Study of the natural history, identification and life cycles of insects. Special reference to those species of medical and economic importance to people.
Advanced study of varying business topics based on students' interests and needs. May substitute for a concentration elective depending on the topic (see director of undergraduate studies).
Introduction to the study of persuasion and argumentation. Focus on how changes in attitudes and behavior may generally result and how various factors may contribute to persuasive outcomes. Examines practical reasoning in the construction of persuasive argument. Course includes practice in oral and written argument.
Critical study of the transformation of the mass media and cultural landscape in relation to digital media and information technologies. Examines the consequences of the convergence of media platforms and technologies for individuals, society, politics, culture and the media industries.
Provides an opportunity to focus reportorial and production skills on a specialized topic. Specialized topics could include, but are not limited to, sports, community, business or international issues. Student work produced will be offered to media organizations around Maryland for use in professional broadcast news programs or news websites.
Concentrates on the principles, techniques and tools of modern compiler construction. Topics include lexical analysis, parsing and semantic analysis, translation, code generation, run-time organization, abstract syntax, type checking and register allocation. Will design and implement a working compiler.
Emphasizes the value of play and creativity in young children ages birth through 8. Provides a means of experiencing how and why play is essential to children's social, cognitive, physical and emotional development. Explores the development of children's creativity and its relationship to play. Addresses the importance of high-quality and meaningful play and creative experience that are integral to developmentally appropriate practice in the early childhood classroom. Includes clinical experiences.
Engages in full-time clinical experience with designated mentors in Professional Development School sites, progressively assuming the lead-teacher role in the classroom while planning and co-teaching with the mentor.
Engages in full-time clinical experience with designated mentors in Professional Development School sites, progressively assuming the lead-teacher role in the classroom while planning and co-teaching with the mentor.
Examines differences in how firms behave and perform under alternative market structures including monopolistic competition, oligopoly, monopoly and pure competition. Analyzes problems created by industrial concentration and public policies for dealing with these problems.
Explores literature of America's ethnic cultures and their historical and literary contexts. May include literature written by Americans of African, Asian, Arab, Latina/o and/or Native American ancestry.
A survey of literature produced in and around the British Isles between the 8th and 15th centuries of the Common Era. Anglo-Saxon and other early medieval selections presented in translation although the course includes instruction in rudimentary Old English. Middle English works (excluding Chaucer) presented in the original. Primary texts historicized and contextualized through secondary readings in history, ethnography, the arts, criticism.
A study of British literature from 1660 through the 18th century. Writers studied include Behn, Rochester, Dryden, Defoe, Swift, Pope, Johnson, Boswell, Goldsmith, Burns and Blake.
A study of British poetry and aesthetics from the French Revolution through the first third of the 19th century. Primary readings from Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats.
Deeply engage with contemporary poetry and its trends, produce publishable work and become fluent in the language of contemporary poetry broadly and in one particular aspect of that conversation specifically. Read some of the classic poems online and, through four monograph books, explore the range of technique in the contemporary collections. Explore advanced poetry techniques and gain a critical understanding of the important aspects of the discourse of contemporary poetry. Learn how to initiate, develop and complete a marketable project and become extremely well versed in one particularly important technique or topic.
