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ACCT 0111 - FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introduction to the accounting functions used by businesses to accumulate, use, and analyze financial data. Emphasis is placed on the preparation, use, and interpretation of financial statements.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: COREQ or PREREQ: MATH 0031
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ACCT 0112 - MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Deals with the significance and use of basic accounting concepts as they relate to the principal items contained in financial statements. Includes an introductory survey of the various cost components encountered in accounting for the manufacturing enterprise.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ACCT 0111
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ACCT 0221 - INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Blends the theory and current practice of financial accounting for the business enterprise. Emphasis is placed on current accounting theory, valuation of assets and liabilities, and the impact of private, professional, and governmental agencies on financial accounting.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ACCT 0112
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ACCT 0222 - INTERMEDIATE ACCOUNTING 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Continuation of ACCT 0221 which covers such topics as accounting theory related to the liability and stockholders equity sections of the balance sheet, the cash flow statement, and earnings per share computation.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ACCT 0221
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ACCT 1155 - GOVERNMENT AND NONPROFIT ACCT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Application of the financial accounting and reporting standards applicable to (1) federal, state, and local governments and (2) nonprofit organizations. Introduction and analysis of the identification and classification of financial statement accounts. Identifies the authoritative sources that accountants as well as auditors must adhere to in the preparation and examination of the financial statements of these entities.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ACCT 1303 - STRATEGIC COST MANAGEMENT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on advanced topics in cost and managerial accounting. Emphasis is on standard cost systems and variance analysis; absorption and variable costing; capital budgeting techniques and income tax impact assessment; and short and long range forecasting and reporting.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ACCT 0112
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ACCT 1304 - FEDERAL INCOME TAXES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is an in-depth analysis of the federal income tax statutes and regulations relating to the taxation of individuals and sole proprietorships. Topics include: concepts of revenue and expenses, tax methods and treatment of the disposition of property (including capital gains and losses and tax research).
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ACCT 0112
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ACCT 1307 - FEDERAL INCOME TAX ACCOUNTNG 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A continuation of ACCT 0331/ACCT 1304 which examines specific tax areas applicable to different types of business organizations with exclusive emphasis on corporations during the final part of the class.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ACCT 1308 - COST ACCOUNTING 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Provides an advanced pragmatic understanding, rooted in theory, of cost accounting concepts, techniques, and systems as they relate to the purposes of cost and operations control. Covers the development and use of performance benchmarks, their integration in a standard cost system, the budget development process, differential analysis, cost-volume-profit analysis, direct costs, and analytical techniques relevant to capital expenditure decisions.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ACCT 1310 - AUDITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Concepts, standards, and methods of auditing including the role of evidence, the importance of internal accounting controls, and the auditor’s report.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ACCT 0112
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ACCT 1399 - ACCOUNTING INTERNSHIP
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Selected topics in an identified area of study in accounting.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Sophomore or higher; 2.5 GPA; Division Consent
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Administration and Policy Studies |
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ADMPS 1001 - SOCIAL FOUNDATIONS OF EDUCATN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students in the course have the opportunity to develop a foundational understanding of the dynamics of schooling in society by addressing the cultural aspects that underlie society’s educational ideas and practices. Through an interdisciplinary approach, readings and activities are designed for school practitioners, or those contemplating careers in education, to engage in the study of those cultural aspects and consequences. The general intent of foundational study is to introduce students to interpretive uses of knowledge Germane to education and to establish a basis for lifelong learning through normative and critical reflection on education within its historical philosophical, cultural and social contexts. Special emphasis is focused on the role of schooling in cultivating the habits necessary for democratic citizenship which include ongoing efforts to secure equitable and just social relations, and to advance the common good.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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Administration of Justice |
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ADMJ 0100 - SOCIETY AND THE LAW
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Every society regulates behavior and the means, i.e., either informal or formal, with which this is done varies according to level of social development. This course examines the regulation of behavior in primitive, transitional, and modern societies and traces the development of law and legal systems and their relationship to different characteristics of social development. We will examine legal jurisprudence and the application of the principles of these philosophies and explore how they have shaped legal action.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ADMJ 0203 - PROBATION AND PAROLE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An examination of the nature of parole, the factors influencing probation decisions, adult and juvenile probation services, and how probation and parole impact on the criminal justice system and on society.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ADMJ 0204 - POLICE AND SOCIETY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The law enforcement agencies of the federal, state, and local levels that are responsible for the control of crime and protection of society via maintenance of order, law enforcement, and peacekeeping functions within our social environment will be examined. Major topics include the evolution, development, functions and effects of law enforcement of crime in society. Emphasis is on the theory and practice of social control in society by traditional and emerging forms of policing responding to social and public policy.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ADMJ 0500 - INTRO TO ADMIN OF JUSTICE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introductory course designed to provide the student with basic information on the criminal justice system. Views the criminal justice system as consisting of six sub-systems; police, prosecution, courts, corrections, probation and parole. Explores law and society in general, the history, structure, function and contemporary problems in each major sub-system. Also explores the trend of the criminal justice system and the directions and implications involved.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ADMJ 0600 - INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course provides an overview of the study of the causes and social responses to crime. It examines legal definitions and elements of crime; surveys major categories of crime, i.e., Predatory and non-predatory acts; reviews major measures of crime; identifies major correlates and theories of crime; differentiates types of offenders and evaluates the working of the criminal justice system.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ADMJ 1225 - THE JUVENILE JUSTICE PROCESS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Presentation, discussion and analysis of the nature of the juvenile justice process, legal steps required in processing juveniles, nature and operation of juvenile justice institutions, interrelationships between parts of the system, and problems and prospects for their solution.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ADMJ 1450 - CRITICAL ISS IN CRIMNL JUSTICE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Analyzes contemporary issues relating to policies, goals, and procedures of all criminal justice agencies. Topics covered include trends and controversies regarding law enforcement activities, the changing role of police, police court controversies, standards and goals, future trends in criminal justice, manpower utilization, organizational changes, long-range planning, and projections for future of police agencies.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ADMJ 1455 - TOPICS IN ADMINSTRTN OF JUSTC
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The advanced study of a special topic in the administration of justice.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ADMJ 1900 - PRESERVICE INTERNSHIP
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 6
This course is a supervised placement with specific agencies in the criminal justice system.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
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Africana Studies |
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AFRCNA 0031 - INTRODUCTION TO AFRCNA STUDIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a survey course for Africana studies. An Afrocentric approach will be used to review the eight basic subject areas of the multidisciplinary focus; black history, black religion, black creative productions, black politics, black economics, black social organizations, black psychology and black education. Two alternative views will be pursued; a theoretical review of the literature and a summation of the practical experiences of black life.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 0120 - AFRICAN AMER EXPERIENCE SPORTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines blacks in sports. It focuses on sport as a microcosm of the larger society and also addresses sport’s relationship to politics, economics, race relations, and South African apartheid. It looks at the history of blacks in sports as well as three aspects of sports that appear to be racially biased; position allocation, performance differentials, and rewards and authority structure.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 0150 - AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduction to black American literature from its oral traditions to the written form from the 18th to 20th century interrelated to historical social and political movements. Special emphasis will be placed upon the Harlem Renaissance period, the literature of the 1960’s, and a work by the Pulitzer Prize winners (Gwendolyn brooks, James Alan McPherson, Alice Walker, or Toni Morrison).
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 0318 - HISTORY OF AFRICA BEFORE 1800
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Surveys history of Africa from earliest times to eve of European colonization. Looks at Africa from the inside out and aims at promoting an appreciation of Africa’s contribution to world civilization and an understanding of the historical processes that have shaped modern Africa. Major themes and topics include the ancient kingdoms, Islam, the slave trade and the European contact.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 0629 - AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the history of Afro-Americans from their African origins to their emancipation during the Civil War.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 0630 - AFRO-AMERICAN HISTORY 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the development of black Americans from the time of the Civil War to the present.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 0639 - HISTORY OF JAZZ
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course focuses on the chronological development of jazz from its beginnings on the plantation to its present state as a world concert music. Various styles such as ragtime, blues, gospel, spirituals, rhythm and blues, rock, soul, etc., Are examined.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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AFRCNA 1725 - EAST AFRICA ISSUES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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Anthropology |
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ANTH 0330 - ANTHRPLGCL MYTHS & REALITY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines the mysteries, myths, controversies, and frauds of anthropology. Topics covered consist of who discovered America?” And “where did the Indians come from?”; The lost continent, Atlantis, evidence for prehistoric visitors and outer space contact, the evolution of humans (who is bigfoot?); And “what is Stonehenge?” The course includes a basic review of the scientific method and archaeological techniques to facilitate discussion of the above topics and to encourage objective analysis of anthropological data.”
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0582 - INTRODUCTION TO ARCHEOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Examines the nature of modern archaeological research. Lectures look at how archaeologists work in the field, their analytic techniques, and some of the principal methodological and theoretical problems facing the field. Specific examples are used to illustrate these topics.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0645 - INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN BIOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Human biology deals with the nature and growth of human populations, human growth and development, human ecology and physiology, and the adaptation to various hostile environments that humans have made. This is an introductory course which places these topics in the framework of the study of human origins and the environments that our ancestors may have encountered in their evolutionary history. The emphasis is on morphologic variability.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0680 - INTRO PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to introduce the undergraduate to the issues, theories and methods of physical anthropology. Beginning with a consideration of evolutionary, genetic and geologic principles, the course goes on to consider, the diversity of fossil and extant primates, including humans. Issues in anatomy, paleontology and behavior will all be addressed.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0681 - INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN EVOLUTN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an introduction to human evolution and, in general, the evolution of the larger group to which we belong, the order primates. We will survey first the development of evolutionary ideas and modern developments in biology and geology and then review the diversity of living and fossil primates, dwelling especially on the discoveries and controversies surrounding our own evolutionary past.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0709 - SPEC TOPICS IN CULTRL ANTHRO
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
This course will be on a topic in the area of specialization of a visiting scholar yet to be determined.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0710 - SPEC TOPICS IN CULTRL ANTHRO
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will be on a topic in the area of specialization of a visiting scholar yet to be determined.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 0780 - INTRO TO CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
By examining the behavior and customs of peoples throughout the world, the course considers what it means to be human. We will describe the patterns of marriage, family organization, warfare and political behavior, economic systems, rituals, etc., Of other peoples, especially those of tribal societies, and compare these with American social patterns. Anthropological films and slide presentations will supplement lectures.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1015 - FLD METHDS PRIMT BEHAVR & BIOL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A field course exploring the interfaces between primate behavior and biology. The field site serves as a living laboratory where students experience the biology and behavior of new world monkeys in their native habitats. Daily lectures and field exercises cover aspects of primate ecology, biology, behavior, and the rain forest environment. Each student develops a research proposal to be conducted on-site during the last half of the course.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1016 - PRIMATE BEHAVIOR AND BIOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A field course exploring the interfaces between primate behavior and biology. The field site serves as a living laboratory where students experience the biology and behavior of new world monkeys in their native habitats. Daily lectures cover aspects of primate ecology, biology, behavior, and the rain forest environment. Each student develops a research proposal to be conducted on-site during the last half of the course.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1025 - ADV FLD METHS PRIMT BHVR BIOL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A field course exploring the interfaces between primate behavior and biology. The field site serves as a living laboratory where students experience the biology and behavior of new world monkeys in their native habitats. Daily field exercises cover aspects of primate ecology, biology, behavior, and the rain forest environment.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1026 - ADV PRIMATE BEHAVIOR & BIOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A field course exploring the interfaces between primate behavior and biology. The field site serves as a living laboratory where students experience the biology and behavior of new world monkeys and their native habitats. Daily lectures cover aspects of primate ecology, biology, behavior, and the rain forest environment. Prior to arrival on site each student searches the literature and develops a research proposal to be conducted on-site during the last half of the course.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1535 - BASIC ARCHELOGCL FIELD TRAING
Minimum Credits: 6
Maximum Credits: 6
The university of Pittsburgh field training program in archaeology is conducted at various locations. Features of the excavations include basic training in mapping, archaeological survey, excavation methods, soil analysis, data recording, and preliminary artifact analysis.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1540 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN ARCHEOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Topics covered vary greatly with instructor and term.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1602 - HUMAN SKELETAL ANALYSIS
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
This is an introduction to the study and analysis of the human skeleton, which will be based on lectures and lab. Topics include: development of teeth and bone, identification of whole bones and fragments and determination of sex, age, and stature (and other metric analyses), disease, and populational features. Real bony materials will be used in lab.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0150, BIOSC 0160, anthropology, or permission of instructor
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ANTH 1607 - PRIMATE BEHAVIOR
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course takes a Darwinian approach to explaining the diversity in contemporary primate behavior and ecology. We stress the comparative method, and seek to develop general principles of adaptation that will explain the taxonomic distribution of particular behavioral and ecological traits.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1619 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN PHYSCL ANTH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Topics covered vary greatly with instructor and term.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1725 - SOCIAL HLTH ISSUES EAST AFRICA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ANTH 1737 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTRL ANTH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will be on a topic in the area of specialization of a visiting scholar yet to be determined.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1753 - NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course presents a survey of native American cultures North of Mexico, both historical and modern. Case studies from several different regions are used to provide in-depth material on North American Indian cultural patterns.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1761 - PATNTS & HEALERS: MEDCL ANTH 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course surveys the field of medical anthropology and its history within the discipline of anthropology as a whole, from the perspective of social-cultural theory. Topics dealt with include ethnomedicine, ethnographic cases, cross-cultural studies of healing practices and connections between medicine and religion. Reference is also made to applied research in contemporary situations.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ANTH 0780
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ANTH 1773 - CULTURES OF MESOAMERICA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A general survey of problems and cultures of Mexico and Guatemala from the time of the Spanish conquest to the present. The course will be divided into three parts; MesoAmerica at the time of the arrival of the Spaniards; the colonial transformation of the Indian population; and the contemporary position of the Indians within the Pluri-Ethnic societies of which they are part.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1787 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN CULTRL ANTH
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 4
This course will be on a topic in the area of specialization of a visiting scholar yet to be determined.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ANTH 1903 - DIRECTED RESEARCH-READINGS
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Not all topics in anthropology can be adequately addressed in formal courses. The reading course allows qualified students to develop a bibliography for a specific topic not covered by other courses in the department. The work is done in conjunction with a faculty sponsor, and the student and faculty sponsor jointly determine the work products for the course, a research paper or annotated bibliography based upon the readings is typical, but other products may be substituted.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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Astronomy |
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ASTRON 0089 - STARS, GALAXIES AND THE COSMOS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course deals primarily with astronomical objects lying outside our solar system. The level is appropriate for non-science students.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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Biology |
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BIOL 0083 - HUMAN ECOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A course for non-majors surveying how humans interact with their environment, especially short-term and long-term effects on the biosphere. After receiving credit with a grade of c or higher for general biology 1 (BIOL 0110) or any higher numbered biology course, a student may not enroll in or receive credit (or equivalent transfer credits) for this course.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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Biological Science |
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BIOSC 0031 - MICROBIOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Designed for nursing or other health care professions. Three major areas included are the microorganisms, the immune mechanism of the host, and the interaction of the host and the microorganisms in the disease process and in homeostasis. Major emphasis is placed on infectious diseases and infection control at the nursing level.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: CREQ: BIOSC 0032
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BIOSC 0032 - MICROBIOLOGY LAB
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Content is devoted to the development of student’s basic laboratory skills and application of microbiological methods, and the course emphasizes performance, scientific investigation, and safety.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: CREQ: BIOSC 0031
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BIOSC 0050 - FOUNDATIONS OF BIOLOGY LAB 1
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
This is the first course in a two-course sequence on the study of organisms in the laboratory and the field. We will work with techniques that are important in biology and apply these techniques to illustrate basic biological principles, with an emphasis on living organisms. The laboratory exercises focus on cell structure and function, basic cellular processes, plant structure and function, and basic animal anatomy and physiology.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: BIOSC 0150 or 0715 or 0170 or 0190 or BIOL 0101 or 0110 or BIOENG 1070
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BIOSC 0060 - FOUNDATIONS OF BIOLOGY LAB 2
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
This one-credit laboratory course is the second in a two-course sequence designed to be an introduction to scientific inquiry in the biological sciences for majors in biology and related fields. You will use genetics, biochemistry, and molecular biology to undertake authentic research exploring the evolution of metabolic pathways in different species.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIOSC 0096 - INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN SYSTEMS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduces the general principles of human structure and function to students who intend to enter the health related professions. The study begins at the cellular level and proceeds through tissues to organ systems.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: BIOSC 0097
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BIOSC 0097 - INTRO TO HUMAN SYSTEMS LAB
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Laboratory exercises designed to illustrate the principles of human structure and function.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: BIOSC 0096
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BIOSC 0100 - PREPARATION FOR BIOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is intended for students who have not had high school biology in the past five years. The course is also highly recommended for students who have not completed algebra. The lecture will over a subset of topics from foundations of biology 1 and 2, including a discussion of basic chemistry used in biology, cell biology including mitosis and meiosis, human anatomy and physiology, and an introduction to genetics. The weekly recitations will explore topics covered in lecture in more depth and integrate problem solving and study skills. Some laboratory exercises will be included in the recitation period to re-enforce the lecture topics by giving students the opportunity to investigate the experimental aspect of biology. The laboratory exercises and assignments will focus on basic math and writing skills.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIOSC 0150 - FOUNDATIONS OF BIOLOGY 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This introductory course in biology is divided into two parts. The first part covers the cellular basis of life including a discussion of simple chemistry; cells as units of structure and function; and energy transformations. The second part includes an examination of those functions common to all organisms such as nutrition, gas and fluid transport, and hormonal and neuronal control. Throughout, the emphasis is on the mechanisms used to accomplish these basic functions.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: BIOSC 0050
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BIOSC 0160 - FOUNDATIONS OF BIOLOGY 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This introductory course covers the basic principles of genetics, evolution, and ecology. Emphasis will be placed on the experimental and observational basis for our knowledge of these subjects.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: BIOSC 0060
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BIOSC 0212 - HUMAN ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The first course of a two-part sequence covering gross and microscopic anatomy and physiology of the human body with particular emphasis on the relationships between structure and function. Included in the two courses are cell biology, histology, and embryology, bone and skeleton, muscles and contraction, the cardiovascular system and its regulation, the nervous system and nervous impulse, the urinary system and electrolyte balance, and the respiratory, digestive system, endocrine, and reproductive systems.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: 0214
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BIOSC 0213 - HUMAN ANATOMY & PHYSIOLOGY 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This second course of the two-part sequence continues the study of gross and microscopic anatomy and physiology of the human body with particular emphasis on the relationships between structure and function.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0212; CREQ: BIOSC 0215
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BIOSC 0214 - HUMN ANATMY & PHYSIOLOGY LAB 1
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Laboratory exercises illustrating the anatomy and physiology of the human.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: 0212
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BIOSC 0215 - HUMN ANATMY & PHYSIOLOGY LAB 2
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Laboratory exercises illustrating the anatomy and physiology of the human.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: 0213 or CREQ: 0213
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BIOSC 0341 - SEMINAR IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Presentations designed for discussion of current biotechnological concepts and to allow students to hear from local professionals as they provide insight into biotechnological career options.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIOSC 0345 - TECHNQ & INSTRMNT BIOTEC
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
Focuses on the basic techniques and instruments commonly used in the field of biotechnology. Hands-on participation is provided in such activities as protein electrophoresis, electrophoresis and restriction analysis of DNA, separation of proteins using chromatography columns, and basic cell culture techniques.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIOSC 0350 - GENETICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to examine the gene in the following dimensions: the gene as a unit of transmission, a unit of function, and a unit of mutation. In addition, the distribution and activity of genes in populations will be considered in the context of current theories of evolution.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0160 and CHEM 0120; CREQ BIOSC 0351
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BIOSC 0351 - GENETICS LABORATORY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Laboratory exercises designed to illustrate the major principles of genetics.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0160 and CHEM 0120; CREQ: BIOSC 0350
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BIOSC 0365 - BIOTEC & RECOMBINANT DNA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will focus on the structure and function of nucleic acids and proteins and the biotechnology used to isolate, replicate, and characterize these molecules. Possible sub-topics include: basic molecular biology of DNA and proteins, protein gel electrophoresis, transformation, electrophoresis and restriction analysis of DNA, restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP), random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD), DNA fingerprinting, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis, DNA sequencing analysis, and southern blotting. BIOSC 0350 is strongly recommended.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIOSC 0370 - ECOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The objective of the course is to provide a broad introduction to the study of ecology at the undergraduate level, through the presentation of lectures dealing with organismal, population, community, and ecosystem levels of hierarchical organization. The contributions of laboratory and field investigations to the development of ecological knowledge will be considered.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0160 or 0716 or 0191 or 0180 or BIOL 0102 or 0120; Min Grade ‘C’ for all classes listed.
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BIOSC 0390 - ECOLOGY LABORATORY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
The objective of the laboratory course is to provide students with practical experience in ecological methods and in the design, conduct, and analysis of ecological studies. Laboratory exercises are designed to correspond with major lecture topics presented in BIOSC 0370. Exercises will include laboratory and field studies.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Credit Laboratory
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0060 or 0067 or 0068 or 0080 or 0191 or BIOL 0102 or 0121; CREQ: BIOSC 0370 or 0371 or BIOL 1430 or 1515; Min Grade ‘C’ for all classes listed.
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BIOSC 0399 - INTERNSHIP IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
Provides the student with the opportunity to combine academic training with practical work experience in an institution outside the university. A faculty advisor in the biotechnology (BT) program assists the student in locating an internship site and an external onsite supervisor. The student is required to devote a minimum of six clock hours per week at the internship and assessment is based on both academic and professional criteria.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIOSC 0800 - BIOLOGY FOR NON-MAJORS 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a course in human biology and physiology for students not majoring in biology. The goal is to provide students with an understanding of fundamental principles of life with an emphasis on the human body. The course will cover basic biochemistry and cell biology and then move to the structure and function of human organ systems. An essential part of the course is discussion of current issues, such as infectious, autoimmune and neurodegenerative diseases; asthma and allergy; nutrition and health; stem cells research and cloning; and methods of contraception and reproductive technologies.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIOSC 0810 - BIOLOGY FOR NON-MAJORS 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
At an ever-increasing pace, issues of biological relevance are confronting the citizenry of this country and the world. Ranging from personal through political to global, these issues require that individuals have at lEast a rudimentary knowledge of basic biological phenomena in order to make informed decisions. The major goal of this course, together with its companion, BIOSC 0800, is to provide students (citizens) with the intellectual tools needed to approach these issues as they arise.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIOSC 0820 - ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A course for non-science majors utilizing basic scientific principles to investigate human interactions with the environment. The social, political and economic effects of these interactions will also be studied. Topics include scientific principles; populations and health concerns; food, land, and biological resources; and society and the environment. Through an understanding of science and the possible consequences of human decision-making regarding the environment, students are equipped to become better citizens.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIOSC 0861 - SEM IN ENVIRONMNTAL TECHNLGY 1
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
Presentations designed for discussion of current technological concepts and to allow students to hear from local professionals as they provide insight into environmental technological career options.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIOSC 0862 - SEM IN ENVIRONMNTAL TECHNLGY 2
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
Presentations designed for discussion of current environmental technological concepts and to allow students to hear from local professionals as they provide insight into environmental technological career options.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIOSC 0899 - INTRNSHP ENVIRONMNTAL TECHNLGY
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
Provides the student with the opportunity to combine training with practical work experience in an institution outside the university. A faculty advisor in the environmental technology (et) program assists the student in locating an internship site and an external on-site supervisor. The student is required to devote a minimum of six clock hours per week at the internship and assessment is based on both academic and professional criteria.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIOSC 1000 - BIOCHEMISTRY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to provide students with a basic understanding of the principles and underlying themes of modern biochemistry. The course includes all the major topics in biochemistry in considerable depth including thermodynamics and enzymology, protein and nucleic acid structure, function, and synthesis, lipids and membranes as well as metabolic pathways. This course will require that you master a new vocabulary including chemical structures, and there is an emphasis throughout on experimental approaches, molecular mechanisms, and problem solving. Although the same topics will be covered as in the two semester biochemistry series (BIOSC 1810-1820), no one topic in BIOSC 1000 will be covered in as much detail.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (BIOSC 0160 or 0716 or 0191 or 0180 or BIOENG 1071 or BIOENG 1072 or BIOL 0102 or 0120) (Min Grade ‘C’ for these courses) and (CHEM 0320 or 0350 or 0740 or 0208 or 0232)
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BIOSC 1015 - FLD METHDS PRIMT BEHAVR & BIOL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A field course exploring the interfaces between primate behavior and biology. The field site serves as a living laboratory where students experience the biology and behavior of new world monkeys in their native habitats. Daily lectures and field exercises cover aspects of primate ecology, biology, behavior, and the rainforest environment. Each student develops a research proposal to be conducted on-site during the last half of the course.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIOSC 1016 - PRIMATE BEHAVIOR AND BIOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A field course exploring the interfaces between primate behavior and biology. The field site serves as a living laboratory where students experience the biology and behavior of new world monkeys in their native habitats. Daily lectures cover aspects of primate ecology, biology, behavior, and the rainforest environment. Each student develops a research proposal to be conducted on-site during the last half of the course.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIOSC 1100 - TOPICS IN BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This course will address the how and why basic research in the biological sciences is performed and provide a basic knowledge behind experimental design. The goal of this course is to prepare students for undergraduate research as well as full-time research assistant positions and graduate programs. We will use real life examples of experimental systems employed by research faculty in the department of biological sciences. Meetings will consist of faculty presentations and class discussions.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIOSC 1101 - TOPICS IN BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
This course focuses on the techniques of basic research in the biological sciences and provides an introduction to experimental design. Each student conducts a literature search and develops a research proposal to be conducted in the laboratory or in the field. The goal of this course is to prepare students for undergraduate research as well as research assistant positions and graduate programs.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIOSC 1102 - TOPICS IN BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Minimum Credits: 2
Maximum Credits: 2
This course focuses on the techniques of basic research in the biological sciences and provides an introduction to experimental design. Each student conducts a literature search and develops a research proposal to be conducted in the laboratory or in the field. The goal of this course is to prepare students for undergraduate research as well as research assistant positions and graduate programs.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIOSC 1103 - TOPICS IN BIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on the techniques of basic research in the biological sciences and provides an introduction to experimental design. Each student conducts a literature search and develops a research proposal to be conducted in the laboratory or in the field. The goal of this course is to prepare students for undergraduate research as well as research assistant positions and graduate programs.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIOSC 1104 - HIST GENETICS CZECH REPUBLIC
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A study abroad course during which students learn about one facet of the history of the life sciences through an in-depth study of the life and work of Johann Gregor Mendel.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIOSC 1240 - HUMAN SKELETAL ANALYSIS
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
A lecture and lab course applicable to students of varied interests. Lectures will cover such topics as skeletal growth; dental and skeletal pathologies; criteria for determining the sex and age of individuals; the importance of morphological variation as population markers; induced skeletal alteration; lab techniques such as x-raying, measuring and reconstructing skeletal remains. Students must learn in detail the human skeleton.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Practicum
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: BIOSC 0150, BIOSC 0160, anthropology, or permission of instructor
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BIOSC 1380 - GLOBAL ECOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Compelling evidence points to the 1990’s as the decade of environmental crisis. Human quality of life, and probably survival, likely depends more on treaties about land, air, and water than on weaponry. This course will examine environmental issues of the decade and the basic concepts of the fundamental environmental science - ecology - that underlie them. The nature of key environmental changes, their extent and rates, will be considered, along with likely consequences and possible solutions.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIOSC 1450 - HISTOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
Course is intended to show how embryonic rudiments build or gans and how tissues and cell types interact to produce the functional systems in the adult. The course covers descriptive, comparative, and experimental histology, but emphasizes the diversity of tissues in organs, and the differentiation of cell types.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: Grade of C or better in BIOSC 0160 and BIOSC 0060
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BIOSC 1590 - SPECIAL TOPICS IN BIOLOGCL SCI
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
A single major topic in biology will be developed and explored by students in the form of student presentations of current and/or historical literature.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Directed Studies
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIS 0001 - INTRODUCTION TO WINDOWS 1
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
An introduction to the personal computer, including current terminology, with emphasis on the windows operating system.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIS 0002 - MICROSOFT WORD 1
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
The course covers creating, editing, saving, and printing documents using this software program. Also discussed are margin and tab settings and formatting lines and pages of text.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIS 0003 - MICROSOFT EXCEL 1
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Covers spreadsheet fundamentals, including creating, editing, formatting, saving, and printing worksheets. Emphasis is placed on the use of formulas and functions, as well as creating graphs and charts.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIS 0004 - MICROSOFT ACCESS 1
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
The course covers planning, entering, and sorting of information. This relational database program allows the user to group, sort, categorize, and list data.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIS 0005 - MICROSOFT POWERPOINT 1
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Covers the creation, editing, formatting, and use of a slideshow using graphics presentation software. Topics discussed will include the use of color, text, graphics (clipart and scanned), and audio files.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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BIS 0006 - MICROSOFT PUBLISHER 1
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
This course develops skills in desktop publishing for the creation of professional-looking newsletters, brochures, and presentations.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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