| source City University of New York (X) |
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department Humanities (X) |
This foundation course is the study of various racial, ethnic and cultural components of the American society from the 16th century to the present. Historical and contemporary issues of the American mosaic will be surveyed as they relate to race, ethnicity, religion, cultural diversity, and pluralism. The course will explore a variety of theoretical perspectives and empirical cases in assimilation, discrimination and reverse discrimination, integration, racism, segregation, social harmony, coexistence, and the future of racial and ethnic groups and cultures in the United States. This is, therefore, a course aimed at understanding and analyzing the various situations of our different and differing American populations, suggesting a comparative comprehension of various patterns of group relations.
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This course will introduce the student to the richness and variety of the Humanities, presenting the various fields involved: Philosophy, Literature, Art, and History. This will allow the student to discover a sense of relationships among life, work, and circumstances, to understand self and society from different times and places and through different eyes, and to reflect on the way personal origins and beliefs affect actions and values.
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This course introduces students to important skills in sound synthesis, sampling techniques, and MIDI production. Students will gain a better understanding of the history of this important element in the history of electronic music and gain a better awareness of how synthesis, sampling, and MIDI continue to play an important role in sound production. Students will learn how to work with the electronic keyboard as a tool in audio production, music composition, arranging, and sound design. By means of ?hands-on? exercises and projects working in actual production environments, students will gain competence with one of the most important tools in music professional?s arsenal.
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This course will introduce the student to the richness and variety of the Humanities, presenting the various fields involved: Philosophy, Literature, Art, and History. This will allow the student to discover a sense of relationships among life, work, and circumstances, to understand self and society from different times and places and through different eyes, and to reflect on the way personal origins and beliefs affect actions and values.
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This foundation course is the study of various racial, ethnic and cultural components of the American society from the 16th century to the present. Historical and contemporary issues of the American mosaic will be surveyed as they relate to race, ethnicity, religion, cultural diversity, and pluralism. The course will explore a variety of theoretical perspectives and empirical cases in assimilation, discrimination and reverse discrimination, integration, racism, segregation, social harmony, coexistence, and the future of racial and ethnic groups and cultures in the United States. This is, therefore, a course aimed at understanding and analyzing the various situations of our different and differing American populations, suggesting a comparative comprehension of various patterns of group relations.
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This course will introduce students to the processes and principles of interpersonal communication in the context of developing relationships. Students will examine how the characteristics of each individual (e.g., gender, age, power, culture) and the characteristics of the environment where the relationship develops can affect the way we communicate. The various communication patterns used in relationship formation and relationship disengagement will also be explored.
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This course is designed to familiarize students with fundamental principles of small group communication practices in various group settings. Topics include: group development, leadership, decision making and problem solving processes, conflict management, and technology and virtual groups. The purpose of this course is to help students enhance their small group communication effectiveness in both interpersonal groups and task-oriented teams.
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This course introduces students to oral performance through verbal and nonverbal interpretation of literature. The focus of this course is to provide students with performance techniques and analytical tools to explore the communicative, aesthetic, and performance elements in prose, poetry, and dramatic literature by means of creative oral presentations. Topics will include: voice development, use of body movement, and interpretation and analysis of literature.
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This course provides a comprehensive overview of normal language acquisition and development. It explores historical and current language theories, research findings and basic stages of typically developing language users. Related topics include an exploration of second language acquisition and atypical language development in people with specific language impairment.
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This course is an introduction to the speech sound system of American English, or, the system of English phonemes. Students will learn how to categorize phonemes according to the International Phonetic alphabet (IPA). Students will practice listening to speech and transcribing it phonetically. Students will be introduced to the acoustic features of sound that are important to speech production. They will be introduced to syllable structure and suprasegmental features that contribute to communication.
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This course will survey the more commonly known speech, language, and hearing disorders that affect children. It is designed to help classroom teachers recognize these disorders, to make appropriate referrals for intervention, and to promote the ability of those with communication disorders to achieve their maximum communicative potential.
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This course will provide students with an introduction to the history of Radio and TV, with an emphasis on major facets of electronic media, including networks, legal aspects and government regulations, cable and satellite ratings and programming. Guest lecturers and field trips as well as hands-on work at the College Radio Station will enhance the experience.
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This course will familiarize students with a basic understanding of the dynamic field of public relations. Students will examine the history, theory, ethics, planning, evaluation, analysis, and global trends of public relations.
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This course explores the functions and responsbilities of the theatre director: script analysis, transfer of written text to the stage blocking, pacing developing characters, using props, sound and theatrical design elements. Students explore the director's relations with the playwright, designers and actors. Activities include viewing videotape of directors at work, attending rehearsals with directors of diverse backgrounds, auditions, casting a play and using various rehearsal techniques.
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This is a course in the art and craft of writing a fictional narrative for the screen. Screenwriting genres and applications vary widely, yet every one reaches its audience through storytelling. Students examine the ways cinematic narratives show, rather than tell. Students then create their own 10-minute movie script. They explore scene and act structure, character development, dialogue, description, etc. Students learn professional standards for writing for the screen and how to use screenplay software.
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Students will identify and examine the concepts and connections among the various disciplines within the humanities such as: philosophy, art, music, theatre, language, and literature. They will do so through a series of readings, observations, and museum/theatre visits and apply basic principles of aesthetics and interpretation.
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This course will explore the field of critical thinking from an international perspective, explaining how various cultures define such concepts as effective thinking, problem solving, logical reasoning, issue analysis, and knowledge. Students will develop a rich and culturally diverse understanding of the critical thinking process. They will enhance their own critical thinking abilities by analyzing varied cultural perspectives on events in the world around them.
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This course will provide students with the fundamental steps required to build a successful e-commerce system. Topics include: Client/Server technologies, Web servers (e.g., Apache, IIS), connectivity with database systems, obtain/connect with secure certificates. This course will provide students with hands-on experience designing, implementing and monitoring business-customer web sites.
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This course introduces students to new media. It explores the applications of new media and discusses underlying technologies such as digital video/audio, Web pages, programming, physical computing, compression and file transfer. The course will build from file and directory manipulation through to the design of interactive materials. The lab portion of the course will explore digital video and audio editing; Web page design; image editing; and a computer scripting language.
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This course explores various aesthetic and ergonomic issues from both the user and technical standpoints of web design. Students are introduced to development tools to aid in the creation of multimedia applications. Topics include the human computer interface, site navigation, browser safe design, HTML, CSS, XML, layout control, templates, plug-ins, and image manipulation.
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Students will further develop their skills using advanced features of the development environments employed in Principles of Multimedia and Web Design. Students will further explore web-development via database connectivity, scripts, graphics, animation scripting, and digital cameras to develop catalog images.
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Students will develop their skills in multimedia and streaming video tools include video capture, video editing, and video compression for streaming media. Students will be introduced to DV software such as Final Cut Pro or Avid to create video that cen be embedded into web pages or burned into DVDs.
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Introduction to range of knowledge available in the curriculum. Discusses subject matter and methodology of various disciplines as well as their relations within and across the curriculum to aid students in making intelligent choices in their course of study.
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Introduction to range of knowledge available in the curriculum. Discusses subject matter and methodology of various disciplines as well as their relations within and across the curriculum to aid students in making intelligent choices in their course of study.
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