WASHINGTON COLLEGE COURSE CATALOG COURSES OF INSTRUCTION 2019-2020 1 Accounting Accounting Minor Department of Business Management Division of Social Sciences S. Lansing Williams, Director The Accounting Minor covers knowledge of the accounting principles and practices fundamental to the capture and analysis of financial information about the firm, the use of accounting information to plan and control activities, accounting theory, and practical application of accounting in the areas such as taxation and auditing. Once basic skills of reading financial statements and balance sheets have been learned, accounting is a discipline marked by critical thinking, analytic precision, ethical awareness, and clarity with words, numbers, and visual display of information. Accountants ask questions, communicate answers, and clarify the difficult choices that organizations, both for-profit and not-for-profit, face with regards to budgets and strategic planning. They also ensure that organizations adhere to ethical and legal guidelines in gathering and reporting information and in their internal and external activities. This minor is suitable for students desiring to pursue careers in both private and public accounting and offers courses needed for entry into graduate studies in accounting. While internships are not required for the minor, they are strongly encouraged. Please contact the Director of the Minor or the Chair of the Department of Business Management for information regarding earning academic credit for internships. Four Core Courses ECN 111. Introduction to Macroeconomics, or ECN 112. Introduction to Microeconomics BUS 109. Managerial Statistics, or ECN 215. Data Analysis, or equivalent course BUS 112. Introduction to Financial Accounting BUS 209. Financial Analysis Four Elective Courses (select four of the following) BUS 212. Managerial Accounting (offered in the fall semester) ​ BUS 340. Intermediate Accounting I (offered in the fall semester) ​ BUS 341. Income Tax Accounting (offered in the fall semester) ​ BUS 342. Auditing (offered in the spring semester) ​ BUS 343. Intermediate Accounting II (offered in the spring semester) ​ Special topic elective courses are also offered from time to time. 2 Accounting With the prior permission of the Director of the Accounting Minor or the Chair of the Department of Business Management, relevant special topic courses from other Washington College departments or taken at study-abroad partners may also be counted for the minor. See the catalog entry for the Business Management major for more information regarding study-abroad partners offering business-related courses. Preparation for Graduate Studies and the Certified Public Accounting (CPA) Exam Students intending to pursue careers in public accounting are encouraged to consider entry into a Master of Accounting program upon graduation. Students who have completed BUS 112 Introduction to Financial Accounting will be able to take the additional electives. A suggested sequence could be: Junior Year Fall: Intermediate Accounting I Spring: Intermediate Accounting II Senior Year ​ Fall: Managerial Accounting, Income Tax Accounting Spring: Auditing For more information, please contact the Director of the Accounting Minor or the Chair of the Department of Business Management. 3 American Studies American Studies Interdisciplinary Major Richard De Prospo (English and American Studies), Director Adam Goodheart (Director, Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience) Heather Harvey (Art) Michael Harvey (Business) Alisha Knight (English and American Studies) Alicia Kozma (Communication and Media Studies) Sean R. Meehan (English) Kenneth Miller (History) Patrick Nugent (American Studies, Starr Center Deputy Director) Joseph Prud’homme (Political Science) John Seidel (Director, Center for Environment and Society) Kenneth Schweitzer (Music) Richard Striner (History) Aileen Tsui (Art History) Michele Volansky (Theatre and Dance) Carol Wilson (History) The American Studies major is designed for the unusually independent student who will take on the responsibility of helping to determine the structure of her major and who seeks the freedom to participate actively in the selection of her curriculum. American Studies explores US culture and American national identity from cross-disciplinary perspectives in order to help students develop a rich understanding of the American experience. For instance, students might explore racial, ethnic, gender, LGBTQ, or class identities—all central themes in current American Studies—in many different fields: history courses on slavery or the Civil Rights Movement; literature courses on the Harlem Renaissance, Irish and Irish-American literature, Jewish-American literature, and European colonial through twenty-first century American literature; cultural studies courses on popular culture, gender, race, class, sexuality, and generation; music courses on jazz and American music; art courses on American painting, the history of US photography, and US museology; a summer-session archaeology field school conducting excavations on Maryland's Eastern Shore. Student Opportunities American Studies students benefit from the American Studies Program's close relationship with the Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience. The Center, located in the historic eighteenth-century Custom House on the Chester River in downtown Chestertown, supports student research, hosts special events, sponsors many internships, and provides significant funding for undergraduate research, including Comegys Bight Fellowships for summer research in American Studies and Frederick Douglass Fellowships for spring-semester research in African-American studies. The Curriculum The major in American Studies requires completing twelve semester courses. Four of these are lower-level (200-level) semester courses in two introductory sequences, one in American 4 American Studies Culture and one in American History. To satisfy the sequence in American Culture students must take one of the three following course sequences, either Introduction to American Culture I (AMS 209 cross-listed as ENG 209) and ​ Introduction to American Culture II (AMS 210 cross-listed as ENG 210), or ​ Introduction to American Culture I (AMS 209 cross-listed as ENG 209) and ​ Introduction to African-American Literature II (AMS 214 cross-listed as ENG 214 ​ and BLS 214), or Introduction to African-American Literature I (AMS 213 cross-listed as ENG 213 ​ and BLS 213) and Introduction to American Culture II (AMS 210 cross-listed as ENG 210) ​ To satisfy the sequence in American History, students must take both of the following courses: History of the United States to 1865 (HIS 201) ​ History of the United States since 1865 (HIS 202) ​ Beyond completion of these four prerequisite courses the American Studies major requires completion of an additional eight upper-level (300 level or above) semester courses. Two of these are required: American Studies Seminar (AMS 400), offered in the fall, and the Senior Capstone Experience Seminar (AMS SCE). The remaining 6 upper-level semester courses will be elected from among the courses listed below. Course choices will be determined according to individual American Studies majors' interdisciplinary interests in consultation with the Director of American Studies. Because of the program’s interdisciplinary nature, there is no minor in American Studies. Course Descriptions AMS 209 (ENG 209). Introduction to American Culture I Taught in the fall semester, the course is concerned with the establishment of American Literature as a school subject. Texts that have achieved the status of “classics” of American Literature, such as Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter, Thoreau’s Walden, and Mark Twain’s The ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, will be read in the context of the history and politics of their ​ achieving this status. Texts traditionally excluded from the canon of American literature, in particular early Hispano- and Franco-American texts, will be considered in the context of their relative marginality to the project of establishing American Literature in the American academy. Other-than-written materials, such as modern cinematic representations of the period of exploration and colonization of North America, as well as British colonial portraits and history 5 American Studies paintings, will be studied for how they reflect on claims for the cultural independence of early America. Other-than-American materials, such as late medieval and early Renaissance Flemish and Hispanic still lifes, as well as the works of nineteenth-century European romantic poets and prose writers, will be sampled for how they reflect on claims for the exceptional character of American culture. AMS 210 (ENG 210). Introduction to American Culture II Taught in the spring semester, the course is concerned with the establishment of American Studies as a curriculum in post-World War II American colleges and universities. Readings will include a variety of written texts, including those not traditionally considered “literary,” as well as a variety of other-than-written materials, including popular cultural ones. Introductions to the modern phenomena of race, gender, sexuality, class, and generation in U.S. culture will be included. A comparatist perspective on the influence of American culture internationally, and a review of the international American Studies movement in foreign universities will also be introduced. AMS 213 (ENG 213). Introduction to African American