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AC 232 - Principles of Accounting II [Sample] 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Prerequisite: AC 231 . A continuation of Principles of Accounting I. Emphasis on financial statement interpretation and the uses of accounting information by management for planning, controlling and decision making. (FA, SP)
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ACL 231 - Principles of Accounting I Lab 1 Credit Hour
Corequisite: AC 231 This lab course is designed to reinforce the basic accounting concepts and the understanding of the accounting cycle and financial statements as instructed in the Principles of Accounting I course. The lab course is required to be taken in conjunction with AC 231, Principles of Accounting I. The goal(s) are to provide a clear understanding of the basic principles of accounting as it applies to the accounting cycle and preparation of financial statements. An understanding of the principles and concepts of financial statements and financial reporting in accordance with general accepted accounting principles (GAAP) is emphasized. (FA, SP)
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ACL 232 - Principles of Accounting II 1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: ACL 231 Corequisite: AC 232 This lab course is designed to reinforce the basic accounting concepts and the understanding of the accounting cycle and financial statements as instructed in the Principles of Accounting I and Principles of Accounting II courses. The lab course is required to be taken in conjunction with AC 232, Principles of Accounting II. The goal(s) are to provide a clear understanding of the principles of accounting as it applies to the accounting cycle and preparation of financial statements. An understanding of the principles and concepts of financial statements and financial reporting in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP) is emphasized. (FA, SP)
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BA 237 - Quantitative Tools & Methods [Sample] 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Prerequisite: BA 236 & MAB 138. This course presents the fundamental concept of quantitative methods to business decision making. It is intended to present students with a sound theoretical comprehension of the role that management science occupies in the decision making process. It highlights the use of a widespread mixture of quantitative techniques to the solution of business and economic problems. (FA, SP)
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BA 499 - Senior Seminar [Sample] 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Prerequisite: Complete BA 237 , ITM 200 , BA 360 , and senior standing. A focus on two elements: (1) professional development and (2) research methods. Professional development seeks to provide a technical competence through the creation of structured opportunities to develop oral and written communication and positive personal qualities. Additionally, guidelines and assistance will be given to finalizing a senior research paper/business plan and presenting that paper. (FA, SP)
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BAL 360 - Business Communication Lab 0
Prerequisite: EN 132, BA 110, BL 230, ITM 110 or CS 132 Corequisite: BA 360 This lab course is designed to reinforce the concepts and understanding of the specific tools needed for communicating in business. The lab course is required to be taken in conjunction with BA 360, Business Communications. The goal(s) are to provide a clear understanding of the writing, oral and collaborative skills necessary for future business courses, internships and professional positions. (FA, SP)
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BI 244 - Microbiology [Sample] 4 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Prerequisites: BI 142 , CH 141 , or approval of the instructor. Corequisite: Co-requisite: BIL 244. A study of morphology, physiology, nutrition and growth of microbes, including taxonomy and practical identification of the major microbial groups. Other topics to be discussed include immunology and the role of microorganisms in public health, industrial processes, and the cycle of nature. Laboratory practice includes use of the microscope, aseptic technique, media preparation, and microbiological experimentation. Lecture 3 Hours, laboratory 3 Hours per week. (FA,SP,SU)
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BI 337 - General Ecology II
Prerequisite: BI 142, BI 142L, CH242, CH242L. This lecture and lab course will introduce you to the scientific study of the constantly changing relationship between organism and their living and non-living environment. We will look at the basic principles of ecology from the point of view of the individual, a population of individuals, an interacting group of populations within a community, and a community of organisms gaining energy and materials within an ecosystem.
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BI 391 - Biomolecular Technologies 3 Credit Hours
This course offers an introduction to laboratory instrumentation with emphasis on biotechnology applications. The course is comprised of a one-hour lecture part and a two-hour lab part. The lecture focuses on analysis methods and general laboratory work-flow. In the labortory component, students will learn about career-relevant laboratory procedures in Biology centered on modern technology.
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BI 444 - Computational Genomics 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Instructor’s permission or completion of Principles of Biology III. The course will introduce students to computer-based genomic data analysis. A variety of methomd for genomic data analysis will be taught using data from a variety of biological and biomedical fields.
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CHL 141 - General Chemistry I Lab 1
Lab that supports CH 141 General Chemistry I
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CHSP 200 - Community Health Care Practicum I 2 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: CHS 200. Offered in collaboration with the Honors College, this is the required practicum after completion of CHS 200 Community Healthcare from Theory to Practice. Students are required to complete at least one semester of practicum, however students may enroll in up to four semesters of the practicum for course credit. This course is the first course in the sequence.
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CHSP 201 - Community Health Care Practicum II 2 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: CHSP 200. Offered in collaboration with Honors College, this is an optional practicum after completion of CHSP 200. Students may enroll in up to four semesters of the practicum for course credit. This course is the second semester and students have the opportunity to follow patients enrolled in the first semester.
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CHSP 202 - Community Health Care Practicum 2 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: CHSP 201. Offered in collaboration with the Honors College, this is an optional practicum after completion of CHSP 201. Students may enroll in up to four semesters of the practicum for course credit. This is the third semester.
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CHSP 203 - Community Health Care Practicum IV 2 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: CHSP 202. Offered in collaboration with the Honors College, this is an optional practicum after completion of CHSP 202. Students may enroll in up to four semesters of the practicum for course credit. This is the fourth and final semester in which students have experienced long term interactions with a panel of chronically ill patients.
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CIS 334 - Network Operating Systems 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: CIS241 This course is an introduction to network operating systems with an emphasis on the management of network objects, e.g. users, groups, volumes, print servers, and other shared network resources. This course examines the interaction of people, systems and computers. Strategic management issues unique to the information technology environment are discussed. This course is also an introduction to installing, configuring, supporting and maintaining network operating system clients. Topics include software installation, configuration, operations, and troubleshooting. This course introduces students to topics covered on the CompTIA 220-701 and 220-702 A+ certification exams.
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CIS 498 - Senior Design II 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: CS 497 This course is the second of a two-sequence capstone courses for computer science majors. Students will continue the work begun in Senior Design I (CIS497} and implement their chosen projects to functional completion. The emphasis in this course is on the implementation, testing, report writing and presentation. Each team is required to make a formal project presentation to a group of faculty, students and outside representatives. A written final project document is required prior to the presentation; it must be provided to the faculty members advising the team and the project sponsor (if applicable).
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CJ 314 - The Color of Law: Criminal (In) Justice in American History 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: HI 130, CJ 131, CJ 205. This course is designed specifically for students majoring in criminal justice/criminology and will examine the history of institutionalized social control and its impact on the American criminal justice system through a race equity lens, beginning with the period of chattel slavery through contemparary timees. The major themes will include race relations, criminal justice contact and processes; peonage, and various structural responses to people of color. This understanding will be delevoled through the use of readings, lectures, videos, and various writing assignments and/or on-line discussions.
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CJ 463 - Juvenile Justice Reform 3
Prerequisite: CJ 205, CJ 216, CJ 416 This course is designed to generate discussions and develop strategies (framework) aimed at reforming the current juvenile justice system. This course will examine Juvenille Justice Reform.
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CJ 464 - Juvenile Law 3
Prerequisite: CJ 205, CJ 216, CJ 461 The class will examine issues related to crime throughout the world. The student will identify, analyze, and compare the juvenille justice systems in the U.S. with those of other countries.
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CMIN 220 - Spiritual Formation 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: EN 131. This courses will focus on the formation and development of mature character in the life of the Christian leader. The course will explore biblical models of transformation and faith development combining elements of academic study and Christian experience. The course invites the student to think critically, to develop new ideas, and work with them. The purpose of this kind of learning is not to stop at the academic level, but encourage personal spiritual growth through participation and reflection and enable the student to facilitate others to grow in Christ
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CMIN 260 - Introduction to Christian Theology 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: RELI 110, EN 131 This introductory course takes a look at Jesus and his teachings in an historical contex and provides a general overview of the major doctrines of Christianity and concepts of Christian Theology. The course examines the creeds of the early church, taking into account the major reasons that necessitated their formulations. The course also builds a platform for the demonstrationof how the cause of Christianity has helped to forge theologies of Liberation that have sparked the cause of Change that have been prevalent, instrumental and necessary in bringing about social justice.
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CS 215 - Fundamentals of Scientific Computing 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: MAT 134 . This is an introductory computer course for science majors to help students understand the computing technologies they used every day and to develop the computational thinking and proficiency necessary for science disciplines. Microsoft Office is used with emphasis on Excel features, including built-in functions, Solver, and Data Analysis Toolpak. MATLAB is used to implement simple algorithms. Fundamental concepts of computing are also introduced to explain how computers work, what they can do, and how they can be used effectively,
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CS 215 - Fundamentals of Scientific Computing 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: MAT 134. This is an introductory computer course for science majors to help students understand the computing technologies they used every day and to develop the computational thinking and proficiency necessary for science disciplines. Microsoft Office is used with emphasis on Excel features, including built-in functions, Solver, and Data Analysis Toolpak. MATLAB is used to implement simple algorithms. Fundamental concepts of computing are also introduced to explain how computers work, what they can do, and how they can be used effectively,
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CS 331 - Mobile Applications Development 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: CS 231 A and CS 231 AL Corequisite: CSL 331L - Mobile Applications Development Lab This course introduces mobile applications development to Junior/Senior computer science and computer engineering students. The course covers operating systems, programming concepts, and tools for mobile devices. At the end of the course, students will be able to develop simple applications for a variety of mobile devices.
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CSL 331 - Mobile Applications Development Laboratory 1 Credit Hour
Corequisite: CS 331 Mobile Applications Development Laboratory activities relating to the software development process and programming concepts covered in CS 331.
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ED 355 - Curriculum Design and Instructional Methods 3 Credits
Prerequisite: ED231, ESE200 and Pass General Knowledge Test. Students will learn curriculum theories and teaching methods and strategies to use in curriculum development and implementation. Students will develop a unit for their specific subject areas using the Next Generation Sunshine State Standards/Florida Standards and appropriate ESOL Performance Standards. Students will teach the unit using instructional method taught in the course.
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ED 450 - Reading Practicum 1 credit hour
Prerequisite: ED 368, ED369, or ED370, ED439. This course will provide students with a culmininating practicum experience in research-based practices of reading instruction through which they demonstrate knowledge and application of differentiated teaching and assessment of all components of reading. This course requires a field experience placement.
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EEL 333 - Networked Autonomous Robotics Laboratory 1 Credit Hour
Corequisite: E 333 Laboratory experiments related to material covered in E 333.
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EL 230 - Introduction to Electric Circuits Laboratory 1 Credit hour
Corequisite: E 230 Laboratory experiments related to material covered in E 230.
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EL 333 - Networked Autonomous Robotics Laboratory 1 Credit Hour
Corequisite: E 333. Laboratory experiments related to material covered in E 333.
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EL 335 - Electronics I Laboratory 1 Credit Hour
Corequisite: E 335 Laboratory experiments related to material covered in E 335.
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EL 431 - VLSI Design I Laboratory 1 Credit Hour
Corequisite: :E 431 Laboratory experiments related to material covered in E 431
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EL 436 - Digital Signal Processing Laboratory 1 Credit Hour
Corequisite: E 436 Laboratory experiments related to material covered in E 436.
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EN 131 - College English I [Sample] 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Pre-requisite: EN 095 /125 or an acceptable score on the B-CU placement test, SAT, or ACT. This is the first of two sequential courses in freshman writing covering various rhetorical strategies. This course emphasizes developing skills for navigating the stages of writing, including pre-writing, organizing, drafting, revising and editing. Students are required to write a minimum of 6,000 words through informal writing activities, formal essays, and a documented paper. Students should be prepared to write extensively in this course and have their work reviewed through instructor conferences. (FA, SP, SU)
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EN 132 - College English II [Sample] 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: Pre-requisite: EN 131 or EN 134 or equivalent Credit through Advanced Placement examination. This is the second of two sequential courses in freshman writing covering a variety of rhetorical strategies with an emphasis on choosing the most effective approach to suit purpose and audience. An emphasis is placed on using literature to inspire writing on a variety of relevant issues and subjects while continuing to reinforce the stages of the writing process. Research and documentation are included. Students should be prepared to write extensively and have their work reviewed through teacher conferences. (FA, SP, SU)
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ES 130 - Introduction to Environmental Science 3 Credit Hours
An introduction to basic concepts concerning the relationships among the physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment, and the impact upon them due to the activities of our own populations. The interaction between humans and the environment will be explored from organismal, ecosystem, and global perspectives
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ES 233 - Environmental Ethics 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ES 241, ESL 241, or instructor permission. A survey of theoretical ethical perspectives and tools, both religious and philosophical, that can be used to resolve ethical dilemmas in natural resources, resource planning, and environmental management. This course will employ a case-study approach to illuminate the ethics of human relationships when situated within the larger biotic community, with the goal of informing environmentally-focused ethical decisionmaking. (FA) (Alternating Years)
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ES 241 - Principles of Environmental Science 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: BI 240 (lecture and lab), MAT 135, EN 131 Corequisite: ESL 241 3 Semester Hours Details of the relationships among the physical, chemical, and biological components of the environment, and the role of our own populations in these processes. The interaction between humans and the environment will be explored in an interdisciplinary fashion from organismal, ecosystem, and global perspectives. (FA)
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ES 244 - Environmental and Ecological Economics 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ES 241, ESL 241, or instructor permission. An introduction to the economic treatment of two major categories of environmental problems, natural resource depletion and pollution, from the perspectives of traditional environmental economics and the emerging alternative of ecological economics; both of which have the objective of achieving sustainable economic growth and development (i.e. “sustainable development”). (SP) (Alternating Years)
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ES 246 - Environmental Microbiology 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ES 241, ESL 241, or instructor permission. Corequisite: ESL 246 This course will focus on the interactions that microorganisms have with each other and with their environment. Students will study the vital role of microbes in marine, freshwater and terrestrial ecosystems by exploring the dynamic microbial response to continually-changing environmental conditions. Specific areas of focus include microbial contamination and methods of controlling microbial growth, enzyme and growth kinetics, cell structure and physiology, microbial genetics, and biogeochemical cycles. (SP) (Alternating Years) ESL 246 - Environmental Microbiology Lab 1 Semester
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ES 311 - Junior Seminar 1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: ES 211 and junior standing or greater. Discussions, presentations, and exercises focusing on the basics of data collection and research with a goal of preparing a senior research project proposal. (FA)
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ES 330 - Environmental Regulations 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ES 241, ESL 241, or instructor permission. A review of the topics, issues, influences, and approaches used to address the political and legal aspects of environmental issues, with an emphasis on the design and application of environmental regulations locally, nationally, and globally. (FA) (Alternating Years)
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ES 332 - Environmental Human Ecology 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ES 241, ESL 241, or instructor permission A survey of the connection and feedback between human systems and the surrounding environment, including efforts to design more environmentally sustainable human systems. (SP) (Alternating Years)
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ES 334 - Microclimatology 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ES 241, ESL 241 Corequisite: ESL 334. Pre-requisite or Co-requisite: MAT 241 A study of the atmosphere near the earth’s surface, with particular attention to the interaction of atmospheric phenomena with the surface and things on that surface, including organisms. (SP) (Alternating Years)
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ES 335 - GIS and Remote Sensing 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ES 241, ESL 241 or instructor permission Corequisite: ESL 335 An introduction to Geographic Information Systems, Remote Sensing, and related geospatial technology, with particular emphasis on their application to environmental issues. (FA) (Alternating Years)
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ES 338 - Research Methods 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ES 241, ESL 241, or instructor permission. A study of the steps involved in scientific research, including information collection, hypothesis formulation, proposal design, experimental/statistical design, data analysis and hypothesis testing, and data/sample storage. (SP) (Alternating Years)
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ES 339 - Hydrology 3 Credit Hours
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ES 241, ESL 241. Corequisite: ESL 339. Pre-requisite or Co-requisite: MAT 135 or higher. This course will explore the basics of the hydrologic cycle and its major components: oceans, groundwater, and lakes and streams. The course will touch on the properties of water as a substance, and the physical behavior of water in the air, the ground, and in bodies of standing and moving water including oceans and estuaries. (SP) (Alternating Years)
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ES 345 - Freshwater Aquatic Systems 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ES 241, ESL 241. Corequisite: ESL 345 BI 437, BIL 437 A study of the properties of water as a substance, the behavior of freshwater systems, and the ecology of the plants and animals that rely on these areas for survival, with an emphasis on an integrated systems perspective. (FA) (Alternating Years)
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ES 346 - Coastal Systems 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ES 241, ESL 241 Corequisite: ESL 346. Pre-requisite or co-requisite: BI 437, BIL 437. A study of the ecology, biology, chemistry, hydrology, and management of coastal habitats, including human interactions and impacts, with an emphasis on an integrated systems perspective. (SP) (Alternating Years)
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ES 415 - Environmetrics 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ES 241, MAT241, Junior standing or higher.
An introduction to statistical and analytical techniques appropriate to the study of environmental data, including parametric, nonparametric, assumption checking, model building, and organization of data prior to data analysis to maximize data management. Includes understanding the appropriate statistical tests to conduct based on a research plan, and an introduction to statistical programming (i.e., SAS or JMP) to allow for conducting statistical tests with environmental data sets.
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ES 430 - Environmental Policy and Risk Management 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ES 241, ESL 241, or instructor permission A review of the topics, issues, influences, and approaches used to address the political and legal aspects of environmental issues, with an emphasis on methods to identify and manage environmental risk over both the short term and long term. (FA) (Alternating Years)
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ES 450 - Ecosystems 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ES 241, ESL 241, Senior standing as a major in Integrated Environmental Science A project-based service learning capstone course focusing on the complexities of natural systems, the control of human impacts upon them, and the development and achievement of functional goals for their maintenance from interdisciplinary and higher order ecosystem management perspectives. (SP) (Alternating Years)
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ES 498 - Senior Seminar I 2 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: ES 311 and Senior standing. Data collection and analysis, and associated meetings and progress reports, related to the completion of the senior research project. (FA)
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ES 499 - IES Senior Seminar II 1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: ES 498 and Senior standing Data analysis and writing, presentation preparation, and associated meetings and progress reports, culminating in the senior research project presentation and oral exam. (SP)
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ESL 241 - Principles of Environmental Lab 1 Credit Hour
Corequisite: ES 241 Hands-on field and laboratory exercises in support of the topics introduced in the Principles of Environmental Science course. (FA)
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ESL 246 - Environmental Microbiology Lab 1 Credit Hour
Corequisite: ES 246 Hands-on field and laboratory exercises illustrating the collection, identification, and behaviors of microbes important to environmental processes and issues. (SP) (Alternating Years)
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ESL 334 - Microclimatology Lab 1 Credit Hour
Corequisite: ES 334 Hands-on field and laboratory exercises illustrating surficial climatic phenomena, their measurement, and related calculations. (SP) (Alternating Years)
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ESL 335 - GIS & Remote Sensing Lab 1 Credit
Corequisite: ES 335. Hands-on field and laboratory exercises demonstrating the collection and application of geographic data useful to environmental issues, including the use of hand-held and remote technologies. (FA) (Alternating Years)
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ESL 339 - Hydrology Lab 1 Credit Hour
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Corequisite: ES 339. Hands-on field and laboratory exercises illustrating hydrologic phenomena in available freshwater and coastal environments, their measurement, and related calculations. (SP) (Alternating Years)
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FC 280 - Sophomore Seminar: Leadership 1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: FC 110, FC111, EN131 Sophomore Seminar is a one-credit course required for all sophomore students. This course is designed to help students develop and hone their leadership skills, and abilities by identifying their strength and weaknesses in the area of faith, service, interpersonal communication, social responsibility, and civic engagement.
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GR 230 - Nutrition in Health and Disease 3
Prerequisite: GR 231 or permission of instructor. The study of normal nutrition as it relates to the life span. The physiological, psychosocial and cultural aspects of nutrition and the interrelationship with disease. (FA,SP)
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GR 231 - Introduction to Gerontology 3 Credit Hours
An overview of the social science of gerontology including age changes, age differences, period effects, and psychosocial changes of aging as well as elderly adaptation to retirement, leisure pursuits, finances, societal disengagement and Independency/dependency. Gerontology research design and issues. Emphasis is on a holistic, preventive approach to the study of gerontology and to providing services for the well and non-well elderly. (FA,SP)
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GR 240 - Social and Cultural Aspects to Aging 3 Credit Hours
This course explores the mutual relationship between society and those considered to be older adults. It examines the social and cultural forces that impact the aging process, including patterns of inequality related to one’s gender, race, and/or economic status.(Spring and Fall)
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GR 310 - Cellular and Physiologic Aspects of Aging 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: : BI 131, or permission of instructor. An initial overview of the biological foundations for life, and the effects of aging upon the body’s anatomical/physiological systems. In-depth coverage of the various theories of senescence including wear and tear theory, rate-of-living theory, mutation theory, and error theory. Emphasis is on the effects of senescence upon the functioning of the body’s immune, renal, neural, and cardiovascular systems. (FA,SP)
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GR 310 - Cellular and Physiologic Aspects of Aging 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: BI 131 or permission of instructor. An initial overview of the biological foundations for life, and the effects of aging upon the body’s anatomical/physiological systems. In-depth coverage of the various theories of senescence including wear and tear theory, rate-of-living theory, mutation theory, and error theory. Emphasis is on the effects of senescence upon the functioning of the body’s immune, renal, neural, and cardiovascular systems. (FA,SP)
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GR 335 - Minority Aging 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: :GR 230, GR 231, GR 310 or permission of instructor. This course focuses on the historical, demographic and socioeconomic profiles of minority elderly. It examines major problems encountered by minority elderly persons with a review of issues such as income, health, housing, and transportation. It also covers unique aspects of minority religiosity, family ties, language barriers, coping behavior, and population distribution. (FA,SP)
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GR 340 - Organization & Management 3 Credit Hours
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This course examines administration principles in senior care settings; analyzing management practices and organizational conducts in these services agencies. (Spring and Fall)
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GR 350 - - Seminar in Gerontology 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: GR 230, GR 231, GR 310, GR 335 or permission of instructor. This course provides an overview of the past, present and future issues on aging. Issues to be covered include economics of aging, elderly abuse, suicide among the elderly, elderly in the media, etc. (FA,SP)
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GR 380 - End of Life Issues 3 Credit Hours
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This course provides knowledge related to end of life issues faced by older individuals with terminal diagnoses. It examines the role of the health professionals working with the dying client, their caregivers and/or families members. Emphasis is placed on the cultural, ethical, and legal issues in end of life care. (Spring and Fall)
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GR 390 - Psychology of Aging 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: SO 131, PS 230 or permission of the instructor, and GR 231. The effects of senescence and adaptation to such effects on the psychological variables of sensory and perceptual processes, psychomotor performance, personality, socialization and primary and secondary relationships. Psychosocial adaptation of the elderly to death and dying, bereavement, widowhood, and theology. Emphasis is on a holistic, preventive approach to the psychosocial aspects of aging for both well and non-well elderly. Emphasis is on psychosocial aspects of aging indigenous to blacks.
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GR 420 - Seminar in Gerontology II 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: GR 230, GR 231, GR 310, GR 350, or permission of instructor. This course examines the needs and coping patterns of the aged. The issues covered in this course include aging and changing living situations in the family, health and health care of the aged.
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GR 490 - Gerontology Practicum 3, 6, 12, 15 semester hours
Prerequisite: GR 310/MT 310, GR 350/NU 350, GR 390/ PSA 441, GR 231, GR492. Students are assigned to federal, state, and local agencies, health care facilities, and/or community/social welfare programs dealing with an aged clientele for 10 to 15 hours per week. Designed as a cumulative, culminating experience in preparing students to assume advocacy, health care provider, coordination and leadership roles in the provision of services for well and non-well elderly.
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GR 492 - Gerontology: Research and Planning 3 Credit Hours
The goal of this course is to familiarize students with skills necessary to understand research methods and conduct research in aging project. (FA,SP)
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GR 499 - Senior Seminar/Original Thesis 3 semester hours
Prerequisite: EN 131, 132, SS 239, 333. This course offers all gerontology students the opportunity to apply the scientific method in research, present in writing, and orally defend an empirical research report on aging. Also, a comprehensive review of course work is conducted for the exit examination in gerontology.
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HI 234 - African-American History Since 1865 [Sample] 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisites: EN 131 , EN 132 , RE 260 . A study of the experiences of persons of African descent in the United States from the Civil War to the present. (SP)
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HI 356 - History of East Africa 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: EN 131, 132, RE 260. A general survey of the cultural and political history of the people of East Africa since 1800.
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HU 350 - Concepts of the Heroic 3
Prerequisite: EN 131, EN 132 This course will analyze concepts of the heroic using an interdisciplinary perspective. Examples of the heroic projected in the arts and letters of a variety of world cultures, past and present, will be analyzed in the contex of the cultures that produced them, compared across cultures, and assessed in terms of their potential to lead or mislead.
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HUA 290 - Performance Seminar 0
Fufills the needs of the music major to experience a broad range of repertory through attendances at recitals, concerts, and other types of performances. (FA, SP)
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MAB 138 - Applied Business Calculus 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: MAT 134. To introduce students to methods of using calculus to solve problems involving limits, derivatives, maxima and minima, curve sketching and optimization techniques. Emphasis will be on application of calculus for analyzing and solving financial management problems.
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MAT 095 - Beginning Algebra 4 Credit Hours
This course is a review of arithmetic involving basic operations of whole numbers, fractions, decimals and percents. Additional topics include an introduction to algebraic concepts such as graphing linear equations in two variables, polynomials and properties of exponents, and factoring.
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MAT 144 - Applied Calculus II, Honors 3
Prerequisite: A grade of ‘C’ or higher in MAT 143. This course is a continuation of MAT 143. This course meets the general education requirement for the second course in mathematics. This course includes: graphing and optimization; derivatives of trigonometric, logarithmic and exponential functions; different techniques of integration. This course cannot be substituted for MAT 241, MAT 242, or MAB 138
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MG 493 - Business Ethics [Sample] 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: MG 300 and Junior Standing. Consideration, analysis and discussion of the manager’s role in dealing with social problems. An overview of social responsibility; where it originated, and practical considerations in dealing with social and ethical problems. (FA, SP)
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ML 131 - Modern Language I 3
A foundation course, emphasizing basic skills: listening, writing, speaking and reading. Introduction to important grammatical principles. Laboratory required.
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ML 132 - Modern Language II
Prerequisite: ML 131 Modern Language I Continuation of ML131-Modern Language
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ML 231 - Intermediate Modern Language I 3
Prerequisite: ML 131 and ML 132 A course designed for students who have successfully completed a minimum of two years of French in high school with at least an average of A or B or ML 131 and ML 132.
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ML 232 - Intermediate Modern Language II
A continuation of ML 231 - Intermediate Modern Language I.
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MU 110 - Ensemble: Instrumental 1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: Placement by Faculty Audition. Concert Band, Marching Band, Concert Chorale, Jazz Ensemble, Opera Workshop & Mus. Theatre Scenes, Brass Ensemble, Woodwind Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, Chamber Singers, Symphonic Band, Jazz Combo and Pep Band (please see descriptions below). Ensembles are open to all students of the University with consent of the instructor and may be repeated for credit.
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MU 231 - Introduction to Music Education 3 Credit Hours
Orientation to the role of the music teacher in the public schools. Observation required for teacher-pupil interaction, instructional approaches, and classroom management in elementary through secondary schools. (FA)
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MU 251 - Musicianship Skills I 2 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: MUAL 100 This course presents a review of music fundamentals and begins the study of diatonic harmonic and melodic materials of the common practice period. A co-requisite laboratory begins the development of ear training and sight singing skills. (FA only)
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MU 310 - Ensemble: Instrumental, Vocal 1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: Placement by Faculty Audition. Concert Band, Marching Band, Concert Chorale, Jazz Ensemble, Opera Workshop & Mus. Theatre Scenes, Brass Ensemble, Woodwind Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, Chamber Singers, Symphonic Band, Jazz Combo and Pep Band (please see descriptions below). Ensembles are open to all students of the University with consent of the instructor and may be repeated for credit.
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MUL 251 - Aural Skills I 1 Credit Hour
Prerequisite: MUAL 100
This course begins the development of sight singing, dictation, and audiation skills for the music major. Exercises include materials from major and minor diatonic music, simpler rhythmic figurations, and basic conducting patterns used in a context to also develop the ability to sing at first sight. (FA only)
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PHIL 230 - Ethics 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: EN 131 This course examines moral standards and applications of moral reasoning to some of the social and personal complexities of our time from a multicultural perspective. The course emphasizes values and ethics communsurate with those values 9perspectives) and the role both play in our lives, socially and personally.
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PHIL 235 - Introduction to Philosophy 3
Prerequisite: EN 131 This course introduces students to the study of philosophy and philsophical methods through a survey of key themes, thinkers, and problems in their historical settings. The course distinguishes between philsophy, religion, psychology, and anthropology. Philosophic approaches to be introduced may include: materialism, idealism, pragmatism, phenomenology, and existentialism. Themes to be introduced may include the reliability of knowledge, make up of ultimate reality, free will, determinism, the problem of evil, race, class, and gender.
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POL 331 - Politics of Black Americans [Sample] 3 Credit Hours
An analysis of the political behavior of Black Americans and the issues that affect them in a significant way. (SP)
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PS 418 - Health Psychology 3
Prerequisite: All 200 and 300 level courses. This course represents the contemporary climate of the discipline of psychology as interfacing the biological and social sciences. This is congruent with the establishment of the College of Health Sciences at BCU. It is reflected in the undergraduate psychology curricula at most universities and as an area of specialization in the American Psychological Association (APA).
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RELI 210 - Religion and Popular Culture 3
Prerequisite: RELI 110, EN 131 This course uses a range of disciplinary perspectives to examine the ways religious themes, symbols, icons and language are used in expressions of popular culture and to understand how religion itself is influenced in return. The course will explore these interactions between religion and popular culture from diverse cultural and religious traditions and across many media platforms.
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SS 245 - Interdisciplinary Social Science 3 Credit Hours
SS 245 Interdsciplinary Social Science is designed to introduce students to the study of human society through an exploration of the values, arts, social structures, and material practices of world cultures.
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AC 231 - Principles of Accounting I 3 Credit Hours
Prerequisite: MAT 134 . Introduction to the basic records and procedures used by service and merchandising organizations in accumulating financial data with emphasis on statement presentation. (FA, SP)
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AC 231L - Principles of Accounting I Lab 1 Credit Hour
Corequisite: AC 231 . This lab course is designed to reinforce the basic accounting concepts and the understanding of the accounting cycle and financial statements as instructed in the Principles of Accounting I course. The lab course is required to be taken in conjunction with AC 231 - Principles of Accounting I . The goal(s) are to provide a clear understanding of the basic principles of accounting as it applies to the accounting cycle and preparation of financial statements. An understanding of the principles and concepts of financial statements and financial reporting in accordance with general accepted accounting principles (GAAP) is emphasized. (FA, SP)
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