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BUSINESS
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BUS 315C Topic: Global Sports Business
The main objective of this course is to make students aware of the magnitude of the global expansion and development of sport, to familiarize them with major “players” (firms and organizations) on the global scene, major issues in global sports, and to emphasize the business opportunities that are created internationally. An underlying thesis focuses on the contrasts between the US sport industry and foreign markets.
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COMPUTER SCIENCE
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CMS 430 Artificial Intelligence
Selective survey of key concepts and applications of artificial intelligence and an in-depth experience with a language commonly used for building AI systems (e.g., LISP or Prolog). Subtopics include knowledge representation, state space/searching, heuristic search, expert systems, expert system shells, natural language processing, propositional logic, learning and cognitive models, and vision. Prerequisite: MAT 310.
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COMMUNICATION
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COM 110BL Public Speaking (Blended)
This course combines theory and knowledge with practical experience for speaking in public, academic, and professional situations. Students will develop skills in research, organization, writing, delivery, and critical analysis of oral presentations.
COM 305BL Listening (Blended)
The study of the art of listening and its importance in our personal and professional lives. Students learn to analyze, assess, and improve their own listening abilities. Students must have access to a computer with Internet capabilities, and be familiar with using the Web for searching and sending email with attachments. Orientation attendance is mandatory (see schedule for date). Students who do not attend will be asked to withdraw (published withdrawal and refund policies will apply).
COM 312 Persuasion Theory
Explores influencing human behavior in socially acceptable ways. Looks into persuasion strategies from attitude change to audience analysis.
COM 324 Self-Leadership and Communication
This course explores the many ways that self-leadership skills may be enhanced through effective communication principles, strategies and techniques. Topics to be discussed include rebuilding personal infrastructures, establishing high standards and wide boundaries, eliminating tolerations in life, competing with the past, developing reserves, making the present perfect, becoming a problem-free zone, and much more. Offered on a credit/no credit basis only.
COM 330 Health Communication
This course is a survey of the field of health communication. A variety of topics will be explored, including conceptualizations of health; historical and modern approaches to healthcare; provider-patient interaction; health campaigns; social support; media and health; theories of behavioral change; and more.
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DANCE
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DAN 179 Modern Dance I
Introduces fundamental concepts and historical background. Focuses on style, phrasing, mood projection, and changing dynamics.
DAN 279 Modern Dance I
Builds on technique and includes history, theory, and vocabulary. Prerequisite: DAN 179 or consent.
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ECONOMICS
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ECO 242 Economics, Media, Propaganda
Examines how economic rhetoric in the media is shaping popular understanding of political-economic issues and public policy. Consider the following quote: "The purpose of studying economics is not to acquire a set of ready-made answers to economic questions, but to learn how to avoid being deceived by economists."
ECO 305L Latin American Economic Development
This course provides an overview of the economic development of Latin America. The class will focus on historical perspectives of Latin American economic development, especially its colonial legacy. Also considered will be the rise of economic development theory post World War II, with particular attention to heterodox theories and those originating from Latin America. Additional topics include debt crises, stabilization policies, trade and development, the agricultural sector, and issues of gender, inequality, rural poverty, and contemporary alternatives to mainstream development theory. Prerequisite: ECO 108, 212 and 213.
ECO 306 Monetary Economics
Examines financial markets and institutions, monetary theory, and macroeconomic implications. Charts the relationship between Federal Reserve and depository institutions, as well as the effects of monetary and fiscal policies on economic performance. Prerequisite: ECO 108, 212 and 213.
ECO 307 International Economics
Focuses on the theory and practice of international trade:comparative advantage, economies of scale, trade policy, international labor and capital movements, economic integration, and foreign exchange rates. Prerequisite: ECO 108, 212 and 213.
ECO 377 Economics and Cinema
This course focuses on how movies employ cinematographic artistry to address economic issues. We will view a diverse selection of movies, discuss the economic issues they address, and analyze the artistic devices they use to convey them. As a final project, students will create and present a proposal for a movie including a synopsis of the story, its economic context, and an analysis of the ways it would express social-economic issues. Actual short pilot movies are very highly encouraged. Prerequisite: ECO 108, 212 & 213.
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EDUCATION
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EDU 280 Diversity in American Education
Examines cultural pluralism in the classroom: multicultural education, diversity and teaching, bilingual education, racism, tracking, and teacher preparation. ESOL stand alone course.
EDU 309 Foundations of Reading
Examines the foundations of reading instruction from historical, linguistic, social, psychological, cognitive, and curricular perspectives. Theoretical base for reading and language arts methodology courses. Explores basic phonics instruction, reading programs in use, nature of reading and writing processes, and balanced approach to reading instruction.
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ELEMENTARY EDUCATION
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EED 369 Literature for the Elementary School Child
Survey of the genres of literature for elementary school-aged children. Emphasis on techniques used to implement literature across the elementary school curriculum. Reviews recent research, major authors and illustrators, and literature circles as means of instruction.
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ENGLISH
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ENG 140 Composition: Writing About Selected Topics
Develops students' ability to write college-level essays by practicing strategies of argumentation and by refining skills of invention, revision, and critical thinking. Leads to writing essays characterized by unity, order, coherence, completeness, clarity, and mechanical correctness. In order to satisfy the College's general education requirement for writing (W), students must receive a grade of C or better in the course. Section topics are designated by individual instructors. This course (or an equivalent) must be taken during the first semester at Rollins. Formerly ENG 101. Does not count as elective credit in the English Major or Minor or the Writing Minor.
ENG 234 Selected Studies in Literary Themes
Focuses on drama, poetry, fiction, and prose. Suitable for nonmajors. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 267 Topics/Techniques in Writing
The topics version of this course offers an introduction to a very specific genre of writing (fiction, autobiography, humor writing, etc.), giving close attention to the defining characteristics of the genre and offering a sequence of short reading and writing assignments designed to develop facility in producing the genre. The techniques version of this course offers a close study of a specific literary technique (point of view, character/dialogue, narrative design, voice), and requires practicing the technique in short, focused writing assignments with emphasis on both literary and technical excellence. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or consent.
ENG 300B Expository Writing: Informal Essay
This course offers students writing practice in the informal essay, a form of writing characterized by self-reflection, individual tastes and experiences, open form, and conversational manner. Early practitioners include E.B. White, Joan Didion, and John McPhee. Students will study the primary qualities demonstrated by these and other masters of the informal essay:narrative techniques, flexible structure and design, unity and order, rhetorical intent, and tone. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
ENG 300G Expository Writing: Medical Communication
This course examines a variety of investigative genres: proposals, interviews, arguments, persuasive letters, as well as source-based reports and essays. As a final project in the course, students may investigate a problem facing one of their communities -- family, work, neighborhood, church, city -- and write a well-researched paper that explains relevant issues and argues for a solution. Prerequisite: ENG 140.
ENG 329 Selected Studies in American Literature
Explores one or more specific topics in the American literary tradition. Writers, works, periods, and/or genres vary. Prerequisite: ENG 140 or equivalent.
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ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES
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ENV 212 Florida Water Resources
Florida water resources are most important ecologically as well as economically. What are the characteristics of Florida’s varied water resources? How fragile are they? Can we safely develop adjacent to these resources? These questions will be considered for Florida’s lakes, rivers, ground water, swamps, marshes, and estuaries. The physical, chemical and biological properties of Florida’s water resources along with how Florida’s weather and climate affect those resources will be explored. Also water resource laws and policies will be covered. With field trips.
ENV 215I Topic: Traditional and Digital Drawing
No available course description.
ENV 303 Citizen Participation and Community Dynamics
This course examines the components that make a community work. Case studies and local projects are studied to find out how communities function and what makes them unique. Since citizen participation operates at the most fundamental level of American democracy, students are also introduced to the communication tools and techniques for resolving conflict and building consensus. Previously GMS 202/302.
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HUMANITIES
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HUM 315E Topic: A Postmodern Take on the Victorian Age
This course will give John Fowles' landmark Postmodern novel the close reading it deserves while also examining the poets (Tennyson, Arnold, and Hardy) whose verse the narrator cites, the Pre-Raphaelite painters who inspired Fowles’ depiction of his heroine, the scientists (Darwin, Lyell and Chambers) and existential philosophers whose thought permeates the work, and the award-winning film.
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INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
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INAF 301 International Relations: 21st Century Challenges
This course covers contemporary international relations, including the reaction to terrorism in 2001; economic globalization and international trade; human rights and immigration issues; and concerns about climate change.
INAF 315B Topic: Human Rights in the Contemporary World
The idea that people have rights because they are human and not because they are citizens of a given state is relatively new, with the term “human rights” becoming increasingly popular after World War II. This course will focus on how nations and international organizations attempt to protect people from arbitrary interference with life, liberty and equal treatment of the law by governments, individuals or groups, and how interpretations vary across countries and cultures. Specific, widespread, human-rights challenges, such as 21st century slavery, will receive special attention.
INAF 320 International Business Development
Details the elements required to market a product or service internationally. Covers international business development, market selection, country research, sales channel options, and international business law issues. Prerequisite: Junior status.
INAF 386 South Asian Politics
This course presents a comparative analysis of the political systems including political culture of South Asia, including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan. Topics include: ancient civilization; the traditions of spiritualism, tolerance of ambiguity, and ideological flexibility in contrast to Western thinking; Mahatma Gandhi's message of non-violence and public aspect of 'dharma' and 'atma'; caste system and its challenge to national integration; and the role/exploitation of religion in the politics of South Asian countries. A special emphasis will be placed on Afghanistan, Pakistan nuclear deterrents, and the war on terrorism.
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INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES
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INT 100 Learning Strategies Seminar
The Learning Strategies Seminar is a one semester credit course designed to assist students with becoming responsible learners through self-management and use of academic support services. The course will address strategies for academic planning and time management, motivation, learning styles, study skills, managing stress, and other life adjustment skills. Prereqisite: Advisor Approval.
INT 246 Visions of Paradise
In the 500th anniversary of Ponce de León first naming La Florida in 1513, celebrate our state’s birthday by exploring its extraordinary past, complex present and highly debated future. We will look at everything from the state’s first inhabitants and earliest colonists to the wave after wave of visitors and settlers, con men and snow birds who made Florida the fourth largest state in the U.S., Orlando the greatest tourist destination in the world and Miami the crime capital of America. What does our past tell us about our future? Will our population continue to soar? Will Tampa and Daytona Beach soon be under water? Will microchips replace oranges as our best known export? And why is our largest city named after President Andrew Jackson? Prerequisite: ENG 140.
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LATIN/AMERICAN STUDIES
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LAC 200 Foundations of Latin America and Caribbean Culture & Society
Surveys Latin American and Caribbean history, anthropology, and literature. Addresses the region's prehistory, colonialism, slavery, kinship, music, dance, race and identity, tourism, transnational encounters, and globalization.
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MATHEMATICS
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MAT 103 Quantitative Reasoning
Covers collection of data and analysis of everyday quantitative information using spreadsheets or statistical packages. Touches upon population vs. sample, parameter versus statistic, variable type, graphs, measures of center and variation, regression analysis, and hypothesis testing.
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MUSIC
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MUS 120 Musical Awareness
Presents aspects of Western art music, jazz, rock, and non-Western music. Emphases will vary according to professor teaching the course. Designed for non-musicians. Does not fulfill elective credit for music major.
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PHILOSOPHY
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PHI 304 Ethics for Social Change
Students will explore the relationships of ideology, devotion and commitment to social change. They will see how both religious and secular leaders can influence society for good or ill. They will be led to a better understanding of their own motives and roles in society.
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PHYSICAL EDUCATION
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PED 101 Health and Wellness
Emphasizes self-awareness and responsibility in maintaining health. Deals with consumerism, emotional health, intimate relationships, stress management, nutrition, fitness, disease prevention, and individualized behavior modification.
PED 201 Physiology of Exercise & Human Performance
Explains physiological fundamentals of physical fitness and training techniques. Discusses biological energy systems, aerobic exercise, muscular fitness, and training techniques. Encourages students to design individualized programs.
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PSYCHOLOGY
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PSY 211 Social Psychology
Presents a broad account of how the actual or imagined presence of others influences thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. Touches upon conformity, attraction, prejudice, aggression, group decisions, and attitude change, as well as advertising, law, and indoctrination. Prerequisite: PSY 101. Corequisite for psychology majors: PSY 301, 304.
PSY 304 Statistics and Decision Making
This course introduces descriptive and inferential statistical procedures for the social sciences. Topics covered include scales of measurement, probability, measures of central tendency and variability, null hypothesis testing using single or multiple samples, correlation and regression, and both inferential and procedural errors individuals can make when calculating and interpreting statistics. Course must be completed as student declares psychology as a major. Individuals with insufficient mathematical preparation are encouraged to complete remedial work prior to enrolling in the course. Prerequisite: PSY 101 and high school algebra or equivalent.
PSY 308 Psychology of Dreams
Dreams have inspired psychologists from Freud to present-day theorists. This course will examine dream interpretation and its place in modern psychology. Students will learn various theories and interpretation techniques to better understand these unconscious mysteries and processes. Emphasis will be focused upon Freud, Jung, Gestalt, physiological, and existential theories as explanations for dreams. This course will include self-disclosure and dream-journal activities. Previously offered as topic. Prerequisite: PSY 101. Corequisite for psychology majors: PSY 301, 304.
PSY 326 Physiological Psychology
Introduces the fundamentals of nervous system responses to psychological processes. Explores the anatomy and physiology associated with psychological events, historical and contemporary issues in the field, and the societal and personal implications regarding the use of such measures. Prerequisite: PSY 101. Corequisite for psychology majors: PSY 301, 304.
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SPANISH
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SPN 101 Elementary Spanish I
Grammar, readings, cultural material, intensive oral practice, optional language laboratory. Not for native speakers or advanced students.
SPN 102 Elementary Spanish II
Grammar, readings, cultural material, intensive oral practice, optional language laboratory. Prerequisite: SPN 101 or equivalent.
SPN 201 Intermediate Spanish I
Reading, writing, speaking, grammar review. Prerequisite: SPN 102 or equivalent.
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THEATER
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THE 100 Introduction to the Theatre
Surveys the history of theatre art and crafts. Discusses major plays and playwrights, physical stage, dramatic criticism, acting, directing, stagecraft, design, and other relevant crafts. Suitable for nonmajors.
THE 204 Villains of the Silver Screen
In-depth study of villainy in the cinema analyzing motivation, process and consequences, expected and unexpected. Examines the history of villainy in the film industry. Evil doers of both sexes will be discussed and compared, along with the psychological motivation that detoured them from the “John Wayne” path of life. Explores the sociological and pathological factors that create evil. Formerly THE 201.
THE 220 History of American Film Musicals
Starting with the 1920s, the content will involve trends, performers and, of course, influential movie musicals. All elements of each film-music, dancing, book, staging, costumes, etc. will be discussed, compared and contrasted. This course deals with the history of one of the most uniquely American contributions to the world of entertainment - the musical film. Previously THE 306.
