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COM 225

Public Speaking

Students will learn to develop a fluent and professional oral delivery style with an emphasis on managing speech anxiety. Students will learn to cultivate and organize presentation topics utilizing critical thinking, research, and analysis for a variety of audiences and situations.

ENG 301

Writing for the Professions

Advanced practice in writing and editing expository prose. This course is designed for learners with varying backgrounds and career goals, to develop their writing skills for their current or future profession. It uses a rhetorical framework to examine and produce writing for different purposes in a professional setting, with a focus on digital contexts.

PHI 105

Introduction to Ethics

Philosophical examination of such questions as, How should we live? Is morality a social invention? Does anything matter? This course will introduce students to some of the great issues in ethics.

COM 263

Elements of Intercultural Communication

This course is designed as an introduction to the basic concepts and principles of effective intercultural communication. Students will learn and practice skills for improving communication among persons from different national, racial, ethnic, social, and cultural backgrounds, and examine issues such as cultural value patterns, cultural identity, verbal and nonverbal communication styles, intergroup relationships, managing conflict, language and perception, intercultural adjustment & adaptation, and intercultural ethics.

FIS 201

Innovation in society

In the modern age, governments, multinational corporations, and civil society movements have rallied around the idea that innovation is necessary for the maintenance of health, prosperity, and the good life in general. Innovation in Society examines the vast implications of this promise, the reasons why it is so powerful, and explanations for why it falls short. The course does this by examining the attributes of innovation, how it is created, why some innovations stray wildly from their intended functions, and what future innovations may entail.

MAT 210

Brief Calculus

This course explores differential and integral calculus of elementary functions with applications.

TGM 101

Principles of Global Management

Provides the basic concepts of management with particular emphasis on the functions of management in a global environment. Examines the antecedents of globalization; the role of global environments in shaping organization structure, strategy and processes, as well as the basic principles of managing in complex cross-cultural settings. Emphasizes global institutional arrangements and macroeconomic issues. Serves as an introductory course that provides a quick snapshot of key issues facing global corporations today with each of the major themes explored more fully in the set of advanced courses that follow. Applies global business concepts in understanding global political economics, legal systems and socio-cultural environments.

TGM 353

Regional Management Environment: Africa

This course is an introduction to Africa, one of the fastest growing regions in the world, from perspectives useful to global managers, leaders and entrepreneurs. It focuses on the transformation of the regional economic, business, and management environments in Africa, exploring specific sectors and countries with the highest potential. It provides students with a brief contextual overview (geographical, demographic, political, social, cultural and economic within which business activities take place) as well as tools for analysis useful in assessing the African business environment, seizing opportunities, and generating high returns. It also covers major free trade agreements, including the African Continental Free Trade Area, and their implications for doing business.

ECN 212

Microeconomic Principles

Economics is a powerful tool for understanding human and market behavior. In Microeconomic Principles, a logical framework is developed to analyze and understand how individuals and businesses make decisions and how these decisions affect and are affected by governments. Our text author Mankiw defines Microeconomics as, “The study of how society manages its scarce resources.” In our course, we will focus on marginal analysis, how markets work, and consumer and firm decision-making.

OGL 220

Behavioral Dynamics in Organizations

Explores the different theories, strategies and skills that managers and subordinates need to develop to improve interpersonal relations. Primarily emphasizes skill areas in leadership, motivation, communication, group dynamics, organizational development, conflict resolution, political strategy, cross-cultural relations, ethical behavior, stress management and time management. Develops effective strategies for becoming effective managers, subordinates, peers and students.

COM 100

Intro to Human Communication

COM 100 introduces basic concepts from the study of human communication and examines interpersonal interaction in society from a holistic perspective. This course surveys communication topics related to culture, gender, identity, organizations, and relationships.

PHI 314

Philosophy of Science

This course is a general survey of the sorts of topics discussed by philosophers of science. We will discuss: the origins of scientific practice and its relationship with philosophy; the difference between science and pseudoscience; some of the philosophical problems relating to the justification of scientific claims; how to choose between rival scientific theories; the nature of scientific explanation; how the different sciences relate to one another; and, finally, whether or not science is really getting us closer to understanding reality itself.

SOS 320

Society and Sustainability

Society is at the heart of sustainability. The three spheres of sustainability—planet, people, and prosperity—are all dependent on how society views the planetary boundaries and responds to their sustainability challenges. Solid understanding of societal roles, therefore, is crucial in addressing sustainability challenges. The main goal of this course is to establish an understanding of the socio-economic, cultural, and political dimensions of sustainability from interdisciplinary perspectives, and at a variety of spatial and temporal scales.

ECN 211

Macroeconomic Principles

This course provides an introduction to theory of aggregate income, employment, and the price level. Topics include unemployment, inflation, monetary and fiscal policies, and economic growth. Its main objectives are to understand what macroeconomics tries to explain, to build macroeconomic models, and to apply macroeconomic models to explain aggregate income, employment, and the price level, as well as to understand the role of fiscal and monetary policies.

TEL 208

Literacy in a Changing World

This course examines literacy in the social context and the changing nature of literacy in the 21st century. Areas of inquiry include how students’ cultural backgrounds and identities can serve as resources for literacy learning, linguistic diversity, media literacies, multi-modal literacies, and critical literacies. Explores issues of equity and social justice including the role of literacy to empower people into making positive changes in their lives and society.

STP 226

Elements of Statistics

This course introduces basic concepts and methods of statistics, including descriptive statistics, significance tests, estimation, sampling, and correlation. It is not open to majors in mathematics or the physical sciences.

PSY 304

Effective Thinking

This course is designed to examine, develop and enhance skills related to critical thinking. All of you are more than likely exercising critical thinking on a daily basis. The purpose of the course is to hone these critical thinking skills and to provide opportunities to practice these skills, through discussion forums and compositions, with the goal of making these skills habit of mind.

ARS 250

History of Photography

This course introduces the history of photography from the 19th century to the present. Students will be able to understand the development of an important artistic medium; know the major players from the invention of photography until World War II; make connections between photographers from a range of countries; and appreciate the cultural context of the artists and the technological advances that made the medium possible.

MAT 142

College Mathematics

The purpose of this course is to relate college-level mathematics to real-life problems. It emphasizes problem-solving techniques, specifically by means of discussing concepts including sets, probability, statistics, finance, and geometry. Students will apply basic college-level mathematics to real-life problems.

PSY 101

Introduction to Psychology

This course addresses the major areas of theory and research in psychology. It requires participation in department-sponsored research or an educationally equivalent alternative activity.

ECN 306

Survey of International Economics

This course surveys international trade issues, commercial policy, trade theory, customs unions, and international monetary topics. Students will build a thorough understanding of how U.S. and world economies work through application of a variety of models that represent the mainstream of economic thought.

CSE 110

Principles of Programming with Java

This course introduces concepts of problem solving using an object-oriented programming language, algorithm design, structured programming, fundamental algorithms and techniques. This course is focused on learning by doing in an interactive, minimally technical way; no prior programming experience is needed.

POS 260

Current Issues in International Politics: Oil & Politics

State influence, exercised through energy exports and interstate relationships that arise out of energy dependence and trade, will be examined with an eye on recent changes to the geopolitics of energy. Students will look at the political, economic, and social influences of petroleum.

ECN 360

Economic Development

This course will provide insights for understanding principles of meaningful economic development along with barriers faced in the real world. Topics include: Theories of economic growth and development, role of capital formation, technological innovation, population, and resource development in economic growth. A solid understanding of macro- and micro-economic principles, and basic statistics, is essential.

PSY 350

Social Psychology

This course provides students with an introduction to the basic principles, theories, and findings of social psychology. It covers topics such as prejudice and stereotyping, attitudes and persuasion, helping, and the ways we try to understand the world.

MAT 170

Precalculus

Students will be able to solve and graph various types of algebraic functions (including polynomial, rational, exponential and logarithmic) as well as apply this knowledge to more complex problems. Students will also be able to use the six basic trigonometric functions and their inverses to solve problems, both applied and theoretical.

FSE 100

Introduction to Engineering

This course introduces the engineering design process, basic engineering skills, and provides opportunities to learn about and use various engineering tools and software. The course will also teach basic written and oral communication skills important for communicating technical information effectively. You will learn to work in a team environment, using design methods to address multi-disciplinary real-world engineering design problems.

FSE 181

Technological, Social, and Sustainable Systems

This course will provide students with an introduction to technology and complex systems, and the cultural frameworks within which technology is understood and evolves. Additionally, the implications of technology for sustainability will be explored, a difficult task given that sustainability is itself a cultural construct that must be deconstructed to be understood.

HCR 210

Ethics for the Healthcare Professional

This course introduces the complexity of ethical issues and challenges, which face health care professionals. An overview of different philosophical positions, which serve as theoretical foundation for analysis of ethical conflicts will be presented. Students will explore how personal, professional, & societal values affect their approach to health care and is reflected in professional codes of ethics.

MAT 266

Calculus for Engineers II

This course includes methods of integration, applications of calculus, elements of analytic geometry, improper integrals, Taylor series. At the completion of this course, you will be able to determine the arc length of a curve, find the area made by a polar curve, convert between Cartesian and parametric form, among other areas.

CSE205

Object-Oriented Programming & Data Structures

The first part of the course is object-oriented programming (OOP) and the second part of the course is “data structures.” Briefly, a data structure is a way or manner of organizing data (in memory or on a storage medium such as a hard drive) such that specific operations can be efficiently performed. This course introduces problem solving by programming with an object-oriented programming language. Introduces data structures. Overview of computer science topics.

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