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Course Descriptions

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.
 

English
  

  • ENG 212 - Self and Society

    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 being exposed to the dialogue between the Western and non-Western literary traditions.  Literature is a special form this conversation takes: poems, narrative prose, and drama stories provide unique affective, experiential, and cognitive modes of understanding which shape how we understand the application of this conversation to contemporary life.  In this course, we will explore different kinds of relations between the self and society, such as between the self and family, self and community, and self and the nation.  We will examine how these texts raise questions about the self’s relation to society as a social convention, about the way individuals resist or adopt those social conventions, about our identities as raced, gendered, and embodied beings.
    Lecture
    3 Credits
    Offered in Fall Winter & Spring Semester
  

  • ENG 213 - Transformations

    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 introduces you to a selection of texts that, in one way or another, take choice as their subject. How has the idea of choice changed or evolved over time and across cultures? How have the various iterations influenced one another? Literature is in constant conversation with not only the world from which it springs, but with other literature as well. Thus, we will focus on the transformation of genres, themes, and ideas as the result of these conversations, while paying special attention to how that conversation in the West has responded to new voices.
    Lecture
    3 Credits
    Offered Fall, Spring & Summer
  

  • 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
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in the Fall Semester Offered in the Spring Semester
  

  • ENG 315 - New Contexts and Voices in Literary Studies

    Complementing ENG 314  , this seminar introduces students to major critical and theoretical approaches while considering the diversity of literary works and authors. Intensive work with historical and critical contexts develops interpretive practices, hones digital research skills, and introduces databases and resources used in contemporary literary study. The course culminates in a major independent or collaborative project.
    Lecture
    3 Credits
    Prerequisites: ENG 120 , ENG 212  , ENG 213  or ENG 214  (Core literature)
    Offered in Fall, Winter & Spring Semester
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in the Fall Semester
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
  

  • 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
    Prerequisites: ENG 120  ; ENG 212  , ENG 213  OR ENG 214  (Literature Core)
    Offered in Fall, Winter & Spring Semester
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Fall & Spring
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Fall & Spring
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in the Fall Semester
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in the Spring Semester
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Fall & Spring
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • ENG 443 - Special Topics in World Literature

    Lecture
    3 Credits
    The prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered When Needed
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered When Needed
  

  • 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 prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • ENG 470 - Literature Seminar

    Research and readings in selected authors and topics.
    Seminar
    3 Credits
    The prerequisite for all courses on the 300(0) or 400(0) level, unless stated in the course description, is the English Core.
    Offered When Needed
  

  • 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
    Offered in the Spring Semester
    Department Consent Required
  

  • 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: Senior Standing
    Capstone Course Open to Seniors Only Offered in Fall & Spring
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
    Offered in Alternate Years

Finance
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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 
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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 
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • FIN 490 - Seminar in Finance

    Supervised research in advanced theoretical and empirical topics
    Seminar
    3 Credits
    Not Liberal Arts Offered When Needed
    Instructor Consent Required
  

  • 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

Fine and Performing Arts
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • FPA 202 - Music Appreciation

    The basic technique of listening, including a study of the general principles underlying all musical forms and the analysis and interpretation of classical music up to the twentieth century. Directed at developing an ability to understand and enjoy music. Classroom use of recorded performances and live demonstrations supplemented by attendance at live performances.
    Lecture
    3 Credits
    Offered in Fall & Spring Offered in the Summer
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • FPA 205 - Introduction to the Theatre

    An overview of the nature, purpose and functions of theatre, with a focus on the historical differences and developments of the writing, acting, staging and audiences as a reflection of society’s influences. The study of theatre spaces, theatre personnel, and the technical aspects of the theatre will be covered. A theatre practicum is required, participation in the Department of Fine and Performing Arts theatre productions. Assignments can include scenery, lighting, properties, sound, costuming, publicity, rehearsal, and performance. Attendance at a New York City theatre event is required.
    Lecture
    3 Credits
    Offered in Alternate Years
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • 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
  

  • FPA 217 - Modern Art in New York City Collections

    An exploration of the development of modern thought and art from the 1860’s in Paris to 1990’s in New York. A study of the stylistic issues, social and political concerns, and the complexity of the modern artist’s creative process; slide lecture, required museum/gallery study and class discussion. The intensive course involves on sight learning, with professor as guide, in New York City museums and galleries.
    Lecture
    3 Credits
    Offered in the Summer
  

  • FPA 220 - Dance Appreciation

    An overview of the essential properties of dance through lecture, viewing, discussion, and the practice of movement. The course examines the context through which various traditions evolve, the approaches to dance construction/revision articulated by selected masters and the expressive commonality in diverse traditions and artists.
    Lecture
    3 Credits
    Offered in Fall & Spring Offered in the Summer
  

  • FPA 225 - Theatre History: The Ancient Greek Theatre to The Renaissance

    An overview of the history of the western theatre tradition from its origins to the Renaissance (450 BC - 1700 AD). Coursework includes lecture, discussion, readings and theatre practicum. Required attendance at a New York City theater event.
    Lecture
    3 Credits
    Offered in the Fall Semester
  

  • FPA 226 - Theatre History: The Renaissance to the Modern Theatre

    An overview of the history of the western theatre tradition from the Renaissance to the modern era (1700 AD - Present). Coursework includes lecture, discussion, readings and theatre practicum. Required attendance at a New York City theater event.
    Lecture
    3 Credits
    Offered in the Spring Semester
  

  • FPA 230 - Introduction to Acting

    Theories of acting styles and techniques. Concern with actor as creative instrument. Exploration with the process in preparing for a role. It covers basic acting principles, including action, objective, obstacles, conflict, beats and given circumstances. The evolution of acting techniques, styles and significant contributors to the craft of acting will also be identified and discussed.
    Lecture
    3 Credits
    Offered in the Fall Semester
  

  • FPA 233 - Music in the Time of Thomas Paine

    Named moral godfather of the internet by Wired magazine, misquoted by President Barack Obama in his historic first inaugural address of 2009, claimed by all sides in an increasingly fractious American political climate, and recently credited with establishing the very concept and performance of” right” and “left” in American politics, Thomas Paine is a man comfortably plucked from his late eighteenth-century revolutionary era to either address or contain our contemporary cultural and political quarrels. These courses are an attempt to address, confront, challenge, and understand Paine’s life, works, and influence not simply on his own era, but, through an interdisciplinary nexus, on the modern world.
    Lecture
    3 Credits
    Offered in the Fall Semester
  

  • FPA 234 - Practical Music Experience

    This class is designed to provide fundamental musical skills including: learning to read musical notation, learn basic melody writing, instruction on recorder, hand drums and mallet instruments. Students will attend live performances and write on the experiences as well as give a class presentation on a research project.
    Lecture
    3 Credits
  

  • FPA 235 - Music in Film and Video

    An overview of the evolution and use of music in film before and after the introduction of the sound track. The role of music will be studied and discussed using select examples of films and videotapes. Original compositions for films will be stressed, as well as innovative uses of existing scores.
    Lecture
    3 Credits
    Offered When Needed
  

  • FPA 236 - History of Popular Music in America

    The history of popular music as a part of American culture will be examined starting with minstrel shows and the music of Stephen Foster and continuing through to Rock of the late twentieth century. Critical listening, including a basic understanding of the principles underlying music composition, and academic engagement of popular forms will be emphasized. This class is directed at developing an understanding of the history of and role popular music has played in the development of the American culture. Societal issues such as race, gender roles and politics will be discussed as well. Classroom use of recorded examples will be used, student analysis of critical commentary will be included, as well as student attendance at a live on-campus performance.
    Lecture
    3 Credits
    Offered When Needed
  

  • FPA 237 - Music in World Cultures

    Music in World Cultures is the study of music and its place in the lives of peoples around the world and in the United States. Issues such as music and identity, music as a representation of a culture or ethnicity and the role of music in daily life will be discussed as well as the variety of musical instruments found throughout the world. Students will also have an opportunity to play world instruments as part of their study.
    Lecture
    3 Credits
  

  • FPA 238 - Music History: Medieval through Baroque

    Directed at developing an understanding and appreciation for the development of Western concert music from the early Middle Ages (c. 500) through the High Baroque period (c. 1750), including a study of the general principles underlying musical forms and the analysis and interpretation of these forms. Classroom use of recorded and live illustrations supplemented by required attendance at live performances.
    Lecture
    3 Credits
  

  • FPA 239 - Music History: Classical through Modern

    This class is directed at developing an understanding and appreciation for the development of Western concert music from the Classical period (c. 1750) through the modern era, including a study of the general principles underlying musical forms and the analysis and interpretation of these forms. Classroom use of recorded and live illustrations supplemented by required attendance at live performances.
    Lecture
    3 Credits
    Offered in the Fall Semester
 

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