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AAS 100
INTRODUCTION TO AFRICANA STUDIES
3, 3/0
Critical and systematic study of the historical and contemporary thought and experiences of continental and diasporic African peoples. Overview of the social, political, and economic forces that shaped and continue to affect continental and diasporic African experiences. The agency, creativity, perspectives, and experiences of African peoples. Contemporary issues affecting Africans and African Americans.
AAS/ENG 240
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1940
3, 3/0; DIIF, HUIF
African American slave narratives, poetry, fiction, essays, and drama from the eighteenth century to 1940. The influence of spirituals, gospel, the blues, jazz, sermons, and folktales on African American writing; the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s; and the development of African American revolutionary thought.
AAS/SOC 321
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILY
3, 3/0; DIIF
Prerequisite: SOC 100. The relationship of American social institutions and the African American family; familial relations within the African American family. Useful for students who will interact with a diverse population in their careers (e.g., education and service occupations).
AAS/SOC 351
SOCIOLOGY OF RACE AND ETHNICITY
3, 3/0; DIIF
The study of race and ethnic groups in American and other societies; focuses on forms, causes, and effects of prejudice and ethnic conflicts, and the changing relationships of these groups to the larger society. Possible solutions to social problems involving issues of race and ethnicity are also explored.
AED 100
ESSENTIALS OF VISUAL ARTS
3, 4/0; ARIF
Non-art majors only. The development of visual and perceptual awareness through expressive learning processes inherent in the visual arts. Experience with a variety of media that will accommodate individual interpretations of art concepts that generate the formations, judgments, and decisions of a liberally educated individual.
AED 200
FUNDAMENTALS OF ART INQUIRY
3, 3/0; ARIF
Establishes the individual student's critical framework for looking at works of art and develops his or her knowledge and understanding of contemporary art. This is achieved by studying the application of the elements of art and principles of composition, discussions about artists and their work, and visiting art museums.
AED 303
ELEMENTARY STUDENT TEACHING IN ART
6, 0/0; OCIF
Prerequisites: Art education major, AED302W, ATS 325, satisfaction of departmental requirements, and approval of AED coordinator of student teaching. Students are assigned to a supervised elementary teaching placement for five full days a week for approximately seven consecutive weeks. Students are required to effectively demonstrate content knowledge, pedagogical preparation, instructional delivery, classroom management, knowledge of student development, collaboration with school professionals, and reflective practice.
AED 304
SECONDARY STUDENT TEACHING IN ART
6, 0/0; OCIF
Prerequisites: Art education major, AED302W, ATS 325, satisfaction of departmental requirements, approval of AED coordinator of student teaching. Students are assigned to a supervised secondary teaching placement for five full days a week for approximately seven consecutive weeks. Students are required to effectively demonstrate content knowledge, pedagogical preparation, instructional delivery, classroom management, knowledge of student development, collaboration with school professionals, and reflective practice.
AED 315
ARTS IN LIVING
3, 4/0; WCIF
Contemporary and historic art forms as they apply to everyday living. Discussion and analysis of the individual significance and interrelatedness of architecture, industrial design, the graphic arts, painting, sculpture, music, and theater arts in the context of the history of Western civilization. Participation in creative activities related to the course.
ANT 100
HUMAN ORIGINS
3, 3/0; NSIF
Introduction to physical anthropology and archaeology. Physical anthropology portion focuses on evolutionary theory and genetics, the human fossil record, and the study of nonhuman primates. Archaeology reconstructs past cultures. Discusses the basics of archaeological data and dating methods. Transformation from a hunting-and-gathering lifestyle to one based on food production and the consequences of this transformation, which include, in some instances, the development of complex sociopolitical institutions and state societies.
ANT 101
UNDERSTANDING CULTURE
3, 3/0; NWIF
Human behavior and culture; formation of personality; nature of social structure, interaction, and the satisfaction of human needs. Cross-cultural comparisons. Recommended as a first or second course in anthropology and state societies.
ANT144W/ ANT 244
FOLKLORE AND FOLKLIFE
3, 3/0; SSIF
Prerequisites: CWP 101, CWP 102. Introduction to the major genres of folklore and folklife, and their function in contemporary society, including ethnic and occupational folklore, rites of passage and calendar customs, roots music, and traditional narratives. The relationship between folklore and popular culture.
ANT 220
CASE STUDIES IN PHYSICAL
ANTHROPOLOGY
3, 3/0
Introduction to physical anthropology through detailed examination of exemplary case studies covering a broad range of topics in physical anthropology. The process of inquiry in physical anthropology, including initial conception of the research question, methodology, results, and conclusions. Ethics of physical anthropology research.
ANT 300
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA
3, 3/0; DIIF, NWIF
Prerequisite: ANT 100 or permission of instructor. Way of life of the original inhabitants of western North America; reconstructing life during the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries using archaeology, historical documents, and oral tradition. Tribal nations of the Plains, Northwest Coast, Southwest, Great Basin, Plateau, and California. Effects of European exploration and colonization and the persistence of indigenous western North American peoples in the modern world.
ANT 301
INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF EASTERN NORTH AMERICA
3, 3/0; DIIF, NWIF
Prerequisite: ANT 100 or permission of instructor. The way of life of the original inhabitants of eastern North America. Reconstructing life during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries using archaeology, historical documents, and oral tradition. Details of the early seventeenth-century Wendat/Huron, Haudenosaunee/Five Nation Iroquois, and Powhatan confederacies. Highlights the effects of European exploration and colonization, and the persistence of indigenous eastern North American peoples in the modern world.
ANT 303
THE ANTHROPOLOGY OF
EUROPE
3, 3/0; WCIF
Introduction to anthropology of Europe and European cultures. Discusses the traits and development of distinctive cultural features of European peoples through cultural histories of Europe in general and ethnographic case studies. Relates the development and influence of western civilization to other regions of the world.
ANT/AAS 305
PEOPLES OF AFRICA
3, 3/0
Cross-cultural comparisons of indigenous and modern African nations. Emphasis is placed upon regional, linguistic, social, political, religious, economic, and aesthetic characteristics, as well as historic and recent population migrations on the African continent and the surrounding islands.
ANT 306
PEOPLES OF ASIA
Prerequisite: ANT 101 or ANT 305. Cross-cultural comparisons of indigenous and modern nations of Asia. Emphasis on regional, linguistic, social, political, religious, economic, and aesthetic characteristics as well as historic and recent population migrations on the Asian continent and surrounding islands.
ANT 307
URBAN ANTHROPOLOGY
3, 3/0
Study of the origin and evolution of cities around the world, their impact upon the human family and other social relationships, and the physical environment. Early and recent viewpoints on life in cities, suburbs, and rural communities.
ANT/HEW 327
INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY
3, 3/0; NWIF
Prerequisite: ANT 100 or ANT 101 or permission of instructor. Overview of the history and development of concepts and practices of medicine worldwide. Theories and procedures in illness, sickness, health, and well-being in and from a variety of cultural perspectives: historical and contemporary, East and West; Stone Age, folk, shaman, traditional Western, and herbal medicine, including healing and religion; homeopathy; and anthropological study of health-care institutions.
ANT 329
WORLD PREHISTORY
3, 3/0; NWIF
Prerequisite: ANT 100 or upper-division status.Overview of the major developments in human culture as inferred from the archaeological record. Past cultures of hunter-gatherers, the first farmers, and early civilizations will be described, as well as their legacy for the modern world.
ANT 330
PACIFIC ISLANDERS
3, 3/0; NWIF
Prerequisites: ANT 101, sophomore status, or permission of instructor. Introduction to Pacific Islanders, including origins, languages, ecology, cultural identity and agency, political struggles. Experience of indigenous communities. Representations of the Pacific originating inside and outside the region. Encounters and transformation by first inhabitants, explorers, missionaries, colonists, and recent global flows of people, culture, and capital.
ANT 377
ANCIENT CIVILIZATION
3, 3/0; NWIF
Prerequisite: ANT 100 or permission of instructor. The nature of early civilizations; possible factors involved in both their rise and fall. Old World civilizations studied: Mesopotamia, Egypt, the Indus Valley, China, the Aegean Islands, and Europe (Greece and Italy). New World civilizations examined: Mesoamerica and the Andes region of South America. Similarities and differences considered.
ANT 381
RELIGION, MAGIC, AND CULTURE
3, 3/0; NWIF
Prerequisite: One anthropology course. World religious beliefs and practices, universal phenomena with many manifestations. Examination of the place of religion and spirituality in widely diverse cultures, including discussion of magic, trance, altered states, cults, Wicca, Santeria, voodoo, and late twentieth century religions.
ANT 385
VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY
Prerequisite: ANT 101 or SOC 100. How technology of still camera transformed relationship to imagery, perception of time and movement through splitting and flattening of representations into "realistic" images. Basics of still cameras as research tools; how to collect informants' images as data. Meaning, use of images, representations, and power of visual data.
ANT 400
ANCIENT MATERIALS
Prerequisite: ANT 329 or instructor permission. The study of technology and production in its broadest sense. Raw materials used to create material culture as defined archaeologically, such as stone, bone, wood, clay, and metal. Datasets from ethnographic and archaeological films and reports; hands-on experimental archaeology projects. How archaeologists use material culture as evidence for past human behavior, e.g., measurement of lithic flakes, creating typologies of ceramic sherds.
ANT 411
AFRICAN FAMILY
3, 3/0
The family, kinship, and marriage among the peoples of Africa. Emphasis on the interrelationships of kinship with other aspects of culture.
ANT 415
SEMINAR IN ARCHAEOLOGY
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor. Survey of the field of archaeology that includes the examination of particular cultures, as well as discussion of major methodological and theoretical issues.
ATS 325
ART AND SPECIAL NEEDS
3, 4/0; DIIF
In-depth exploration of theoretical and practical relationships within art programs designed to serve people with exceptional needs in schools and other human-services agencies. Art activities as a diagnostic agent and as a means for establishing settings that promote individual growth, self-awareness, self-concept development, and self-expression. Supervised fieldwork in special-education settings.
BIO 100
PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGY
3, 3/0; NSIF
Non-majors only. The unifying principles of modern biology with special emphasis on cell biology, metabolism, and genetics.
BIO 101
HUMAN BIOLOGY
3, 3/0; NSIF
Non-majors only. Biological principles of the human condition with particular emphasis on physiology of normal body function with regard to nutrition, disease, psychoactive agents, reproduction and contraception, and aging. Contemporary health-related issues.
BIO 104
ENVIRONMENTAL BIOLOGY
3, 3/0; NSIF
Non-majors only. Biological aspects of global environmental problems. Principles of ecology.
BIO 105
BIOTECHNOLOGY: APPLICATIONS AND ISSUES
3, 3/0; NSIF, TSIF
Science of molecular biology; tools for manipulating genes of most forms of life, including humans. Biotechnology's application of those tools to address problems in agriculture, the environment, medicine, and society. Effectiveness and safety of biotechnology, as well as the cultural, political, and ethical concerns about its application.
BIO 211
INTRODUCTION TO CELL BIOLOGY AND GENETICS
4, 3/3; NSIF
The chemicals of life and their hierarchal organization in cells. Cell organelles. Metabolism and energy transformations. Cell division, gene expression, Mendelian and population genetics. Biotechnology in human health, nutrition, and society.
BIO 212
INTRODUCTION TO ORGANISMAL BIOLOGY AND DIVERSITY
4, 3/3; NSIF
Origins and history of life. Functional biology of animals and plants studied in an integrated fashion. Survey of morphology, physiology, development, reproduction, and life cycles of animals, plants, fungi and microbes.
BIO 213
INTRODUCTION TO ECOLOGY, EVOLUTION, AND BEHAVIOR
4, 3/3; NSIF
Population, community, and ecosystem ecology; human impact on the environment. The Darwinian revolution, evolution of populations, and the formation of new species. Principles of animal behavior.
BIO 303
GENETICS
4, 3/3; OCIF
Prerequisites: BIO 211, CHE 111, CHE 112. Principles of Mendelian, molecular, and population genetics. Classic and molecular experimental methods for studying gene structure, transmission, expression.
BIO 350
GENES IN POPULATIONS
4, 3/3; OCIF
Prerequisites: BIO 211, CHE 111, CHE 112, upper-division status. Processes that cause populations to change over time; mutation, natural selection, genetic drift, and gene flow. Application of population genetic principles to problems in conservation biology and forensic genetic analysis.
BSC 101
FOUNDATIONS OF INQUIRY
3, 3/0
Introduction to the Intellectual Foundations program. Focuses on critical and creative thinking, and research skills applied to interdisciplinary topics. Identification, analysis, and evaluation of arguments' elements, form, strength, and validity. Emphasis on critical reading, argument construction, intellectual curiosity, fair-mindedness, and exploration of beliefs and values.
BUS 305
WORKFORCE DIVERSITY IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY
3, 3/0; DIIF
Prerequisite: Upper-division status. Workforce diversity as the positive acknowledgment of the way in which people are different. Recognizes gender, age, religion, and cultural background, and work and life responsibilities. Teamwork develops an understanding and awareness of cultural diversification in the workforce.
CHE 100
CHEMISTRY AND SOCIETY
3, 3/0; NSIF
Non-mathematical approach to the study of matter. Presentation of the fundamentals of chemistry followed by socially relevant topics, such as toxic waste management, environmental pollution, space technology, agricultural chemistry, chemistry of consumer products, food processing, polymers, and plastics.
CHE 101
GENERAL CHEMISTRY I
3, 2/3; NSIF
Basic principles of chemistry, including atomic and molecular structure; gases, liquids, solids, and solutions; chemical reactions; acids and bases. Not open to chemistry majors.
CHE 111
FUNDAMENTALS OF CHEMISTRY I
4, 3/3; NSIF
Fundamental principles of chemistry covering the nature and structure and properties of the atom, chemical bonding, geometry of molecules, the periodic table, states of matter, stoichiometry, and solution chemistry.
CHE 315
ENVIRONMENTAL CHEMISTRY AND TECHNOLOGY
3, 3/0; TSIF
Prerequisite: CHE 112 or CHE 102. Discussion of chemical reactions in air, water, and soil. Effect of human activities on the chemical environment. Alternative energy sources, pollution- control methods and devices.
CHE 471
BIOCHEMICAL TECHNIQUES
1, 0/3
Prerequisites: CHE 202, CHE 301. Prerequisite or corequisite: CHE 470. Introduction to techniques in the modern biochemistry laboratory. Participation in laboratory experiments illustrating these techniques and general biochemical principles.
CHI 101
BEGINNING CHINESE I
3, 3/0
Fundamentals of Mandarin Chinese, with an emphasis on the spoken and written language.
CHI 102
BEGINNING CHINESE II
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: CHI 101 or equivalent. Continuation of CHI 101.
CIS 105
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY
3, 3/0; TSIF
The impact of information technology (IT) on social, ethical, legal, economic, privacy, intellectual property, and personal issues. Contemporary issues and challenges as affected by historical IT developments (Internet, databases, networks, communications, etc.). Students use current technology to support investigations of related topics and to communicate findings.
COM 100
MEDIA LITERACY
3, 3/0; HUIF, TSIF
Role of mass media in the lives of individuals and society; exploration of development structure and technology of media, as well as social, economic, ethical, and related issues; focuses on roles of both consumers and producers of media.
CRJ 101
INTRODUCTION TO CRIMINAL JUSTICE
3, 3/0; SSIF
The structure, function, practices, policies, and objectives of the criminal justice system. Emphasis on three underlying themes: resource scarcity, discretionary powers, and interdependence or exchange relationships among criminal justice agencies.
CRJ 303
CRIMINAL JUSTICE THEORY AND IDEOLOGY
3, 3/0; OCIF
Prerequisites: CRJ 101, CWP 102. Examination of the social, political, cultural, and economic forces that shape the historical and contemporary theories and ideologies of crime, and their interactive influences with criminal justice policies and practices.
CRJ 425
RACE, ETHNICITY, AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
3, 3/0; DIIF
Prerequisites: CRJ 101, upper-division status. Examines the current state of race relations in society and the criminal justice system, and the historical experiences of different racial and ethnic groups in the United States, and their relation to law and the criminal justice system as victims, offenders, and officials in criminal justice institutions.
CRJ 430
GENDER AND THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE
3, 3/0; DIIF
Prerequisites: CRJ 101, upper-division status. The mutual effects between gender and aspects of criminal justice, including victimization, criminality, law, and the criminal justice process. Includes perspectives on the historical subordination of women, and how law and the criminal justice system can be used to ameliorate that subordination.
CRJ 470
ADVANCED SEMINAR IN CRIMINAL JUSTICE
3, 3/0; OCIF
Prerequisites: CWP 102, CRJ 101, CRJ 303, CRJ 315, upper-division status, at least 24 credit hours of criminal justice coursework.Integration of knowledge acquired throughout the criminal justice curriculum into a holistic conception of criminal justice theory, practice, research, and planning. Emphasis on developing advanced scholarship, conceptualization, and critical thinking through writing within the discipline.
CRJ/PSC 485
MOOT COURT
3, 3/0; OCIF
Prerequisites: Junior/Senior level or permission of instructor. Simulation of a trial court or appellate court proceeding involving teams of students as prosecutors and defense attorneys. Includes preparing case strategy, analyzing evidence and legal precedent, preparing a written brief, and presenting an oral argument. Final project is a "trial" or "appellate court" presentation to a jury or panel of judges.
CWP 101
COLLEGE WRITING I
3, 3/0
Initiation into all phases of the writing process. The study and writing of expository and analytic prose, patterns of organization, and the features of good writing. Writing assignments emphasize rhetorical strategies and essay structure. ESL sections are appropriate for nonnative speakers of English.
CWP 102
COLLEGE WRITING II
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: CWP 101 or equivalent. (See College Writing Program Office, South Wing 130, for placement procedures.) Writing assignments emphasize argument and persuasion, advanced rhetorical strategies, analysis/synthesis, and research methods.
DAN 200
BEGINNING MODERN TECHNIQUE
3, 1/4; ARIF
Basic tenets and fundamental principles of modern dance. Students develop an understanding of the dancer as the interpretive artist through technical dance instruction, historical introduction and significance, and aesthetic discovery. Students attend live dance performance.
DAN 220
BEGINNING BALLET
3, 1/4; ARIF
Intensive introduction to basic principles of classical ballet. Students develop an understanding of classical dance through the instruction of basic ballet technique, a codified terminology, and the influential aesthetic and historical foundations. Students attend live dance performance.
DAN 224
DANCE APPRECIATION
3, 3/0; ARIF
Survey course examining the cultural and aesthetic values of ethnic, social, and concert dance; the significance of dance for ceremony, ritual, commercial entertainment, and artistic expression. Students attend live dance performance.
DAN/AAS 230
SURVEY OF AFRICAN AMERICAN DANCE
3, 4/0; DIIF
The continuity of African American dance from traditional African to contemporary American through dance technique. An introduction to several dance forms: traditional, modern, and jazz; the cultural history that influenced these dance forms; and the contributions of significant choreographers. Students attend live dance performance.
DAN/AAS 234
HISTORY OF THE BLACK DANCE MOVEMENT
3, 3/0; DIIF
The development of African American dance and the contributions of African American artists through lecture and film. Emphasis on the evolution of traditional African dance forms and their influence on the contemporary dance vernacular. Students attend a live dance performance.
DES 114
WORKSHOP IN CRAFTS
3, 4/0; ARIF
Hands-on creative studio experience in ceramics, fibers, metals/jewelry, or wood/furniture design. Non-art majors only.
DES 190
DESIGN SYMPOSIUM
3, 3/0; ARIF
Introductory design course open only to non majors. Basic concepts and language of design, the application of those concepts in the human environment, and the historical and cultural reference to those concepts.
ECO 101
THE ECONOMIC SYSTEM
3, 3/0; SSIF
Overview course. Development of fundamental economic concepts, basic economic institutions and their history, and contemporary economic issues. Supply and demand, markets, gross domestic product (GDP), inflation and recession, and the role of government. Economic issues, such as energy, environment, education, and health care, included when appropriate. Will not count toward the credit hour requirement of majors. May not be taken concurrently with or subsequent to ECO 201 or ECO 202.
ECO 103
ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
3, 3/0; AHIF
The history of the United States from an economic perspective. U.S. history is understood by studying the development of economic institutions and social change. Causes and effects of changing labor organization and relations, production technique, business and industrial organization, trade patterns, and economic policy.
ECO 201
PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS
3, 3/0; SSIF
The major economic forces-consumer expenditure, business investment, and government spending-and their influence on national income. Money and banking, monetary and fiscal policies, inflation and recession, economic growth, and international monetary problems. Either ECO 201 or ECO 202 may be taken first.
ECO 202
PRINCIPLES OF MICROECONOMICS
3, 3/0; SSIF
Individual units in the economy-consumers, firms, and resource owners-and how their decisions influence market prices and industrial output. Supply and demand, competition and monopoly, corporations, capitalism and socialism, labor, and international trade. Either ECO 201 or ECO 202 may be taken first.
ECO 302
WOMEN IN THE ECONOMY
3, 3/0; DIIF
Prerequisite: ECO 201 or ECO 202 recommended. Analysis of the economic status of women in the United States and other selected nations as compared to men's status and differentiated by age, race, ethnicity, and marital status.
ECO 305
STATISTICS FOR ECONOMICS
3, 3/0; MQIF
Introduction to elementary statistical principles, descriptive statistics, and statistical inference. Applications in economics, business, and criminal justice. Required for majors.
ECO 490
SENIOR SEMINAR IN ECONOMICS AND FINANCE
3, 3/0; OCIF
Prerequisites: ECO 305, ECO 307, ECO 308, senior standing. ECO 424 recommended. Capstone course required of all senior economics and finance majors. Investigation and oral presentation of findings of selected advanced topics in economics and finance. Senior thesis on a topic in economics or finance required.
EDU 310
TEACHING SOCIAL STUDIES IN THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3,3/0; DIIF
Prerequisites: Full majors only; overall GPA of 2.5 or higher; EDU 211 with a C or higher. Current trends and pedagogical issues in social studies standards-based education. Development and implementation of creative extension of social studies through visual and performing arts.
EDU/EXE 375
INTEGRATION OF TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION
3, 3/0; TSIF
Prerequisite: Premajors or full majors. Provides the preservice teacher with an awareness of the current range of instructional and adaptive technologies. Emphasis on curricular integration of technology within the general and special education classroom, and connections between instructional technology and the broader role of technology in society.
EDU 400
PRACTICUM IN TEACHING
6, 0/6
Prerequisites: Full majors only; minimum overall cumulative GPA of 2.5; minimum grade of C in methods courses related to respective major (EDU 220, EDU 310W, EDU311W, EDU 312, and/or EDU 329); minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5 in major courses; successful completion of English composition/ basic communication and mathematics competency requirements. Intended as the teacher candidate's culminating experience. Supervised teaching experience in two school settings at two developmental levels five full days a week for approximately seven to nine consecutive weeks. Effective demonstration of content knowledge, pedagogical preparation, instructional delivery, classroom management, knowledge of student development, collaboration with school professionals, and reflectivity of practice required. Only EXE/EDF 362 or EDU/EXE 375 (EDU 411 for early childhood certification) may be taken with student teaching. Extension students or exceptional education majors also take EDU 404. Early childhood and combined education majors also take EDU 410.
EDU 404
PRACTICUM IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TEACHING
6, 30/0
Prerequisites: Extension and exceptional education majors only; minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5; minimum grade of C in methods courses in respective major (EDU 220, EDU 310W, EDU 311W, EDU 312, and/or EDU 329); minimum cumulative GPA of 2.5 in major courses; successful completion of English composition/basic communication and mathematics competency requirements. Intended as the teacher candidate's culminating experience. Supervised teaching experience in an elementary-grade setting five full days a week for approximately seven to nine consecutive weeks. Effective demonstration of content knowledge, pedagogical preparation, instructional delivery, classroom management, knowledge of student development, collaboration with school professionals, and reflectivity of practice. Only EXE/EDF 362 or EDU/EXE 375 may be taken with student teaching. This course is for extension or exceptional education majors.
ENG 130
BIBLICAL AND CLASSICAL LITERATURE
3, 3/0; WCIF
Works selected from Biblical literature and from Latin and Greek literature before Constantine.
ENG 151
INTRODUCTION TO POETRY
3, 3/0; HUIF
Verbal and formal techniques of English and American poetry. Prosody, verse forms, conventions, genres, diction, and imagery. Social and historical contexts. Representative authors and periods.
ENG 205
HISTORY OF CINEMA I
3, 3/0; HUIF
This course provides the student with an understanding of cinema history from 1890 to 1960. Students examine trends in cinema's aesthetic forms, technical breakthroughs, innovators, cultural antecedents, and impact.
ENG 206
HISTORY OF CINEMA II
3, 3/1; HUIF
This course provides the student with an understanding of cinema history since 1960. Students examine representative trends in cinema's aesthetic form, technical breakthroughs, key innovators, cultural antecedents, and cultural impact.
ENG 210
BRITISH LITERATURE I: SPECIAL TOPICS
3, 3/0; HUIF
A study of selected topics, themes, and authors in British literature before 1700.
ENG 211
SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE II: SPECIAL TOPICS
3, 3/0; HUIF
A study of selected topics, themes, and authorsin British literature from 1700 to 1900.
ENG 212
SURVEY OF BRITISH LITERATURE III
3, 3/0; HUIF
An overview of important movements in British literature from the late Victorian period through contemporary literature, such as Fabianism, modernism, Marxism, aestheticism, the Movement and the Angry Young Men, postmodernism, post-Empire writing, Black British writing, and women's and queer literature.
ENG 220
AMERICAN LITERATURE I: SPECIAL TOPICS
3, 3/0; HUIF
Survey of the various genres of influential American writing-including biographies, captivity and slave narratives, essays, poems, short stories, and criticism, as well as Gothic, epistolary, sentimental, and Romantic novels- produced between the late seventeenth century and the mid-nineteenth century.
ENG 221
AMERICAN LITERATURE II: SELECTED TOPICS
3, 3/0; HUIF
A study of topics, themes, and authors in American literature after the Civil War.
ENG 230
COMPARATIVE LITERATURE
3, 3/0; HUIF
Recurring ideas, themes, and theories in world literature.
ENG 231
WOMEN IN LITERATURE
3, 3/0; DIIF, HUIF
The images of women in literature as they reflect attitudes about women and their roles. Emphasis on authors and eras varies with instructors. May be taken for credit more than once.
ENG/AAS 240
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE TO 1940
3, 3/0; DIIF, HUIF
African American slave narratives, poetry, fiction, essays, and drama from the eighteenth century to 1940; the influence of spirituals, gospel, blues, jazz, sermons, and folktales on African American writing; the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s and 1930s; and the development of African American revolutionary thought.
ENG/AAS 241
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE SINCE 1940
3, 3/0; HUIF
Realism, naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism in African American literature; black revolutionary thought and artistry in the 1960s and 1970s; neo-slave narratives; African American poetry, fiction, essays, and drama from 1940 to the present; influence of spirituals, gospel, the blues, jazz, sermons, and folktales on contemporary African American writing.
ENG 243
Introduction to Latino/a Literature
3, 3/0; DIIF, HUIF
Introductory study of themes, ideas, and movements in Latino/a literature from the mid-ninteenth century to the present.
ENG 252
BRITISH MODERNISM
3, 3/0; HUIF
British modernism, roughly the period from 1900 to 1940. The historical, intellectual, and cultural backgrounds, as well as the study of some of the major literary figures and their work.
ENG 255
THE SHORT STORY
3, 3/0; HUIF
Various examples of influential short fiction produced around the world since the nineteenth century. This study will familiarize students with various literary techniques involved in the craft of short fiction.
ENG 353
NATIVE AMERICAN LITERATURE
3, 3/0; DIIF, NWIF
Prerequisites: Upper-division status, fulfillment of English composition/basic communication requirement. Selected aspects of traditional and contemporary Native American literature in its cultural, historical, and aesthetic contexts.
ENG 354
ETHNIC AMERICAN MINORITY LITERATURE
3, 3/0; DIIF
The background, development, and contemporary contribution of ethnic American minority literature (folk, poetry, short story, novel, biography, and play) and individual authors. The literary characteristics of the literature, its contribution to the field of American literature, and its place in today's society.
ENG 380
THE HISTORY OF THE PRINTED BOOK
3, 2.5/0; TSIF
Prerequisites: ENG 190, 6 credit hours of literature. Analysis of the printed book as a physical, historical, social, and literary object. Course requires original bibliographical research.
ENG 385
GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN LITERATURE
Prerequisite: ENG 190 or instructor permission. Elements of gender and sexuality in British, American, or world literature: themes, historical periods, philosophies, theories, and movements. May be taken for credit up to three times when content varies.
ENG 463
METHODS, MATERIALS, AND PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOR TEACHERS OF ENGLISH
6, 6/0
Prerequisites: EDF 303, ENG 200; minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75 in major. Methods and materials necessary to become an effective teacher of English. Includes secondary school curriculum, New York State standards for the language arts, planning, assessment, and classroom management. Additional emphasis on professional development, with on-site observations, practice teaching sessions, and interactions with public-school teachers and personnel.
ENG 464
STUDENT TEACHING IN MIDDLE SCHOOL/JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH 6, 0/0; OCIF
Prerequisites: ENG 200, ENG 309, ENG 462 or ENG 463, EDF 303, EDF 403, and EDU 416; minimum cumulative GPA of 2.0, 2.75 in English, and professional education courses. Full-time practice teaching, five days a week for seven weeks in a middle school/junior high school situation. College supervision biweekly. Elementary extension students teach one situation. Required for upper-division students in secondary English and elementary education extension students.
ENG 490
ENGLISH SEMINAR
3, 3/0; OCIF
Prerequisites: ENG 190, 3 credit hours of literature, or permission of instructor. Advanced study of a literary theme, genre, author, period, or theoretical approach.
ENS 100
URBAN ENVIRONMENT SCIENCE
3, 3/0; NSIF; TSIF
Survey of environmental science exploring the consequences to Buffalo from environmental and technological changes over the past century. Strong interdisciplinary focus, with emphasis on the connections between our urban environment and human health. Topics include air and water quality, environmental stresses in the urban ecosystem, and environmental exposure to urban pollution and human health.
ENT 100
THE AGE OF ENERGY
3, 3/0
Energy needs of society and the drive to use renewable energy sources and more efficient forms of transportation; technological, societal, ethical, and economic impact of societies' energy needs; impact on quality-of-life issues; hands-on student team projects focusing on solar, wind, hydro; increased efficiency topics such as hybrid/electrical vehicles and house lighting.
EXE 100
NATURE AND NEEDS OF INDIVIDUALS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
3, 3/0; DIIF
Individuals who are exceptional due to factors of intelligence, physical development, behavior, and sensory abilities. The causes, characteristics, and implications-educational, social, and vocational-of individuals who deviate from the average or normal. Required for exceptional education majors.
EXE 375
INTEGRATION OF TECHNOLOGY IN EDUCATION 3, 3/0; TSIF
Prerequisite: EDF 202. Course enrollment is limited to childhood, early childhood, secondary and special education majors. Can be taken during student teaching for childhood education majors. This course is designed to provide the pre-service teacher with an awareness of the current range of instructional and adaptive technologies. Emphasis is placed on factors relating to curricular integration of technology within the general and special education classroom. Students receive hands-on experience with the use of instructional software, web sites and adaptive/ assistive technologies.
FAR 100
INTRODUCTION TO FINE ARTS
3, 6/0; ARIF
The critical bases of procedures in the fine arts. Introductory problems in studio performance. Lecture and studio experience. Non-art majors only.
FAR 101
DRAWING I
3, 3/2; ARIF
Fundamentals of drawing based primarily on the study and representation of objects and nature forms, with problems of analysis, composition, and structure in various media. Includes both lecture and studio experiences.
FAR 250
ART HISTORY I
3, 3/0; ARIF
World history of painting, sculpture, architecture, and related arts from the Paleolithic period to the end of the medieval period.
FAR 251
ART HISTORY II
3, 3/0 ARIF
The history of painting, sculpture, architecture, and the related arts from the Renaissance to the modern period in Europe and the United States.
FLE 201
INTRODUCTION TO TECHNOLOGY IN FOREIGN LANGUAGE EDUCATION
Prerequisite: Official enrollment in French or Spanish foreign language education program. Introduction to the uses and limitations of technology in language instruction with particular emphasis on the principled use of computer-assisted instruction, situated within standards- and research-based language pedagogy.
FRE 101
BEGINNING FRENCH I
3, 3/0
Fundamentals of French with an emphasis on the spoken and written language.
FRE 102
BEGINNING FRENCH II
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: FRE 101. Continuation of FRE 101. Fundamentals of French, with an emphasis on the spoken and written language.
FRE 110
ACCELERATED BEGINNING
FRENCH
6, 6/0
Prerequisite: Two or three years of high school French. Covers material normally studied in FRE 101 and FRE 102. Designed for those who have had two or three years of high school French and feel the need for practice in the basic patterns and structures of French.
FTT 349
HISTORY OF TEXTILES
3, 3/0; NWIF
Prerequisites: FTT 206, junior standing or permission of instructor. Political, cultural, and economic effects of textile production throughout the world. Use of fibers, yarns, fabric construction, color application, and finishes in relation to development of technology, labor movements, and social issues during historic periods on a global basis.
GEG 101
WORLD NATURAL ENVIRONMENTS
3, 3/0; NSIF
Nature of geography; earth-sun relationships; maps and map interpretation; and classification, distribution, and origins of the major elements of the natural environment: weather, climates, soils, natural vegetation, landforms, and developmental processes.
GEG 102
HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
3, 3/0; SSIF
Introduction to cultural geography through the application of five themes: religion, diffusion, ecology, interaction, and landscape. The distribution of value systems, ethnicity, language, religion, and population as indices of human variety. Cultural impacts of globalization.
GEG/GES 241
METEOROLOGY
3, 3/0 NSIF
An introduction to weather, including the makeup of the atmosphere, seasonality, heat and radiation balance, temperature, humidity, and precipitation, atmospheric motion, atmospheric pressure, and wind, air masses and fronts, severe weather, meteorological instrumentation, local weather, climate controls, and synoptic forecasting. Includes laboratory modules. Emphasis on the relationship between weather systems, technology, and humans.
GEG 309
URBAN GEOGRAPHY
3, 3/0; DIIF
Prerequisite: One social science course. Internal spatial structure of American metropolitan areas and their relationships. Spatial arrangements of land uses; ethnic, racial, and economic composition of the population; dynamics of population growth and change; influence of minorities on cities and suburbs; geographic consequences of poverty and segregation on growth and change; transportation and fiscal problems confronting local governments.
GEG 359
ARCTIC GEOGRAPHY FROM AN INUIT PERSPECTIVE
3, 3/0; NWIF
Prerequisite: Upper-division status. A study of the physical, political, economic, and cultural environments of Arctic regions from an Inuit perspective. Topics focus on interaction between the Arctic environment and its peoples before and after Euro-American contact. Students will also study contemporary issues in today's Arctic.
GEG 360
GEOGRAPHY OF ASIA
3, 3/0; NWIF
Prerequisite: One social science course. A regional geographic analysis of south, east, and southeast Asia. Overview of the continent's natural environment. Examination of the principal elements of the cultural environment: demography and ethnicity, urbanization, economy, and political structure. Interaction between the physical and cultural environments.
GEG 364
GEOGRAPHY OF EUROPE
3, 3/0; WCIF
Prerequisite: One social science course. Physiographic regions, landforms, climate, vegetation, soils, and drainage patterns. Culture regions, language, religion, population, migration, politics, economics, and impacts on the natural environment. Interdependence of regions within Europe and within the global context. Excludes the former Soviet Union.
GEG 419
GLOBALIZATION, TECHNOLOGY, COMPETITION, AND SERVICE ECONOMIES
TSIF
Examination of globalization, technological advancements in recent years, and their effects on the service industry and competitiveness of firms and nations. In-depth studies of the U.S. service sector, competitive strategies, globaliza- tion, and new technologies.
GEG 461
ISSUES IN SOUTHEAST ASIA ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT
OCIF
Prerequisite: Junior or senior standing. Geography, environmental problems, and solutions using a sustainable development framework for countries of Southeast Asia. Sustainable development and environmental management theory in the context of case studies for the region.
GER 101
BEGINNING GERMAN I
3, 3/0
Fundamentals of German, with emphasis on the spoken and written language.
GER 102
BEGINNING GERMAN II
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: GER 101. Continuation of GER 101.
GES 101
INTRODUCTORY GEOLOGY
3, 3/0; NSIF
Introduction to physical aspects and processes on and in the Earth, including the formation and change of properties of rocks and minerals, and the theory of plate tectonics. The course also focuses on the solar system, volcanoes, the continents, and the oceans. Aspects of earthquakes, tsunamis, glaciers, the ice ages, and environmental issues are also discussed. Concurrent registration in GES 103 is recommended for sciences majors.
GES 102
HISTORICAL GEOLOGY
3, 0/0; NSIF
Introduction to the history of the earth from its formation 4.5 billion years ago. The role of continental drift, seafloor spreading, and plate tectonics in its development. The evolution of life as shown in the fossil record.
GES 111
GENERAL OCEANOGRAPHY
3, 3/0; NSIF; TSIF
Study of the oceans, including the application of geology, biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering, and how they interact in different parts of the ocean environment. Strong interdisciplinary focus of ocean processes and how they are connected to our lives. Topics include how technology has advanced our understanding of the oceans, sampling seawater and sediments and mapping the seafloor, opening and closing of ocean basins, formation and erosion of beaches, life in the oceans, ocean resources, marine pollution, and the role of the oceans in global climate change.
GES 131
INTRODUCTORY ASTRONOMY
3, 3/0; NSIF
Non-mathematical survey of the astronomical universe. Survey of the sun, planets, moons, comets, stars, and galaxies. Observation, planetarium, and laboratory sessions supplement lectures.
GES 223
ENVIRONMENTAL EARTH SCIENCE
3, 3/0; NSIF; TSIF
An investigation of the impact of society on the natural environment. Examines natural resources; global climate change; and soil, water, and land use issues. The complex interrelationship of global systems and societies' attempts to control or alter them. The unique perspective of geoscientists to environmental issues.
GES 224
GEOLOGIC HAZARDS
3, 3/0; NSIF
Catastrophic geologic events, with an emphasis on earthquakes, volcanism, and landslides. Includes causes, physical effects, prediction, and social implications.
GES 232
THE SOLAR SYSTEM
3, 0/0
Makeup and characteristics of our solar system; formation hypotheses; geologic processes acting on solar system bodies; comparison of the planets; the search for other solar systems and life elsewhere. Expansion of solar system exploration due to advances in technology and its effect on society.
GES/GEG 241
METEOROLOGY
3, 3/0 NSIF
An introduction to weather, including the makeup of the atmosphere, seasonality, heat and radiation balance, temperature, humidity and precipitation, atmospheric motion, atmospheric pressure, wind, air masses and fronts, severe weather, meteorological instrumentation, local weather, climate controls, and synoptic forecasting. Includes laboratory modules. Emphasis on the relationship between weather systems, technology, and humans.
GES 307
GEOMORPHOLOGY
3, 4/0; OCIF
Prerequisite: GES 101 or GEG 101. The structural controls and processes that affect the development of the surface of the earth. Emphasis on selected geologic environments.
GES 460
ENVIRONMENTAL FIELD METHODS AND ANALYSIS
3, 2/2; OCIF
Prerequisites: GES 101, one 300-level GES course, college algebra. GES 350 is strongly encouraged. Applied study of environmental contaminant migration and distribution, with particular emphasis on sampling and detection methods. Discussion of federal and local environmental laws and regulations, classification of hazardous chemicals, and remediation approaches used by environmental professionals.
GRK 101
BEGINNING NEW TESTAMENT GREEK I
3, 3/0
Fundamentals of Koine Greek, with emphasis on reading.
GRK 102
BEGINNING NEW TESTAMENT GREEK II
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: GRK 101. Continuation of GRK 101.
HEW 327
INTRODUCTION TO MEDICAL ANTHROPOLOGY 3, 3/0: 5; NWIF
Prerequisite: ANT 100 or ANT 101 or permission of instructor. An overview of the history and development of concepts and practices of medicine worldwide. Theories and procedures in illness, sickness, health and well-being in and from a variety of cultural perspectives, historical and contemporary, East and West, Stone Age, folk, shaman, traditional Western and herbal medicine, including healing and religion, homeopathy, and anthropological study of health-care institutions.
HIS 106
HISTORY OF AMERICAN LIFE I
3, 3/0; AHIF
Exploration and colonization: the meeting of cultures; colonial America; shaping an identity; contest for the continent; prologue to independence; independence and the new nation; framing a constitution; religious, ethnic, and cultural diversity in the new nation; Jeffersonian Republicanism; nationalism and economic expansion; the emergence of social strains; Jacksonian democracy; religion and reform; expansion and sectional crisis; American life and culture in the mid-nineteenth century; a decade of crisis; the Civil War; aftermath of war.
HIS 107
HISTORY OF AMERICAN LIFE II
3, 3/0; AHIF
The new South; reunion, readjustment, and constitutional freedoms; the West; the economic revolution; the urban society; politics in the Gilded Age; America's emergence as a world power; the Progressive Era; World War I and its aftermath; the 1920s; the New Deal; from isolationism to globalism; World War II; postwar adjustments; the Kennedy and Johnson years; resurgent Republicanism.
HIS 115
FOUNDATIONS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION
3, 3/0; WCIF
Major contributions of the Greek, Roman, and medieval civilizations to the creation of Western heritage in philosophy, art, literature, science, political structure, economy, and law.
HIS 116
EUROPE SINCE 1500
3, 3/0; WCIF
Growing concern of man and his relation to his world. Development of nationalism. The concepts of freedom and democracy. Increasing attention to the spirit of inquiry. Scientific development and technology and their impact on society. The formulation of fascism, communism, socialism, and the concern for political ideology.
HIS 117
TWENTIETH-CENTURY EUROPE
3, 3/0; WCIF
Political, social, cultural, and intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe. Factors contributing to World War I. The Versailles settlement. The Russian Revolution and the rise of communism. Collapse of collective security and the rise of fascism and national socialism. Western democracies between the wars. The road to World War II. Restoration of the Atlantic Community. The challenge of the nuclear age.
HIS 120
HISTORY OF AMERICAN URBAN TECHNOLOGY
3, 3/0; TSIF
Study of the development and interaction of technology and urban America, from Indian villages and colonial towns to high-technology reindustrialization. Topics include the American Indian and European traditions, early urban production and planning, industrialism and infrastructure, electricity's impact, reforms in housing and health, leisure and consumption technology, and technology as a competitive factor in national and international urban development.
HIS 230
WORLD CIVILIZATIONS TO 1600
3, 3/0; NWIF
Origins, cultural achievements, and interrelationships of various civilizations before 1600. The birth of human civilization, the emergence of major religious and philosophical traditions, state and society in the ancient world, the consolidation and interaction of world civilizations, the civilizations of Africa and the Americas, East Asian culture and civilization, the great Islamic civilizations, the origins and development of European civilization.
HIS 300
RESEARCH AND WRITING SEMINAR
3, 3/0 OCIF
Prerequisites: ENG 101 and ENG 102. History and social studies education majors only. Recommended before the completion of 45 credit hours. In-depth instruction on the historical methods of research and writing according to the standards of the history profession. Students research, analyze, and interpret historical materials, provide documentation, and communicate lucidly and effectively in writing. Should be taken before enrolling in other upper-division history courses.
HIS 302
HISTORY OF WOMEN IN AMERICA
3, 3/0; DIIF
The impact of women on American development from colonial times to the present. Effects of history on the roles and status of women. Changes in women's role in the family, economic contributions, legal status, struggle for equal rights. Women and demographic changes. Developing perceptions of women about society. Political growth and women. Society's regard for women in a historical context and the differences and/or similarities between women from various ethnic, racial, religious, and socioeconomic groups.
HIS/AAS 306
HISTORY OF AFRICA TO 1919
3, 3/0
Indigenous developments and early empires of Africa. The impact of Islam. Western contact and the slave trade. The development of European colonialism. The partition of Africa and colonial administrative policies of the European powers. The waning of European power as a result of World War I.
HIS 307
HISTORY OF INDIA
3, 3/0; NWIF
Prerequisite: Upper-division status. The history of India from ancient times to the present. Topics include the early Indus civilizations; religion and society in the Aryan age; the birth of Buddhism; Ashoka and the Mauryan Empire; classical Hinduism; Gupta civilization; the impact of Islam; the Mughal Empire; the era of British colonialism; the emergence of modern nationalism; independent India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh.
HIS 310
HISTORY OF EAST ASIA: THE TRADITIONAL ERA
3, 3/0; NWIF
Prerequisite: Upper-division status. China, Korea, and Japan before the coming of the West. Traditional cultures, geography, political and religious institutions. Impact of Western ideas and colonialism.
HIS 311
AMERICAN IMMIGRATION AND ETHNICITY
3, 3/0; DIIF
Immigration and ethnicity from the colonial period to the present. World population movements, shifts in governmental immigration policy, the changing meaning of ethnicity and race, and its impact on the immigrant experience. How and why immigrants came, degree of assimilation and alienation, work and leisure experiences, demographics, coping mechanisms, transmission of cultural traditions, and generational differences.
HIS 320
MODERN HISTORY OF JAPAN AND KOREA
3, 3/0; NWIF
Prerequisite: Upper-division status. History of Japan and Korea in the twentieth century. The rise of Japan as a modern nation. The rise and fall of the Japanese Empire. Japan under new democracy. Korea under Japanese control. The liberation and division of Korea. The problem of reunification of Korea.
HIS /AAS 322
AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY
3, 3/0; DIIF
Heritage of black Americans. African Americans' existence under slavery; their role in influencing historical events; activity in the Civil War period; freed men during reconstruction; migrations to the north and adjustment to urban life. African American leaders, institutions, and ideas, and their impact on modern American.
HIS 332
TECHNOLOGY AND U.S. HISTORY
3, 3/0; TSIF
Interaction of U.S. society with technology in the past, concentrating on the last 200 years. Background of Western technology; the agricultural revolution; industrial technology; technology and culture, labor, the home, medicine, government; postindustrial technology.
HIS/AAS 211/337
HISTORY OF MODERN AFRICA SINCE 1919
3, 3/0
Partition of Africa by European nations. Impact of colonial regimes. African resistance movements. Drive toward independence. Problems of economic and social change. Cultural and intellectual currents in modern Africa.
HIS 338
MODERN HISTORY OF CHINA
3, 3/0; NWIF
Prerequisite: Upper-division status. The history of China from the rise of the last imperial dynasty (Qing) in the mid-seventeenth century to the present. Topics include the fall of the Ming dynasty and the Manchu conquest of China, the Chinese state and society under the Qing dynasty, the development of relations between China and the West, the decline of the Qing imperial order, the emergence of modern nationalism and the rise of the Chinese Communist Party, Japanese imperialism and World War II, and the establishment of the People's Republic of China.
HIS/SSE/SST 363
AMERICAN IDENTITY IN TRANSITION: DIVERSITY AND PLURALISM IN THE UNITED STATES
3, 3/0; DIIF
Prerequisite: Upper-division status. The diverse, pluralistic makeup of American society. The roots of pluralism and what it means for the daily experience of living in America. Themes of diversity are explored through history and literature. Focuses on the activities of four major underrepresented groups in their struggle for liberation: African Americans, Native Americans, Latinos, and Asians. Encourages a multicultural view of America.
HIS 373
VIETNAM AND THE VIETNAM WAR
3, 3/0; NWIF
Prerequisite: Upper-division status. Introduction to the major issues associated with the history of Vietnam and modern Vietnam's wars with France and the United States. Origins and historical development of Vietnamese society and culture; French colonialism and the emergence of modern Vietnamese nationalism; Vietnamese communism under Ho Chi Minh; the Franco-Vietminh War; the American war in Vietnam; and postwar reunification and consolidation under the Vietnamese Communist Party.
HIS 465
IMPERIALISM IN THE NINETEENTH AND TWENTIETH CENTURIES
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Upper-division status or instructor permission. Imperialism in Asia and Africa through decolonization. Political and economic motives for acquiring colonies. Historiography of imperialism. Colonial administration and economic exploitation. Role of missionaries. Colonial culture and society. Women and imperialism. Collaboration, complicity, and resistance among indigenous peoples. Colonial nationalism and decolonization.
HON 100
ALL COLLEGE HONORS SEMINAR
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Acceptance into All College Honors Program. Introductory course. Introduces students to faculty from across the disciplines. Includes discussion of specific fields of study and their contributions to the betterment of humankind. Promotes student appreciation, critical examination, and application of interrelated concepts and values as defined by works of literature, art, music, scientific endeavor, technology, historical research, pedagogy, and political theory.
HON 101
HUMANITIES SEMINAR
3, 3/0; HUIF
Prerequisite: Acceptance into All College Honors Program. Humanities core. Part of an integrated sequence of core courses. Focuses on great ideas and works of various cultures.
HON 102
NATURAL SCIENCE SEMINAR
3, 3/0; NSIF
Prerequisite: Acceptance into All College Honors Program. Natural science core. Part of an integrated sequence of core courses. Focuses on the role of science in contemporary society. Students enrolled in this course may not receive credit for SCI 100.
HON 103
ARTS SEMINAR
3, 3/0; ARIF
Prerequisite: Acceptance into All College Honors Program. Arts core. Part of an integrated sequence of core courses. Focuses on great ideas and significant works in the arts.
HON 202
SOCIAL SCIENCE FOUNDATIONS
3, 3/0; O
Prerequisite: Acceptance into All College Honors Program. Social science core. Part of an integrated sequence of core courses. Focuses on central ideas, epistemology, and issues and significant works in and among the social sciences.
HON 301
VALUES AND ETHICS IN THE PROFESSIONS
3, 3/0; TSIF
Prerequisite: Acceptance into All College Honors Program. Seminar. Theories of value development, value dilemmas. Implications of legal aspects of the ethical practice of human service, educational, and healthcare professions from a personal and professional viewpoint.
HON 302
SOCIAL SCIENCE SEMINAR 3, 3/0; S, SSIF
Prerequisite: Acceptance into All College Honors Program. Social science core. Part of an integrated sequence of core courses. Focuses on central ideas, epistemology, and issues and significant works in and among the social sciences.
HUM 100
INTRODUCTION TO HUMANITIES
3, 0/0; HUIF
Introduction to some central topics in the humanities. Humans' attempts to give meaning to their lives through literary, philosophical, and creative expression.
ITA 101
BEGINNING ITALIAN I
3, 3/0
Fundamentals of Italian, with emphasis on listening and speaking.
ITA 102
BEGINNING ITALIAN II
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: ITA 101. Continuation of ITA 101.
LAT 101
BEGINNING LATIN I
3, 3/0
Fundamentals of Latin, with emphasis on reading.
LAT 102
BEGINNING LATIN II
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: LAT 101. Continuation of LAT 101.
MAT 103
INTRODUCTION TO CONTEMPORARY MATHEMATICS
3, 3/0; MQIF
Some of the greatest achievements of mathematical thought, highlighting the beauty and creativity of these ideas. Topics include Fibonacci numbers, the golden rectangle, estimation, comparing infinities, fractals, the Pythagorean Theorem, the five platonic solids, and selected topics from probability and statistics. Designed for liberal arts majors who do not plan on taking further math courses.
MAT 114
FUNCTIONS AND MODELING
FUNCTIONS AND MODELING
3, 3/0; MQIF
Prerequisite: Three years high school mathematics or equivalent. Describe and explore real-world functions, data, and phenomena through graphic, numeric, symbolic, and verbal representations. Use elementary functions (linear, polynomial, power, and exponential) to investigate and analyze applied problems (supported by the use of appropriate technology).
MAT 122
ELEMENTARY MATHEMATICS FROM AN ADVANCED STANDPOINT II
3, 3/0; MQIF
Prerequisite: MAT 121. Real numbers; logic, relations, and functions; probability and statistics;
geometry; Logo.
MAT 124 APPLIED CALCULUS I
3, 3/0; MQIF
Prerequisite: Three years of Regents high school mathematics. Pre-calculus course in algebra and trigonometry designed primarily for those who have had eleventh-year high school mathematics. Includes numbers; inequalities; functions graphing; polynomials; rational functions; circular functions; trigonometric identities; induction; sequences. No credit issued to students who have completed a college-level calculus course.
MAT 126
APPLIED CALCULUS I
4, 4/0; MQIF
Prerequisite: MAT 124 with a minimum grade of C, or equivalent. Intuitive introduction to differential and integral calculus. Analysis of functions, derivatives of algebraic, exponential, ad logarithmic functions; applications of the derivative; antiderivatives of simple algebraic, exponential and logarithmic functions, area and the fundamental theorem of calculus. Graphical, symbolic, numerical, and verbal representations are used for all topics. Designed for students majoring in disciplines that use calculus as a tool. No credit given to students who have previously completed MAT 161 or equivalent.
MAT 161
CALCULUS I
4, 4/0; MQIF
Prerequisite: MAT 124 with a minimum grade of C, or equivalent. Corequisite: MAT 163. Graphic, symbolic, and numeric representation and analysis of functions; limits; continuity; derivatives and antiderivatives of algebraic, trigonometric, exponential, and logarithmic functions; applications of the derivative and antiderivative. Appropriate for math majors and students in partner disciplines requiring understanding of fundamental principles of calculus, with emphasis on deductive reasoning and proof.
MAT 311
INTRODUCTORY PROBABILITY AND STATISTICS
3, 3/0; MQIF
Prerequisite: Three years of Regents high school mathematics. Descriptive statistics; probability and random variables; binomial, normal, and t distributions; estimation and tests of hypotheses concerning means, proportions, and differences between means and proportions. Does not count toward the mathematics, applied mathematics, or mathematics education majors.
MAT 491
CAPSTONE RESEARCH IN MATHEMATICS
OCIF
Prerequisites: MAT 301, MAT 417, and senior status, or instructor permission. Independent research under the direction of the instructor. Composition of a research paper and presentation of results at a seminar for faculty and students.
MCL 100
ITALIAN CINEMA I
3, 3/0
Masterpieces of Italian Cinema 1940-1970s. Taught in English.
MED 307
USES OF TECHNOLOGY IN THE TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS
3, 0/0
MED 407
STUDENT TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS IN JUNIOR HIGH/MIDDLE SCHOOL
6, 3/0
Prerequisites: For mathematics education and CMT majors, completion of MED 308 with a minimum grade of C, completion of MED 300 with a minimum grade of C, minimum GPA of 2.5 in all mathematics major coursework, completion of all professional coursework with a minimum GPA of 2.5, and permission of instructor. Early secondary school classroom laboratory experiences; goals of early secondary mathematics education; psychological influences; teaching models; testing and evaluation techniques; total involvement in early secondary school activities; practicum.
MED 408
STUDENT TEACHING OF MATHEMATICS IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
6, 0/0
Prerequisites: For mathematics education majors, completion of MED 308 with a minimum grade of C, completion of MED 300 with a minimum grade of C, minimum GPA of 2.5 in mathematics major coursework completion of all professional coursework with a minimum GPA of 2.5, and permission of instructor. Secondary school classroom laboratory experiences; goals of secondary mathematics education; psychological influences; teaching models; testing and evaluation techniques; total involvement in secondary school activities; practicum.
MUS 201
SURVEY OF WESTERN MUSIC HISTORY
3, 3/0; ARIF
Introduction to music from the Middle Ages to the present; study of forms and styles, composers and performers, cultural and social backgrounds, and parallel developments in other arts. Lecturer and listening assignments. Concert attendance required.
MUS 206
FOUNDATIONS OF AMERICAN POPULAR MUSIC
3, 3/0; DIIF,ARIF
This survey course studies the historical developments that helped formulate today's popular music, including the roots of blues, jazz, and rock music in America.
MUS 208
SURVEY OF WORLD MUSIC CULTURES
3, 3/0; ARIF
Survey of representative art and popular music cultures of Africa, Asia, the Middle East, and Latin America. Lectures and listening assignments. Concert attendance required.
MUS 209
SUB-SAHARAN AFRICAN MUSIC AND CULTURES
3, 3/0; NWIF
Study of the cultures of sub-Saharan Africa focused on the histories and musics from four specific regions. Two-thirds of class time is in lecture format; one-third is dedicated to learning and performing African rhythms on percussion instruments.
MUS 210
MUSIC THEORY FOR NONMAJORS
3, 3/0; ARIF
Music notation, aural and written. Scales, intervals, triads, seventh chords, rhythms, simple and compound meters, elementary recitation, dictation, analysis, and composition.
MUS 224
MUSIC AND POLITICAL ACTION
3, 3/0; WCIF
Prerequisites: CWP 101, CWP 102. A chronological overview of significant political, social, military, and religious events and the music associated with those important events. Various composers, musical styles, musical forms, and musical selections as they directly relate to historically significant circumstances, events, and movements within world and American history. While previous musical experience is helpful, it is not required.
MUS 440
ETHNOMUSICOLOGY
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: MUS 302, MUS 303, or permission of instructor. Lectures, readings, recordings, and hands-on participation in class, with emphasis on understanding the theories and methodologies used to study music as an aspect of human culture. Examination and discussion of case studies from different regions of the world, as well as independent fieldwork research. Required for music majors.
NFS 102
INTRODUCTORY NUTRITION
3, 3/0; NSIF
A basic science in human nutrition focuses on knowledge of chemical structure, dietary sources, requirements, functions, digestion, absorption, transportation, utilization, and excretion of essential nutrients and other substances.
NFS 105
FOOD AND PEOPLE
3, 3/0; TSIF
The use of technology and science for food production, preservation, processing, and safety profoundly influences nutritional, economic, social, ethical, legal, and personal issues. Concerns about the impact of technology on environment, health, culture, and hunger/malnutrition are addressed. Course prepares students to understand the concepts of food, nutrition, food culture, and food safety for optimal health.
NFS 108
FOOD CULTURE AND CIVILIZATION IN THE FAR EAST
3, 3/0; NWIF
A study of food culture in context with civilizations of the Far East. Focuses on the relationship between the development of food habits/culture and civilization as influenced by political, socioeconomic, and cultural factors, and international relations.
PHI 101
INTRODUCTION TO PHILOSOPHY
3, 3/0; HUIF
Introduction to the literature and problems of philosophy.
PHI 102
INTRODUCTION TO MORAL AND SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY
3, 3/0; HUIF
Various views of how we ought to live and how society should be organized, considered in the context of discussions about the "good" life and the "good" society.
PHI 107
INTRODUCTION TO MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
3, 3/0; MQIF
Prerequisite: Basic proficiency in mathematics as specified by the requirements for the mathematics and quantitative reasoning component of Intellectual Foundations. Introduction to two types of mathematical models for assessing the correctness of reasoning. Venn diagrams as geometric mathematical models for assessing categorical syllogisms. Sentential logic and monadic predicate logic as systems of algebraic mathematical models for assessing the reasoning associated with these systems.
PHI 110
MEANING OF LIFE
3, 3/0; HUIF
Exploration of a number of fundamental philosophical questions that make their way into everyday life, specifically related to the question, "What is the meaning of (my) life?" or its Socratic equivalent, "How ought I to live?" Critical analysis of classical and contemporary works-philosophical and autobiographical- to develop clearer, more informed, and better-reasoned views about the questions, if not the answers.
PHI 301
HISTORY OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
3, 3/0; WCIF
Prerequisite: Upper-division status or one course in philosophy. Examination of moral presuppositions and justifications of forms of government and economic systems, as well as interrelations between government and economics.
PHI 310
HISTORY OF ETHICS
3, 3/0; WCIF
Prerequisite: Upper-division status or one course in philosophy. Historical study of the writings of great Western philosophers as they examine ethical questions about self-interest, freedom, duty, and happiness in regard to the moral life. Includes Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Mill, and Hume.
PHI 347
WESTERN THOUGHT: HOMER TO ALEXANDER
3, 3/0; WCIF
Prerequisites: CWP 101, CWP 102. The development of Hellenic and Hellenistic thought and its influence on the modern world. Examination of tensions between naturalistic, conventional, and religious world views. Special emphasis on the role such tensions played in the development of philosophy.
PHI 351
ETHICS BOWL
3, 3/0; OCIF
Prerequisite: One PHI course or instructor permission. Preparation for a competition in which students are judged on their ability to deploy intricate ethical reasoning in addressing case studies from practical and professional ethics. Students develop well-informed opinions about ethically complex, everyday scenarios, orally present these opinions and supporting arguments, and provide critical oral responses to the opinions and arguments of other students and judges. Some students compete in the regional and/or national Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl, others in the Buffalo State Ethics Bowl.
PHY 100
PHYSICS FOR NONSCIENCE MAJORS
3, 3/0; NSIF
A nonmathematical consideration of historical world views in physics and their relevance to society. May not be substituted for PHY 107, PHY 108, PHY 111, or PHY 112. Not open to physics majors.
PHY 103
UNDERSTANDING SOUND
3, 3/0; NSIF
A conceptual consideration of all aspects of sound and noise. Discussion of the generation and propagation of sound, the ear and voice, musical sounds and instruments, and the recording and reproduction of sound. May not be substituted for PHY 107, PHY 108, PHY 111, or PHY 112. Not open to physics majors.
PHY 104
PHYSICS FOR K-8 TEACHERS
3, 2/2; NSIF
Prerequisites: Acceptance to pre-K-8 teaching majors or premajors. High school algebra and writing. Nature of science; energy transfer; force interactions; systems; Newton's laws; magnetic, gravitational, light, and thermal interactions; conservation of energy; and simple circuits as appropriate for teachers of K-8 science. Meets National Science Education Standards (NRC, 1996) and the New York State Education Department (NYSED, 1996) learning standards for math, science, and technology, and elementary and intermediate physical standards (Standard 4). Inquiry-based classroom comingles laboratory with lecture.
PHY 107
GENERAL PHYSICS I
4, 3/2; NSIF
Algebra-based study of mechanics, measurement, kinematics, Newton;s laws, gravity, conservation of energy and momentum, and rotation; laboratory.
PHY 111
UNIVERSITY PHYSICS I
5, 3/4; NSIF
Calculus-based treatment for science majors of particle motion, kinematics, mechanics, Newtonian dynamics, energy transformation, conservation laws of energy and momentum, gravitation, and rotation; laboratory. Required for majors.
PHY 304
OPTICS AND VISION FOR TEACHERS AND ARTISTS
3, 2/2; TSIF
Prerequisites: Any college or high school introductory physics course; CWP101; any firstyear MAT or instructor permission. Phenomena of light, vision, color, and photography, as appropriate for teachers of science and visual arts majors. Meets the National Science Education Standards S (NRC, 1996) and the New York State Education Department (NYSED, 1996) learning standards for math, science, and technology, and elementary and intermediate physical setting standards (Standard 4). Inquiry-based classroom comingles laboratory with lecture using handheld apparatus and demonstrations in the lecture theater and take-home laboratory activities using everyday materials. Can be used as a sequence with PHY 104.
PHY 410
ADVANCED PHYSICS LABORATORY
3, 0/6
Prerequisite: PHY 305 or equivalent. Selected advanced experiments chosen from the areas of mechanics, thermal physics, sound, optics, electricity and magnetism, and modern physics.
PSC 101
INTRODUCTION TO GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
3, 3/0; SSIF
The nature and scope of political science; ideological foundations of politics; comparative study of the governments of constitutional, totalitarian, and developing systems; the dynamics of politics and functions of political institutions.
PSC 102
INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
3, 3/0; AHIF
Historical development of American government and politics. Conceptual studies of the key transformative phases of institutions (U.S. Constitution, federalism, Congress, the courts, the presidency), politics (political parties, interest groups, media, social movements), political economy (regulation, federal bureaucracy), and political culture (citizenship and identity, public opinion, political behavior).
PSC 103
GREAT POLITICAL ISSUES
3, 3/0; SSIF
Examines great political issues, such as civic engagement, civil disobedience, democracy, freedom, equality, ideology, identity, law, morality, and political obligation, and discusses them in light of their various historical contexts and political implications.
PSC 225
WOMEN IN AMERICAN POLITICS
3, 3/0; DIIF
Influences of female participation in the American political system; the political behavior of American women; the implications of these influences and behaviors.
PSC 230
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
3, 3/0; SSIF
Elements of national power, religion, global balance of power, and collective security systems; instruments of international politics: diplomacy, propaganda, and war; forces of nationalism.
PSC 340
POLITICS OF DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
3, 3/0
Major problems of developing countries, political process and its relation to societal transformation; the role of the army and bureaucracy in political development; problems of nation-building and democracy in developing countries; globalization.
PSC 351
HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT I
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: PSC 101 or PSC 103. Main problems of political theory examined through the writings of major political thinkers from Plato to Aquinas.
PSC 352
HISTORY OF POLITICAL THOUGHT II
3, 3/0; WCIF
Prerequisite: PSC 101 or PSC 103. Main problems of political theory examined through the writings of major political thinkers from Machiavelli to Rawls.
PSC 390
THE ITALIAN AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: POLITICS, SOCIETY, AND IDENTITY
Examination of the experience of Italians in the United States from an interdisciplinary perspective beginning with the peak years of emigration (1870-1920) including the culture, society, economy, and government of Italy (push factors) and the promise of America (pull factors). Identity, citizenship, worldview, family structure, expressive culture, politics, economics, crime, and social relations in the Italian American community.
PSC 470
SENIOR SEMINAR
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: Senior status. Selected topics in political science examined and analyzed in depth.
PSY 101
INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLOGY
3, 3/0; SSIF
Introduction to the scientific study of psychology; research methodology; genetic, biological, cultural, and environmental influences on behavior; perception, learning; memory; intelligence; maturation; motivation; emotion; stress and coping; personality; social processes and psychopathology. Required for psychology majors.
PSY 387
PSYCHOLOGY OF GENDER
3, 3/0; DIIF
Prerequisite: PSY 101. Empirical and theoretical issues of the psychology of gender issues; differences in female and male behavior in terms of such social factors as conformity to societal pressures, sex-role stereotyping, and gender-specific socialization patterns; biological influences on gender differences; development of sex differences; gender-role development; sex differences in cognition, personality, achievement, and leadership.
PSY 472
SEMINAR ON PSYCHOLOGY
3, 3/0; OCIF
Prerequisites: PSY 101, PSY 306, PSY 450, 6 credit hours of psychology. Topic areas for each course vary and are announced prior to student enrollment. Coursework involves the study of basic theoretical principles and empirical laws of different psychology content areas; individual presentations on relevant topics. Required for psychology majors.
REL 104
INTRODUCTION TO RELIGIOUS STUDIES
3, 0/0; HUIF
Introduction to the rational study of religion, including religious practices and philosophies, and concepts basic to religious experience.
REL 105
INTRODUCTION TO CHRISTIAN THOUGHT
3, 3/0; WCIF
A study of Christian thought from its origins to the present, and its influence on the literature, art, architecture, music, government, education, and lifestyle of Western civilization.
REL 121
INTRODUCTION TO JEWISH THOUGHT
3, 3/0; WCIF
Basic Judaism, the major divisions in Jewish thought and practice, the Torah and the problem of practice, the epistemological basis of Jewish sectarianism, God and the problem of knowledge, the "good" life, Israel and the Nations, and Jewish practices.
REL 205
INTRODUCTION TO THE OLD TESTAMENT
3, 3/0; HUIF
The Old Testament, the backgrounds and cultures from which it grew, and the philosophies
and literature it contains.
REL 206
INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW TESTAMENT
3, 3/0; HUIF
Introduction to the New Testament, with emphasis on its literary content, the society from which it emerged, the structures and varieties of its literary contemporaries, and the tools necessary for understanding it.
REL 303
WOMEN AND GLOBAL RELIGIONS
3, 3/0; NWIF
A study of women in world religions, with special attention to the effects of patriarchal religious institutions and religious myths that influence their lives. Feminist contributions to global religious thought and practice, and their effects upon the developing world.
REL 321
WORLD RELIGIONS
3, 3/0; NWIF
A study of various world religions, such as Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Shinto, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, along with Native American, traditional African, and other oral religions.
SCI 100
CONTEMPORARY SCIENCE
3, 3/0; NSIF
Introduction to the role of science in contemporary society. Emphasis on the process of science for solving problems and organizing information to understand science and technology. Contemporary issues and case studies illustrate the methods of science.
SCI 105
PHYSICAL SCIENCE FOR NONSCIENCE STUDENTS
3, 3/0; NSIF
Inquiry approach to the physical sciences through discussion and laboratory activities. Designed for non-science career oriented students interested in a conceptual approach to analyze and better understand the procedures of physical science.
SCI 231
POLLUTION, THE ENVIRONMENT, AND SOCIETY
3, 3/0; NSIF; TSIF
Scientific and societal implications of presentday global environmental problems, such as ecology, global warming, population, and pesticides. Causes and effects of, and possible solutions to, worldwide environmental problems, with implications from conservation, chemistry, health, and society. Option in environmental major.
SCI 232
ENERGY, ENVIRONMENT, AND SOCIETY
3, 3/0; NSIF
Regional and global energy use and issues; environmental, economic, individual, and societal perspectives; major energy alternatives.
SED 407
PRACTICE TEACHING SCIENCE IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL
6, 1/30; OCIF
Prerequisites: SED 405 (minimum grade of B), minimum cumulative 2.75 grade point average in major coursework (3.0 in the earth sciences), completion of the NYSTCE LAST exam, successful completion of English and mathematics basic skills competency. If referred, satisfactory completion, or exemption from, SLA 100. Teaching under supervision at least five days a week for one quarter in a middle school science classroom; individual and group instruction; planning unit teaching; classroom management and routine classroom procedures; audiovisual aids, computer technology, evaluation, and assessment of student progress; participation in total school program. A series of student teaching seminars.
SED 408
PRACTICE TEACHING SCIENCE IN THE HIGH SCHOOL
6, 1/30; OCIF
Prerequisites: SED 405 (minimum grade of B), minimum cumulative 2.75 grade point average in coursework (3.0 in earth science), completion of the NYSTCE LAST exam, successful completion of English and mathematics basic skills competency. If referred, satisfactory completion, or exemption from, SLA 100. Teaching under supervision at least five days a week for one quarter in the high school science classroom; individual and group instruction; planning unit teaching; classroom management and routine classroom procedures; audiovisual aids, computer technology, evaluation and assessment of student progress; participation in total school program. A series of student teaching seminars.
SLP 101
AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE I
3, 3/0
Fundamentals of American Sign Language (ASL), including basic grammatical features, language functions, and finger spelling. Designed to give students adequate receptive and expressive skills for communicating with deaf individuals using ASL. Supplemental lectures focus on issues related to deafness, deaf culture, and signed languages.
SLP 102
AMERICAN SIGN LANGUAGE II
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: SLP 101. Continuation of SLP 101, designed to give students additional knowledge of American Sign Language (ASL) and the deaf community, and to increase competence in ASL conversational skills.
SLP 206
LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT
3, 3/0; SSIF
Analysis of language and its development; children's acquisition of language, speech sounds, words, sentence structure, and meaning; factors that influence language development. Not open to speech-language pathology majors except by advisement.
SLP 220
INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNICATION DISORDERS
3, 3/0
Classification and causes of speech, language, and hearing disorders in children and adults; methods of treatment for communication disorders and suggestions for prevention; basic information on normal and abnormal speech, language, and hearing development; videotaped observation of individuals presenting various communication disorders. Not open to speech language pathology majors except by advisement.
SOC 100
INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLOGY
3, 3/0; SSIF
An introduction to the study of human society, its culture, institutions, processes, and change, including an examination of socialization, and relationships between and among individuals and groups in society. A Prerequisite for all other undergraduate courses in sociology (except SOC 240, SOC 310, SOC 312, and SOC 320), and is required of all sociology majors. Useful for students planning careers in which they must interact with people of varying social and economic statuses.
SOC 240
ANALYZING SOCIAL PROBLEMS
3, 3/0; DIIF; SSIF
Analysis of several major social problems selected according to faculty and student needs and interests; a variety of approaches, techniques, and theories will be used.
SOC 310
SOCIOLOGY OF SEX AND GENDER
3, 3/0; DIIF
Critical examination of the roles women and men play in society; social statuses of women and men analyzed historically, comparatively, demographically, theoretically, and biologically; sociological implications of sex inequality in the economy and political systems, marriage, family relationships, and other social roles.
SOC 312
WOMEN IN SOCIETY
3, 3/0; DIIF
Multifaceted analysis of women in society; women's issues in relation to the social and natural sciences; critical examination of modern societies in light of women's perspectives.
SOC/AAS 321
THE AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILY
3, 3/0; DIIF
Prerequisite: SOC 100. The relationship of American social institutions and the African American family; familial relations within the African American family. Useful for students who will interact with a diverse population in their careers (e.g., education and service occupations).
SOC 333
SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
3, 3/0; DIIF
Prerequisite: SOC 100. Social movements, their character, development, dynamics, and consequences; the relationship between discontent at the individual and wider social levels. Selected social movements and sociological theories.
SOC 350
POWER, CLASS, AND INEQUALITY
3, 3/0; DIIF
Prerequisite: SOC 100. Historical and contemporary dimensions of social inequality and power differentials in the United States and globally; contrasting theoretical interpretations of the origins and significance of social inequality, including the intersectional relationship between inequality on the basis of gender, race, ethnicity, and class; current trends and projected transformations in social inequality.
SOC 351/AAS 351
SOCIOLOGY OF RACE AND ETHNICITY
3, 3/0; DIIF
The study of race and ethnic groups in American and other societies; focuses on forms, causes, and effects of prejudice and ethnic conflicts, and the changing relationships of these groups to the larger society. Possible solutions to social problems involving issues of race and ethnicity are also explored.
SPA 101
BEGINNING SPANISH I
3, 3/0
Fundamentals of Spanish, with emphasis on the spoken and written language.
SPA 102
BEGINNING SPANISH II
3, 3/0
Prerequisite: SPA 101. Continuation of SPA 101.
SPC 103
INTRODUCTION TO HUMAN
COMMUNICATION
3, 3/0; HUIF
Exploration of communication as the basis for personal and social interaction; focuses on roles of both consumers and producers of messages; investigation of various modes of communication.
SPC 205
INTRODUCTION TO ORAL COMMUNICATION
3, 3/0; OCIF
Basics of oral communication; examining the principles and contexts of communication; focus on the communication process, interviewing, public discussion, group problem solving, public speaking, and criticism of public messages.
SPC 311
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
3, 3/0; DIIF
Prerequisite: Upper-division status. Examination of theory and practice of intercultural communication; exploration of ways to bridge differences based on culture, ethnicity, religion, gender, age, and other potential social barriers.
SPC 333
MINORITIES AND THE MEDIA
3, 3/0; DIIF
Prerequisite: Upper-division status. Critical analysis of media representation of traditionally underrepresented groups (such as women, African Americans, Native American, Arabs and Muslims, and/or gays and lesbians).
SSE 409
STUDENT TEACHING OF SOCIAL STUDIES IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL
6, 0/0; OCIF
Prerequisites: Minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75 (overall and in major coursework), grade of C or higher in SSE 303 and SSE 309. All other coursework must be completed prior to student teaching. Corequisite SSE 410. Supervised teaching experience five full days a week for approximately seven consecutive weeks. Effective demonstration of content knowledge, pedagogical preparation, instructional delivery, classroom management, knowledge of student development, collaboration with school professionals, and reflectivity of practice required.
SSE 410
STUDENT TEACHING OF SOCIAL STUDIES IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
6, 0/0; OCIF
Prerequisites: Minimum cumulative GPA of 2.75 (overall and in major coursework), grade of C or higher in SSE 303 and SSE 309. All other coursework must be completed prior to student teaching. Corequisite SSE 409. Supervised teaching experience five full days a week for approximately seven consecutive weeks. Effective demonstration of content knowledge, pedagogical preparation, instructional delivery, classroom management, knowledge of student development, collaboration with school professionals, and reflectivity of practice required.
SWA/AAS 101
BEGINNING SWAHILI I
3, 3/0; F
Fundamentals of Swahili with emphasis on the spoken and written language.
SWA/AAS 102
BEGINNING SWAHILI II
3, 3/0; F
Prerequisite: SWA/AAS 101. Continuation of SWA/AAS 101.
SWK 319
DYNAMICS OF POVERTY
3, 3/0; DIIF
Predominant theories, policies, and programs dealing with poverty in America; the historical treatment of the poor; views of poverty; poverty's effects on individuals, families, and communities; class, race, gender, and age; strategies of social change. Requires 20 hours of volunteer work in addition to coursework.
TEC 150
TECHNOLOGY IN EVERYDAY LIFE
3, 3/0; TSIF
The applied physics and technology involved in everyday life in order to gain an understanding of basic science and engineering principles; Newton's laws of motion as they apply to an ice skater and bumper cars; principles of fluid mechanics, like water flowing from a garden hose and the buoyancy of ships; heat transfer and phase transitions, like water in its three phases and home heating systems; thermodynamic efficiency of automobile engines, as well as air conditioners; resonance and mechanical waves developed by music instruments; basic electricity and its many applications, from how it is produced by water and wind to how it is used to produce light; light and optics, for example, splitting the colors of sunlight to focusing light in a camera lens.
TEC 260
DEVELOPMENT OF TECHNOLOGY
3, 3/0; TSIF
The history of science and technology; the evolution of technology and its effects on humanity, for example, advances in agriculture and health care; era-specific technology, such as weapons developed for defense and building processes to construct small communities and large cities; evolution of energy and power leading to current alternatives, such as solar energy, wind power, hydroelectric power, fuel cells, and biomass energy; how technology has affected and been affected by ecology, climatology, health care, ethics, war, and politics.
TEC 319
TECHNOLOGY AND VALUES
3, 3/0; TSIF
Prerequisite: Upper-division status. Social and ethical impacts of technology; the often conflicting roles of historical and current creators and users of technology; examination of selected current technical-ethical issues of societal importance.
THA 106
INTRODUCTION TO THEATER
ARTS
3, 3/0; ARIF
Introduction to the art of theater from the process of creating to the elements of production, history, genres, and styles of the art form. Attendance at live theater performance is required.
THA 107
THEATER PERFORMANCE FOR NON-MAJORS
Prerequisite: Instructor permission. Participation in the rehearsal and performance of a Buffalo State College Theater Department production.
THA 216
THEATER FUNDAMENTALS
3, 3/0; ARIF
Prerequisite: Theater major or permission of instructor. Introduction to the art of theater for department majors. Examines elements of production, history, genres, and styles of theater. Attendance at live theater performance required.
THA 317
THEATRE HISTORY: ANCIENT TO BAROQUE
3, 3/0; WCIF
Origins and development of physical theater and theater literature from the ancient period to the baroque period; its function in society and its historical context in both Western and global civilizations. Students examine how theater as an art form is a reflection of or reaction to the socioeconomic, scientific, political, philosophical, and other artistic forms of its surroundings. Students attend live performance.
THA 318
THEATER HISTORY: BAROQUE TO MODERN
3, 3/0; WCIF
The origins and development of physical theater and theater literature from the baroque period to contemporary theater; its function in society and its historical context in both Western and global civilizations. Students read plays and examine how theater as an art form is a reflection of or reaction to the socioeconomic, scientific, political, philosophical, and other artistic forms of its surroundings. Students attend live performances.
THA 332
PERIOD STYLES FOR THE THEATER
3, 3/0; TSIF, WCIF
Prerequisite: Any THA course. Survey of architecture, décor, and fashion from precivilization to the early twentieth century. Students analyze the effects of nature, technology, politics, religion, and aesthetics on style. Provides vocabulary and identification of period style necessary to examine and evaluate the translation of a period style to the stage or screen.
THA 350
DIRECTING
3, 3/0
Prerequisites: THA 226 and THA 234, or permission of instructor. Examination of the theater director's craft and responsibilities through lecture and hands-on projects.
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