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[2018] Open Classroom Schedule

Dr. Damien Arthur

[PSC 452] Public Personnel Administration
Survey of public personnel administration with particular attention to various facets of the merit system concept. Psychological and human relations aspects of the work situation and supervisor/subordinate interaction emphasized.

  • PSC 452: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | 4:00 pm – 6:20 pm | SH 433

[PSC 480 – Special Topics] Disaster Management Policy
This course will introduce the student to the field of disaster management policy. It is an exploration of the foundations of the intergovernmental system of disaster preparedness and mitigation. It begins with how we understand federalism and the policy process. Students will become familiar with the institutional changes and practical implementation of this complex policy.

Disaster Management is a discipline dealing with the formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of disaster related activities with the disaster related activities with the help of disaster prevention, mitigation and preparedness plans.

  • PSC 611: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm | SH 435

Dr. Maribea Barnes

[ART 335] Art Education: 2D-3D Media & Methods
Philosophy, media and methods for teaching art (emphasis for elementary level); includes laboratory experiences.

  • ART 335: Monday, April 2, 2018 | 9:30 pm – 11:00 am | VAC 501
  • ART 335: Monday, April 2, 2018 | 11:30 am – 1:00 pm | VAC 501
  • ART 335: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | 11:30 am – 12:20 pm | VAC 501

Dr. Hilary Brewster

[ENG 430] Young Adult Literature
Critical study of literature intended for adolescent and pre-adolescent readers. Focus on coming-of-age and identity issues, and on texts representing cultural, ethnic, and social diversities of U.S. and world literatures.

  • ENG 430: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm | CH 408
  • ENG 430: Thursday, April 5, 2018 | 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm | CH 408

[ENG 419] Approaches to Teaching Literature
The intensive study of the pedagogy of literature and literary critical theory and its classroom applications.

  • ENG 419: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm | CH 435

Dr. Allison Carey

[ENG 232] Good Films
Study of films as narratives, as cultural representations, and as aesthetic expressions.

  • ENG 232: Monday, April 2, 2018 | 11:00 am – 11:50 am | CH 467
  • ENG 232: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | 11:00 am – 11:50 am | CH 467

Dr. Tina Cartwright

[CI 248] Introduction to Science for Elementary Educators
Introduction to teaching science in elementary schools, emphasizing inquiry-based learning practices and effective research-based teaching strategies. Activities include seminars, discussion and experimentation using learning modules targeting Earth and Space.

  • CI 248: Monday, April 2, 2018 | 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm | SH 612
  • CI 248: Monday, April 2, 2018 | 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm | SH 612
  • CI 248: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm | SH 612
  • CI 248: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm | SH 612

[CI 448] Integrated Science Methods: Elementary Education
General elementary education course with emphasis on instructional standards and objectives, methods, and materials for science.

  • CI 448: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | 11:00 am – 12:15 pm | SH 612
  • CI 448: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm | SH 612
  • CI 448: Thursday, April 5, 2018 | 11:00 am – 12:15 pm | SH 612
  • CI 448: Thursday, April 5, 2018 | 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm | SH 612

Dr. Eric “Del” Chrol

[LAT 102] First Year Latin

  • LAT 102: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | 10:00 am – 10:50 am | HH 446
  • LAT 102: Friday, April 6, 2018 | 10:00 am – 10:50 am | HH 446

[CL 210] Love and War in the Ancient World (CT)
Taught in English, this course examines the themes of love and war in Greek and Roman poetry and prose.

  • CL 210: Thursday, April 5, 2018 | 11:00 am – 12:15 pm | HH 403

[Grk 202] First Year Greek

  • Grk 202: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | 11:00 pm – 11:50 am | HH 403
  • Grk 202: Friday, April 6, 2018 | 11:00 pm – 11:50 am | HH 403

[LAT 480] Latin Prose Composition

  • LAT 480: Thursday, April 5, 2018 | 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm | HH 403

Dr. George Davis

[PSC 202] State and Local Government
Study of the institutions, processes, and significance of this level of political life in America.

  • PSC 202: Monday, April 2, 2018 | 11:00 am – 11:50 am | SH 335
  • PSC 202: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | 11:00 am – 11:50 am | SH 335
  • PSC 202: Friday, April 6, 2018 | 11:00 am – 11:50 am | SH 335

[PSC 629] Seminar in Political Theory
This course explores some of the foundational concepts underpinning modern democratic politics. Throughout the semester, we will not only read and discuss some foundational texts, but also consider ways these texts might provide useful (or limited) for understanding contemporary democracy, focusing primarily on the American political system.

  • PSC 629: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 |4:00 pm – 6:20 pm | SH 741C

Dr. Laura Michele Diener

[HST 492] Medieval Britain
Open to history majors of outstanding ability. Study may deal with any era of history. Wide reading and comprehensive understanding of the era are required.

  • HST 492: Monday, April 2, 2018 | 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm | HH 136
  • HST 492: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | 2:30 pm – 3:45 pm | HH 136

Dr. Ben Eng

[MKT 340] Principles of Marketing
Introduction to marketing as the central activity in creating exchanges with customers. Focuses on strategies related to environmental opportunities and threats using product, price, promotion, and distribution tools.

  • MKT 340: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm | CH 105
  • MKT 340: Thursday, April 5, 2018 | 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm | CH 105

Dr. Victor Fet

[BSC 120] Principles of Biology
Study of basic biological principles common to all organisms through lecture and laboratory activities. Chemistry of life, cell biology, metabolism, heredity, and evolution.

  • BSC 120: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | 11:00 am – 12:15 pm | S 374
  • BSC 120: Thursday, April 5, 2018 | 11:00 am – 12:15 pm | S 374 (2)

Professor Dan Hollis

[JMC 402] Law of Mass Communications
A cross-media overview of the legal concepts important to the media professional with special focus on the roles, rights, and responsibilities of those individuals/

[NOTE: Professor Hollis has invited observers to come after the starting point or leave before the ending point if that better suits their schedules.]
  • JMC 402: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | 4:00 pm – 6:20 pm | SH 336

Dr. Lori Howard

[CISP 510] Introduction to Instruction Practices/Exceptional Children
An introductory course on applied planning and instructional approaches for the exceptional child. The course will introduce students to validated instructional practices for the beginning classroom teacher.

  • CISP 510: This is an online course; Dr. Howard will add you to the class in Blackboard so you can explore during the week.

[CISP 607] Math Strategies for Exceptional Students
Examines mathematics curriculum, methods, and adapted materials for students with mild to moderate disabilities in K-12 classrooms. Emphasizes strategies for accessing the general education curriculum, higher-level courses, and technology.

  • CISP 607: This is an online course; Dr. Howard will add you to the class in Blackboard so you can explore during the week.

Dr. Sissy Isaacs

[CI 449] Instructional and Classroom Management: Secondary Education
Classroom management with emphasis on practical techniques for dealing with management problems in secondary and middle school settings.

  • CI 449: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | 11:00 am – 12:15 pm | SH 628
  • CI 449: Thursday, April 5, 2018 | 11:00 am – 12:15 pm | SH 628

Dr. Eldon Larsen

[EM 670] Seminar in Engineering Management
Provides the student an opportunity to examine issues in engineering management and to evaluate their consequences in organizations, in the profession, and in society.

  • EM 670: Monday, April 2, 2018 | 4:00 pm – 6:15 pm | WAEC 1101

Dr. Kristen Lillvis, Dr. Robert Ellison, and Professor Ian Nolte

[ENG 280-202] Digital Literary Studies
As the course catalog states, ENG 280 is a “special topics” course. This section offers you an introduction to digital literary studies. Topics to be addressed include analyzing digital versions of printed texts, comparing and critiquing electronic literature and videogames, and creating video essays. This course also covers the creation of digital portfolios.

  • ENG 280: Monday, April 2, 2018 | 4:00 pm – 6:20 pm | CH 304
  • ENG 280: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | 4:00 pm – 6:20 pm | CH 304

Dr. Saurabh Mehta

[PT 763] Evidence-based Practice II
Students are guided through the process of a Systematic Literature Review development on a topic selected by the student and their Faculty Research Advisor and learn to apply principles of research to the clinical decision-making process and to make recommendations for practice.

  • PT 763: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm | SOPT 113
  • PT 763: Thursday, April 5, 2018 | 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm | SOPT 113

Dr. Greg Michaelson

[CE 413] Reinforced Concrete Design
Behavior and design of reinforced concrete elements according to ACI 318. Design of beams, one-way slabs, columns, and beam-columns based on strength and serviceability requirements.

  • CE 413: Friday, April 6, 2018 | 10:00 am – 10:50 am | WAEC 1103

Professor Brian Morgan

[CIT313] Web Programming II
The second semester of a two-course sequence on Web programming. This course focuses on server-side programming and databases. Topics covered include PHP, mySQL, web services, and security.

  • CIT 313: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | 9:30 am – 10:45 am | WAEC 1104
  • CIT 313: Thursday, April 5, 2018 | 9:30 am – 10:45 am | WAEC 1104

Dr. Daniel O’Malley

[ENG 360] Introduction to Creative Writing  
An introduction to writing of fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction.

  • ENG 360: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm | CH 435

Dr. Rachael Peckham

[HON 293]: Yeager IV Seminar – Twisted Nonfiction
In this seminar, we will examine recent scandals and controversies in memoir that have rocked the genre of creative nonfiction, testing its boundaries and the reader-writer contract—an implicit understanding that the writer of nonfiction is telling the truth. We’ll look at select “false memoirs” and other works that provoke difficult questions and, often, strong reactions in the reader. Along the way, students will compose their own purposefully “twisted” nonfiction writing, exploring their own relationship to the truth in a post-truth era.

  • HON 293: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | 12:30 pm – 2:15 pm | OM 230
  • HON 293: Thursday, April 5, 2018 | 12:30 pm – 2:15 pm | OM 230

Dr. Zelideth Rivas

[JPN 204] Intermediate Japanese IV
Development of practical conversational skills, reading for comprehension, and directed compositions.

  • JPN 204: Monday, April 2, 2018 | 11:00 am – 11:50 am | SH 409

[JPN 250] Manga and Anime
Taught in English, this course examines the history and nature of Japanese animation (anime) and comics (manga).

  • JPN 250: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm | SH 413
  • JPN 250: Thursday, April 5, 2018 | 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm | SH 413

[JPN 402] Advanced Japanese VIII
Students continue to learn comprehensive skills in contemporary Japanese at advanced level and 250 new kanji. Students conduct survey research in Japanese. Course taught in Japanese.

  • JPN 402: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | 11:00 am – 12:15 pm | SH 437

[HON 480-204] Eating Identity
While still a young field of studies, Food Studies offers students a discipline that is at once grounded in academic theories of recognition, cultural anthropology, political activism, race and ethnic studies, and postcolonialism while also engaging the interdisciplinary fields of philosophy, history, literature, film, anthropology, and culinary studies. In this class, we will explore food as symbolic markers of identity; the ethics of eating; the production and consumption of food in media such as cookbooks and television shows; and the creation of fusion dishes as markers of new global pathways that allow us to expand from the local to the global.

  • HON 480-204: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm | HH 137

Dr. Phillip Rutherford

[HST 425/525] European History
A century of European political, economic, and social history and its relationship to and influence upon the history of other world areas is noted. The impact of imperialistic rivalry is emphasized.

  • HST 425/525: Monday, April 2, 2018 | 11:00 am – 11:50 am | HH 136
  • HST 425/525: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | 11:00 am – 11:50 am | HH 136
  • HST 425/525: Friday, April 6, 2018 | 11:00 am – 11:50 am | HH 136

Dr. Kateryna Schray

[ENG 436] Medieval British Literature
Old English Elegiac and heroic poetry; Middle English lyrics and romances; the Ricardian and Malory.

[Note: Dr. Schray  has indicated that the plan for that evening is one that will make it easier for faculty to slip out if they are unable to stay for the whole class period.]
  • ENG 436: Monday, April 2, 2018 | 4:00 pm – 6:20 pm | CH 268

Professor Jennifer Sias

[FYS 100] First Year Seminar in Critical Thinking
Students will learn integrative/critical thinking skills integral to life-long learning through discussion, interaction, discovery, problem solving, writing, research, reflection, and examination of multicultural/international issues.

  • FYS 100: Thursday, April 5, 2018 | 9:30 am – 10:45 am | CH 270
  • FYS 100: Thursday, April 5, 2018 | 11:00 am – 12:15 pm | CH 243
  • FYS 100: Thursday, April 5, 2018 | 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm | SH 113

Dr. Joan St. Germain 

[THE 354] Stage Make-up
Development of character make-up designs through analysis, research and application of various make-up media suitable to stage, print and film. Adherence to industry standards of hygiene, sanitation and professional etiquette.

  • THE 354: Monday, April 2, 2018 | 10:00 am – 11:50 am | PAC 118
  • THE 354: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | 10:00 am – 11:50 am | PAC 118

[THE 250] Introduction to Costuming
The history, design, and construction of theatrical costumes.

[NOTE] This course includes lecture and production work. The lecture generally runs from 1-2(2:30) followed by the production work. Dr. St. Germain welcomes observers for partial visits (either the lecture of the production work).

  • THE 250: Monday, April 2, 2018 | 1:00 pm – 4:50 pm | PAC 022
  • THE 250: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | 1:00 pm – 4:50 pm | PAC 022
  • THE 250: Friday, April 6, 2018 | 1:00 pm – 4:50 pm | PAC 022

Dr. John Van Kirk

[ENG 492] Fiction Workshop
Offers students a forum for presentation, discussion, and refinement of their work, either short stories or novels.

  • ENG 492: Monday, April 2, 2018 | 4:00 pm – 6:20 pm | CH 407

[ENG 201] Advanced Composition
An advanced composition course centered on critical reading, writing, and research skills for the disciplines.

  • ENG 201: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm | CH 354
  • ENG 201: Thursday, April 5, 2018 | 12:30 pm – 1:45 pm | CH 354

Dr. Isaac Wait

[CE 331] Hydraulic Engineering
Hydraulic flow in pipe networks, water hammer, surge tanks, pumps and turbines. Basic open channel on flow. Storm and sanitary sewer design. Dams and reservoirs.

  • CE 331: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm | WAEC 1103
  • CE 331: Thursday, April 5, 2018 | 3:30 pm – 4:45 pm | WAEC 1103

[ENGR 222] Engineering Cost Analysis and Economy
Economic analysis of engineering proposals; time value of money; evaluation and selection of projects; replacement and retention decisions; uncertainty and risk; inflaction; cost estimation; depreciation; and benefit cost analysis.

  • ENGR 222: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | 9:30 am – 10:45 am | WAEC 1201
  • ENGR 222: Thursday, April 5, 2018 | 9:30 am – 10:45 am | WAEC 1201

Dr. Jamie Warner

[PSC 104] American National Government and Politics (CT)
This course will engage students in critical thinking as they explore the American federal government system, with emphasis on constitutionalism, governmental structure, and the political process.

  • PSC 104: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | 9:30 am – 10:45 am | SH 433
  • PSC 104: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | 11:00 am – 12:15 pm | SH 433

[PSC 499] Capstone
This course is designed to integrate political theory with politics by considering the relevance of political philosophy to contemporary political questions.

[NOTE] The PSC 499 class meetings will consist of student presentations of their capstone research.

  • PSC 499: Tuesday, April 3, 2018 | 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm | SH 433
  • PSC 499: Thursday, April 5, 2018 | 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm | SH 433

[PSC 426/526] Modern Political Thought
Selective study of classics of Western political theory from the 16th century through the 19th century, such as that of Machiavelli, Bodin, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Hume, Burke, Mill, and Marx.

  • PSC 426/526: Monday, April 2, 2018 | 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm | SH 433
  • PSC 426/526: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 | 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm | SH 433