Course List

This course introduces the concepts and basic principles of designing in space, and develops an awareness of spatial problems and sensitivity to designing with materials.

General Education - Discoveries:
GDAH: Arts/Humanities

This course is an introduction to and a general survey of major works of art and architecture in a global context from 1300 to the present.

General Education - Discoveries:
GDAH: Arts/Humanities
General Education - Competencies:
GCIF: Intercultural Fluency

Introduces the fundamental principles of biology including cellular chemistry and energy conversions, cell structure, cell replication, genetics, evolution and organismal diversity, population dynamics and ecology, and environmental issues.

General Education - Discoveries:
GDNS: Natural Sciences and Technology

This course introduces students to the theoretical foundations of bioethics, including the most influential schools of moral philosophy and their practical implications in life sciences. It discusses professional ethics, such as the ethical issues that arise from conflicting professional responsibilities and topics such as abortion and euthanasia.

General Education - Discoveries:
GDAH: Arts/Humanities
General Education - Competencies:
GCER: Ethical Reasoning

This course surveys the legal environment business owners and employees face with attention to sources of law and the arenas of dispute resolution as well as to the relationship between law and ethics. Criminal law, tort law, administrative law, and administrative law are reviewed. Contract law is examined in greater depth.

General Education - Competencies:
GCER: Ethical Reasoning

Introduces non-business students to a variety of business concepts with an emphasis on the ethical, global, inclusive, and collaborative nature of contemporary business practices. Students will develop analytical, technical, and personal skills for academic and career success.

This course provides insight into the applications of information systems used by business professionals. It stimulates the system techniques allowing students to analyze complex technologies, abstract behavioral concepts, and applications in business areas, such as marketing, human resource management, finance, accounting and operations.

General Education - Foundations:
GFTL: Technological Literacy

The course will explore current and sometimes controversial topics in science. Topics will vary, and will be related to the natural science discipline prefix including concepts in chemistry, physics, geology, meteorology and climate science, geography, and mathematics.

General Education - Discoveries:
GDNS: Natural Sciences and Technology

Introduces the Chinese language, emphasizing all language skills - listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Section information text: This course is offered entirely online but not at a specific date and time.

This course introduces students to the role and value of information systems (IS) to businesses and society, technological and non-technological components of IS and managing information and data resources. Students learn to use software and systems for analysis, modeling and retreival of data, and for managing processes and projects.

General Education - Foundations:
GFTL: Technological Literacy

Introduces programming concepts within business and technological context. Topics include programming basics (control structures, loops,data types, operations and methods), computer organization, algorithmic thinking and social and professional issues.

General Education - Foundations:
GFTL: Technological Literacy

General Education - Foundations:
GFTL: Technological Literacy

This course familiarizes students with the use of PC productivity software (word processing, spread sheet management, file management, and presentation software) and its effects on society.

General Education - Foundations:
GFTL: Technological Literacy

This course develops computational problem solving and programming skills using Python for students in non-computing majors. Students will learn programming constructs and how to develop different solutions that involve analyzing, processing and visualizing data. The course includes hands-on programming activities.

General Education - Foundations:
GFTL: Technological Literacy

Introduces media professions and the writing skills needed to succeed in the modern media environment. Topics include approaches and strategies for writing across traditional, digital, and social media platforms. Students will practice writing and revising copy for print, broadcast, and digital media for diverse audiences and purposes. Section information text: This course is offered entirely online but not at a specific date and time.

Explores the concepts and theories used in planning and creating a social media campaign. Topics include current and past social media, message creation across media, strategies for successful social campaigns, industry terms and professional use of social media. Students will create, analyze, and evaluate social media content.

Introduces students to communication disorders. Encompasses the problems humans may have in speech, language, and hearing. Focuses on their causes, their impacts on people, methods for their evaluation and management. Includes an overview of cultural effects on communication and an orientation to the professions of speech pathology and audiology.

Introduces students to normal language and speech development in children. Provides theoretical and practical frames of reference for students entering child-centered professions. Addresses foundations of language and speech acquisition, developmental processes normal speech and language, and means of facilitating normal communicative abilities.

This course investigates the nature of hearing disorders and the audiological, medical, social, psychological, and educational implications. It examines basic evaluation procedures and methods of (re)habilitation for individuals with hearing loss. It emphasizes hearing’s impact on speech and language.

This course focuses on the fundamental concepts of digital media technology and typical components including hardware, software, peripheral devices, conventional photography/scanned images, digital photography, bit-mapped and vector based image creation and editing, web pages, video, animation, 3D images, and audio. The application of digital media in business, marketing, education, entertainment and training will be explored. Practical hands-on assignments will be used to reinforce learning. Two-lecture hours and three laboratory-hours per week.

General Education - Foundations:
GFTL: Technological Literacy

Offers practice for students in exploring the processes of composition in various genres. Introduces composing strategies with an emphasis on developing and structuring ideas for specific audiences and purposes, recognizing and editing grammatical and mechanical errors, providing constructive peer feedback, and revising.

General Education - Discoveries:
GDAH: Arts/Humanities

Emphasizes the practice and process of composition with a focus on research, inquiry, and exploration of the genres of argument, analysis, and narrative. Offers the strategies, structures, and conventions for composing in a variety of modalities and provides foundational skills for evaluating, summarizing, and synthesizing academic sources.

General Education - Foundations:
GFWC: Written Communication

This course will center on a specific topic and the way in which literature deals with the context of its creation and/or the culture in which it is created. It might include such topics as Native American Literature or the Literature of Work.

General Education - Discoveries:
GDAH: Arts/Humanities

This course will center on a specific topic and the way in which literature deals with the context of its creation and/or the culture in which it is created. It might include such topics as Native American Literature or the Literature of Work.

General Education - Discoveries:
GDAH: Arts/Humanities

Introduces students to the basic elements of sports nutrition. This course presents the scientific basis of roles played by carbohydrates, fat, protein, water, and key vitamins and minerals as they relate to physical exercise. The course will present information on diets during training, timing and composition of pre- and post-competition meals.

General Education - Discoveries:
GDWH: Wellness & Personal Health

This is an introductory lecture course on the fundamentals of astronomy. An emphasis is placed on observing and understanding celestial objects in our solar system, galaxy and universe. Extensive use of a planetarium highlights the in person experience while the on-line offering uses a desktop planetarium such as stellarium.

General Education - Discoveries:
GDNS: Natural Sciences and Technology

United States history from Pre-Columbian America to the age of modern industry: the colonial heritage, American Revolution, the emergence of a new nation, westward expansion, Civil War, and postwar Reconstruction. Section information text: This course is offered entirely online but not at a specific date and time.

This course examines the process and interplay of the major world cultures in their evolution. Civilizations include Indian, Muslem, East Asian (China, Korea, Japan), Slavic, Western European, Latin American, and African. Section information text: This course is offered entirely online but not at a specific date and time.

This course provides study in mathematical representations and problem solving. Students analyze and solve problems in areas such as set theory, mathematics of finance, probability, and statistics. Students will apply mathematics to build financial strategies as they make purchases and investments throughout their lives.

General Education - Foundations:
GFQR: Quantitative Reasoning

This course develops properties of functions and their applications. Topics include rational expressions, linear equations, complex numbers, functions and their graphs, linear and quadratic inequalities, systems of equations, exponential functions, and logarithmic functions.

Prerequisite: MATH 1210 or ALEKS placement test
General Education - Foundations:
GFQR: Quantitative Reasoning
General Education - Discoveries:
GDNS: Natural Sciences and Technology

The purpose of this course is to expose the student to the various historical, analytical, and aesthetic elements of music, thereby providing an opportunity to broaden and enrich personal enjoyment. This exposure to music is made using visual aids, audio recordings, radio, television, films, and concerts. Section information text: This course is offered entirely online but not at a specific date and time.

Explores the personal financial planning process and its effect on achieving financial goals and improving personal financial wellness. Emphasizes personal financial data gathering, financial goal setting, risk management and insurance, investment strategies, income tax planning, retirement planning, and estate planning.Explores the personal financial planning process and its effect on achieving financial goals and improving personal financial wellness. Emphasizes personal financial data gathering, financial goal setting, risk management and insurance, investment strategies, income tax planning, retirement planning, and estate planning.

General Education - Discoveries:
GDWH: Wellness & Personal Health

An introduction to such major philosophical issues as the nature of knowledge, reality, religion and morals.

General Education - Discoveries:
GDAH: Arts/Humanities

Explores conversations on controversial subjects with emphasis on recognizing conflict and engaging in constructive modes of interaction. Topics include civil discourse as the foundation for democratic institutions, sustainable relationships, and collaborative decision-making. Students will construct, arrange, and deliver oral presentations. Section information text: This course is offered entirely online but not at a specific date and time.

This course provides an introduction to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Topics covered in the course include the biological basis of behavior, research methods, learning, memory, human development, personality, social psychology, abnormal behavior, and the treatment of mental disorders.

General Education - Discoveries:
GDSS: Social Sciences

This course provides an overview of the biological, cognitive, and social factors that impact physical, cognitive, social, and emotional development throughout the lifespan. Presents the research methodology common to this field of psychology as well as the major theories and their application to stages of life from conception to death. Section information text: This course is offered entirely online but not at a specific date and time.

The course will familiarize students with the interrelationship between leisure and western culture. Specifically, students will be introduced to the many effects leisure has on society including, but not limited to the economic impact on leisure, leisure as a modifier of culture, and leisure as it relates to life stages and health.

General Education - Discoveries:
GDWH: Wellness & Personal Health

Explore how people interact in social contexts shaped by inequality, health, gender, climate, race, technology, and class. Discover knowledge produced by sociologists working in research, business, advocacy, human services, and education. If you really want to change the world, you must first understand it.

General Education - Discoveries:
GDSS: Social Sciences
General Education - Competencies:
GCIL: Information Literacy

This course will cover a variety of perspectives on a broad range of contemporary social problems. While the specific topics will vary, the focus will be on the events and critical issues that shape social problems and on the variety of effects these problems have on individuals, groups, and society. Potential solutions will also be considered.

General Education - Discoveries:
GDSS: Social Sciences
General Education - Competencies:
GCIF: Intercultural Fluency
GCER: Ethical Reasoning

Why is life unfair? Sociology analyzes how patterns of inequality are produced, maintained, and challenged in relation to multiple social identities (ex: ability, class, gender, race, etc.). Using sociological research methods, issues of social stratification, hierarchy, power, and prestige are examined within U.S. and international societies.

General Education - Discoveries:
GDSS: Social Sciences
General Education - Competencies:
GCIF: Intercultural Fluency
GCIL: Information Literacy

This course explores the social, political, economic and historical dimensions of poverty and welfare services in the U.S. It complements other beginning courses in the social sciences by integrating this knowledge in a fashion which aids in the comprehension of welfare services while establishing a basis for movement toward higher-level courses.

This class introduces students to effective interviewing skills to enhance oral communication with diverse client systems. Communication techniques that enhance effective client interactions are explored. Student competence is assessed through 20 hours of volunteer service, video recordings of oral communication skills, and in class activities.

General Education - Foundations:
GFOC: Oral Communication

This course offers a foundation for ethical decision making and moral significance of sport. Students will apply ethical reasoning and critical thinking skills to help solve dilemmas and conflicts in sport. Issues ranging from fair play, sportsmanship, discrimination, accessibility, and performance enhancement will be explored.

General Education - Discoveries:
GDSS: Social Sciences
General Education - Competencies:
GCER: Ethical Reasoning

This course will enable students to critically examine and analyze contemporary issues in sport from an interdisciplinary perspective. Current issues, trends, and challenges will be presented with the intent of provoking thought and stimulating debate so that students may identify their role in the resolution of issues within the sports industry.

General Education - Competencies:
GCIF: Intercultural Fluency

This course is intended to provide just-in-time algebra reviews necessary to complete statistical analysis for various health and social science related problems. Topics include: frequency distributions, percentiles, measures of central tendency and variability, normal distribution, populations, samples, confidence intervals, and hypothesis tests.

Prerequisite: MATH 1030 with a C- or better
General Education - Foundations:
GFQR: Quantitative Reasoning

Offers practice for students in exploring the processes of composition in various rhetorical genres. Introduces composing strategies through an emphasis on developing and structuring ideas for specific audiences and purposes, recognizing and editing grammatical and mechanical errors, giving peer feedback, and revising.

This course is designed to convey information concerning the individual’s role in establishing a healthful lifestyle as well as encouraging a sense of responsibility about that role. The current health framework encompasses topics such as basic fitness and nutrition, the prevention of disease, as well as a focus on healthful living.

This course provides study in mathematical representations and problem solving. Students analyze and solve problems in areas such as set theory, mathematics of finance, probability, and statistics. Students will apply mathematics to build financial strategies as they make purchases and investments throughout their lives.

This course develops properties of functions and their applications. Topics include rational expressions, linear equations, complex numbers, functions and their graphs, linear and quadratic inequalities, systems of equations, exponential functions, and logarithmic functions.

This course is an introduction to informal logic (sometimes called critical thinking), covering a variety of topics bearing on the understanding and rational assessment of claims and arguments.

This course is a comprehensive introduction to American politics and constitutional government.

This course provides an introduction to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Topics covered in the course include the biological basis of behavior, research methods, learning, memory, human development, personality, social psychology, abnormal behavior, and the treatment of mental disorders.

This course is an introduction to the defining moments of world art and architecture from prehistory to the present.

Offers practice for students in exploring the processes of composition in various rhetorical genres. Introduces composing strategies through an emphasis on developing and structuring ideas for specific audiences and purposes, recognizing and editing grammatical and mechanical errors, giving peer feedback, and revising.

Diverse places from around the world are examined from both a regional geography perspective and through the lens of globalization. Principles of geographic study are emphasized, including physical geography, human geography, and geopolitics.

This course develops properties of functions and their applications. Topics include rational expressions, linear equations, complex numbers, functions and their graphs, linear and quadratic inequalities, systems of equations, exponential functions, and logarithmic functions.

This course covers the theories and structures of mathematics needed for the study of computer science. Topics include: set theory, formal logic, introduction to proof writing, mathematical induction, Boolean algebra, number theory, matrix algebra, combinatorics, probability, algorithmic analysis, recursion, relations, graph theory, and trees.

This course is a comprehensive introduction to American politics and constitutional government.

This course provides an introduction to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Topics covered in the course include the biological basis of behavior, research methods, learning, memory, human development, personality, social psychology, abnormal behavior, and the treatment of mental disorders.

Explore how people interact in social contexts shaped by inequality, health, gender, climate, race, technology, and class. Discover knowledge produced by sociologists working in research, business, advocacy, human services, and education. If you really want to change the world, you must first understand it.

Forensic science applies scientific principles and techniques to the field of criminal justice. This introductory survey course is designed to expose students to the broad scope of forensic science. Special attention is paid to the collection, preservation, and analysis of physical evidence in criminal investigations across various scientific disciplines, as well as the introduction and presentation of evidence in a court of law. Topics discussed include: (a) the history of criminalistics; (b) crime scene documentation and investigative practices; c) the properties, collection, and categorization of physical evidence; e.g. fingerprints, bodily fluids (serology), DNA, hair, soil, plants, fiber, tool marks, firearms and projectiles (ballistics); (d) the analysis of documents, voice, and digital evidence; (e) biometric identification systems; (f) scientific instruments used in crime labs; (g) forensic evidence in judicial proceedings; and, (h) careers in the field of forensic science.

Offers practice for students in exploring the processes of composition in various rhetorical genres. Introduces composing strategies through an emphasis on developing and structuring ideas for specific audiences and purposes, recognizing and editing grammatical and mechanical errors, giving peer feedback, and revising.

This course develops properties of functions and their applications. Topics include rational expressions, linear equations, complex numbers, functions and their graphs, linear and quadratic inequalities, systems of equations, exponential functions, and logarithmic functions.

The purpose of this course is to expose the student to the various historical, analytical and aesthetic elements of music, thereby providing an opportunity to broaden and enrich personal enjoyment. This exposure to music is made through the use of visual aids, audio recordings, radio, television, films and concerts.

This course is an introduction to informal logic (sometimes called critical thinking), covering a variety of topics bearing on the understanding and rational assessment of claims and arguments.

This course is a comprehensive introduction to American politics and constitutional government.

This course provides an introduction to the scientific study of behavior and mental processes. Topics covered in the course include the biological basis of behavior, research methods, learning, memory, human development, personality, social psychology, abnormal behavior, and the treatment of mental disorders.

Explore how people interact in social contexts shaped by inequality, health, gender, climate, race, technology, and class. Discover knowledge produced by sociologists working in research, business, advocacy, human services, and education. If you really want to change the world, you must first understand it.