2026-2027 Academic Catalog
This course provides students with tools to manage,personal finances, budgeting, and career decision,making. Other financial tools for success include;,credit, savings, and investments. Also covered in,the course are decision making for buying or,renting a home, freelancing and employment,,negotiating pricing for contracts.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: BUS 213 OR BUS 303* ,*formerly DAS 213/DAS 303
This course is an introduction to the concepts,,methods, and strategies needed to begin thinking,about and creating a new industry venture.,Students are first introduced to different,organizational structures. Using research,,students evaluate their venture’s competitive,landscape, and then create and defend their,strategic brand platform, brand name,,product/service offerings, and core customer base.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: BUS 213 OR BUS 303* ,*formerly DAS 213/DAS 303
This course is an introduction to the concepts,,methods, and strategies needed to create a new,industry venture, focusing on the process by which,opportunities are identified, evaluated, and,converted into viable business ventures. It,provides a foundation in the core managerial,challenges faced by founders and small business,owners, including financing, resource acquisition,,strategic planning, and growth management.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: BUS 213 OR BUS 303* ,*formerly DAS 213/DAS 303
The Special Project class is offered on an,occasional basis, with course content specific to,the area being explored.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
Independent Study is available to students who are,at Junior or Senior level standing with a,cumulative grade point average of 3.00 or above.,The student may receive approval to work in an,area or on a project that is not otherwise offered,or addressed in the regular curriculum. An,Independent Study should include opportunities for,individual student voice and provide a space for,diverse perspectives. Students may receive credit,toward graduation for no more than 6 credit hours.,The student must submit to the chairperson of the,department in which they wish to study, an,Independent Study Proposal of 150 words (no less),of the student’s plan for study and her/his reason,for choosing to study independently. Once the,department chairperson provides approval and the,instructor for the Independent Study is,determined, the faculty member must write an,Independent Study Syllabus with education goals,,learning outcomes, meeting dates, course,expectations, timelines, and due dates. Art,Education candidates must pass DAE 490 with a,grade of ‘C’ (2.00) or higher to qualify for,certification.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
This course explores the cultures, events, trends,,and moments that have shaped our interconnected,world, from the origins of humanity 2.8 million,years ago to the present day. Broad in scope but,focused on the human side of world history,,students will appreciate the senses in which past,events make the present and understand not just,where we’ve been as a species, but why we are,where we are now.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: WRT-102
The Special Project class is offered on an,occasional basis, with course content specific to,the area being explored.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites:
This course focuses on the interdisciplinary,study of aspects of American culture through its,music. We will explore the cultural,interrelationship of the social, political,,economic, historical and aesthetic influences,that have formed the context and development of,American music genres. Throughout we emphasize,popular, innovative and sometimes experimental,musical forms and their basis in individual,communities. In that process we explore what,seems to have made musical forms “speak” to our,ancestors and to us. We also explore how the,rise of mass-market music and the music industry,has affected this history. Classes combine,discussion of reading materials, discussion of,films, presentations from guest musicians and,music historians, and, above all, listening to,music.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: WRT-102 and any 200 level Liberal Arts (General Education),subject.
This course will focus on the causes and,aftermath of World War I. While the war itself,was fought between 1914-1918, consideration of,the causes and aftermath widens our exploration,from 1848 (the “year of revolutions”) to 1939,(the Spanish Civil War). Sometimes called “The,War to End all Wars” or “The Great War”, the,catastrophic events of WWI changed the modern,world. These causes and changes extend from the,middle of the 19th to the middle of the 20th,century, and into our own 21st century. This is,why this war can be considered an endless war. ,World War I affected virtually every field,discipline – from the arts and science, politics,and ideology, geography and anthropology, finance,and popular culture, and the ways we consider,the process of History itself.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: WRT-102 and any 200 level Liberal Arts (General Education),subject.
Throughout history the term revolution has been,applied broadly to political, social, cultural,,and intellectual change. This course will,examine the anatomy of a revolution and ask how,far social protest must go before it can be,considered a revolution. By using the French,,American, and Russian Revolutions as examples of,”real” revolutions, students will explore,pre-revolutionary engines of social and political,change, how these revolutions unfolded, and their,lasting effects. Also, students will explore,whether other popular protests such as movements,in civil rights labor rights, art, might be,considered revolutions.
Credits: 3
Prerequisites: WRT-102 and any 200 level Liberal Arts (General Education),subject.
