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EN354 Creative Writing Workshop One trimester Credit: One unit core elective credit. Meeting pattern: Three periods per week including lab. “There’s nothing quite as hopeful as a blank sheet of paper,” writer Daphne Athas once declared. In this course, students explore the possibilities of the blank page in fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Students read and analyze canonical and contemporary works in these genres and they learn and practice fundamental writing techniques in exercises designed to help them find their way to their own stories, poems, and creative non-fiction. Students keep notebooks in which they record budding ideas, snatches of dialogue, reflections and observations, and other possible beginnings. Drafts are critiqued in class workshops and in individual conferences with the instructor. By the course’s end, students submit portfolios of their best writing. The course culminates in the publication of students’ work—in a class anthology, a website, individual chapbooks, or a public reading. EN356 Introduction to Film Criticism: Auteur, Genre, and Style One trimester Credit: One unit core elective credit. Meeting pattern: Three periods per week including lab. In this course, through weekly film viewing, discussion, and readings, students learn the fundamentals of film criticism: how film techniques work and how they support meaning in film; how these techniques developed; how distinctive directors have used them to create signature films; and how the elements of film may also be considered in relation to a particular genre or style. Students demonstrate what they have learned through independent critical projects. EN358 Modern Drama: Who’s Afraid of Edward Albee? One trimester Credit: One unit core elective credit. Meeting pattern: Three periods per week including lab. This literature course examines works of modern European and American drama by authors such as Anton Chekhov, Jean Paul Sartre, Arthur Miller, Edward Albee, Lorraine Hansberry, and Tom Stoppard. Students use performance rehearsal techniques to explore the plays; but no acting experience or talent is required, only the willingness to stand and deliver with everyone else. Students also study film versions of some of the plays. This course further develops students’ skills in reading, writing, critical thinking, research, and public speaking. 14
EN362 Classical Myth: Epic and Tragedy One trimester Credit: One unit core elective credit. Meeting pattern: Three periods per week including lab. Athena. Zeus. The abduction of Persephone. The fall of Troy. The wanderings and homecoming of Odysseus. For more than two thousand years, these stories of gods and mortals have gripped the imaginations of Western readers. In this course, we explore major myths of the ancient Greeks and Romans, with a special emphasis on how these oral tales were committed to writing in epic poems and tragic plays. Throughout the course, we seek to understand these myths in the geographical, historical, and cultural contexts in which they were created. We read ancient Greek and Roman texts in English translation, including works by Homer, Hesiod, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Vergil, and Ovid. Ancient works of art and architecture, including vase paintings and sculpture, form a rich complement to these texts. We also explore major theories of myth interpretation — from approaches taken by the ancient Greeks themselves to those developed by modern-day theorists — and apply these theories to the myths we encounter in the course. Finally, we explore how later artists, writers, and filmmakers have appropriated, interpreted, and transformed these ancient stories into new forms — often for very different purposes than those served by the myths in the ancient world. EN402 British Literature to 1603 One trimester Credit: One unit core English credit. Prerequisite: Completion of three trimesters of AS303 Writing and American Studies or AS305 American Studies or completion of two trimesters of AS303 or AS305 and permission of the Dean of Humanities. Meeting pattern: Three periods per week including lab. In this course we examine the Anglo-Saxon and Middle-English origins of the English literary tradition and the richness of the English Renaissance. We encounter poems like “The Wanderer” and “The Seafarer,” which blend Christian and pagan elements, and the epic story of Beowulf — one of the first great epics in the vernacular literature of the Middle Ages. In fourteenthcentury poems like Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, we join a medieval knight on his quest for a mysterious green man, and in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales we go on an epic pilgrimage — one that has both spiritual and geographic dimensions — in the company of a group of pilgrims who are on their way to Canterbury. The end of the course deals with the flowering of English literature and the evolution of drama from plays like Everyman to transgressive heroes such as Christopher Marlowe’s Dr. Faustus, or Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Hamlet. Grades are based on a variety of essays and tests. 15
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Page 3 and 4: INTRODUCTION The course offerings d
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Page 7 and 8: RESEARCH AT NCSSM Recognizing the i
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Page 11 and 12: DEPARTMENT OF HUMANITIES NCSSM’s
Page 13 and 14: The course cultivates students’ i
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Page 49 and 50: approaches to problem solving are e
Page 51 and 52: MA408 AP Statistics (III) One trime
Page 53 and 54: MA422 AP Calculus BC (II): Contempo
Page 57 and 58: MA454 Modeling with Differential Eq
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analyzing data to test hypotheses.
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This course focuses on the study of
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BI448 Research in Biology IV One tr
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CH405a/CH405b AP Chemistry (Advance
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Chemistry (Advanced I), or exemptio
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COURSE OFFERINGS: Physics Graduatio
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Meeting pattern: Four periods per w
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This course emphasizes the origin,
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EE350 Introduction to Engineering -
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This class covers the ‘A’ curri
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ENGINEERING COURSES EE310 Engineeri
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input and output impedances are emp
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identification of hair, fibers and
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stylistic period. Stylistic and com
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construct a comprehensive understan
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studies, food science, toxicology,
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IE405a/IE405b Mentorship-Senior Res
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In this course, students continue w
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This is the first semester of a two
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This is a fast paced, rigorous chem
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This is the second semester of a tw
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PA100 Varsity Sports only once unle
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take this course and/or PA154 Advan
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use of breath to support mindful mo
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This course is designed for student
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STUDY OPTIONS and SPECIAL PROGRAMS
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World Language Exemption Guidelines
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Students who provide evidence of la
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W. Paul Powell, Colfax, NC Leslie D
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Sabra Feeney, Counselor. B.A., Univ
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James A. Litle, Instructor of Human
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Joyce Rodman, Counselor. B.A., Camp
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Korah Wiley, Instructor of Biology.
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