Castleton: In-Person Classes
ANT 1010 | A survey of basic issues, concepts, theories, and methods of cultural anthropology. Students think critically about the evolution of culture and society from the perspective of the past and the present. Topics include social and political organization, gender, myth and religion, language, cultural ecology, and cultural change.
ART 1630 | This studio-based course is designed to introduce students to the concepts, motivations and theory of making art. Students will develop an understanding of the elements and principles of art through experimentation in a range of mediums. Students will practice generating new ideas, creatively solving problems, and critically analyzing the results.
BUS 1210 | This course will focus on business productivity software. The course provides hands-on, introductory skills in file management, word processing, spreadsheets, and presentation software using the Microsoft Office suite. Students are introduced to the concepts of information systems, transaction-processing systems, reporting, and analytics taking data and turning it into useful information to support management decision-making.
COM 1150 | Why are movies made? Who gets to make them? How do they make their way to us? Why does it matter? In this course, we will explore contemporary cinema’s capacity to entertain, express, inform, and shape ideology. Particular attention will be paid to a film as a complex system of stylistic choices-including mise-en-scene, cinematography, editing, and sound-that shape the viewer’s engagement with the narrative. The course is meant to help students develop a more sophisticated understanding of the medium as well as equip them with the tools to understand and analyze the artistic and technical decisions made during the construction of a film.
COM 1420 | This project-oriented course introduces students to the art of storytelling through video production/filmmaking. Students develop the creative tools and techniques used in video/film production including all pre-production components, directing, field producing, camera work, production lighting, audio gathering, and editing. Students will create a number of short video projects in this course.
ENG 1061 | Students are expected to read and think critically, to write effectively, and to understand the fundamentals of literary analysis and written composition. Classroom discussion of assigned readings and the construction of related essays are stressed. A required research paper demonstrates the student’s use of resources in locating, organizing, and presenting materials in an accepted format. The Writing Graduation Standard is assessed in this course. This course is writing-intensive.
ENG-1070 | Students study various theories of effective oral communication with the focus on public speaking. Students develop their abilities to listen, analyze audiences, and use visual aids. For some majors, the Oral Communication Graduation Standard is assessed in this course.
ENG 1101 | This course introduces students to the study of literature, fiction, poetry and drama, as a university discipline. Students will develop their abilities to read perceptively and write effectively, using personal connections, formal strategies, and literary concepts to interpret and appreciate literature. Each semester the course will focus on a specific topic such as touchstone texts or popular literature.
MAT 2021 | This course prepares students for quantitative methods in their respective fields. Descriptive and inferential statistics, including estimation, hypothesis testing, linear regression and correlation are covered. Basic tools of descriptive statistics, discrete probability, binomial distribution, normal distribution, t-distribution, estimates and sample sizes, hypothesis testing, elementary correlation and regression, contingency tables are explored. Students utilize technology on a regular basis.
POS 1070 | This course explores the nature of citizenship in our representative democracy through a comparative approach, philosophical reflection, and empirical examination of the ways we count citizens and measure their attitudes and behaviors. The course exposes students to social science methods and epistemology as well as engaging in a broad discussion of the meaning and implications of citizenship on our campus, in our community, in our nation, and in the world at large.
PSY 2270 | An overview of the organization, values, theories, and variety of activities of various human service professions, with specific emphasis on Social Work. Designed to acquaint students with the range of human services and to test interest in a helping career.
THA 2121 | This course explores the basic nature of the actor’s creative process. It includes the study of the actor’s physical instrument, impulses, intuition and creative imagination. The evolving study of the course focuses on the fundamental elements of the acting craft: imaginary environment, character analysis and development, voice, body, relaxation and concentration is applied to work on monologues and scenes. This course emphasizes oral communication skills.
