Description: This course develops the knowledge and skills necessary to analyze, interpret, and use financial accounting data. Topics include an overview of the financial accounting process, fundamental reporting requirements, and financial statement analysis.
Prerequisites: C- or better in MATH 150, 151, 101, 105, or 201.
Notes: Offered in fall, spring and summer. MATH 150 is insufficient to progress to ACCT 281.
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This course provides an introduction to the use of accounting information by managers to plan, control, and make decisions. Topics include cost accounting systems, cost-volume-profit analysis, budgetary planning, incremental analysis, and pricing.
Prerequisites: C- or better in CSCI101B or 101E, ACCT 280 and MATH 151, 101, 105, or 201
Credit Hours: 3
Description: An exploration of cultures throughout the world stressing variability in family, political and economic patterns, religion and world view.
Notes: Offered in fall and spring. Global perspective, Social Science
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Survey of art and architecture in the major civilizations of Egypt, the Ancient Near East, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, Medieval Europe, India, China, Japan, and Africa.
Notes: Offered in fall and spring.
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Survey of art and architecture in Western Civilizations, from the Renaissance to the present.
Notes: Offered in fall and spring.
Credit Hours: 3
Description: A course for non-science majors that introduces the unifying principles of biology. The course will cover various levels of organization from molecules to ecosystems. Topics include ecology, energy use and acquisition, biodiversity, evolution, genetics and cells.
Notes: Offered in fall, spring and summer.
Credit Hours: 4
Description: An examination of core concepts in biology that focuses on the molecular basis of life, genetic principles, and fundamental cellular processes that underlie all forms of life and all levels of biological organization.
Co-requisite: BIOL222
Credit Hours: 3,1
Description: An introduction to business careers and the tools needed to obtain internships and jobs in those specific fields. Professional development and financial literacy are incorporated. This course will serve as a foundation for a student's business education.
Lab Fee: $20
Notes: Offered in fall, spring and summer.
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Basic legal concepts and the role of ethics in business operations. Prerequisites: cumulative gpa of at least 2.0 and a grade of C- or better in BADM 180.
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Preparation for the study of General Chemistry through emphasis on problem-solving strategies, on application of chemical principles, and on substantive student practice in solving multi-concept problems.
Content includes matter and energy, modern atomic structure; chemical equations and reaction stoichiometry; solutions; acid base, redox and precipitation reactions; factor-label techniques; gases; and chemical nomenclature methodology.
Notes: Lab Fee: $10. Offered variable times.
Credit Hours: 3
Description: The first course in a two-semester sequence for those intending to major in the sciences. Topics covered include measurement; atomic and electronic structure; bonding and molecular structure; chemical equations and reaction stoichiometry; and properties of gases, liquids, and solids.
Credit Hours: 4
Description: The second course in a two-semester sequence for those intending to major in the sciences. Topics covered include thermodynamics, kinetics, equilibrium, acid-base chemistry, and electrochemistry.
Credit Hours: 3,2
Description: This course provides an introduction to general computer and information technology concepts, presents topical issues related to the digital society, and introduces students to computational thinking though introductory computer programming.
Notes: Offered in fall, spring and summer.
Credit Hours: 1.5
CSCI 101A: Intermediate Word and PowerPoint- Students learn intermediate functions of MS Word and MS PowerPoint.
Lab Fee: $40.
Credit Hours: 0.5
CSCI 101B: Using Microsoft Excel- An introduction to using the Microsoft Excel spreadsheet application, and integrating it with other MS applications.
Notes: Offered in fall, spring and summer.
Lab Fee: $40
Credit Hours: 0.5
CSCI 101C: Using Microsoft Access- An introduction to using the Microsoft Access database management system application.
Notes: Offered in spring, summer and fall.
Lab Fee: $40
Credit Hours: 0.5
CSCI 101D: Advanced Microsoft Excel
Credit Hours: 0.5
CSCI 101F: Learning Adobe Photoshop- An introduction to the use of Adobe Photoshop.
Notes: Offered fall and spring.
Lab fee: $50
Credit Hours: 0.5
An introduction to problem-solving methods, algorithm development, and a high-level programming language. Procedural and data abstraction are emphasized early in the course. Students are introduced to object-oriented programming concepts. Students learn to design, code, debug, and document programs using proper programming techniques.
Prerequisites: MATH 151, or MATH 101, or a MATH course that has MATH 101 or MATH 151 as a prerequisite, or math placement score sufficient to place into MATH 201.
Lab fee: $15.
Credit Hours: 4
Description: Beginning Modern Dance
Credit Hours: 3
Description: The economic behavior of individual decision-making units in society with development of the concepts of consumer choice and business firm behavior under different market conditions.
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Analysis of macroeconomic topics including the factors affecting economic growth, inflation and unemployment.
Prerequisites: ECON 215
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Various special topics and trends at the introductory level. Several different topics may be offered in a single semester.
Prerequisites: WRIT 101
Credit Hours: 3
Description: A survey of representative foundational major works and authors that characterize earlier world literature, including the Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance periods, and chronologically comparable non-Western works.
Prerequisites: WRIT 101
Notes: Offered in fall, spring and summer.
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Study of the major periods, literary forms, and issues that characterize American literature, with a consideration of representative major works and authors over the course of American literary history.
Prerequisite(s): WRIT 101.
Notes: Offered in fall, spring and summer
Credit Hours: 3
Description: A very practical course that emphasizes the development of a personal financial plan to achieve goals and objectives.
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This is an introductory course intended for students who have not studied French previously. This course emphasizes the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
Prerequisites: Students with previous study of French should take the departmental placement test before enrolling in this course.
Lab Fee: $25
Notes: Offered in fall, spring and summer.
Credit Hours: 4
Description: This course builds on French 101. There is continued emphasis on the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
Prerequisites: Completion of French 101 or equivalent with a grade of C- or better, a satisfactory score on the departmental placement test, or permission of the department chair.
Lab Fee: $25
Notes: Offered in fall, spring and summer.
Credit Hours: 4
Description: This course continues to stress the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Special attention is paid to more complex grammatical items such as the subjunctive, contrary-to-fact statements, and relative clauses.
Prerequisites: Completion of FREN 102 with a grade of C- or better, a satisfactory score on the departmental placement test, or permission of the department chair.
Lab Fee: $20
Notes: Offered in fall and spring.
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Human adjustment to the physical environment. The geographic factors in the distribution of population and the growth of civilization.
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Review of the current and historical social, political, and scientific factors that influence the US Health Care System. Students are introduced to the structure, organization, financing, utilization, and history of health and medical care services in the United States. International and US health trends are reviewed.
Credit Hours: 3
Description: A survey of major civilization of the world until about 950.
Credit Hours: 3
Description: A survey of major civilizations of the world from about 950 to about 1750.
Credit Hours: 3
Description: A survey of major civilizations of the world since about 1750.
Credit Hours: 3
Description: A survey of political, diplomatic, economic, social, intellectual and ethnic developments through Reconstruction with attention to development of the Federal Constitution.
Notes: Offered in fall, spring and summer.
Credit Hours: 3
Description: A survey of political, diplomatic, economic, social, intellectual and ethnic developments since Reconstruction with attention to development of the Federal Constitution.
Notes: Offered in fall, spring and summer.
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Basic nutrition concepts applied to the needs of individuals, families and communities. Notes:
Lab Fee: $10.
Notes: Offered in fall, spring and summer.
Credit Hours: 3, 1
Description: Overview of the structures and functions of media and how they inform, persuade, and entertain audiences. Survey of media industries and their evolving relationships in American society. Focus on multimedia entertainment, news organizations, advertising and public relations.
Credit Hours: 3
Description: A study of basic skills and applications necessary for critical thinking in a quantitative world. Topics include: sets, logic, counting, probability, and statistics.
Lab fee: $15
Credit Hours:3
Description: A study of the algebraic skills needed to perform computations in applied settings. topics include: equations, inequalities, functions, graphs, and financial mathematics.
Lab Fee: $15
Credit Hours: 3
Description: A study of differential and integral calculus in applied settings. Topics include: Limits, differentiation and associated applications, integration and associated applications, and multivariable calculus.
Prerequisites: A grade of C- or better in MATH101 or MATH151, or satisfactory score on the Math Placement Exam.
Lab Fee: $15
Credit Hours: 3
Description: The study of algebraic and trigonometric skills needed for single variable calculus. Topics include equations, graphs, polynomial and rational functions, exponential and logarithmic functions, and trigonometry.
Prerequisites: Satisfactory score on Mathematics placement exam or a C- or better in MATH 151.
Notes: Credit will not be allowed for MATH 101 and MATH 104.
Offered in fall, spring, and as needed in summer.
Lab Fee: $15
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Techniques of differentiation, graphing, maximum/minimum, related rate problems, definite integrals, the fundamental theorem of calculus, logarithmic functions, exponential functions, and other transcendental functions.
Prerequisites: A grade of C- or better in MATH 101 or satisfactory score on Mathematics Department Placement Test. Corequisites: MATH 104.
Notes: Credit will not be allowed for MATH 105 and MATH 201. Offered in fall, spring and as needed in summer.
Lab Fee: $15
Credit Hours: 4
Description: A continuation of the calculus in one variable. Methods from Calculus I, in addition to new techniques, will be applied to the study of integration, differential equations, sequences and series. Applications will be given in a variety of disciplines. The course will provide prerequisite material for continued study in both mathematical topics and related scientific disciplines.
Specific topics include: applications of integration, techniques of integration, improper integrals, sequences, series, power series, elementary differential equations, conic sections, and polar coordinates.
Prerequisites: A grade of C- or better in MATH 201.
Credit Hours: 4
Description: Introduction to the major historical periods, genres, works and styles in music literature from early times to the present.
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This course is designed to increase cardiovascular fitness through brisk walking. It will contain a core of knowledge concerning conditioning, self-assessment, injury prevention, stress reduction, and other related health topics for optimum wellness outcomes.
Lab fee: $35
Credit Hours: 1
Description: Overview of the major areas of philosophic inquiry including the nature of reality, of the human self, of moral value, and of knowledge of God's existence.
Notes: Offered every semester
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Basic concepts and principles of physics, including mechanics, heat, sound, electricity, magnetism, and optics.
Prerequisites: Completion of General Education Quantitative Skills requirement with a grade of C or above
Notes: A student may not receive credit for both PHYS 201 and 211 and for both PHYS 202 and 212.
Offered in fall.
Credit Hours: 4
Description: National governmental institutions and the political processes which shape public policy. Meets state requirements for course on the U.S. Constitution.
Notes: Offered in fall, spring and summer
Credit Hours: 3
Description: A comparative study of the structure and functions of state and local government institutions and political processes.
Notes: Offered in fall and spring
Credit Hours: 3
Description: An introduction to the discipline of comparative politics. The course will explore the theoretical components of governments of the world and will prepare students for upper-level area studies .
Credit Hours: 3
Description: A survey of the major areas of psychological science. Core topics include human social behavior, personality, psychological disorders and treatment, learning, memory, emotion, motivation, human development, biological influences, and research methods.
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Introductory study designed to provide students an overall picture of the nature, philosophy, and goals of professional social work practice.
Notes: Offered in fall and spring
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Introduction to the perspectives, approaches and basic concepts used in the sociological study of human social behavior.
Notes: Offered in fall and spring.
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This is an introductory course intended for students who have not studied Spanish previously. This course emphasizes the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
Prerequisites: None
Notes: Students with previous study of Spanish should take the departmental placement test before enrolling in this course. Offered in fall, spring and summer.
Lab Fee: $25
Credit Hours: 3
Description: This course builds on Spanish 101. There is continued emphasis on the development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills.
Prerequisites: Completion of Spanish 101 or equivalent with a grade of C- or better, a satisfactory score on the departmental placement test, or permission of the department chair.
Lab Fee: $25.
Notes: Offered in fall, spring and summer.
Credit Hours: 4
Description: This course continues to stress development of listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. Special attention is paid to more complex grammatical items such as the subjunctive, contrary-to-fact statements, and relative clauses.
Prerequisites: Completion of SPAN 102 with a grade of C- or better, a satisfactory score on the departmental placement test, or permission of the department chair.
Lab Fee: $20
Notes: Offered in fall and spring.
Credit Hours: 3
Description: An introduction to principles and procedures of speech communication with emphasis on speech preparation, delivery, and evaluation.
Lab Fee: $5
Notes: Intensive Oral Communication course.
Offered in fall, spring and summer
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Examination of the varying concepts of religion and the methods used in studying religious behavior and belief.
Notes: Usually, offered every semester
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Introduces students to college-level, thesis- driven, research-based writing. Focus on planning, organizing, and developing persuasive essays through the critical reading of mature prose texts. Emphasis on mastery of MLA documentation format and proper integration of source material.
Lab Fee: $5
Credit Hours: 3
Description: Various special topics and trends at the introductory level in creative writing and writing studies. Several different topics may be offered in a single semester. Students may count 3 hours of WRIT 200 toward the major.
Prerequisite: WRIT 101.
Notes: Course may be repeated for a total of 6 credits. BA-ENGL majors may count 3 hours of WRIT 200 toward the major. Students may take this course more than once only if course covers different subject matter and/or format.
Offered periodically
Credit Hours: 3
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