Dual Credit Classes
BIOL 101 - General Biology I Lecture
Description: Fundamental principles of Biology including: introduction to the scientific method, basic biological chemistry; cell structure and function; energy transformations; mechanisms of cell communication; cellular reproduction; and principles of genetics.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate understanding of the historical foundations, methodologies employed, general architecture and functioning of the cell - the basic unit of life.
BIOL 111- General Biology I Lab
Description: Complements General Biology I lecture material through observation, experimentation, and when appropriate, dissection of representative organisms. Physical and chemical phenomena of life as well as systematics and comparative anatomy and physiology of selected organisms will be examined.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the diversity of living organisms, including comparisons in cell structure and function, and comparative organismal evolution and ecology.
BIOL 102 - General Biology II Lecture
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 and 111.
Description: A continuation of BIOL 101. Fundamental principles of Biology including: evolutionary theory; general principles of ecology; study of plant structure and function; and comparative animal physiology.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the fundamental principles of ecology and evolution, as well as the anatomy and physiology of representative plant and animal phyla.
BIOL 112 - General Biology II Lab
Prerequisites: BIOL 101 and 111.
Description: Complements General Biology II lecture material through observation, experimentation, and when appropriate, dissection of representative organisms. Physical and chemical phenomena of life as well as systematics and comparative anatomy and physiology of selected organisms will be examined.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the diversity of living organisms, including comparisons in cell structure and function, and comparative organismal evolution and ecology.
Description: This course develops an understanding of the marketing systems by which organizations plan, price, promote and distribute products and services to selected target markets.
Outcomes: Students analyze market conditions and apply the basic tools to develop marketing strategies to successfully meet the customers' needs resulting in a viable, profitable organization.
CHEM 101 - General Chemistry A Lecture
Prerequisite: MATH 117 or equivalent.
Co-requisite: CHEM 111; MATH 118 or equivalent.
Description: This course deals with the development of basic chemical principles. Multiple perspectives of matter will be used to describe and explain characteristics, properties, and relationships across the following topics: atomic structure, nuclear chemistry, periodicity, molecular structure, chemical bonding, chemical reactions, thermochemistry, aqueous solutions, gases. (A year of high school chemistry is recommended.)
Outcomes: Students will learn the foundational concepts of chemistry in these topic areas and develop skills in scientific problem solving and critical thinking.
CHEM 111 - General Chemistry A Lab
Pre- or co-requisite: CHEM 101.
Description: Laboratory course designed to illustrate fundamental models and theories in chemistry with an emphasis on significant digits, calculations, and analysis and discussion questions.
Outcomes: Students will be able to use equipment properly and demonstrate correct laboratory technique.
CHEM 102 - General Chemistry B Lecture
Prerequisites: CHEM 101; MATH 118 or equivalent.
Description: This course further develops principles from CHEM 101 & requires in-depth integration of concepts. Multiple perspectives of matter will be used to describe/explain characteristics, properties, & relationships across the following topics: liquids & solids, solutions, reaction kinetics, equilibria, acids & bases, reaction thermodynamics, electrochemical reactions.
Outcomes: Students will deepen their understanding of foundational concepts of chemistry and advance their skills in scientific problem solving, critical thinking and synthesis of concepts.
CHEM 112 - General Chemistry B Lab
Prerequisites: CHEM 101 and 111; MATH 118 or equivalent.
Description: The second semester of general chemistry laboratory exposes students to qualitative analysis and continues the process of experimenting and collecting data to test the validity of theories and models presented in lecture.
Outcomes: Students will demonstrate success in lab by making perceptive qualitative observations and accurate quantitative measurements.
Description: The world overflows with electronic data. This course introduces programming in a simple, powerful language like Python, with selection, repetition, functions, graphical effects, and dynamic interaction with the Internet, plus connections to lower level computer organization and computer implications in the wider world.
Outcomes: Empowerment to manage and transform masses of data; understanding of technical, societal, and ethical issues involved.
Prerequisite: MATH 118 or Placement or COMP 125 or COMP 141 or COMP 150 or COMP 180 or permission (prior experience with a procedural programming language is sufficient to obtain permission to enroll).
Description: This programming intensive course with its weekly lab component introduces basic concepts of object-oriented programming in a language such as Java.
Outcomes: Ability to take a problem, break it into parts, specify algorithms, and express a solution in terms of variables, data types, input/output, repetition, choice, arrays, subprograms, classes, and objects; ability to judge a good program.
Description: This course will provide a detailed examination of past and present theories of criminal behavior, placing them in a socio-historical context and exploring their policy and practical implications.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of how the specific theories of criminal behavior can be compared and evaluated, how the theories evolved over time, and how they can be applied to criminal justice policy and practice.
Description: This course is designed to help students examine the complex role of the teacher and to understand principles and methods of curriculum, instruction, and evaluation in the elementary school.
Outcomes: Students will be able to design an instructional plan, analyze the characteristics of an effective classroom, and articulate major challenges facing school systems.
Description: The foundational course of literary studies will require students to read closely and analyze carefully a representative variety of prose, poetry, and drama, master key literary and critical term, and explore a variety of core critical approaches to the analysis and interpretation of literature.
Description: This course will introduce concepts that form the basis of environmental science, including elemental cycling, energy flow/transformation, and the interconnectivity among atmosphere, lithosphere, hydrosphere and biosphere, and within ecosystems. Ways in which knowledge of these concepts informs policy, management and social perception to produce positive change will also be examined.
Outcomes: Recognize interconnections among scientific disciplines and how their principles are used to investigate and address environmental issues; understand physical, chemical and ecological principles underlying environmental science and how these interact.
Description: Dancing, choreographing, or stage managing, in a campus production. Completion of a journal or paper is required.
Outcomes: Students will gain performance experience, assess personal artistic growth, and reflect on application of performance theory and technique into production practice.
Description: This course is an introductory study of the theatrical art form and its contemporary production practice. Students engage in a series of workshops and participatory creative projects.
Outcomes: Students will demonstrate the ability to identify the variety of collaborating arts and artists that combine to create of a work of theatre; to analyze a play script for live performance; to evaluate theatrical production; and to creatively apply knowledge of theatrical process through expressive and creative endeavors.
Description: This course is an introduction to the history of the United States from the colonial era through the Civil War.
Outcomes: Students will demonstrate an understanding of Native American societies, the impact of European colonization, the creation and evolution of democratic institutions in a multicultural society, the geographic expansion of the United States, and the impact of slavery.
Description: This course is an introduction to the history of the United States from the Civil War to the present.
Outcomes: Students will demonstrate an understanding of how the United States became a modern industrial society, the emergence and evolution of the modern welfare state, the rise of the United States as a global power, and the impact of controversies over civil rights and liberties on American society.
Description: This course investigates mathematical modeling applied to a variety of topics such as linear programming, coding information, probability and statistics, scheduling problems and social choice.
Outcomes: Students will understand the usefulness of mathematical modeling in a variety of disciplines within the life sciences, the social sciences, and business.
Prerequisite: MATH 118 or placement.
Description: This course provides a standard introduction to differential and integral calculus and covers topics ranging from functions and limits to derivatives and their applications to definite and indefinite integrals and the fundamental theorem of calculus and their applications.
Outcomes: Students will obtain the background needed to enroll in Calculus II.
Prerequisite: MATH 161.
Description: This course is a continuation of Calculus I and includes the calculus of various classes of functions, techniques of integration, applications of integral calculus, three-dimensional geometry, and differentiation and integration in two variables.
Outcomes: Students will obtain the background needed for further study in mathematics and to apply mathematics in the physical sciences.
Prerequisite: MATH 162 or MATH 162A.
Description: This course covers the differential and integral calculus of multivariable and vector valued functions, culminating with Green's Theorem, the Divergence Theorem, and Stokes' Theorem; software packages such as MAPLE may be used. This course follows a traditional approach to calculus sequencing.
Outcomes: Students will obtain an understanding of multivariable calculus and its applications, as well as background needed for the study of more advanced mathematics.
Description: This course provides an introduction to statistical reasoning and techniques in descriptive and inferential statistics and their applications in economics, education, genetics, medicine, physics, political science, and psychology.
Outcomes: Students will obtain a background in the fundamentals of descriptive and inferential statistics along with an understanding of their uses and misuses; This course satisfies the quantitative literacy requirement of the core curriculum.
Description: This is an introductory course in Modern Standard Chinese (Mandarin) for students with none or little prior experience in Chinese. This course introduces the four basic communicative skills in Chinese: listening, speaking, reading and writing, and emphasizes on conversation. They will be able to understand and respond to greetings, as well as talk about family members, time, hobbies and friends. They will learn nearly 200 characters.
Outcomes: Students will achieve active control of Chinese sound system and writing system.
Prerequisite: FREN 102.
Description: Taught in French. Course continues to work on focus on pronunciation, grammar. and developing conversational and writing fluency. Students will read excerpts of French and francophone media or literature. Topics include the environment and the many francophone cultures and tasks include narrating in more complex past, future and hypothetical contexts.
Outcomes: Students become more fluent and precise in expressing opinions, asking and answering more probing and data-driven questions, on topic.
Prerequisite: FREN 103.
Description: Taught in French. Students will comprehend and produce French in more complex contexts (literary and cultural) while reviewing intermediate grammar structures to improve fluency and accuracy. Students present and debate cultural, historical or current events topics; practice expressing emotion, opinion, judgment, necessity, hypotheticals, and regret.
Outcomes: Students will skillfully interpret and write about literature excerpts or French and francophone media. They will summarize, narrate, and offer opinions.
Prerequisite: GERM 102.
Description: Students will read and discuss a variety of short readings, including short stories and poetry.
Outcomes: Students will have gained a wider range of oral expression, both lexical and grammatical; They will be able to express more complex reactions, read more complex narrative and literary texts, and write sentences in longer paragraphs.
Prerequisite: GERM 103.
Description: Students will read texts of greater length and complexity, expand their vocabulary, and increase their ability to communicate, both orally and in writing.
Outcomes: Students will have gained a wider range of oral expression, both lexical and grammatical; They will be able to express more complex reactions, read more complex narrative and literary texts, and write sentences in cohesive paragraphs and short essays.
Prerequisite: GREK 102.
Description: This course centers on translation of representative selections from the poetic works of ancient Greek authors, with special emphases on review of Greek grammar as it is encountered in the selected texts and the basic style and structure of Greek poetry.
Outcomes: Students should be able to translate accurately the selected passages in Greek poetry, comprehend, analyze and appreciate various poetic genres, as well as demonstrate knowledge and understanding of the content and artistry of the selected poetry.
Description: An introduction to the fundamentals of modern Hebrew, together with study of the distinctive culture of the Jewish state of Israel.
Outcomes: Students will be able to understand basic Hebrew sentences and to give basic information about themselves in Hebrew, and will demonstrate knowledge of the culture of modern Israel.
Prerequisite: HEBR 101.
Description: A continued introduction to the fundamentals of modern Hebrew, together with study of distinctive culture of the Jewish state of Israel.
Outcomes: Students will be able to understand basic Hebrew sentences and to give basic information about themselves in Hebrew, and will demonstrate knowledge of the culture of modern Israel.
Prerequisite: ITAL 102.
Description: This course examines more complex grammatical elements of Italian, and promotes the development of intermediate listening comprehension, speaking, reading and writing skills.
Outcomes: Students will be able to understand and write more complex Italian sentences and paragraphs, and to produce orally and in writing paragraphs and longer pieces providing accounts of their present past and future activities, and oral and written reactions to Italian cultural products.
Prerequisite: LATN 101.
Description: This course continues the study of the fundamentals of the Latin language, including more vocabulary, grammar, syntax and more advanced readings.
Outcomes: Students should be able to demonstrate advanced knowledge of basic Latin vocabulary, syntax and grammar and deploy it to be able to translate accurately more advanced Latin sentences and passages into English.
Prerequisites: LATN 101 and LATN 102.
Description: This intermediate-level course centers on translation of prose and poetry of Roman authors, with special emphasis on review of Latin grammar as it is encountered in the selected texts.
Outcomes: Students will be able to translate selected passages of Latin prose and poetry with accuracy, analyze and appreciate Roman literature, and demonstrate understanding of the content of the passages.
Prerequisites: LATN 101 and LATN 102
Description: This course focuses on the literature and society of Rome at the time of Julius Caesar, in particular translation of selected readings from such authors as Lucretius, Catullus, Sallust, Caesar and Cicero.
Outcomes: Students should be able to translate accurately the selected readings, analyze and appreciate their style and content, and demonstrate knowledge and understanding of their contexts and meanings.
Prerequisites: LATN 101 and LATN 102.
Description: Students study a selected range of masterworks in Latin literature.
Outcomes: Students should be able to demonstrate deeper knowledge and understanding of selected Latin literature, its style and its possible interpretations.
Description: This course is an introduction to the basic elements of Spanish language and culture. It is designed for students with no previous experience in Spanish.
Outcomes: Students will be able to understand simple messages and short narratives, respond to basic inquiries about themselves and others, formulate basic questions, as well as understand basic written texts.
Prerequisite: SPAN 101.
Description: This course builds on SPAN 101 and introduces students to new topics and grammatical structures.
Outcomes: Students will be able to produce sounds in Spanish more accurately, express appropriate reactions to ordinary situations, understand basic oral commands, read more complex texts, and write sentences in cohesive paragraphs.
Prerequisite: SPAN 102.
Description: This course is the first semester of second-year Spanish.
Outcomes: Students will increase their knowledge of Spanish grammar and vocabulary, and their Spanish communication skills.
Description: This course is the second semester of second-year Spanish.
Outcomes: Students will continue to perfect their knowledge of Spanish grammar and vocabulary, with greater stress on reading and speaking.
Prerequisite: MATH 118 or placement.
Description: Non-calculus introduction to vectors, kinematics, Newtonian mechanics of translational, rotational, and oscillatory motion, energy and momentum conservation, and thermodynamics.
Outcomes: Understanding of analytical description of motion and application of conservation laws; develop scientific insight and proficiency in solving representative problems.
Prerequisite: MATH 118 or placement. Pre- or co-requisite: PHYS 111 or PHYS 121.
Description: Laboratories cover selected topics in introductory mechanics, including freefall, uniform circular motion, work-energy, collisions, rotational motion, and harmonic motion.
Outcomes: Experience and familiarity with basic measuring devices and simple mechanics equipment; Understand measurement errors and their propagation, plotting and interpretation of data, the connection between theory and experiment for selected topics in elementary mechanics.
Prerequisite: PHYS 111.
Description: Non-calculus introduction to electricity and magnetism, sound, optics, and selected topics from modern physics.
Outcomes: Understand and apply electromagnetism to 2- and 3-dimensional problems in physical and biological sciences.
Prerequisite: PHYS 111L. Pre- or co-requisite: PHYS 112 or PHYS 112K.
Description: Laboratories cover selected topics in electrical circuits and optics, including DC circuits, resonance in AC circuits, ray optics, and prism and grating spectrometers.
Outcomes: Experience and familiarity with DC power supplies, digital multi-meters, function generators, oscilloscopes, mirrors, lenses, and spectrometers; Ability to correlate simple electronic schematic diagrams with actual circuits; Understand the connection between theory and experiment for selected topics in elementary electrical circuits and optics.
Pre- or co-requisite: MATH 131 or MATH 161.
Description: Calculus-based introduction to vectors, kinematics, Newtonian mechanics of translational, rotational, and oscillatory motion, energy and momentum conservation, and thermodynamics.
Outcomes: Understanding of analytical description of motion and application of conservation laws; develop scientific insight and proficiency in solving representative problems.
Prerequisite: PHYS 121. Pre- or co-requisite MATH 132 or MATH 162.
Description: Calculus-based introduction to electricity and magnetism, sound, optics, and selected topics from modern physics.
Outcomes: Understand and apply electromagnetism to 2- and 3-dimensional problems in physical and biological sciences.
Description: An introduction to political theory, covering the principal ideas, controversies and institutions of political society.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of major approaches to the normative study of politics; to identify the assumptions underlying philosophical arguments; and to critically assess different theories of political justice.
Description: American national government and politics, including institutions, group and electoral processes, and public policy.
Outcomes: Students will be able to demonstrate an understanding of the American political system, the patterns of political participation and behavior of diverse individuals and groups in American society, and evaluate the roles and processes of U.S. political institutions.
Description: Introduction to concepts, theories, and methods in psychology. Emphasis is given to the scientific study of consciousness and human behavior. Topics include: human development, learning, thinking, perception, personality, testing, mental illness and mental health, biological and social aspects of behavior.
Outcomes: Students will master basic concepts and key theories and learn to apply them to real-world situations.
Description: This is a foundational course in the social sciences which explores the effect of globalization on everyday life in the United States and elsewhere, using the basic perspectives and methodologies of sociology.