An extended research field project with various historical themes depending upon site visited. Each student will develop a research proposal indicating goals of the study, procedure for evaluation and time to completion. The instructional content includes field studies, historiography tutorials and individualized research tutorials. Students will write a brief bibliographical essay and a comprehensive research discussion paper in order to complete the course.

This course explores a survey of documentary film with exposure to both theoretical and practical aspects. The purpose of the course is to develop students’ understanding of documentary filmmaking as an art form and to learn the filmmaking process. The course appeals to multi-disciplinary students looking to further their story telling skills, enhancing their ability to create visual texts, and improving students’ creative potential. The course will look at the often-blurry line between fiction and non-fiction as well as consider many different styles and approaches to telling stories through the documentary genre. On the practical side, students will learn how to operate a camera, effectively shoot and execute interviews, cover events, plan a project, record professional quality sound in the Northwestern Polytechnic studios, and learn the editing process.

An introductory level studio course designed to provide a foundation in drawing primarily using a broad range of monochromatic media. Emphasis will be placed on drawing fundamentals, primarily focusing on observational approaches.

This course will expand knowledge and experience of drawing materials, techniques, and methods. Emphasis will be placed on observation and applying drawing skills in increasingly complex ways. Students will be introduced to a range of strategies including conceptual and expressive approaches.

This course will present a historical survey of dance in many forms leading up to the early 20th century. No previous dance experience is required.

The course covers the political, economic, social and cultural history of the European people between 1350 and 1815. The course will trace developments from the Renaissance and Reformation periods to the Age of Absolutism, and will probe the Enlightenment and the end of the Old Regime and birth of Revolutionary Europe.

Selected works from the English context.

Representative works of early twentieth century American novelists will be covered.

The course will cover major developments in art from the turn of the 20th century to the mid-20th century. It will focus on various art forms and movements from both non-Western and Western contexts. These may include painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, museum displays, exhibition practices, and the relationships between art, techniques of expression, politics, culture, revolutions, and everyday life. It will also explore key terminology associated with 20th-century art, such as modernism, modernity, and the avant-garde.

A study of representative works of major early modern British novelists including writers such as Hardy, Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce and Forster.

This course is designed to provide students in Education with a working knowledge of important concepts and issues in Educational Psychology. Topics to be addressed include student development, learning and instruction, student abilities, and classroom motivation. The course will focus on information related to the practice of teaching.

Truck and machine electrical and accessory circuits are examined in this course.

This course will introduce students to basic electrical and electronic fundamentals. Topics included are: electrical circuits; electrical components, schematics and symbols; the use of test equipment and battery service and testing.

This ensemble is an opportunity for students to work on performance skills and to showcase their electroacoustic and multimedia works. Small ensemble work will help students develop creative compositional and improvisational skills. Students experience the process of developing and executing a large scale multimedia performance, scheduled for the second semester, and possibly a CD that represents the students' work. This is a two-term course offered over fall/winter terms. It is identifiable in the Schedule of Courses (Timetable) with a Part A and a Part B. Students must register in both the Part A and the Part B of all types of sections offered (sections, labs, seminars, etc.) for this course.

This ensemble is an opportunity for students to work on performance skills and to showcase their electroacoustic and multimedia works. Small ensemble work will help students develop creative compositional and improvisational skills. Students experience the process of developing and executing a large scale multimedia performance scheduled for the second semester. This is a two-term course offered over fall/winter terms. It is identifiable in the Schedule of Courses (Timetable) with a Part A and a Part B. Students must register in both the Part A and the Part B of all types of sections offered (sections, labs, seminars, etc.) for this course.

This course will develop familiarity and skills with music notation software to allow students to present their works professionally in hard copy. Concepts and practices of engraving will be discussed.

The course will include a review of analytic geometry; functions, limits, continuity; differentiation of elementary functions; applications to maxima, minima and rates; introduction to integration; Fundamental Theorem; numerical integration; and areas and other applications of the definite integral to areas.

Applications of integration to areas, volumes, work force and arc lengths are included in this course. Differentiation and integration of exponential, logarithmic and trigonometric functions; techniques of integration; indeterminate forms and improper integrals.

The course provides a review of programming principles (specification, implementation and testing), and an extension of object-oriented concepts from CS1140 including data abstraction, modular program construction and program reuse. The emphasis is on dynamic data structures (eg. lists, string, stacks, queues, tables), and their associated algorithms (eg. recursion, traversal, sorting, searching, hashing).

This is an introduction to modern symbolic logic including sentential and predicate logic with an emphasis on the application of formal techniques to ordinary language.