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THTR 330 - Beginning Theatre Pedagogy
A teaching assistant discussion/observation course designed to provide theatre students with experience and guidance in assisting an instructor in a particular theatre course. Repeatable up to 4 credits.
Prerequisites & Notes: instructor permission
Credits: 1-2
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 350 - Theatre for Youth
Exploration of the history, philosophy, literature and techniques for creating theatre for young audiences.
Credits: 3
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 351 - Creative Pedagogy
Instructional methods in theatre arts, design, analysis and practical application of theatre arts techniques and pedagogy through observation, seminar and practicum in the theatre department.
Prerequisites & Notes: Permission of instructor.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 353 - Touring Theatre I
An intensive and comprehensive involvement in the study and practice of creating and performing theatre for youth. This is a two-quarter commitment, audition required. Repeatable once for a maximum of 6 credits.
Prerequisites & Notes: Permission of instructor, audition required.
Credits: 3
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 354 - Touring Theatre II
Participants prepare all aspects of a touring production and accompanying educational support materials offered to elementary or secondary schools in Washington. This is a two-quarter commitment. Repeatable once for a maximum of 6 credits.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 353 and permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 355 - Intermediate Theatre Technology
Practical experience as an assistant designer or other assistant technical role on a departmental production in the areas of costumes/makeup, scenery, lighting, sound, and stage management. Repeatable up to 6 credits including original course.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 210; THTR 212; THTR 216; or instructor permission
Credits: 2
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 356 - Rehearsal and Performance II
Practical experience in rehearsal and performance of university productions. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: Instructor permission.
Credits: 1-3
Grade Mode: S/U
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THTR 360 - Acting Studio II: Interpretation of a Role
Continuation of skills and refinement of techniques presented in earlier acting studios, but with a strong emphasis on the use of the body and physical characterization. Scene work of several periods and styles is required.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 255; THTR 210, audition and instructor permission.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 361 - Voice Studio II: Speech and Language
Continued refinement of skills and techniques presented in Voice Studio I, but with strong emphasis on diction and clarity of speech. Includes work with dialects and challenging dramatic text.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 255; THTR 210; audition and instructor permission.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 362 - Irene Ryans and URTA Auditions
Preparation course for students selected to compete in the Kennedy Center’s American College Theatre Festival’s Irene Ryans acting competition and URTA graduate school auditions. Repeatable up to a maximum of three credits, including original course.
Prerequisites & Notes: Permission of instructor.
Credits: 1
Grade Mode: S/U
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THTR 363 - Voice and Diction
Sequence of exercises and drills challenging improvement in resonation, breath support, articulation, relaxation, placement and vocal work ranging from good stage speech (mid-Atlantic) to dialect.
Prerequisites & Notes: Audition and permission of instructor.
Credits: 3
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 364 - Movement Studio II: Suzuki/Viewpoints
An introductory exploration of the Suzuki and Viewpoints actors training movement systems intended to build an actor’s awareness of their body, especially the center. The method uses exercises that are inspired by Greek theater as well as martial arts and requires great amounts of energy and concentration allowing greater awareness of natural expressiveness in order to commit more fully to the physical and emotional requirements of acting.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 255; THTR 210; audition and instructor permission.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 366 - Musical Theatre
Practical application of singing and acting to performance-related work from American musical theatre through solo, duet and group exploration.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 260 or instructor permission
Credits: 3
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 368 - Acting for the Camera
An exploration and application of techniques and approaches for actors reflected currently in the film and television industry.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 260, THTR 261, acceptance into THTR 360.
Credits: 3
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 370 - Play Direction
Theory and practice of stage direction including selection of play, casting and blocking. Production of a scene for public performance is required.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 160; THTR 210; THTR 212; THTR 228; or instructor permission.
Credits: 3
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 371 - Directing Projects
Individualized practicum in directing for the stage. Repeatable up to 6 credits.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 370
Credits: 1-6
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 380 - Theatre History I
Development of theatre to the Renaissance.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 101 recommended, THTR 228
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: Letter
GUR Attributes: HUM
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THTR 381 - Theatre History II
Development of theatre from the Renaissance to the beginning of realism.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 101 recommended, THTR 228; THTR 380 recommended
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: Letter
GUR Attributes: HUM
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THTR 382 - Theatre History III
Development of theatre from the beginnings of realism to contemporary theatre.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 101 recommended, THTR 228; THTR 380, THTR 381 recommended
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: Letter
GUR Attributes: HUM
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THTR 383 - Costume History
Evolution of costume from ancient Greece through present-day fashion with reference to theatrical production.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 384 - Introduction to Dramatic Writing
Beginning exercise in dramatic writing, with emphasis on primary forms and conventions.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 228 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 385 - Topics in Intermediate Costume Technology and Construction
Course focuses on varied costume technology and construction methods. Repeatable up to 6 credits, including original course.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 216
Credits: 3
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 398 - Integrated Arts for Elementary Educators
This arts education course provides future teachers with a foundation in the elements and principles of Visual Art, Dance, Music and Theatre and their applicability to the elementary classroom. (Also offered as ART 398, MUS 398 and DNC 398).
Prerequisites & Notes: Admission to a teacher education program leading to an elementary endorsement.
Credits: 3
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 400 - Directed Independent Study
An individualized course of study not available through or replacing existing curriculum, to be arranged between one matriculating student and sponsoring faculty member. All academic policies and registration deadlines apply. Directed Independent Study courses cannot substitute for General University Requirements and are not eligible for tuition waiver.
Credits: 1-15
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THTR 411 - Advanced Scenic Design
Contemporary stage design practice and theory with an emphasis on artistic interpretation of dramatic literature and music as a visual design.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 311 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 412 - Advanced Stagecraft
Technical analysis of scripts, special effects, computers and properties. Laboratory work on productions.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 212, THTR 312.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 413 - Advanced Lighting Design
Concepts and techniques of drafting and computer-assisted drafting, text work sheets, and application programs related to lighting design.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 313.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 414 - Theatre Business Practices
Examination of the theories and approaches to business management in the theatre as well as practical application of those theories discussed including budgeting, promoting and producing.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 314; THTR 101 recommended.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 416 - Advanced Costume Design
Exploration and execution of complete designs of costumes for the modern theatre with emphasis on the development of the design concept and interpretation.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 316, THTR 382, THTR 383.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 420 - Advanced Theatre Design and Portfolio Development
Exploration and project execution of complete design paper project including all supporting technical and research materials leading to a final presentation of designer portfolio.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 212; and one from THTR 411, THTR 413, THTR 416
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 428 - Topics in Theatrical Performance
The in-depth exploration of an individual playwright or group of playwrights, or performance genre such as devising, opera, theatre and community, or theatre for social change. Courses will be taught as seminar only and/or combination seminar plus lab. Credits vary from three to four dependent on course offered. Repeatable under separate topics.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 222 or THTR 228.
Credits: 3 or 4
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 450 - Theatre for Youth II
Advanced techniques in youth theatre. Each student selects and prepares a script for performance for and/or by youth.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 350.
Credits: 3
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 452 - Secondary Theatre Techniques
Exploration of techniques and curriculum for use in secondary theatre classrooms. Creation of lesson plans and projects aimed specifically for theatre students. This course has a required academic Service-Learning component.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 351; acting and directing courses strongly recommended.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 455 - Advanced Production and Design
Practical experience as a designer or other lead technical role on a departmental production in the areas of costumes/makeup, scenery, lighting, sound, and stage management. Repeatable to a maximum of 8 credits including original course.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 355 and instructor permission.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 460 - Acting Studio III: Personal Performance
Continued refinement of skills and techniques introduced in previous studios, with special emphasis on individual acting problems.
Prerequisites & Notes: Audition and instructor permission.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 461 - Voice Studio III: Shakespeare
Continued refinement of skills and techniques presented in Voice Studio II, with a strong emphasis on the robust use of text and language as exemplified in the plays of Shakespeare, and other plays with heightened text.
Prerequisites & Notes: Audition and instructor permission.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 462 - Advanced Acting Topics
Students study specific advanced acting techniques and styles and apply them directly through production performance. Repeatable with different topics up to a maximum of 10 credits.
Prerequisites & Notes: Audition and permission of instructor.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 463 - Audition Preparation
Preparation of several contrasting monologues and development of specific performance skills to best demonstrate the varied talents of the individual actor in an audition format. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: Audition and permission of instructor.
Credits: 2
Grade Mode: S/U
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THTR 464 - Movement Studio III: Advanced Suzuki/Viewpoints
An advanced exploration of the Suzuki and Viewpoints actor training movement systems.
Prerequisites & Notes: Audition and permission of instructor.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 465 - Summer Stock II
Offered only summer quarter. Contact director of theatre for details. Repeatable once.
Prerequisites & Notes: Written permission of director of Summer Stock. Offered only summer quarter.
Credits: 1-15
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 470 - Play Direction II
Producing and directing a one-act play for public performance; special emphasis on working with the actor.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 314, THTR 370; 30 hours in the major and permission of instructor
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 471 - Advanced Directing Projects
Individualized practicum in directing for the stage. Repeatable up to 6 credits.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 470
Credits: 1-6
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 480 - Devising Production
Students devise an original work for the main stage theatre season through phases of research, creation, and development. All students write, design, and perform the piece.
Prerequisites & Notes: Audition Course - Permission of Instructor.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 485 - Dramatic Writing Workshop
Opportunity for disciplined expression in writing for stage, film, television or other media. May be repeated under separate topics to a maximum of 12 credits.
Prerequisites & Notes: THTR 384 or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: Letter
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THTR 495 - Internship
Qualified third- and fourth-year students may apply to apprentice with theatre companies, performing arts agencies or producing organizations. Repeatable to a maximum of 24 cr. S/U grading.
Prerequisites & Notes: Junior status or above and permission of Chair.
Credits: 1-12
Grade Mode: S/U
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THTR 496 - Senior Capstone Thesis
Capstone research or reflective thesis demonstrating deep knowledge of an area within the student’s declared theatre concentration. Topics are arranged in conjunction with and approval from student’s departmental advisor.
Prerequisites & Notes: Instructor permission.
Credits: 1
Grade Mode: Letter
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Women, Gender & Sexuality Studies Courses numbered X37; X97; 300, 400 are described in the University Academic Policies section of this catalog.
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WGSS 211 - Introduction to Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Introduction to the issues, questions, conceptual frameworks, and methods basic to women, gender, and sexuality studies.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: Letter
GUR Attributes: BCGM
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WGSS 212 - Introduction to Feminist Theory
This course is meant to introduce students to feminist thought. Through engagement with primary theoretical texts, students will become familiar with the core theorists and central arguments of feminist theory. At the end of the course, students will be knowledgeable on the various ways that the term feminism has and continues to be used in social, political, artistic, and economic contexts.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: Letter
GUR Attributes: BCGM
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WGSS 213 - Introduction to Sexuality and Queer Studies
This course introduces students to the interdisciplinary field of Sexuality Studies with a focus on the insights of the field of Queer Studies. Students will draw upon intellectual approaches to sexuality ranging from the arts and humanities to the social and natural sciences. Course addresses different permutations of the desires, identities, and practices that constitute sexuality in the US, the Arab Middle East, and Filipino/a diaspora.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: Letter
GUR Attributes: ACGM
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WGSS 300 - Directed Independent Study
An individualized course of study not available through or replacing existing curriculum, to be arranged between one matriculating student and sponsoring faculty member. All academic policies and registration deadlines apply. Directed Independent Study courses cannot substitute for General University Requirements and are not eligible for tuition waiver.
Credits: 1-15
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WGSS 310 - Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity
Examines how race, ethnicity, and indigeneity shape and inform local and global understandings of sex, gender, and sexuality. Students will address intersectional and de-colonial feminist and gender studies and question how settler colonialism and racism impact possibilities and strategies for gender justice.
Prerequisites & Notes: WGSS 211 with concurrency or WGSS 212 with concurrency or WGSS 213 with concurrency; or instructor permission.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: Letter
GUR Attributes: ACGM
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WGSS 314 - Gender Across Borders
Examines transnational feminism and examines the strategies women develop to resist global patriarchal structures, how definitions of gender and sexuality are reproduced, negotiated, and deployed, and forms of organization and mobilization in the context of globalization and transnational flows.
Prerequisites & Notes: WGSS 211, WGSS 212, or WGSS 213 with concurrency, or five credits of 300-level Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: Letter
GUR Attributes: ACGM
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WGSS 320 - Topics in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Focus on special topics in women, gender, and sexuality studies. Readings and/or topic area to be determined by instructor. Repeatable up to 15 credits with different topics, including original course. May be taken only once for GUR credit. Also offered as COMM 397E.
Prerequisites & Notes: WGSS 211, WGSS 212, or WGSS 213 with concurrency, or instructor permission.
Credits: 3-5
Grade Mode: Letter
GUR Attributes: BCGM
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WGSS 331 - Studies in Gender Theory
This course will examine gender theory, with varying emphases, including but not limited to feminist, queer, trans, intersectional and critical race theory. Repeatable with different topics up to 10 credits including original course. Also offered as ENG 331.
Prerequisites & Notes: ENG 202 or WGSS 211
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: Letter
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WGSS 350 - Feminist and Queer Methodologies
This course examines feminist and queer methodologies in the social sciences and humanities.
Prerequisites & Notes: Sophomore status.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: Letter
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WGSS 356 - Gender and History
This course surveys how historians approach the topic of gender and how the discipline of Gender Studies has altered the way professionals study history. Rather than focusing on a particular region or era, this course examines how notions of femininity, masculinity, and the relationships between the two have changed and endured across different temporal and spatial contexts. Students will learn about the development of gender as a category of historical analysis, the growth of interdisciplinary approaches to gender in and out of academe, and current approaches to both gendering history and historicizing gender. Also offered as HIST 356.
Prerequisites & Notes: One 100- or 200-level course in HIST or WGSS 211.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: Letter
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WGSS 358 - Women of Color in the U.S.
This course addresses the experiences and struggles of women of color in the United States both historically and today. In order to understand people in their own terms, we will read primary documents and secondary sources authored exclusively by women of color. Our overall goal is to better acquaint ourselves with the histories of women of color in order to better apprehend where they have been and where they are going, with a special emphasis on how they have been marginalized in the disciplines of History and Gender Studies. Also offered as HIST 358.
Prerequisites & Notes: HIST 104 or WGSS 211.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: Letter
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WGSS 400 - Directed Independent Study
An individualized course of study not available through or replacing existing curriculum, to be arranged between one matriculating student and sponsoring faculty member. All academic policies and registration deadlines apply. Directed Independent Study courses cannot substitute for General University Requirements and are not eligible for tuition waiver.
Credits: 1-15
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WGSS 410 - Feminist Community Praxis
Under supervision of a WGSS faculty member and/or in the context of a seminar of interdisciplinary readings, students will work in a community or activist setting.
Prerequisites & Notes: At least 15 credits of WGSS credits and permission of the instructor.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: Letter
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WGSS 411 - Directed Research
Research based writing or field project under direction of faculty advisor.
Prerequisites & Notes: Senior status and instructor permission.
Credits: 1-6
Grade Mode: Letter
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WGSS 450 - Capstone Seminar in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
Capstone seminar in Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. Involves reading and research in original sources on topics of central importance to women, gender, and sexuality.
Prerequisites & Notes: Senior status in WGSS major or minor or instructor permission.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: Letter
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WGSS 453 - Women of the Global South
Explores women’s economic, religious, political and familial roles through topics such as development and globalization, violence, and women’s movements. Student contributions to course topics emphasized through individual papers and group panel work. Also offered as ANTH 453.
Prerequisites & Notes: Fifteen credits of 300-level Anthropology or related discipline; WGSS 211; ANTH 353 highly recommended; or permission of instructor.
Credits: 5
Grade Mode: Letter
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GRAD 699 - Continuous Enrollment
Graduate Students must maintain continuous enrollment from matriculation until completion of all degree requirements. Students who have not completed all requirements for their degrees and are not currently registered for regular academic credit may satisfy the continuous enrollment policy via this course. Repeatable up to 12 credits including original course.
Credits: 1-12
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Education and Social Justice Courses numbered X37; X97; 300, 400 are described in the University Academic Policies section of this catalog.
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ESJ 411 - Education and Social Justice
Theoretical and practical foundation of education for social justice, exploring historical roots and the contemporary constructions of social justice issues and traditions as they play out in diverse educational contexts with emphasis on disruption of cultural reproduction of oppression through agency and activism. Also offered as EDUC 411.
Prerequisites & Notes: AMST 301 or FAIR 366E; Declaration of Education and Social Justice minor or permission of instructor.
Credits: 4
Grade Mode: Letter
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