LAN 310 or placed by departmental test. Both heritage speakers and foreign language learners will benefit from this course, which allows them to reach mastery in the Spanish language. This course will be conducted entirely in Spanish and will focus on spoken and written communication. Students will also be exposed to the Spanish Culture through a variety of projects and real life activities. Prerequisite: Completion of LAN 310; or by departmental exam placement exam. General Education Elective: Humanities Instructor: (1) Hoyes completed Intermediate Japanese II or passed the departmental placement exam. The course focuses on acquiring more advanced literacy and conversational skills by constructing intermediate to advanced grammatical sentences and participating in role-playing in authentic dialogs. Students will practice/learn informal speech, basic honorific forms through Japanese movie, drama and reading passages. In addition, students will observe and analyze Japanese culture by comparing it to their own culture through a variety of projects and activities such as reading current Japanese events as well as popular culture aspects found online and used as a basis for discussion and writing assignments. Prerequisite: Completion of LAN 233; or permission of course instructor. General Education Electives: Humanities successfully completed Advanced Japanese I-LAN 330 or passed the departmental placement exam. The course focuses on acquiring advanced literacy and conversational skills using challenging grammatical structures. Students will also study the Japanese language and culture through a variety of projects and activities such as watching Japanese movies/videos, reading current events and cultural information online, and communicating with native speakers by using online tools. In addition students will practice/learn informal speech, honorific and basic humble forms through Japanese movie, drama and texts. Prerequisite: Completion of LAN 330; or by departmental placement exam. General Education Elective: Humanities 15512 172 15543 172 15539 152 and practice, designed to acquaint students with the development and effectiveness of the American system of law. The topics explored will include: the function of law in society, the use of legal remedy to resolve conflict, the impact of law on social behavior, the rights and duties of individuals and groups, the impact of wealth, status, and power, and legal precedent. Prerequisite: Eligible for ENG 101. General Education Electives: Social Science Note: This course has been approved to meet the Core Curriculum General Education Requirement. 17129 30 and the law. It begins with a study of the American legal system and includes the topics of contracts, the Uniform Commercial Code, business torts and crimes, agency and employment issues, product liability concepts, consumer protection, and the variety of ways in which a business may be legally organized. General Education Electives: Social Science Prerequisite: Eligible for ENG 101. 11261 01 arbitration through a series of actual cases and role plays. The nature and sources of conflict are examined within the context of judicial and non-judicial conflict resolution models. Ethical considerations are analyzed with particular attention to truth, confidentiality, competence, power imbalances, conflicts of interest and justice. The course provides students with an opportunity to learn basic negotiating and mediating skills that may be applied to their personal and professional lives. General Education Electives: Social Science 17135 50 T=Tuesday R=Thursday S=Saturday L=Lowell WEB=Online Courses |