2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
Course Descriptions
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At the end of each course description, information is provided to indicate when the course will be scheduled.
Please Note: Schedules are subject to change; consult the Office of the Student Financial Services prior to registration. The Registrar’s website is www.iona.edu/registrar.
Courses designated NLA (non-liberal arts) cannot be applied toward the minimum liberal arts credit requirements. Course prerequisites are included in this listing. Unless otherwise specified, a course does not have a prerequisite.
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ENG 214 - New Worlds
Students will be introduced to the broad outlines of the English literary tradition through an encounter with texts drawn from multiple periods of English literary history, as well as be exposed to the dialogue between the Western and non-Western literary traditions. This option for the English Core will introduce you to a selection of major literary texts that investigate or offer new worlds to their readers. The premise of this core course is that these works are practical. By working with them, we will hone our ability to read texts, our worlds, each other, and ourselves. The course will emphasize how literature has given us new ways of thinking about past and future, old worlds and new.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered Fall, Spring & Summer
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ENG 308 - Major Works of Shakespeare
The Major Works of Shakespeare guides students as they read, analyze, discuss, and craft academic essays about some of Shakespeare’s seminal plays-histories like Henry V, comedies like As You Like It, tragedies like Hamlet, and romances like A Winter’s Tale. Students will learn how to close read such texts within a variety of historical, cultural, and theoretical contexts. This course satisfies the Shakespeare requirement for English majors and Education majors with English Concentration.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
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ENG 310 - Shakespeare on Film
Shakespeare’s plays have been appearing on film since the development of film in the late 19th century. Filmmakers have generally followed one of three trends in presenting Shakespeare on film: filming a staged version of the play; developing a story line inspired by a Shakespearean play; or translating Shakespeare’s plays directly into the film media, creating a cinematic adaptation that makes use of all of the opportunities film provides. This seminar focuses primarily on the third category of Shakespeare on film. We will examine how contemporary filmmakers translate their interpretations of the Shakespeare plays to the cinema and how those translations then affect our readings of the plays. By attending to the decisions of the actors, directors, cinematographers, and editors, we will deepen our understanding of Shakespeare’s texts and of the medium of film.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
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ENG 313 - Milton
A study of the full range of Milton’s poetry; assessment of his reception and importance in the twentieth century.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 314 - Introduction to Literary Studies
An introduction for the newly declared English major to the discipline of literary study. An exploration of the salient features of fiction, poetry, and drama in conjunction with a critical examination of primary texts and of the varieties of critical writing and research that their study requires.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in the Fall Semester. Written Intensive. Offered in the Spring Semester.
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ENG 332 - The Eighteenth-Century Novel
A study of the origins, or “rise” of the novel as a literary genre and socio-cultural phenomenon between 1660 and 1810.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in the Fall Semester
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ENG 333 - English Drama from the Restoration to the Present
A study of English drama from the sophisticated comedies of the Restoration to the work of such moderns as Shaw and Pinter.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 334 - The Classic English Novel
A study of selected works from the nineteenth century up to World War I, tracing the development of the genre in the works of authors such as Austen, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy, and Conrad.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 335 - The Twentieth-Century British Novel
A study of selected great novels of the twentieth century, beginning with the innovative work of Joyce and Woolf and examining further developments up to the present in the novels of writers such as Lawrence, Greene, Waugh, Murdoch, McEwan, Powell and Drabble.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 339 - World Drama
This course is a study of the world drama from the beginnings in ancient Greece to the most recent works of contemporary playwrights. Areas to be covered include classical drama, the medieval stage, Renaissance drama, the Restoration, melodrama, realism, the Theatre of the Absurd, and contemporary drama.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 343 - Irish Literature
While focusing on the Irish Renaissance (the period between 1880 and 1930), reading and discussion will also examine literature written before and after the renaissance, to include such writers as Edgeworth and Moore, Yeats and Joyce, Synge and Lady Gregory, Boland and Heaney, Friel and MacLaverty.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 351 - Classical Mythology
An introduction to the myths of ancient Greece and Rome from primary texts, ancient artistic renditions, and Renaissance and more recent (re-)interpretations of those myths.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
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ENG 352 - Shifting Selves
This course aims to explore different conceptions of identity, contact, and cultural belonging. By reading various works of contemporary literature and other cultural texts from different humanities, social science, and science disciplines, it will unpack some of the ways in which identities are socially and culturally constructed. The course will study those constructions of identity in order to ask how one participates and/or does not participate in their making and how one negotiates them. Furthermore, the course will deliberate on the ways in which one’s personal identity is also constituted by one’s memories of the past. Accordingly, it will examine the relationship between what we remember and our conceptions of who we are in relation to our past selves, other people, and even digital technologies. It will also explore how one’s embodied self can both bear the inscription of the prevailing idea one’s identity and disrupt those ideas. Instead of taking individual identity as a given set of unchanging qualities, over the course of the semester the class will consider the shifting relationship among the identity, contact, and belonging.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Fall, Winter & Spring Semester
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ENG 353 - Narratives of Violence
The goal of this course is to analyze how representations of violence in literature, media, and art shape our understandings of various kinds of violence and the impulses behind specific violent events throughout history. We will examine the interplay between grand narratives of violence (e.g. revolutions, national beginnings, new political orders) and personal accounts of memory, loss, and trauma. Ultimately, we will map similarities and differences among seemingly disparate forms of violence, such as physical, psychological, political, economic, epistemic, cultural, interpersonal, and personal.
In this study, we will reflect on some of the following questions: how do frames of violence, conflict, and peace shape our understanding of these events? What rhetorical strategies produce the effect of official or unbiased accounts of conflict, and what kinds of representations seem personal or biased? What comparisons can we make among different narratives of intention and harm? From whose point of view are these stories of conflict constructed? And how do these acts of narration shape influential conversations about culpability, harm, resources, and healing in literature, art, and culture?
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Integrated Core Theme Centerpiece Offered in Fall & Spring
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ENG 354 - Playing at the Edges: Innovation and Non-Normativity
In this course, students will study how innovation is often a product of difference, rather than merely disruption. In so doing, they will adopt an interdisciplinary approach to explore how innovative thinking often requires certain distance from the dictations of normativity. Informed by case studies in literature, technology, music, dance, film, fashion, architecture, and more, they will ask how normativity often impedes rather than promotes discovery.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Integrated Core Theme Centerpiece. Offered in Fall & Spring
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ENG 355 - East Asian Literature in Translation
Reading and discussion of major works and writers of China and Japan beginning with ancient times, and including such twentieth century works as ‘Rashomon’ and ‘Snow Country.’
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 358 - Advanced Writing : Strategies and Skills
A course devoted to the theory and practice of effective writing for English majors, minors, and non-majors (juniors and seniors with permission of instructor). In addition to reading assignments in literature and expository essays, the course will focus in student writing, particularly analytical writing, and will address how to formulate a strong thesis, organize arguments, and use secondary sources. The focus on student writing will refine the skills nesessary for the workplace, the elementary/secondary classroom, and/or graduate school.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Alternate Years. Written Intensive.
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ENG 360 - Nineteenth-Century American Romanticism and Realism
A study of major works and themes of the Romantic and Realistic movements in nineteenth century American literature.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 362 - Eugene O’Neill and his Influences
This course will study Eugene O’Neill’s major works as well as the writers that influenced O’Neill, including Greek tragedy, the plays of Ibsen and Strindberg, and the melodrama that made and destroyed his father’s acting career. The course will also study a range of works that demonstrate O’Neill’s lasting influence on playwrights in the twentieth and twenty-first century.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Fall & Spring
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ENG 364 - Modern American Theater
Reading and discussion of major works and trends in American drama from the early plays of O’Neill to the present.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 365 - African Amercian Literature
This course examines a variety of African Amercian writers. Emphasis will be on the development of African American literacy traditions and how contemporary writers have interpreted these traditions. Writers to be considered in the course may be drawn from the 18th, 19th or 20th centuries and may include such figures as Phillis Wheatley, Fredrick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Nella Larsen, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, and Toni Morrison.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Diversity, Cross-Cultural and Global Perspectives Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 367 - Modern American Poetry
A study of the development of American poetry in the twentieth century emphasizing major poets from T.S. Eliot to the present.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 368 - Modern American Fiction
A study of the techniques, structures and themes in the fiction of major American writers of the first half of the twentieth century.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 369 - Special Studies in Themes in American Literature
An intensive study of a significant theme which appears in the works of major writers and reflects a particularly American problem or point of view such as “The Mythic Dimension of American Literature,” “The American Catholic Experience,” “Ethnicity and Identity,” or “African American Literature.”
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 370 - Contemporary American Fiction
An examination of the themes and forms of American fiction from the 1960’s to the present.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 372 - Multicultural Writers of America
An advanced survey of American literature that focuses upon multicultural themes and perspectives. Literary texts from several ethnic groups (African American, Asian American, Jewish American, Latino, and Native American) will foreground a discussion of such topics as assimilation, displacement, and bicultural identity.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Diversity, Cross-Cultural and Global Perspectives
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ENG 378 - Children’s Literature
This course is a critical survey of children’s literature. Specific course interests include the history of the genre, the position of children’s literature within educational curricula and culture at large, and the cultural construction of children and childhood. The course focuses on children’s texts as literature and will examine the literary techniques and conventions employed in course material.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Fall & Spring
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ENG 380 - Literature for Young Adults
This course is a critical survey of young adult literature. Specific course interests include the history of the genre, the position of young adult literature within educational curricula and culture at large, and the ways texts for adolescents reflect the development of the adolescent, particularly in relation to social and political power structures. The course focuses on young adult texts as literature and will examine the literary techniques and conventions employed in course material.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
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ENG 384 - Images of Women in Modern American Literature
This course provides an intensive study of the presentation of women in the works of major American writers from the turn of the century to the present.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Diversity, Cross-Cultural and Global Perspectives. Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 399 - Linguistics and History of English Language
This course will focus on two topics. First, it will study the descriptive and analytical concepts of structural linguistics. Second, it will study origin, relationships, and the evolution of the English language.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
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ENG 401 - Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
A study of Chaucer against the background of his age, with special reference to his language, style, and poetic technique, emphasizing ‘The Canterbury Tales.’
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in the Fall Semester
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ENG 402 - Medieval Literature
This course is intended to give students a sense of the breath and diversity of medieval English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through the late fifteenth century. We will read various works against a changing gistorical and linguistic backdrop and consider how both content and reflect and reinforce their times.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
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ENG 405 - Seventeenth-Century British Literature: The World Turned Upside Down
In the seventeenth century, England experienced dramatic social and political changes: a king was tried and executed for treason; opposing political, religious, and social factions waged battles in pring; puritans emigrated to the New World; men and women argued over the value of womankind; and scientific empiricism and instrumentation began to contend with religious worldviews. As a period in literary history, the century is frequently divided into an Age of Milton (or Donne) and an Age of Dryden. Reading representative works in the major genres of the century, we will attempt to understand the processes of change and the persistence of continuities in its literature.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
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ENG 407 - Chaucer: Troilus and Criseyde and the Minor Poems
A close analysis of Chaucer’s emerging poetic power, with special emphasis on “Troilus and Criseyde.”
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in the Spring Semester
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ENG 409 - Ideas and Ideals in the English Renaissance
A study of the types of literary expression in the English Renaissance, with emphasis on such major figures in prose, poetry, and drama as More, Sidney, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Marlowe.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 412 - The Metaphysical Poets of the Seventeenth Century
A thorough study of the love poetry, sexual and divine, of the greatest of these poets, John Donne, and consideration of others such as Herbert, Vaughan, and Marvell.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 416 - Early American Literature
This course is a critical survey of American literature to 1800, exploring works written by indigenous writers, African American writers, early European explorers and settlers, eighteenth-century colonists, and citizens of the new nation.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Fall & Spring
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ENG 423 - English Literature of the Eighteenth Century
This course examines the literature of the “long” eighteenth-century (1660-1792) and recognizes the transatlantic circulation of ideas and literature between America and England in that period. At the same time, it explores the global eighteenth century and the issues which derive from its study. These may include the purpose of satire, the rise of the novel, the importance of the “Orient” in Western thought, the institution of slavery, the status of “pre-romanticism,” and the emergence of the author as cultural hero.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 430 - The Romantic Poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Colerige, Keats, Shelly and Byron
A study of the Romantics’ modernity of thought, rebellion against literary tradition, and psychological insights. The Romantics’ attitudes about political reform, the role of the writer in society, and women and love are also discussed.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 432 - The Victorian Age
The course examines Victorian literature as it reflects the dominant forces of the age. Specific topics include industrialization, gender roles, and colonialism. Texts will be drawn from a range of genres and authors, including George Eliot, Alfred Tennyson, Charles Dickens, and Elizabeth Gaskell.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 440 - Special Studies in Themes in British Literature
A study of a significant theme or tradition which appears in the works of major writers, such as: ‘The Shakespearean Film’, ‘The Arthurian Tradition,’ and ‘The Catholic Experience in Modern British Fiction.’
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 443 - Special Topics in World Literature
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Diversity, Cross-Cultural and Global Perspectives
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ENG 444 - Post Colonial Literature
This course examines the literatures written in English that have emerged from regions or countries formerly colonized by England and the United States, such as Africa, Australia, New Zealand, India, Ireland, the Philippines, and the Caribbean. Topics to be considered may include: the processes of colonization and de-colonization; the problem of writing in the colonizer’s language; the use of postcolonial criticism and theory; and the question of what “postcolonial” means to different writers. Writers to be studied may include: Salman Rushdie, Seamus Heaney, Keri Hulme, Jessica Hagedorn, J.M. Coetzee, Nadine Gordimer, Chinua Achebe, and Derek Walcott, among others.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Diversity, Cross-Cultural and Global Perspectives. Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 451 - Creative Writing: Poetry
Studies and practice in the writing of poetry. Classes will be geared to individual needs. Student writing will be discussed and evaluated individually and in groups.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered When Needed
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ENG 452 - Creative Writing Fiction
Studies and practice in the writing of fiction. Classes will be geared to individual needs. Student writing will be discussed and evaluated individually and in groups.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered When Needed
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ENG 454 - Digital Age Writing, Reading and Living
A brief introduction to “Digital Humanities” that familiarizes students with the tools, concepts, and debates concerning arts and letters in an increasingly networked age. Part literary studies, part cultural studies, and part composition studies, this triangulated exploration probes how the “digital turn” has impacted the way we think, read, and write. Students will engage network fiction, acquire digital writing skills, and theorize about how to create value and meaning in a critical internet culture. Finally, students will explore what digital approaches have in common with older forms of rhetoric and aged technologies and will discover how digital practices have ushered in new forms and motivated new aesthetics.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Fall & Spring
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ENG 467 - Modern British and Commonwealth Poetry
A study of the development of British poetry in the twentieth century, emphasizing major poets from Yeats to the present.
Lecture
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in Alternate Years
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ENG 470 - Literature Seminar
Research and readings in selected authors and topics.
Seminar
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered When Needed
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ENG 480 - Internship in English
Participation as a trainee in an off-campus or on-campus working experience related to the student’s interests within the English major. A paper evaluating this experience and periodic reports to a faculty advisor are required.
Internship
3 Credits
The prerequisites for all ENG courses at the 300 and 400 level are as follows:
1) Either ENG 120 or ENG 122
2) Either ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214
Offered in the Spring Semester
Department Consent Required
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ENG 481 - Senior Project
Students will engage in a semester-long project under the guidance of a faculty mentor. Projects will allow students to pursue areas of interest in greater depth; to create substantial work that will serve as a centerpiece for their academic portfolios; and to demonstrate subject knowledge and critical skills in any of the following forms:
1) A traditional thesis of no fewer than 7500 words
2) An archival research project
3) A 45 minute lecture (ENGTalk), to be presented and recorded before a live audience of peers
4) A digital project (blog, podcast, eJournal, etc.)
Students are encouraged, but not required to use the Project to develop an interest arising from previous coursework.
Eligibility Requirements:
–3.5 major GPA
Independent Study
3 Credits
Prerequisite(s): ENG 120 /ENG 122 , and ENG 203 , ENG 204 or ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214 , ENG 314 , senior status, 3.3 Major GPA, permission of department chair and faculty mentor, completed Senior Project Proposal Form
Offered in Fall & Spring
Department Consent Required
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ENG 499 - Senior Seminar: Literature and Criticism
Intensive study and discussion of a group of literary works and of criticism applicable to those works to provide a capstone experience for the College Core and for the major.
Seminar
3 Credits
Prerequisite: ENG 120 /ENG 122 , ENG 203 , ENG 204 , ENG 212 , ENG 213 or ENG 214 , Senior Standing
Capstone Course. Open to Seniors Only. Written Intensive. Offered in Fall & Spring.
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FLM 350 - Film
A study of the way film works as communication, as art/entertainment and as an industry. Developing styles, types of film, and various approaches to criticism will be discussed. The course will include viewing, discussion and written analysis of feature films, shorts and excerpts from the origins of film to the present.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in the Fall Semester
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FLM 351 - Film History
A study of selected topics in cinematic history from the silent era, such as the development of the classic tradition, the interrelationships of film and culture in a defined historical period, problems in film historiography, the impact of technology, and the growth of the industry.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered When Needed
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FLM 353 - Film Criticism
An analysis of major critical and theoretical approaches to cinema studies. Students will write reviews and analyses of contemporary and classic films.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered When Needed
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FLM 354 - Contemporary Cinema
A survey of recent films from several cultures. Students will consider what the movies of our time tell us about our world, how filmmaking and film viewing have changed in recent years, and how the movies of different cultures influence each other.
Lecture
3 Credits
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FLM 355 - Independent Cinema
Though we tend to associate American movies with Hollywood, the history of our national cinema has been significantly shaped by filmmakers working outside, or at the margins of the Hollywood system. This course will consider films by artists working in the significant modes of independent cinema (features, experimental, documentary) and trace the history and influence of American independents to the present, while speculating upon their future in an age of cheap, plentiful film technology.
Lecture
3 Credits
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FLM 360 - Major Filmmakers
An analysis of the style, concepts and narrative design in key works of two or three selected major filmmakers, such as Bergman, Bunuel, Eisenstein, Keaton, Lang, Fellini, Chaplin, Griffith, Hitchcock, and Kurosawa.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered When Needed
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FLM 362 - International Film
A survey of international films stressing their unique national characters, as well as comparative trends, themes and techniques.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered When Needed
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FLM 364 - Film Genres
Concepts of genre are examined in light of selected popular categories such as the western, the horror film, the crime film, and the musical. The relationship between the recurring structural elements of a genre and individual artistic expression will be explored.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered When Needed
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FLM 369 - Special Themes and Topics in Film Studies
An intensive study of a significant theme or topic not covered in great depth by other film courses. Offerings may include such content as “Themes in American Film Culture,” “Film and Literature,” “Racial and Ethnic Identities in American Cinema,” “The Art of the Documentary,” “Women and Film,” and “The Cinema of War and Peace.” This course may be taken a second time with the permission of the department chair.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered When Needed
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FLM 450 - Script Writing
An introduction to screenplay theory and its practical application in the writing of film and TV scripts; students will develop a 30-minute screenplay from outline proposal to treatment to finished script.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered When Needed
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WST 384 - Images of Women in Modern American Literature
This course provides an intensive study of the presentation of women in the works of major American writers from the turn of the century to the present.
Lecture
3 Credits
Diversity, Cross-Cultural and Global Perspectives. Offered in Alternate Years
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ENT 200 - Introduction to Entrepreneurship & Innovation: Practice & Mindset
This introductory course engages students in the practice of entrepreneurship and the development of an entrepreneurial mindset. The course starts out with an exploration of who students are as entrepreneurial and innovative individuals, and to explore the contexts in which they plan to live and work in. By bringing together personal goals and aspirations, and linking them to professional areas of interest, the course will guide students towards the identification of entrepreneurial opportunities. Also, through engaging in a series of ideation, design thinking and business modeling exercises, students will develop innovative solutions (products or services) in an area of their interest. The course will be highly interactive, collaborative and experiential in nature, and will conclude with a “demo day” where all student teams will present their entrepreneurial innovations to one another.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in the Fall and Spring
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ENT 201 - Ethics and Entrepreneurial Leadership
When you think of a good leader, what do you imagine? Can you imagine yourself stepping into that vision and owning it? All of us will encounter times in our life when we need to take on leadership roles, whether as the official lead on a project, as the default “decider” in a group of friends, or simply as the director of our own most important decisions in life. In this class, you will learn to refine and perhaps to alter your vision of ethical leadership, shaping it into something you yourself can strive for as you pursue your own entrepreneurial goals, and you will take concrete steps to bring yourself closer to that goal.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in the Spring Semester
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ENT 301 - Introduction to Ideation and Design Thinking
The purpose of this course is to explore the nature of innovation and the process of idea creation. Students will engage in hands-on exercises that begin with brainstorming and refining ideas, and lead to the design and prototyping of solutions, concepts, and products. The course explores ideation, innovation, and entrepreneurship in different settings - social, arts, STEM, business, etc. The course is highly interactive and hands-on: Active student participation in all in-class and outside activities is expected.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: ENT 200
Offered in Fall & Spring
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ENT 302 - Introduction to Business Modeling
This course guides the student through the modeling process from ideation to a workable, applicable business model. Students are also exposed to the application of business model development to problem-solving, non-profit organizations and other entities not often associated with business. This class relies heavily on class participation and group work. Assignments are completed and presented as a group activity in addition to class evaluation of peers.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisites: ENT 200
Offered in the Spring Semester
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ENT 399 - Special Topics In Entrepreneurship And Innovation
This course will offer students the opportunity to study in an area of specialization in entrepreneurship & innovation that is not covered by existing courses. The specific topic will be listed when the course is offered.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in Fall & Spring
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ENT 401 - Entrepreneurial Internship
Students carry out a work project in a start-up or small private or public sector organization under the direct supervision of an on-site executive entrepreneur/supervisor and a designated faculty advisor. Students meet with faculty member to discuss findings and problems, and provide periodic reports. Students must have senior status or be rising seniors (in the summer before their senior year) and have good academic standing. Permission to enroll is required (by application, including a faculty recommendation). They will also be required to complete a tutorial on the prevention and identification of sexual misconduct by employers.
Internship
3 Credits
Pre-requisites: ENT 301 & ENT 302
Offered in the fall semester.
Permission to enroll is required (by application, including a faculty recommendation).
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ENT 402 - Entrepreneurship in Practice
This course is designed to facilitate the process of developing an entrepreneurial venture, from idea to launch, with the help and support of Iona’s GaelVentures incubator. Students sign-up for this course with an existing idea that they would like to work on. Based on this idea, students will be assigned dedicated work hours at GaelVentures. During these hours, students will work on the development and launch of their venture with the support of the instructor, incubator manager, coaches and mentors. In addition, students will be meeting once per week as a group to reflect about their progress, set goals and discuss required resources to help launch their businesses.
Lab
3 Credits
Pre-requisites: ENT 301 & ENT 302 . Students are required to apply to the course with an existing entrepreneurial idea
Offered in the Fall
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BUS 210 - Statistics
An introduction to the method and techniques of statistical inference, including sampling distribution, estimation, hypothesis testing, correlation, simple and multiple regression, and index numbers.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: MTH 134 or equivalent
Offered in Fall & Spring
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BUS 230 - Principles of Finance
The course covers the basic principles of finance such as the time value of money, return, risk, valuation, and diversification, and provides a detailed introduction to the factors in financial decision making, financial services institutions, financial assets, the structure and operation of financial markets, the valuation of financial assets, and key financial management functions.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisites: BUS 201 , MTH 134 or equivalent, or approval of Department Chair. Sophomore standing required.
Not Liberal Arts Offered in Fall & Spring
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FIN 322 - Corporate Finance
A comprehensive study of the major issues involved in corporate financial management from the viewpoint of the firm’s chief financial officer. Topics covered include the fundamental concepts of risk, return and value; financial analysis and forecasting; working capital management; capital budgeting; long-term financing decisions; cost of capital; capital structure; and dividend policy.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisites: BUS 210 & BUS 230
Not Liberal Arts Offered in Fall & Spring
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FIN 329 - Financial Institutions, Markets and Money
A study of money and credit, financial institutions, central banking and monetary policy, money and capital markets, international financial institutions and markets, and financial regulations and the regulating agencies. Topics include the role of financial institutions and their sources and uses of funds, assets and liability management, the federal reserve system and its monetary policy, money and capital market instruments and the dimensions of international banking.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisites: BUS 210 , BUS 230 and ECO 202
Not Liberal Arts Offered in Fall & Spring
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FIN 333 - Global Finance
A thorough exploration of the multidimensionalities of the global financial marketplace: its environment, major players and instruments, analyzed from a business, managerial perspective. Topics include the international monetary system, balance of payment, exchange rate determination, international financial markets and its instruments, international investment, global banking activities, and selected topics in international corporate finance.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: BUS 210 & BUS 230
Not Liberal Arts Offered in Fall & Spring
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FIN 350 - Sports Finance
This course covers the financial aspects of the sports industry, which generates hundreds of billions of dollars per year in economic activity. It starts with the examination of public and private sector financing of amateur, collegiate and professional sports organizations and dicsusses its ever growing need for financial management skills. Topics include: Public and Private financing of sports and events, labor market issues, costs and benefits of a franchise or a facility to a city, monopoly and antitrust, and sports franchise as profit-maximizing firms.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisites: BUS 210 & BUS 230
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FIN 410 - Management of Financial Institutions
This course covers the development of management policies and operations of depository financial institutions. The various sources and uses of funds are analyzed in terms of the banking environment and the basic considerations in commercial banking. The following topics are discussed: structure of the banking system, balance sheet management, deposits, other liabilities, capital structure, cash and liquidity, significant aspects of bank lending, investment policies, trust services, international banking and profitability analysis.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisites: BUS 210 , FIN 329 , and ECO 308 or ECO 4102
Not Liberal Arts Offered in the Spring Semester
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FIN 411 - Principles of Cash Manangement
A comprehensive analysis of the issues invloved in managing short-term financial assets. Topics include: the collections and disbursements systems, accounts receivables and payables management, electronic commerce, treasury technology, short-term investments and borrowing, and risk management, and international cash management.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisites: BUS 210 & BUS 230
Offered in the Spring Semester
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FIN 431 - Investment Analysis
An evaluation of common stocks by fundamental and technical methods; of bonds, convertible securities and options employing risk/return analysis; and of mutual funds and other investment media by an analysis of their performance records. Personal portfolio management will also be discussed. The impact of contemporary economic conditions and policies on these investment instruments is also anlayzed.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisites: BUS 210 & BUS 230
Not Liberal Arts Offered in Fall & Spring
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FIN 436 - International Financial Management
The course covers the foundations of financial management for corporations with international operations. After reviewing the multinational environment and foreign exchange market, the course focuses on concepts and basic techniques of foreign exchange and political risk management, multinational cash and working capital management, foreign direct investment, foreign project evaluation, and multinational tax management.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisites: BUS 210 and FIN 322
Not Liberal Arts Offered in the Spring Semester
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FIN 437 - International Financial Markets and Banking
A study of the structure and operation of international financial markets and banking. The coverage includes the foreign exchange market, Eurocurrency, Eurocredit and Eurobond markets, foreign segments of the national debt and equity markets, currency derivatives markets and international banking. Institutions and instruments traded in these markets are examined with a special reference to integration, innovation, and regulatory issues.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisites: BUS 210 and FIN 333
Not Liberal Arts Offered in the Fall Semester
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FIN 438 - Sustainable Finance
An introduction to how sustainability (economic, environmental and social) issues have become financially material to the global credit, underwriting and asset management capital markets. These issues have a direct impact on risk exposure and the quality of debt/equity investments and returns. By the end of the course, students should understand how these issues affect investment decisions made by institutional investors, corporate lenders, insurance companies, asset management funds, hedge funds, venture capitalists and retail investors, as well as business decisions made by corporate managers.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisites: BUS 210 & BUS 230
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FIN 440 - SMIF: Student Managed Investment Fund
SMIF: Student Managed Investment Fund - provides students with an experiential learning opportunity to manage a real time investment portfolio. This experience will enable students to develop an understanding of various portfolio objectives and policies, as well as an appreciation of different investment strategies and styles.
Lecture
3 Credits
Prerequisite: BUS 230
Offered in the Fall Semester
Department Consent Required
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FIN 456 - Independent Study in Finance
Students undertake an advanced, specialized study project not covered by the regular course offerings. Students participate in individual conferences with a faculty member to plan, execute and discuss the findings of the project.
Independent Study
3 Credits
Prerequisite: Senior Standing
Not Liberal Arts Offered in Fall & Spring
Department Consent Required
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FIN 465 - Internship in Finance
Students are placed in a public agency or private business under the direct supervision of an executive of the organization. Students must consult on a scheduled basis with a faculty member to plan, execute and discuss the findings of the project.
Internship
3 Credits
Prerequisite: Two 300 or 400 level Finance courses and a minimum GPA of 3.0
Offered Fall, Spring & Summer Not Liberal Arts
Department Consent Required
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FIN 490 - Seminar in Finance
Supervised research in advanced theoretical and empirical topics.
Seminar
3 Credits
Prerequisite: BUS 230
Not Liberal Arts. Offered When Needed
Department Consent Required
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IDS 110 - Introduction to Business
This course provides an overview to the fundamentals of business. It introduces students to the language and functions of business through its various disciplines: law, management, marketing, accounting, finance, information and decision technology management and production and operations management. Emphasis will be placed on the ethical and international dimensions of business within these disciplines. Designed for students who are unsure of their interest in business and would like to explore their options in a course.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in the Fall Semester
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FPA 105 - Piano Instruction
The course entails learning the basics of piano playing. It is primarily designed for the novice at the keyboard, although students that have a limited background are welcome as well. More advanced students can pursue study with special arrangement with the instructor.
Laboratory
1 Credits
Offered in the Fall Semester
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FPA 200 - Art Appreciation
An introduction to concepts, theories, and principles of art, through slide study, museum visits, lecture and discussion. Includes art from ancient times to present. For any student interested in developing basic “visual literacy.” Required museum and gallery visits.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in Fall & Spring Offered in the Summer
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FPA 201 - Introduction to the Theatre, Theatre Elements
An overview of the nature, purpose and functions of theatre, with a focus on the playwright, the producer, the theatre in the Asian continent, the theatre in the African continent, the theatre is the Latino, LGBT +, Women and additional underrepresented theatre in the world. The theatre in The United States such as Musical Theatre, Regional Theatre, Broadway Theatre, and Off Broadway Theatre will also be covered. Attendance at The Iona College Theatre Ensemble production as well as attendance at a New York City theatre event is required.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in the Spring Semester
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FPA 202 - Music Appreciation
Directed at developing the ability to understand and enjoy music, this class explores the technique of listening, including a study of the general principles underlying all musical form and the analysis and interpretation of these forms. Working in a drumming ensemble and learning the basics of recorder are part of the live music experience. Classroom use of recorded and live illustrations supplemented by required attendance at live performances. Topics covered include: Music Used for Religious Purposes, Music & Politics, Music & Storytelling, Music & Drama.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in Fall & Spring. Offered in the Summer
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FPA 203 - Drawing and Painting I
An introduction to visual perception, problem-solving, and human creativity through the study of principles. Museum and gallery visits, discussion and development of visual/manual skills involved in the drawing/painting process. For students who think they cannot draw but have a desire to learn or for those who are insecure about their drawing skills. No previous experience required. Not for intermediate students who have had basic classes in high school or private lessons.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in Fall & Spring Offered in the Summer
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FPA 204 - Introduction to Architecture
A survey of the basic principles of visual design as seen in architecture. Emphasis on creative thinking about space structure and style through the study of unique examples in the history of architecture. Questions about beauty and form relating to topics such as the cathedral, Bauhaus and the skyscraper. Studio work in drawing and learning to represent three-dimensional ideas graphically.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in the Spring Semester
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FPA 205 - Introduction to the Theatre, Theatre Foundations
An overview of the nature, purpose and functions of theatre, with a focus on the origins of theatre, the developments of the audience, performer, director, design elements and the theatre in the European continent. Attendance at The Iona College Theatre Ensemble production as well as attendance at a New York City theatre event is required.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in Alternate Years
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FPA 206 - Introduction to Theatre History
An overview of the history of the western theatre tradition from its origins to the modern era. A theatre practicum is required that includes participation in The Department of Fine and Performing Arts theatre productions. Assignments can include work on scenery, lighting, properties, sound, costuming, publicity, rehearsal and performance. Attendance at a New York City theatre event is required.
Lecture
3 Credits
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FPA 207 - Shakespeare in Performance
An overview of the fundamentals of the performance styles and production elements of Elizabethan England and The Renaissance Era to the present through the selected plays of William Shakespeare. Study of characterization, portrayal of roles, and identification of distinct acting styles of the each era will be explored and discussed. The directorial style and theatre elements such as stage design, lighting design, costuming and sound design that were used during each era will also be discussed. The performing styles and production elements that are seen in the works of Shakespeare will be discussed and identified by using examples from plays, videos and through attending performances of two Shakespeare dramatic works. Coursework includes lecture, discussion, writings and presentations. Required attendance at two New York City area productions.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in Fall & Spring Offered in the Summer
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FPA 208 - Women and Art
An ‘art appreciation’ approach to the major issues and the vast body of artworks of women artists throughout the history of art. Examines the impact of “female creative energy” on artistic traditions, with an emphasis on 20th Century works. An exploration into the depths of technical innovation, iconographic originality, and artistic influence and status of women in contemporary culture through selected readings, film, and slide study, research and discussion. Required NYC museum and gallery visits.
Lecture
3 Credits
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FPA 209 - Women in Music
Women in Music considers, examines and debates the role of women in music both as practitioners and patrons. The course takes an historical journey that enables the student to see the changing roles of women in society as well as the prejudices against women in the arts as well as the strides made by women composers and performers. Patrons of the arts are included as well in the course which envelopes contemporary musical styles in addition to concert and folk music. The focus is on music produced in the Western countries, although some time will be spent on the role of women in music in non-Western cultures.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in the Spring Semester
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FPA 211 - Introduction to Sculpture
This course will introduce students to the process, methods and concepts of sculpture, an overview of its history, with a special emphasis on student exploration of the basic materials and techniques of 3-D design in a studio, with projects including: bas-relief, carving, modeling in clay, portrait and figure, and construction. Required NYC museum visit.
Lecture
3 Credits
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FPA 212 - Art History: Prehistoric Era to the Middle Ages
This class provides a study of the history of art, from the earliest beginnings in the Prehistoric periods to the end of the Middle Ages. Works of art are examined as both monuments of intrinsic aesthetic value and as expressions of the needs, ideals, and aspirations of the societies and times in which they were created. The course will consist of a series of lectures on individual cultures and topics with a new discussion each class. Participation is strongly encouraged.
Lecture
3 Credits
Offered in Fall & Spring
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