2021-2022 Academic Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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SPAN 1010 - Introductory Spanish I
We will work to develop the four fundamental language skills: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Emphasis is placed on a practical vocabulary and the oral use of language. Function and usage of grammar are taught gradually. No previous study of Spanish is required.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Summers
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STAT 4300 - Data Driven Decision Making
This course is an introduction to the basic concepts, tools, and analytical techniques that are applied in data driven business decision making. Students will learn to explore data with graphs, charts, and summary tables and review topics including probability and probability distributions, confidence intervals, and hypothesis testing. Applications of linear regressions and multiple regression using Excel is the final topic in the course. The core objective for the course will be to help students understand the value of data driven decision making as managers.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered Annually
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STAT 4450 - Managerial Statistics
This foundation course is designed to review or introduce the basic concepts of statistics and probability. Students will learn how to collect data, calculate statistics to describe the data, and interpret the data to draw conclusions. In the course the students will learn descriptive statistics, characteristics of discrete and continuous probability distributions, sampling distributions, confidence intervals and hypothesis testing. The course will also cover linear regression and correlation. Students will perform tasks in in MS Excel and this course will serve as a primer for the courses in Big Data Statistics.
MSBA, MSMKA, and MSAA Students Only
Previously Titled “STAT 4450 Foundations of Analytics”
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered annually
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STAT 4600 - Intermediary Statistical Modeling for Analytics
Intermediary Statistical Modeling for Analytics, together with Machine Learning, provides an overview of techniques drawn from the fields of machine learning, datamining, and statistics. The goal of these two courses is to prepare students with an intellectual framework for problem-solving.
This course emphasizes the understanding of descriptive and diagnostic methodologies to identify key aspects of a business question, from data collection to the formulation and testing of hypotheses. As such, this course is essentially a data science course with an emphasis on statistical methodologies. At the same time, the course emphasizes the practical aspects of business analytics by embedding the methodologies in applications and by underlining the general objective of improving the speed, reliability, and quality of decisions. Topics include sampling, inferential statistics, ANOVA, linear regression, and logistic regression. The course uses real-life data sets as illustrations, and R and Python to build answers to business questions.
Previously Titled “STAT 4600 Big Data Statistics I”
Prerequisites: STAT 4450 and BAN 4550
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered annually
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STAT 4650 - Machine Learning
Machine Learning, together with Intermediary Statistical Modeling for Analytics, provides an overview of techniques drawn from the fields of machine learning, datamining, and statistics. The goal of these two courses is to prepare students with an intellectual framework for problem-solving.
This course emphasizes the use of mathematical modelling and scenario optimization to reach optimal business decisions. As such, this course is essentially a data science course with an emphasis on statistical methodologies. At the same time, the course emphasizes the practical aspects of business analytics by embedding the methodologies in applications and by underlining the general objective of improving the speed, reliability, and quality of decisions. Topics include discriminant analysis, cross-validation, model selection, nonlinear methods, decision tree, support vector machines, unsupervised learning models, and time series forecasting.The course uses real-life data sets as illustrations, and R and Python to build answers to business questions.
Previously Titled “STAT 4650 Big Data Statistics II”
Prerequisites: STAT 4600
Anticipated Terms Offered: Varies
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STAT 5900 - Special Topics in Statistics
Each year, the Graduate School of Management offers courses under the “special topics” category. These courses are often different each semester and can be either .5 or one unit courses.
SUMMER 2020 & INTERSESSION SECTION 01 BASIC STATISITICS - topics addressed are: descriptive statistics, probability, discrete and continuous random variables, estimation, hypothesis testing, and linear regression.
SUMMER 2020 & INTERSESSION SECTION 02 BASIC CALCULUS - topics addressed are: functions, limits, continuity, differentiation of algebraic and trigonometric functions, mean-value theorem and various applications.
May be repeated for credit if topics are different.
Prerequisites: Prerequisites depend on the course being offered.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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STAT 5910 - Directed Research
For a directed research course, a student and professor design a self-study course based around a common research interest shared by both. A directed research must be approved by the professor and the Associate Dean of GSOM. It can be designed as either a 0.5 unit or 1 unit course. For questions or additional information, contact your academic advisor.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every Semester
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TA 012 - How to Act Right-On/Off the Stage FYI
How to Act Right is primarily a basic acting course but with an added research component. The content of the course is presented and explored through lectures and exercises. The students take their newly informed grasp of the art of acting and working from their experience with dramatic structure, character development and improvisation they break into research teams and explore acting throughout their everyday life and culture. Some possible topics would include acting and Presidential politics, the acting process in undercover work, acting and role playing in Psychology, and acting as metaphor in Literature, Philosophy and Spiritual Traditions. The training approach in the course is integral. Because acting demands that its practitioners utilize all aspects of their beings, students will work to develop their many levels of simultaneously, i.e. physically, emotionally, cognitively and spiritually.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: periodically
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TA 109 - Contemporary Women Playwrights
This course is designed to introduce the student to the works of major women playwrights of the past 100 years. While there is some focus on the early part of the 20th century, the primary study will be of plays written in the past 30 years. In studying the plays, a number of different points of view and reference will be considered including that of the playwright, actor, director, historian and dramaturge. The student is encouraged to formulate a personal opinion of these plays and dramatists.
Prerequisites: VE Placement or IDND 018
Course Designation/Attribute: VE
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered biannually
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TA 111 - Voice and Diction
An intensified phonetic approach to articulation and voice production with some emphasis on speech for the stage and for public occasions. Several laboratory sessions will be provided for individual coaching by the instructor.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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TA 112 - The Creative Actor
Through a series of workshops, the student becomes familiar with the basic tools necessary to the art of acting. The approach is based on the techniques of Stanislavski, Viola Spolin, Joseph Chaikin, Robert Cohen and original exercises, including an introduction to basic voice and movement for the actor.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every semester
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TA 124 - Crafting the Stage
Cut twice measure once. This course explores the key skills in stagecraft and construction. This course will look into the safe usage of stage tools. The construction concepts of safe and standard practice will be explored through the building of flats, platforms, stairs, windows and doors.
Anticipated Terms Offered: bi-annually
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TA 125 - Theatrical/Costume Design Projects
Intermediate-level projects in design and presentation techniques for theater productions. Work in areas of scenery, costume or lighting design.
Fall 2020 Topic: Design
History of apparel as applied to theatrical costume design. Lecture and discussion based, explores the ”why” of what is being worn in each costume period with weekly drawing/design assignments.
May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisites: TA 120 .
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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TA 126 - The Physical Theater/Environmental Studio
Study of designed environment and structure as it relates to performance and the physical theater as well as contemporary installation projects. Study of public spaces, theater architecture and site-specific work.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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TA 129 - Scenic Design
Fundamentals of set design theory; basic mechanical and conceptual solutions for theatre; development of presentational and research skills. Development of digital drafting, hand drafting and modeling skills. Course will focus on practical projects and creation.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: fall
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TA 131 - Modern Dance II: Choreography & Improvisation
This is a basic course in creating, composing, and performing new dance works while emphasizing the diversity of techniques and methods available to the choreographer. The main focus of the course is dance composition. Students will explore and develop skills used in the dance making process, as well as learn skills of movement improvisation and partnering. Students will also learn to perceive and analyze dance composition by watching videos and writing reviews. The course meets once a week. Limited to 15 students. May be repeatable for credit.
Prerequisites: TA 130 or instructor permission.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered annually
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TA 132 - Modern Repertory
In this class students will make a piece of choreography from beginning to end, directed by the instructor. This piece will be performed informally at the end of the semester. The class will start with a group warm-up that will lead into a rehearsal, in which students will both learn material given to them by the instructor, and also create their own material to be used in the choreography. Permission of instructor required. May be repeatable for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: varies
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TA 133 - African Inspirations: A Dance Collaboration
“African Inspirations” uses the music-movement relationship to explore connections between traditional African dance and Western dance principles. Students will learn Pearl Primus’ interpretations of two African dances-“Fanga,” a dance of welcome, and “Bushasche,” a war dance for peace-and develop small group pieces based on this material, re-interpreted through their own bodies and new rhythmic “conversations.” Musicians-particularly percussionists and singers-are welcome to join the project, as the course is accessible to novice and experienced dancers alike. No prerequisites. Offered Bi-annually.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Spring 2014
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TA 134 - Tap Dance I
Tap Dance I is a course for beginning dance students, or students who are interested in returning to the basic elements of tap dance training. The course will be taught at a level that is appropriate for all students.
Prerequisites: TA 130 Modern Dance I
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: bi-annually
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TA 144 - Drama of the Western Tradition
Surveys the traditional dramatic canon of the western tradition. Course readings will include plays by Sophocles, Euripides, Shakespeare, Jonson, Ibsen, Yeats, Synge, and Friel (among others).
Course Designation/Attribute: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: varied
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TA 153 - Modern Drama
This is a course designed to introduce the student to the major dramatic writers from the 19th century to the present. In studying the plays, a number of different points of view and reference will be considered including that of the playwright, the actor, the director, the historian, the dramaturge. The student is encouraged to formulate a personal opinion of these plays and dramatists. The major focus of the course is the text and the student’s understanding and interpretation of the work. However, a strong emphasis will also be placed on the performance aspect of these plays. This can take many forms, including coordination of our efforts with theatre classes on campus, field trips to theatres nearby, use of video, and even staged readings of the scripts in class. Fulfills the Verbal Expression requirement. You must have been placed at the Verbal Expression level to choose this seminar.
Prerequisites: VE Placement or IDND 018
Course Designation/Attribute: VE
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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TA 163 - The Very Model of a Modern Musical
Will it flop or will it go? This course examines the biggest leaps forward in modern musicals. From Hamilton to Legally Blonde. This course uses production design and management as a means of inquiry. Students will take on the roles of designers, directors and producers and try follow the path to the great white way.
Anticipated Terms Offered: bi-annually
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TA 164 - American Musical Theatre
A thorough investigation of the history, structure ad performance of American musical theatre. Lectures and demonstrations will be augmented with films and recordings. Students will prepare and present scenes and songs from selected musical plays, illustrating integration of libretto, score, and dance in American musical theatre.
This FYI is part of the transition to college phase of your Clark experience, in which our goal is to orient you to Clark, to help you become part of a learning community where you will acquire new knowledge. You will explore personal and artistic growth and exploration through the vast art form of Musical Theatre. The course ends with a synthesis and demonstration of skills as you present original artistic work based on classical shows.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: bi-annually
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TA 201 - Seminar of Oscar Wilde
This seminar outlines the life, trials, and work of Oscar Wilde, perhaps the most talented writer in the history of the English language. We will review not only the impressive canon of his plays but also his essays, children’s stories, and novels. Finally, the seminar will review the trial of Oscar Wilde, his role as a reluctant gay activist, and his influence on celebrity worship and the modern artist.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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TA 203 - The Play and its Stages
A critical approach to the dramatic text based on historical and material conditions of performance. Considers the changing ways that meanings are made through styles and conventions of performance (including set, costume, mask and vocal delivery), which are specific to historical and cultural moments. Playwrights considered may include Sophocles, Shakespeare, Racine, Molière, Chekhov, Ibsen, Brecht, Genet and Beckett. Scene work.
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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TA 205 - The Political Play
This course explores plays and playwrights dealing with a wide range of political topics written within the past 30 years. The plays will be analyzed through both a dramaturgical and historical context. A number of issues will be considered including aids, race, war, the holocaust, the Middle East, sexuality, and illness. Above all, we will analyze and discuss what it is that makes a play political?
Course Designation/Attribute: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically.
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TA 208 - Jazz Dance Practice and Theory
This course will cover a fundamental understanding of the terminology and principles of jazz dance technique. The course will emphasize an awareness of alignment, jazz dance vocabulary, musicality, various theatrical styles, jazz dance history and most importantly the roots of jazz.
Prerequisites: TA 130 Modern Dance I
Course Designation/Attribute: AP
Anticipated Terms Offered: bi-annually
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TA 211 - Performance Philosophy
This course will serve as an introduction to an exciting new academic field called Performance Philosophy. Performance Philosophy is an international network of performers and researchers exploring the relationship between Philosophy and Performance, and is represented with a steadily increasing number of publications, performances, conferences and websites.
Approaching the works as artists, we will consider, engage, and confront selected works of philosophers Nietzsche, Plato, Sophocles, Hamlet, Samuel Beckett, the authors of the Cloud of the Unknowing and the Tao Te Ching, Robert Sardello, John Cage, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze and Allan Kaprow, not to write more discourse, but through this ‘contagion’ create vital new art works.
The course meets all day Fridays, with a seminar in the morning and the studio for developing new work in the afternoon. Though this course is offered as an elective in Theatre, the course is open to V&PA majors and to all Philosophy majors who have enough experience in an artistic discipline to sustain a working project throughout the semester. Students will have an opportunity to develop independent projects or work collaboratively on a site-specific performance piece under the direction of the instructor. Admission by interview.
This course may be repeatable for credit.
Prerequisites: Permission required. Permission obtained through interview with professor.
Anticipated Terms Offered: periodically
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TA 212 - Actor as Thinker
A conceptual approach to acting theory and its application. Student develops a greater understanding of script analysis, characterization, style and the relationship of the actor to the audience. A basic course for all students who intend to continue in acting and directing, and a prerequisite for TA 213 - Studio and TA 219 - Directing Seminar . Limited to 15 students
Prerequisites: TA 112 .
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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TA 214 - Shakespeare in Action
This acting course concentrates on the major works (Hamlet, Macbeth, Twelfth Night, Romeo and Juliet, etc.), giving the actor an introduction to Shakespeare. The actor is encouraged to maintain the same approach and techniques used in other scene work, while adding the challenge of verse and heightened language. The focus of the class is to take a Shakespearean play and create the illusion of the first-time performance.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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TA 216 - Stage Management
This course explores the many duties of a stage manager. Many different skill sets are presented and analyzed including managing rehearsals, working with actors, directors, and designers. Students also gain experience at managing the performances on stage while working box office and front of house staff. Students may be assigned work on a V&PA production.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered Periodically.
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TA 217 - Teaching Creativity: The Main South Workshop
A class where a small group of students will learn the basic skills of teaching theatre. Clark students will run a weekly session with 12-15 students from a Worcester high school creating a theatre workshop. The students will learn how to teach improvisation, acting, and playwriting. Clark students will be mentored in curriculum and instruction techniques. By Permission Only
Prerequisites: TA 112
Anticipated Terms Offered: fall & spring
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TA 219 - Directing Seminar
Introduces the principles of directing for the stage through theory, practical application and discussion. Students study problems of interpretation and concept; the role of the director as creative and interpretive artist; and relationship to designer, stage manager and actors. Additional lab time is required.
Prerequisites: TA 212 or instructor permission.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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TA 220 - Film Study for Acting Training
This is an acting course that is not for actors. (Well, not just for actors.) Are you a Screen Studies major and writing about film performance? Would you like to understand the Acting process from an insider’s view? You will look at and understand film performance in a completely new way. Are you a liberal arts student that has taken Creative Actor? That’s great, but Improv is only half the story. You still have no knowledge or technique to approach a script. Are you a photography student that works with live models? How do you talk to them to get the look you are after? (Hint: just telling them what you are looking for will not do it.) Are you interested in Directing on stage or on any of the various screens? Good actors work from the inside out. You need to understand their process to work with them. Same is true if you are a writer and are thinking you might want to try your hand at a screenplay or a script for the theatre. In other words if you ever think you are going to get anywhere near actors or much less thinking about being one, you need this course. This is not a how to act on film course. This is a how to act period, course. It uses film to elucidate the acting process to achieve excellence in your performance and your understanding and ability to write and talk about it. You then can apply it to either stage, screen, image or article.
This is a performance class. You have to be there. Your attention and participation is mandatory. Getting the notes will never be sufficient. Besides approved religious observances, you will be allowed one absence. Missed classes after that will result in loss of a letter grade.
You will be asked to choose a role from a dramatic work to apply all in class acting exercises and out of class textual analysis. If you have not chosen a role by the second week, one will be assigned to you.
Grades will be determined by the student’s engagement with and discussion of the class material (lectures and exercises mostly based on material from the e-textbook FLIXACTING by Joe Olivieri and Catherine Telford and Respect for Acting by Uta Hagen) and the quality of their performance and supplemental written work. ‘A’ students will demonstrate excellence in all three areas. Excellence in two will result in a ‘B.’ Excellence in none will result in a ‘C’ or lower.
Students are also required to attend at least three cultural events on or off campus this semester. At the beginning of the semester, you will be given a list of possibilities highlighted from the Higgins School of Humanities Calendar of Events as well as other sources. You may be asked to write a paper or give a brief report/analysis on your experience.
Anticipated Terms Offered: annually
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TA 221 - Avanced Improvisation
An extension of Creative Actor, students are challenged to experience and experiment with different forms of Improvisation. Students will put on shows, watch professional improvisation, and synthesize this knowledge into their definition of improvisation for the stage. Creative Actor is a pre-requisite.
Prerequisites: TA 112
Anticipated Terms Offered: annually
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TA 226 - Advanced Production Projects
Introduces the business and practical execution of theater productions. Students learn techniques in organizing and managing different areas and departments. Requirements include participating in a supervisory position on a department show. Positions in outside theaters accepted for credit.
Spring 2018 Costume Design
This is a sewing fundamentals class in which you will learn how to hand sew, operate a sewing machine, prepare fabric for garment construction, read a pattern, identify various basic stitches, cut garments using patterns, and construct garments with both sewing machine and hand sewing techniques. The culmination of learning these skills will be making a sewing project (you will chose your pattern and fabric and the instructor will approve it or direct you to a more appropriate choice), during the class time with the assistance of the instructor.
Pre-requisite for this class is the costume design and history course or permission from the instructor. Various levels of sewing ability are able to be in this class from absolute beginner to amateur, since each project will be individually geared. The class is capped at 8 students because of sewing machine availability.
This is a studio class, most class work will be done in class.
Prerequisites: TA 125
Anticipated Terms Offered: periodically
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TA 230 - Playwriting
Students learn basic techniques of stagecraft including dialogue and character development, as well as dramatic structure and the technical elements of a play. Students will write every week and complete assignments to be read in class.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered every year
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TA 236 - Playwriting II
This is a course for advanced playwrights who want to bring their work to a higher level. As a result, much is expected in terms of productivity and quality. Students will write a minimum of 10 new pages per week, in addition to rewrites that are suggested in and out of class. New pages will be read and critiqued in class each week. There will be an open discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of the piece from the perspectives of both performer and writer. The goal is to strengthen this relationship through constant work and critique. Every month, students will give a public performance of some of the scenes written for class. By semester’s end, each student will have completed one full-length play and a complete act of another full length.
Prerequisites: Playwriting I is a prerequisite. Permission is also required.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Offered periodically
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TA 246 - The Great American Art Form: A Study of Musical Theater
A thorough investigation of the history, structure ad performance of American musical theatre. Lectures and demonstrations will be augmented with films and recordings. Students will prepare and present scenes and songs from selected musical plays, illustrating integration of libretto, score, and dance in American musical theatre.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every three years
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TA 290 - Theatre Capstone
This is a special project which will be devised and developed in consultation with the student’s advisor. It can take many forms depending on the student’s area of theatrical study. For example, for students focusing on technical theatre, it may be a set or sound design of a mainstage production. For playwrights, the development of a full-length play. For actors, a performance in a mainstage show. For directors, the mounting of a mainstage production. For dramaturges, it may be working as an assistant director on a full-length play and/or developing a study guide for audience members.
Anticipated Terms Offered: annually
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TA 297 - Honors
Students receive variable credit for advanced research & readings in the honors program.
Anticipated Terms Offered: na
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TMHR 5203 - Employment Law
Workplace laws in the United States are ever evolving and changing. This course will look at the history of workplace legal protections; current laws, regulations and issues; and emerging legal issues. Areas of employment law that will be examined include laws about hiring, termination, promotion, workplace discrimination, workplace security, privacy and safety, wages/compensation and benefits, immigration, and labor management relations. The course will focus on U.S. federal laws and regulations.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
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TMHR 5206 - Talent Development
It is critical today for human resources and organizational leaders to understand the importance of developing talent in their organizations to meet strategic goals and to recruit and retain top talent. This course examines the concepts, problems, issues and practices involved in training and developing the human resources of organizations. Through readings, assignments, case study analysis, and other projects, students will learn how to assess training and development needs, identify training objectives, design and develop training programs, and plan the delivery of programs and evaluate their effectiveness.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
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TMHR 5211 - Compensation and Benefit
This course will focus on the multiple components that make up employee compensation packages, and the impact this area has on organizational performance and strategic objectives, as well as employee attraction and retention. Topics to be examined and discussed include salary (base pay, merit pay and other variable pay programs), health related benefits, pension and retirement benefits, family care benefits, educational benefits, and employee well being benefits, among others. Latest practices in the areas of compensation and benefits will be an emphasis of the course.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
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TMHR 5216 - Talent Acquisition and Diversity
This course provides the strategies, concepts, and practices essential to the effective selection of personnel to accomplish a business objective, with an emphasis on recruiting, promoting, and retraining employees. The course also provides students with a knowledge and awareness of the issues, challenges, and theories surrounding the various topics within the discussion of diversity and inclusion. Students will also develop an understanding of the strategies, practices and initiatives currently being designed and employed by organizations to better understand the value and competitive business advantage associated with greater diversity and inclusion. Other topics include budget development, job descriptions, interviewing techniques, assessment, testing, background investigations, legal requirements, reporting of results to management, employee orientation, outplacement, and ethnic diversity issues.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually
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UDSC 245 - Going Local: Community Development and Planning
The purpose of this seminar is to introduce students to theories, debates and practical strategies regarding the development of urban communities. Students gain an enhanced understanding of the complexities inherent to the concepts of community and participation. They critically analyze “community” as a set of social relations, as a local economy, as a built environment, and as a political organization. Students begin to recognize the importance of race, gender, age, class, identity, and culture in working with communities. Finally, they examine the roles and effectiveness of the methods, models and strategies used by informal neighborhood organizations, banks, private developers, local nonprofits, and government agencies in rebuilding communities and their economies. Case examples and articles from across the United States will be used. Worcester’s neighborhoods-which provide excellent examples of physical, social, and economic development strategies-will be highlighted throughout this course.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall
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UDSC 299 - Directed Study
Undergraduates, typically juniors and seniors, construct an independent study course on a topic approved and directed by a faculty member. Offered for variable credit. May be repeatable for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every Semester
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WGS 110 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
In this course we will explore the ways in which ideas about femininity and masculinity have shaped women’s lives-locally and globally, in the present and historically-and how some women have challenged, even transformed, those meanings and the social relationships that flow from those two potent ideas. Among the topics that may be considered are: beauty, war, sports, politics, women’s movements, sexuality, race, work, violence, fashion, family, globalization, feminism, creativity, religion, media and girlhood.
Note: WGS 110 is open to all students in all majors. The content varies by semester, reflecting the instructor’s individual field of study and expertise. As an introductory course, preference is given to incoming first-year students and students entering their sophomore year. Juniors and seniors may register only by permission of the instructor.
Course Designation/Attribute: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall
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WGS 200 - Topics in Feminist Theory
Topics in Feminist Theory is designed to offer a survey of feminist theories and practices, and explores the relationship between gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, and class.,. Focus changes with each offering, depending on faculty interest. May be repeated for credit (taken a max of 2 times).
Spring 2021 Topic: GENDER AND POWER. How does gender inequality arise, both within formal and informal institutions? What mechanisms and dynamics perpetuate such inequality? What strategies exist, both historically and in the contemporary moment, to challenge these inequalities? This course examines the relationship between gender and power both theoretically and empirically. We will examine the historical existence of gender-based inequalities and explore the ways these animate the different waves of the feminist movement in the US context. We will also explore gender-based inequality in a global perspective, drawing on theoretical frameworks developed outside of the US to further our study of the relationship between gender and power. The course will conclude with various contemporary case studies, where students will use the theoretical frameworks developed throughout the course to analyze the relationship between gender and power as it emerges on today’s political stage.
Prerequisites: WGS 110 - Introduction to Women’s and Gender Studies
Course Designation/Attribute: GP
Anticipated Terms Offered: Spring
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WGS 240 - Special Topics: Women’s and Gender Studies
This course addresses current or timely topics in the area of Women’s and Gender Studies. Topics can vary from semester to semester.
Spring 2021 Topic: BLACK FEMINIST THOUGHT This course engages in critical examination of the key issues, assumptions, debates and political commitments that populate Black feminist thought. Foregrounding the centrality of Black feminism to anti-racism, resistance to gender oppression, and the emergence of the queer of color critique, this class centralizes Black women’s experiences as multiply minoritized and multiply marginalized members of our contemporary global and political landscape. We will analyze seminal theoretical texts and recent scholarship to work through the issues and questions that they raise. The overall aim of this course is to link, if not locate, contemporary feminist theories and practices with widely encompassing traditions of women’s political activism, theory, and cultural production. This class will be a capstone course, and will include a final paper showcasing students’ original research.
* If cap enrollment has been reached, please contact the instructor for permission to enroll.
** Pre-requisite of WGS 110 or seek approval from the instructor.
*** WGS students can count this toward the capstone requirement if they complete an additional assignment; see the instructor for details.
May be repeatable for credit.
Course Designation/Attribute: DI
Anticipated Terms Offered: Annually in Fall
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WGS 298 - Internship
An Academic internship is a practical work experience with an academic component that enables a student to gain knowledge and skills within an organization, industry, or functional area that reflects the student’s academic and professional interests.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Fall/Spring
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WGS 299 - Directed Study
Undergraduates, typically juniors and seniors, construct an independent study course on a topic approved and directed by a faculty member. Offered for variable credit. May be repeatable for credit.
Anticipated Terms Offered: Every Semester
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