Courses
HN 300 HONORS CAPSTONE 3.0 Credit(s)
This course provides an opportunity for the third year honors student to integrate knowledge learned through the Thematic Liberal Arts (TLA) core courses in the capstone course of the honors program. Students will learn, develop and exercise integrative, cross-disciplinary thinking through weekly class discussions and the writing and presentation of a long written artifact on a cross-disciplinary topic of the student's choice. This integrative seminar is co-taught, ideally by two faculty members representing two areas of the TLA requirements (Humanities, Social Sciencesm and Sciences).
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
CS 332 CLOUD COMPUTING 3.0 Credit(s)
This course presents a number of cloud computing tools and technologies, including virtualization, web services, data analysis, and integration. Prerequisite: Take CS-112 and CS 339
Offered: Fall Semester All Years
PS 328 CHILDREN, MEDIA AND MORALITY 3.0 Credit(s)
This course will explore the impact of media on child development, the development of morality and the intersection of these two topics. Prerequisite: Take PS-110
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
ED 304 CULTURALLY SUSTAINING EDUCATION 3.0 Credit(s)
Teacher candidates will reflect on their identities, inquire into the experience of others, and examine individual, interpersonal, institutional, and systemic barriers that limit educational opportunities and outcomes for many students. The course draws on history, policy, theory, and praxis to enable candidates to draw from students' cultural, religious, family, intellectual, and personal assets in strategies that effectively support all students' personal and academic success in a diverse society.
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
MGT 360 SURVEY DESIGN & DATA ANALYSIS 3.0 Credit(s)
This project based learning course provides an overview of surveys used by organizations for various reasons, with a focus on a Human Resource application - employee attitudinal surveys. The course includes instruction on survey design and practical application on how to convert organizational concerns into questions that provide meaningful answers. In groups, students will act as consultants and work with an actual client to design and develop a survey, communicate objectives, administer the survey, analyze and interpret the results using statisical analysis, deliver results and transfer the results into action planning.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
EX 397 PRACTICAL APPLICATION OF EXERCISE SCI. 3.0 Credit(s)
This capstone course will require students to apply contemporary research, skills, and knowledge gained in Exercise Science courses and lab to cases and contexts within the professional field of Exercise Science. The course will begin with an overview of management concepts relevant to students in fitness and clinical settings. The majority of the course will require students to work though case studies addressing general exercise prescriptions and programming, considerations of special populations, the exercise scientist's role in allied health care, health and fitness promotion, ethics, and administrative factors. Prerequisite: EX-362 or EX-363
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
FN 342 STUDENT MANAGED INVESTMENT FUND 1.0 Credit(s)
This one credit Student Management Investment Fund course provides an opportunity for dedicated and passionate students of investment management an opportunity to earn credits while working to manage the fund. Students learn the basics of asset allocation, research and present securities for investment consideration, track investments and develop recommendations for increasing, reducing or closing positions. Use of S&P Capital IQ for industry research and financial analysis and Bloomberg data are required to successfully complete the course.
Offered: Fall & Spring Semesters All Years
BI 303 GIS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE 4.0 Credit(s)
This course focuses on the GIS principles, methods, and techniques that are particularly relevant to and useful for problem solving in environmental analysis and management. Specfically this course has four major components: an overview of selected GIS principles including data models,scale and spatial sampling, and spatial autocorrelation; a review of the major techniques or issues for environmental data acquisition and integration; an introduction to environmental analysis and modeling techniques; and a discussion of several applied areas of environmental modeling techniques as related to coastal ecology, hydrology, natural hazards, natural resources management, and environmental planning. Prerequisite: Take MA-140 or MA-151
Offered: Spring Semester All Years
BI 379 RESTORATION ECOLOGY LAB 1.0 Credit(s)
Restoration Ecology is the practiceof renewing and restoring degraded, damaged or destroyed ecosystems and habitats in the environment using ecological principles. Prerequisite: Take BI-202 and BI-204 with minimum grade of C, P
Offered: Spring Semester Contact Department
BI 378 RESTORATION ECOLOGY 3.0 Credit(s)
Restoration Ecology is the practiceof renewing and restoring degraded, damaged or destroyed ecosystems and habitats in the environment using ecological principles. Prerequisite: Take Bi-202 and Bi-204 with minimum grade of C
Offered: Spring Semester Contact Department
CH 347 COMPUTATIONAL CHEM & MOLECULAR MODELING 3.0 Credit(s)
This is an advanced course which will cover classical theory and its application to molecular modeling and simulation.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
CH 345 BIOINFORMATICS 3.0 Credit(s)
This is a hands on course which provides an introduction to the theory and application of bioinformatics algorithms to solve biological research problems.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department
PS 340 CONSERVATION PSYCHOLOGY 3.0 Credit(s)
This course explores the growing field of conservation psychology and the connections it has to many allied fields, such as Conservation Biology. Conservation Psychology is psychology with a conservation agenda, that is, psychology for a sustainable future. Prerequisite: Take PS-110
Offered: Spring Semester Odd Academic Years
HS 336 CHILDHOOD HEALTH INEQUITIES 3.0 Credit(s)
This course is an interdisciplinary investigation and analysis of the ecological and social conditions that shape current patterns of childhood health disparities. We will analyze the underlying scientific associations of adverse health effects; evaluate casual links such as environmental contamination, air quality and heavy metal exposures, examine conditions that expand water-borne, vector-borne, and communicable diseases; assess how occupational and community design can contribute to patterns of disease; and explore disparate community impacts and rsponses to climate change. Students will evaluate the range and effectiveness of management and policy strategies designed to reduce adverse health outcomes, and explore evidence based strategies to reduce risk and health disparities. Particular attention will be given to the disproportionate health burdens on disenfranchised communities in both US and global regions.
Offered: Fall & Summer Semesters All Years
EC 308 THEORIES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY 3.0 Credit(s)
Examines the foundation of and challenges to market capitalism. The role of political actors, shortcomings of the market, and the trend toward globalization are emphasized. Seminal works of Adam Smith, Karl Marx, and other economic theorists are explored.
Offered: As Needed Contact Department