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  • MUS 201 - Applied Music Lessons

    Applied music lessons.  May be repeated for credit.  Note: course topic number designates instrument or voice.

    General Education Requirements:  Artistic and Creative Expression

    Prerequisites: Bachelor of Arts in Music or Music minors.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 1
  

  • MUS 210 - Applied Music Lessons

    Applied music lessons for the first four semesters.  May be repeated for credit until Junior Standing Exam is passed.  Note: Course Topic number designates instrument or voice. Applied Music 1-2.

    General Education Requirements:  Artistic and Creative Expression

    Prerequisites: Music Education or Music Performance majors.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 2
  

  • MUS 298 - Special Subjects in Music

    Specific topics and approaches will be chosen jointly by interested students and the staff. This offering is designed to address advanced issues not covered in regular offerings.

    General Education Requirements:  Artistic and Creative Expression

    Prerequisites: Permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 1-3
  

  • MUS 312 - Piano Pedagogy

    Piano Pedagogy is “The Art of Teaching Piano:” Students will analyze current methodology, research intermediate level repertoire, and develop a business plan and a studio policy.  This course will provide the tools for hands-on teaching in a private setting.

    Prerequisites: Required for all piano majors and open to other pianists by permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered

    Credits: 1
  

  • MUS 316 - Piano Literature I

    Survey of the major works of the keyboard repertoire from the Baroque and Classical periods.

    Prerequisites: Required of piano majors, permission of the instructor required for all other students.

    Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered

    Credits: 1
  

  • MUS 318 - Piano Literature II

    Survey of major works of the piano repertoire from the Romantic and Contemporary periods.

    Prerequisites:   Required of piano majors, permission of the instructor required for all other students.

    Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered

    Credits: 1
  

  • MUS 350 - Applied Music Lessons

    Applied music lessons after having passed the Junior Standing Exam. May be repeated for credit.  Note: Course Topic number designates instrument or voice.

    Prerequisites: Junior Standing Exam. Undergraduate Music Education major. 

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 2
  

  • MUS 450 - Applied Music Lessons

    Applied music lessons after having passed the Junior Standing Exam. May be repeated for credit.  Note: Course Topic number designates instrument or voice.

    Prerequisites: Junior Standing Exam. Undergraduate Music Performance major.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 4
  

  • MUS 498 - Senior Project

    A significant research paper, original composition, or by special permission, a lecture-recital presented in lieu of a recital. Accomplished under the guidance of an assigned faculty member during the senior year.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Capstone Experience Requirement for the Bachelor of Arts degree in Music.

    Prerequisites: Senior standing. Required for all BA in Music majors.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • MUY 101 - Fundamentals of Music

    An elemental study of the dimensions and basic characteristics of musical sounds, with primary emphasis upon the development of skills and concepts through creating, performing and analysis.

    General Education Requirements: Artistic and Creative Expression

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 3
  

  • MUY 111 - Elementary Harmony I

    Diatonic chordal relationships through written work, analysis, and keyboard application.

    Prerequisites: Music major and permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 2
  

  • MUY 112 - Elementary Harmony II

    A continued study of chordal relationships. Primarily for music majors.

    Prerequisites: MUY 111 and permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 2
  

  • MUY 113 - Elementary Sight Singing and Ear Training I

    Sight singing, ear training and dictation.

    Prerequisites: MUY 101 or permission. 

    Corequisites: MUY 111

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 2
  

  • MUY 114 - Elementary Sight Singing and Ear Training II

    Sight singing, ear training and dictation.

    Prerequisites: MUY 113.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 2
  

  • MUY 211 - Advanced Harmony I

    A continuation of MUY 112. Chromatic chordal relationships and 20th century harmonic practice.

    Prerequisites: MUY 112.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 2
  

  • MUY 212 - Advanced Harmony II

    A continuation of MUY 112. Chromatic chordal relationships and 20th century harmonic practice.

    Prerequisites: MUY 211.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 2
  

  • MUY 213 - Advanced Sight Singing and Ear Training I

    A continuation of MUY 114.

    Prerequisites: MUY 114.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 2
  

  • MUY 214 - Advanced Sight Singing and Ear Training II

    A continuation of MUY 114.

    Prerequisites: MUY 213.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 2
  

  • MUY 310 - Jazz Theory Fundamentals

    This course introduces the basic fundamentals of jazz theory, with applications to melodic improvisation, jazz piano techniques, and arranging for small jazz ensembles. It will cover jazz terminology, chord symbols and progressions, scales and modes, ear training, common jazz forms, melodic writing, instrumentation, and basic piano voicings.

    Prerequisites: MUY 112 and MUP 206

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • MUY 311 - Jazz Improvisation II

    A continuation of MUY 310. Involves the direct application of music theory to jazz improvisation, with emphasis on the development of skills and knowledge through analysis, creating, and performing on a daily basis. Pitched instruments in “C”, “Bb”, “Eb”, or “C bass clef” only, capable of a full chromatic scale, are essential (keyboardists must bring their own) for participation in the course. As with MUY 310, memorization of at least 8 but not more than 16 works from the standard jazz repertory will be required.

    Prerequisites: MUY 310.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring, Odd Years

    Credits: 3
  

  • MUY 315 - Twentieth Century Musical Techniques

    Techniques for structural analysis of post-impressionist through contemporary music.

    Prerequisites: MUY 212 or permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered

    Credits: 2
  

  • MUY 410 - Jazz Arranging

    The study of arranging for small and large jazz ensembles.

    Prerequisites: MUY 310

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Even Years

    Credits: 3
  

  • MUY 411 - Jazz Piano

    The study of jazz keyboard playing in a solo setting, as well as small and largr jazz ensembles.

    Prerequisites: MUY 310

    Course Typically Offered: Spring, Even Years

    Credits: 3
  

  • MUY 451 - Form and Analysis

    Analysis of the structure of musical compositions of various historical periods, including the study of common forms found in the standard concert repertoire.

    Prerequisites: MUY 212.

    Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered

    Credits: 3
  

  • MUY 452 - Orchestration

    Study and practical application of scoring techniques for various instrumental groups, including orchestral and band transcriptions and reductions.

    Prerequisites: MUY 212.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • MUY 461 - Composition I (Small Forms)

    Composition in the Variation Forms, including ostinato, ground motive, passacaglia, chaconne and theme with variations.

    Prerequisites: MUY 212 or permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Variable

    Credits: 2
  

  • NAS 101 - Introduction to Native American Studies

    Introduces the interdisciplinary perspective of Native American Studies. Examines the experience of Native Americans, past and present, focusing on diverse and distinct cultural areas and historical events. Explores Native Americans’ integral part in the development of the Americas and the European impact on traditional Native societies, historically and currently. Lec 3.

    General Education Requirements: Satisfies the General Education Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives Requirements.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAS 102 - Introduction to Wabanaki Culture, History and Contemporary Issues

    Examines the world view, way of life, history, art, literature and contemporary issues of the Native nations that make up the Wabanaki Confederacy. The culture, philosophy and creation stories of the individual tribes, including the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy, Maliseet and Micmac tribes are explored. In addition, concepts such as sovereignty, treaty rights and tribal government are discussed. NAS 101 is recommended.

    General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives

    Course Typically Offered: Variable

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAS 201 - Topics in Native American Studies

    Provides an interdisciplinary, intermediate level of study of selected topics regarding American Indians in more detail and complexity.

    Prerequisites: NAS 101 or permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 1-3
  

  • NAS 202 - Wabanaki Languages I

    Provides an interdisciplinary, introductory level of study of selected topics regarding American Indians in more detail and complexity.  While there are distinct Indigenous languages of the Native nations that make up the Wabanaki Confederacy, these languages are similar. This course will offer an opportunity for students to begin to build their Wabanaki vocabulary and develop skills in pronunciation and oral communication, as well as discussing the history of Wabanaki words. Taught by a Wabanaki speaker. If this course was taken as a topics course in NAS 201, it cannot be repeated for credit.

    General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives

    Prerequisites: NAS 101 or permission

    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAS 203 - Wabanaki Language II

    Provides an interdisciplinary, intermediate level of study of selected topics regarding American Indians in more detail and complexity. The course is designed to utilize the basic vocabulary learned in Wabanaki Languages I and begin using phrases and dialogues for conversational interactions. Although the primary languages utilized will be Passamaquoddy and Maliseet, other Wabanaki Languages will be referenced. If this course was taken as a topics course in NAS 201, it cannot be repeated for credit.

    General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives

    Prerequisites: NAS 202 or permission

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAS 220 - North American Indian History

    An introductory history of North American Indians, from before European contact to the present.  Within a broad chronological framework, the course will look at critical themes in American Indian history; American Indians prior to contact; cultural contact; treaty making, treaty rights, sovereignty; impact of government policies on Native populations; and contemporary issues.

    General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and Social Context and Institutions

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAS 230 - Maine Indian History in the Twentieth Century

    Too often Native people are relegated to the distant past, leading society to have misunderstandings about indigenous communities today. This course introduces students Wabanaki history of Maine and eastern Canada in the twentieth century. The term “Wabanaki” is an all-inclusive term that refers primarily to Mi’kmaqs, Maliseets, Passamaquoddies, and Penobscots, along with other Abenaki groups. The tribal homeland encompasses present-day northern New England, the Maritime Provinces, and southern Quebec. We will explore the variety of ways Wabanaki experiences deviated from the national narrative on American Indians and examine when Native challenges were in lockstep with western tribes in the twentieth century. This course considers the interplay between cultural traditions and modernity. The regional scope highlights local developments. We will investigate prominent themes of resistance, accommodation, activism, sovereignty, and cultural survival. Wabanaki people were positive actors in their own affairs, not passive pawns subdued by forces beyond their control. This course will provide context to contemporary challenges Wabanaki people confront. As one tribal historian astutely noted, “I can never give up hope, as my ancestors never gave up hope.”

    HTY 222 and NAS 230 are identical courses.

    General Education Requirements: Population and Environment and Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives

    Course Typically Offered: Variable

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAS 270 - Gender in Native American Cultures

    This course explores the concept of gender in indigenous communities of North America. Course materials will explore historical and contemporary perspectives of gender and sexual orientation to better understand how Native communities define and practice gender.  NAS 101 or WGS 101 is a recommended prerequisite.  (WGS 270 and NAS 270 are identical courses.)

    General Education Requirements:  Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives and  Social Context and Institutions

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAS 295 - American Indians and Climate Change

    Introduces students to the Indian cultures of the United States and U.S. territories in the South Pacific, paying particular attention to the issue of climate change and how it is impacting indigenous peoples in these regions; also examines climate effects on natural resource conditions as it relates to Indian cultures and the roles indigenous groups play in policy responses to climate change.

    Course Typically Offered: Variable

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAS 298 - Directed Study in Native American Studies

    Individual study, research, field experience and writing projects in Native American Studies. May be repeated for credit. Arranged upon request.

    Prerequisites: NAS 101 and permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 1-6
  

  • NAS 401 - Advanced Topics in Native American Studies

    Provides an advanced level of study of selected topics regarding American Indians in great detail and specificity.

    General Education Requirements: Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives

    Prerequisites: NAS 101, junior standing and permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring, Summer

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAS 451 - Native American Cultures and Identities

    In this seminar, we will examine Native American cultures and identities (past and present), with special attention to reading works by Native authors and examining topics such as the effects of colonialism on Native Americans, representations of Native Americans in popular culture, new biological technologies like DNA testing that shape understandings of Native identities, the role of traditional cultures in Native communities, tribal sovereignty and economic development in the twenty-first century, and indigenous environmental perspectives.

    General Education Requirements:  Cultural Diversity and International Perspectives

    Prerequisites: ANT 102 or NAS 101 permission

    Course Typically Offered: Spring, Even Years

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAS 498 - Directed Study in Native American Studies

    Advanced individual study, research, field experiences and writing projects in Native American Studies. May be repeated for credit. Arranged upon request.

    Prerequisites: NAS 101, one additional course within the Native American Studies minor, junior or senior standing, and permission.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 1-6
  

  • NAV 100 - Naval Science Laboratory

    Developed to ensure coverage of Professional Core Competency (PCC) objectives not included in formal Naval Sciences courses. Topics deal with general Navy training, naval warfare doctrine, employment of naval forces, joint operations, and midshipmen professional development. (Pass/Fail Grade only).

    Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 0
  

  • NAV 101 - Introduction to Naval Science

    Emphasizes organizational structure, warfare components, and assigned roles/missions of the U.S. Navy/USMC. Covers all aspects of Naval Service from its relative position within DoD, to the specific warfare communities/career paths. Also includes basic elements of leadership/Navy Core Values. Designed to give student initial exposure to many elements of Naval culture. Also provides conceptual framework/working vocabulary for student to use on summer cruise. Laboratories are also provided to include alcohol and drug abuse prevention, detection and control, tobacco use cessation/prevention, suicide and HIV/AIDs prevention.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 2
  

  • NAV 102 - Naval Ships Systems I (Engineering)

    Detailed study of ship characteristics and types including ship design, hydrodynamic forces, stability, compartmentation, propulsion, electrical and auxiliary systems, interior communications, ship control and damage control. Included are basic concepts of theory/design of steam, gas turbine, diesel and nuclear propulsion. Case studies on leadership/ethical issues in the engineering area are also covered.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring, Even Years

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAV 201 - Naval Ships Systems II (Weapons)

    Outlines theory and employment of weapons systems. Student explores the processes of detection, evaluation, threat analysis, weapon selection, delivery, guidance and explosives. Fire control systems and major weapons types are discussed including capabilities and limitations. The physical aspects of radar and underwater sound are described. Facets of command, control, communications, computers and intelligence are explored as means of weapons system integration. The tactical and strategic significance of command and control warfare and information warfare is discussed. Supplemented with review/analysis of case studies involving the moral and ethical responsibilities of leaders in the employment of weapons. Other major themes in leadership include honor, courage, integrity, loyalty, responsibility, authority, accountability, character development, crisis decision making, and conflict resolution.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring, Odd Years

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAV 301 - Navigation

    In-depth study of the theory, principles, procedures and application of plotting, piloting and celestial navigation. Students learn piloting techniques, the use of charts, the use of visual and electronic aids, and theory of operation of both magnetic and gyro compasses. Celestial navigation topics include celestial coordinate system, the navigation triangle and an overview of the sight reduction process. Students develop practical skills in plotting and celestial navigation. Other topics include tides, currents, effects of wind/weather, voyage planning and application and understanding of international/inland rules of navigation. Supplemented with review/analysis of case studies involving actual navigation.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Even Years

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAV 302 - Naval Operations and Seamanship

    Study of relative motion, vector-analysis theory, formation tactics and ship employment. Also included are introductions to naval operations and operations analysis, ship behavior and characteristics in maneuvering, applied aspects of shiphandling, afloat communications, and command and control. Supplemented with a review/analysis of case studies involving moral/ethical/leadership issues pertaining to the concepts listed above.

    Prerequisites: NAV 301 and permission of instructor.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Odd Years

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAV 303 - Leadership and Management

    Comprehensive study of organizational behavior and management. Topics include survey of management functions of planning, organizing and controlling; an introduction to individual/group behavior in organizations; and extensive study of motivation/leadership. Major behavior theories explored in detail. Practical applications explored through using experiential exercises, case studies and laboratory discussions. Other topics include decision making, communication, responsibility, authority, accountability and total quality leadership.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAV 304 - Leadership and Ethics

    Sharpens the understanding of some important issues about morality and develops moral reasoning ability. Integrates an intellectual exploration of Western moral traditions and ethical philosophy with topics and issues confronting newly commissioned officers as military leaders. Provides a foundation in major moral traditions including Utilitarianism, Kantian ethics, Constitutional Law, Natural Law theory, and virtue ethics. Students will discuss the ethics of war through discussions of the Just War Theory (Jus Ad Bellum ) and the Conduct of War (Jus in Bello ). Readings will be from various fields, including leadership, ethics, philosophy, theology, and law and will be enhanced through case studies, video segments, and current issues in the news.

    General Education Requirements:  Ethics

    Prerequisites: Permission of instructor. It is recommended that students have junior or senior standing, however they need not be in the NROTC program.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAV 310 - Evolution of Warfare

    Traces development of warfare from dawn of recorded history to the present, focusing on the impact of major military theorists, strategists, tacticians and technological developments. Students acquire a basic sense of strategy, develop an understanding of military alternatives, and see the impact of historical precedence on military thought and actions.

    General Education Requirements: Western Cultural Tradition, Social Contexts and Institutions and Cultural Diversity and International Perspective

    Prerequisites: permission of instructor.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NAV 411 - Fundamentals of Maneuver Warfare

    Fundamentals of Maneuver Warfare:  [Replaces NAV 410: Amphibious Warfare] Broad aspects of warfare and their interactions with maneuver warfare doctrine.  Focus on the United States Marine Corps as the premier maneuver warfare fighting institution.  Historical influences on current tactical, operational, and strategic implications of maneuver warfare practices.  Case studies.  Enrollment preference to NROTC students.

    Prerequisites: Permission of instructor.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NFA 117 - Issues and Opportunities

    Consists of weekly small group sessions (usually of 15 or fewer students) conducted by the students’ first-year advisor. Not offered in all programs. Course will include field trips during class hours and may include weekends.

    (Pass/Fail Grade Only.)

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 1
  

  • NFA 118 - NSFA/UMaine Orientation

    Orientation to the College of Natural Sciences, Forestry and Agriculture and the University of Maine.  The course will also cover topics to help students succeed academically and engage with the campus community. May also be taken concurrently with NFA 117.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

    Credits: 0-1
  

  • NMD 100 - Introduction to New Media

    NMD 100 explores the concepts that define new media, what new media are, how they are produced, who produces them, and why they challenge how we think, act, create, and relate to other people. We will explore the impact and disruptive effect emerging technologies have on society and institutions by studying both past and present technological developments. The course examines the benefits emerging technologies afford to individuals, organizations, and society; we will consider the challenges and consequences of society’s rapid embrace of these emerging technologies, including the need to raise user awareness of increasing privacy and security concerns. Lecture and Discussion format with hands-on laboratory.

    General Education Requirements: Social Contexts and Institutions

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 104 - New Media Design

    Essential tools for graphic design in the digital era.  From simple techniques such as creating shapes and type of more advanced tasks such as masks, gradients, and special effects.  Hands-on projects to produce common products of graphic design; from logos, infographics, and posters to designs for laser cutter and the Web.  Exposure to history, aesthetics, and ethical questions of graphic design in the Internet era, from Bauhaus color theory to memes based Photoshopped images.

    General Education Requirements:  Artistic and Creative Expression

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 105 - Creative Coding I

    Introduction to programming as a new media art and design practice.  Use of creative processes in programming by writing code to generate images, sound, animations, text, and interactivity.  Use of computing environments such as processing for creating and developing software “sketches” that allow visual expression.  Understand and control how data is represented in computers (data types and structures), instruct computer how make decisions on the fly (conditionals), how and when to repeat instructions (loops), and structure and organize computer code (functions and objects).

    General Education Requirements: Quantitative Literacy

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 106 - Time-Based Media

    Introduction to principles and practice of video and audio production.  Students learn how to publish media and other course projects online as part of their New Media Portfolio Application of the computer as a tool for the development of both expressive and professional time-based media and audiovisual storytelling and as a venue for publishing and distributing creative work online. 

    Prerequisites: New Media  Major or Minor or permission

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 160 - Creative Programming

    In this course, students will learn to use a creative process in programming a computer by developing code to generate images and sound, produce animations, manipulate text, and make media that respond interactively to user input.  The class will use computing programs such as Processing, an artist-designed programming language designed for visual and interactive applications, as a basis for creating and developing software “sketches” that allow visual expression.  Another environment introduced with be Pd (“pure data”, an open source version of Max/MSP), which is a visual programming language.  Pd enables musicians, visual artists, performers, researchers, and developers to create software graphically, without writing lines of code.  In the process, students will learn basic programming skills, including understanding and controlling how data is represented in computers (data types and structures), telling the computer how to make decisions on the fly (conditionals), how and when to repeat instructions (loops), structuring and organizing computer code (functions and objects), and techniques for debugging code.

    This course is designed particularly for students in New Media, Arts, Music, Humanities, and Social Sciences interested in understanding better how computers work and in learning to create their own digital media, through students of all backgrounds are welcome.  The course assumes basic high school math and no technical background. 

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 200 - Designing Humane Tech

    Examines the goals and impacts of New Media technologies.  Topics include how design choices respond to and influence our bodies, our communities, and our political, economic and ecological systems.  Focus on how humane design choices enable us to create a healthier and more sustainable world.  A writing intensive class with reading, discussion, writing assignments and conceptual design projects.

    General Education Requirements: Writing Intensive

    Prerequisites: Sophomore Standing

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 206 - Project Design Workshop I

    Explores creativity and problem solving using tools, techniques and tactics of new media.  Identifies critical social, economic, cultural and ecological problems in neighborhoods and communities.  Draws on creative skills and playful impulses to design and build solutions using new media strategies.  An ecologically mindful, whole systems approach is adopted, seeking out interdisciplinary partners across campus and community to achieve solutions.  Individual, peer, and team generated projects are emphasized.

    Prerequisites: NMD 200

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 211 - Creative Coding II

     

    Students are provided an introduction to and overview of new media and emerging technologies, interaction design, and software development. Topics covered include social networking, mobile computing, and physical computing.  Students develop skills in research, group collaboration, brainstorming practices, concept development, and rapid project prototyping.

    Prerequisites: NMD 105

    Corequisites: NMD 100

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 212 - Rapid Prototyping

    Basic analog and digital electronics, laser cutting and 3D Printing techniques as they apply to New Media art and design framework.  Taught via a studio lab format.

    Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 245 - Film Criticism and Theory

    Students will develop skills in the analysis of form and content so that they will achieve proficiency in the use of film studies vocabulary. Participants will learn to think critically about the media industry and to evaluate film as an art form, individual psychological experience, technology, social text, and commodity. (CMJ 245 and NMD 245 are identical courses.)

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 250 - Electronic Music Composition I: Item and Arrangement

    Designed to provide students with an opportunity to explore the ideas and techniques of audio composition with recorded media.  Item and Arrangement refers to the style of composition that creatively places recorded sounds in a fixed timeline.  Starting with Musique Concrete in the late 1940’s, this technique continues today as a foundation for many contemporary and popular forms, including acoustic ecology and hip-hop.  Students can expect to learn how to work with sound in the digital environment including fundamentals in field recording technique, waveform editing, filtering and digital processing.  Students will be expected to regularly produce and discuss work in relation to the theoretical history of Electronic Music.

    General Education Requirements:  Artistic and Creative Expression

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 251 - Electronic Music Composition II: Composing a Process

    A companion of NMD 250.  Offers an introduction to creating Electronic Music, and electronic art in general, in the form of a process rather than as a fixed object.  From John Cage through Conceptualism, viewing art-making as “composing a process” is central to much contemporary art, particularly in New Media.  Students will be introduced to compositional methods such as indeterminacy, algorithmic composition, systems analysis and interactivity as well as fundamentals of digital audio synthesis and composing in the Max/MSP environment.  Students will be expected to regularly produce and discuss work in relation to the theoretical history of Electronic Music.

     

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 295 - Topics in New Media

    Topics not regularly covered in other new media courses. Content varies to suit current needs. May be repeated for credit.

    Course Typically Offered: Variable

    Credits: 1-3
  

  • NMD 306 - Community Collaboration and Development

    New Media project design, with emphasis on team-based research and development.  Requires students to think across a variety of platforms, from analog tools to stand alone devices to online applications. Students will be challenged to think creatively and rigorously about the objective, structure, and form of a community client project; the work of each team will culminate in a new media proposal and/or prototype, preparing them for the New Media capstone sequence.

    Prerequisites: NMD 200 and NMD 211 and NMD 341 or NMD 342 or NMD 343 or NMD 344 or NMD 345 or permission

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 324 - Introduction to Narrative Film Making

    The first part in a two-semester course in the process, theory, practice and problems of digital filmmaking. Through the examination of films, narrative fiction and the completion of out-of-class assignments, students will gain insight into the realm of digital filmmaking. Structured as both an academic and “hands-on” approach to the language, method and theory of digital filmmaking through applied concepts and process. May be repeated for credit.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 340 - SL: Creating Websites for Clients and Communities

    This course focuses on work with real-world clients to create Web pages or responsive apps with compelling designs and interactive features.  A review of basic graphic design, HTML, CSS, simple PHP and web architecture tools like WordPress provides a technical foundation combined with critical skills for collaboration, negotiation and teamwork.  Students apply these to tell a digital story that represents community or client values, and then apply the same skills of designing, coding and networking to produce a professional portfolio of their creative work as New Media students.  This course has been designated as a UMaine service-learning course.

    Prerequisites: Sophomore standing  and NMD 104

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 341 - Documentary Photography and Storytelling

    An overview of photojournalism history, theory and ethics. Exercises teach skills and strategies used by newspaper, magazine and on-line photographers and editors and  challenge students to deal responsibly with issues of invasion of privacy, subject representation, copyright and fair use and image manipulation.

    General Education Requirements: Artistic and Creative Expression

    Course Typically Offered: Every Year

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 342 - Interaction Design and Physical Computing

    Interaction Design and Physical Computing will explore opportunities for physical interaction with our environment.  The course focuses on materials and methods used within interaction design to combine hardware, software and physical materials into working prototypes.  Students will learn fundamentals of physical computing to design and build interactive objects and environments using sensors, actuators and microcontrollers.

    Prerequisites: NMD 211 or permission

    Course Typically Offered: Every Year

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 343 - SL: Digital Narrative Workshop I

    Explores emerging forms of digital storytelling and how these new forms transform authorship, audience, interaction and publishing. Students produce their own original narratives using digital storytelling techniques, web based media, and non-linear game-like environments. Team projects and skill sharing encouraged. Field work outside the classroom and publication of a storytelling project for community partners. This course has been designated as a  UMaine service-learning course.

    General Education Requirements: Artistic and Creative Expressions 

    Prerequisites: Sophomore Standing 

    Corequisites: NMD 200

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 344 - Time-Based Art and Design I

    An introduction in the concepts, process, methods, principles and theories posed by digital video, animation, and audio. Students investigate unique problems in design and production presented by time-based media as well as apply the aesthetic and design principles in the creation of artistic, expressive and/or conceptual structures in time-based media.

    Prerequisites: NMD 104 and NMD 106 or permission 

    Course Typically Offered: Every Year

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 345 - Web Applications

    This class trains students in creating compelling Web designs and interactive Web pages using advanced HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.  Although the focus will be designing and scripting for the Web, the class will apply these easy-to-learn techniques to other contexts, such as bookmarklets and browser extensions.  In addition to this practical know-how, students in this class learn today’s legal and cultural context for sharing, and prototype a creative application of their own choosing.

    Prerequisites: NMD 200 or permission

    Course Typically Offered: Every Year

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 347 - Artificial Intelligence for Art and Design

    Introduction to techniques, historical contexts, and conceptual approaches to artificial intelligence as a creative medium.  Cognitive science debate on theories of the mind impacts of AI on society as intellectual labor is replaced by algorithms, and the divide between autonomy and authorship in working with AI for artmaking.  Introduction to different movements and techniques within AI, such as cybernetics, artificial life, nouvelle AI, expressive AI, neural networks, genetic algorithms, machine learning, and deep learning. Students directly apply understanding in creating original works using different approaches.

    Prerequisites: NMD 200 and NMD 211

    Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 358 - Documentary Film Criticism and Theory

    Centered around the Camden International Film Festival, this course engages students in critically assessing documentary films through an understanding of the genre’s history, theoretical foundations, and means of production, aspects particularly relevant in this age of rapidly evolving media.  Students will be exposed to various new technologies during the festival on the development, production and distribution of contemporary non-fiction film.  Besides periodic class meetings across the semester and four days attendance at the Festival, students will have opportunities to discuss documentaries in public forums and meetings with documentary professionals in seminar conferences.  Students will develop in-depth research projects, either developing their own documentaries or writing analytic papers on issues core to the field. If this course was taken under as a topics course in NMD 398, it cannot be repeated for credit.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 370 - 3D Modeling and Animation

    An introduction to the concepts and tools of 3D modeling and animation on the computer. Includes techniques to create narratives and provides hands-on experience with appropriate hardware and software.

    General Education Requirements:  Artistic and Creative Expression

    Course Typically Offered: Every Year

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 398 - Topics in New Media

    Topics not regularly covered in other new media courses. Content varies to suit current needs. May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisites: Department consent.

    Course Typically Offered: Not Regularly Offered

    Credits: 1-3
  

  • NMD 424 - Narrative Film Making

    The second part in a two-semester course in the process, theory, practice and problems of digital filmmaking.  Concentrates on practical experience.  Students will learn the cinematic process through direct development and production of short subject digital films.  Structured as both an academic and “hands-on” approach to the language, method and theory of digital filmmaking.  May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisites: NMD 324 or permission

    Course Typically Offered: Variable

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 430 - Topics in New Media

    An exploration of intermediate and advanced topics in multimedia production and design, including, among others, digital video production, software and hardware design or, electronic publishing. Designed to provide students with a deeper and more sophisticated experience with a multimedia issue, tool, or skill–or combination of all three.

    Prerequisites: Department consent.

    Course Typically Offered: Variable

    Credits: 1-3
  

  • NMD 440 - Video Projection Mapping

    Students learn to use video projection to creative immersive environments that wrap 2D video onto 3D surfaces as a New Media tool for exploring digital storytelling, data visualization and site specific multimedia installations.  Course is taught via a studio lab format.

    Prerequisites: NMD 200 and NMD 211

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 441 - Documentary Video and Storytelling

    Provides the essential skills, concepts and processes used by documentary still photographers and audio producers to create professional quality digital mixed media products for the Internet and other interactive media.

    Prerequisites:  NMD 341 or permission

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 442 - User Experience Design

    This is a course that explores major concepts in designing the User Experience (UX).  UX Design plays a critical role in the successes and effectiveness of any product, application and service.  It’s just not enough to have technologically advanced and aesthetically appealing products, applications and services - it is critical that they deliver a good user experience to their end users.

    In order to understand the foundations of UX Design, this course will provide a comprehensive overview of the user experience design process and is intended to familiarize students with the methods, concepts, and techniques necessary to make user experience design an integral part of developing effective interactions.  The course provides students with an opportunity to acquire the resources, skills, and hands-on experience they need to design, develop, and evaluate information interfaces from a user-centered design perspective. 

    Prerequisites: NMD 211 or permission

    Course Typically Offered: Every Year

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 443 - Digital Narrative Workshop II

    Students explore interactive authorship, seek audience participation, develop interactive environments, and publish final pieces in an online magazine.  Exploration and reflection on larger cultural metanarratives, many of which are in the process of transition.  Students may continue community partnerships begun in Digital Narrative I, and further develop their projects in reach or in depth.  They may also seek alternative ways of either crafting or publishing and sharing community stories, such as through Virtual Museums, Community Archives, Social Media campaigns, or Storytelling peer-to-peer workshops.  Final projects will culminate in online publication and/or a community/public audience engagement.

    Prerequisites: NMD 343

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 444 - Time-Based Art and Design II

    Advanced level exploration of the principles of design and the creative process relative to time-based media.  Focus is on the design of imaginative, and/or metaphorical structures combining text, image and sound into self-contained digital works.  Students experiment with the transmission of creative and expressive information through sequential and time-based formats, including fixed-image sequence, digital video, and animations.

    Prerequisites: NMD 344

    Course Typically Offered: Every Year

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 445 - Mobile Applications

    Mobile applications have become one of the predominant ways that people interact with each other.  Yet designing and developing apps for phones and tables typically requires a mastery of a half-dozen languages and platforms.  This course, by contrast, builds on familiar Web design and development skills taught in NMD 345, Web Applications, to produce a working app for common mobile platforms such as iOS and Android by using a full-stack approach.  Students conceive and produce an app that interchanges data with the cloud to offer access to new information or connect people in new ways.

    Prerequisites: NMD 345

    Course Typically Offered: Every Year

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 446 - Advanced Rapid Protoyping

    Intermediate and advanced exploration of laser cutting, 3D printing and CNC milling as students apply to New Media art and design frameworks. Course is taught via a studio lab format.

    Prerequisites: NMD 212

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 490 - Independent Study in New Media

    Topics not regularly covered in other courses. Content varies to suit current needs. May be repeated for credit.

    Prerequisites: permission of instructor.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 498 - New Media Capstone I

    In this first semester of a two-part course, students conceive and build a complex, self-determined new media project.  Students are expected to bring an ambitious yet feasible idea to the course.  The first semester emphasizes extensive research, writing, and in-class presentations, followed by a series of working prototypes developed in an iterative fashion.  This semester fulfills the Writing Intensive general education requirement.  High levels of maturity, creativity, self-discipline and personal organization are expected.

    General Education Requirements: Writing Intensive requirement. Together with NMD 499, this course also satisfies the General Education Capstone Experience Requirements.

    Prerequisites: Senior Standing and a grade of C- or better in NMD 306.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 3
  

  • NMD 499 - New Media Capstone II

    In this second semester of a two-part course, students expand and refine the prototype developed in the first semester.  After students test their applications in class and with an outside target audience, the course culminates in a final presentation at year’s end.  High levels of maturity, creativity, self-discipline and personal organization are expected.

    General Education Requirements: Together with NMD 498, this course satisfies the General Education Capstone Experience requirement.

    Prerequisites: NMD 498.

    Course Typically Offered: Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 101 - Issues and Opportunities in Nursing

    Introduces first-year Nursing students to issues in nursing education and University resources. Assists with the development of writing and critical thinking skills. Seeks to enhance cultural growth and understanding and to influence the establishment of self-care and wellness as a priority for nursing students. Discussion of legal and ethical aspects and professional organizations in nursing. Students meet clinical faculty in order to explore their education and experiences in nursing.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall

    Credits: 1
  

  • NUR 102 - Foundations of Nursing Practice I

    This course is designed to introduce students to professional nursing practice.  Offers students the opportunity to apply nursing concepts and attitudes in a collaborative, classroom setting.  Students will develop nursing strategies to explore patient centered care, safety, comfort, and communication that will meet the selected Maine nurse core competencies.  Guiding course principles include foundations of the nursing profession, quality and safety towards delivering evidence-based healthcare.  This course will meet the learning objectives as it relates to Quantitative Literacy by significant application of math skills required to provide safe patient are in assessment, interventions, data analysis, medication administration and measurable patient evaluation/outcomes.

    General Education Requirements: Students can satisfy three credits of the General Education Quantitative Literacy requirement by successfully completing NUR 102, NUR 201 and NUR 302.

    Prerequisites: Nursing Major; minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5, and a minimum grade of C or better in BIO 100 and NUR 101

    Corequisites: NUR 106

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 1.5
  

  • NUR 103 - Foundations of Nursing Practice II

    Along with NUR 101 and NUR 102, this foundational nursing course introduces students to nursing theory, the nursing process, ethical principles, the nurse’s role in advocacy, health policy, quality improvement and self-care.  In addition, the course also expands on patient-centered care, evidence-based practice, communication and collaboration among inter-professional teams, and the use of informatics.  Global health issues and their impact on nursing practice as well as the future of nursing practice will be covered.

    Prerequisites: Nursing Major; minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5, and a minimum grade of C or better in BIO 100 and NUR 101

    Corequisites: BIO 208

    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 106 - Foundations of Nursing Practice I LAB

    This course is designed to introduce fundamentals of nursing practice by applying an evidence-based approach within a laboratory learning environment. Students will develop foundational nursing skills for clinical practice to promote quality-based patient care that aligns with selected core competencies. Essential medication delivery mechanisms and mathematics will be emphasized

    Course Note:  A minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5 is required.

    Prerequisites: Nursing Major, minimum grade of C in either BIO 100, or both BMB 207 and BMB 209. Completion of at least one semester of the nursing program of study. 

    Corequisites: NUR 102

    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

    Credits: 1
  

  • NUR 160 - Introduction to Human Genetics and Genomics for Health Care Professions

    Genomic applications have become increasingly more relevant to the delivery of healthcare across all health settings. This course introduces students to genetic/genomics information in various applications within healthcare. Students are provided an overview of genomic concepts that relate to caring for persons/families/communities and/or populations throughout the lifespan. Students will acquire the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to meet selected core competencies outlined in the Essentials of Genetic and Genomic Nursing: Competencies, Curricula Guidelines and Outcome Indicators. Special emphasis will be given to current events that utilize clinical guidelines and follow evidence-based practice.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 1
  

  • NUR 165 - Introduction to Care of the Older Adult

    This course provides a foundation of essential knowledge, skills and attitudes in the provision of care to older adults.  The content focuses on aging as a normal development process and includes analysis of issues confronting this population.  The course focuses on older adults as vibrant and essential members of society with an emphasis on the health professionals’ role in promoting older adult wellness and health.   Key recommendations and evidence-based practice from leading geriatric organizations are embedded into
    the course.

    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

    Credits: 1
  

  • NUR 200 - Care of Adults I

    This course introduces nursing concepts necessary for novice care of adult clients with selected illness and disease conditions, with the use of the nursing process to promote health and healing.  Students apply pathophysiology and health assessment principles to focus nursing assessment and care planning to implement care and evaluate outcomes. Patient-centered care, safety, teamwork and collaboration, and evidence-based practice are highlighted through case studies, active learning tasks, lecture, and discussion.

    NOTE: students must have a cumulative Lab/Science GPA of 3.0

    Prerequisites: Nursing major. Overall cumulative GPA of a 3.0; cumulative Lab/Science GPA of 3.0;  Minimum grade of C in BIO 100, BIO 208, BMB 207, BMB 209, BMB 240, BMB 241 and MAT 111.

    Corequisites: NUR 202, 265, 300 and 303

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 201 - Care of Adults I Clinical

    This course introduces the student to the professional nursing role in direct care learning experiences. Students will build on knowledge, skills and attitudes gained from the science and humanities, previous and concurrent nursing courses in the provision of professional nursing care to adults. This clinical experience will provide students with the opportunities to apply theoretical knowledge, critical thinking, and basic nursing skills when implementing safe patient care.

    NOTE: Note: Nursing Major. Overall cumulative GPA 3.0 and cumulative lab/science GPA of 3.0 Minimum grade of “C” in BIO 100, BMB, 207, BMB 209, BIO 208, BMB 241/240 and MAT 111.

    General Education Requirements: Together with NUR102 & NUR 302, this course satisfies 3 credits of the General Education Quantitative Literacy requirement for Nursing majors only.

    Prerequisites: Permission.

    Corequisites: NUR 200, NUR 202, NUR 265, NUR 300 and NUR 303

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 1.5
  

  • NUR 202 - Application of Theory to Nursing Practice I

    This course prepares students to provide holistic evidence-based nursing care through laboratory learning experiences.  Students will develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required to meet selected core competencies for safe patient care.  Lab: 2

     

    NOTE: students must have a cumulative Lab/Science GPA of 3.0

    Prerequisites: Nursing Major with an overall cumulative GPA of 3.0 and cumulative Lab/Science GPA of 3.0; minimum grade of C in BIO 100, BIO 208, BMB 207, BMB 209, BMB 240, BMB 241 and MAT 111.

    Corequisites: NUR 200, NUR 265, NUR 300 and NUR 303

    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Summer

    Credits: 1.5
  

  • NUR 300 - Health Assessment Through the Lifespan

    Develops the knowledge and skills necessary to conduct an individual assessment. Emphasis on data collection through the development of communication, interviewing, history-taking and physical examination skills. Lec 3, Lab 3.

    NOTE: students must have a cumulative Lab/Science GPA of 3.0

    Prerequisites: Nursing Major; Overall cumulative GPA 3.0; cumulative Lab/Science GPA of 3.0; Minimum grade of C in BIO 100, BIO 208, BMB 207, BMB 209, BMB 240, BMB 241, CHF 201 and MAT 111. 

    Corequisites: NUR 308

    Course Typically Offered: Fall & Spring

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 301 - Care of Adults II

    This course builds on the knowledge, skills and attitudes mastered in all preceding nursing courses, sciences and social sciences.   Students will develop the ability to collaborate with other members of the health care team in providing comprehensive care to adults in a variety of clinical settings.  Concepts of patient-centered care, quality improvement, evidence-based practice, safety, informatics, team-work and collaboration are further developed in the context of care of adults with acute and chronic health problems.

    Prerequisites: Nursing Major; Minimum grade of “C” in NUR 200, NUR 201, NUR 202, NUR 300, NUR 303

    Corequisites: NUR 302,  NUR 316 and NUR 415

    Course Typically Offered: Fall, Spring and Summer

    Credits: 3
  

  • NUR 302 - Application of Theory to Nursing Practice II

    This laboratory based, skill building course prepares students to provide complex patient-centered care of adults with acute and chronic health problems. Students will develop the knowledge, skills and attitudes to meet selected core competencies of safe, high quality, evidence-based patient care. This laboratory course also provides students with the mathematics skills necessary to provide safe patient care.

    General Education Requirements: Students can satisfy three credits of the General Education Quantitative Literacy requirement by successfully completing NUR 102, NUR 201 and NUR 302.

    Prerequisites:  Nursing major, minimum of C in NUR 200, NUR 201, NUR 202, NUR 300, NUR 303

    Corequisites: NUR 301 and  NUR 316

    Course Typically Offered: Fall and Spring

    Credits: 1.5
 

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