FAU Catalog - Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. Dorothy. F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. Bachelor's Program Informatio. NMaster's Program Information. Doctoral Program Information. Interdisciplinary Minor.
Certificate Programs. Departments/Schools. Anthropology. Communication and Multimedia Studies. Comparative Studies.
English. History. Interdisciplinary Studies: Arts. Humanities. Interdisciplinary Studies: Social Science. Jewish Studies. Languages, Linguistics, and. Comparative Literature.
Anthropology is the holistic "science of humans", a science of the totality of human existence. The discipline deals with the integration of different aspects of the. Read eng%20211.pdf text version.
Music. Philosophy. Political Science. School of the Arts (Music. Theatre and Dance, Visual Arts and Art History)Sociology. Theatre. and Dance. Visual. Arts and Art History.
Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. Link to Course Descriptions for the. College of Arts and Letters. Accreditation: Florida. Atlantic University is an accredited institutional member of the National. Association of Schools of Music. The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters offers Bachelor.
Arts degrees (B. A.) with majors in Arts and Humanities, Art History. Anthropology, Communication Studies, English, History, Jewish Studies. Languages and Linguistics, Multimedia Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political.
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Science, Social Science, Sociology, Studio Art and Theatre. The Bachelor. of Fine Arts (B. F. A.) may be earned in Art (Graphic Arts or Studio. Art) and Theatre.
The College also awards the Bachelor of Music (B. M.) and a Bachelor of Music Education (B.
M. E.) is offered in conjunction with the College of Education. University programs leading to teacher certification in art and foreign. Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. In addition, the College offers several minors available at the undergraduate level. For graduate students, the College offers a range of Master of Arts (M. A.). degrees with majors in Anthropology; Communication; English; History; Languages. Linguistics, and Comparative Literature; Political Science; and Sociology.
M. A. The College also offers a Master of Music degree program. Master of Fine Arts degrees (M. F. A.) may be earned in Visual Art in the Department. Visual Arts and Art History; in Creative Writing in the Department of English; in Media, Technology and Entertainment in the School of Communication and Multimedia Studies.
Acting, Design and Technology in the Department of Theatre and Dance. Graduate students may obtain the Master of Arts in Teaching degree (M. A. T.). in several disciplines listed in this section by department. A Doctor of Philosophy degree (Ph. D.) with a Major in Comparative Studies is.
Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters as well. In addition, the College offers several certificate programs, interdisciplinary.
Each type of program—bachelor's degree programs, master's degree programs. The course offerings pertaining to each program are listed by department. College section. Bachelor's. Degree Program Information.
General Studies Degree Program. The University offers a Bachelor of General Studies (B. G. S.) degree program that allows students to design a plan of study to meet their personal interests and career goals.
The 1. 20- credit program includes 1. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, a student must complete a.
Bachelor of Arts(Freshmen and transfer students with fewer than. All degree requirements of the University. All requirements in the major. Refer to the description of major requirements. Majors in Art History, History, Music and Philosophy will take 9 credits. Arts and Letters electives.
The University Foreign Language Graduation Requirement. Schmidt. College of Arts and Letters does not accept credits in American Sign Language. A cumulative average of .
All courses. in the major must be graded. Pass/Fail is not accepted. File an Application for Degree form, available at the Office of the Registrar. Certification by the faculty of the College for the awarding of the degree. Additional Admission Requirements. Any student who does not have a .
Proficiency in a foreign language is strongly. Bachelor of Arts degree. Bachelor of Arts(Transfer students with 3. All degree requirements of the University, with a minimum of 1. Degree Requirements section of. All requirements in the major.
Refer to the description of major requirements. All coursework. transferred from another institution in the major field must be approved in.
A minimum of 9 credits (1. School of. Communication and Multimedia Studies) within the Dorothy F. Schmidt College. of Arts and Letters but outside the major department, excluding courses used.
General Education requirements in Arts and Letters. The Departments. of Anthropology, English, Political Science, Sociology and Languages, Linguistics. Comparative Literature do not require Arts and Letters electives. These. departments treat this requirement as . A cumulative average of . All courses. in the major must be graded. Pass/Fail is not accepted.
File an Application for Degree form, available at the Office of the Registrar. Certification by the faculty of the College for the awarding of the degree. Bachelor of Fine Arts or Bachelor of.
Music(Freshmen and transfer students with. All degree requirements of the University. University Foreign Language Requirement.
All requirements in the major. Refer to the description of major requirements. A cumulative average of . The University Foreign Language Graduation Requirement. Schmidt. College of Arts and Letters does not accept credits in American Sign Language. Pass/Fail is not accepted.
File an Application for Degree form, available at the Office of the Registrar. Certification by the faculty of the College for the awarding of the degree. Bachelor of Fine Arts or Bachelor of. Music(Transfer students with 3.
All degree requirements of the University, with a minimum of 1. All requirements in the major. Refer to the description of major requirements. All coursework. transferred from another institution in the major field must be approved in. A cumulative average of . Pass/Fail is not accepted. The Foreign Language Entry Requirement.
File an Application for Degree form, available at the Office of the Registrar. Certification by the faculty of the College for the awarding of the degree.
Second Baccalaureate Degree Requirements. Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Fine. Arts Programs. 1. A minimum of 3. 0 credits must be earned in residence at FAU, in addition.
Satisfy the admission requirements of the college granting the second degree. Satisfy all College and department degree requirements. Refer to Degree. Program Requirements under the major department listed below. If the student. has not completed a foreign language in the first degree, then the student. College's B. A. File an Application for Degree form, available at the Office of the Registrar. Admission Requirements. To be admitted to the Master of Arts, the Master of Arts in Teaching, the.
Master of Fine Arts or the Master of Music degree program, the student must meet the following criteria: 1. For Visual Arts and Art History: At least a 3.
For Anthropology, Communication, the English M. A., Political Science, Sociology, Theatre and. Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies. At least a 3. 0 average in the 6.
GRE scores. c. For Languages and Linguistics, the M. A. For Music: A baccalaureate in music and a satisfactory audition, writing sample or portfolio depending on desired concentration.
For History: At least a 3. GRE. 2. Recommendation for admission by the proposed major department and the Dorothy. F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters graduate committee.
An undergraduate degree in the discipline (since departments may vary in. Master of Fine Arts students must pass an acting audition, pass a directing. Master's Degree Requirements. To be eligible for the Master of Arts, Master of Arts in Teaching, Master.
Fine Arts or Master of Music degree from the Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters. University requirements for the degree. To. be recommended by the department and the graduate committee, the student.
Graduate students must meet the language requirement set by each department. College of Arts and Letters for their graduate degree programs.
Doctoral Degree. Program Information. The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters offers a Doctor. Philosophy degree in Comparative Studies. Comparative Studies is. Interdisciplinary Minor.
Film and Video Minor. The undergraduate minor in Film and Video gives students in any major the opportunity to bring together courses from several departments and colleges into a multidisciplinary curriculum emphasizing all aspects of film and video. Participating are faculty from communication and multimedia studies, literature, languages, anthropology, theatre and other disciplines. Students are offered scholarly study of the history, theory and criticism of film, video and television as well as hands- on courses in video production. The minor structures FAU’s current course offerings in film and video to guide undergraduate students through a cohesive study of film and its related disciplines.
This program is open to all degree- seeking. B. A. Students. may enroll with the program director at any time but must be enrolled by.
The minor will be awarded upon completion. A student who already holds a baccalaureate degree may pursue the minor in conjunction with a second bachelor’s degree. All courses taken in the program may be. The curriculum consists of four parts: the core course, Film Appreciation. Students must follow the distribution guidelines and complete a minimum of five courses.
Each. course must be completed with a grade of “C” or better to be counted toward the minor. At least 7. 5 percent of all credits for the minor must be earned from FAU. In addition to the regular curriculum, other courses with significant attention to film and video may be approved by the program director. For more information about this minor, contact Dr. Noemi Marin, Program Director, at 5.
Core Course (required)Film Appreciation. FIL 2. 00. 03. History (one course required)Film to the 1. FIL 4. 03. 64. Film since the 1. FIL 4. 03. 74. Documentary Film and Video.
How to do a Research Project: A Guide for Undergraduate Students. Related Web links. The references and links on these pages have been collected and reviewed by Colin Robson. They will be updated on a regular basis. Chapter links Click on the links below for websites giving further information on topics covered in each chapter of the book: Most of these websites have been found by surfing the Web using Google. Apologies if any links don't work.
They all did when this material was prepared, but things change on the Web. There is, of course, nothing to stop you surfing for yourself.
Take care, it can be addictive and act as a displacement activity to getting on with your project! Chapter 1 Preliminaries. Websites on topics covered in this chapter.
Of general use when starting to think about doing your project. The Guide to the Best of the Web for Social Sciencehttp: //www. INTUTE: Social Sciences has been an absolutely invaluable resource for anyone carrying out a research project using social science methods. It is discussed in detail in chapter 3. Unfortunately funding was withdrawn as part of the current cuts and it closed in July 2. The material has been archived and will remain of considerable value for the next few years. The Web Center for Social Research Methodshttp: //www.
A very useful and wide- ranging compendium of resources developed by Bill Trochim from Cornell. Aimed at people involved in applied social research and evaluation. Lots of resources and links to other locations on the Web that deal in applied social research methods. Final Year Projectshttp: //final- year- projects. Down to earth advice on completing a final year project for business students, but generally applicable. Written by Mike Hart, University of Winchester.
The Social Science Undergraduate Dissertation Companionhttp: //www. Covers all aspects of completing projects in sociology, anthropology, politics, social policy, social work and criminology. Edited by Malcolm Todd from Sheffield Hallam University. Research methods and methodologyhttp: //www. Wide- ranging, engagingly quirky with extensive set of links.
In addition to extensive sociological material, there are links to sites covering mass media and communication studies, political science, health statistics and the medical establishment, anthropology and history). Kearl, Trinity University, Texas. The Research Gatewayhttp: //www. An online resource to support student research project work in Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism by Tess Kay and Leigh Robinson, Loughborough University. Web resources helpful for librarians doing researchhttp: //www. A site created for librarians who find themselves needing to perform research for purposes of publication, promotion, tenure, or other reasons. From Beth Ashmore of .
From the Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey. Covering specific issues. How to Keep a Research Diaryhttp: //www. Useful notes on keeping a research diary by Ian Hughes. Discussed in the context of an action research project but generally applicable.
An Action Research E- Report from the University of Sydney. Team buildinghttp: //www. Academics/GPP/Students/ch. Invlauable for anyone working on a group project. Written by James Groccia, John T. O'Connor, and Susan Vernon Gerstenfeld from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Worcester, MA.
By Rob Mc. Bride and John Schostak, Manchester Metropolitan University. Soft systems methodologyhttp: //portals.
Soft. Developed by Chris Jarvis for the Business Open Learning Archive Project. Case study. Introduction to case studyhttp: //www. QR/QR3- 2/tellis. Provides a general discussion of case study methodology in the context of a specific example on the introduction of information technology at a university. By Winston Tellis in the e- journal Qualitative Report.
QR/QR6- 2/zucker. Another useful paper, from the e- journal Qualitative Report, on case study.
Focus is on nursing research, but generally applicable. By Donna Zucker, University of Massachusetts. Documentary analysis. See section in chapter 4 below. Ethnographic research. What is ethnography? Introduction by Jean Schensul, Institute for Community Research ,Hartford, CTConcepts, terms and assumptionshttp: //www.
PA7. 65/ethno. htm Brief, clear review by David Gerson, North Carolina State University. Evaluation research. The worldwide evaluation gatewayhttp: //www.
Includes a wide range of articles, papers and reports. Links to methods, also to data, e- mail lists, other resources. Most are multi- chapter documents focusing on how to do evaluation- related subjects.
From the American Evaluation Association. Evaluation resourceshttp: //gsociology. A list of free resources for methods in evaluation and social research. The focus is on how to do evaluation research and the methods used: surveys, focus groups, sampling, interviews and other methods. Most of the extensive links are to resources that can be read over the Web. By Gene Shackman, applied sociologist. Experiments. Note: I have had some difficulty in selecting websites to recommend.
Many I have come across contain dogmatic and debatable views about experimentation. Experimental designhttp: //www. This can definitely be recommended. Includes sections on two- group experimental designs, classifying experimental designs, factorial designs, randomized block designs, covariance designs and hybrid experimental designs.
See also http: //www. Introductory text. Robson, C. Harmondsworth: Penguin. Out of print but available at http: //www.
Feminist research. Methodological and epistemological issueshttp: //www. Covers a range of issues raised when doing feminist research. A paper from Sociological Research Online by D.
Millen. http: //www. Discusses the appropriateness of qualitative and quantitative methods for feminist research. A paper by Nicole Westmarland in Forum: Qualitative Social Research. Feminist Research Design and Institutional Gatekeeping Mechanismshttp: //culturecat. A blog entry from Nancy Ratliff of the Department of English at East Carolina University discussing the problems posed by institutional gatekeeping mechanisms.
Grounded theory. Introductions to grounded theorywww. GT. htm A straightforward account of what grounded theory is and how to use it by Steve Borgatti.
The paper outlines the key principles of grounded theorizing and then goes on to discuss open, axial and selective coding in turn, using worked examples of qualitative data. A very useful . Addressed to psychologists but generally applicable. By Bob Dick, Southern Cross University. Qualitative research (includes stuff on action research, case study, grounded theory, ethnography, etc.)How to do qualitative researchhttp: //www.
Wide- ranging introduction to what is involved in doing a project based on collecting qualitative data. Written for students of information systems but generally applicable.
By Michael Myers, University of Auckland. An introduction to qualitative researchhttp: //www.
ELU/Issues/Research/Res. Cont. html A guide which has been used as an introductory text on courses aimed at teachers, health professionals and business consultants. Written by John Schostak, Manchester Metropolitan University.
ESDS Qualidatahttp: //www. A service providing access to a range of social science qualitative datasets. The focus is on digital data collections from purely qualitative and mixed methods contemporary research and from UK- based . Online material linked to the course . David Garson, North Carolina State University. Survey designhttp: //www. Academics/GPP/Students/ch.
Introduction to survey methodology and design. Includes material on sampling, response rates, Choosing the right survey method, Question wording, questionnaire design, pretesting, survey implementation, ethical considerations, and reporting on survey methodology. Doyle, Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Social surveys onlinehttp: //surveynet. Gives online access to a wide range of surveys (e. Families and Children Study, General Household Survey, English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, National Travel Survey, Health Survey for England, British Social Attitudes Survey 2.
Questionnaire, National Survey of NHS Patients. Can also be used for secondary analysis of survey data. The UK MORI polling organisation. Lot of material about recent real- life surveys. See also the US Gallop website at http: //www. Other approaches.
Narrative- based researchhttp: //www. ELU/Issues/Research/Res. An introduction to the basic ideas behind using narrative as a vehicle for research by John Schostak, Manchester Metropolitan University. Hermeneuticshttp: //www. ELU/Issues/Research/hermeneutics.
A short introduction to using a hermeneutic approach. Also by John Schostak, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Discourse analysishttp: //extra. This is the homepage of a relatively new online journal dedicated to the theory and practice of discourse analysis (DA). Edited by a team at Sheffield Hallam University, it contains a range of interesting articles that you can browse from the current and previous editions of the journal; these include . Useful section on DA resources. Conversation analysishttp: //www- staff.
Tutorial covering the basic principles of conversation analysis written by Charles Antaki at Loughborough University. See also http: //www- staff. A course designed for a group of Danish students studying for an English degree by Charles Antaki. The basic idea of thelectures is to give a reasonable grounding in Conversation Analysis, or CA andhttp: //www- staff. Essca. 1/antaki. 1.
The topic areas include: Technology and Environment, Energy and Resources, Health Care and Technology, Urban and Environmental Planning, Science and Technology: Policy and Management, Social Studies of Science and Technology, Safety Analysis and Liability (including Fire Safety), Humanistic Studies of Technology, Economic Growth, Stability, and Development, Social and Human Services, Education in a Technological Society, Law and Technology, and Historic and Artistic Preservation Technology. There are, for example, 7.