This course explores German filmmaking in the 21st century. It is an introduction to the understanding and interpretation of films produced in a specific national context outside of what is commonly referred to as Hollywood. Our examination will have two parts. An introduction to interpretative strategies used to understand feature length films as one of the dominant modes of storytelling and myth making in the contemporary world.
The course will allow students to apply concepts they learned in HHS 362 in various Wayfinding and Shadowing opportunities in the healthcare system. Additionally, students will become more familiar with hospital services and work with patients who are seeking advice about the availability of health resources, health services and health information.
This course examines the steps required to create a new company and implement a new business initiative utilizing customer development models, product development models, and the business model canvas. With a focus on hospitality businesses, students will be taught how to think like entrepreneurs and develop their soft skills to prepare for successful careers.
Valuable to any student, whether they are a designer or future property owner, this class explores the challenges and artful solutions employed to up cycle existing buildings. Course materials will focus on determining which treatment is most appropriate, evaluating significance, reviving existing spaces, and acquiring historic tax credits.
This course explores issues of ethics and social justice in the context of historic preservation by examining how these issues have shaped the public debate, policy making, and policy execution surrounding heritage resources. It will provide an overview of how issues such as race, gender, location, and income play a part in preservation efforts in the United States. It will further address ethical considerations in the global context through an examination of the impacts of climate change, political conflict, and human rights on heritage resources.
PhD level research and independent study in Integrated Plant and Soil Sciences. May be repeated to a total of 18 credit hours. Work may be conducted in any of the disciplinary areas in IPSS subject to the approval of the PhD committee chair and Program Graduate Committee.
A study of the internationalization of retailing and factors that influence the process in foreign countries such as countries' level of development and how countries' governments are supporting the growth of their retail industries. Social, economic, and environmental perspectives will also be considered as they relate to countries' retail markets and retail trade at the global level.
This course asks students to think critically about the concept of democracy by close examination of the first flowering democracy in ancient Athens, its ancient critics, and comparison to their own experience of contemporary American democracy. Fundamental issues that will engage the students' discussion and writing include: socioeconomic class, individual rights, the scope of government, justice, and democracy and imperialism. Students will develop and articulate their own evaluation of the advantages and disadvantages of democratic government.
This undergraduate course will provide instruction in drug use, misuse and abuse to assist students in understanding what constitutes drug misuse and abuse as well as learning about most commonly misused drugs and the myriad of issues surrounding drug use. This will allow students to apply the information in their own lives and lives of those around them. Another rationale for the course is to spark interest in the study of drugs and a potential future in health care.
This course is designed as a capstone experience, one in which students will incorporate dance technique, creativity, theory, and teaching, and infuse it into an community engagement project with high impact in a specific population, school, or organization in the area.
