This course takes a multidisciplinary approach to consider how we use drugs in our society and how they may vary from culture to culture. The course will explore how drugs can create subcultures, how they have been used to reinforce racial stereotypes and maintain racial discrimination and how they affect the lives of men and women differently. It also considers how drugs create an altered consciousness that humans have been seeking for thousands of years.

Section H5 Cross-Listed With: Drugs and Society (21:070:285:H5:03710)

English Composition 102 is the second course in the sequence of writing courses required of nontransfer students and must be taken immediately following the successful completion of English Composition 101. This course builds on the critical reading, thinking, and writing skills developed in 101 and further prepares students for the types of intellectual inquiry as well as critical analysis and writing required in upper-level courses offered at the university. Students engage increasingly complex texts of different genres and from a variety of disciplinary orientations. Emphasis continues to be placed on writing as a process as students are required to conduct and to critically evaluate research as well as to maintain an independent voice as they negotiate multiple primary and secondary sources.

Examines the role of one's culture in various aspects of identity and development. Students examine the role of culture in psychology, look at the way in which psychologists have traditionally examined culture, and explore practices in various cultures throughout the world. This course will emphasize many real-world applications of cross-cultural psychology and will explore topics such as interpersonal relationships, social behaviors, and ethnocentrism.

Prerequisites: 21:830:101,102. 

An individual research and reading program under the guidance of a member of the department.Prerequisites: Senior status, 12 credits in management.

Writing intensive.

Management is about the right work done well. Effective management requires development and implementation of strategy and organizational design in innovative, globally diverse, and socially responsible organizations resulting in superior growth and performance. This course introduces key concepts related to the practice of management in building successful organizations. Topics include: evolution of management principles, strategic management, organizational design, performance management, managing innovation and growth, global management, building a socially responsible organization, managing the diverse organization, and creating a motivating work context.

This course focuses on the knowledge, attitudes, and skills needed by professional nurses to conduct a comprehensive physical and behavioral health assessment using a life span approach, and incorporating ethical, social, and cultural dimensions. Students will incorporate health promotion strategies for teaching and learning needs of individuals. Health assessment skills are practiced in the simulation learning environment.Prerequisites: 01:119:127-128 or 21:120:241-242; 01:119:131-132 or 21:120:235; 01:160:128 or 21:160:108, 110; 705:229, 255; required course in descriptive/inferential statistics. Corequisites: 705:395, 325, 335, 330.

Open to 2nd Degree Students Only.

Interdisciplinary study of Latinx in the United States, including distinct immigrants, national origin, and ethnic groups.

Descriptive statistics, probability, sampling, estimation, hypothesis testing, and regression analysis; realistic application with the computer employed as a major tool.Formerly 21:220:231. Not open to students who have taken a course in statistics or its equivalent in another department.

Introduces the fundamental principles of photography through directed projects with digital cameras. The focus is on the medium of photography as a means of visual thinking and creativity.  Experimentation with a broad range of approaches to photography will be covered using structured assignments and demonstrations. The student will gain a practical and conceptual foundation in the field of photography as a language of communication and expression.Open to nonmajors. No previous art experience needed.