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FINE ARTS
The Fine Arts Department will expand its courses offerings with three new experimental classes:
MUSI 135 Jazz Appreciation and History Fridays 12:00-3:45
Jazz Appreciation and History is an introductory survey of American jazz history including key styles and seminal musicians from the birth of jazz until the present day.
ARTH 135 Documentary Photography Fridays 9:00-11:45
From the faded black and white photographs of the Civil War battlefield to the digital images on online newspapers and magazines, the stillness of a photograph remains a powerful influence on how we view the world. In this course students
will focus on documentary photography, examining the works of photographers who have mastered this fine art of visual storytelling. Through readings, films, slide shows, and fieldwork, students will gain a better understanding of the medium. The class will explore and emulate different areas of social documentary, photo essays, photojournalism, and visual narrative. This course also invites students to question the context, purpose, and point of view of photographs. In addition, this is a hands-on photography class open to students of varying skills. Photographic processes both film and digital will be discussed, but shooting assignments will require a digital camera. Students will learn digital image editing and work on a semester-long photo documentary project: A photo essay of a chosen subject in the community.
ARTS-250 Metal Arts II Fridays 12:00-5:45
This course will explore visual and conceptual aspects of sculpture through the use of steel. A series of structured and independent assignments, material demonstrations, lecture, and critique will enable students to investigate the potential for this media to offer a wide range of prospects in terms of context (object, installation, and environment) to support the content of their work. Students are expected to integrate this knowledge with their subjective concerns in order to further the depth and understanding of their studio practice. The content and physical nature of the work will be self directed; however, there will be a series of technical assignments that build on the knowledge gained through ARTS 155. Individual weekly meetings with the instructor will focus on developing clarity within the student’s intent and provide counsel with respect to the content and visual dynamics of the work. Prerequisite: ARTS 155.
This spring the Fine Arts Department will present the first group of students graduating with the AA Liberal Arts – Art Concentration degree. The program culminates with the Portfolio Seminar, an advanced course focused on professional and academic development that includes a group exhibition. With 27 course offerings in studio art, art appreciation, art history, and music, a growing degree program, and an active art club, the Art Department continues to grow and development as a dynamic component of the arts scene of SMCC and Greater Portland.
ARCHITECTURAL ENGINEERING AND DESIGN AEDD 216 Green Building Concepts Mondays 5:30-8:45
This course introduces the student to the concepts of green design and construction in residential and commercial projects. The course is presented in modules which will cover sustainable design elements. Presentation of current green technologies will be provided by the instructor through the use of text, mixed media and lectures. Local and global applications of green design will be analyzed, discussed and critiqued.
Prerequisite: AEDD 100.
AEDD 175 Kitchen Design Thursdays 5:30-8:45
This is an in-depth course covering the aspects of kitchen design and layout. Industry specific software will be used to generate graphics. Presentation techniques of the design solutions using both CAD and illustration will be covered. Prerequisite: AEDD 100.
ENGLISH LITR 245 Topics in Literature: Literature and the Environment Tuesday / Thursday 1:30-2:45
This course explores the genre of Nature Writing as it has existed over the last 200 years. Beginning with New England, students will read authors from the American West, the Great White North, and the Southwestern Desert. This class will examine how these writers have connected with Nature for inspiration, for retreat, to ignite revolution, and to test oneself against. This class will focus on creative non-fiction, travel writing, memoir and fiction. Students will also spend time with poets, filmmakers, and philosophers who consider Nature and Environmental issues in their work. There will be a Field Trip component to this course as well. Possible locations are Walden Pond, Portland Museum of Art, and Prouts Neck. Finally the class will focus its attention to the cities, where Nature exists in often vibrant and profound ways. Prerequisite: ENGL 100. Co-requisite: ENGL 115.
LITR 225 The Short Story Tuesday / Thursday 9:30-10:45
This course is a study of the modern short story from its origins in the early 19th century to its current form. Areas of focus will include: the history/development of the short story as a prose fiction form, the short story as a reflection of social and cultural movements/issues, and the use of the form as a mode of personal expression and identity. Readings will include a variety of authors, notably key figures in the development of the form as well as contemporary voices poised to influence the future of the genre. This is a writing intensive (W) course. Prerequisite: ENGL 100. Co-requisite: ENGL 115.
This course also includes an Honors Option for students who would like to enrich their experience through an additional research-oriented project. If you are interested in exploring this option, please see me before the end of the third week of the semester.
SOCIAL SCIENCES ANTH 105 Introduction to Cultural Anthropology Monday / Wednesday / Friday 10:00-10:50
This course explores the diverse ways people organize and give meaning to their existence and the social, political and economic contexts in which they do so. This course also examines how structures of power and social relations over time shape inequalities between groups. To accomplish this, students will study anthropological methods and perspectives which aid in the analysis of culture and social relations. Throughout the semester the class will watch ethnographic films that examine such issues as cultural diversity, subsistence patterns, kin relations, and social stratification, among other topics. The goal is to understand two common components to anthropological inquiry: 1) the ways in which human beings are differentiated, via history, geography, and culture differentiates, and 2) what human beings share across these boundaries.
Honors 200 The Historian's Craft: Investigating Gilded Age America Tuesday / Thursday 11:00-12:15
This course is dedicated to the historian’s craft: the detective work of finding, evaluating, and interpreting evidence from the past. Rather than simply reading about history, students in this research seminar will do history. In this course, students will investigate the American Gilded Age, an era of rapid industrialization and expansion lasting from the 1860s through the 1910s. This apprenticeship in historical research begins with an exploration of how scholars have written about Gilded Age America, paying specific attention to historians’ use of primary sources – that is, any artifact (documents, images, sounds, objects) created during the period under study. Students will then conduct research projects that locate, assess, and draw conclusions from historical sources from the American Gilded Age. While students will gain knowledge of the American experience during the late 19th and early 20th centuries, actually practicing the historian’s craft is the main content of the course. Prerequisite: ENGL 075.
PSYC 225 Educational Psychology Monday / Wednesday / Friday 11:00-11:50
Educational Psychology is the overview of the psychology of learning, motivation, growth and development, personality dynamics and social adjustment. Emphasis is placed on the learning process and related ideas such as child development, individual differences, cognition, learning environments, motivation, and effective teaching-learning relationships in schools. Prerequisite: PSYC 100.
PSYC 240 Theories of Personality Tuesday / Thursday 9:30-10:45
In this course major personality theorists and their theories will be reviewed, including psychodynamic, humanistic, behavioral, cognitive, biological, trait, and cultural perspectives. In addition, students will explore how culture and social context shape understanding of personality and the development of theories. Prerequisite: PSYC 100.
SOCI 250 Social Theory Monday / Wednesday 11:00-12:15
This course will provide an introduction to, and exploration of, theories in Sociology, and will begin with three theorists who represent the traditional field of Sociology: Karl Marx, Max Weber and Emile Durkheim. Not only did Marx, Weber and Durkheim's writings influence the development of Sociology, but the theories they developed remain at the heart of contemporary sociological theory. After exploring the foundations of social theory, the class will read and discuss the work of theorists who made contributions to understanding social life from the metaphorical margins of society – the life of women, people of color, people living in poverty and other disenfranchised populations. Prerequisites: SOCI 100 and ENGL-100 (new number).
PUBLIC SAFETYPUBS 105 Emergency Telecommunicator - Basic
This course is designed to prepare students for emergency telecommunicator duties, to meet the requirements of the NFPA 1061 Professional Qualification Standard for Public Safety Telecommunicator I, as well as meeting the State of Maine statutory requirement for those employed at public safety dispatch centers in Maine [25 MRSA §2926 2(b)] . The course combines instructor presentations, student activities and simulation exercises to develop skills and knowledge in the field. The course will provide the student with the knowledge of roles and responsibilities, current technologies, interpersonal communications skills, telephone communication and call processing skills, radio broadcast procedures, legal aspects of public safety communications and stress management skills. In addition the course will introduce students to the skills necessary to manage requests for police, fire and medical services.
This 3 credit course will be offered once a week, most likely on Wednesday from 4:30 - 7:15 p.m., for the spring semester. Successful completion of the course will prepare students for careers or part time employment in the growing public safety communications field.
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