All Courses
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ENGL 1005B-41
ENGL 1005B is the second course in a two-term first-year college writing course intended for students who would benefit from having two terms to complete a first-year writing course. Students who complete ENGL 1005A successfully in the Fall enroll in the second term (ENGL 1005B) of the year-long writing course in the Spring. In both ENGL 1005A and ENGL 1005B, students develop strategies for using writing to explore, interpret, and communicate information about themselves and their lives; use writing as a tool to learn and to discover; develop critical reading strategies; develop a sense of purpose and audience; develop their ability to reduce sentence-level errors in their writing; and increase their ability to use writing to accomplish their own goals in the university and society. Successful completion of ENGL 1005B satisfies the General Education Written Communication requirement (GE A2).
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DANC 1400-01
Introduction to contemporary dance with a focus on alignment, flexibility, strength, the fundamentals of dance vocabulary and the connection between movement, thought and emotion. May be repeated up to 6 units. Course Content 1. Anatomy: skeletal, muscular/tendons 2. Alignment, flexibility, strengthening 3. Fundamental dance vocabulary developed out of the ballet tradition 4. Fundamental modern dance vocabulary 5. Fundamental contemporary dance vocabulary 6. Fundamentals of rhythm, beats and counting music 7. Spatial relations: self/ensemble/environment 8. Directions in space 9. Stage definitions of space (upstage, downstage, off-stage, etc.) 10. Qualities of movement (legato, staccato, syncopation, suspension) 11. Combinations of movement vocabulary in time and space 12. Assignments: attend a minimum of three (3) on-campus performance events 13. Final Exam: student-generated dance (duet/trio – 3 minutes maximum) that demonstrates application of course material. Student Learning Outcomes Upon completion of this course, students will be able to: • Articulate a knowledge of and practice of proper skeletal alignment • Demonstrate how to release personal habits of tension that inhibit proper alignment • Demonstrate how to properly isolate, stretch and strengthen the joints and muscles of the body • Demonstrate the differences in movement vocabularies between ballet, modern and contemporary dance • Count musical time • Move in sync with specific musical times • Learn a series of movements and repeat in time and space • Move in relationship to other people in the space, and in relationship to the space itself • Combine learned shapes and movement vocabularies to create a combination of movement in time and space
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BIOL 4200-80
This class is an introduction to the emerging discipline of Earth System Science, which considers interlinked physical and biological processes. We will examine the major transformations occurring on the Earth, the causes of these changes (both anthropogenic and natural), and their likely consequences for Earth’s biological systems. The impacts of global change on specific systems, including fisheries, forests, agriculture, as well as impacts on ecosystem processes, biodiversity, biological productivity, and sustainability will be considered. An important aspect of this rapidly developing field of science is the ability to evaluate the validity of scientific claims as a basis for sound policy decisions. Thus, the course will emphasize critical thinking by asking you to carefully consider the nature of the scientific evidence discussed, and the integrity of public statements on this topic.