2010-2011 HBU Catalog - Houston Baptist University

MKTG 6334 Marketing Strategy Seminar
Prerequisite: MKTG 6310
A comprehensive course that studies strategy formulation, planning procedures and challenges present in today‘s
marketplace. This course uses case analysis to illustrate contemporary issues and decision making. Graduate Business
programs only.
MASTER OF LIBERAL ARTS
MLA 5318 Texas Culture
The purpose of this course is to view the ―Texas experience‖ from a variety of angles, including the history of the Lone
Star State, and how Texas fits in the national, social and political mosaic.
MLA 5321 Victorian Fiction
This course will serve as an introductory course on Victorian Fiction that will bridge MLA 6338, Great Detectives;
MLA 6355, Gothic Novels; and MLA 6369, Charles Dickens. Victorian Fiction will be a survey of the major Victorian
novelists from Dickens to Hardy.
MLA 5322 Fictional History
This course will be a survey of historical fiction from Sir Walter Scott to the present day with an emphasis on those
works that have shaped popular concepts of history.
MLA 5326 The Conquest of the Americas
In The Conquest of the Americas students will examine the three major pre-Columbian cultures in Latin America
(Maya, Aztec, and Inca). Documents recording the encounter of the Old and New Worlds will be read (in English):
diaries, letters, and histories plus hieroglyph/pictograph histories.
MLA 5329 Hildegard von Bingen and Her Music
The purpose of this course is to study and become familiar with the musical works of Hildegard von Bingen, placing
them within the history, environment and thought of the time. Students will become familiar with earlier forms of
worship music and the contemporary Christian music of her day.
MLA 5335 Egypt: Pharaohs and Pyramids
This course will provide a survey of Egyptian history from the earliest pharaohs through the Roman occupation; it will
also examine the literature, mythology, art, architecture, and science of Egypt as well as the West‘s rediscovery of the
Egyptian culture.
MLA 5336 Romanticism and Revolution: Art and Literature
This course will study the impact of the French and American revolutions with emphasis on the visual arts. This survey
of the Romantic Era will include a brief review of the major English poets, composers who based their major works on
Romantic literary works, and artists of the Romantic Era.
MLA 5340 Expressionism and the Arts
This course will examine briefly the expressive aspects of the Hellenistic, Baroque, and Romantic eras, but will
emphasize the artistic movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries known as Expressionism.
Emphasis will be on the European and American Expressionists.
MLA 5341 Three Cities of the Revolution
This class will enhance the student‘s critical understanding of the American republic through studies and readings in
Revolutionary War perspectives presented by Williamsburg, Boston, and Philadelphia.
MLA 5344 A World in Transition
The transition from the classical world to a world divided into three successor states— the Byzantine Empire, the
Germanic kingdoms of the Latin West, and the Islamic Caliphates. This course examines a number of different sources
— historical, literary, and artistic — to trace the evolution of these various forces.
MLA 5345 Faulkner
Students read novels and short stories by William Faulkner and relate his themes and style to American Modernism.
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