Active Course List

2024-2025


Theatre Arts

Survey of drama and theatre critics from Aristotle to the present.

Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications
Programs:
Theatre and Dance (MFA) | Theatre Arts (MFA)

Writing the short and long play.

Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Special topics not covered in other classes. May be repeated.

Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Areas of Interest:
Arts, Audio and Video, Technology, and Communications

Urban and Regional Studies

A fresh look at the city, with emphasis on the reasons why cities have grown and how people can make cities livable.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 5 - History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences | Goal Area 8 - Global Perspective
Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
Programs:
Critical Thinking Minor | Urban and Regional Studies (BS)

Appreciation of the city as the highest cultural achievement in design and architecture.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 6 - Humanities and the Arts
Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
Programs:
Urban and Regional Studies (BS)

This course will identify and analyze global social, economic, political and environmental problems impacting community viability and explore the full range of solutions to these problems. The course will view communities as complex, sustainable organisms and bring together the works of the great minds working on sustainability.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 5 - History and the Social and Behavioral Sciences | Goal Area 10 - People and the Environment
Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
Programs:
Agribusiness and Food Innovation (BS) | Corrections (BS) | Criminal Justice (BS) | Critical Thinking Minor | Ethnic Studies (BS) Racial/Ethnic Communities in the United States | Policing Studies (BS) | Urban and Regional Studies (BS) | Urban and Regional Studies Minor

Introduction to community leadership-elected, professional, or voluntary-and the skills and values which support it.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility | Goal Area 11 - Performance and Participation
Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
Programs:
Urban and Regional Studies (BS) | Urban and Regional Studies Minor

Introduction to community leadership-elected, professional, or voluntary-and the skills and values which support it.

Graduation Requirements:
Goal Area 9 - Ethical and Civic Responsibility | Goal Area 11 - Performance and Participation | Writing Intensive
Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration

This course is a survey of the local community--the forces which shape it, the significance of a democratic public, and the professional practice of local government service.Fall, Spring

Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
Programs:
Urban and Regional Studies (BS)

Introduction to skills and techniques used to form questions about urban affairs, to organize and analyze information to answer it, and to present the results of one's analysis in a professional format.Fall, Spring

Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
Programs:
Urban and Regional Studies (BS)

This course, designed for student preparing for a professional career in local government or public service, focuses on media relations and building citizen involvement through public awareness projects.

Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration

Reviews processes and techniques related to evaluation of public programs.

Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration

Public policy and programs that address issues of housing supply, quality, costs, and neighborhood revitalization.

Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
Programs:
Ethnic Studies (BS) Public/Government

An overview of local government law and local governing powers. In addition, public issues in the legal context will be examined from a management and operational perspective.

Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration

A basic working knowledge and vocabulary of urban design concepts and techniques in an applied problem solving context.

Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
Programs:
Urban and Regional Studies Minor

Preservation techniques, principles of structural evaluation, adaptive use potentials and options, economic consideration in preservation and the role of legislation.

Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration

Historic Preservation: Policy and Field Methods introduces students to the rules and laws of structural historic preservation. The course will investigate the major policy documents, laws, agencies, survey methods, and examine how they are applied in local government preservation.

Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration

Raising resources for public and nonprofit organizations--from needs assessment through obtaining funding to managing the grant after it is awarded.

Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration
Programs:
Museum Studies (CERT)

A survey course covering the concepts, processes, tools and strategies of economic development in local communities. Emphasis is on the why and how of economic development.

Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration

Examines and applies the fundamental concepts, techniques and mechanisms for environmental planning at the city, county, and sub-state regional levels.

Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration

Examines transportation problems of, and solutions for large and medium sized cities. Special emphasis on reducing traffic congestion, improving management of transit systems, and linking transportation and land-use planning.

Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration

Varying topics dealing with emerging trends and contemporary needs facing urban America.

Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration

Problem solving in communities and direct involvement into specific areas of study of student interest.

Prerequisites:
Consent
Areas of Interest:
Government and Public Administration