May 05, 2024  
2014-2015 Catalog 
    
2014-2015 Catalog FINAL VERSION - Closed for Revisions

Course Descriptions



 

 

Political Science

  
  • POLI 594 - Political Ideas that Changed the World


    Description:
    During certain periods, political ideas undergo significant changes. In Greece, warfare and democracy prompted Plato and Aristotle to offer new ideas capable of making sense of the politics of their tiime. At other times, political ideas provoke change. The Protestant Reformation ignited conflicts in Europe that led to new ideas about individual freedom, equality, revolution, and legal constitutions that remain influential. Focus is on how political ideas reflect their social and historical context as well as how new political ideas have generated conflicts within societies.

    3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as POLI 394 .
  
  • POLI 595 - Political Ideas Today


    Description:
    Political ideas inspire change. Big changes require new political ideas to make sense of them. The twentieth century involved significant economic, technological, and cultural changes. How are political thinkers making sense of the effects of these changes? Emphasis on political ideas since World War II.

    Typically Offered:
    Not currently offered

    3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as POLI 395 .
  
  • POLI 597 - Methods of Policy Analysis


    Description:
    Systematic methods, techniques, tools for public policy evaluation; policy analysis as service to decision makers, analysts in policy and political processes.

    Prerequisites:
    POLI 202  or POLI 314 , statistics, or cons instr.

    3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as POLI 397 .
  
  • POLI 790 - Selected Problems in Political Science


    Description:
    Graduate seminar investigating an area of political science. Subtitle will designate area.

    May repeat for credit with different subtitle.

    3 cr.

  
  • POLI 796 - Special Work


    Description:
    Graduate students may arrange for special out-of-class work with cons chair. Credit based on scope of project.

    1-3 cr.


Psychology

  
  • PSYC 110 - Introduction to Psychology


    Description:
    Introduction to scientific study of behavior and mental processes, and methods used in psychological research.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: SS1; GEP: SS

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 198 - Reading in the Discipline


    Description:
    Improve critical reading and thinking skills.

    Prerequisites:
    Con reg in another designated Psychology course.

    Notes:
    Does not apply to Psychology major or minor.

    1 cr. pass/fail

  
  • PSYC 200 - Research Methods in Psychology


    Description:
    Introduction to the research methods used in psychology including experimental and nonexperimental designs. Library research, conducting research, research ethics, and basics of writing in APA style.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 240 - Psychology of Gender


    Description:
    Research and theory concerned with men’s and women’s personalities, roles, capacities; emphasis on socialization and gender role development.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: SS1; GEP: SS

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 255 - Psychology of Sexual Behavior


    Description:
    Psychological aspects of sexual behaviors, responses, and attitudes, including psychosexual development, varieties of sexual experience, basic physiology, sexual problems and therapy, and psychological factors in contraception, conception, pregnancy, and childbirth.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110  

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: WL/HE

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 260 - Introduction to Developmental Psychology


    Description:
    Survey growth and development; physical, perceptual, cognitive, linguistic, emotional, and social development; emphasis on human development from conception through adulthood.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: SS1; GEP: SS

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 270 - Positive Psychology


    Description:
    Scientific study of optimal human functioning, focusing on theory, research, application of positive emotions, character strengths and virtues, and positive institutions.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 275 - Canine Behavior


    Description:
    Evolution, history, sensory abilities, social behavior, learning and methods of dog training. Behavior problems and ways dogs work with and help people.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 290 - Psychoactive Drugs and Behavior


    Description:
    Introduction to psychopharmacology; examine effects of commonly used drugs on the central nervous system, behavior, and motivation for administration, consumption, and drug abuse.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110  or cons instr.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: WL/HE

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 295 - Career Development in Psychology


    Description:
    Explore and prepare for careers and professions in psychology. Readings and activities to help understand fields of psychology, planning for graduate school, graduate school search/application processes, curricular/ extracurricular preparation for baccalaureate level occupations, and resume development.

    Prerequisites:
    Psych major.

    1 cr. pass/fail.

  
  • PSYC 300 - Statistics for Psychologists


    Description:
    Calculation and interpretation of measures of central tendency, variability, correlation, and regression in psychological research; hypothesis testing and estimation from large and small samples; analysis of variance; forms of experimental design.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 ; PSYC 200  recommended; MATH 100  or a suitable placement test score.

    3 hrs lec, 2 hrs lab per wk.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GEP: QL

    4 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as PSYC 500 .
  
  • PSYC 301 - Personality Psychology


    Description:
    Contemporary approaches to the study of personality; clinical and experimental contributions to the understanding of the personality and its structure.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 315 - The Psychology of Adolescence


    Description:
    An examination of the adolescence period, including biological, social, and cognitive changes that occur at this time, with emphasis placed on normative development.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 320 - Social Psychology


    Description:
    An overview of theory and research on how people think, feel, and behave in social situations. Examine attitudes, conformity, group dynamics, helping behavior, intergroup relations, and social influence in everyday settings.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: SS1; GEP: SS

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 321 - Environmental Psychology


    Description:
    Theoretical and empirical relationships between human psychology and the natural environment; environmental attitudes, values, and social norms; interactions with nature; promotion of sustainable behavior.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: EL; GEP: ER

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 322 - Psychology and Culture


    Description:
    Examine relationship between psychology and culture/ethnicity. Examine psychological processes that contribute to origin and persistence of culture; ways culture/ethnicity affect psychological processes/behavior.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: MNS; GEP: USD

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 325 - Physiological Psychology


    Description:
    Introduction to biological bases of behavior. Nervous system function and its relation to behavior, perception, motivation and thinking. May include behavioral endocrinology, behavioral genetics, evolutionary psychology, and psycho-pharmacology.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110  

    General Education Designation(s):
    GEP: IS

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 330 - Perception


    Description:
    Fundamental concepts of perception involving all the senses, with emphasis on hearing and vision; experimental findings, theoretical interpretations, and demonstrations relating to perception.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: SS1

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 331 - Cognitive Psychology


    Description:
    Topics in human cognition including sensory memory, pattern recognition, selective attention, working memory, semantic memory and connectionist models, speech production and comprehension, semantic and syntactic theories, language acquisition, concept attainment, problem solving and artificial intelligence.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 345 - Industrial/Organizational Psychology


    Description:
    Job analysis, selection, training, performance appraisal; EEOC/diversity, sexual harassment, compensation, employee motivation, attitudes and morale, and leadership

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 350 - Psychological Assessment


    Description:
    Introduction to psychological assessment and norm-referenced testing. Psychometrics, test construction, and validation. Contemporary intelligence, achievement, interest, and personality tests and behavioral assessment techniques.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 , PSYC 300 , or MATH 355 , or cons instr.

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 351 - Abnormal Psychology


    Description:
    Research-based study of classification, causes, origins (etiology), and treatment of major psychological disorders including anxiety and mood disorders; schizophrenia; personality disorders, childhood problems, sexual dysfunctions, and neurological disorders.

    Prerequisites:
    6 cr in psych and jr st; or cons instr.

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 360 - Child and Adolescent Psychopathology


    Description:
    Introduction to child and adolescent (developmental) psychopathology. Includes identification, causes, course, and treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders, specific earning disorders, internalizing disorders, externalizing disorders, and pediatric psychological conditions in children and adolescents.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 , PSYC 260  (recommended).

    3 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as PSYC 560 .
  
  • PSYC 370 - Emotion


    Description:
    An overview of theory and research on emotion. Examine issues such as biology, personality, development, cognition, expression, regulation, culture, disorders, and therapy.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    GEP: IS

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 375 - Learning


    Description:
    Simple and complex learning, including conditioning, sensory-motor learning, language learning, problem solving; emphasis on contemporary theories.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110  

    3 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as PSYC 575 .
  
  • PSYC 377 - Evolutionary Psychology


    Description:
    Application of evolutionary principles to understaning human behavior. Topics may include sex, mating preferences, parenting, altruism, kinship, and cognition.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110  or BIOL 160 ; 9 cr in psychology or biology.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GEP: IS

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 385 - Health Psychology


    Description:
    Contribution of environmental and psychological factors to the causes, treatment, and prevention of disease.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110  

    3 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as PSYC 585 .
  
  • PSYC 388 - Animal Behavior


    Description:
    Comparative study of animal behavior; description, classification, analysis, and evolution of behavioral patterns of animals. Also social behavior and underlying mechanisms.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 ; BIOL 101  or BIOL 160 .

    May not receive credit for both PSYC 388 and BIOL 388 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    GEP: IS

    3 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as PSYC 588 .
  
  • PSYC 395 - Selected Topics in Psychology


    Description:
    Discuss topics in psychology. Subtitle will designate area.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110  and cons instr. Additional prereqs may apply depending on the topic.

    May repeat for credit with different subtitles.

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 399 - Independent Study


    Description:
    Qualified students may arrange for independent study, research assistantship, or other relevant learning experience under the direction of psychology faculty. Credit based on scope of project.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 ; cons instr.; PSYC 200  recommended.

    May repeat for 6 credits maximum toward psychology major or minor.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GEP: XL

    1-3 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as PSYC 599 .
  
  • PSYC 400 - Advanced Research Methods in Psychology


    Description:
    Exposure to and practice with advanced research designs used in psychology. Focus on the link between research and design and the statistical tests used for these designs. Conduct research projects, collect and analyze data, and write and present as appropriate to the field.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 , PSYC 200 , PSYC 300  and cons. instr; 27 credits in Psychology.

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 401 - Introduction to Counseling and Psychotherapy


    Description:
    Major approaches to counseling and psychotherapy; theory, research, evaluation, and demonstration.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110  and PSYC 200 ; PSYC 301  or PSYC 351 ; jr. st; cons instr for nonmajors.

    3 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as PSYC 601 .
  
  • PSYC 402 - Practicum in Counseling and Psychotherapy


    Description:
    Clinical application of theory/research in counseling and psychotherapy. Develop professional ethics, attitudes, behaviors, communication, and intervention skills essential to therapeutic interview. Videotape/critique student counseling interviews.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 401  and cons instr.

    3 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as PSYC 602 .
  
  • PSYC 480 - Applied Theories of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies


    Description:
    Application of behavioral and cognitive theory and research in the remediation of psychological disorders and behavior problems, including such topics as operant conditioning, cognitive restructuring, desensitization therapies, token economies and biofeedback. Practical application of behavior principles included.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 , PSYC 200 , and PSYC 351 ; jr. st; PSYC 375  recommended.

    3 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as PSYC 680 .
  
  • PSYC 490 - Seminar: Topics in Psychology


    Description:
    Integrative discussion of theory and research in psychology. Subtitle will designate area.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 , PSYC 200 , PSYC 300 , and cons instr; 27 credits in Psychology. Additional prereqs may apply depending on the topic.

    May repeat for credit with different subtitles. Write and present as appropriate to the field.

    3 cr.

  
  • PSYC 491 - Workshop


    Description:
    Subtitle will designate area.

    May repeat for credit with different subtitles.

    1-5 cr.

    Available for graduate credit as PSYC 691 .
  
  • PSYC 494 - Human Services Internship


    Description:
    Field experience in human services agencies or activities under direction of field placement supervisors and psychology faculty.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 351 , PSYC 401 , psych major, jr st, 2.5 cum & Psychology GPA, cons instr, and con reg in PSYC 495 .

    May repeat for 9 cr max.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GEP: XL

    1-6 cr.

  
  • PSYC 495 - Human Services Internship Seminar


    Description:
    Weekly professional seminar meetings. Review professional practice standards, critique case study presentations, discuss professional ethics.

    Prerequisites:
    Con reg in PSYC 494 .

    General Education Designation(s):
    GEP: XL

    1 cr.

  
  • PSYC 500 - Statistics for Psychologists


    Description:
    Calculation and interpretation of measures of central tendency, variability, correlation, and regression in psychological research; hypothesis testing and estimation from large and small samples; analysis of variance; forms of experimental design.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 ; PSYC 200  recommended; MATH 100  or a suitable placement test score.

    3 hrs lec, 2 hrs lab per wk.

    4 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as PSYC 300 .
  
  • PSYC 560 - Child and Adolescent Psychopathology


    Description:
    Introduction to child and adolescent (developmental) psychopathology. Includes identification, causes, course, and treatment of neurodevelopmental disorders, specific learning disorders, internalizing disorders, externalizing disorders, and pediatric psychological conditions in children and adolescents.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 , PSYC 260  (recommended).

    3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as PSYC 360 .
  
  • PSYC 575 - Learning


    Description:
    Simple and complex learning, including conditioning, sensory-motor learning, language learning, problem solving; emphasis on contemporary theories.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110  

    3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as PSYC 375 .
  
  • PSYC 585 - Health Psychology


    Description:
    Contribution of environmental and psychological factors to the causes, treatment, and prevention of disease.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110  

    3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as PSYC 385 .
  
  • PSYC 588 - Animal Behavior


    Description:
    Comparative study of animal behavior; description, classification, analysis, and evolution of behavioral patterns of animals. Also social behavior and underlying mechanisms.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 ; BIOL 101  or BIOL 160 .

    May not earn credit in both PSYC 588 and BIOL 588 .

    3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as PSYC 388 .
  
  • PSYC 599 - Independent Study


    Description:
    Qualified students may arrange for independent study, research assistantship, or other relevant learning experience under the direction of psychology faculty. Credit based on scope of project.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 ; cons instr.; PSYC 200  recommended.

    May repeat for 6 credits maximum toward psychology major or minor.

    1-3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as PSYC 399 .
  
  • PSYC 601 - Introduction to Counseling and Psychotherapy


    Description:
    Major approaches to counseling and psychotherapy; theory, research, evaluation, and demonstration.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110  and PSYC 200  ; PSYC 301  and PSYC 351 ; jr. st; cons instr for nonmajors.

    3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as PSYC 401 .
  
  • PSYC 602 - Practicum in Counseling and Psychotherapy


    Description:
    Clinical application of theory/research in counseling and psychotherapy. Develop professional ethics, attitudes, behaviors, communication, and intervention skills essential to therapeutic interview. Videotape/critique student counseling interviews.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 401  and cons instr.

    3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as PSYC 402 .
  
  • PSYC 680 - Applied Theories of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies


    Description:
    Application of behavioral and cognitive theory and research in the remediation of psychological disorders and behavior problems, including such topics as operant conditioning, cognitive restructuring, desensitization therapies, token economies and biofeedback. Practical application of behavior principles included.

    Prerequisites:
    PSYC 110 , PSYC 200 , and PSYC 351 ; jr. st; PSYC 375  recommended.

    3 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as PSYC 480 .
  
  • PSYC 691 - Workshop


    Description:
    Subtitle will designate area.

    May repeat for credit with different subtitles.

    1-5 cr.

    Available for undergraduate credit as PSYC 491 .
  
  • PSYC 796 - Special Work


    Description:
    Advanced graduate students may arrange for specialized independent study with cons instr, chair, and chair of major department.

    Typically Offered:
    Not currently offered

    Credit based on scope of project.


Religious Studies

  
  • REL 100 - Religions of Asia


    Description:
    Survey religious traditions of Asia with special attention to Hinduism and Buddhism.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: HU3, NW; GEP; GA, HU

    3 cr.

  
  • REL 101 - Judaism, Christianity, Islam


    Description:
    Survey religious traditions of Judaism, Christianity and Islam including origins, issues of inter-religious conflict, other comparative themes.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: HU3; GEP: HU

    3 cr.

  
  • REL 107 - Religious Autobiographies


    Description:
    Autobiographical accounts of religious persons to introduce stories representing a diverse and multicultural cross section of the world’s religions, including Native American religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Latin American Catholicism, African-American Protestantism, and Islam.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: HU3, NW; GEP; GA

    Typically Offered:
    Not currently offered

    3 cr.

  
  • REL 111 - Religious Diversity in Modern America


    Description:
    Surveys the diversity of religions in modern America, with particular emphasis upon issues of pluralism, tolerance and inclusion, and with attention to the ways in which America’s increasing religious diversity impacts debates concerning politics, law, education, public space, medicine and culture.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GEP: USD

    3 cr.

  
  • REL 199 - Reading in the Discipline


    Description:
    Improve critical reading and thinking skills. Taken in conjunction with designated sections of religious studies courses.

    1 cr. pass/fail.

  
  • REL 202 - Introduction to the Study of Religion


    Description:
    Introduction to method and theory in the comparative study of religion.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: HU3; GEP: HU

    3 cr.

  
  • REL 302 - Religion and Cultural Conflict


    Description:
    Explores questions of the nature and function of religion in a context of situations of cultural conflict and change. May include colonialism and post-colonialism, millenarian movements, religion and violence, religion and politics, and global fundamentalism.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: HU3; GEP: HU

    3 cr.

  
  • REL 303 - Jewish Scriptures


    Description:
    Study of Jewish scriptures (known to Christians as the Old Testament) in context of historical and cultural background, and issues of interpretation.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: HU3; GEP: HU

    3 cr.

  
  • REL 304 - New Testament and Early Christianity


    Description:
    Study selected New Testament and extra-biblical texts to discern religious perceptions shaping various early Christian movements.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: HU3; GEP: HU

    3 cr.

  
  • REL 305 - Prophets and Prophecy


    Description:
    A comparative study of ancient and modern prophecy in a variety of cultures, including Israelite, American Indian, African, and East Indian.

    Typically Offered:
    Not currently offered

    3 cr.

  
  • REL 311 - American Religious History


    Description:
    Surveys American religious history from the colonial period through the 19th century with emphasis on the dynamics of cultural encounter, intersections of religion, reacism, and sexism, and the struggles of minority groups and women for equality and justice.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: HU3, MNS; GEP: HU, USD

    3 cr.

  
  • REL 317 - New Religious Movements


    Description:
    A study of new religious movements, primarily in America, applying the methodologies of history, sociology, and religious studies. Topics may include cult formation, church and state questions, religious violence, gender, the anti-cult movement, and the role of popular media in shaping public perceptions.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GEP: IS

    3 cr.

  
  • REL 318 - Religion and Popular Culture


    Description:
    Explore the fluid relationship between religion and popular culture with emphasis on the American context. Topics will include how popular culture constructs religion, how religious groups appropriate aspects of popular culture, how popular culture reflects aspects of the religion, and how religious bodies interpret and engage with popular culture.

    3 cr.

  
  • REL 321 - Studies in Religion


    Description:
    Topics in the study of religion in human life and culture. Subtitle will designate area.

    May repeat for credit with different subtitles.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: HU3; GEP: HU

    3 cr.

  
  • REL 330 - Women and Religion


    Description:
    Explore intersections of religion and sexism, including historical development of attitudes toward women and human sexuality in Western religious traditions.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: HU3; GEP: HU

    3 cr.

  
  • REL 333 - Women and Goddesses in India


    Description:
    Study of women’s roles, notions of female power, and goddesses in Hindu tradition.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: HU3, NW; GEP; GA, HU

    3 cr.

  
  • REL 340 - Buddhism


    Description:
    Study of Buddhist religious traditions in their historical and cultural contexts. Relevance of Buddhism for addressing problems in the modern world such as war, environmental degradation, and social injustice.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: HU3, NW; GEP; GA, HU

    3 cr.

  
  • REL 341 - Religions of India


    Description:
    Study Hindu deities, practices, and philosophies including comparison of Indian and U.S. Hinduism, and Hinduism’s influences on Indian Christianity.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: HU3, NW; GEP; GA, HU

    3 cr.

  
  • REL 342 - Islam


    Description:
    Study of Islam in variety of historical, cultural, political contexts. Overview of Islamic beliefs and practices including issues of women, politics and war, and mysticism in Islam.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: HU3; GEP: HU

    Typically Offered:
    Not currently offered

    3 cr.

  
  • REL 343 - Judaism


    Description:
    Study of Judaism in history and its contemporary global context. Issues to consider may include traditions of textual interpretation, anti-Semitism, Zionism, immigration and assimilation in America, and the diversities of modern Judaism.

    3 cr.

  
  • REL 344 - Christianity


    Description:
    Study of Christian religious traditions in their historical and cultural contexts. Issues to consider may include the development and canonization of scripture, the relationship between the church and the state, and the modern global diversity of traditions.

    3 cr.

  
  • REL 350 - Religion and Film


    Description:
    Explore the aesthetic, cultural, and historical dimensions of cinema in relationship to religious communities and religious themes. These explorations will include how different religious communities have related to cinema as well as how movies have represented, maligned, or promoted various religions over time.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GEP: ART

  
  • REL 363 - Religion and Society in Ancient Israel


    Description:
    What can we know about the social and religious worlds of ancient Israel? And how does this knowledge shape the way we interpret biblical texts? These questions will be pursued through the application of multiple disciplinary approaches from the Social Sciences and the Humanities to the analysis of both textual and non-textual evidence from ancient Israel and neighboring cultures. Application of different methodologies and distinct fields of knowledge and their impact upon the interpretation of specific biblical texts.
     

    General Education Designation(s):
    GEP: IS

    3 cr.

  
  • REL 390 - Service Learning


    Description:
    Volunteer in a community service organization for an agreed upon number of hours to vary according to credit earned, while, in consultation with a specific religious studies faculty member, you pursue a course of reading and writing specifically designed to complement your volunteer activity and help you pursue “the cross-cultural examination of humanity’s diverse religious traditions” that characterize religious studies courses.

    Prerequisites:
    Cons Religious Studies faculty member.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GEP: XL

    1-3 cr.

  
  • REL 392 - Religious Studies Internship


    Description:
    Intern provides small group writing and reading assistance in selected religious studies courses.

    Prerequisites:
    Cons instr.

    1 cr. pass/fail.

  
  • REL 399 - Independent Study


    Description:
    Individual work in religious studies on special problem, theme, thinker, or period may be arranged with instructor and cons chair. Credit based on scope of project.

    1-3 cr.

  
  • REL 450 - Senior Seminar


    Description:
    Major issues in academic study of religion and culture. Subtitle will designate topic.

    Prerequisites:
    Cons instr.

    May repeat under different subtitles.

    3 cr.


Research

  
  • RSCH 798 - Graduate Research


    Description:
    Continuation of graduate research.

    Prerequisites:
    Approval of grad adviser and grad program coordinator.

    0 cr.


Russian

  
  • RUSS 101 - First Year Russian


    Description:
    For students with no previous training in the language.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: FL (BA BM/BFA), NW; GEP: GA

    4 cr.

  
  • RUSS 102 - First Year Russian


    Description:
    Continuation of RUSS 101 .

    Prerequisites:
    RUSS 101 , or by placement exam.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: FL (BA BM/BFA), NW; GEP: GA

    4 cr.

  
  • RUSS 211 - Second Year Russian


    Description:
    Intensive grammar review, practice in reading and speaking Russian.

    Prerequisites:
    RUSS 102 , or by placement exam.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: NW; GEP: GA

    4 cr.

  
  • RUSS 215 - Continuing Russian


    Description:
    Intermediate-level grammatical structures for reading; the roots of Russian; verbs of motion. Subtitle will designate area.

    Prerequisites:
    RUSS 211  

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: NW

    4 cr.

  
  • RUSS 315 - Continuing Russian


    Description:
    Advanced intermediate work. Content is varied so this course, as well as RUSS 215 , can be taken by continuing students. Subtitle will designate area.

    Prerequisites:
    216

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: NW

    4 cr.


Safety and Health Protection

  
  • SHP 330 - Environmental Wellness


    Description:
    Insights into individual, organizational and societal activities that affect the health of the natural environment. How society, organizations and individuals impact their natural environment. How to minimize identified threats to the health of that environment. Promote intellectual consumerism and citizen advocacy.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: EL

    3 cr.


Social Work

  
  • SW 201 - Social Investigations I


    Description:
    Written and verbal methods of investiagation and communication in Sociology and Social Work. Subtitle will designate area.

    Prerequisites:
    SOC 101 , SOC 102 , or cons instr.

    May repeat for credit with different subtitles. May not earn credit in both SW 201 and SOC 201 .

    3 cr.

  
  • SW 261 - Introduction to Social Work and the Social Services Field


    Description:
    Development of social welfare; contemporary public and private programs and appropriate settings; philosophy and principles of social work; orientation to the National Association of Social Work Code of Ethics.

    May not earn credit in both SW 261 and SOC 261 .

    3 cr.

  
  • SW 262 - Social Welfare Policies and Programs


    Description:
    Development and philosophy of social welfare as an institutional system; critical analysis of programs, policies and issues; their interrelationship with other aspects of the social system.

    May not earn credit in both SW 262 and SOC 262 .

    3 cr.

  
  • SW 301 - Social Investigations II


    Description:
    Written and verbal methods of investigation and communication in Sociology and Social Work. Subtitle will designate area.

    Prerequisites:
    SOC 101 , SOC 102 , or cons instr.

    May repeat for credit with different subtitles. May not earn credit in both SW 301 and SOC 301 .

    3 cr.

  
  • SW 316 - Child Welfare Practice


    Description:
    Focus on fundamental skills and knowledge of child welfare practice that includes basic interviewing skills; assessment; case planning; protective services; extended family and foster family care; family centered services; their effects on Native American and other minority cultures; and child welfare policies such as ICWA, ASFA, WI Children’s code.

    Prerequisites:
    Admission into Social Work Major or cons instr.

    General Education Designation(s):
    GDR: MNS; GEP: USD

    3 cr.

  
  • SW 359 - Social Work Methods: Casework


    Description:
    Principles of generic social work in Microsystems; concepts and casework practice with individuals, interviewing, relationships, social diagnosis, and treatment.

    Prerequisites:
    Admission into Social Work Major or cons instr.

    3 cr.

  
  • SW 361 - Social Work Methods: Groups and Families


    Description:
    Principles of generalist social work practice with groups and families; principles of model development, assessment, and treatment.

    Prerequisites:
    Admission into Social Work Major or cons instr.

    3 cr.

  
  • SW 362 - Social Work Methods: Community Organization and Social Service Administration


    Description:
    Principles of generalist social work practice in macrosystems including planning, action, and advocacy; social service administrative concerns including relationships between organizations, and issues within the organization including supervision, consultation, research, and continuing education.

    Prerequisites:
    Admission to Social Work Major or cons. instr.

    3 cr.

  
  • SW 363 - Social Services in Rural Communities


    Description:
    Evaluation of nonmetropolitan, regional social services and delivery systems; characteristics of rural populations and community analysis; concept/function of generalist social worker in nonmetropolitan areas.

    Prerequisites:
    SOC 101  or SW 261 /SOC 261 , or cons instr.

    May not earn credit in both SW 363 and SOC 363 .

    3 cr.

  
  • SW 364 - Social Services in Native American Communities


    Description:
    Introduction to values, beliefs, customs, and histories of Native Americans emphasizing Wisconsin tribal nations and their social service needs.

    Prerequisites:
    SOC 101  or SW 261 /SOC 261 , or cons. instr.

    May not earn credit in both SW 364 and SOC 364 .

    3 cr.

  
  • SW 365 - Social Work with Native American and Other Culturally Diverse Families


    Description:
    Awareness and understanding of values and lifestyles of culturally diverse families; Apply cultually competent principles of social work practice to Native American, African American, Latino/Hispanic, and Asian families.

    Prerequisites:
    Admission to Social Work Major or cons. instr.

    3 cr.

  
  • SW 376 - Human Behavior and Social Environment


    Description:
    Theories of human behavior in social context as applied to the practice of social work.

    Prerequisites:
    SOC 101  or SW 261 /SOC 261 , or cons. instr.

    May not earn credit in both SW 376 and SOC 376 .

    3 cr.

 

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