Mar 29, 2024  
2019-2020 Graduate Catalog 
    
2019-2020 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Offerings


 

Education

  
  • EDUC 772 - International Perspectives on Disability


    Prerequisites, EDUC 750 , Ph.D. in education major. This course examines disability related issues from an international lens. Specifically, issues such as cultural construction of disability, participation in inclusive and exclusive communities, disability related declarations, laws and policy development, organizations, educational practices, and international partnerships and collaborative projects are explored. Candidates are encouraged to establish relationships with a variety of international disability related public and private organizations in this course. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • EDUC 774 - The Art and Science of Teaching in Higher Education


    Prerequisite, Ph.D. in education major. This course examines the responsibilities, challenges, and realities of teaching in the academy. Particular attention is paid to pedagogy that facilitates learning and the development of socially conscious, ethical, and reflective practitioners, through exploration and diverse styles of discourse. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • EDUC 774S - The Art and Science of Teaching in Higher Education


    Prerequisite, Shanghai Normal University student in the Ph.D. in education major. This course examines the responsibilities, challenges, and realities of teaching in the academy. Particular attention is paid to pedagogy that facilitates learning and the development of socially conscious, ethical, and reflective practitioners, through exploration and diverse styles of discourse. Some sections of this course may be taught as a hybrid course. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • EDUC 775 - Supervision and Mentoring in Higher Education


    Prerequisites, EDUC 774, Ph.D. in education major. This course provides students with structured opportunities to co-teach or teach a course under the direct supervision of a faculty member in the Attallah College of Educational Studies. May be repeated up to 3 terms. (Offered as needed.) 1 credit
  
  • EDUC 776 - Current Controversies in Disability Studies


    Prerequisite, Ph.D. in education major. This course will identify and examine current issues, controversies, trends, and emerging theory and practice in the field of disability and the implications these have for the field, educational leaders and the people they serve, and other stakeholders. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • EDUC 777 - Seminar on Families, Schools, and Community Support


    Prerequisite, Ph.D. in education major. Drawing upon the perspectives of families, schools, and the general culture, this course will explore the multiple intersections of family and disability history, educational issues, and personal perspectives This course will focus on the relationships between educators (and other professionals) and families of children with disabilities. The current research on building relationships that work collaboratively to increase the capacity of families and schools to support inclusive approaches to education and community participation for all students will be examined. The growing diversity of families (e.g., structure, race, cultural heritage and values) and how this affects home-school interactions will be discussed. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • EDUC 778 - Advanced Seminar in History of Disability Studies


    Prerequisite, Ph.D. in education major. This course will use the history of disability and special education to explore how disability studies develops a critical and interdisciplinary framework within which to interpret the meanings of disability in American culture. The main purpose of the course is to provide a historical context for approaching contemporary issues in the education and support of people with disabilities and their families. A secondary purpose of the course is to familiarize students with methods for the retrieval and critical interpretation of primary historical source material. The course will draw upon both the intellectual and social history of disability. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • EDUC 779 - Curriculum and Policy Studies


    Prerequisite, Ph.D. in education major. This course advances the understanding of contemporary theoretical underpinnings of curriculum and educational policy within cultural and historical boundaries, and explores alternative models of curriculum theory and policy analysis. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • EDUC 780 - Critical Pedagogies in Curriculum


    Prerequisite, Ph.D. in education major. Critical pedagogy takes as a central concern the issue of power in the teaching and learning context. This course focuses on how and in whose interests knowledge is produced and “passed on” and views the ideal aims of education as emancipatory through the lenses of major critical theorists. The focus is on social injustice and how to transform inequitable, undemocratic, or oppressive institutions and social relations. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • EDUC 781 - Curriculum, Culture and Politics


    Prerequisite, Ph.D. in education major. This course focuses on the contemporary issues, trends, and research findings in Curriculum Studies. A major goal of this course is to stimulate thoughtful practice about and engage in politically sensitive curriculum inquiry. Through our various readings, we will explore ways that politics interfaces and drives educational practice in the United States and what motivates the policies that educators deal with day to day. It also encourages students to take positions on these issues and write about them convincingly using references to support stated arguments. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • EDUC 782 - Socially Just Ideology and Democratic Education


    Prerequisite, Ph.D. in education major. This course examines various approaches to conceptualizing, interpreting, and operationalizing social justice. The course will review the historical development of the concept of social justice in an inter-disciplinary manner. Particular attention will be given to the ways institutions, such as higher education and other traditions have theorized and operationalized social justice, including a global perspective. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • EDUC 783 - Advanced Comparative Analysis of Educational Systems


    Prerequisite, Ph.D. in education major. This course builds on knowledge and skills acquired in the Inquiry Core, by taking as its focus a critical examination of the theories and methodologies commonly used in the field of comparative education. Applying these theories and methodologies to the critical analysis of educational problems and ways that they have been solved in other nations provides the basis for a fresh approach to policymaking and reform in the U.S. Both developed and developing nations will be examined in terms of the critical issues facing their systems of schooling. This course can be linked to a semester of study and research in another country, leading to further advanced work in comparative education. The course project - a carefully developed research design - may also serve as the first step in a dissertation proposal for those students who become interested in comparative education as their area of specialization within the CCS emphasis. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • EDUC 784 - Current Controversies in Education: Cultural and Curricular Studies


    Prerequisite, Ph.D. in education major. This course will identify and examine current issues, trends, controversies, and emerging theory and practice in the field of cultural and curriculum studies and the implications these have for the field, for educational leaders, for the people they serve, and for other stakeholders. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • EDUC 785 - Seminar in Cultural and Curricular Studies


    Prerequisite, Ph.D. in education major. This course examines the intersectionalities between and among cultural and curricular issues within the field of education. Course content is dependent upon the focus of both the instructor and the students. This focus is deeply integrated with the student’s dissertation research, adding to the substantial scholarship in particular fields. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • EDUC 789 - Individual Study


    Prerequisite, Ph.D. in education major. This course will be an independent research project conducted by a Ph.D. student under the supervision of an Attallah College faculty member. May be repeated for credit. (Offered as needed.) 1-3 credits
  
  • EDUC 793 - Selected Topics in Dissertation Research


    Prerequisites, advancement to Candidacy in the Ph.D. Program in Education, consent of Program Director. Corequisite, EDUC 798  or EDUC 798S . This is a series of one-unit classes in specialized subjects while students are conducting their dissertation research. Topics include, but are not limited to: literature reviews, research methodology, validity and reliability, post hoc data analysis, data displays, sampling error, working effectively with dissertation committee members, dissertation preparation, dissertation defense, preparation for publication, IRB closeout, and selected problems in dissertation research. P/NP. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1 credit
  
  • EDUC 793S - Selected Topics in Dissertation Research


    Prerequisites, advancement to Candidacy, Shanghai Normal University student in the Ph.D. in education major, consent of Program Director. Corequisite, EDUC 798  or EDUC 798S . This is a series of one-unit classes in specialized subjects while students are conducting their dissertation research. Topics include, but are not limited to: literature reviews, research methodology, validity and reliability, post hoc data analysis, data displays, sampling error, working effectively with dissertation committee members, dissertation preparation, dissertation defense, preparation for publication, IRB closeout, and selected problems in dissertation research. Some sections of this course may be taught as a hybrid course. P/NP. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1 credit
  
  • EDUC 797 - Preparing for the Ph.D. in Education Dissertation


    Prerequisites, consent of instructor. Required for students working to complete their doctoral program if they are not enrolled in any other PhD courses and have not yet advanced to candidacy. This course will fulfill the requirement to maintain continuous enrollment until advancement to candidacy and allows access to university research resources needed to complete qualifying exams and dissertation proposals. P/NP. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1 credit
  
  • EDUC 798 - Dissertation Research


    Prerequisite, advancement to Candidacy in the Ph.D. Program in Education. This independent research study culminates in doctoral dissertation. 10 credits taken in two consecutive semesters, (5 credits per semester) or with approval by the Ph.D. Director 10 credits may be taken in one semester. P/NP. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 5-10 credits
  
  • EDUC 798S - Dissertation Research


    Prerequisite, advancement to Candidacy, Shanghai Normal University student in the Ph.D. in education major. This independent research study culminates in doctoral dissertation. 10 credits taken in two consecutive semesters, (5 credits per semester) or with approval by the Ph.D. Director 10 credits may be taken in one semester. Some sections of this course may be taught as a hybrid course. P/NP. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 5-10 credits
  
  • EDUC 799 - Dissertation Research Continuation


    Prerequisite, advancement to Candidacy in the Ph.D. Program in Education. This independent research study is taken if after 10 credits the dissertation is not completed. Students must remain enrolled by taking 1 credit of EDUC 799 or EDUC 799S  per semester until dissertation is finished. P/NP. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1 credit
  
  • EDUC 799S - Dissertation Research Continuation


    Prerequisite, advancement to Candidacy, Shanghai Normal University student in the Ph.D. in education major. This independent research study is taken if after 10 credits the dissertation is not completed. Students must remain enrolled by taking 1 credit of EDUC 799  or EDUC 799S per semester until dissertation is finished. Some sections of this course may be taught as a hybrid course. P/NP. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1 credit

English

  
  • ENG 500 - Advanced Topics in Rhetoric and Composition


    Prerequisite, graduate standing at Chapman University. An opportunity for in-depth study, this course may focus on a single theme, historical period, or group of rhetoricians. Possible topics include Early Rhetoric (Greek, Roman, early Christian, medieval and scholastic; Meso-American); Chinese Rhetorics; History of Rhetoric from the English Renaissance to Today; the Rhetoric of the American Slavery Debate; History of Women Rhetoricians; the Rhetoric of Technology; Queer Rhetorics; Chicana/o Rhetorics; World Englishes; Disability Studies and Composition. May be repeated for credit with different emphasis. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 503 - Techniques in Writing Fiction


    Prerequisite, graduate creative writing, or dual degree. Students learn the basic techniques necessary to produce publishable fiction. Course may vary by genre from semester to semester. Techniques of fiction may include plot development, viewpoint selection, three-dimensional characterization, effective dialogue, scene and summary, settings, and theme. Lecture and workshop combined. May be repeated for credit with consent of the department. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 504 - Techniques in Poetry Writing


    Prerequisite, graduate creative writing, or dual degree. Students learn, practice, and analyze the basic techniques necessary to write and revise poetry and to understand their options as members of the larger community of poets. Course topics may vary from year to year. Techniques of poetry may include sound, voice, imagery, metaphor, narrative, traditional forms, and writing processes. Lecture and workshop combined. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 505 - Advanced Workshop in Poetry Writing


    Prerequisite, graduate creative writing, or dual degree. Students discuss, critique, and revise their writing in order to produce poems for submission to literary journals and poetry publishers. Students examine the conventions of various forms, poetry movements, and individual poets to determine the areas within they choose to work. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 506A - Advanced Workshop in Writing Fiction


    Prerequisite, graduate creative writing, or dual degree major. Students discuss, critique, and revise their writing in order to produce fiction for submission to journals and/or publishers. Students examine the conventions of various forms, genres, and works of other fiction writers to determine the areas within they choose to work. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 506B - Advanced Workshop in Writing Fiction: The Short Story


    Prerequisite, graduate creative writing, or dual degree major. Students discuss, critique, and revise their writing in order to produce stories for submission to journals and magazines. Students examine the conventions of various forms, genres, and works of other story writers in relation to their own work. May be repeated for credit. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 506C - Advanced Workshop in Writing Fiction: The Novel


    Prerequisite, graduate creative writing, or dual degree major. Students discuss, critique, and revise their writing in order to produce chapters of a novel for submission to agents and/or publishers. Students examine the conventions of various forms, genres, and works of other novelists to determine the areas within they choose to work. May be repeated for credit. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 507 - Literary Forum: Tabula Poetica Poetry Reading Series/Mentoring Series


    Prerequisite, admission to the MA in English, MFA in creative writing, or the dual-degree program. The Tabula Poetica Literary Forum brings three strands of English studies–literature, creative writing, and rhetoric–together in one graduate-level course. Students read and discuss contemporary poetry as literature while focusing particularly on works of visiting writers in the Tabula Poetica lecture and reading series. In addition, this course participates in the Chapman University/Orange High School Literacies Partnership; as such, students also study both rhetorical and pedagogical strategies to mentor high school students from diverse linguistic and socio-economic backgrounds as the high school students, too, engage with the work of the poets in the series and also generate their own creative writing. May be repeated for credit. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 509 - Literary Forum: John Fowles Center Contemporary Writers Core


    Prerequisite, admission to the MA in English, MFA in creative writing, or the dual degree program. Literary Forum studies six contemporary authors and their work in conjunction with a lecture and reading series sponsored by the John Fowles Center for Creative Writing. Lectures and/or readings conducted by novelists, poets, critics, screenwriters, and creative non-fiction writers held every year during the spring semester and the reading and analysis assignments are based on the visiting writers’ works. This course will focus not only on the series’ writers, but on contemporary writing in general both in the Americas and in Europe. May be repeated for credit. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 512 - TAB: A Journal of Poetry and Poetics


    Prerequisites, ENG 504 , ENG 505 , or consent of instructor. Students learn the editing, production, and publicity cycles of an online/print journal. Students are trained to participate in the evaluation of submitted manuscripts of poems and poetics, in the design and production of the online and print issues, and in the dissemination of the published issues. Additional practice in website maintenance and other related professionalization may be included. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 513 - Major Directors and/or Screenwriters


    A seminar designed to approach major film directors and/or screenwriters and the films and scripts associated with their work. Some directors, such as Luis Buñuel, worked closely with specific screenwriters (e.g. Jean-Claude Carrière) and in that sense both film and script will be discussed. In other situations, such as with Jean-Luc Godard and Federico Fellini, the director may also have been the writer. In some cases, we may focus on the work of a particular screenwriter such as Waldo Salt (Midnight Cowboy) or Buck Henry (The Graduate). Regardless, the course would focus on one particular director or screenwriter in an attempt to critically analyze their work from an aesthetic perspective. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 514 - Topics in British Literature Before 1840


    This course encourages in-depth study of British literature and culture before 1840. ENG 514 employs a topical or thematic approach, focusing on a particular theme, writer, genre, and/or group of writers. Possible foci might include: monsters and magic in medieval literature, early modern epic, 18th century women writers, or sex/gender and race in early modern England. ENG 514 may be repeated for credit with a different emphasis. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 515 - Topics in British Literature After 1840


    This course encourages in-depth study of the literature and culture of Britain after 1850. ENG 515 employs a topical or thematic approach, focusing on a particular theme, writer, genre, and/or group of writers. Possible foci include the Gothic novel, literature of WWI and WWII, James Joyce’s Ulysses, or postcolonial fiction. ENG 515 may be repeated for credit with a different emphasis. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 516 - Topics in Literary and Cultural Studies


    In this course, students investigate significant themes and movements in literature and culture. Topics may cross periods, genres, and national traditions. Topics vary: may be repeated for credit with a different focus. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 518 - Techniques in Creative Nonfiction


    Prerequisites, graduate standing, admission to the MFA in creative writing or dual degree MA in English/MFA in Creative Writing. Students learn the basic techniques necessary to produce publishable creative nonfiction. Course may vary by genre from semester to semester. Techniques of nonfiction may include research, narrative arc, viewpoint selection, scene and summary, settings, and theme. Lecture and workshop combined. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 519 - Advanced Workshop in Creative Nonfiction


    Prerequisite, graduate standing. Students discuss, criticize, and evaluate their writing in order to produce a publishable work. Students work within their chosen genre and form, and the guidelines of various genres and forms are examined. May be repeated for credit with a different topic. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 520 - Topics in American Literature Before 1870


    This course encourages in-depth study of the literature and culture of the U.S. before 1870. ENG 520 employs a topical or thematic approach, focusing on a particular theme, writer, genre, and/or group of writers. Possible foci include the literature of the American Renaissance, the Civil War, or the rise of the 19th-century American woman writer. ENG 520 may be repeated for credit with a different emphasis. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 521 - Humanities Computing


    A graduate-level introduction to the digital humanities that blends theory and practice in computing for humanities disciplines. Students explore the current state of digital humanities research, the history and future of games, the rise and current iterations of new media, and fundamental principles of computing. This course is appropriate for all majors and minors, especially those in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 522 - Topics in American Literature After 1870


    This course encourages in-depth study of the literature and culture of the U.S. after 1870. ENG 522 employs a topical or thematic approach, focusing on a particular theme, writer, genre, and/or group of writers. Possible foci include American realism, the literature of the Gilded Age, literature of WWI and WWII, Asian American Literature, the emergence of Modernism and Postmodernism. ENG 522 may be repeated for credit with a different emphasis. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 525 - Graduate and Professional ESL


    Advanced instruction in English as a second language for graduate and professional students from throughout the University. Students will review representative examples of academic and professional writing, and complete assignments designed to assist students in modeling such writing. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 529 - Experimental Course


    (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 540 - Techniques in Screenwriting


    Prerequisite, graduate creative writing, or dual degree. Fundamentals of writing a feature screenplay including, but not limited to, character, plot, theme and dialogue. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 541 - Readings in War and Literature


    Prerequisite, graduate creative writing, or dual degree, or English, or war and society major. This course explores literary depictions of war and of war’s impact on society from multiple perspectives. The course incorporates literary theory to explore the perspectives of combatants, non-combatants, veterans, the home front, and/or later generations. How can we read literature as history or about history? Course topic might be organized around the literature of a particular military conflict, around an issue across wars depicted in literature, or around a particular genre’s depiction of war, such as novels or poetry. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 542 - Creative Writing and the Archive


    Prerequisite, creative writing, or English, or war and society major. Students will work with archival materials housed at Chapman University and appropriate to their degree program, such as The Center of American War Letters, the Rodgers Center for Holocaust Education, the Huell Howser Collection, the Mendez et al. vs. Westminster et al. Collection, the Messerli Collection of Literature, or other archival materials. Students will examine the materiality of the texts themselves, the conventions of language the texts employ, the writing techniques used, and the subject matter of the archive. Based on this research, students will produce their own original creative writing and/or digital media projects. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 543 - Written War/Writing War


    Prerequisite, graduate creative writing, or dual degree, or English, or war and society major. Students will read literary texts to understand how war has been written by creative writers and/or by letter-writers during the conflict. Students will focus on issues of writing craft to examine the conventions of language, the narrative voice, the writing techniques, and the subject matter of selected literary-historical texts. Based on their reading, students will produce their own original creative writing (fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, play), scholarly or critical essay, and/or digital media project. This course may focus on one war or one genre across wars or may work directly and exclusively with The Center for American War Letters. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 545 - Major Authors


    Prerequisite, admission to graduate standing at Chapman University. Students concentrate on the writings of either one significant author or a group of authors who can be profitably studied together. Examples of major figures include, but are not limited to, Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Pope, Swift, Johnson, Keats, Dickens, Hawthorne, Melville, Pound, Eliot, Woolf, Joyce, Proust, Kazantzakis, and Faulkner. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 546 - Special Studies in Literature


    Students concentrate on one area - such as Restoration and 18th century drama or the epic poem. Credit may be arranged with an instructor for travel in a foreign country while studying the literature of that country. The travel-study courses, Experiencing England and the London Tour, are offered for ENG 546 credit. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every year.) 1-6 credits
  
  • ENG 547 - Topics in Comparative Literature


    Prerequisite, admission to the graduate program of the department of English. In this course, students investigate significant themes or movements in comparative literature. Recent themes have included Poetics of the Novel; Writers Writing from the Margin; Women in Love and Other Emotional States. Courses that treat different themes may be repeated for credit. (Offered alternate years.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 551 - Theories of Poetry


    Prerequisite, ENG 504 , or ENG 505 . This course focuses on theoretical approaches to the reading and writing of poetry. Students will read poetry and theory, from the historical or traditional to the experimental or avant-garde, and will respond/react/write about these texts in critical and experimental ways. (Offered alternate years.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 555 - Theater in England


    Prerequisite, consent of instructor. A three-week study of English theater, with a focus on Shakespearean drama but also including classical and modern plays, as well as musicals. Students will read, watch, and analyze between 8 and 12 plays while exploring the rich and vibrant city in which Shakespeare once lived and wrote. Plays and venues vary, but often include productions at Shakespeare’s Globe, the National Theatre, and a number of West End playhouses. Fee: TBD. (Offered summer, alternate years.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 556 - Literary Theory and Critical Practice: 1920-Present


    Prerequisite, admission to graduate program of the department of English. Focusing on important critical questions (the social and political role of literature; the formation of a literary canon), students explore modern critical theories and methodologies, including New Criticism; Structuralism; Feminism, Gender and Sexuality Studies; New Historicism; Marxism; Psychoanalysis; Deconstruction; Multicultural and Post-Colonial Studies. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 580 - Teaching Composition


    Prerequisite, admission to the MA in English, MFA in creative writing, or the dual-degree program. Participants will practice various techniques for helping student writers compose rhetorically persuasive discourse, perfect diagnostic and editing skills, design whole courses and individual programs for improvement and enhancement, and validate students’ progress. Students may visit current composition classes and/or observe writing tutoring sessions overseen by experienced Writing Center tutors. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 581 - Theory and Practice of Writing Tutoring and Conferencing


    Prerequisite, admission to the English MA, MFA, or MA/MFA programs. English 581 focuses on the theory and practice of writing conferences and writing center tutoring. Students in 581 will explore such topics as collaborative learning, social constructivist theories of composition, conference dynamics, tutoring strategies, the writing process, reflecting on writing conferences, discipline-specific writing, grammar as a rhetorical issue, responding to student writing, and the writing center’s role in the university. As part of the course, students will observe and participate in work at Chapman’s writing center. In addition to preparing students to tutor in a writing center, this course will also benefit students planning to teach composition in schools and colleges. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 582 - Composition Pedagogy and Research Practicum


    Prerequisite, ENG 580 . Open to all MA and MFA graduate students meeting the prerequisite. Required of ENG 103 Graduate Teaching Assistants in the English Department, and must be taken concurrently with the first semester of ENG 103 teaching assistantships. Ongoing professional development for composition teachers, including attention to current scholarship in the field of rhetoric and composition studies, pedagogical issues specific to teaching college composition, and development of action research projects. Seminar participants will participate in class observations, and, where applicable, get feedback on their own teaching. May be repeated for credit. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 584 - Introduction to Digital Humanities


    This graduate course will familiarize students with emerging technologies for text-based inquiry, research and expression. In addition to gaining an overview of the digital humanities, students will apply what they learn to the design of their own digital project. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 587 - Aspects of a Writer


    Prerequisite, graduate creative writing, or dual degree. Becoming a writer and cultivating a writing life involves more than being able to put good words on a page. A range of secondary skills are necessary for survival in today’s literary marketplace. This class is a primer on the basic support tools you’ll find crucial to the practice and teaching of writing. P/NP. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 590 - Independent Internship


    Students gain experience in the fields of business, industry or academe. Work assignments will relate to the major and may take place in law, editing and business offices, print production and retail firms, newspapers, libraries, schools, or brokerage companies. P/NP. May be repeated for credit. (Offered as needed.) ½-6 credits
  
  • ENG 594 - Seminar: Problems in Literary Analysis


    Prerequisite, admission to graduate program of the department of English. Designed to introduce students to the exciting variety of advanced forms of literary study of particular authors, this course will demonstrate the uses of limitations of scholarship, criticism, and aesthetics as tools of literary understanding. May be repeated for credit with a different focus. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 596 - Seminar: Film and Literary Studies


    Prerequisite, admission to the graduate program of the department of English, or consent of instructor. In this advanced study of the processes by which literature is turned into film and in which film is examined as literature, students might study representative screenplays by such screenwriters as Dudley Nichols, Jules Furthman, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Robert Towne, Dorothy Parker, and William Faulkner, and the films of directors such as Welles, Fellini, Ford, and Hawks. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 597A - MFA Thesis


    Prerequisites, consent of instructor, 33 credits in the MFA program, (including concurrent coursework), and at least nine (9) credits of advanced workshops (ENG 505 , ENG 506A ENG 506B ENG 506C , and/or ENG 519 . The thesis course is designed as the capstone experience of the MFA program and is required of all MFA candidates. The instructor serves as the candidate’s thesis advisor during the completion of a novel, collection of short fiction, or collection of poems. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 597B - MA Thesis


    Prerequisites, consent of instructor, 33 credits in the MA program, (including concurrent coursework), and at least three (3) credits of ENG 556 . The thesis course is designed as the capstone experience of the MA program and is required of all MA candidates. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
  
  • ENG 598A - MFA Thesis II


    Prerequisites, ENG 597A , consent of instructor. ENG 598A is required for candidates working to complete their MFA thesis if they are not enrolled in any other MFA electives. This course will fulfill the requirement to maintain continuous enrollment through completion of the MFA and allow access to university research resources needed to complete the thesis/project. Continuous enrollment required until completion of thesis/project. P/NP. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1 credit
  
  • ENG 598B - MA Thesis II


    Prerequisites, ENG 597B , consent of instructor. ENG 598B is required for candidates working to complete their MA thesis if they are not enrolled in any other MA electives. This course will fulfill the requirement to maintain continuous enrollment through completion of the MA and allow access to university research resources needed to complete the thesis/project. Continuous enrollment required until completion of thesis/project. P/NP. May be repeated for credit. (Offered every semester.) 1 credit
  
  • ENG 599 - Independent Study in Literature or Language


    Directed reading and/or research designed to meet specific needs of graduate students. (Offered every semester.) ½-6 credits

Executive MBA

  
  • EMBA 600 - Creating and Sustaining Competitive Advantage


    Prerequisite, EMBA student. This five-day seminar launches the Executive MBA Program. Its main focus is on the requirements for sustaining superior firm performance. Topics include competitive advantage and venture analysis, performance measurement, international strategy, leadership, and ethics. The seminar includes a day visit to manufacturing plants in Mexico. (Offered every year.) 2 credits
  
  • EMBA 601 - Economic Analysis and Policy


    Corequisite, EMBA 600 . This course presents the fundamental economic concepts and models in microeconomics and macroeconomics with particular emphasis on economic analysis of public policy issues. In microeconomics, markets and government failures are discussed using models of competitive and monopolistic markets. In macroeconomics, the determination of output, employment, and price levels are discussed using the aggregate supply and demand model, and the effects of alternative policies are analyzed. (Offered every year.) 4 credits
  
  • EMBA 602 - Financial Information Systems


    Corequisite, EMBA 600 . This course focuses on financial reporting and management accounting systems and is intended for the manager who wishes to effectively read, understand, and use the information presented in published and internal accounting reports. (Offered every year.) 4 credits
  
  • EMBA 603 - Applied Statistics


    Prerequisite, EMBA 600 . In the increasingly competitive worldwide business environment, successful companies rely upon quantitative methods for data analysis and decision-making. This course provides the statistical tools managers need to understand and use in business situations. Among the topics covered will be sampling, estimation, inference, hypotheses testing, regression analysis, smoothing, time series decomposition, and qualitative forecasting. EMBAs will learn how and when to apply statistics and how to interpret statistical results. (Offered every year.) 2 credits
  
  • EMBA 604 - Managing Effective Organizations


    Prerequisite, EMBA 601 . For organizations to create value they must have the capability to react to market opportunities quickly. This course introduces the tools, techniques, and skills necessary to increase the capacity of firms to do that. Building on insights from economics, this course teaches students how to align incentives, identify and change employee preferences, assign decision rights, and select and retain appropriate employees. Most importantly, this course will describe how a firm can be designed and managed to reduce the bureaucratic behavior that destroys value in organizations. (Offered every year.) 4 credits
  
  • EMBA 605 - Marketing Management


    Prerequisites, EMBA 601 , EMBA 602 , EMBA 603 . This course focuses on the unfilled wants and needs of customers and creates solutions that satisfy these individuals in order to fulfill organizational objectives. In the highly competitive global environment, market-oriented thinking and sound marketing management can make the difference between success and failure. EMBA students examine such topics as market segmentation, buyer behavior, promotion, distribution, and competitive restraints. The course features a marketing simulation project. (Offered every year.) 4 credits
  
  • EMBA 606 - Operations and Technology Management


    Prerequisites, EMBA 602 , EMBA 603 . In this course, students analyze the management of operations and technology in both production and service industries. Topics include operation and project management, information management, product and process design, and total quality management. Students examine the tradeoffs involved in operation decisions and the application of software tools to solve these problems. (Offered every year.) 4 credits
  
  • EMBA 607 - Managerial Finance


    Prerequisites, EMBA 601 , EMBA 602 , EMBA 603 . This emphasizes the analysis of the current/future practices and issues in the course area of corporate finance through seminar presentations and case studies. Topics include valuation models, capital structure, capital budgeting, cost of capital, investment decisions, mergers and acquisitions, and international finance. (Offered every year.) 4 credits
  
  • EMBA 611 - Understanding the Global Business Environment


    Prerequisites, EMBA 605 , EMBA 607 . Students acquire analytical skills to assess the dynamic nature of the globalization process, including the ability to relate course concepts to current international news events, and to integrate such knowledge structures into value-creation strategies for global organizations. Students will also develop the ability to apply international business concepts, via case study analysis, to problems and challenges facing firms which compete in the global economy. The course features a two week international residential, typically in the Pacific Rim, where though a variety of corporate visits, students will gain in-depth knowledge of the challenges and opportunities facing businesses in that region. (Offered summer.) 6 credits
  
  • EMBA 612 - Strategic Management


    Prerequisites, EMBA 605  EMBA 606 , EMBA 607 . This course relies heavily on the case method of instruction to apply strategic analysis techniques. Students focus on the requirements for sustaining competitive advantage and the implications of these requirements for market positioning, diversification, acquisitions, joint ventures, corporate restructuring, and other decisions that can significantly affect firm value. (Offered every year.) 4 credits
  
  • EMBA 614 - Business and Public Policy


    Prerequisites, EMBA 604 , EMBA 605 , EMBA 607 . The study of public policy formation, including public choice theory, at both the national and international levels. Students will learn to design a specific public policy proposal and are responsible for advocating adoption of the proposal. (Offered every year.) 3 credits
  
  • EMBA 696 - Elective Selected Topics.


    (Offered as needed.) 4 credits

Film and Media Arts

  
  • FTV 500 - Historical Perspectives in Production Design


    This course is a comparative analysis of production design from silent films to the present. It will study well-known production designers past and present. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  
  • FTV 502 - Narrative Strategies I


    This course is designed to introduce graduate students to the evolution of film language through the study of the intertwining aspects of film theory, film history, and film practice. Students will focus on close analyses of a series of films representing important points in the development of the narrative cinema from its earliest days to the present. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  
  • FTV 503 - Narrative Strategies II


    This course is a further exploration of the evolution of film language and theory. Students will examine the films of traditional and alternative filmmakers to see how they translated their unique visions of the world to the screen. Students shall see how the visual forms of these filmmakers developed are a direct creative articulation of the ideas they wish to express through the medium of film. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  
  • FTV 510 - Industry Insiders


    Through screenings, interviews, and discussions, this course explores the work of a variety of well-established working artists from the Hollywood film community and explores how these artists incorporate their own beliefs and values into the broader culture by working in an intensely collaborative medium. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  
  • FTV 529 - Experimental Course


    Experimental courses are designed to offer additional opportunities to explore areas and subjects of special interest. May be repeated for credit if course content is different. Course titles, prerequisites, restrictions, and credits may vary. Some courses require student lab fees. Some sections of this course may be restricted to specific majors only. Specific course details will be listed in the course schedule. (Offered as needed.) 1-3 credits
  
  • FTV 561 - Structure and Function of a Film Festival


    Prerequisite, consent of instructor. Examines the structure, function, marketing, and exhibition of film festivals. This is a travel class where students participate in festival events including jury procedures, screenings, workshops, and seminars with filmmakers. Fee based on travel and accommodation expenses. Fee: TBD. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • FTV 561I - Structure of an International Film Festival


    Prerequisite, consent of instructor. A three-week intensive travel course to study international film preservation at Il Cinema Ritrovato film festival in Bologna, Italy. Students will experience important rediscovered and restored international films that paint a more nuanced understanding of film history from a global perspective. They will also consider the films’ restoration principles and theories/practices employed by the archivists, as well as the role of film festivals in regard to film restoration, important auteurs in international cinema, and the practice of writing global film history. Film screenings will be supplemented by daily lectures and discussions, readings, and attendance of panel discussions/symposiums. Fee: TBD. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • FTV 590 - Internship


    (Offered as needed.) ½-3 credits
  
  • FTV 593 - Cross-Cultural Filmmaking


    Prerequisite, FTV 531. This travel exchange course is designed to give Chapman students the opportunity to work collaboratively with a group of students from a foreign film school on two school-sponsored short narrative film projects. One of the films will be produced at Chapman while the other will be produced in the foreign host country. The students will use this collaborative cross-cultural filmmaking experience as a means to explore and gain an understanding of the people, culture, and society of a foreign country. Fee: varies. (Offered summer.) 3 credits
  
  • FTV 597 - Music Video Production Workshop


    Prerequisite, consent of instructor. A workshop in the development and creation of professional-level music videos. Students will be teamed for each project, serving in key creative and/or production roles. May be repeated for credit. Fee: $300. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • FTV 601 - Filmmaking Outside Hollywood


    Travel course in which students first study then experience an American city or area in order to immerse themselves in the area’s filmmaking business and history as well as the area’s use as a setting and sometimes as a character in films. Class meetings before and after the trip will prepare students for and allow them to reflect on their experiences. May be repeated for credit. Fee: TBD. (Offered interterm.) 3 credits
  
  • FTV 629 - Experimental Course


    Experimental courses are designed to offer additional opportunities to explore areas and subjects of special interest. Course titles, prerequisites, and credits may vary. Specific course details will be listed in the course schedule. May be repeated for credit if course content is different. Some courses require student lab fees. (Offered as needed.) ½-3 credits
  
  • FTV 642 - Agents and Managers


    This class will provide an in-depth look at agenting and managing. Throughout the semester, students will learn about the similarities and differences between agents and managers today in the industry, as well as learn about their roles of the past and how those roles have changed throughout the years. Students will also learn about how agents and managers select their clients and how clients select their representation. Fee: $300. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • FTV 653 - Film Capitals of the World


    Travel course in which students first study then experience a cities in order to immerse themselves in the cities’ filmmaking business and history as well as the cities’ many incarnations as settings and sometimes as characters in films. Class meetings before and after the trip will prepare students for and allow them to reflect on their experiences in the two cities. May be repeated for credit if a different topic. Fee: TBD. (Offered interterm) 3 credits
  
  • FTV 666 - First Shorts/First Features


    This class will examine the early work of directors and explore the transition to their first feature film by analyzing the level of each director’s craft in their early work to determine what they did right creatively, why they were noticed, and how their first feature was made. Fee: $300. (Offered as needed.) 3 credits
  
  • FTV 690 - Independent Internship


    Offers students an opportunity to earn credit and learn professional skills on the job by working for a studio, network, production company, newsroom, etc. A minimum of 40 hours of work for each credit is required. P/NP. (Offered every semester.) ½-3 credits
  
  • FTV 692 - Internship Workshop


    Class meetings focus on career counseling, resume workshops, practice interviewing, and networking. Outside of class students learn on the job through a variety of on-site internships at studios, agencies, and production companies. This course includes a lecture and required laboratory component held at different times. Fee: TBD. (Offered every semester.) 3 credits
  
  • FTV 699 - Individual Study


    Individual research and projects. Designed to meet specific concerns which are not provided by regular curriculum offerings. P/NP. May be repeated for a maximum of 6 credits. (Offered every semester.) ½-3 credits

Film and Television Producing

  
  • FTP 531 - Production Workshop I for Film and Television Producing Majors


    Prerequisite, film and television producing major. An introduction to dramatic narrative production. Each student will write, direct, and edit a series of exploratory exercises with the goal of creating compelling characters and telling emotionally-engaging stories through basic cinematography, lighting, editing, sound, and elementary production management. Fee: $300. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  
  • FTP 534A - Production and Set Management for Film Production (Producers)


    Prerequisite, film and television producing major. Analysis of procedures and problems in preparing a script for film or television production. Emphasis on the role of the production manager in breaking down scripts, setting up shooting schedules, preparing budgets, and planning post-production, as well as on-set organization, safety and chain of command. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
  
  • FTP 560 - Overview of Producing


    Prerequisite, film and television producing major. Examines the process of producing film and television programming for various entertainment companies, including large corporations studies, independent production companies, television companies, computer companies, and startup ventures. Fee: $75. (Offered fall semester.) 3 credits
  
  • FTP 562 - The Development Process of Film and Television


    Prerequisite, film and television producing, or screenwriting major, and second year standing. An introduction to the process of developing material for motion pictures and television. Topics examined include developing existing literary material; developing news stories/current events; and developing fictional material for numerous venues including feature films, movies of the week, television shows, and cable films. Other topics examined will be the role of the producer in working with writers, agents, and studio/network executives during the development process. Fee: $75. (Offered spring semester.) 3 credits
 

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