Refinement and application of language skills by exploring diverse forms of expression in Spanish. Satisfies the language requirement for English majors.
Study of the key cultural patterns in Spanish life including the themes of religion, family relationships and festivals and the dilemmas of work-leisure, sports-cruelty and honor-death through prose, drama and other selected material.
Study of the evolution of Latin American literature. Provides students with the opportunity to read, analyze, discuss and write about seminal works by representative writers from each literary movement and genre.
Examines the duties and responsibilities of auditors and introduces legal liability, generally acceptable auditing standards, audit reports, auditing techniques and procedures. Discussion of engagement planning, tests of internal controls, sampling, types of engagements and workpaper preparation.
A capstone experience that prepares graduates for their professional careers. Perform non-attest services for non-profit organizations, including financial statement preparation and observation of internal controls, and perform substantive testing procedures. Satisfies the ABLE requirement of the Accounting Program.
Introduction to basic elementary black and white photographic methods and darkroom procedures. Students furnish their own cameras, film, paper and developing tank. B.A. core.
Survey of the principal movements comprising the modern tradition in art, including Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, Fauvism, Cubism, Expressionism, Abstract Art, Dada and Surrealism. Emphasis on new theories redefining the concept, form and purpose of art, the persona of the artist, and the relation of art to the social and political order.
Introduction to the principles of serigraphic printing through the study of historical elements and practical processes. Various monochromatic and polychromatic silkscreen printing techniques explored. Students furnish their own materials.
Comprehensive study of the structure and function of the human organism, including the circulatory, respiratory, digestive, urinary, immune and reproductive systems.
As the unifying principle of biology, evolution integrates levels of biological organization, with a focus on biological changes over time and the evidence of the shared evolutionary history of all living things. Topics include speciation; extinction; population processes of selection and adaptation, genomics, and the molecular basis of evolution; sexual selection; life history evolution; and the application of evolution to medicine.
Theory, history, structure and functions of mass media (print, film, recording, radio, television, new media), advertising, journalism and public relations.