Introduction to Cultural Anthropology
Examines human social organizations, the meaning of culture and its diverse forms and structures, cultural growth and expansion, and the nature of cultural change. Prerequisite: BT114 or WR115.
Introduction to Archaeology
Studies ancient and prehistoric cultures of the world including an introduction to the theories and techniques of archeological investigation. Prerequisite: BT114 or WR115.
ANTH199 Variable credit
Special Studies: Anthropology
Presents special topics of study in anthropology through workshop, seminar, research, and/or independent study formats. Content varies according to department needs and demand.
Introductory Observation and Experience
Introduces the role and work of instructional assistants through casework and weekly field trips. Provides students direct experience with educational settings and opportunities to examine the attitudes and work habits which influence job effectiveness and satisfaction.
Instructional Strategies in Language Arts and Reading
Introduces students to the reading process as well as the skills and techniques used in providing supplemental reading instruction to elementary-aged students. Focuses on teaching reading for meaning through the use of the four cueing systems of comprehension strategies, developing sight and meaning vocabulary, connecting reading and writing, and understanding appropriate uses of graphophonics.
Instructional Strategies in Math and Science
Prepares educators to help children learn specific mathematical content (facts, skills, concepts), apply mathematical ideas to solve problems, and to foster a positive attitude toward mathematics. Concepts include patterns, estimation, graphing, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and fractions.
Leadership Training
Provides training in group dynamics, leadership, decision making, group goals, and goal structures.
Tutoring Adults
Provides techniques for assisting adult students with basic communication and computational skills. Includes practice in tutoring adults in reading, writing, math, or English as a Second Language.
Comprehensive Classroom Management
Provides current theory and methodology for managing small and large groups of students effectively so that students choose to be productively involved in instructional activities. The four focus areas are understanding students’ personal/psychological and learning needs; establishing positive teacher-student relationships; implementing instructional methods that facilitate optimal learning; and using organizational and group management methods that maximize on-task student behavior.
Evaluation Techniques
Introduces students to the uses and limitations of evaluation in the classroom, including grades, curves, and measurement of achievement.
Overview of Students with Special Needs
Covers the handicapping and medical conditions that teachers in the public and private sector must be able to recognize and understand in order to plan accordingly. These conditions include learning disabled, mentally retarded, severely emotionally disturbed, speech and language impaired, autism, traumatic brain injuries, Tourette Syndrome, and attention deficit disorder. At-risk youth will also be covered.
ED199 Variable credit
Special Studies: Education
Presents special topics of study in education through workshop, seminar, research, and/or independent study formats. Content varies according to department needs and demand.
Schools and Society
Provides an overview of public education in the United States today. Contemporary purposes and practices in relation to historical trends and philosophical issues will be explored. Organization, financing, and operation of local school districts will be discussed.
Advanced Instructional Techniques in Language Arts
Prepares students to use a variety of instructional strategies that build upon the foundations of reading developed in ED113. Students will compare and contrast current instructional strategies and explore the interactive nature of language, reading, writing, and spelling.
Advanced Instructional Techniques in Math and Science
Prepares students to use a variety of instructional strategies that build upon the foundations of math in ED114. Explores manipulative math across the curriculum as well as operations with rational numbers, probability, geometry, measurement, time, and money. Prerequisite: ED114.
Multicultural Education
Covers the philosophy, activities, and materials used in developing a culturally sensitive multicultural classroom and curriculum.
Current Issues in Special Education
Explores current issues in special education such as current philosophical frameworks, legislative changes, emerging conditions, and technological advances.
Introduction to Developmental Disabilities
Covers the theory, techniques, services, and funding for working with handicapped students.
Advanced Education Practicum
Provides supervised teaching of children in school district elementary classrooms. Prerequisites: RD30, WR115, ECE163, and ED180.
ED280 Variable credit
Cooperative Work Experience/Education
Provides work-related experience and study in selected occupational environments.
Introduction to Physical Geography
Builds an understanding of physical geography by examining rocks, landforms, soil, flora, fauna, climate, water, and minerals, with primary emphasis on the spatial or distributional aspects of these elements. Prerequisite: BT114 or WR115.
Introduction to Cultural and Human Geography
Surveys the physical environment of the planet; considers weather, climate, vegetation, soils, and human use of resources. Prerequisite: BT114 or WR115.
World Regional Geography
Examines the eleven regions of the world and their interconnections. Perspectives from physical, political, historical, economic, and cultural geography are used to characterize the individual regions and the ways in which they are knit together into a spatial framework. Prerequisite: BT114 or WR115.
History of Western Civilization I, II, III
Surveys the growth and development of western civilization from early cultures through Greek and Roman thought and culture (101); from the Middle Ages through the Renaissance and Reformation (102); and from the Enlightenment to the present (103). Corequisites: BT114 or WR115; CS125wp or CS125ww highly recommended.
History of World Civilization I, II, III
Discusses cultural, economic, and political development of world civilizations from ancient times to 1500 C.E. (104); from 1500 to 1870 C.E. (105); and 1870 C.E. to the present (106). Corequisite: BT114 or WR115.
History of the Modern World I, II
Surveys historical, cultural, religious, social, economic, and political developments of modern civilization (1865 to the present) in regions around the world. Prerequisites: HST101, 102, 104, or 105 (any one of the four courses) is recommended. Corequisite: BT114 or WR115.
History of Eastern Civilization I, II
Surveys cultural, social, economic, and political developments in East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent from antiquity to 1600 (110); and from 1600 to the present (111). Prerequisites: HST101, 102, 104, or 105 (any one of the four courses) is recommended. Corequisites: BT114 or WR115.
High Technology and Society
Surveys the history, patterns, and values of American technological history. Promotes awareness of past developments that lead to the modern technology-based society, and to appreciate the relationship of technological change with economic, cultural, and political factors.
Special Studies: History
Presents special topics of study in history through workshop, seminar, and independent study formats.
History of the United States I, II, III
Surveys American history from early colonial experience to pre-Civil War (201); from 1850 to the World War I (202); from 1920 to the present (203). Corequisites: BT114 or WR115.
HST280 Variable credit
Cooperative Work Experience/History
Provides work-related experience and study in selected occupational environments. Requires signature of instructor to enroll.
PS199 Variable credit
Special Studies: Political Science
Explores special topics in political science using a seminar format.
U. S. Government I, II, III
Provides a general investigation of the socio-political processes in the United States. Includes, but is not limited to, an historical overview of American democracy and political culture, the Constitution and the road to ratification, federalism, civil liberties, and people and politics (201); examines the concepts and principles of the American political system including federal, state, and local government structures, and other related systems (202); provides a general overview of the political process at the state and local levels (203). Courses need not be taken in sequence. Prerequisite: BT114 or WR115 strongly recommended.
PS280 Variable credit
Cooperative Work Experience/Political Science
Provides work-related experience and study in selected political science environments.
Psychology of Human Relations
Focuses on the practical application of psychology in everyday situations; topics include self-concept, emotions, needs, values, healthy relationships, interpersonal communications, and behavioral change. Focuses on personal awareness and growth. Prerequisite: BT114 or WR115.
Life Processes
Provides an opportunity for students to deepen and broaden their knowledge of theoretical psychology while gaining insights into their own behaviors and the behavior of others. Consists of small and large group exercises augmented by lectures. Prerequisite: PSY101 and BT114 or WR115.
PSY199 Variable credit
Special Studies: Psychology
Presents special topics of study in psychology through workshop, seminar, research, and/or independent study formats. Content varies according to department needs and demand.
General Psychology I, II
Prepares students for continued study in more advanced psychology classes. Focuses on the historical perspective of psychology, the scientific method applied to human behavior, and the physiology of human behavior including the brain functions, sensations, and perception process (201); human development including personality testing, personality development and intelligence, psychopathology and its various treatments, social psychology, human sexuality, and gender development (202). Prerequisites: BT114 or WR115; PSY201 is recommended before taking PSY202.
General Psychology III
Allows for special research projects in a select-ed topic of psychology. Prerequisites: PSY201 and PSY202.
Life Span Human Development
Gives students an overview of human development explored from a variety of psychological perspectives. Provides a general knowledge of biological, social, and psychological factors that influence each stage of the life cycle, from conception until death. Prerequisite: PSY202 and BT114 or WR115.
Introduction to Abnormal Psychology
Discusses the diagnosis, etiology, and therapy of emotional disturbances and behavior disorders. Prerequisites: WR121, PSY201, and PSY202 or permission of instructor.
Human Sexuality
Discusses psychological, cultural, and physiological correlatives of human sexuality with emphasis on sexual attitudes and behavior, sexual response patterns (atypical and typical), and sexual myths and fallacies. Prerequisite: BT114 or WR115.
PSY280 Variable credit
Cooperative Work Experience/Psychology
Provides work-related experience and studies in selected occupational environments.
SOC199 Variable credit
Special Studies: Sociology
Presents special topics of study in sociology through workshop, seminar, research, and/or independent study formats. Content varies according to department needs and demand.
Introduction to Sociology
Surveys theories and findings of sociology including culture, individuals and groups, socialization, and social control. Prerequisite: BT114 or WR115.
American Society
Covers the concept of the family, education, religion, government, collective behavior, social change, population, and urban development. Prerequisites: SOC204 and BT114 or WR115.
Social Deviance and Social Control
Examines deviance and social control from a sociological perspective, showing how deviance is relative to cultural norms. Includes how deviant identities and subcultures are formed, and types of deviance that have a positive impact on society. Covers crime and punishment, white-collar crime, family violence, sexual variance, drug subcultures, cults, and social activism leading to positive social change.Prerequisite: BT114 or WR115; SOC204 recommended.
Multicultural America
Examines the social, political, economic, and legal forces affecting ethnic and minority groups in society. Prerequisite: BT114 or WR115; SOC204 recommended.
Sociology of Gender
Introduces sociological perspectives on gender. Central themes include the social construction of gender, changes and continuities in gender roles and identities, and the connection between gender, power, and inequality. Focuses on U.S. and Western societies, with some cross-cultural material. Prerequisites: WR115; SOC204 recommended.
Juvenile Delinquency
Presents a philosophical, historical, and practical survey of juvenile justice administration in the United States. In the context of an interdisciplinary framework, theories, factors, and characteristics of delinquency will be presented and treatment and delinquency prevention programs will be surveyed. Also offered as CJ201. Prerequisites: RD30 and WR115.
Social Problems
Analyzes selected social problems in various political, social and economic contexts. Includes problems in family and work, social inequality, poverty, health care and the environment, and crime. Solutions to social problems in the are examined and compared with solutions from other countries. Prerequisites: BT114 or WR115; SOC204 recommended.
Introduction to Gerontology
Introduces students to the field of gerontology and explores the relationships between aging individuals and society. Prerequisite: WR115.
Drugs, Crime, and Addiction
Discusses drug problems in society including the history of drug use, causes of addiction, and identification of illegal drugs. Also studies the criminal law as a use factor. Also offered as CJ243. Prerequisites: RD30 and WR115.
Introduction to Criminology
Offers an interdisciplinary perspective of crime and criminal behavior in relation to the criminal justice system. Theoretical approaches to explaining crime, criminal statistics, typologies, and victimology will be assessed. The influence of crime theory on public policy will be explored. Also offered as CJ101. Prerequisites: RD30 and WR115.
SOC280 Variable credit
Cooperative Work Experience/Sociology
Provides work-related experience and studies in selected occupational environments.
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