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2013-2014 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
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Courses

 

Conducting for Undergraduate Students
  
  
  
  

Dance For Music Theatre Majors
  

  • HTD 110 - Ballet I


    1 credit(s)
    Basic ballet movement, technique, vocabulary, musicality, and style are developed through this course. Class includes movement work at the barre, center floor, traveling, and traveling combinations, in adagio and allegro tempi. This course also includes body conditioning with an emphasis on placement and posture. A studio format is used.
    Prerequisite(s): Acceptance to the Hartt School Theatre Division, Music Theatre program.


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  • HTD 111 - Ballet I


    1 credit(s)
    Basic ballet movement, technique, vocabulary, musicality, and style are developed through this course. Class includes movement work at the barre, center floor, traveling, and traveling combinations, in adagio and allegro tempi. This course also includes body conditioning with an emphasis on placement and posture. A studio format is used.
    Prerequisite(s): Acceptance to the Hartt School Theatre Division, Music Theatre program.


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  • HTD 210 - Ballet II


    1 credit(s)
    Intermediate ballet movement, technique, vocabulary, and musicality are developed through this course. Class includes movement work at the barre, stretching, center floor, traveling, and traveling combinations. Work is explored in different tempos and styles. This course includes body conditioning with an emphasis on placement and the basic fundamentals of ballet technique. A studio format is used.
    Prerequisite(s): Music theatre major and HTD 110 -HTD 111 , or permission of instructor.


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  • HTD 211 - Ballet II


    1 credit(s)
    Intermediate ballet movement, technique, vocabulary, and musicality are developed through this course. Class includes movement work at the barre, stretching, center floor, traveling, and traveling combinations. Work is explored in different tempos and styles. This course includes body conditioning with an emphasis on placement and the basic fundamentals of ballet technique. A studio format is used.
    Prerequisite(s): Music theatre major and HTD 110 -HTD 111 , or permission of instructor.


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Diction For Undergraduate Students
  
  
  
  
  

Drama
  
  
  
  

  • DRA 170 - Acting I


    3 credit(s)
    This course is for beginning-level students who want to develop their acting skills through theatre games, improvisation, scene, and monologue work. Students gain a practical understanding of fundamental concepts of acting technique, including objective, action, given circumstance, and focus. Other topics include body awareness and vocal quality, which help develop skill and self-confidence in public speaking situations. The course culminates in performances of selected scenes and monologues.


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  • DRA 313W - Playwriting

    Course Cross-listed with ENG 313W 
    3 credit(s) Writing Intensive
    This course offers the opportunity to experiment with playwriting techniques in a workshop environment. The basic components of playwriting are taught, focusing particularly on character, dialogue, and plot. Students analyze plays from the standpoint of structure and take the opportunity to view and discuss local live performances. Seminars involve the workshop testing of student writing, focusing on further development of the work. It is intended that weekly writing exercises will culminate in a longer piece of work performed in a series of rehearsed readings.
    Prerequisite(s): ENG 225W  or DRA 160 , or permission of instructor.


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  • DRA 320 - Acting II


    3 credit(s)
    This course builds upon the fundamental concepts established in Acting I. Students explore these concepts through the application of specific physical techniques in contemporary usage. While Acting I focuses on the understanding of internal psychological work, developed by Stanislavsky and his followers, Acting II focuses on the externalized expressions of the internal state. Students apply their understanding of acting to an increasingly stylized repertoire.
    Prerequisite(s): DRA 170  or permission of instructor


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  • DRA 415 - Acting for the Camera


    3 credit(s)
    Instruction and practical experience in performing for the camera. Class stresses process and terms used in television and film production from the standpoint of the performer. Regular on-camera experience enables students to study themselves and others on the monitor in order to observe their progress. Differences between film and stage work are emphasized, giving the film or drama student an overview of the two forms from a production standpoint.
    Prerequisite(s): DRA 264 and DRA 265, or permission of instructor.


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  • DRA 420 - British Drama, 1660–1830

    Course Cross-listed with ENG 420 
    3 credit(s)
    A study of British drama between the Restoration and the Victorian era. Emphasis on changes in theatre practice (the appearance of women on the stage, the Licensing Act, spectacle), on controversies about the morality and purpose of the theatrical arts, and on the emergence of new dramatic genres (libertine comedy, she-tragedy, bourgeois tragedy, farce, comic opera, sentimental comedy, closet drama). Playwrights may include Dryden, Congreve, Behn, Wycherley, Rowe, Centlivre, Fielding, Gay, Goldsmith, Sheridan, Inchbald, Baillie, and Byron.
    Prerequisite(s): Junior standing and any 200-level literature course, or permission of instructor.


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  • DRA 480 - Internship Program


    3–6 credit(s)
    The internship program is intended to provide students with an opportunity to augment their studies with a 12- to 15-week work experience in a theatrical organization. Typically, students work from 7 to 15 hours each week, depending on the number of credits for which they are enrolled. Additional details about the program are available on request from the chair of the department. Available only to theatre and musical theatre majors.


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Drawing
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

Early Childhood Education
  
  
  

  • EDY 334 - Working with Families and Community Services


    3 credit(s)
    In this course, students will explore the vital role of the family with regard to having a child in an early childhood program. The course details the role of the early childhood teacher as he/she works with both the child and the family. The vast range of community services available to families and children will be covered. Approaches to working toward the implementation of the best possible service delivery for the child and family will be emphasized.
    Prerequisite(s): EDY 332 .


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  • EDY 432 - Infants and Toddlers: Development and Assessment


    3 credit(s)
    This course will focus on normal and atypical development of infants and toddlers. All areas of development will be included: physical, language, cognitive, and social/emotional. Assessment of development will take into account developmental milestones and developmental lags. Formal and informal assessment tools will be studied. This course will require some observation and direct work with this age group.
    Prerequisite(s): EDY 331  and EDY 332 .


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  • EDY 435 - Programs and Curriculum for Normal and Special-Needs Infants and Toddlers


    3 credit(s)
    This course is designed to introduce the student to the most current developmentally appropriate programs and curriculum models for working with normal infants and toddlers and those with special needs. The 10 best practices for working with young children (as specified by the Division of Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children) will be a focal point of the course. Students will visit programs for this age group.
    Prerequisite(s): EDY 432 .


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  • EDY 439 - Professional Internship: Early Childhood Education


    3 credit(s)
    Provides a classroom experience in directed observation/participation. The student is assigned part time to an early childhood education setting under the direction of the professional staffing the classroom. The student will participate in various aspects of the work of that professional. This is not to be substituted for student teaching in early childhood education. Classroom routines and work with individual children and small groups are emphasized.
    Prerequisite(s): Permission of the department.


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Earth and General Sciences
  
  

Economics
  
  
  

  • EC 211 - Principles of Microeconomics


    3 credit(s)
    This is an introductory course in microeconomic theory. Students learn basic principles of economic decision making from the perspective of the individual, firm, and industry. Particular attention is given to the market system and how prices and profits coordinate the actions of economic decision makers. Topics include demand and supply, consumer behavior, costs and production, market structure, market failure, regulation, poverty, and income distribution.


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  • EC 215 - Women in Economy


    3 credit(s)
    A survey course covering the economic factors that play a significant role in the economic life of women. Topics include the economics of households, marriage, and families, changes in labor-force participation, causes and consequences of gender differences in occupations and earnings, government policies that have an impact on the economic well-being of women, and an international comparison of the economic conditions of women.
    Prerequisite(s): GS 100  and EC 101 , or permission of instructor.


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  • EC 311 - Intermediate Macroeconomic Analysis


    3 credit(s)
    This course is designed to provide students with the economic and analytical tools to better understand the domestic and global economic environments; macroeconomic problems, such as inflation and unemployment; and the alternative policy proposals suggested for solving these problems. Emphasis is placed on business cycle behavior, stabilization policies, economic growth, and international macroeconomic linkages.
    Prerequisite(s): EC 110  and EC 211 .


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  • EC 312 - Managerial Economics


    3 credit(s)
    This course integrates the traditional coverage of microeconomic theory with modern developments in the theory of economic organizations and managerial decision making. Introducing the concepts of transaction costs, this course examines efficiency and coordination with firms, and provides tools for effectively analyzing a wide variety of business situations. Topics include the neoclassical theory of the firm, the organization of the firm, centralized decision making, market failure and externalities, economics of information, and game theory.
    Prerequisite(s): EC 110  and EC 211 .


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  • EC 316 - The Economics of Public Policy


    3 credit(s)
    This course applies basic economic theories for analysis of some current socioeconomic issues for public policy decision making. Selected policy areas may include analyzing international macroeconomic and microeconomic data obtained through the Internet or other sources, inflation and unemployment, economic growth, urban decay, poverty, discrimination, health care, retirement policies, tariffs and international trade policy, pollution, government regulations, income distribution, and other contemporary issues. Students are expected to work in teams to develop alternative solutions to problems discussed.
    Prerequisite(s): EC 110  and EC 211 , or permission of instructor.


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  • EC 324 - Economics of Money, Banking, and Financial Markets


    3 credit(s)
    This course stresses the economic way of thinking by developing a unifying analytical framework for the study of money, banking, and financial markets. This framework uses a few basic economic principles to analyze the structure of financial markets, the foreign exchange market, bank management, and the role of money in the economy. International applications are integrated throughout the course. Topics such as international banking, conduct of monetary policy in other countries, and the growing integration of financial markets, among others, are covered.
    Prerequisite(s): EC 110  and EC 211 .


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  • EC 363 - Environmental Economics


    3 credit(s)
    This course examines the applications of economic analysis in dealing with many of our society’s environmental and natural resource concerns. Topics include the economic tools necessary for understanding environmental problems; analysis of alternative approaches, including effluent charges and tradable discharge permits, for correcting these environmental problems; methods for placing “value” on environmental quality; the potential for alternative energy sources; optimal depletion of natural resources, including forests, water, food, and fisheries; environmental justice; and the application of cost-benefit analysis and life-cycle cost analysis to selected environmental issues.
    Prerequisite(s): EC 110  and EC 211 , or permission of the instructor.


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  • EC 464 - Economics of the City


    3 credit(s)
    Builds on basic microeconomic principles to address the questions of where firms and consumers choose to locate and how and why they make their choices. Topics include location theory; market forces that result in development of cities; government policies that affect land rent and land use within cities; spatial aspects of poverty, discrimination, and housing; and state and local government spending on education and property taxation.
    Prerequisite(s): EC 312 .


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Economics: Hillyer
  
  
  
 

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