Students develop innovative concepts in advertising layout and design through brochures, direct mailers, magazine and newspaper ads. Contemporary techniques in design and production emphasized. Printing techniques, and paper solection introduced as design elements. Nine studio hours per week.
A culminating course that allows digital media students to propose and create large-scale, in-depth projects such as short films, video installations, a complete animation, a photographic series, a 3D printing installation, a web-based research project, etc. that require time and focus to produce. 3 credit hours, may be repeated up to 9 hours.
An advanced study of traditional and contemporary concepts and techniques that provide accounting information for management decision making at both strategic and operational levels. In addition to more, in depth, study of the topics covered in ACC418, topics also include management control systems, and multinational considerations.
An examination of gender issues in domestic and international development.
Introduction to the principles of sustainable mine planning with a focus on environmental control system design, reclamation and restoration design, and environmental monitoring systems.
This course in contemporary genetic analysis emphasizes experimental approaches to biological questions in a variety of eukaryotic organisms. The course includes discussion of the application of methodologies spanning a wide range of genetics, including classical, molecular, quantitative and genome-wide approaches. Primary scientific literature is investigated to understand the development and application of these methods.
This course will survey selected topics relevant to the understanding of the diversity and complexity of human genetics and genetic diseases, and will explore some of the contemporary methodologies used to identify genes underlying human genetic diseases. This course will also cover modern methods for genome analysis since the human genome sequence forms the foundation of current human genetics in research and medicine.
This course in contemporary genetic analysis emphasizes experimental approaches to biological questions in a variety of eukaryotic organisms. The course includes discussion of the application of methodologies spanning a wide range of genetics, including classical, molecular, quantitative and genome-wide approaches. Primary scientific literature is investigated to understand the development and application of these methods.
An interdisciplinary course that introduces students to the drama and oral performances of China from their origins in early time to their contemporary developments. Focuses will be the history and aesthetics of Chinese theatric arts as well as works of regional dramatic forms. Students will also learn to appreciate Chinese performances in terms of both their social, political and historical context and their structural and formal properties. The course will be conducted in English and all required readings are English as well.
This course takes an interdisciplinary approach and analyzes the issues of didacticism in story-telling, the problems of interpretation and the balance between entertaining and enlightening and the art and techniques of narration in traditional Chinese short stories. By reading Taoist, Buddhist, detective and fox and ghost stories as windows onto the social practices and values of traditional China, the course investigates broad social concerns such as identity, gender, sexuality and morality in pre- modern China.
