26 courses with the subject LAS, each shown exactly as we captured it from the college's catalog, with every element we hold. Where the wording looks broken, that is our reading of the catalog, not the college's text.
LAS 23583Literature, Life and Values
By participating in small group interaction, coordinated by a Faculty Facilitator, students will demonstrate a sophisticated level of the affective skills of listening, responding and valuing as they read, discuss and write about American Literature. Students will demonstrate their ability to detect how group members organize themselves according to the groups purpose of learning the prin History LAC23588 History as Method for Understanding the Caribbean Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of Caribbean issues and their historical development.
LAS 23682Contemporary Latin American Short Stories
Students will be able to demonstrate understanding through the dynamics of group discussions. Students will study contemporary short stories by writers from several Latin American countries, from the perspective of predominant issues such as: social/political, urban/rural, male/female, mythical/cultural.
LAS 23683History, Politics and the English Literary Milieu
Students will be able to demonstrate understanding through the dynamics of group discussion thereby understand how becoming aware of the affective dimension in critical exchange, and writers use history to create fictions. Authors discussed: Shakespeare, Milton Wordsworth, Walter Scott, Joyce and Eliot.
LAS 23782Contemporary Latin American Women Writers
Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of contemporary Latin American women writers, starting with the founders: Gabriela Mistral, Delmira Augustini, Julia de Burgos, and going on to the works of modern writers, Luisa Venezuela, Isabel Allende, Nicholasa Mohr. Focus is on literary style, characteristics, and feminist issues.
Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of major poets of Latin America by tracing their lives and works. Focus is on the connection between significant life issues and literature.
Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of social values inherent in selected works of: Emerson, Poe, O’Henry, Edna St. Vincent Millay, O’Neil, Hughes, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath and Alice Walker.
Students will be able to demonstrate their aptitude through group discussions, students learn about the relation between language and social phenomena. Significant issues include: multilingualism, linguistic standard vs. non-standard dialects, language attitudes, language choice, linguistic maintenance and shift. Latin American and Caribbean Literature LAS23582 Themes in Latin American Literature Students will be able to demonstrate understanding through the dynamics of group discussion; students will study recurring themes in Latin American Literature: The Conquest, civilization and conflicts, the dictator, the superimposition of cultural layers. Authors included: Horacio Quiroga, Garcia Marquez, Ana Lydia Vega, Carlos Fuentes and others.
Students develop skills and knowledge of their subject area of concentration by participating in supervised group research projects. A final project along with a presentation is required. An additional 50 hours of field observation and recording is required.
Students are placed in an on-the-job internship where they perform research in their subject area of concentration. 90 hours of faculty supervised internship is required per term.
Students are placed in an internship where they perform research in their subject area of concentration: 90 hours of faculty supervised internship is required per term.
Introduction to the principles of general psychology: the nature of psychology and its historical principles philosophical and neurobiological basis of psychology; sensory processes, perception, cognition and consciousness; learning, conditioning, memory; basic motives, emotions and affect; personality, social psychology, abnormal psychology and methods of therapy
An introduction to the study of humankind through the perspective of general anthropology. Topics include: evolution; Homo Sapiens and their culture; language and culture; social stratification; sex, marriage and family; social organizations.
Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the philosophy, processes and problems of the democratic system in the United States. Topics include: the structure and powers of federal, state and city governments; separation of powers through checks and balances; political parties; the election process; interest groups and civil rights.
Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the fundamental principles of Economics. Among the topics covered are laws of supply and demand and the principle of scarcity. In addition, students will explore issues of unemployment, inflation and interest rates; measures of economic performance, such as gross national product and national income. The course ends with a review of monetary and
Principles of development of the individual differences and their measurement; personality and social determinants of behavior; biological and psychological basis of learning and memory.
Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the basic statistical principles. Topics include variables and graphs, frequency distributions; mean, median, mode and other measures of central tendencies; standard deviation and other measures of dispersion; elementary probability theory; tests of hypothesis and significance; small sampling theory; chi square tests, curve fitting and the method
Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the basic principles of accounting. Topics include the recording of transactions; the accounting term; assets and liabilities; preparation of financial statements; analysis of financial data as applied-to-sole proprietorships, partnerships and corporations.
Examines the basic institutions of society: the family, religion, education, the state and political order; social classes, stratification, bureaucracy, population and social change.
LAS 52184World History I: Prehistory to Renaissance (1500 AD)
At the end of this course students will be able to demonstrate comprehension and knowledge of the economic, political, social, and cultural developments that created early civilizations. The course presents world history through an analysis of five (5) topics, including: 1) Human Origins and Human Cultures; 2) Settling Down: Rise of the Village Community and the City-State; 3) Empire and Imperialism; 4) Rise of World Religions; 5) Movement of Goods (Trade) and People (Migration).
LAS 52284World History II: From the Renaissance (1500 AD) to the Present
At the end of this course students will be able to demonstrate comprehension and knowledge of the economic, political, social, and cultural developments that created contemporary civilizations. The course presents world history through an analysis of the following seven topics: 1) Nature of the Global Economy and Geopolitics in the 16th Century; 2) Economic Growth, Religion and Migration; 3) Industrial, Social and Political Revolutions in Europe and throughout the Americas; 4) Technological Inno NOTE: Although World History I is not a prerequisite to taking World History II, it is advisable that students take World History I prior to taking World History II.
This is a survey course on the social, cultural, and political development of Western Civilization. Topics include: the ancient Near East; the civilization of the Greeks and Romans; European Civilization in the middle ages; the Age of Renaissance; the Age of Reformation; concept of the Nation-State and the search for order in the seventeenth century; the scientific revolution and the emergence of modern science.
LAS 54183American Literature: Multi-cultural Perspectives
This course is a survey of English and American literature featuring both the classics and contemporary American writings in English, including by African American and Latino writers. The course will deal with English and American literary traditions such as the “gilded age”, African-American Renaissance, the American novel, Immigrant novel, magic reality, cultural identifications, celebrations and rituals, the role of the oral traditions and their transmission and transformation in written work
