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Monday
COMM200 Business Communications
Monday 8:00–10:50 AM
Amanda LoCoco
155 M
Required Books TBA

In spring, students choose between two core classes: Business Communications or Advanced College Writing. In summer, students will take whatever course not yet completed.

Show Description

This course will teach students how to write and speak effectively in business and other communication.

University Core
BUSI300 Negotiation Skills
Monday 12:30–3:20 PM
Amanda LoCoco
155 M
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This course teaches students to meet and resolve objections and conflicts that result from written and oral proposals and pitches. Emphasis is on resolving customer obstacles before addressing your own. Topics covered include: Wants vs. Needs, Win-Win Strategies, Best Alternatives to Agreement, Schedule vs. Quality vs. Cost, Progress vs. Perfection. The class progresses through carefully structured, progressively more complex negotiation exercises. Students learn how external and internal negotiation has become a way of life for effective managers in a constantly changing business environment.

University Core
BUSM321 Building Brands
Monday 12:30–3:20 PM
Joe Connolly
155 E
Required Books TBA
Show Description

Students will learn how to effectively communicate visually through a brand to create several compelling and cohesive identities.

Business Elective
DIGM422 Virtual Production II
Monday 12:30–3:20 PM
Max Hulburt
155 N
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This course continues to build students' proficiency in motion picture production using real-time rendering in Unreal Engine through several group projects. Additional topics include motion capture, facial capture, and virtual camera tracking.

Media Elective
DIGM325Intro to Virtual Production
ENTM439 Musical Production II
Monday 12:30–3:20 PM
Katelyn Slater
155 K
Required Books TBA

Important: successfully auditioning for a production does not result in automatic enrollment. To participate, students must also officially register for the class either during Registration Week (for credit) or with an Add/Drop Form (for credit or audit).

"Musical Production" should be used for registration (do not list the play's name).

Acting Productions meet multiple times a week.

This class meets twice a week. To find the correlating meeting, match up the Course ID.

Media Elective
HUMA124-1 Advanced College Writing
Monday 12:30–1:55 PM
Elisabeth Kramp
155 A/B
Required Textbooks & Materials:
  1. Booth, Columb, Williams, Bizup, & Fitzgerald The Craft of Research 4th Ed Buy NowPhysical Copies Only978-0226239736This is the primary textbook for our course. Please purchase a hard copy, as we will use it daily in class
  2. Students should select one of the following three sources (Rashomon, Our Town, or A Poet's Choice) for their research during this course. Those writing about the film Rashomon will need to read Akutagawa's short stories as well as watch the film:
    1. Rashomon
      • Kurosawa, Akira Rashomon 1950 View LinkThe Criterion Collection version includes the two Akutagawa short stories that the film is based upon. You may check out the film from JPC Library for free on campus
      • Akutagawa, Ryunosuke Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories Penguin, 2006 Buy NowPhysical Copies Only978-0140449709The film Rashomon is based upon two of Akutagawa's short stories. Please purchase this book if you choose to write your research paper on the film Rashomon
    2. Our Town
      Wilder, Thornton Our Town Foreword by David Margulies Perennial, 2003 Buy NowPhysical Copies Only978-0060512637Please purchase this copy if you choose to write your research paper on the play Our Town. The foreword by David Margulies as well as the end notes will be useful to your research
    3. A Poet's Choice
      Elizabeth Jennings A Poet's Choice Carcanet, 1996 Buy Now978-1857542622You may choose a physical copy or read a Kindle version of this anthology should you choose to write your research paper on poetry

In spring, students choose between two core classes: Business Communications or Advanced College Writing. In summer, students will take whatever course not yet completed.

This class meets twice a week. To find the correlating meeting, match up the Course ID and section number.

Show Description

Students conduct research on a primary text and write a lengthy paper, practicing revision and editing skills as they develop their original theses.  This class encourages a “close reading” of a primary text, requires students to build an annotated bibliography to evaluate secondary and tertiary source material, and introduces rhetorical concepts in the effort to help students become stronger readers and writers.

University Core
HUMA122 or Writing Proficiency Evaluation passed
HUMA124-2 Advanced College Writing
Monday 2:00–3:20 PM
Elisabeth Kramp
155 A/B
Required Textbooks & Materials:
  1. Booth, Columb, Williams, Bizup, & Fitzgerald The Craft of Research 4th Ed Buy NowPhysical Copies Only978-0226239736This is the primary textbook for our course. Please purchase a hard copy, as we will use it daily in class
  2. Students should select one of the following three sources (Rashomon, Our Town, or A Poet's Choice) for their research during this course. Those writing about the film Rashomon will need to read Akutagawa's short stories as well as watch the film:
    1. Rashomon
      • Kurosawa, Akira Rashomon 1950 View LinkThe Criterion Collection version includes the two Akutagawa short stories that the film is based upon. You may check out the film from JPC Library for free on campus
      • Akutagawa, Ryunosuke Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories Penguin, 2006 Buy NowPhysical Copies Only978-0140449709The film Rashomon is based upon two of Akutagawa's short stories. Please purchase this book if you choose to write your research paper on the film Rashomon
    2. Our Town
      Wilder, Thornton Our Town Foreword by David Margulies Perennial, 2003 Buy NowPhysical Copies Only978-0060512637Please purchase this copy if you choose to write your research paper on the play Our Town. The foreword by David Margulies as well as the end notes will be useful to your research
    3. A Poet's Choice
      Elizabeth Jennings A Poet's Choice Carcanet, 1996 Buy Now978-1857542622You may choose a physical copy or read a Kindle version of this anthology should you choose to write your research paper on poetry

In spring, students choose between two core classes: Business Communications or Advanced College Writing. In summer, students will take whatever course not yet completed.

Show Description

Students conduct research on a primary text and write a lengthy paper, practicing revision and editing skills as they develop their original theses.  This class encourages a “close reading” of a primary text, requires students to build an annotated bibliography to evaluate secondary and tertiary source material, and introduces rhetorical concepts in the effort to help students become stronger readers and writers.

University Core
HUMA122 or Writing Proficiency Evaluation passed
BUSI218 Microeconomics
Monday 3:30–6:20 PM
Peter Connolly
155 A/B
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This course introduces the basic principles of economics and their applications to managerial decision making. It begins with an analysis of the decision making of individual consumers and producers and how they interact in a variety of marketing settings. Other topics covered include: decision making in risky situations; the complexity of pricing, production, and market entry and exit; and the relationship between market structure and the strategic choices that are open to the company. The course forces the student to think systematically about achieving competitive advantage through the management of the firm's resources.

Business Core
ENTM427 Feature Film: Post-Production
Monday 3:30–6:20 PM
Melinda Simon
155 N
Required Books TBA

This class is 6 units (equivalent to 2 classes).

Show Description

This course is part of the Feature Film Program. Students fulfill the role of editor to create a rough cut, fine cut, and achieve picture lock on a feature length narrative film project under the guidance of a professional editor and in collaboration with the film's director. Each student is responsible for editing a specific portion of the movie and must collaborate to craft a cohesive style that fulfills the director's vision.

Media Elective
ENTM434 Cold Reading
Monday 3:30–6:20 PM
Kathryn Smith-McGlynn
155 K
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This class fosters the skill of creating a character with little or no preparation, as is often the case in television audition situations.

Acting
ENTM230Acting II: Acting and Text 
MUSC113 World Music
Monday 3:30–6:20 PM
Robert Giracello
155 M
Required Books TBA
Media ElectiveHumanities Elective
TBA Microbusiness
Monday 3:30–6:20 PM
Joe Connolly
155 E
Required Books TBA
Business Elective
DIGM441 Texturing and Lighting II: ANM
Monday 6:30–9:20 PM
Brian LaFrance
155 N
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This class revolves around creation and application of realistic and stylized textures and light schemes to produce depth and meaning in 3D computer generated scenes. Students will explore into various texturing techniques, while generating diffuse, specular, bump, and normal maps. This class will introduce students to industry standard animation software.

AnimationMedia Elective
DIGM212Texturing and Lighting I
HUMA320 Writing Short Fiction II
Monday 6:30–9:20 PM
Megan Eccles
155 E
Required Books TBA
Show Description

Picking up where Writing Short Fiction I leaves off, this course affords advanced students additional instruction in the demanding art of short story writing.  The workshop model continues to serve discussions of original student work, and during other class discussions particular stress is laid on finer aspects of craft and sincere engagement with more recent masters of the form. 

Creative Writing
HUMA220Writing Short Fiction I
Tuesday
BUSI393 Leadership and Management
Tuesday 8:00–10:50 AM
Joe Connolly
155 E
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This course is an introductory-level course for students. Its intent is to give an in-depth understanding of the differences between—and similarities of—leadership and management. The course focuses on the major traits of leaders and managers, and augments these with examples of great historic leaders, including George Custer and Jesus Christ. The course also studies the many leadership traits of Abraham Lincoln and looks at how these can be applied in modern business to improve management techniques. As part of the learning process, students give summaries of Lincoln’s leadership lessons, using short, Power Point presentations.

University Core
ENTM308 Sound in Film: Post-Production
Tuesday 8:00–10:50 AM
Steve Barsotti
155 N
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This course builds upon the skills and techniques learned in Sound in Film: Production, with an emphasis on post-production. The class will review the fundamentals of sound and how they are applied in a media environment to help communicate a message. Students will learn the element of a film or video soundtrack and how to take the elements from production and combine with created sounds and effects to create a complete soundtrack. Students will mix, process and enhance the soundtrack in post-production using a digital audio workstation.

Post-ProductionMedia Elective
ENTM103Fundamentals of Post-ProductionENTM104Fundamentals of Production
ENTM338 Acting Production: Part 1
Tuesday 8:00–10:50 AM
Katelyn Slater
155 K
Required Books TBA

This class meets twice a week. To find the correlating meeting, match up the Course ID.

Show Description

This course will give students the opportunity to screen and discuss various content projects with media professionals who played a significant role in the creation or distribution of that content. Each session may include screenings, presentations, or panel discussions with key creative, marketing, or distribution professionals associated with the content screened.

Media ElectiveHumanities Elective
HUMA133 The Epic
Tuesday 8:00–9:25 AM
Stephen Kramp
155 A/B
Required Books TBA

This class meets twice a week. To find the correlating meeting, match up the Course ID.

Show Description

The power of story is enduring and undeniable. Even today, many of the characters and scenes we deem most memorable and gripping come from the epic poems crafted by Homer and Virgil in the centuries before Christ. Beyond simply encountering finely-worked literary figures and plot developments, however, students taking this course will learn how the structures and conventions of epic narratives give these works immense force and drive, and how the importance of epic narratives in the self-understanding and collective life of ancient peoples invites a deeper appreciation of the importance of great stories for us in our own time.

Humanities Core
HUMA432 Cultural Foundations IV
Tuesday 9:30–10:50 AM
Stephen Kramp
155 A/B
Required Books TBA

This class meets twice a week. To find the correlating meeting, match up the Course ID.

Show Description

The 20th century confronted Western civilization with a huge array of cultural movements, political crises, and technological breakthroughs. This course provides students with the historical grounding necessary for a serious reconnaissance into the recent past via its major cultural products. Some of these works have emerged over time as radiant masterworks, and others have proved to be but nightmarish visions. All, however, merit study and critical treatment, as they mark our previous century in all its alarm, acceleration and terrible beauty.

Humanities Core
ARTS221-1 Life Drawing I
Tuesday 12:30–3:20 PM
Jacqueline Gold
155 D
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This class will help students to develop basic figure drawing skills. Students will study drawing a human body in various shapes and poses in order to create designs for animated characters.

AnimationGame DevelopmentIllustration
ARTS121Drawing in PerspectiveARTS122Observational Drawing
BUSI490 Business Launchpad I
Tuesday 12:30–3:20 PM
Joe Connolly
155 L
Required Books TBA

Business students should take Launchpad I. It is also open to business students and media students interested in starting their own business.

Show Description

The first in a sequence of three 3-unit classes offered to upperclassmen, generally seniors. This course explores market opportunities and needs, competitive market landscapes, skill competencies and gaps, and the process of creating a financial forecast model.

Business Core
ENTM200 Fundamentals of Story Development
Tuesday 12:30–3:20 PM
Christopher Riley
155 M
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This course builds on student understanding of screen storytelling established in Story, Genre and Structure and Writing and Pitching a Script. Students will develop an original feature-length screen story from multiple ideas through idea evaluation and selection, character creation and development, story structure, treatment, pitch and beat sheet. At the end of the course, students will register their work with the WGA (a $20 fee). Students will consider more advanced screenwriting concepts presented in the text and will apply those principles to their developing stories.

ScreenwritingMedia Elective
ENTM101Story, Genre and StructureENTM105 or DIGM122
ENTM201Writing for the Screen IENTM202Writing for the Screen IIENTM312Advanced Writing Seminar IENTM403Advanced Writing Seminar II
ENTM303 Directing II
Tuesday 12:30–3:20 PM
Nathan Scoggins
155 E
Required Books TBA
Show Description

In this production intensive class which builds on the directing fundamentals learned in Directing I, students will work together weekly to create short film subjects, dealing with spiritual and Christian subject matter, in an attempt to connect noble themes to photographed light. Students will be assigned weekly subjects and be expected to present them in class for feedback and analysis.

Post-ProductionProducingProductionMedia Elective
ENTM211Directing I
ENTM439 Musical Production II
Tuesday 12:30–3:20 PM
Katelyn Slater
155 K
Required Books TBA

Important: successfully auditioning for a production does not result in automatic enrollment. To participate, students must also officially register for the class either during Registration Week (for credit) or with an Add/Drop Form (for credit or audit).

"Musical Production" should be used for registration (do not list the play's name).

Acting Productions meet multiple times a week.

This class meets twice a week. To find the correlating meeting, match up the Course ID.

Media Elective
TBA Countercultures & the Spirit of Rebellion
Tuesday 12:30–3:20 PM
Stephen Kramp
155 A/B
Required Books TBA
Humanities Elective
ARTS221-2 Life Drawing I
Tuesday 3:30–6:20 PM
Jacqueline Gold
155 D
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This class will help students to develop basic figure drawing skills. Students will study drawing a human body in various shapes and poses in order to create designs for animated characters.

AnimationGame DevelopmentIllustration
ARTS121Drawing in PerspectiveARTS122Observational Drawing
ENTM208 Writing Short Form Cinema
Tuesday 3:30–6:20 PM
Christopher Riley
155 E
Required Books TBA
Show Description

Students will continue their study of screenwriting with a focus on writing narrative films under 40 minutes in length. They will screen and analyze multiple examples of short cinema to gain an understanding of the qualities possessed by the best examples of the form. They will write numerous short scripts with the goal of generating one or more short scripts of high quality that can be produced either inside or outside the university setting. Students will critique one another's work with instructor supervision and guidance. Considerable time will be required for students to write. Students will read and respond to the required texts.

ScreenwritingMedia Elective
ENTM101Story, Genre and StructureENTM105Writing and Pitching a Script
ENTM230 Acting II: Action and Text
Tuesday 3:30–7:30 PM
Lee Eskey & Katelyn Slater
155 K
Required Books TBA
Show Description

In this course text and dialogue are considered from the actor’s perspective. Scene work is explored, and students are instructed in text analysis (the study of the language within the script) and scene study (the study of the structure of the script) for performance.

ActingMusical Theatre
ENTM132Acting I: Foundations
ENTM498 Senior Project IV: Marketing and Film Festivals
Tuesday 3:30–6:20 PM
Nathan Scoggins
155 E
Required Books TBA
Show Description

Just because you have finished a film doesn't mean your work is done! In this concluding class to the Senior Project experience, students will develop and implement a marketing strategy for their senior project films. They will research film festivals appropriate for their film, develop a strategy and schedule for submitting to those film festivals, develop marketing materials for their films (including posters and taglines), craft documents that will enable strong consideration (including Director's Statements and personalized letters), and budget their senior project financial resources to implement their strategy.

Media Elective
ENTM490Senior Project: Pre-ProductionENTM491Senior Project: ProductionENTM492Senior Project: Post-Production
BUSI418 Business Career Strategies
Tuesday 6:30–9:20 PM
Tito Zamalloa
155 A/B
Required Books TBA
Show Description

In this class, students will reflect on their future career goals. Specifically, they will: determine their ideal career goal and put a concrete career plan in place now to accomplish it; learn to network in the professional community that you want to join; create a professional resumé and an equivalent LinkedIn profile, where the student will connect with 100 professionals in their immediate field of interest; form a team of 4-6 students to arrange group meetings with professionals in a field relevant to the student group; get an internship that could transition into a part-time job prior to graduation and into a full-time job after graduation; reflect on their personal strengths and weaknesses; create a personal Plan for Success; and create a 30 second Elevator Pitch.

Business Core
DIGM212 Texturing and Lighting I
Tuesday 6:30–9:20 PM
Grant Hall
155 N
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This class revolves around creation and application of realistic and stylized textures and light schemes to produce depth and meaning in 3D computer generated scenes. Students will explore into various texturing techniques, while generating diffuse, specular, bump, and normal maps.

AnimationGame DevelopmentMedia Elective
DIGM1083D Fundamentals
HUMA342 Long Form Prose Fiction Workshop
Tuesday 6:30–9:20 PM
Megan Eccles
155 L
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This course is oriented toward the production of a complete, substantial, and complex work of prose fiction. This process of writing a novella or significant prose narrative will provide students with a unique opportunity to learn and master elements of prose fiction such as character, structure, plot arc, narrative voice, and prose style, with the ultimate aim of creating a lasting work of literary art.

Creative WritingHumanities Elective
Wednesday
BUSI420 Business Law
Wednesday 8:00–10:50 AM
Bradley Bartlett
155 L
Required Books TBA
Show Description

Students study in detail the significant legal considerations involved with forming and operating a sustainable small business, becoming acquainted with real-world examples of incorporation issues and trade-offs, taxes and tax liabilities, human resource commitments and limitations, advertising issues and implications; contract law; patent, copyright and trademark law; and digital rights management.

Business Core
DIGM305 2D Animation II
Wednesday 8:00–10:50 AM
Eric vanHamersveld
Online
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This class expands on the “12-Principles.” Through a combination of lecture and lab, the class will produce two (2) short 30-second animated Pencil Test movies (no color) using a soundtrack provided from the teacher. Each movie project will include creating Thumbnail Storyboards, drawing Key Poses, preparing Exposure Sheets, creating in-betweens, and compositing a final Quicktime Movie.

AnimationMedia Elective
ARTS222Life Drawing IIDIGM2112D Animation I
ENTM121 Writing for TV
Wednesday 8:00–10:50 AM
Christopher Riley
155 E
Required Books TBA
Show Description

An exploration of the business and craft of writing for television. Students will study the distinctive characteristics of television storytelling, including episodic structure, character orchestration for television, hour-long versus half-hour writing, group writing and rewriting, spec writing for existing shows, the development and pitching of new series, writing pilots, and launching a television writing career. 

ScreenwritingMedia Elective
ENTM101Story, Genre and StructureENTM105Writing and Pitching a Script
ENTM231 Voice and Speech
Wednesday 8:00–10:50 AM
Lee Eskey & Katelyn Slater
155 K
Required Books TBA

This class meets twice a week. To find the correlating meeting, match up the Course ID.

Show Description

The course builds on “Introduction to Performing Techniques” with advanced explorations of the voice and speech techniques of Linklater, Berry and Skinner.

Acting Core
ENTM131Introduction to Performing TechniquesENTM132Acting I: Foundations
HUMA112-1 Cultural Foundations II
Wednesday 8:00–9:25 AM
Elizabeth Nevitt
155 M
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This course tracks the development in European art and thought during the transition from the High Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Special attention is paid at the outset to the tensions arising from, surrounding, and even effecting this epochal shift, especially as evidenced in Dante’s Divine Comedy. When the course later shifts its focus to texts produced by Shakespeare and others in Renaissance England, students find these tensions now located in increasingly realistic and complex human figures and dramas. Through these explorations students come to see the distinctive groundwork being laid for what will later be recognized as the modern period.

University Core
HUMA112-2 Cultural Foundations II
Wednesday 9:30–10:50 AM
Elizabeth Nevitt
155 M
Required Books TBA

This class meets twice a week. To find the correlating meeting, match up the Course ID and section number.

Show Description

This course tracks the development in European art and thought during the transition from the High Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Special attention is paid at the outset to the tensions arising from, surrounding, and even effecting this epochal shift, especially as evidenced in Dante’s Divine Comedy. When the course later shifts its focus to texts produced by Shakespeare and others in Renaissance England, students find these tensions now located in increasingly realistic and complex human figures and dramas. Through these explorations students come to see the distinctive groundwork being laid for what will later be recognized as the modern period.

University Core
ENTM403 Advanced Writing Seminar II
Wednesday 12:30–3:20 PM
Christopher Riley
155 E
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This course follows Advanced Writing Seminar I and provides additional advanced writing experience for students who have completed multiple scripts for the screen. Assignments will be individualized based on student experience, interest, and skill, and may include development and writing of feature film scripts, television episodes or pilots, short film scripts, and scripts for web-based distribution. Students may also rewrite existing works for which they've written earlier drafts. Students will read and lead discussions of numerous screenplays. Students will pitch their stories, and may be asked to pitch to students in other courses. Students will critique one another’s work in large and small groups, with instructor supervision and guidance. They may also be asked to supervise the script development work of underclassmen. The knowledge, skills, and experience gained in this course will serve aspiring writers, writer-directors, and writer-producers for film, television, and new media. Considerable time will be required for students to write and develop scripts outside of class.

ScreenwritingMedia Elective
ENTM101Story, Genre and StructureENTM105Writing and Pitching a ScriptENTM200Fundamentals of Story DevelopmentENTM201Writing for the Screen IENTM202Writing for the Screen IIENTM312Advanced Writing Seminar I
ENTM410 Media Law and Ethics
Wednesday 12:30–3:20 PM
Shun Lee Fong
155 M
Required Textbooks & Materials:
  1. Ashley Packard Digital Media Law 2nd Ed John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012 Buy Now978-1118290729Read and be prepared to discuss Chapter 1 before the first class
Show Description

The course examines the legal relationships in the motion picture and television industries, as well as the legal relationships between artists and their personal managers. It covers the key legal principles that are involved in most media productions. This includes with trade unions, licensing, intellectual property and contract issues. In addition, this course explores ethical challenges students are likely to encounter working in entertainment and guides them through the development of a personal code of ethics that is informed by the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

Communications Media Core
HUMA124-1 Advanced College Writing
Wednesday 12:30–1:55 PM
Elisabeth Kramp
155 A/B
Required Textbooks & Materials:
  1. Booth, Columb, Williams, Bizup, & Fitzgerald The Craft of Research 4th Ed Buy NowPhysical Copies Only978-0226239736This is the primary textbook for our course. Please purchase a hard copy, as we will use it daily in class
  2. Students should select one of the following three sources (Rashomon, Our Town, or A Poet's Choice) for their research during this course. Those writing about the film Rashomon will need to read Akutagawa's short stories as well as watch the film:
    1. Rashomon
      • Kurosawa, Akira Rashomon 1950 View LinkThe Criterion Collection version includes the two Akutagawa short stories that the film is based upon. You may check out the film from JPC Library for free on campus
      • Akutagawa, Ryunosuke Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories Penguin, 2006 Buy NowPhysical Copies Only978-0140449709The film Rashomon is based upon two of Akutagawa's short stories. Please purchase this book if you choose to write your research paper on the film Rashomon
    2. Our Town
      Wilder, Thornton Our Town Foreword by David Margulies Perennial, 2003 Buy NowPhysical Copies Only978-0060512637Please purchase this copy if you choose to write your research paper on the play Our Town. The foreword by David Margulies as well as the end notes will be useful to your research
    3. A Poet's Choice
      Elizabeth Jennings A Poet's Choice Carcanet, 1996 Buy Now978-1857542622You may choose a physical copy or read a Kindle version of this anthology should you choose to write your research paper on poetry

In spring, students choose between two core classes: Business Communications or Advanced College Writing. In summer, students will take whatever course not yet completed.

Show Description

Students conduct research on a primary text and write a lengthy paper, practicing revision and editing skills as they develop their original theses.  This class encourages a “close reading” of a primary text, requires students to build an annotated bibliography to evaluate secondary and tertiary source material, and introduces rhetorical concepts in the effort to help students become stronger readers and writers.

University Core
HUMA122 or Writing Proficiency Evaluation passed
TBA Creative Development
Wednesday 12:30–3:20 PM
Nathan Scoggins
155 L
Required Books TBA
Media Elective
HUMA124-2 Advanced College Writing
Wednesday 2:00–3:20 PM
Elisabeth Kramp
155 A/B
Required Textbooks & Materials:
  1. Booth, Columb, Williams, Bizup, & Fitzgerald The Craft of Research 4th Ed Buy NowPhysical Copies Only978-0226239736This is the primary textbook for our course. Please purchase a hard copy, as we will use it daily in class
  2. Students should select one of the following three sources (Rashomon, Our Town, or A Poet's Choice) for their research during this course. Those writing about the film Rashomon will need to read Akutagawa's short stories as well as watch the film:
    1. Rashomon
      • Kurosawa, Akira Rashomon 1950 View LinkThe Criterion Collection version includes the two Akutagawa short stories that the film is based upon. You may check out the film from JPC Library for free on campus
      • Akutagawa, Ryunosuke Rashomon and Seventeen Other Stories Penguin, 2006 Buy NowPhysical Copies Only978-0140449709The film Rashomon is based upon two of Akutagawa's short stories. Please purchase this book if you choose to write your research paper on the film Rashomon
    2. Our Town
      Wilder, Thornton Our Town Foreword by David Margulies Perennial, 2003 Buy NowPhysical Copies Only978-0060512637Please purchase this copy if you choose to write your research paper on the play Our Town. The foreword by David Margulies as well as the end notes will be useful to your research
    3. A Poet's Choice
      Elizabeth Jennings A Poet's Choice Carcanet, 1996 Buy Now978-1857542622You may choose a physical copy or read a Kindle version of this anthology should you choose to write your research paper on poetry

In spring, students choose between two core classes: Business Communications or Advanced College Writing. In summer, students will take whatever course not yet completed.

This class meets twice a week. To find the correlating meeting, match up the Course ID and section number.

Show Description

Students conduct research on a primary text and write a lengthy paper, practicing revision and editing skills as they develop their original theses.  This class encourages a “close reading” of a primary text, requires students to build an annotated bibliography to evaluate secondary and tertiary source material, and introduces rhetorical concepts in the effort to help students become stronger readers and writers.

University Core
HUMA122 or Writing Proficiency Evaluation passed
BUSI193-1 Intro to Marketing
Wednesday 3:30–6:20 PM
Brehnen Knight
155 M
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This course focuses on introducing the idea of “entrepreneurial marketing” and is aimed at students who plan to start a new venture or take a job as a marketing professional pursuing an innovative marketing approach. Students will study a full spectrum of marketing strategy and tactics that are especially suitable for entrepreneurial firms aiming for high growth and innovation yet faced by limited resources and uncertain industry dynamics. Students will work in teams on marketing plans for their own venture or for other high-profile entrepreneurs or executives. The focus of this course is on hands-on experiences and practical relevance of innovative marketing concepts.

University Core
ENTM230 Acting II: Action and Text
Wednesday 3:30–7:30 PM
Lee Eskey & Katelyn Slater
155 K
Required Books TBA

This class meets twice a week. To find the correlating meeting, match up the Course ID.

Show Description

In this course text and dialogue are considered from the actor’s perspective. Scene work is explored, and students are instructed in text analysis (the study of the language within the script) and scene study (the study of the structure of the script) for performance.

ActingMusical Theatre
ENTM132Acting I: Foundations
TBA Intro to Directing
Wednesday 3:30–6:20 PM
Nathan Scoggins
155 A/B
Required Books TBA
Media Elective
TBA Orchestration & Notation
Wednesday 3:30–6:20 PM
Robert Giracello
155 N
Required Books TBA
Media ElectiveHumanities Elective
MUSC102Music Theory
THEO113 Christian Experience III
Wednesday 3:30–6:20 PM
Fr. Andy Younan
155 M
Required Books TBA
Show Description

Orthodoxy is not only right belief but right worship. Through the Church’s sacramental economy and the individual prayer life of the faithful, the truths of the Catholic faith are displayed, lived, and understood. Following Parts Two and Four of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, this course explicates the Church’s “mysteries”: the sacraments, prayer and devotion that nurture the faithful in their Christian discipleship and sanctification.

University Core
DIGM322 3D Animation I
Wednesday 6:30–9:20 PM
George Castro
155 N
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This class is designed to provide students with the opportunity to study principles of traditional animation and incorporate those principles into computer animation. Students will produce several cyclical and performance-based animations.

AnimationGame DevelopmentMedia Elective
DIGM1083D Fundamentals
TBA Character Design
Wednesday 6:30–9:20 PM
Carlos Vazquez
Online
Required Books TBA
Media ElectiveHumanities Elective
DIGM215Photoshop & Illustrator
THEO313 Moral Theology & Ethics
Wednesday 6:30–9:20 PM
Shalina Stilley
155 L
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This course builds on prior courses covering the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Study of the Catechism will be completed through an in-depth analysis of the third pillar, namely, the section on Catholic morality.

Philosophy & TheologyNew Evangelization
Thursday
ENTM231 Voice and Speech
Thursday 8:00–10:50 AM
Lee Eskey & Katelyn Slater
155 K
Required Books TBA

This class meets twice a week. To find the correlating meeting, match up the Course ID.

Show Description

The course builds on “Introduction to Performing Techniques” with advanced explorations of the voice and speech techniques of Linklater, Berry and Skinner.

Acting Core
ENTM131Introduction to Performing TechniquesENTM132Acting I: Foundations
HUMA133 The Epic
Thursday 8:00–9:25 AM
Stephen Kramp
155 A/B
Required Books TBA

This class meets twice a week. To find the correlating meeting, match up the Course ID.

Show Description

The power of story is enduring and undeniable. Even today, many of the characters and scenes we deem most memorable and gripping come from the epic poems crafted by Homer and Virgil in the centuries before Christ. Beyond simply encountering finely-worked literary figures and plot developments, however, students taking this course will learn how the structures and conventions of epic narratives give these works immense force and drive, and how the importance of epic narratives in the self-understanding and collective life of ancient peoples invites a deeper appreciation of the importance of great stories for us in our own time.

Humanities Core
TBA Eschatology
Thursday 8:00–10:50 AM
Fr. Ankido Sipo
155 E
Required Books TBA
Humanities Elective
DIGM215 Photoshop & Illustrator
Thursday 9:30–10:50 AM
Max Hulburt
155 N
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This course is an introduction to Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Students will learn techniques for photo enhancement, image compositing, and logo creation through several projects.

AnimationGraphic DesignMedia Elective
HUMA432 Cultural Foundations IV
Thursday 9:30–10:50 AM
Stephen Kramp
155 A/B
Required Books TBA

This class meets twice a week. To find the correlating meeting, match up the Course ID.

Show Description

The 20th century confronted Western civilization with a huge array of cultural movements, political crises, and technological breakthroughs. This course provides students with the historical grounding necessary for a serious reconnaissance into the recent past via its major cultural products. Some of these works have emerged over time as radiant masterworks, and others have proved to be but nightmarish visions. All, however, merit study and critical treatment, as they mark our previous century in all its alarm, acceleration and terrible beauty.

Humanities Core
BUSI193-2 Introduction to Marketing
Thursday 12:30–3:20 PM
Brehnen Knight
155 M
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This course focuses on introducing the idea of “entrepreneurial marketing” and is aimed at students who plan to start a new venture or take a job as a marketing professional pursuing an innovative marketing approach. Students will study a full spectrum of marketing strategy and tactics that are especially suitable for entrepreneurial firms aiming for high growth and innovation yet faced by limited resources and uncertain industry dynamics. Students will work in teams on marketing plans for their own venture or for other high-profile entrepreneurs or executives. The focus of this course is on hands-on experiences and practical relevance of innovative marketing concepts.

University Core
BUSI409 Entrepreneurial Finance
Thursday 12:30–3:20 PM
Tyler Pearson
155 A/B
Required Books TBA
Business Elective
DIGM492 Portfolio Review
Thursday 12:30–3:20 PM
Max Hulburt
155 N
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This comprehensive studio class will allow students to produce and polish their portfolio content. Several in-class progress milestones, qualitative portfolio reviews by the industry professional guest speakers, and peer critiques will enhance students' experience, and provide maximum guidance to improving the overall quality of students' artwork.

AnimationGame Development
DIGM491Production Studio II
ENTM439 Musical Production II
Thursday 12:30–3:20 PM
Katelyn Slater
155 K
Required Books TBA

Important: successfully auditioning for a production does not result in automatic enrollment. To participate, students must also officially register for the class either during Registration Week (for credit) or with an Add/Drop Form (for credit or audit).

"Musical Production" should be used for registration (do not list the play's name).

Acting Productions meet multiple times a week.

This class meets twice a week. To find the correlating meeting, match up the Course ID.

Media Elective
HUMA224 Editing and Revision
Thursday 12:30–3:20 PM
Stephen Kramp
155 L
Required Books TBA
Show Description

While younger writers naturally place great emphasis on inspiration, this course provides students with a focused engagement on another critically important but often neglected aspect of masterful writing: revision.  In the process of putting key principles of revision into effect so as to improve their own creative pieces, students will also learn the fine (and also often neglected) art of editing, which benefits even students not interested in editorial work by making them more astute and discriminating readers.

Creative WritingHumanities Elective
THEO204 Old Testament
Thursday 12:30–3:20 PM
Fr. Ankido Sipo
155 E
Required Books TBA

Old Testament is the new version of Scripture II.

Show Description

This course is a continuation of THEO100. Whereas THEO100 focuses largely on the Gospels, this course takes a closer look at the major figures and events of the Old Testament. After a discussion of the literary and historical issues relating to biblical study, students learn the basic structure of the story of salvation history, surveying the books of the Old Testament. Special attention is given to the way the Old Testament books relate to those in the New Testament. As in THEO100 students also focus on how Scripture study relates to the life of prayer.

Philosophy/TheologyNew Evangelization
ARTS223 Materials and Techniques
Thursday 3:30–6:20 PM
Jacqueline Gold
155 D
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This course focuses on the traditional and materials techniques used to create hand-drawn illustrations and imagery. Graphite, charcoal, ink, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and collage will be used to create projects rooted in originality. The assignments are intentionally experimental, allowing students to explore innovative solutions in image making. Form, structure, tone, light, shadow, texture and color, combined with different approaches to visual style, atmosphere and mood will be covered.

IllustrationMedia ElectiveHumanities Elective
ARTS222Life Drawing IIARTS223Materials and Techniques
ARTS473 Illustration Capstone I
Thursday 3:30–6:20 PM
Jacqueline Gold
155 D
Required Books TBA
Show Description

A senior-level illustration capstone experience. In this course, students create portfolio content and further develop a professional visual art portfolio. Topics covered include various techniques determined by the unique challenges of each project. Significant class time will be spent discussing and working on the needs of the projects.

Illustration Senior
BUSI105 Statistics
Thursday 3:30–6:20 PM
Derry Connolly
155 A/B
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This course is designed to introduce students to fundamental theories and principles of statistics and how those concepts relate to the real world. In particular, students will learn how to apply statistics to a business setting and gain understanding of how data can bring clarity to decision making.

Business Core
BUSI102 (Recomended)
BUSI329 Applied Market Research
Thursday 3:30–6:20 PM
Joe Szalkiewicz
155 E
Required Books TBA
Show Description

Applied Market Research offers students an overview of market research techniques and primary and secondary research strategies informed by a Christian code of conduct. The course is designed to provide them with the principles, vocabulary, tools and practice necessary to identify a market demographic, write a research brief, develop and implement a research study, and analyze the findings.

Business Elective
BUSI193Introduction to Marketing
ENTM427 Feature Film: Post-Production
Thursday 3:30–6:20 PM
Melinda Simon
155 N
Required Books TBA

This class is 6 units (equivalent to 2 classes).

Show Description

This course is part of the Feature Film Program. Students fulfill the role of editor to create a rough cut, fine cut, and achieve picture lock on a feature length narrative film project under the guidance of a professional editor and in collaboration with the film's director. Each student is responsible for editing a specific portion of the movie and must collaborate to craft a cohesive style that fulfills the director's vision.

Media Elective
DIGM313 Hard Surface Modeling I
Thursday 6:30–9:20 PM
Grant Hall
155 N
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This class is designed to help students develop 3D modeling skills to produce low and high-poly hard surface models for animation and games. Students will learn to model using proper topology and be introduced to methods of speeding up workflow while creating props, buildings, and other hard surface objects.

AnimationGame DevelopmentMedia Elective
DIGM1083D Fundamentals
PHIL302 Existentialism
Thursday 6:30–9:20 PM
Shalina Stilley
155 L
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This course will offer an overview of some of the main themes, questions, and figures of existentialist thought. Topics studied may include freedom, authenticity, subjectivity, individualism, purpose, angst, being, and God.  Figures studied may include Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Sartre, Camus, Gabriel Marcel, Jacques Maritain, and others.

Humanities Elective
Friday
DIGM217 Motion Graphics II
Friday 8:00–10:50 AM
Nate Sjogren
Online
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This course is a deep-dive into Adobe After effects. Students will learn various advanced animation techniques used in the motion graphics industry, including character rigging and animation. Students will ultimately learn foundational techniques that will give them the technical ability to work on any professional motion graphics project.

Media Elective
ENTM212Intro to After EffectsDIGM215Photoshop & IllustratorDIGM216Motion Graphics I
ENTM338 Acting Production: Part 1
Friday 8:00–10:50 AM
Katelyn Slater
155 K
Required Books TBA

This class meets twice a week. To find the correlating meeting, match up the Course ID.

Show Description

This course will give students the opportunity to screen and discuss various content projects with media professionals who played a significant role in the creation or distribution of that content. Each session may include screenings, presentations, or panel discussions with key creative, marketing, or distribution professionals associated with the content screened.

Media ElectiveHumanities Elective
HUMA112-1 Cultural Foundations II
Friday 8:00–9:25 AM
Elizabeth Nevitt
155 M
Required Books TBA

This class meets twice a week. To find the correlating meeting, match up the Course ID and section number.

Show Description

This course tracks the development in European art and thought during the transition from the High Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Special attention is paid at the outset to the tensions arising from, surrounding, and even effecting this epochal shift, especially as evidenced in Dante’s Divine Comedy. When the course later shifts its focus to texts produced by Shakespeare and others in Renaissance England, students find these tensions now located in increasingly realistic and complex human figures and dramas. Through these explorations students come to see the distinctive groundwork being laid for what will later be recognized as the modern period.

University Core
HUMA112-2 Cultural Foundations II
Friday 9:30–10:50 AM
Elizabeth Nevitt
155 M
Required Books TBA

This class meets twice a week. To find the correlating meeting, match up the Course ID and section number.

Show Description

This course tracks the development in European art and thought during the transition from the High Middle Ages to the Renaissance. Special attention is paid at the outset to the tensions arising from, surrounding, and even effecting this epochal shift, especially as evidenced in Dante’s Divine Comedy. When the course later shifts its focus to texts produced by Shakespeare and others in Renaissance England, students find these tensions now located in increasingly realistic and complex human figures and dramas. Through these explorations students come to see the distinctive groundwork being laid for what will later be recognized as the modern period.

University Core
DIGM106 Fundamentals of Game Design
Friday 12:30–3:20 PM
Joe Shoopack
155 L
Required Books TBA
Show Description

Comprehensive introduction to basic tools and principles of Game Design including game systems, their components and interaction. Exploration into game analysis and game definitions. Opportunities to conceive an original idea and create a pitch to sell a game concept.

Game DevelopmentMedia Elective
DIGM231 Game Scripting II
Friday 12:30–3:20 PM
Rodney Figueroa
155 N
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This course builds on concepts introduced in DIGM131 to explore the integration of Unreal Blueprints and C++. Specific topics will vary, but may include multiplayer networking, narrative conversation trees, procedural level generation, and code optimization.

DIGM131Game Scripting I
TBA Screen Acting Lab II
Friday 12:30–3:20 PM
Courtney Balaker
155 K
Required Books TBA
Media Elective
ENTM346Screen Acting LabInstructor Approval
TBA History of Opera
Friday 12:30–3:20 PM
John Polhamus
155 E
Required Books TBA
Media ElectiveHumanities Elective
THEO113 Christian Experience III
Friday 12:30–3:20 PM
Fr. Andy Younan
155 M
Required Books TBA
Show Description

Orthodoxy is not only right belief but right worship. Through the Church’s sacramental economy and the individual prayer life of the faithful, the truths of the Catholic faith are displayed, lived, and understood. Following Parts Two and Four of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, this course explicates the Church’s “mysteries”: the sacraments, prayer and devotion that nurture the faithful in their Christian discipleship and sanctification.

University Core
THEO113 Christian Experience III
Friday 3:30–6:20 PM
Fr. Andy Younan
155 M
Required Books TBA
Show Description

Orthodoxy is not only right belief but right worship. Through the Church’s sacramental economy and the individual prayer life of the faithful, the truths of the Catholic faith are displayed, lived, and understood. Following Parts Two and Four of the Catechism of the Catholic Church, this course explicates the Church’s “mysteries”: the sacraments, prayer and devotion that nurture the faithful in their Christian discipleship and sanctification.

University Core
Saturday & More
ENTM251 Typography
Saturday 8:00–10:50 AM
155 N
Required Books TBA
Show Description

This course focuses on the anatomy and form, context, and motion of typography as a powerful communication tool across a variety of physical and digital media.

Graphic DesignMedia Elective
ENTM151History of Graphic DesignDIGM215Photoshop & Illustrator
BUSI492 Business Launchpad III
Marc Burch
Indpt. Study
Required Books TBA
Show Description

The third in a sequence of three 3-unit classes offered to upperclassmen, generally seniors. In this course, the team will continue to refine their financial forecast model and develop their marketing and funding plans, as well as putting their legal structure in place. The goal is a product or service ready for market with a team in place to deliver and support it, with a complete business plan, which includes a refined financial forecast model.

Business Elective
BUSI491Business Launchpad II
ENTM●●● Feature Film: Production
Media Department
Required Books TBA

This class is 6 units

Students registering for the Feature Film will be enrolled in a specific course ID & unit count as follows:

  • Sophomore: ENTM221 — 3 units
  • Junior: ENTM327 — 6 units
  • Senior: ENTM427 — 6 units

Show Description

This course is part of the Feature Film Program. Students apply for specific on-set positions that align with their unique skills and career goals and fulfill that role throughout principle photography on a narrative feature film project. This class may be taken as a 3 unit or 6 unit class based on the student's role and class status.

Media Elective
THEO337 NET Ministry Training
Stephen Kramp
155 E
Required Books TBA
Show Description

Students taking this course will prepare intensively for missionary work abroad.  Along with describing processes, aims, and challenges of evangelization, emphasis will be placed on evangelizing via shared cultural interests and personal relationship. 

Humanities Elective

Please be advised that adjustments in scheduled meeting times and/or instructor assignments may be made at any time without prior notice.

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