Applied hands-on exercises demonstrate the processes of groundwater movement, slope stability, soil pollution, water chemistry, air pollution and weather, evolution, and earthquakes. One class field trip.
Pre- or corequisite: 21:460:206.
LAB FEE: $12.00
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 (21:920:285:H5:02982)
This course will examine psychopathology according to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) along with its probable causes and unusual behavioral manifestations. Theories of abnormal pathology will be explored along with research techniques employed in the investigation of abnormality to best help students comprehend, empathize with, and begin to learn about the psychological treatment process.Prerequisite: 21:830:102.
This course explores the development of physical, cognitive, and socio-emotional capacities in children from birth to adolescence. Topics include language, intelligence, social behaviors and attitudes, moral development, emotional development, attachment formation, parenting, and atypical development. Major theoretical perspectives and current empirical work on development are critically evaluated.Prerequisite: 21:830:102.
Individual study and research on selected problems in political science.Prerequisites: Permission of department chair and instructor.
Qualified students may undertake individual research under the supervision of a member of the department.
Writing intensive.
Individual studies of selected topics in mathematics.Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Students may enroll multiple times.
By permission only.
Practice in the teaching of mathematics supervised by a member of the faculty.
By permission only.
Advanced students who have demonstrated superior skill in the field will work at least a day a week at a communications operation – a newspaper, magazine, broadcasting station, or public relations firm. Students are evaluated by staff executives of the participating organization.
By permission only.
Historical research on a more systematic level than is normally possible in lecture courses.Prerequisites: Permission of department chair and instructor.