College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences 2015-2016 Catalog

207 This course presents an overview of systems theories that use metaphors of system, pattern, interaction, communication, and language to describe human behavior and relationships. Offered all terms. MACS 5400 – The Interdisciplinary Writer This course is designed to assist graduate students in creating essays, thought papers, and other pieces of writing that reach an intended audience with clarity, skillful craft, and purpose. It includes reading and writing assignments for an academic setting focused on interdisciplinary perspectives. Students will be expected to participate in class discussions and improvisational writing exercises. Because this is a writing course, rather than just a course about writing, there will be a workshop component to the class. This means that all participants will bring in copies of their work to share to develop writing speaks to others. At the end of this course you will be better able to recognize, in your own writings and those of others, a piece’s purpose, its organizational structure, level of craft execution, authorial voice, and engagement of the audience. Offered Fall. MACS 6130 - Practicum I: Supervised Field Experience This course is a field research project that incorporates classroom knowledge and real-world settings. Students will demonstrate their ability to apply theory to practice and analyze situations utilizing knowledge from previous course work. Offered Fall and Summer terms. MACS 6160 - Practicum II: Supervised Field Experience This course is a field research project that incorporates classroom knowledge and real-world settings. Students will demonstrate their ability to apply theory to practice and analyze situations utilizing knowledge from previous course work. This is a continuation of MACS 6130. Prerequisites: MACS 6130. Offered Fall and Winter terms. Elective Courses: SHSS 6620 - Academic Writing A user-friendly seminar on how to write clear, unpretentious academic prose. Covers technical issues–sentence structure, punctuation, tenses, idea development–in a non- technical manner. Includes strategies for creating and editing manuscripts and for researching, organizing, and writing literature reviews. Offered all terms. MACS 0100 – Effective Environmental Communication Professionals in a wide range of disciplines need to be able to effectively and credibly communicate science and environmental issues in terms that can be clearly understood. This course will cover the spectrum of media available for communicating environmental and science information together with writing and speaking skills for media and other communication channels. MACS 0300 - Marine and Coastal Flora and Fauna An introductory overview of life in the sea and along its margins, including microorganisms, plankton, algae, plants, invertebrates and vertebrates. Treatment of major groups will include aspects of diversity, ecology, evolution, life histories and classification. MACS 0501 – Introduction to Java Programming This course is an introduction to the Java programming language. The course will include an introduction to the concepts of object-oriented programming and will show how Java supports this programming paradigm. You will learn about the Java environment and will