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CS 0185 - INTRO TO JAVA PROGRAMMING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Java is an object-oriented programming language that is widely used on the internet/world wide web. The student learns to use java to create and manipulate graphical user interfaces (guis), including the use of animation and graphics. Java applets are created and embedded into web (html) pages. This is an introductory course that requires no prior knowledge of programming.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0131
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CS 0334 - INTM WEB DESIGN & DEVELOPMENT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course will consist of advanced implementations of both markup as well as scripting languages. In addition, students will be introduced to a graphical interface application that will allow them to explore concepts of server side web development. A reflective programming language and database application will be used to introduce the server side web development concepts.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0007 or CS 0134
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CS 0401 - INTRMEDT PROGRMMING USING JAVA
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
This course is a rigorous introduction to the fundamental concepts and techniques of computer programming using the java programming language. This is a first course for students who intend to major in computer science.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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CS 0407 - INTRO TO COMPUTR SCI-PASCAL
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is an introduction to the concepts, techniques and tools of computer science. It is designed for those students who are intending to major in that discipline. The course is to emphasize fundamental approaches to problem analysis, algorithm development and top-down program design. In so doing, the student is to gain a thorough working knowledge of an exemplary programming language, namely pascal, and to become thoroughly familiar with the Pitt computing environment.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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CS 0441 - DISCRETE STRUCTURES FOR CS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The purpose of this course is to understand and use (abstract) discrete structures that are backbones of computer science. In particular, this class is meant to introduce logic, proofs, sets, relations, functions, counting, and probability, with an emphasis on applications in computer science.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0031
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CS 0445 - DATA STRUCTURES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course emphasizes the study of the basic data structures of computer science (stacks, queues, trees, lists) and their implementations using the java language included in this study are programming techniques which use recursion, reference variables, and dynamic memory allocation. Students in this course are also introduced to various searching and sorting methods and also expected to develop an intuitive understanding of the complexity of these algorithms.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: CS 0401 (MIN GRADE ‘C’)
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CS 0446 - INTRO COMPUTR SCIENCE CONCEPTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course provides the student with a basic exposure to all major computer science concepts and specialties. It is not programming intensive, although the use of Fortran” is a component of the course. Students are to gain an early perspective of computer science and to achieve a common level of knowledge of its major concepts, regardless of which upper-level courses they should later select.”
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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CS 0447 - COMPUTR ORGZTN & ASSMBLY LANG
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The purpose of this course is to study the components of computing systems common to most computer architectures. In particular, this class is meant to introduce data representation, types of processors, memory types and hierarchy, and device drivers. The students will learn MIPS assembly language, the design of arithmetic and logic units, and basic designs for RISC processors.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: CS 0445
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CS 1399 - COMPUTER SCIENCE INTERNSHIP
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: GPA greater or equal to 2.5; LVL: Sophomore
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Electrical Engineering |
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ECE 0031 - LINEAR CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS 1
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
The analysis of linear circuits. Electric variables and circuit elements; Kirchhoff’s and Ohm’s Law; Mesh and Node Equations; Thevenin and Norton equivalent circuits; first and second-order circuits; time domain analysis.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: (MATH 0150 or 0230 or 00231 or 0235) and (PHYS 0152 or 0175 or 0202 or 0476); PLAN: Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering
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ECE 0041 - LINEAR CIRCUITS AND SYSTEMS 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Sinusoidal steady-state analysis, network functions, real and reactive power, three-phase circuits, laplace transform method, two-port networks, and Fourier series.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECE 0031 or COE 0031; PLAN: Electrical Engineering or Computer Engineering
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ECE 0132 - DIGITAL LOGIC
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduction to digital systems, Boolean algebra, minimization of logic functions, combinational and sequential circuit design.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: (MATH 0150 or 0230 or 0231 or 0235) and (PHYS 0152 or 0175 or 0202 or 0476); PROG: Undergraduate Swanson School of Engineering
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ECE 0142 - COMPUTER ORGANIZATION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Digital computer data representation, instruction formats, control, memory and input-output units, microprocessors, minicomputers.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECE 0132 or COE 0132; PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
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ECE 0145 - COMPUTER APPLICATIONS 1
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
Time sharing, mathematical modeling, computer simulation, CSMP, linear simultaneous equations.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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EE 0132 - DIGITAL LOGIC
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduction to digital systems, Boolean algebra, minimization of logic functions, combinational and sequential circuit design.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG
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Economics |
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ECON 0100 - INTRO MICROECONOMIC THEORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduction to principles of economic analysis as applied to the study of prices and markets. The course builds a theoretical basis for understanding producer and consumer behavior, and prepares students to appreciate the importance of markets in our economic system.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ECON 0110 - INTRO MACROECONOMIC THEORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introductory course which develops the basic tools needed to analyze the behavior of various macroeconomic phenomena including inflation, gross domestic product, and unemployment. In addition, these tools are used to study how and whether the government can impact the behavior of the overall economy. Finally, the course looks at the role various institutions such as banks and the stock and bond markets play in affecting the economic environment.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ECON 0140 - INTRO TO POLITICAL ECONOMY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Interdisciplinary introduction to economics intended mainly for non-majors, especially political science. The syllabus includes market and macroeconomic theories and relationships between political and economic processes. Though less tool oriented than other introductory treatments, the topical developments are not superficial.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ECON 0150 - INTRODUCTION TO STATISTICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introduction to economic data and statistical concepts. Topics covered include: measures of location and dispersion and introduction to probablility theory; characteristics of probability distributions; sampling theory, point estimation and hypothesis testing. Correlation analysis and the linear regression model are treated with special emphasis placed on the construction, estimation, and interpretation of economic models. Emphasis is placed on understanding and using statistical concepts rather than on proving theorems.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ECON 0200 - GAME THEORY PRINCIPLES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course introduces the basic concepts of game theory. The emphasis is on the unifying perspective that game theory offers to questions in economics, other disciplines, and everyday life. The course draws on a wide range of substantive and intellectually stimulating applications of game theory across areas in economics, other disciplines, and beyond. It will enable students to view social interactions as strategic games, to use game theoretic concepts to predict behavior in these interactions and to conceive of ways in which altering the game affects social outcomes.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ECON 0206 - INTERMEDIATE MICROECONOMICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The theories and techniques of price and output are studied. Topics include the theory and measurement of demand, production functions, cost output relationships, pricing practices in competitive and oligopolistic markets, the roles of prices and profit in resource allocation and the functioning of a decentralized economic system.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECON 0100, CS 0135, STAT, algebra proficiency, or permission of instructor
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ECON 0230 - INTRODUCTION TO PUBLIC ECONMCS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The objectives of this course are - to illustrate how basic economic principles can be used to determine the economic effects of government expenditure and tax policies; to develop the students’ ability to analyze issues and to recognize the value judgments which lie behind various positions taken in current policy debates.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECON 0100 or ECON 0800
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ECON 0280 - INTRODUCTION TO MONEY & BANKNG
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course is directed toward giving the student an insight into the role that monetary policy and financial markets play in the economy. It will cover both the theoretical and institutional aspects of banking necessary to function successfully in the business world. One object of the course is to give the student the ability to analyze and appraise critically the monetary policy of federal reserve system.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ECON 0400 - LABOR AND THE ECONOMY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introductory survey of contemporary labor developments and issues. Readings and lectures have a more historical and institutional perspective and less emphasis on analytical techniques than other labor offerings.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ECON 0450 - ECON OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on the process of technological change. Topics include the historical development of technology, the economic analysis of technological change, case studies of specific nations and products, and public policy issues linked to technological change.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ECON 0100 or ECON 0110
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ECON 0451 - ECON OF TCHNLGCL CHANGE -IFTA
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
This course focuses on the process of technological change via a case study of a particular country. Topics include the historical development of technology, the economic analysis of technological change, a case study of a specific nation and products, and public policy issues linked to technological change.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: CREQ: ECON 0800 and ECON 0100 and (ECON 0110 or ECON 0450 )
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ECON 0500 - INTRO INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Provides an introduction to international economics. Half the topics are pure theory, half international monetary economics. Topics from the real world are analyzed. Topics include alternative pure trade theories; effects of trade barriers; U.S. commercial policy; forms of regional integration; balance of payments; elimination of balance of payments disequilibrium; international monetary system.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ECON 0800 - INTRODUCTION TO ECONOMICS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A one-term course designed primarily for the non-major. The main goals are to create interest in the study of economics and introduce some basic tools economists use to analyze social issues. Issues range from farm subsidies to changes in income tax rates to changes in spending on crime reduction.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ECON 1307 - ECONMCS OF ENERGY & ENVIRONMNT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course will examine the role of energy in economic development, models of efficient energy management, OPEC behavior and world oil crisis. Coverage extends into environmental issues (air pollution, solid waste, acid rain) and government policies.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ or COREQ: MATH 0031
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Educational Psychology |
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EDPSY 0004 - EMOTIONAL PROBLEMS OF CHLDHOOD
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A case study approach to the assessment and treatment of childhood behavior problems is utilized. Special emphasis is on personality development in childhood, common developmental problems, positive and negative parental influences on child behavior, and treatment techniques.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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EDPSY 0006 - INTRO TO EDUCATNAL PSYCHOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Deals with the psychological aspects of the educational process. Theories and research from both psychology and educational psychology are examined in the areas of cognitive and social development, individual differences, culture, cognitive processes, learning, motivation, classroom management, and measurement.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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EDPSY 0020 - PLAY THERAPY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduction to digital systems, Boolean algebra, minimization of logic functions, combinational and sequential circuit design.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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English |
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ENG 0100 - INTRO TO COLLEGE COMPOSITION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Designed to build self-confidence in the use of standard written English, including the ability to compose clear and correct standard English prose in sentences, paragraphs, and short essays.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENG 0101 - ENGLISH COMPOSITION 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The first of two required competency courses in English composition, this course focuses on the writing process and on the kinds of writing common in the academic disciplines.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREREQ: C- or better in ENG 0100 or by placement exam or SAT
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ENG 0102 - ENGLISH COMPOSITION 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is an extension of the skills mastered in ENG 0101, this course focuses on the processes of researching, writing, and presenting a term paper.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: ENG 0102 Requires PREQ of C- or better in ENG 0101
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ENGCMP 0100 - INTENSIVE WORKSHP IN COMPOSITN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course creates an intensive workshop in composition for students who have limited experience as readers and writers. Students engage in a rigorous program of college level reading and writing that introduces them to academic inquiry, analysis, and argument. Discussion of student writing is central to the course, and discussion of the readings will often focus on how students have written in response to them.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGCMP 0101 - INTENSIVE COMPOSITION WORKSHOP
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course creates an intensive workshop in composition for students who have limited experience as readers and writers. Students engage in a rigorous program of college level reading and writing that introduces them to academic inquiry, analysis, and argument. Discussion of student writing is central to the course, and discussion of the readings will often focus on how students have written in response to them.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGCMP 0150 - WORKSHOP IN COMPOSITION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is designed to give students who have had limited experience with writing an opportunity to increase their control of written language and their confidence in performing academic inquiry, analysis and argument. Students write in response to weekly assignments, and instruction focuses on helping students to extend, revise, and edit their work.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGCMP 0200 - SEMINAR IN COMPOSITION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This introductory course offers students opportunities to improve as writers by developing their understanding of how they and others use writing to interpret and share experience, affect behavior, and position themselves in the world. Specific reading and writing assignments may vary from section to section, but student writing will be the primary focus in all sections. The course is designed to help students become more engaged, imaginative, and disciplined composers.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0150 or ENGCMP 0152
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ENGCMP 0211 - LIBRARY RESEARCH METHODS
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
Provides the opportunity for students to acquire skills in library research techniques. Professional librarians instruct students in developing search strategies for gathering information using such resources as the online catalog, periodical indexes, electronic resources, and others.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: ENGCMP 0211 requires PREQ or COREQ ENG 0101
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ENGCMP 0250 - CRITICAL WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students in this course will be trained in the responsible development and articulation of written opinions. Material drawn from various media will be used to help students increase their powers of observation and analysis that they may learn the art of making discriminating evaluations of situations, events, issues, controversies, artifacts and objects.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGCMP 0400 - WRITTEN PROFESSNL COMMUNICTN
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the methods of inquiry, analysis and composition characteristic of written communication in professional settings. The course will examine such writing’s specialized use of language, conventions and formats, premises, motives, and purposes. By preparing letters, resumes, proposals, reports, etc. Students will get a feel not only for what professional” communication is, but also for how and why it does, or can, or should function.”
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200
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ENGCMP 0440 - CRITICAL WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Students in this course will be trained in the responsible development and articulation of written opinions. Material drawn from various media will be used to help students increase their powers of observation and analysis that they may learn the art of making discriminating evaluations of situations, events, issues, controversies, artifacts and objects.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or equivalent
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ENGCMP 0600 - INTRO TO TECHNICAL WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This introductory course is for students in various technical fields. Representative technical reports will be studied, as well as abstracts, the presentation of visuals and oral communication. Writing assignments will emerge from case studies reflecting on-the-job challenges.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGFLM 0400 - INTRODUCTION TO FILM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This is a basic course on the visual arts that offers the student abroad introduction to the medium of film. As part of this overview, the class will consider such issues as: the process of contemporary film production and distribution; the nature of basic film forms; selected approaches to film criticism; comparisons between film and the other media.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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English Literature |
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ENGLIT 0315 - READING POETRY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Poetry is usually the first literary form to evolve in a culture. Yet many today reject it as artificial, overly refined and removed from ordinary human experience. By studying various kinds of poetry, this course aims to help students break down the barriers between classic poems, contemporary poetry, and a more general lyric impulse. As the most highly condensed literary experience, poetry invites very close reading, so we will explore various techniques for making sense of poems.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0320 - THE COMIC IDEA
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The primary aim of this course is to increase students’ understanding of the structure of the comic experience and of comedy’s place in culture. We will use models of literary comedy in reading modern and contemporary works, older materials in English or translated from other Western cultures, and works translated from non-European cultures.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0325 - THE SHORT STORY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies short stories that explore a variety of themes. It seeks to define the short story as a specific literary genre and to distinguish it from earlier forms of short narrative literature. It then goes on to examine the effects of literary, cultural and historical traditions on these stories and their reception.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0354 - WORDS AND IMAGES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course explores the relationships between lanaguage and images. It studies how we describe and understand visual images and how they help us understand qualities that could not easily be defined otherwise. It considers how images function in literary texts and other writers as well as the unconventional images found in dreams, ads, and popular prints, etc.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: C- or better in ENGCMP 0150
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ENGLIT 0370 - LITERATURE AND IDEAS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies invention and interpretation, and explores the various ways writers produce texts and readers make them make sense. Though texts may change from section to section and instructor to instructor, they always stimulate investigation into reading and writing as ways of knowing.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0500 - INTRO TO CRITICAL READING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course studies three to five significant literary works in conjunction with influential criticism on each text. Students explore the uses and limits of different critical methods. The course seeks to develop a critical understanding of both classic literary texts and dominant modes of reading as changing cultural practices.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0570 - AMERICAN LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This first course in American literature explores the characteristic features of writings from the colonial period to the present. It emphasizes the interaction between literary texts and their social contexts, and examines the emergence of a national literature.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0580 - INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will focus on a number of Shakespeare’s major plays from all phases of his career. Class discussion will consider the historical context of the plays, their characterization, theatrical technique, imagery, language and themes. Every attempt will be made to see the plays both as poems and as dramatic events.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0590 - FORMATIVE MASTERPIECES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will study in some detail eight or nine of those masterpieces which form the largest part of what we now regard as the Western tradition of literature. The works chosen will come from various genres—epic poetry, drama, the novel, and satire. They will span the centuries from the classical periods of ancient Greece and Rome through the Renaissance and into the nineteenth century.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0597 - BIBLE AS LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This introductory course acquaints students with what is in the bible and provides background information drawn from various disciplines about the elements and issues that give it its distinctive character. Attention is necessarily given to its religious perspectives, since they govern the nature and point of view of the biblical narratives, but no specific religious view is urged.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0610 - WOMEN AND LITERATURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An exploration of writings by and about women. Through our reading of various literary forms — poetry fiction, autobiography — we will explore the aspirations and realities of women’s lives. We will consider how social issues — class, race, etc. — Affect women writers.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: C- or better in ENGCMP 0150
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ENGLIT 0625 - DETECTIVE FICTION
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines detective fiction in terms of its history, its social meaning and as a form of philosophizing. It also seeks to reveal the place and values of popular fiction in our lives.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 0641 - TRAGEDY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will explore the properties of tragic literature from ancient Greece and Rome, through the Renaissance and into the twentieth century. In the process we will address issues often raised about tragic heroes and their flaws, about fate and justice, about the cathartic and the pathtic. Through our reading of the literature and the criticism we will seek understanding of tragedy as a literary form and of its changes through time and from culture to culture.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGCMP 0200 or CREQ: ENGCMP 0200
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ENGLIT 1250 - 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN LIT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course focuses on literature produced in this century in relation to changing social and cultural contexts.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1325 - MODERNISM
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines major works in the modernist tradition poetry, fiction, drama—to determine the role these texts have played in creating the world that seems so familiar to us now.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: C- or better in ENGCMP 0150
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ENGLIT 1380 - WORLD LITERATURE IN ENGLISH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course examines contemporary literature, primarily in English, written in eastern Europe, Africa, Latin America, etc. It pays particular attention to its depiction of social, political and moral concerns.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGLIT 1647 - LITERATURE FOR ADOLESCENTS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will read classics as well as modern works written specifically for an adolescent audience. We will also read and discuss sociological and psychological constructions of adolescents and books on pedagogy.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGR 0009 - INTRO TO ENGINEERING COMPUTING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The course is designed to teach students the fundamentals of computing and the concept of engineering design as applied to the design of software. Fundamentals include basic computer organization, formulation of algorithms, basic data structures, pseudo code and top down iterative refinement. In the concurrent laboratory, proficiency is developed in a high level language and a text editor/word processor.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGR 0010 - ENGINEERING ANALYSIS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is closely linked to engineering 0009 through use of the computer to solve engineering problems. Numerical methods are presented and these methods are then used in solution of problems in mechanics, heat transfer, electrical systems, and chemical processes. Economic and human factors are also included in the problem solutions. The fundamentals of computer graphics are also covered. The overall emphasis of the course is on computer-aided engineering (CAE).
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGR 0011 - INTRO TO ENGINEERING ANALYSIS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduces students to basic topics in engineering, the role of the computer in engineering, ill structured problem-solving and report writing. The course includes material on the use of Unix, HTML, spread sheets, and MATLAB. Data analysis and curve fitting is done in both MATLAB and Excel. The writing component includes four detailed reports and includes an oral presentation. The course goals are: to introduce the fundamentals of what engineering is, what engineers do, why a diverse work force is needed and what values come with working in a group environment; to introduce the required library research skills and communication skills used by all engineers; to introduce the role of the computer in engineering problem solving, including the basic analytical, programming design, graphical, and problem solving skills used by most engineers in their profession; and to provide an overview of how material in the basic sciences and mathematics is applied by engineers to solve practical problems of interest to society.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ or COREQ: MATH 0220 and ENGR 0081
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ENGR 0012 - INTRO TO ENGINEERING COMPUTING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduces students to social topics in engineering, the role of the computer in engineering, ill-structured problem-solving and report writing. The course includes material on the use of MATLAB and C++. Students learn the fundamentals of computing in engineering, including program design, program development, and debugging. Applications to problems in engineering analysis with topics selected from ENGR 0011. The writing component includes four detailed reports and includes an oral presentation.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGR 0011 and CREQ: MATH 0230 and ENGR 0082
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ENGR 0013 - STATICS AND PARTICLE DYNAMICS
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
A basic course in statics and particle dynamics. Topics covered include the effect of external forces acting on particles and rigid bodies. Use is made of computers for self-learning through tutorial software and for problem solving.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGR 0014 - MECHANICS OF MATERIALS
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
An introductory course in the mechanics of deformable solids. Material covers the internal stresses, strains, and displacements which occur when a structure is subjected to applied loads. Open ended design problems are also discussed.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
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ENGR 0020 - PROBLTY & STAT FOR ENGINEERS 1
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
An introductory course in statistics. Topics covered include: data analysis, probability, randon variables, selsected discrete and continuous probability distributions, one sample and two sample estimation, hypothesis testing, experiments with two factors and introduction to regression analysis.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Letter Grade
Course Requirements: PREQ: MATH 0150 or 0230 or 0231 or 0235; PROG: Swanson School of Engineering
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ENGR 0022 - MATERLS STRUCTURE & PROPERTIES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introduction to the basic concepts of materials science and engineering. The concepts of atomic, crystal, micro- and macro-structure, their control and effects on chemical, electrical, magnetic, optical, and mechanical properties. Modification of properties by heat treatment and control of processing. Fundamental considerations in materials selection.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: (MATH 0150 or 0230 or 0231 or 0235) and (PHYS 0150 or 0174 or 0201 or 0475); PROG: School of Engineering
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ENGR 0081 - FRESHMAN ENGINEERING SEMINAR 1
Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
An in-depth orientation in the various areas of engineering and the related fields of employment. Includes small group meetings with departmental representatives and special freshman academic advisors. A formal departmental choice is made at the conclusion of these courses.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
Course Requirements: CREQ: ENGR 0011 or 0711
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ENGR 0082 - FRESHMAN ENGINEERING SEMINAR 2
Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
An in-depth orientation in the various areas of engineering and the related fields of employment. Includes small group meetings with departmental representatives and special freshman academic advisors. A formal departmental choice is made at the conclusion of these courses.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: H/S/U Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: ENGR 0081; CREQ: ENGR12
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ENGR 0083 - ENGINEERING SEMINAR 83
Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
Required for all engineering students. Orientation in various engineering disciplines with relative fields of employment. Includes meeting with academic advisor as well as presentations by engineers from industry. Seminars are modeled after professional societies in order to acquaint students with the engineering profession.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGR 0084 - ENGINEERING SEMINAR 84
Minimum Credits: 0
Maximum Credits: 0
Required for all engineering students. Orientation in various engineering disciplines with relative fields of employment. Includes meeting with academic advisor as well as presentations by engineers from industry. Seminars are modeled after professional societies in order to acquaint students with the engineering profession.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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ENGWRT 0400 - INTRO TO CREATIVE WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course offers the opportunity to experiment with forms of poetry and fiction and to read and discuss from a writer’s point of view contemporary writing in these genres.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: C- or better in ENGCMP 0200
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ENGWRT 0530 - INTRODUCTION TO POETRY WRITING
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Through writing exercises, analysis of modern and contemporary poetry and frequent revision of their own poetry, students learn the basic elements of poetry writing.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Seminar
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: C- or better in ENGCMP 0200
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ENGWRT 1910 - INTERNSHIP: PUBLIC RELATIONS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course offers students an opportunity to work as interns for local public relations firms or corporate public relations departments. The internships are complemented by close supervision and seminars dealing with some of the ethical, legal and practical issues facing the working professional.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Internship
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FR 0001 - ELEMENTARY FRENCH 1
Minimum Credits: 5
Maximum Credits: 5
This course will introduce the student to the oral-aural and reading-writing skills in the language. From the outset, students learn to use the spoken language and begin to work on good pronunciation, while at the same time developing the listening comprehension, reading, and writing skills.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FR 0002 - ELEMENTARY FRENCH 2
Minimum Credits: 5
Maximum Credits: 5
This course introduces the students to the oral-aural and reading-writing skills in the language. From the outset, students learn to use the spoken language and begin to work on good pronunciation, while at the same time developing the listening comprehension, reading, and writing skills. This course is a logical continuation of elementary French 0001.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: PREQ: FR 0001
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FR 0101 - ELEMENTARY FRENCH 1
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A study of the grammar and vocabulary of elementary spoken and written French. Stresses grammatical structure and its correct application.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FR 0102 - ELEMENTARY FRENCH 2
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A continuation of elementary French 1. A study of the grammar and vocabulary of elementary spoken and written French. Stresses grammatical structure and its correct application.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
Course Requirements: FR 0102 requires pre-requisite of FR 0101
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FS 0002 - FRESHMAN SEMINAR
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
This course will acquaint freshmen with the many policies and procedures of college life.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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FS 0004 - COLLEGE SUCCESS SKILLS
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 1
For first-term freshmen, course designed to orient students to campus resources and college success techniques. A variety of teaching methods introduces information on the library, computer center, notetaking skills, study and test taking strategies, time management, and others.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
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GEOL 0024 - METEOROLOGY
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
This course will provide students with an overview of the earth’s weather systems. Emphasis will be on lab-centered, hands-on activities designed to demonstrate weather phenome non through a holistic approach. Topics will include, but are not limited to, structure and composition of the atmosphere, global patterns of circulation, pressure systems, fronts, air masses, weather maps and weather prediction, and climate systems. Students will be required to complete weekly assignments; there will be a semester project; at least one class session will be a field trip.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SU3 Elective Basis
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GEOL 0025 - INTRO TO METEOROLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An online weather studies course covering the composition and structure of the atmosphere, the flows of energy to, from, and through the atmosphere, and the resulting motions produced from small to planetary scales. The physical principles of atmospheric phenomena are stressed in the understanding of weather’s impact on humans. Methods of analysis are developed through the study of current weather as meteorological data are delivered via the internet.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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GEOL 0050 - PHYSICAL GEOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
This lab class provides hands-on exercises related to rock and mineral identication, geologic time, geologic structures, geologic maps, and the analysis of landforms as revealed by topographic maps, satellite images, and air photos.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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GEOL 0101 - PHYSICAL GEOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 4
Maximum Credits: 4
This course serves as an introduction to the earth sciences. The lectures and laboratory exercises will cover a broad range of topics related to the physical geology, but also minor aspects of the historical geology. The topics covered include, but not limited to, Maps, Minerals, Rocks, Tectonic activity, Volcanoes, Sediments, Geologic time, Natural resources, Landscapes, Hazards, Life through time, and Evolution, etc. The course has a three (3) hour lab component during which you will be conducting a variety of laboratory exercises which will allow you to review and understand important geologic concepts and processes. Physical Geology is a laboratory science course and satisfies the Physical Science (PH) and science lab requirement for the General Education (GE). The lecture and the laboratory elements are integrated.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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GEOL 0800 - GEOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Geology is the study of how the earth works. This class covers the classification and origin of basic rocks and minerals; examines the role of plate tectonics in shaping the earth and producing such hazards as earthquakes and volcanoes; and examines the forces that shape beaches and rivers and sometimes threaten our lives and property. We also survey the evidence for changing climate and the future of such resources as groundwater, fossil fuels, and ores.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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GEOL 0802 - GEOLOGY OF THE NATIONAL PARKS
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The magnificent scenery of the national parks provides a backdrop to an exploration of the basic geological principles that govern the creation and development of landscapes. The geological history of the North American continent will be explored in order to provide a framework in which to understand the development of the landscapes of our country.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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GEOL 0842 - PLANET EARTH
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Our home planet is a vast, interconnected machine whose study requires an interdisciplinary approach. This is a comprehensive overview of the workings of planet earth in the light of recent scientific discoveries. Topics will include geology from a plate tectonic perspective (the solid earth), interactions between continents and oceans and atmosphere, including aspects of oceanography and climatology (the fluid earth), what we have learned from space probes and how we can apply that knowledge to our own planet and the limits of our planet as a sustainer of life.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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GEOL 0860 - ENVIRONMENTAL GEOLOGY
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course takes an integrated earth systems approach to understanding our planet and its resources. We will investigate geologic processes and hazards (e.g., earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, and weather hazards), geologic resources (water, soil, minerals, energy) and the local and global ramifications of human interaction with the earth (e.g., air, soil and water pollution, ozone depletion, and climate change). This course also serves as an introductory course for three majors in the department of geology and planetary science.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HAA 0010 - INTRODUCTION TO WORLD ART
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course is intended to introduce the student to major monuments of Western art from Egypt to the 20th century, and to demonstrate the tools of analysis with which one may approach a work of art as an aesthetic object and as a historic document.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HAA 0020 - INTRODUCTION TO ASIAN ART
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This base level survey is meant, on the one hand, to introduce the student to the arts of Japan, China, and India and on the other, to teach some fundamental techniques of visual analysis. The course considers the development of Chinese bronzes, Chinese Buddhist sculpture, Indian Hindu and Buddhist sculptures, and Japanese temples, sculptures, and paintings.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HAA 0040 - INTRO TO WESTERN ARCHITECTURE
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
Introduces students to the conscious observation and analysis of architecture and to a broad survey of the major masterpieces of architecture in Western civilization. Formative concepts behind the designs, structural principles involved in the construction, and societal values promoted and reinforced by the formal character of buildings will be considered along with the analysis of style. Required for the architectural studies major and recommended as a beginning course for others interested in architecture.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HAA 0050 - INTRODUCTION TO MEDIEVAL ART
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
A survey of the architecture, painting, sculpture and minor arts of the medieval world from ca. 300 To ca. 1450 With the emphasis on visual analysis of period styles.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HAA 0070 - EURPN VISL TRADTN RENASNC-PRES
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
An introduction to European art and architecture from the early Renaissance to the present. The course will also include American works from the 18th century onwards.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HAA 0150 - ANCIENT ART
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
The Mediterranean Sea is a lake and its shores have produced many important cultures and artistic traditions. The course will survey the artistic and cultural traditions of Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Aegean, from the Neolithic to the end of the Bronze Age (ca. 6000-1200 BCE), a formative period for the cultures that developed in these regions. Special attention will be paid to: 1) the relationship between the artistic traditions of these areas and the societies which produced them, and 2) the way in which influences from one culture were transformed by another.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HAA 0302 - RENAISSANCE ART
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
We will explore the arts - painting, sculpture, architecture, and the decorative arts - that flourished in Italy between 1250 and 1590. The renaissance is one of the great epochs of western culture; this course offers an introduction to the visual evidence that reveals the development of new attitudes about human life and its meaning. Emphasis will be on works of those revolutionary individuals who transformed the arts - Giotto, Donatello, Brunelleschi, Michelangelo, Leonardo, Raphael, Bellini, titian, and Palladio, to name only the most important.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HAA 0440 - FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
Minimum Credits: 3
Maximum Credits: 3
This course will deal with the life of the man who was America’s greatest architect and one of the principal world figures in the art of building in the Twentieth Century. The lectures will treat his formation as an architect as well as the development of his career and will focus upon a theoretical analysis of wright’s work in comparison with that of his great contemporaries.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Lecture
Grade Component: LG/SNC Elective Basis
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HAA 1901 - INDEPENDENT STUDY
Minimum Credits: 1
Maximum Credits: 3
Independent reading and research with one faculty member.
Academic Career: UGRD
Course Component: Independent Study
Grade Component: Satisfactory/No Credit
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