VICO 3922 - Synthesis Commercial Project for Visual Communication

• Successful participants will gain an understanding of the planning, production, publishing, and running of a commercial-based media organization.

VICO 3923 - Synthesis Design Project For Visual Communication

• Successful participants will gain an understanding of the planning, production, publishing, and running of a journalism-based media organization.

VICO 3924 - Synthesis Multimedia Project For Visual Communication

• Successful participants will gain an understanding of the planning, production, publishing, and running of a journalism-based media organization.

VICO 4001 - Semester in DC: Covering Washington DC

• Student will be able to demonstrate critical analytical and thinking skills to be applied in the shaping of reportage in Washington, DC.
• Students will be able demonstrate an understanding of the professional practices of their major.

VICO 4004X - Semester in D.C.: Data Visualization

VICO 4005X - Semester in D.C.: Image

VICO 4009X - Semester in D.C.: Social Media

VICO 4112 - Illustration Capstone: Advanced Informational Graphics

• Successful learners will be able to demonstrate mastery of application of informational graphics techniques with emphasis on design and production for both print and electronic formats.

VICO 4188 - Interactive Capstone: Advanced Interactive Media

• Successful learners will demonstrate a mastery of interactive media planning, production, user-interface, and information architecture using content management, and delivery across emerging platforms.

VICO 4200 - Video Capture for Commercial Photography

• Post production output.
• Successful students will demonstrate the ability to create short-length video clips similar to those used by the advertising industry, including commercial products, food, fashion, architecture, and interior design.
• Use of pan and dolly shots.

VICO 4227 - Commercial Photography IV: Business and Studio Practices

• Successful learners will be able to demonstrate mastery of advanced studio practices and commercial photography business management.

VICO 4229 - Advanced Photographic Illustration: Applications

• Successful learners will be able to demonstrate a mastery of the business and creative aspects of running a commercial photography business.

VICO 4321 - Documentary and Essay Photojournalism

• Successful learners will demonstrate a mastery of the documentary photography skills manifest in the social, anthropological, and journalistic investigation of contemporary issues.

VICO 4386 - Photojournalism Capstone

• Successful learners will be able to demonstrate mastery of the photojournalistic story including design, writing, audio, and both still and motion imagery to produce complete communication packages for both print and electronic delivery.

VICO 4387 - Advanced Photographic Reportage

• Successful learners will apply design and photojournalism skills to produce a prototype magazine publication.

VICO 4470 - Graphics Systems Management

• Successful learners will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the visual communication systems.

VICO 4492H - Visual Communication Honors Project

• Successful learners will be able to demonstrate mastery of the specific topic of the project.

VICO 4900 - Special Topics in Visual Communication

• Students will increase their knowledge in Visual Communication.

VICO 4902 - Semester in DC: Seminar I

• Students will be able to demonstrate critical thinking and analytical skills to be applied to the special topics seminar.
• Students will be able to apply skills learned in this special topics seminar to their career choice.

VICO 4903 - Semester in DC: Seminar II

• Students will be able to demonstrate critical thinking and analytical skills to be applied to the special topics seminar.
• Students will be able to apply skills learned in this special topics seminar to their career choice.

VICO 4904 - Semester in DC: Seminar III

• Students will be able to demonstrate critical thinking and analytical skills to be applied to the special topics seminar.
• Students will be able to apply skills learned in this special topics seminar to their career choice.

VICO 4926 - Scripps in DC Semester: Practicum

• Students will be able to apply professional skills related to their career goals.

VICO 4926X - Semester in D.C.: Practicum

VICO 4930 - Individual Study

• Successful learners will demonstrate mastery of the agreed upon topic.

WOL 1110 - Elementary Wolof I

• Demonstrate an understanding of basic spoken sentences and conversation.
• Have some knowledge of Wolof culture.
• Make simple description of their immediate environment.
• To identity objects, animals and people around them.
• Understand written short essay in Wolof on familiar topics and activities such as family, time of the day, likes and dislikes and routine activities.
• Use appropriate gestures and Wolof expressions for greetings, leave takings and common classroom interaction.
• Utilize present progressive, habitual present and past tense with some inaccuracies.

WOL 1120 - Elementary Wolof II

• Develop a more comprehensive understanding of written text in Wolof on familiar topics.
• Engage in both written and spoken Wolof on familiar topics and activities.
• Engage in oral exchanges to obtain information such as directions, transportation and price.
• Interview Wolof speakers in their community about familiar topics such as food and taboos in Senegal.
• Prepare and present short announcements in Wolof.
• Use cultural appropriate Wolof expressions to initiate and sustain conversation on familiar topics.
• Utilize present progressive, habitual present, past tense, future tense and object pronouns.
• Write clear and coherent longer essays about familiar topics like eating habits in Senegal, diseases, etc.

WOL 2110 - Intermediate Wolof I

• Broaden their knowledge of the Wolof culture.
• Compare and contrast entities in Wolof.
• Engage in Wolof role-play situations where they request and receive information, goods, and services, such as going to a restaurant and ordering a dress to the tailor.
• Initiate and converse with ease and confidence longer conversation on a variety of topics such as family values in Senegal and caste system.
• Narrate and describe with more details using connected paragraphs.
• Share opinions, preferences and feelings in Wolof.
• To be understood by native speakers.
• Understand movies or documentaries from Wolof land.

WOL 2120 - Intermediate Wolof II

• Connect and relate their acquired knowledge of Wolof cultures to their own cultures.
• Demonstrate appropriate cultural behaviors in Wolof culture.
• Expand their ability to make cross-cultural comparisons.
• Expand their knowledge of other subject areas, such as gender, politics and economy.
• Produce passages in written Wolof of medium length on everyday and some specialized topics.
• Read, watch, listen and respond to authentic texts.
• Recognize and develop an awareness of social customs in the Wolof speaking world; topics may include family life, folklore, and typical holidays, such as Korite, Tabaski, Tamxarit (Tamkharite), Gàmmu (Gamou) and Màggal (Magal).
• Report in Wolof, either orally or in writing, on topics being studied in other classes.
• Use Wolof to discuss current issues or historical events like election.
• Write sustained compositions in Wolof.

WOL 2900 - Special Topics in Wolof

• Students will increase their knowledge in Wolof.

WGSS 1000 - Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

• Students will emerge with a grounding in fundamental concepts in feminist theory, and be able to apply their learning to analyses of culture and politics in the context of gender and sexuality.

WGSS 1000A - Honors Experience: Introduction to Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

WGSS 2000 - Issues in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

• Students will engage with fundamental concepts in feminist theory as a way of applying their learning to specific issues. In addition, students will learn to synthesize key concepts through frequent writing assignments.

WGSS 2100 - Women, Gender, and Rock and Roll

• Students will gain an understanding of the relationship between race, sexual identity, class and gender in contemporary feminism through the study of popular culture.
• Students will gain an understanding of the role that culture plays in constituting popular understandings of issues central to feminism including gender equity, violence against women, and sexuality.
• Students will gain an understanding of the three waves of feminism and the role that popular culture has played in challenging as well as maintaining sex and gender norms in each period.

WGSS 2200 - Introduction to LGBTQ Studies

• Analyze power in terms of individual, structural, and institutionalized forms of oppression as well as in relation to social justice and personal agency.
• Apply “queer” as a method with which to address and critique hegemonic ideologies that privilege normativity and assimilation.
• Apply the principles of queer theory to analyses of culture and politics in the context of sexuality.
• Demonstrate an introductory-level knowledge of social, cultural, and legal histories of LGBTQ peoples and movements.
• Distinguish between a classroom community that critically and respectfully examines topics, issues, and debates in LGBTQ Studies and one that does not.
• Identify fundamental concepts in feminist and queer theory.
• Recognize the ways in which race, class, culture, disability, and age intersect with sexuality and gender to create systems of hierarchy, privilege, and oppression, as well as different intersectional experiences within these systems.

WGSS 2800 - LGBTQ Media Action: Advocacy, News, and Praxis

• Students will be able to employ and apply queer media literacy to texts both consumed and produced.
• Students will be able to apply feminist, queer, and cultural theory into the critical production of texts.
• Students will be able to construct rigorous content that is also productive for the LGBTQ+ community.
• Students will be able to critically examine cultural standards of truth and objectivity from a queer and feminist standpoint.
• Students will be able to plan, design, and construct texts on LGBTQ+ subjects in multiple formats.

WGSS 2900 - Special Topics in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

• Students will increase their knowledge in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies.

WGSS 2970T - WGSS Non-Thesis Tutorial First Year

• Students will be able to communicate effectively in gender studies, both within the discipline and to a wider audience.
• Students will be able to work effectively with difficult, multi-dimensional concepts and subjects within gender studies.
• Students will be equipped to pursue independent research within gender studies.
• Students will develop a sophisticated understanding of selected topics in gender studies.

WGSS 2971T - WGSS Non-Thesis Tutorial Second Year

• Students will be able to communicate effectively in gender studies, both within the discipline and to a wider audience.
• Students will be able to work effectively with difficult, multi-dimensional concepts and subjects within gender studies.
• Students will be equipped to pursue independent research within gender studies.
• Students will develop a sophisticated understanding of selected topics in gender studies.

WGSS 2980T - WGSS Non-Thesis Tutorial First Year

• Students will be able to communicate effectively in gender studies, both within the discipline and to a wider audience.
• Students will be able to work effectively with difficult, multi-dimensional concepts and subjects within gender studies.
• Students will be equipped to pursue independent research within gender studies.
• Students will develop a sophisticated understanding of selected topics in gender studies.

WGSS 2981T - WGSS Non-Thesis Tutorial Second Year

• Students will be able to communicate effectively in gender studies, both within the discipline and to a wider audience.
• Students will be able to work effectively with difficult, multi-dimensional concepts and subjects within gender studies.
• Students will be equipped to pursue independent research within gender studies.
• Students will develop a sophisticated understanding of selected topics in gender studies.

WGSS 3200 - Sexual Revolutions

• Students will gain an understanding of these historical events through analysis of autobiographical accounts, feminist theoretical critiques, cultural critiques, and literary works.
• Students will investigate the shifting definitions of “normative” sexuality throughout the past century.

WGSS 3500 - Feminist Theory

• Students will understand, synthesize, and analyze a wide range of challenging intellectual concepts. Writing to learn, research skills, and introduction to methodologies are central.

WGSS 3810J - Writing Gender

• Students will complicate the idea that identities can be written in uniform and distinct ways.
• Students will develop skills to critique their own and others’ ideas.
• Students will develop their critical awareness of ways in which assumptions are reflected in writing.
• Students will learn to view and use writing as a constant dialogue between emerging, complex identities and social institutions.
• Students will realize the power of writing to establish, disrupt, and persuade.
• Students will theorize their own experiences of class, gender, race, sexuality, etc.
• Students will use writing as a tool for learning.
• Students will use writing to investigate issues related to women and gender.

WGSS 3910 - Internship in Women’s and Gender Studies

• Students will gain an understanding of feminist practice as it relates to the work world.
• Students will gain experience in community outreach settings.
• Students will gain skills in integrating theory and practice.

WGSS 3970T - WGSS Non-Thesis Tutorial Third Year

• Students will be able to communicate effectively in gender studies, both within the discipline and to a wider audience.
• Students will be able to work effectively with difficult, multi-dimensional concepts and subjects within gender studies.
• Students will be equipped to pursue independent research within gender studies.
• Students will develop a sophisticated understanding of selected topics in gender studies.

WGSS 3980T - WGSS Non-Thesis Tutorial Third Year

• Students will be able to communicate effectively in gender studies, both within the discipline and to a wider audience.
• Students will be able to work effectively with difficult, multi-dimensional concepts and subjects within gender studies.
• Students will be equipped to pursue independent research within gender studies.
• Students will develop a sophisticated understanding of selected topics in gender studies.

WGSS 4100 - Global Feminisms

• Students can discuss particular issues that confront women in non-Western contexts.
• Students can discuss the importance of colonial relationships and independence movements in understanding contemporary feminism.
• Students can identify the role of different actors in addressing women’s concerns. (states, transnational organizations, grassroots organizations, etc.)
• Students gain an understanding of the development of organizations to confront these issues.
• Students gain an understanding of the relationship between Western and non-Western feminism.
• Students identify ways that non-Western feminisms are contributing to and challenging contemporary Western feminism.

WGSS 4110 - Women and Globalization

• Students will explore the relationship between globalization and local, national, and international economics.
• Students will gain an understanding of the impact of sex trafficking on women’s lives and its relationship to gender in general.
• Students will gain an understanding of the relationship between globalization and the social status of women.
• Students will gain an understanding of women’s health issues.
• Students will learn to think globally.

WGSS 4500 - Advanced Feminist Theory

• Students will enhance their understanding of basic feminist methodologies.
• Students will understand, synthesize, and analyze a wide range of challenging theoretical concepts.
• Students will write to learn; research skills are a focus.

WGSS 4600 - Gender, Sexuality, and Culture

• Students learn to use effectively a basic vocabulary of key terms in cultural and aesthetic analysis.
• Students will theorize the relationship between gender, sexuality and culture through close analysis of texts from diverse disciplines and media.
• Through discussion, short essays, and essay exams, students sharpen their abilities to read and interpret artistic, historical, and theoretical texts.

WGSS 4610 - Queer Theory

• Students learn to apply key terms and concepts in queer theory across intellectual disciplines.
• Students understand, synthesize, and analyze a wide range of challenging theoretical concepts.
• Students will write to learn; research skills are a focus.

WGSS 4800 - Capstone in Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies

• Students will develop research skills and be required to meet periodic research goals.
• Students will learn revision skills.
• Students will learn to produce an abstract, an outline, and a literature review.
• Students will produce a major scholarly paper.

WGSS 4820 - Capstone in LGBTQ Studies

• Students will develop research skills and be required to meet periodic research goals.
• Students will learn revision skills.
• Students will learn to produce an abstract, an outline, and a literature review.
• Students will produce a major scholarly paper.

WGSS 4900 - Special Topics in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies

• Students will be able to describe the role of gender and sexuality in social meanings and practices.
• Students will be able to recognize gender as a system of social relationships and shared practices that shape understandings of concepts such as masculinity, femininity, gay, straight, bi, and trans.
• Students will be able to differentiate the terms sex, sexuality and gender as they are conventionally used in scientific, cultural and political practices.
• Students will be able to compare and contrast gendered meanings and practices across different cultural, historical and structural contexts.
• Students will be able to identify gender and sexuality as systems of social relationships practiced differently in different social and cultural contexts.
• Students will be able to identify intersections between gender and other systems of organized privilege¿race, class, sexuality, religion, ethnicity, for example.
• Students will be able to critically evaluate the respective roles of sex, gender and sexuality in existing social orders and articulate normative conventions and alternatives.
• Students will be able to identify and evaluate a range of humanist, feminist, post-feminist and queer normative arguments.

WGSS 4930 - Independent Reading

• Students will meet the requirements of the independent reading as approved by the instructor.

WGSS 4970T - WGSS Thesis Tutorial

• Students will be able to communicate effectively in gender studies, both within the discipline and to a wider audience.
• Students will be able to work effectively with difficult, multi-dimensional concepts and subjects within gender studies.
• Students will be equipped to pursue independent research within gender studies.
• Students will develop a sophisticated understanding of selected topics in gender studies.

WGSS 4980T - WGSS Thesis Tutorial

• Students will be able to communicate effectively in gender studies, both within the discipline and to a wider audience.
• Students will be able to work effectively with difficult, multi-dimensional concepts and subjects within gender studies.
• Students will be equipped to pursue independent research within gender studies.
• Students will develop a sophisticated understanding of selected topics in gender studies.

WGSS 4990H - Honors Project

• Students complete a thesis in accordance with the Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program and College of Arts and Sciences honors thesis guidelines.

ZULU 1110 - Elementary Zulu I

• The student will be able to formulate greetings in IsiZulu and introduce themselves, as well as say goodbye according to the circumstances.
• The student will acquire knowledge about culture and would be able to identify some Zulu values and beliefs. This will enable to relate the Zulu culture with their everyday experiences.
• The students will be able to demonstrate knowledge of basic sentence structure, such as affirmative/ negative/ active voice and passive voice and vocabulary related to nationality, numbers, time, days and basic objectives.

ZULU 1120 - Elementary Zulu II

• The student will be able to demonstrate her/ his knowledge of basic vocabulary, language structure and usage.
• The students will be able to understand formal dialogues and read related texts from the textbooks.

ZULU 2110 - Intermediate Zulu I

• The student will be able to put across her or his own perspective and ask for opinions from other people to create a more interesting discussion.
• The student will be able to understand more complex structures through conversations, radio podcasts, sitcoms, clips, cartoon and authentic texts from magazines and newspapers.
• The students will be able to demonstrate how to engage in a conversation and elaborate on the given topic into a more multifaceted discussion.

ZULU 2120 - Intermediate Zulu II

• : The student will be able to understand more complex structures through conversations, radio podcasts, sitcoms, clips, cartoon and authentic texts from magazines and newspapers.
• The student will be able to put across her or his own perspective and ask for opinions from other people to create a more interesting discussion.
• The students will be able to demonstrate how to engage in a conversation and elaborate on the given topic into a more multifaceted discussion.