Courses
ENG 257 ART OF THE NON-ACADEMIC ESSAY 3.0 Credit(s)
Non-academic essay writing on various topics. Prerequisite: Take FYS-125, FYWS-125, ENG-253
Offered: Fall Semester Even Academic Years
CM 274 CONTEMPORARY SPORTS BROADCASTING 3.0 Credit(s)
Provides students with foundational skills in sports journalism for live broadcasts and recorded programs and segments. Students learn multiple roles both in front of and behind the screen. Classroom activities include applied learning methods that require students to actively acquire the real-time skills necessary to work in a sports media setting and to pursue a career in multimedia sports journalism. Students develop and apply written, oral, and problem-solving skills to create, host, and produce original sports programming. Prerequisite: Pre: CM-101
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
ENG 245 AM. LIT. FOR ELEMENTARY ED. 3.0 Credit(s)
This course surveys American literature from the early national period to the present, with an emphasis on twentieth-century texts. Students will read a wide variety of texts in different genres, including the essay, the short story, poetry, and the novel. Since the majority of the students enrolled in this course plan to teach at the elementary level, the course will emphasize close reading and other skills that will help the students make complicated ideas understandable and accessible. Prerequisite: Take FYS or FYWS 125
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
EX 240 CONCEPTS IN SPORTS MEDICINE 3.0 Credit(s)
This course will provide an introduction to sports medicine concepts as they relate to the exercise science professional. Course content will include emergency action planning and the physiological response to injury as well as the healing process. This course also explores basic functional anatomy along with common injuries and their mechanism and the role of the exercise science professional in the recognition and management of these injuries. Prerequisite: EX-100, BI-206 and BI-208
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
EX 240L CONCEPTS IN SPORTS MEDICINE LAB 1.0 Credit(s)
This lab course introduces basic clinical skills for the examination of the musculoskeletal system. Skills instructed and assessed focus on the assessment of range of motion, muscle strength and basic skeletal alignment. Students will also be instructed and assessed on their understanding of human musculoskeletal anatomy. Prerequisite: EX-240 Lecture
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
HS 230 INTRODUCTION TO GLOBAL HEALTH 3.0 Credit(s)
Why are some people in some countries so much healthier than others? This course will explore the factors that explain the unequal distribution of health and disease in the world. The course will begin with an introduction to the language of global health: the burden of disease, epidemiology, cost effectiveness, and health systems. It will then analyze the rationale for and modes of intervention to improve global health by exploring a number of high profile topics, including the HIV/AIDS epidemic, access to pharmaceuticals, human resources for health, and maternal and child health. The course will incorporate knowledge and views from multiple academic disciplines (public health, economics, politics, management, sociology) and does not require any background knowledge.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
MU 235 SIGHT SINGING & EAR TRAINING III 1.0 Credit(s)
This course further develops the musical skills achieved in Sight Singing I and II, including advanced melodies and basic harmonic recognition. A prerequisite to MU 236 Prerequisite: Take MU-116
Offered: As Needed All Years
MU 236 SIGHT SINGING IV 1.0 Credit(s)
This course concludes the musical skills that were achieved in Sight Singing I, II, and III, including advanced melodies outlining advanced harmonies. Prerequisite: Take MU-235
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
MA 200 INTEGRATING STEM ACROSS THE CURRICULUM 3.0 Credit(s)
Seminar for Noyce Scholars on integrating STEM content across the curriculum along with development of culturally sustaining pedagogies, professional identity, grant writing skills, and integration of immersive technologies in the classroom.
Offered: All Semesters All Years
HS 200 INTRO TO HEALTH CARE & HEALTH PROFESS. 3.0 Credit(s)
The foundational course will begin with an overview of our healthcare system and its comparison to other countries. Delivery systems and ethical decision making will be examined in terms of population health, needs assessment, access, quality and cost. It will examine general healthcare terminology in relation to current systems and explore issues affecting the delivery of health care. The roles of various members of the health care system will be examined regarding education requirements, health care settings, health promotion philosophy and scope of practice in regards to inter-professional practice. This course is also intended to strengthen and broaden students' research, writing, and oral presentation skills for upper division course work and eventual career path, including graduate study.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
AN 230 COMMUNITY, CULTURE & FOLKLORE 3.0 Credit(s)
This course examines the role of folklore, social life and cultural identity in the West of Ireland. This course also examines the role of folklore in individual and community wellbeing.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CM 231 INTRO INT'L FIELD PRODUCTION 3.0 Credit(s)
This introductory class will examine the relationship between filmmaker and location. By working with narrative and non-narrative film styles, students will gain exposure and understanding to producint creative content in a foreigh country. Usin the student's emotional experience and study abroad locales, students will create creative pieces that will serve the artistic vision, their fundamental understanding of film production and the logistical elements of field production.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
AN 235 HUMANS IN THE ICE AGE 3.0 Credit(s)
This course provides an overview as to the various human adaptations and cultural expressions occuring globally during the last Ice Age.
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
BI 247 BIMINI CETACEAN ECOLOGY 3.0 Credit(s)
This course is a hands-on learning course examining the behaviorial and social ecology of wild dolphins, ecotourism and human impcts on the marine environment.
Offered: Summer Semester Contact Department
PS 247 BIMINI CETACEAN ECOLOGY 3.0 Credit(s)
This course is a hands-on learning course examining the behaviorial and social ecology of wild dolphins, ecotourism and human impcts on the marine environment.
Offered: Obsolete - Summer Semester Contact Department