Game Programming introduces students to concepts of computer game development, including 2D and 3D modeling, character design, animation, game art, basic game AI, audio and video effects. The course will help students build the programming skills needed to turn ideas into games. Both runtime systems and the asset pipelines will be covered. Students will work on various game programming exercises with modern game engines and graphics APIs. This course counts as a CS Elective toward the CS major (BA or BS).

Game Programming introduces students to concepts of computer game development, including 2D and 3D modeling, character design, animation, game art, basic game AI, audio and video effects. The course will help students build the programming skills needed to turn ideas into games. Both runtime systems and the asset pipelines will be covered. Students will work on various game programming exercises with modern game engines and graphics APIs. This course counts as a CS Elective toward the CS major (BA or BS).

This course explores the issues and politics of adapting literary texts for the screen. Students will examine film adaptations of texts from German speaking countries, which represent various literary genres, including novels, short fiction, graphic novels, and nonfiction. We will address questions such as: What makes for a successful film adaptation? Why are some texts more readily adaptable than others? How are films products of their own cultural moment? What issues arise in the adaptation of different literary genres?

Survey of basic concepts and theories of ethics. Consideration of specific ethical problems that businesses and business people are apt to face.

This seminar explores the topics of historical evidence, reconstruction, and memory by focusing on one key event - the 1948 war in Palestine. We shall analyze how historians form their topics of study, which sources they use, and this choices change as a result of influences internal to the historical discipline as well as external to it, such as new cultural and political circumstances.

Industrialism, liberalism, socialism, the unifications of Italy and Germany, political and social change, imperialism, the Russian Revolution, the two world wars, and postwar trends. (Gen.Ed. HS)

Industrialism, liberalism, socialism, the unifications of Italy and Germany, political and social change, imperialism, the Russian Revolution, the two world wars, and postwar trends. (Gen.Ed. HS)

Industrialism, liberalism, socialism, the unifications of Italy and Germany, political and social change, imperialism, the Russian Revolution, the two world wars, and postwar trends. (Gen.Ed. HS)

This course is an introduction to the history of Indigenous Peoples within the present-day borders of the U.S.A. and Canada. While we will only be able to cover a few culture groups in any depth, the major themes of the course relate to all groups: colonization, trade, land loss, sovereignty, religion and missionaries, treaties, war and peace, and identity. Another theme that runs throughout the course is the tension between history as understood and experienced by indigenous peoples and history as recorded and written by Euroamericans. Throughout, we will consider how ?history?

This seminar explores the topics of historical evidence, reconstruction, and memory by focusing on one key event - the 1948 war in Palestine. We shall analyze how historians form their topics of study, which sources they use, and this choices change as a result of influences internal to the historical discipline as well as external to it, such as new cultural and political circumstances.