Course Descriptions

TH 351 - Theatre and Arts Management II

• Demonstrate a working knowledge of the types and use of various marketing tools as they relate to arts marketing and be able to comment on the strengths and weaknesses of various marketing approaches
• Develop a working budget for a marketing campaign
• Document various career paths available within the context of art marketing
• Critically comment on the strengths and weakness of their own work as well as the work of their peers

TH 352 - Stage Dance II

• Articulate and demonstrate dance terminology based on the fundamentals of jazz and ballet.
• Demonstrate improvement dance technique throughout the course of the quarter and learn to perform with confidence.
• Articulate the terminology and technique of dance steps learned in class.
• Describe and demonstrate “how” to learn choreography quickly and accurately in order to perform with confidence, accuracy and proper audition/callback etiquette.
• Reflect on and demonstrate how to clean and improve a dance. There is much more to dancing than learning the sequence of choreography.

TH 353 - Stage Properties

• Provide a forum in which to discuss the needs for properties in a theatrical production.
• Provide an environment where students can explore the role of props designer.
• Provide a venue where students can acquire practical theatre-related skills.
• Establish a conceptual foundation for understanding the props design process.
• Develop proficiency in analyzing the play for thematic content and physical requirements.
• Develop immediate visual responses to a text.
• Explore the ramifications of properties design choices on the work of the actor and the director - to understand properties as they affect character interaction.
• Establish the importance of research in the design process.
• Familiarize the student with an array of visual communication tools utilized by the props designer.
• Broaden the student’s knowledge of accepted industry standards applied to the properties design.
• Identify a personal approach to effective design development and communication for the student.
• Further develop written and oral communication skills through practice with written design concepts, classroom discussion, and verbal presentation of design projects.

TH 354 - Scene Painting

TH 356 - Stage Sound

• Identify the pieces of equipment in a typical sound reinforcement system and discuss what they do using terms common to sound reinforcement and theatre sound design
• Demonstrate and diagram the signal flow in a typical sound reinforcement system Trouble shooting a troubled sound reinforcement system
• Analyze a theatrical script in order to create an audio design concept

TH 357 - Entertainment Rigging

• Demonstrate an understanding of geometry and rigging math.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the application of entertainment industry rigging practices and standards.
• Identify components used for entertainment rigging, their normal applications and limitations.
• Demonstrate an understanding of safety practices and procedures.

TH 360 - Stage Management

• Develop knowledge of the theory and skill in the practice of Stage Management.
• Develop in the role of the Stage Manager.
• Critically comment on the strengths and weakness of their work as well as the work of their peers.

TH 361 - Stage Costuming

• Demonstrate an understanding of construction standards as they relate to durability, stage-worthiness, and aesthetic quality of theatrical costumes.

TH 362 - Costume Crafts

• Demonstrate knowledge of the theory and skill in the practice of fabric manipulation, using preexisting pieces to create different looks
• Demonstrate an ability to change the color or texture of fabric using dye, bleach, and distressing techniques
• Produce a book of technique samples including new techniques developed individually
• Demonstrate knowledge of millinery techniques, and jewelry manipulation
• Produce a series of soft caps, buckram hats, and found object jewelry
• Critically comment on the strengths and weakness of their own work as well as the work of their peers

TH 363 - Theatre History I

TH 364 - Theatre History II

TH 365 - Theatre History III

TH 366 - Theatre Rendering

• Demonstrate a variety of rendering techniques for theatre design
• Demonstrate rendering in a variety of media
• Demonstrate the difference in rendering for various areas of theatre design
• Critically asses their work and work of their peers

TH 367 - Stage Scenery

• Articulate the standards of OSHA regulation, OSHA Hazard Communication Standard, Federal Hazardous. Substance Act, Fire codes, general theatre safety, & scene shop safety as they pertain to the theatre and scene shops
• Demonstrate their knowledge of these safety regulations by following them in class
• Demonstrate how to use a wire feed welder
• Demonstrate basic welding skills
• Identify the basic drafting symbols and their conventions
• Draw a basic technical or shop drawing of a project to be built
• Discuss the relationship between time/money/personnel management
• Develop a materials list, develop a cost estimate from that list, develop an estimate of the manpower needed to build the project on the drawing, and develop a construction calendar for the project
• Properly develop a rigging system to fly a load/item on the single purchase counterweight fly system
• Properly and safely load and unload an item on the counterweight fly system
• Discuss the uses, advantages, disadvantages & strengths of materials commonly used in the construction of theatre scenery

TH 368 - Stage Lighting

• Identify and employ the functions of light and industry standard lighting symbols.
• Synthesize information about angle, intensity and color into a design idea.
• Accurately trouble-shoot common problems during the lighting production process.
• Use elementary research techniques and creative problem solving to create solutions to lighting problems.
• Use cuing to create a dynamic visual environment.

TH 374 - Introduction to Acting for the Camera

• Illustrate and implement accepted industry techniques for acting in front of the camera
• Create believable characters for television and film
• Demonstrate an understanding of the basic techniques of television production, including camera operation, basic camera direction, lighting, videotaping and sound recording as proven through practical application

TH 375 - Asian Drama

TH 377 - Staging Gender

TH 378 - Theatre Facilities Management

• Identifies and applies theatre facilities and theatre management skills.
• Identifies and applies appropriate safety procedures in a theatrical setting.
• Identifies and applies relevant legal requirements in a theatrical setting.

TH 380 - Studies in Drama

• Identify the formal elements and generic conventions of drama, including plot, character, and scene, and explain how formal choices contribute to meaning.
• Compare and contrast dramatic works based on theme, genre, historical context, and/or cultural context.
• Identify and explain the theatrical elements and conventions of drama and will be able to relate the material production of plays to historical and/or cultural conditions.
• Understand and express the thematic concern s of plays as aesthetic works.
• Write formal and informal responses to dramatic texts that demonstrate engagement, reflective thought about the writer’s own assumptions, effective inquiry, and responsible interpretation.

TH 382 - Diverse Experiences in American Drama

• Articulate the requirements of informed citizenship based on analysis of social, economic and/or political processes issues and events.
• Employ the use of vocabulary and concepts in the analysis of contemporary multicultural dramatic literature and theatre history, in the examination of the root causes of the Zoot Suit Riots.
• Analyze and articulate how a Mexican American playwright used the historical event to create a play that illuminates the social, economic and political pressures that led to riot.
• Identify the influence of the various institutions, cultures and traditions of the United States.
• Identify and analyze the influences that government and religion have had on the theatre history and drama of Native Americans.
• Apply critical thinking and ethical reasoning to individual and collective decision making.
• Identify how the playwrights address the social, economic and political influences in their plays.
• Critically analyze ways in which the past affects the present and future.
• Identify the principles articulated by Dr. Come! West in his lecture “Race Still Matters” and apply his ideas and principles to the analysis several plays and theatre history of African Americans.
• Apply critical thinking and ethical reasoning to individual and collective decision making.
• Analyze the motivations of one characters in three African American dramas.
• Apply critical thinking and ethical reasoning to individual and collective decision making.
• Identify three critical decisions that were made by characters and reflect on the ethical and collective impact of their decisions on the dramatic world portrayed.

TH 384 - Puppetry (Put on Reserve 9/16/16.)

TH 393 - Theatre Laboratory

• Demonstrate a process or method of construction unique to one of the following areas: costuming, lighting, props, puppetry, scenery, or promotional aspects of the theatre.
• Demonstrate commitment to attaining the goals of technical theatre in support of the overall theatre production.
• Demonstrate the work process of the various shops and work environments that support theatrical production, and their role in the production.
• Demonstrate the basic principles of workplace regulation, safety, personal interaction and responsibility.

TH 396 - Individual Study

TH 397 - Honors

TH 398 - Special Topics

TH 400 - Rehearsal and Performance

• Articulate, orally and in writing, the duties associated with assigned job.
• Fulfill assigned job, as specified in job description and through specific supervisor directive, with a positive and professional attitude.
• Accurately transfer information from one team member to another.
• Demonstrate an ability to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrate the proper application of health and safety rules associated with the job description.
• Competently use the tools, materials, equipment, and techniques associated with the job description.
• Demonstrate knowledge of theatre protocol through participation in a theatrical production.
• Demonstrate the ability to work as pan of a team through participation in a theatrical production, and find solutions to common problems encountered while working on a theatrical production.
• Demonstrate an understanding of design unity, an understanding of the dramatic text, and methods of translating text into a stage production.

TH 401 - Production Application

• Articulate, orally and in writing, the duties associated with assigned job description.
• Fulfill assigned job, as specified in job description and through specific supervisor directive, with a positive and professional attitude.
• Follow written and verbal instructions accurately.
• Accurately transfer information from one team member to another.
• Demonstrate an ability to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrate the proper application of health and safety rules associated with your job description.
• Competently use the tools, materials, equipment, and techniques associated with your job description.
• Demonstrate knowledge of theatre protocol through participation in a theatrical production.
• Demonstrate the ability to work as part of a team through participation in a theatrical production.
• Find solutions to common problems encountered while working on a theatrical production.
• Demonstrate an understanding of design unity.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the dramatic text and methods of translating said text into a stage production.

TH 402 - Performance Application

• Articulate, orally and in writing, the duties associated with assigned job description.
• Fulfill assigned job, as specified in job description and through specific supervisor directive, with a positive and professional attitude.
• Follow written and verbal instructions accurately.
• Accurately transfer information from one team member to another.
• Demonstrate an ability to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrate the proper application of health and safety rules associated with your job description.
• Competently use the tools, materials, equipment, and techniques associated with your job description.
• Demonstrate knowledge of theatre protocol through participation in a theatrical production.
• Demonstrate the ability to work as part of a team through participation in a theatrical production.
• Find solutions to common problems encountered while working on a theatrical production.
• Demonstrate an understanding of design unity.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the dramatic text and methods of translating said text into a stage production.

TH 403 - Management Application

• Articulate, orally and in writing, the duties associated with assigned job description.
• Fulfiil assigned job, as specified in job description and through specific supervisor directive, with a positive and professional attitude.
• Follow written and verbal instructions accurately.
• Accurately transfer information from one team member to another.
• Demonstrate an ability to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrate the proper application of health and safety rules associated with your job description.
• Competently use the tools, materials, equipment, and techniques associated with your job description.
• Demonstrate knowledge of theatre protocol through participation in a theatrical production.
• Demonstrate the ability to work as part of a team through participation in a theatrical production.
• Find solutions to common problems encountered while working on a theatrical production.
• Demonstrate an understanding of design unity.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the dramatic text and methods of translating said text into a stage production.

TH 415 - Musical Theatre History and Literature I

• Define the specific types, genres, influences, and socio- economic connections with regard to the development of early musical theatre.
• Demonstrate a clear connection between musical theatre and American history.
• Identify and analyze trends in early musical theatre.

TH 416 - Musical Theatre History and Literature II

• Define the specific types, genres, influences, and socio- economic connections with regard to the development of musical theatre from Oklahoma to the rock musical
• Demonstrate a clear connection between musical theatre and American history
• Identify and analyze trends in 20th century musical theatre

TH 417 - Musical Theatre History and Literature III (Put on reserve 9/16/18)

• Define the specific types, genres, influences, and socio- economic connections with regard to the development of musical theatre from the rock musical to present.
• Demonstrate a clear connection between musical theatre and American history.
• Identify and analyze trends in 20th to 21st century musical theatre.
• Develop a musical based on a play, movie, or book.

TH 423 - Theatre Pedagogy

• Analyze and experience the instructor’s role in educational theatre and theatre’s role in the schools
• Articulate a personal philosophy of educational theatre
• Simulate, in a classroom format, the teaching process of theatre for students
• Analyze and use resources and materials available for school theatre programs and teachers
• Identify how theatre relates to other disciplines, art forms, and the needs of special needs students
• Articulate theatre’s relevance to children and young adults from diverse backgrounds
• Develop and implement age-appropriate learning experiences to meet specific learning goals
• Design and apply lesson plans, unit plans, curricula, and assessment strategies for teaching theatre according to state standards

TH 429 - Directing II

TH 433 - Advanced Stage Combat

• Identify and implement a vocabulary for advanced weapon techniques.
• Demonstrate weapon safety techniques and their application to stage combat.
• Perform accurately and automatically advanced techniques for each weapon and apply them in performance.
• Develop physicalized acting skills.

TH 435 - Advanced Movement for the Actor

• Identify and implement a vocabulary used for a Movement Method.
• Demonstrate correct techniques used for each exercise learned.
• Memorize & perform automatically each exercise learned.
• Develop confidence in the movement potential of the actors’ body.
• Develop physicalized acting skills.
• Develop awareness of personal physical strengths & weaknesses.

TH 440 - Advance Design Problems

• Discuss the conceptualization, design, and application of advanced design elements for a mainstage theatrical production.
• Demonstrate an effective use of a wide variety of visual and aural tools to communicate their designs.
• Acquire design-related research skills.

TH 444 - Acting Styles

• Explain through written description his/her analysis of blank verse and how it works
• Demonstrate the techniques for speaking blank verse aloud
• Describe script analysis, scansion, vocal support, breathing correctly, and antithesis, and demonstrate how each works in performance
• Differentiate between reading Shakespeare for pleasure and getting on your feet and actually performing it
• Practice the technique applications to the language through many exercises
• Identify skills in performance
• Perform monologues and scenes from classical text

TH 445 - Audition Techniques for the Stage

• Develop skill and judgment about selecting stage audition materials
• Develop an appropriate stage audition outfit
• Develop two contrasting stage monologues suitable for stage auditions
• Demonstrate professional level cold reading skills for stage auditions by reading fluently while integrating acting principles including connecting with partners real and imaginary, demonstrating physical flexibility and vocal articulation and demonstrating choice and full believable expression of appropriate character needs, tactics and point of view

TH 446 - Audition Techniques for the Camera (Put on Reserve 9/16/16.)

• Demonstrate professional standards in a basic camera audition: slate, interview techniques and cold readings
• Demonstrate professional level cold reading skills for camera auditions reading fluently, using proper and natural articulation, while integrating acting principles including connecting with partners real and imaginary, demonstrating physical flexibility and vocal articulation and demonstrating specific choice-making and full believable expression of appropriate character needs, tactics and point of view
• Practice and demonstrate professional handling of products for commercial auditions
• Practice and refine persona for the camera, and for commercials such as “pitchman,” “spokesperson,” “expert,” and will prepare for a variety of audition situations and materials

TH 452 - History of Fashion

TH 456 - Advanced Concepts in Sound for Film and Stage

• Apply acquired skills to create a basic underscore for film and stage in a variety of formats.
• Apply acquired skills to record original effects as well as locate and evaluate royalty-free basic Foley sound effects. 
• Apply acquired skills to eliminate extraneous sounds from an audio recording. 
• Apply acquired audio editing skills in the creation of sound collage work.
• Apply acquired skills using digital audio workstation software to manipulate and create audio content.

TH 460 - Production Management

• Analyze and plan a schedule for a production and a season.
• Develop cost estimates and budgets for a production and season.
• Interpret performing arts union contracts and apply constraints to schedule and cost estimates.

TH 461 - Costume Design

• Demonstrate knowledge of the theory and skill in the practice of costume design, using the elements of design in creating costumes for both contemporary and period plays.
• Demonstrate skills in the psychological use of the design principles in creating impressions for the audience.
• Demonstrate advancement in the role of the costume designer from development of the design through production.
• Critically comment on the strengths and weakness of their own work as well as the work of their peers.

TH 464 - Wig Creation, Styling, and Maintenance

• Identify and demonstrate the use of wig making and styling products
• Demonstrate concern for safety procedures of self and others
• Investigate and price existing products to use in future productions produced by the students’ school for their theses projects

TH 465 - Costume and Fashion Drawing

TH 467 - Scene Design

• Effectively communicate their design concepts in verbal, written and visual formats.
• Develop practical scenic design skills which could be realized for public performance.
• Critically comment on the strengths and weakness of their work as well as the work of their peers.

TH 468 - Lighting Design

• Analyze a theatrical script in order to create a design concept
• Construct an abstract and specific visual vocabulary
• Perform and utilize the steps in the lighting design process
• Develop the “Design eye” and visually express design ideas
• Learn elementary video editing skills to create moving images and visual enhancement for projection

TH 474 - Acting for Film and Television

• Illustrate and implement accepted industry techniques for acting in film and television scenes.
• Create believable characters for TV and film.
• Demonstrate an understanding of the basic techniques of television production, including camera operation, basic camera direction, lighting, videotaping and sound recording.

TH 481 - Kennedy-Center Festival

TH 487 - Theatre Pedagogy

• Develop a process for structuring and preparing to teach a given course, including syllabus & calendar development.
• Acquire and practice classroom management skills.
• Explore, acquire and apply a variety of reaching methodologies.
• Implement specific suggestions made by mentor in teaching throughout the quarter.
• Practice problem-solving skills through application of content explored in seminars.
• Practice self-assessment and reflective analysis regarding teaching skills.

TH 488 - Introduction to Dramaturgy

• Identify research material for application to theatre production including author and the socio-political influences surrounding the text and its time.
• Identify and evaluate current and past practices in the dramaturgical field.
• Create and present a dramaturgical portfolio and for a selected play suitable to the production.

TH 489 - Career & Portfolio Preparation

• Demonstrate skills and techniques in resume writing and portfolio building.
• Demonstrate skills in analyzing job opportunities and creating application packages appropriate for those positions.
• Critically comment on the strengths and weakness of their own work as well as the work of their peers.

TH 490 - Cooperative Education

TH 491 - Workshop

TH 492 - Practicum in Devising and Touring Theatre

• Integrate curriculum based skills set in a theatrical production.
• Acquire and demonstrate practical skills for devising theatrical works with and ensemble, and/or creating a solo performance piece using a number of different techniques and approaches including viewpoints, rasaboxes, and other movement based disciplines.
• Demonstrate critical, analytical, and artistic kills as applied to a theatrical production from conception to culmination.
• Integrate creative writing, historical documents, literature, and/or other works into works for the stage.
• Critically comment on the strengths and weakness of their own work as well as the work of their peers.
• Adhere to accepted professional theatrical protocol regarding preparation and execution of responsibilities.
• Learn and demonstrate professional conduct and responsibilities in more than one area of production.

TH 493 - Theatre Laboratory

TH 494 - International Theatre Experience

• Identify processes of travel itinerary implementation
• Critically analyze linkage between academic courses completed prior to the field experience and how the experiential learning will affect the students aesthetic perceptive
• Defend personal reaction to aesthetic choices made by the organization producing theatre viewed during the field experience
• Summarize significant cultural practices and influences experienced in the travel destination country

TH 495 - Senior Research Project

• Select a focused researchable paper topic, making sure there is room for original thought in your selection
• Develop a working, researchable, defensible thesis statement
• Find your way around the resource materials in an academic library
• Navigate the Internet with confidence
• Find 5 sources on your selected topic
• Conduct research using a variety of media
• Create a MLA in-text citation
• Cite sources in a bibliography [Works Cited]
• Develop an organized paper using carefully selected details
• Demonstrate good writing skills such as clear articulation of ideas/content, organization, voice, word choice, sentence fluency, and grammatical/writing conventions
• Meet assigned deadlines
• Critically comment on the strengths and weaknesses of their own work, as well as that of their peers

TH 496 - Individual Study

TH 497 - Honors

TH 498 - Special Topics

TH 499 - Seminar

UNIV 101 - Transition to CWU

• Identify common first year transitional issues and develop strategies to contribute to college success.
• Establish connections with faculty, staff, and peers in the CWU community.
• Begin the process of career and major exploration.
• Identify campus resources available for different types of support.
• Demonstrate knowledge and use of academic tools at CWU.
• Describe and demonstrate strategies that promote wellness as it relates to their academic and personal success.

UNIV 102 - Strategies for College Success

• Demonstrate effective time management skills.
• Demonstrate effective note taking skills.
• Identify different learning styles and determine which one is most appropriate for themselves.
• Demonstrate effective goal setting skills.
• Demonstrate preliminary research skills.
• Demonstrate effective study strategies.

UNIV 103 - Career Exploration

• Demonstrate effective job application skills.
• Identify and evaluate career interest areas.
• Identify and evaluate different occupational resources.
• Demonstrate effective career information gathering skills and how to assess their strengths and weaknesses to make quality career decisions.

UNIV 109 - Introduction to Civic Engagement

• Identify volunteer service opportunities in a community.
• Participate in a volunteer service.
• Identify the relationships between volunteer service and academic knowledge.
• Identify and use leadership skills in conducting volunteer service.
• Identify the relationships between volunteer service and career preparation.
• Analyze his/her progress in performing volunteer service.

UNIV 201 - Tutoring Strategies

• Model independent and active learning for tutees.
• Recognize the roles, goals, and expectations of tutoring.
• Comprehend the structure of the tutoring cycle.
• Utilize tutoring strategies and techniques to assist tutees.
• Facilitate student learning for diverse student populations through review of learning styles and study skills.
• Improve communication, interpersonal skills, and listening skills.

UNIV 202 - Online Tutoring Strategies

• Achieve technical proficiency in the online environment
• Recognize the roles, goals, and expectations of online tutoring
• Comprehend the structure of the online tutoring cycle
• Utilize online tutoring strategies and techniques to assist tutees
• Facilitate student learning for diverse student populations through review of learning styles and study skills

UNIV 205 - Introduction to Interdisciplinary Research

• Describe research methods used to address interdisciplinary questions.
• Recognize and explain ethical behaviors in scientific research.
• Utilize the primary literature.
• Describe their own research project and the methods they will use.

UNIV 250 - Reading and Writing Enrichment (Put on reserve 9/16/17)

• Increase their reading efficiency and comprehension of college-level texts
• Improve their writing skills using a variety of genres of writing
• Apply reading and writing strategies across the curriculum for the purposes of research and documentation
• Use informal writing to explore and reflect on ideas using freewrite, reflections and situational writing
• Increase their critical thinking and interpretation skills

UNIV 295 - Introduction to Undergraduate Research

• Define undergraduate research and creative expression scholarship across multiple disciplines.
• Define personal goals for research at Central Washington University and beyond.
• Identify a research interest area.
• Describe current faculty research at Central Washington University.
• Define ethical considerations of undergraduate research.
• Define the component elements of scholarly and peer reviewed papers.
• Explain the steps to creating a research proposal for a fellowship, presentation or journal submission.
• Describe the components of formal research presentations.

UNIV 297 - Enrichment Course

UNIV 298 - Special Topics

UNIV 299 - Seminar

UNIV 301 - Career Management

• Explore strengths, personality traits, interests, and values to aid in identifying positive career choices, understand individual strengths, weaknesses and tendencies and how they may affect student performance and satisfaction.
• Learn how to research jobs to investigate typical functions, requirements, and expectations so that he/she can better select, prepare and market strengths.
• Learn how to build and maintain a professional network that brings research to life and makes contacts that will support and enhance career transitions.
• Learn job finding skills including targeting markets and networking, prepare marketing materials and explore interviewing strategies to maximize career opportunities.

UNIV 303 - Sustainable Development Matters

• Identify and discuss the concept of sustainable development and its underlying principles.
• Explain why sustainable development matters in the 21st century and assess the likely challenges and opportunities in achieving satisfactory levels of sustainable development in developing countries worldwide.

UNIV 304 - International Sustainable Development

• Understand the basic terms, concepts and analytical frameworks of sustainability and sustainable development;
• Critically examine the policies and practices of sustainable development using analytical frameworks that explore its cultural, political, environmental, and economic dimensions;
• Analyze and evaluate the challenges and opportunities associated with sustainable development and sustainable development projects in the student’s host community;
• Discuss how their personal experiences associated with international travel and their volunteer work will affect their personal lives and future careers. 

UNIV 308 - Civic Engagement Theory and Application

• Use various modes of inquiry to identify community issues, needs, strengths, problems and resources.
• Compare and contrast how citizen groups have effected change in their communities.
• Identify organizational challenges and determine how to apply one’s professional skills for the betterment of society.
• Demonstrate problem-solving skills by designing a research process and analyzing data in order to reach conclusions and recommendations.
• Demonstrate work-place ethics in conducting their project.
• Compare and contrast the differences in ethnic and cultural perspectives, class, race, gender, sexual orientation and ability and critique their project treatment of diversity issues.

UNIV 309 - Civic Engagement

• Recognize service learning as a means of applying academic knowledge to a community need.
• Research community needs related to their academic content area.
• Develop an individual academic service learning goal based upon research of community needs.
• Develop a plan of action for accomplishing an individual academic service learning goal.
• Identify, integrate and apply specific skills, knowledge and technology in conducting his/her independent learning project.
• Identify and use professional leadership characteristics In conducting his/her Independent learning project.
• Recognize relationships between academic service learning and contributions to a profession.
• Identify relationships between academic service learning and career preparation.
• Analyze his/her progress in implementing an academic service learning project.

UNIV 395 - University Research

• Choose an appropriate research question to pursue within university research activities.
• Outline and carry out a research plan that includes data collection, procedures for analysis, and anticipated final products.
• Synthesize and share research results in an appropriate venue.

UNIV 396 - Individual Study

UNIV 397 - Honors

UNIV 398 - Special Topics

UNIV 399 - Seminar

UNIV 497 - Enrichment Course

UNIV 498 - Special Topics

UNIV 499 - Seminar

UNIV 597 - Enrichment Course

WGSS 201 - Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

• Discuss requirements of informed citizenship based on analyzes of gender and sexuality and the ways in which inequality and equality are institutionalized in  structures such as education, health, religion, the media, government, , parenthood, work, and economics
• Explain based on analyzes of theory and research related to the intersection of race, class, gender and sexuality, how culturally diverse experiences enhance a community
• Apply this knowledge to create greater self-awareness, personal autonomy, and self-determination in order to challenge institutions and practices that result in social injustice.
• Analyze the interplay of gender, race/ethnicity, class,  and sexual orientation oppression across local, national, regional and global cultures
• Describe how understandings and practices related gender and sexuality have affected communities , citizenship and politics
• Demonstrate analytical and critical thinking skills in reading, listening, observing, writing, and speaking about how gender and sexuality shapes people’s lives
• Demonstrate  familiarity with the range of research tools available in women’s, gender, and sexuality studies, including library resources, the web, fieldwork, and experiential learning, and competence in their use.

WGSS 250 - Introduction to Queer Studies

• Explain and apply social constructionist and other queer/queer of color, post-structural, and anthropological theories and ideas about gender, sex, and sexuality. 
• Using social science, natural science and humanist lenses, analyze gender and sexuality and how they may or may not intersect, both historically and contemporaneously/contemporarily.
• Articulate the processes involved in the public and (supposed) private performance of diverse identities, desires and pleasures, the “erotic”, and sex acts, and how these performances shape attitudes and values affecting the respect and equality of others.  

WGSS 298 - Special Topics

WGSS 299 - Seminar

WGSS 326 - Intersections of Gender, Race, Class, and Sexualities

• Demonstrate understanding of the complex ways categories of difference and inequality interact simultaneously to maintain systems of inequality and oppression;
• Identify and analyze the ways in which hierarchal identity categories are culturally produced, socially constructed, and strictly maintained.
• Examine the historical trajectory of intersectionality as a theoretical concept and research paradigm;
• Develop critical thinking and writing skills in analyzing categories of difference and applying the intersectional approach to their own lives.

WGSS 340 - Gender and Sexuality in a Global Context

Upon successful completion of this course, the student will be able to:

• Analyze the workings of power and gender in different contexts and within international feminist discourse
• Demonstrate an understanding of the diverse feminist theories and practices around the globe
• Analyze how gender and sexuality intersect with race, class, and religion in different parts of the world
• Analyze how critical perspectives on gender are grounded in specific histories and experiences and give rise to activism
• Demonstrate speaking, listening and writing skills that will allow students to communicate their ideas, critically evaluate those ideas, and learn from the ideas of others. 

WGSS 351 - Feminist Theory

• Analyze and apply the major concepts and critiques in feminist theory;
• Analyze how poststructuralist, multicultural, transnational, postmodern, Marxist, and queer feminisms pluralize and enrich the notion of feminist theory;
• Critically evaluate theoretical assumptions, identifying both their strengths and limitations;
• Analyze current social and political issues by applying these theoretical approaches; and
• Critically evaluate their own ideas and assumptions in writing and discussion.

WGSS 384 - Language and Gender

• Demonstrate knowledge of how language participates in gender practice and how language encodes attitudes about gender
• Examine issues of method and analytic practice in language and gender research
• Define concepts and tools for understanding of the patterns of human communication based on gender differences toward explaining dominance of a certain gender via language
• Describe gender inequities and sexually- oriented expressions in language and with the adjustments being made to rectify them
• Identify how different genders pursue conversational strategies to establish status and authority and how different ethnic backgrounds can complicate communication between men and women
• Locate sexual inequalities in language and the role of language in nurturing and identifying gender differences in society

WGSS 396 - Individual Study

WGSS 397 - Honors