Humanities and Sciences

This course is designed to provide a survey of the principles and concepts necessary for understanding and performing basic marketing and self-promotion. Students will apply the research and marketing decision-making skills presented by developing a marketing approach and plan for a particular product. Networking, information meetings, research and promotional tools are among the topics covered. What it means to run your own business will be emphasized.

This course focuses on the way that film reflects and influences society. Students will concentrate on the content of the film (script, period style or historical reference) as opposed to the form (cinematography, design, etc.). The sociological principles of conflict theory, social structure and organization, social control will be studied.

This course focuses on the ways in which films produced in other cultures reflect their societies. Films from Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America are explored to develop a holistic, cross-cultural perspective. Students gain an appreciation of cultural similarities and differences and enhance their intercultural sensitivity. Films viewed in and out of class, oral reports, written essays, class participation and exams are required.

This course provides an interdisciplinary examination of visual culture and how the ways of seeing structures our understanding of the world. The course offers historical and contemporary views of visual culture from a sociological perspective incorporating various critical theories. Through field trips, screenings, readings and discussion, the student focuses on how visual culture is constructed, written about, analyzed and viewed in the larger construction of culture.