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Meeting pattern: Two 100-minute evening class meetings. This course begins with the splintering of medieval Christendom and continues with the twelfth-century Renaissance, the rise of universities, and the philosophic debate over the nature and source of knowledge. We examine the development of national languages and vernacular literatures. We read lifewriting by medieval Anchoresses who, by choice, spent their lives walled into tiny cells. We read Dante’s Inferno, selections from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, literary theorists like Boccaccio and Hugh of St. Victor, poems and letters by Petrarch, political treatises by Machiavelli, and plays by Shakespeare and Christopher Marlowe. We encounter characters like Dr. Faustus, who barters his soul for knowledge, and Hamlet and Macbeth, who find themselves imprisoned in the private spaces of their minds. The course concludes with Thirty Years’ War and the English Civil War. We close with the philosophy of Descartes, who redefines the personal self, and with the poetry of the English Civil War and French Absolutism. EN440 Western European Cultural Studies III: 1650 to Present One trimester Credit: One unit core English credit, one unit core elective 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. EN436 WECS I and EN438 WECS II suggested, not required. Meeting pattern: Two 100-minute evening class meetings. This course explores the emergence of the modern world, the modern self, the modern state, the modern balance of power, and modern commercial enterprises and empires. Topics include the emergence of Romanticism, the alienating world of industrial culture, and new theories about nature and history. We examine Modernism in all its forms—in psychology, in narrative, in the visual arts, in social planning, and in cinema. We also examine the impact of world wars, globalism, the newest versions of cultural imperialism, and the modern world’s obsessions with self and self-revelation. Students sharpen their skills in reading, writing, and critical thinking. Readings include Rousseau, the English Romantics, Darwin, Marx, Kierkegaard, Baudelaire, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Virginia Woolf, and Joseph Conrad, as well as contemporary writers. EN442 Western Civilization: Wisdom, Revelation, Reason & Doubt I (The Ancient World to the High Middle Ages) One trimester Credit: One unit core English credit, one unit core elective credit. 22
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: Four periods per week including lab. This interdisciplinary, team-taught course provides a survey of Western societies from the ancient world to the High Middle Ages. The course emphasizes skills in reading, writing, critical thinking, research, and public speaking. Through analyzing a variety of texts, students explore the cultures of the ancient Mesopotamians, Hebrews, Greeks, Romans, early Christians, and Europeans of the Middle Ages. Readings are selected from The Epic of Gilgamesh, the Old and New Testaments, and works by Homer, Aristophanes, Thucydides, Plato, Aristotle, Cicero, Vergil, St. Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, and Dante. Some questions the course addresses include: How have people organized their societies and why? How has religion shaped their lives? How has the individual been defined, and what have been the limits and possibilities for exercising freewill in different cultural contexts? How have people defined themselves in relationship to nature? How have ethical and moral systems been created, and how have they functioned? What has been the role of the arts in each culture? What are the lasting influences of these societies on the modern world? EN444 Western Civilization: Wisdom, Revelation, Reason & Doubt II (The Late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment) One trimester Credit: One unit core English credit, one unit core elective 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: Four periods per week including lab. This interdisciplinary, team-taught course provides a survey of Western societies from the Late Middle Ages to the Enlightenment. The course emphasizes skills in reading, writing, critical thinking, research, and public speaking. Through analyzing a variety of texts, students explore the Renaissance, Reformation, Scientific Revolution, and Enlightenment in Europe. Readings are selected from works by Chaucer, Machiavelli, Luther, Shakespeare, Galileo, Montaigne, Descartes, Hobbes, Locke, and Voltaire. Some questions the course addresses include: How have people organized their societies and why? How has religion shaped their lives? How has the individual been defined, and what have been the limits and possibilities for exercising free-will in different cultural contexts? How have people defined themselves in relationship to nature? How have ethical and moral systems been created, and how have they functioned? What has been the role of the arts in each culture? What are the lasting influences of these events and ideas on the modern world? 23
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Page 51 and 52: MA408 AP Statistics (III) One trime
Page 53 and 54: MA422 AP Calculus BC (II): Contempo
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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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