minimum of 150 hours of practice at an approved service location in Uganda. Each student will be on-site 2 days per week under the supervision of their field instructor and the Uganda Studies Program (USP) staff supervisor. In addition students will participate in a Seminar class one hour per week for reflection, with feedback from staff and peers. |
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CENG 4U0 - African Literature Credit Hours: 3 The course offers a survey of the literature of sub-Saharan Africa. Students will be introduced to the distinctive features of East, West, and Southern Africa as well as to the genres of oral literature, fiction, poetry, and drama. Works will be examined on their own merit in regard to theme and style, insights into African society, and the concepts of negritude and black aesthetics. |
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CHIS 4U0 - East African History From 1800 to Independence Credit Hours: 3 This course will familiarize students with the history of Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and Rwanda from 1800 to independence. From the pre-colonial era, the course will focus on colonialism and its effects on East African culture and indigenous social institutions. The course provides a review of East African reaction to colonial policies and a survey of cultural and social changes experienced in East Africa during the colonial period up to the time of decolonialisation. |
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CSOW 4U0 - Social Work Practicum Credit Hours: 3 Same as Uganda Studies Practicum. |
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CXXX 4UX - Additional elective courses are scheduled, but not guaranteed Credit Hours: 3 Discipline selection and courses are subject to availability. Check with the Registrar’s Office. |
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