Elective Courses

The function of getting your work ready to be seen at festivals by enthusiasts and/or industry professionals, with the intention of getting your "foot in the door", is the basis of this course. We will address the most important factors for introducing yourself to the industry by preparing a diverse, high quality demo reel, featuring quality animation that shows you have a strong and clear understanding of animation principles. Whether your path is 2D, 3D or a more experimental Stop Motion, in a large commercial studio, an independent animator, or within the festival circuit, this course will investigate the current resources, and prepare you to take the best steps for that direction.

The study of drawing the human anatomy, especially with concerns in articulating expressive gesture poses for motion, requires much practice. This course will elevate a students’ understanding of complex mechanics in the human figure, while continuing to emphasize the importance of sound construction in drawing. It is designed for experienced students, who are interested in additional attention on capturing the observed effects of light and movement on the human form.

This is the culmination course for collaborative game development methodologies. It is also the first half of the Capstone experience and incorporates several new preproduction tasks. Students will enter into a developer/publisher relationship with their faculty advisor and go through to the necessary steps to get their projects green lighted. Then they will utilize all of their skills to create a working game prototype that is ready for detail and polish.

This is an advanced expanded media pre-production class, designed to prepare students to conceptualize and write the proposal for their senior capstone project. Before students can advance to CAT 420 Capstone, an approved proposal, including the treatment, script, storyboard, installation plan and production schedule must be completed. Students must achieve advanced production skills in CAT 366 or CAT 368 before advancing to CAT 409.

Students who have satisfied requirements will be assigned two full days per week in an approved pre-school, elementary, middle school, or high school setting. Students will spend time observing, participating, and teaching in an assigned class under the direction of a Cooperating Teacher and a College Supervisor. The student is expected to begin to fulfill the role of teacher, including attendance at faculty meetings, professional development opportunities, and duty assignments. This course will include monthly seminar meetings (four(4) times throughout the semester) where students are provided with guidance to complete their clinical practice assignments including the preparation for edTPA performance assessment.

The course examines how current experiences of racial privilege and oppression are shaped by historical forces, institutional and organizational policies, social constructions and socio-cultural arrangements. It will analyze how structures of race, ethnicity and class are intertwined with a variety of social justice systems. It will focus on types and sources of power, multiple social locations, social conflicts and how they all interact

This course surveys the major trends in economic thought since the 19th century. Schools of economic thought to be discussed and critically analyzed include: classical political economics, neoclassical economics, Marxian, Austrian institutionalists, Keynesian and Post-Keynesian economics.

Working in a critical and collaborative environment students develop and complete a semester-long recording project of professional caliber. As a culmination of the DAE series, CAT 410 emphasizes project management, problem solving, originality and technical precision. Students direct the flow of the course which is tailored to meet the specific needs of their projects. Group critique, student-to-student feedback and collaboration are essential elements of the course. CAT 410 is a hands-on studio production course which serves as a bridge to a creative and professional working dynamic.

Introduction to portfolio selection, technical analysis, brokers, description of securities, mutual fund investment and short term investments. In-depth introduction to fundamental analysis of securities investment valuation theory-expanded coverage of the capital asset pricing model, option pricing theory, derivatives investments, diversification and risk, statistical measures of risk, return, capital market behavior.

This course focuses on the problems we face in society today, how we recognize and attempt to solve them, and the political, economic, and cultural institutions that construct and shape social problems.

(Formerly EDC 401) Students who have successfully completed all academic requirements will be assigned to full-time teaching in an approved school setting relevant to the area of intended certification. Students will observe, interact and teach under the direction of a Cooperating Teacher and College Supervisor. Student teaching applications must be submitted by April 1st for Fall placement and by October 1st for Spring placement.

This course examines changes in technology, culture, economy, political structure, and social consciousness which contributed to and were consequences of colonization, industrialization, and revolution. Historical and comparative analysis of theories of social change are studied.

The course approaches modern inorganic chemistry by integrating descriptive and physical principles using molecular orbital theory to describe chemical bonding and reactivity. Structures, magnetic properties, and spectra of transition metal complexes are described using the crystal and ligand field theories. Special topics, such as, catalysis, organometallics, and bioinorganics are included. The course includes lecture and recitation.

(Also WMS 414) This course examines the nature of social protest and resistance to oppression and social injustice, the ways in which individuals have organized to challenge the limitations and boundaries imposed upon themin order to create the conditions necessary for a dignified life, and the consequences of social protest. Topics may include: revolutionary, human rights, civil rights, black power, labor, and women’s movements around the world.

(Also SOC 414) This course examines the nature of social protest and resistance to oppression and asocial injustice, the ways in which individuals have organized to challenge the limitations and boundaries imposed upon them in order to create the conditions necessary for a dignified life, and the consequences of social protest. Topics include: revolutionary, human rights, civil rights, black power, labor, and women's movements around the world.

(Formerly EDC 402) This seminar utilizes group discussions to assist in the analysis and evaluation of identified classroom problems, best practices, classroom behavior management techniques and coping strategies. Efforts are made to socialize the student teacher to the profession of teaching. Attention is given to career placement tools and strategies.

This four hour laboratory is associated with CHM 414. Laboratory work emphasizes the syntheses and characterization of transition metal complexes.

This course is the first of two Cyber Security courses based on the CCNA Security curriculum. It provides advanced skills and techniques to mitigate common security vulnerabilities and threats. Students will be able to implement security techniques and configure devices to secure LANs and WANs, implement AAA (Authentication, Authorization and Accounting) and configure firewalls. Students will also be able to implement zone-based firewalls and Intrusion Prevention systems.

The course will explore how gender impacts our lives and life chances. The central themes of the course are historical changes in gender beliefs and practices; socialization practices that reproduce gender identities and restrict access to justice systems; how race/ethnicity, class, and sexual orientation shape the experience of gender; and the relationship between gender, power, and social inequality. The course focuses on the social construction of gender. Other theories of gender such as biological explanations will be discussed in comparison to the social constructionist approach. Gender will be explored as an institution and a system as well as how it influences individuals. Because gender does not exist in a vacuum, gender will be discussed in relation to its intersection with other social locations such as race, class, sexual orientation, age, and ethnicity.

Cases in personnel including the resolution of complex problems in the procurement, development, maintenance and utilization phases of personnel. Discussion of and selection from alternate solutions to actual business and industry problems.

(Also WMS 415) This course involves a comprehensive examination of the particular situation of women when confronting the criminal justice system. Topics include: the history of women’s imprisonment, responses to female crime, theories of female criminality, crime statistics pertaining to women, and the criminal justice system’s response to women when they encounter it as victims.

This is the final course in the abstract mathematics sequence. Topics include: groups, rings, fields, integral domains, isomorphisms, homomorphisms, sub group structure of finite groups.

(Also SOC 415) This course involves a comprehensive examination of the particular situation of women when confronting the criminal justice system. Topics include: the history of women’s imprisonment, responses to female crime, theories of female criminality, crime statistics pertaining to women, and the criminal justice system’s response to women when they encounter it as victims.

This course examines the racial representation of victims and offenders in the criminal justice system. Various perspectives and theories about the race-crime correlation are examined. Topics include: theories about race and crime, racial profiling, race riots, multicultural law enforcement, race and sentencing, and bias related crimes.

(Also SOC 4 17) A requirement for the WMS minor, this course focuses on contemporary feminist theories regarding culture, identity, class, "race'/ethnicity, gender and sexuality. Relationships between social theory and praxis, and research methodology and the creation of knowledge are explored.