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BUS 620 - Survey of Org Info Tech Sys
Explores important issues shaping the IT systems that characterize contemporary organizations in the digital world. Introduces the basic system components found in most IT environments, predominant issues and factors pertaining to technology adoption and use at the enterprise level, and trends in emerging information technologies and their impact on organizations.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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BUS 625 - Organization and Responsible Leadership
Students analyze organizational effectiveness using theories of leadership, management and organizational behavior. Students study leadership in a responsible business (Profit, People, Planet, Ethics, and Equity) context. Students reflect upon their own leadership styles and those of other leaders to determine how to shape their own management practice to improve their effectiveness.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA students only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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BUS 626 - Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Students integrate literature (research & practice), historical perspectives, analytical tools, & theoretical frameworks to design & conduct a market analysis. Students make marketing-related decisions based on identification & analysis of target markets, marketing mix variables, & market feasibility. Students identify & analyze high potential opportunities & develop a plan to exploit those opportunities. Students contribute to the startup or growth of entrepreneurial/intrapreneurial ventures.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA students only)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Units: 6
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BUS 630 - Info Tech Project Mgmt
Follows the Project Management Institute model with a focus on IT-related projects. Covers basic project frameworks such as scope, time, cost, quality, human resources, communications, risk, and procurement. Discusses management skills required to lead a team to successful completion of projects. Applies the business enterprise model to architectural design and to project, program, and product management. Provides hands-on practice with industry-level PM software and covers several case studies.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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BUS 631 - Global Business
Students develop an “outside/in” perspective: seeing the United States, U.S.-based companies, and foreign-headquartered multinational corporations from the perspective of multi-varied constituencies around the world. Many of the readings are from Africa to provide the diversity of thought needed to break the barriers of U.S.-centric thinking. International governance structures are highlighted in the course. A two-country negotiation case applies what students have learned.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA students only)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Units: 6
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BUS 632 - Organization & Leadership
Students analyze organizational effectiveness using theories of leadership, management, and organizational behavior. Students study leadership within the context of sensitivity to cross-cultural differences, firm culture, and employee motivation. Students reflect upon their own leadership styles and that of other leaders to determine how to shape their own management practice to improve their effectiveness. Students apply frameworks for thinking strategically about human resources.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA students only)
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 6
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BUS 633 - Information Systems and Business Analytics
Uses an executive information systems perspective to explore the emerging technologies that impact enterprise strategy. Focus is on understanding business analytics and its role in managing processes, resources, and people. This course reinforces the role of business analytics for creating a culture of data-driven decision-making and also addresses ethical and data governance issues in embedding business analytics in managerial decision-making.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA students only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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BUS 640 - Digital Business Model Strategies
Analysis of digital systems and technologies to develop viable business models within the context of the strategic needs of the system. Focuses on analysis and assessment of emerging models and strategies, their potentialities and impact on digital commerce (includes impact on business strategy and ethics), and the development of methodological tools for assessment of their success. (In-class, hybrid, or online format).
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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BUS 648 - Accounting for Managers
Introduces financial and managerial accounting as tools for responsible managers. Students learn to read, understand, and interpret financial statements as they evaluate organizations¿ liquidity, profitability, and leverage. Students learn to use internal reports, budgets, and other accounting information to plan and control operations and make both tactical and strategic decisions.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA students only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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BUS 651 - Venture Formation & Fin Strat
Prepares students from Business Administration or other academic programs to pursue technology-based new venture opportunities. Includes opportunity recognition and evaluation; new venture strategies and formation; marketing; stakeholder management; financial management; entrepreneurial finance; and the process of sustaining organizational vision. Students prepare and defend a business plan, and identify sources of financing. If they have a promising opportunity, students receive assistance in approaching potential sources of capital and other resources.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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BUS 652 - Financial Management
Students will learn about the time value of money, project and security valuation. They will develop both the skills necessary to make financial decisions, and the ability to understand their impact on a responsible business and its stakeholders. This course will introduce and reinforce high-level financial concepts and principles that will serve as a foundation for financial management decisions.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA students only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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BUS 660 - Org Behav in Knowl-Based Firms
Explores individual and organizational behavior in the context of the knowledge-based company environment, including structures, processes, and systems. Includes communication, group dynamics, organization change and development, conflict and conflict resolution, multicultural diversity, ethics, leadership, and decision making. Abilities to apply include communication skills, decision making, problem solving, and teamwork, including understanding of cross-cultural differences.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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BUS 661 - Innovation and Technology Management
Students study the importance of innovation for business success. Innovation is analyzed from three perspectives: products, processes, and organizations. Students understand the intricacies of developing new products, processes, and organizations. Students explore how information-based systems are used to address the challenges of adding value to organizations. Principles of operations management are examined to improve strategies, processes, and decision making to meet customer needs.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Units: 6
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BUS 662 - Marketing Management
Students apply marketing frameworks to develop integrated marketing strategies that leverage market opportunities or address identified problems. Students make responsible marketing decisions based on analyses of target markets, while considering contexts and elements of the marketing mix to offer value to customers.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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BUS 670 - Database Management
Examines database design and implementation using relational database management system tools. Discusses data management concepts and terminology currently in practice in the business world, including data and database administration, fundamentals of database management systems and models (network, hierarchical and relational), data sharing, retrieval, data dictionaries, data proliferation, data integrity, and queries using SQL.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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BUS 671 - Operations and Supply Chain Management
This course reviews operations strategies in a global environment for optimal allocation of resources (material and personnel) by firms to gain competitive advantage in the delivery of products (goods and services). Students will develop the ability to forecast demand; manage projects, inventory, revenue, supply chain risks, capacity planning, procurement, and customer relationship management.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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BUS 680 - Info Tech Strategic Mgmt
Assesses strategic implications of adopting new technologies and enabling transformational change at the enterprise level in our knowledge-based economy. Covers creating business value through IT, assessing and managing risk, measuring financial value and risk of IT adoption, managing disruptive technologies, managing technology innovation, positioning the CIO in enterprise leadership and strategy management, marketing innovative products in a global economy, and assessing enterprise implications of technology trends.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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BUS 681 - MBA Accounting
Course examines accounting concepts, the accounting model, measurement processes, financial statements, financial analysis, the accounting cycle, monetary and fixed assets, inventory, current and long-term liabilities and equity structure. Students investigate internal reporting for use in planning and control, in making non-routine decisions and in formulating major plans and policies. Course covers cost-profit relationships, budgets, and standard variance analysis.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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BUS 682 - Global Responsible Business
In this course, you will gain an understanding of today’s global economy and the people, institutions, and environmental elements that underlie international and global commerce. You will expand your ability to manage diversity and national differences. You will learn how to manage a responsible firm¿s quintuple bottom line (Profit, People, Planet, Ethics, and Equity) in a global context of interconnectedness.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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BUS 684 - Doing Business in World Regions
This is a faculty-supervised project to enhance global awareness and cultural sensitivity by applying business knowledge acquired in previous courses to an international responsible business issue. The requirement can be fulfilled either through a short study trip abroad (when available) or through a written assignment.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1
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BUS 687 - Accounting and Finance
Students: read, understand, & use corp. financial statements & published accounting reports; examine alternative costing methods & how cost information can be used for decision making; explore both financial & non-financial performance measures for evaluating business strategies & business unit success; prepare & analyze financial statements & projections for an investment; create a corporation, and/or a proposed project; and evaluate resources of financing for new & existing ventures.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 6
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BUS 691 - Business Strategy
As the culminating experience of the MBA program, students integrate the knowledge from earlier courses and apply it in the same manner demanded of business, government, and non-profit general managers. As an experiential learning exercise, students plan, organize, implement, and control a business in a competitive, simulated market. Simulated internal and external data are analyzed to formulate the vision, mission, objectives, strategies, and policies needed to implement a business strategy.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 6
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BUS 692 - Professional Development Seminar
Students will prepare to use the MBA to promote their career by working on value clarification, goal setting, networking, resume and LinkedIn profiles, impression management, and interviewing. Students will create clear and meaningful goals for post-MBA graduation and have a plan to successfully execute them.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1
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BUS 694 - Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship
This course addresses the formulation and implementation of a responsible business strategy to create, sustain and renew competitive advantage for both established firms and startups. As an application of the concepts, students will design and validate innovative entrepreneurial and corporate business models.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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BUS 695 - Special Topics
Studies a particular topic in the major; must have a research component. May be repeated for credit when topics vary (Offered classroom-based, hybrid, or online.)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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BUS 696 - Hybrid EMBA Study Sessions
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 0
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BUS 697 - Independent Study
Graduate independent study under the direction of a tenure track faculty member. The student must prepare a study proposal approved by the appropriate faculty member and graduate adviser prior to registration. Must have a research component. (Offered classroom-based, hybrid, or online.)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4-6
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BUS 698 - Applied Business Strategy Capstone
Through an experiential learning exercise, students will integrate knowledge gained in earlier courses and apply it to run a virtual company in a simulated market competition. Students will conduct environmental analysis, business planning, manage corporate performance and consider ethical implications of business decisions.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Restricted to MBA Majors Only)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 3
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BUS 699 - Graduate Capstone
A capstone contributes to the disciplines or the professions by adding to technical/professional knowledge or by providing an original application of technical/professional knowledge in both management and information technology disciplines. Examples include a field study, a project, applied research, or a professional article of publishable quality. Students also master basic principles of strategic planning, including stakeholder management. Cross-listed as CST 699 .
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CAD 94 - Introduction to Writing
Provides students with tools and activities for identifying their areas of reading and writing strengths and needs, and anticipates the expectations of the college curriculum with attention to habits of mind and skills necessary for academic success. Early Start program.
Typically Offered: Administrative Use Only
Units: 1
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CAD 95 - Integrated Reading Writing
Integrates learning and improvement in reading and writing by exploring texts produced by members of various social, cultural, and academic communities, including students’ own writing. Designed to prepare students for college-level reading and writing through understanding of the processes of reading, writing, thinking and oral communication skills; the development of reading, writing and thinking skills; and the experience of reading and writing as problem solving, reasoning, and reflection. Not for baccalaureate credit; however, the course grade will show on student transcripts.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CAD 100B - Oral and Written Communication Semester 2
This two-semester course focuses on mindful, strategic, ethical, and skillful oral and written communication in all contexts: this class, other classes, and life outside of college. Students will study and practice rhetoric in reading, writing, speaking, and listening in order to develop individual theories of communication. Through examination of rhetorical situations, students will develop their understanding of multiple perspectives. Only completion of both CAD 100A & 100B will meet the A1 requirement.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CAD 100A OR ESCAD 100A)
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CAD 101A - Reading and Writing 1
We read and write all the time, both in our personal and academic lives. But scientists read differently from historians, who read differently from business people. And they write differently too. That’s what we’ll explore in this class, and you’ll develop your own theory to explain it. In the process, you will practice what you study, taking two semesters not just to improve your skills but to understand when and how to apply those skills. Only completion of both CAD 101A and CAD 101B will meet the A2 requirement. CAD 101A is a pre-requisite forCAD 101B .
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Units: 3
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CAD 101B - Reading and Writing 2
We read and write all the time, both in our personal and academic lives. But scientists read differently from historians, who read differently from business people. And they write differently too. That’s what we’ll explore in this class, and you’ll develop your own theory to explain it. In the process, you will practice what you study, taking two semesters not just to improve your skills but to understand when and how to apply those skills. Only completion of both CAD 101A & 101B will meet the A2 requirement.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CAD 101A or CAD 100A or ESCAD 100A)
General Education: A2 Written Communication
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CAD 105 - Revising and Editing
Often when we write, we are simply getting our ideas on paper without imagining how those words will affect the readers of our work. In this class, we¿ll consider how to most effectively and efficiently re-see our writing to improve it and better achieve our purposes.
Typically Offered: Summer term only
Units: 1
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CAD 195 - Special Topics
Specialized study of a particular topic. Course may be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CAD 200 - Academic Language Support Social Sciences
CAD 200 focuses on developing English language academic reading and writing skills. These include understanding the structure and conventions of written work in social sciences, the rhetorical differences among assigned texts in the field, and key elements of research in the field, while increasing fluency and mastery in English.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq or Coreq: GE Area A1 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 2
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CAD 201 - Academic Language Support Business
CAD 201 focuses on developing English language academic reading and writing skills. These include understanding the structure and conventions of written work in business, the rhetorical differences among assigned texts in the field, and key elements of research in the field, while increasing fluency and mastery in English.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq or Coreq: GE Area A1 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 2
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CAD 206 - Academic Language Support Arts and Humanities
CAD 206 focuses on developing English language academic reading and writing skills. These include understanding the structure and conventions of written work in the arts and humanities, the rhetorical differences among assigned texts in the field, and key elements of research in the field, while increasing fluency and mastery in English.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq or Coreq: GE Area A1 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 2
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CAD 208 - Academic Language Support Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science
CAD 208 focuses on developing English language academic reading and writing skills. These include understanding the structure and conventions of written work in mathematics, statistics, and computer science; the rhetorical differences among assigned texts in the field; and key elements of research in the field, while increasing fluency and mastery in English.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq or Coreq: GE Area A1 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 2
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CAD 212 - Academic Language Support Physical, Earth, and Life Sciences
CAD 212 focuses on developing English language academic reading and writing skills. These include understanding the structure and conventions of written work in the sciences, the rhetorical differences among assigned texts in the field, and key elements of research in the field, while increasing fluency and mastery in English.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq or Coreq: GE Area A1 with a C- or better)
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 2
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CAD 304 - Business Communication Academic Language Support
The focus of this course is on business communication for visiting students. Examines ethical & socially responsible behavior through case studies. Students learn & demonstrate empathetic written & oral communication skills, problem-solving strategies, & analytical skills applicable to real world business issues & events.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 with a C- or better) and (Junior or Senior Standing)]
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CAD 395 - Special Topics
Studies a particular topic in Global Studies. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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CART 195 - Special Topics
Studies a particular topic in Cinematic Arts & Technology. May be repeated for credit when topics vary.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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CART 200 - Introduction to Filmmaking
Introduces students to the processes, concepts and techniques of cinematic production. Through hands-on exercises and projects students learn to write, storyboard, shoot, and edit narrative, documentary, and experimental films. Students will analyze cinematic examples and contextualize their work within film theory and media art history.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CART 203 - Pre-Prod Research Methods
Seminar class addresses creative concept development and feasibility assessment of ideas.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1
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CART 204 - Pre-Production Planning
Seminar class outlines planning process, roles, tasks, timelines, budgets, and deliverables.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1
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CART 205 - Production Management
Seminar class outlines production management role, responsibilities, and tasks.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1
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CART 206 - Marketing Strategies
Seminar class provides overview of marketing, promotion, and press planning and execution.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1
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CART 207 - Distribution Methods
Seminar class examines distribution research resources and opportunities for local and global reach with a focus on an entrepreneurial approach.
Typically Offered: Fall term only - odd years
Units: 1
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CART 208 - Bus Fund for Creative Prod
Seminar class provides overview of general business skills for creative production, such as not-for-profit and contractor status, contracts, etc.
Typically Offered: Spring term only - odd years
Units: 1
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CART 210 - Sound Production for Media Arts
Introduces the theoretical and practical fundamentals of audio production, technology, and terminology. The may include exercises using available equipment, an introduction to the lexicon of audio production, and an understanding of the selection and use of audio tools that support radio, television, video, film and multimedia production. Students will have practice in the field and studio for broad/podcast and screen.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CART 211 - Picturing the Environment
An exciting, multidisciplinary historical survey examining the depiction of the environment across the arts. Students will track artists’ adventures and how they shaped the way we understand our ecology and environment, communities and ourselves.
General Education: C1 Arts: Arts, Cinema, Dance, Music, Theater
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 3
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CART 212 - Charlie Don’t Surf: War, Culture & Cinema
The course examines representations of armed conflict in cinema across different cultures. Fictionalized accounts of war, documentaries and satires are viewed and analyzed, examining social and psychological effects of armed conflict, attitudes toward nationalism and heroism, power structures, the morality of violence, and the ethical responsibilities of the individual.
General Education: C2 Humanities:Lit, Philosophy, Lang other than Eng
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 3
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CART 218 - Self Other and Media
Students examine the relationship of media to contemporary social and cultural development.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CART 220 - Haunted Screens: Horror in Film
Horror films are mirrors of social anxieties, playing an influential but disreputable role in contemporary culture. The course analyzes cinematic techniques used to induce responses of fear in an audience and examines the themes of international horror cinema. Students analyze how horror films represent identity, ideology, gender, sexuality, and violence. The course explores the audience’s fascination with fear, the evolution of horror and its role in creating contemporary mythologies.
General Education: C1 Arts: Arts, Cinema, Dance, Music, Theater
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 3
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CART 225 - Distribution Workshop
Intensive workshop course provides basic production skills in distribution. Students learn to prepare and deliver media for broadband distribution.
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 2
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CART 228 - Cinematic History 1849-1960
Survey of film history from early cinema to 1960. Watch and understand film from the first flickering of projection through the golden age of Hollywood.
General Education: C1 Arts: Arts, Cinema, Dance, Music, Theater
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CART 230 - The Art of Storytelling
Introduces students to the fundamentals of the art of storytelling. The course examines diverse narrative forms to explore the elements of story structure and the role of the narrative arts in the life of the individual and the culture.
General Education: C1 Arts: Arts, Cinema, Dance, Music, Theater
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CART 231 - Movie Mania
Explores film genres by theme that may change each semester, e.g. rock ‘n roll cinema, film noir, gangster movies, spaghetti westerns. Course outcomes foster independent, critical perspectives on the films viewed and help students develop a deepened understanding and appreciation of the art and craft of film making.
General Education: C1 Arts: Arts, Cinema, Dance, Music, Theater
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CART 232 - Power of Film
Powerful films have changed culture, impacted the Celluloid medium and can change viewers! This course introduces the practice of narrative film analysis and appreciation through a unique combination of screenings, creative projects, writing assignments, readings and close case studies of film sequences. During the course of this class, students will engage in series of creative, reflective and analytical exercises, gaining deeper understanding for the way moving images exercise social and emotional power.
General Education: C1 Arts: Arts, Cinema, Dance, Music, Theater
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 3
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CART 235 - Queer Film Theory
Introduces students to queer film theory, its historical and cultural background, and its application as a tool for analyzing, interpreting, and critiquing films.
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 2
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CART 251 - Voice and Speech
Students develop techniques for the expressive use of the voice in performance. Emphasizes the development of vocal range, the enhancement of vocal power, breath control, resonance, and articulation of language to convey emotion and meaning.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 2
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CART 255 - The Actor’s Process
Introduction to the creative process of the actor, and the elements of dramatic expression which develop a role for performance on film.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 2-4
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CART 260 - Experiments in Sound
This intensive workshop course examines the history and aesthetics of sound as an art form, and studies alternative approaches to the use of sound in film. Students will research history and key topics and present information to the class, and will create their own experimental sound projects.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 1
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CART 280 - Animation Visual Development
Introduction to character design, background design, layout, and the storyboarding process for animation pre-production. Through the study of design principles, students will learn how to express their visions through visual language.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CART 295 - Special Topics
Studies a particular topic in Cinematic Arts and Technology.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-4
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CART 301 - Practical Application
Practical Application: Students develop collaborative production skills while working on interdisciplinary projects, including senior projects, campus-wide productions and community-based projects.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 2
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CART 303 - Media, Power, and Society
This course provides a framework for understanding, interpreting and analyzing the creation of images and their impact on social and political structures. It asks students to evaluate media within a broader ethical, social, political, and economic context in order to better understand multiple perspectives. This is an advanced-level writing and oral communication course, incorporating the ethical and reasonable construction of argumentation into written papers and oral presentations.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: Junior or Senior Standing)
University Requirement: ES Ethnic Studies, GWAR Graduation Writing Assess
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CART 309 - Production Lighting Design
Students learn basics of production lighting design. Basic principles of light. Includes script analysis, basic 3 point lighting, fill, key, differences between perceived light, and recorded light. Addresses various formats.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 )
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 2
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CART 310 - Sound Design
Students learn the art and technology of sound design for cinematic media. The course covers script analysis, the use of sound to create meaning, the recording of original sound, the acquisition of existing audio, sound editing, and sound mixing.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 )
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CART 315 - Visual Design
Introduction to spatial and temporal visual design. Includes fundamentals of aesthetic principles. Outlines basic visualization techniques and design communication for moving-image media.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CART 318 - Introduction to Animation
This course offers an introduction to the techniques, history, and cultural significance of animation. Students will explore, demonstrate, and apply basic skills in traditional and digital animation techniques. The course also covers basic pre-production and production. Projects in this course are both individual and collaborative. Incoming students need not be proficient at drawing, but should be familiar with basic digital media tools.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CART 319 - Motion Graphics
This course offers an introduction to motion graphics design and production. Topics covered include principles of spatial and temporal design for animation, film titles, compositing, on-screen graphics.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 318 )
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 4
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CART 321 - Experimental Production
Students focus on video art, web video, animation, and experimental narrative. Students develop aesthetics and techniques for conceiving, producing, and distributing experimental works. May address audio/video, still image and handheld devices. Explores emergent forms of media.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 )
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CART 322 - Expanded Cinema
The course explores diverse forms of interdisciplinary cinema practices such as video remixes and mashups, live cinema, and audiovisual performance. Students learn and apply techniques for incorporating pre-recorded and live-feed video into performances.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 )
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4
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CART 323 - Art of Compositing
Students create special effects for film and video by combining images from different sources such as live-action digital video, digitized film, computer generated 3-D, 2-D animations, painted backdrops, digital still photographs, and text. Topics include color keying, rotoscoping, matte painting, motion tracking, and lighting.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 318 )
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4
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CART 325 - Sound for Cinema
This course synthesizes creative practice with a historical overview of sound for cinema. Students will be exposed to feature films whose groundbreaking and frequently innovative use of sound plays a crucial role in a modern 21st century medium. This course will refine students’ ability to effectively communicate within the realm of cinematic music’s many specialized terms and concepts. Students will create projects using contemporary sound software.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 )
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CART 326 - Animation Techniques
Students will learn the fundamentals of making animated films through a series of hands-on workshops. This class will cover traditional hand-drawn animation, digital flash animation, and experimental animation techniques such as cut-outs, photo-montage, direct-techniques, installation/performance, and other hybrid techniques in animation production.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 318 )
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CART 329 - Contemporary Media History
Survey of the history, aesthetics, production technologies and cultural impact of media arts from 1960 to present. Throughout this course students will watch, analyze and contextualize works from the some of the most exciting periods in Media History.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: GE Areas A1 and A2 and A3 and B4 with a C- or better)
General Education: UDC Intergrated Arts and Humanities
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 3
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CART 330 - Elements of Cinema
Students are introduced to the principles of narrative theory as well as the expressive tools of cinema. Students analyze media to understand how framing, camera movement, mise en scene lighting and sound are used to express character and tell stories, applying this understanding during short exercises. Students build a repertoire of cinematic tools and techniques.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 )
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CART 332 - Media Arts for Teaching
Introduces media principles and tools to help make learning more creative, alive, interactive, and fun. Using theatre games, improvisations, story dramatizations, and creative dramatics, student collaborative groups learn the process for producing plays that stretch their imaginations and their problem-solving skills.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CART 333 - Art of Producing
This course explores the craft and techniques of film and television producing. The course introduces students to the language and practice of producing and filmmaking through lectures, analysis of contemporary industry practices, readings, and individual research assignments.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 )
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 2
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CART 338 - Intro to Radio
Introduces the history, theory, and practice of both broadcast and Internet radio in today’s global society. Includes the study of the history, uses, and current status of radio and Internet audio throughout the world. Students learn the basics of audio production, including field and studio production, internet streaming, nonlinear editing, research, and interviewing skills.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CART 340 - Screenwriting
An overview of the script writing process focusing on the basics of dramatic writing across cinematic disciplines. Provides preparation for narrative and short-format screenwriting. Requires extensive reading and creative writing.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CART 341 - Directing for the Camera
Teaches the tools of the narrative film/video director’s art. Working in small production groups, students learn to break down scripted material in order to prepare to shoot dramatic scenes and sequences on camera. Students learn techniques for working with actors on camera. Applies production planning and management skills.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 )
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CART 342 - Acting for Directors
An intensive workshop course that develops skills and techniques for directing actors. Through participation in the acting process and directing exercises, students will learn how to establish collaborative relationships with actors and how to give effective direction.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 )
Typically Offered: Fall term only
Units: 2
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CART 345 - Acting for the Screen
An in-depth study of the craft and technique of acting for film, television, and other digital media. Students learn how to create and develop a character, explore the role of the actor as storyteller, and balance the creative process of the actor with the technical demands of performing on a film set.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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CART 351 - Voice & Speech for Actors
Training in the principles of effective vocal production and articulation for performing actors on stage, in broadcasting, and before the camera. Involves exercises designed to free the natural voice: removing tension, increasing resonance, facilitating breathing response, and maximizing effectiveness of speech.
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 2
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CART 361 - Intro to Editing
Students learn digital editing and the concepts of digitizing, editing, and outputting content using industry-standard software packages. Includes script analysis and working with directors. Applies techniques and principles for editing various types of projects including music video, documentary, and narrative.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 )
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CART 370 - Stop Motion Animation Basics
This course is an introduction to the technique of stop-motion animation. The course covers the basic principles of puppet making, animation performance using a variety of methods including, wire armature puppets, clay, and found objects.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 318 )
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4
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CART 375 - Cinematography
Students will explore the expressive possibilities of moving pictures, through aesthetic and formal investigations of lenses, shot duration, screen direction, camera movement and lighting. Students develop the skills required of a professional camera and lighting crew, with particular attention to the role of director of photography.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 )
Typically Offered: Fall, Summer
Units: 4
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CART 376 - Documentary Production
Combines study of documentary history, theory, and practice. Students learn how to plan, organize, and produce documentaries. Students produce a short documentary on video.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 )
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CART 395 - Special Topics
Project based course developing and producing content in collaboration with other courses, the community, university, or others.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 200 )
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 1-6
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CART 396 - Cinematic Arts Internship
Student proposed Internship as part of an approved Individualized Learning Plan.
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 1-8
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CART 397 - Independent Study
Student proposed course of study on select topic in Cinematic Arts and Technology as part of an approved Individualized Learning Plan.
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 1-6
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CART 398 - Art of Producing/Presenting
Students receive experience in the basics of presenting, promoting, and distributing cinematic events (film festivals, Internet streaming of TV, radio, and theatre productions). Students are required to select, coordinate, supervise, and facilitate all aspects of cinematic presentation, including leading a lecture and discussion.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 206 and CART 207 )
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CART 399S - Community-Based Media
Working with community-based organizations, students will participate in service activities or projects with external communities and integrate the service experience with specific outcomes, written reflections, discussion, and evaluation.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): [Prereq: (CART 200 ) and (Junior or Senior Standing)]
University Requirement: UDSL Upper Division Service Learning
Typically Offered: Fall, Spring
Units: 4
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CART 404 - Character Animation Study
This course covers the basic anatomy of human and animal figures, as well as character design and performance, with an emphasis on gesture, construction, continuity, and expression, to support the narrative structure of the film.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 318 )
Typically Offered: Spring term only
Units: 4
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CART 410 - Advanced Stop Motion
An in-depth study of stop-motion animation production through the experience of making a short film, this class will focus on giving students studio time to experiment with poses, timing and pacing throughout the film. Students will experiment with storytelling, puppet fabrication, set & prop design, animation, lighting and compositing.
Prerequisite(s)/Corequisite(s): (Prereq: CART 370 )
Typically Offered: Periodically offered
Units: 4
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