May 20, 2024  
2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2022 - 2023 Undergraduate Catalog [FINAL EDITION]

Course Descriptions


Writing enriched courses are designated W

Service learning courses are designated S.L.

 

Undergraduate Extended Learning

  
  • UCS 200 - Becoming A Civically Engaged Professional (W)


    3 Credit(s)

    This elective course for all Extended Learning students focuses on promoting learning through active participation in service experiences. Students build on their volunteer knowledge by reading and discussing essays about serving, giving, and leading. The historical context of service learning is reviewed. Structured reflection time is provided during which students link their beliefs about civic engagement to their individual experiences. Several opportunities are provided to the students to work in the surrounding community.
  
  • UCS 390 - Developing Effective Decision Making and Problem Solving Competencies


    4 Credit(s)

    This course enhances students’ knowledge of the decision-making process in organizations, the core of an organization’s operation, and the foundation for managers and supervisors at any level. It provides students with decision-making tools including descriptive statistics, probability theory, hypothesis testing, and decision analysis/tree. Throughout this course, students learn different perspectives in the study of individual, group, and organizational decision making and investigate the pros and cons of various theories and approaches under these perspectives. Students are required to consider the role of rationality and nonrationality in decision making and examine how uncertainty and ambiguity may impact their perceptions of choices and risks.
  
  • UCS 400 - Capstone Seminar (W)


    3 Credit(s)

    This course is the culminating academic experience for students in the professional studies major. Students integrate the significant learning achieved from courses, programs, and life/work experiences and make plans for their future. This seminar helps adult learners cope with their particular ending-beginning situations, identify their strengths to reinforce a positive sense of self, obtain support as they move into the next transition, and develop strategies to deal with change. During the seminar, students review the challenges that adults face in developing new life and work roles, such as developmental issues faced by “aging” students, including life-span concepts, age discrimination in the workplace, or the loss of structure that “going to school” gives adult learners. Students conduct a reappraisal of their goals and are encouraged to consider how the different parts of life fit together (intellectual, social, emotional, physical, vocational, spiritual).
    Prerequisite(s): Senior status (completion of at least 90 semester hours of credit toward the degree) and UCS 101  or UCS 102 .

  
  • UCS 450 - Professional Seminar


    4 Credit(s)

    This course is the culminating academic experience for students in the professional studies major. Students integrate the significant learning achieved from courses, programs, and life/work experiences and make plans for their future. This seminar helps adult learners cope with their particular ending-beginning situations, identify their strengths to reinforce a positive sense of self, obtain support as they move into the next transition, and develop strategies to deal with change. During the seminar, students review the challenges that adults face in developing new life and work roles, such as developmental issues faced by “aging” students, including life-span concepts, age discrimination in the workplace, or the loss of structure that “going to school” gives adult learners. Students conduct a reappraisal of their goals and are encouraged to consider how the different parts of life fit together (intellectual, social, emotional, physical, vocational, spiritual).
    Prerequisite(s): UCS 101 , and UCS 102  and Senior status (or completion of at least 90 semester hours of credit toward the degree) 

  
  • UEC 101 - Principles of Macroeconomics


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see EC 101 .
  
  • UEC 202 - Principles of Microeconomics


    3 Credit(s)

    For a most up to date course description, please see EC 202 .
    Prerequisite(s): Sophomore standing.

  
  • UEC 408 - International Economics


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see EC 408 .
    Prerequisite(s): UEC 101  and UEC 202  

  
  • UED 101 - Introduction to Teaching


    3 Credit(s)

    Intended for students who want to learn more about the teaching profession, this course has been designed to provide an opportunity to explore and to experience the nature and role of a classroom teacher as facilitator for learning, as classroom manager, and as decision maker. Through class discussions, school visits, field trips, interaction with practicing teachers, and field placements, students witness first- and what a good teacher does. The duties, responsibilities, and preparation of the classroom teacher is emphasized concurrently with an examination of the foundations of education. As part of this course, students participate in field experiences inside and outside of regularly scheduled class times, which enable them to relate the course content to teaching. All students must have required clearances before the semester begins.
  
  • UED 354 - Counseling Skills and Techniques


    3 Credit(s)

    This course introduces the requisite knowledge base and counseling skills necessary to establish an effective counseling/coaching relationship with students/clients characterized by warmth, engagement, respect, genuineness, and empathy. Didactic presentation, reflection, and experiential learning best describe the instructional strategies. Students have opportunities to apply counseling techniques in a supportive setting to promote their development and acquisition of counseling skills vital to counseling practice before entering practicum in clinical and K–12 school settings. This course includes small group and full class discussions to facilitate critical thinking about the content presented, as well as experiential role-play demonstrations of core counseling techniques in a laboratory setting. Student cannot earn credit for both UED 354 and ED 554.
  
  • UED 445 - Family Systems and Couple Counseling


    3 Credit(s)

    This course serves as an introduction to family systems and marital/couples counseling. A survey of the approaches germane to counseling families and couples is examined. Specific therapeutic skills and techniques related to families and couples are presented and practiced. Student cannot earn credit for both UED 445 and ED 645.
  
  • UED 446 - Introduction to Addictions Counseling


    3 Credit(s)

    This course examines the theories, techniques, and practices of addictive behavior and addictions counseling. The focus of the course is to help students develop an understanding of the addictive process and its relationship to a variety of behavioral and chemical addictions. Note that this course description is subject to change. Student cannot earn credit for UED 446 and ED 646. *This course description is subject to change.
  
  • UED 452 - Group Dynamics, Practices and Processes


    3 Credit(s)

    This survey course introduces the basic principles of small group functioning. These principles are directly applicable to organizational leadership and counseling groups. The primary purpose of this course is to give students an initial understanding of group counseling and group processes. Group theory and dynamics, as applied to counseling in group settings, are examined. The course has a laboratory-oriented experience, which provides opportunities for students to participate as members and leaders of selected group activities; the aim is for students to gain a better understanding of the role and function of group membership and leadership. Student cannot earn credit for both UED 452 and ED 652.
  
  • UED 453 - Models, Theories and Practice of Counseling


    3 Credit(s)

    This course provides students with the knowledge and skills needed to serve as a counselor, including an exploration of the major counseling models and theories used in service delivery. The exploration of theoretical models is directed toward the development of a personal theoretical orientation for the practice of counseling. This course also focuses on the acquisition of those counseling skills vital to clinical practice. Student cannot earn credit for both UED 453 and ED 653.
  
  • UENG 101 - Reading, Thinking and Writing


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see ENGL 101 .
  
  • UENG 102 - Literature and Critical Writing (W)


    3 Credit(s)

    For update course description see ENGL 102 
    Prerequisite(s): Take UENG 101  

  
  • UENG 132 - Literature of the Western World II


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see ENGL 132 .
  
  • UENG 166 - Science, Fantasy, Horror


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see ENGL 118 .
  
  • UENG 324 - Issues in Bilingualism


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, pleaes see ENGL 324 .
  
  • UENG 335 - Chaucer: Medieval Literature


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see ENGL 335 .
  
  • UENG 336 - Shakespeare


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see ENGL 336 .
  
  • UENG 337 - Renaissance Literature


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please ENGL 337 .
  
  • UENG 347 - British Romanticism


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see ENGL 347 .
  
  • UENG 356 - Victorian Literature


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see ENGL 356 .
  
  • UENG 357 - The British Novel


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see ENGL 357 .
  
  • UENG 365 - American Novel


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see ENGL 365 .
  
  • UENG 375 - Modern American Literature


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please ENGL 375 .
  
  • UENV 100 - Introduction to Environmental Science


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see ENVR 100 .
  
  • UENV 104 - Earth Processes as Natural Disasters


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see ENVR 104 .
  
  • UESC 103 - Planet Earth


    3 Credit(s)

    A course designed to expand one’s awareness of science in general with particular emphasis on the geosciences. The principal topics include study of Earth, its oceans, resources, and climate; Earth as compared to other planets in our solar system, and the fate of planet Earth. This course is for non science majors.
    Formerly: ESSC-103E
  
  • UESC 108 - Introduction to Astronomy


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see ASTR 100 .
    Formerly: ESSC-108E
  
  • UESC 109 - Introdction to Weather Climate


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see ESSC 109 .
    Formerly: ESSC-109E
  
  • UESC 113 - Planet Earth Lab


    1 Credit(s)

    Laboratory associated with ENVR-103. Selected laboratory and field exercises related to appropriate text topics on planet Earth.
    Formerly: ESSC-113E
  
  • UESC 118 - Introduction to Astronomy Lab


    1 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see ASTR 110 .
    Formerly: ESSC-118E
  
  • UESC 119 - Weather and Climate Laboratory


    1 Credit(s)

    This laboratory course accompanies ESSC-109. Students engage in exercises that involve analyses of daily weather cycles, employing instruments to determine atmospheric temperature and humidity, learning about the forms of condensation and precipitation, studies of global pressure and wind systems, analyses of surface and upper-air weather maps, understanding the nature of air pollution, and classification of world climates.
    2
    This course fulfills the College of Arts and Sciences science laboratory requirement.
    Prerequisite(s): UESC-109

    Formerly: ESSC-119E
  
  • UHIS 100 - Western Civilization I


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see HIST 100 .
    Formerly: HIST-100E
  
  • UHIS 101 - Western Civilization II


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see HIST 101 .
    Formerly: HIST-101E
  
  • UHIS 102 - Western Civ III


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see HIST 102 .
    Formerly: HIST-102E
  
  • UHIS 111 - World Civilization to 1500


    3 Credit(s)

    This course provides a global perspective on the past before 1500. Beginning with the emergence of civilization, the course surveys the diffusion of civilization and the development of selected societies in regions such as Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Attention is given to the major cultural, social, economic, and political experiences of the peoples in these areas.
    Formerly: HIST-111E
  
  • UHIS 121 - American Civilization I


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see HIST 121 .
    Formerly: HIST-121E
  
  • UHIS 122 - American Civilization II


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see HIST 122 .
    Formerly: HIST-122E
  
  • UHIS 301 - Historical Perspectives On Technology


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see HIST 301 .
    Formerly: HIST-301E
  
  • UHIS 321 - Women in The World Wars


    3 Credit(s)

    This course examines the experiences of British, French, German, Russian, and American women on both the homefront and battlefront during the First and Second World Wars. Through a comparative study of women’s attitudes, their domestic and public activities, and government policies toward them, the course investigates women’s traditional and nontraditional wartime roles. It also considers the impact of the World Wars on attitudes toward women and on women’s opportunities and status in the immediate post-war years. Memoirs, diaries, and correspondence by women who worked in war industries, served in auxiliary military services, and fought on the front lines are among the primary sources students use to obtain evidence about women’s wartime experiences.
    Formerly: HIST-321E
  
  • UHIS 333 - Fascism, Nazi Germany, and Holocaust


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see HIST 333 .
    Formerly: HIST-333E and HIST-340E
  
  • UHIS 352 - Women in America Since 1870


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see HIST 352 .
  
  • UHIS 353 - Colonial America to 1760


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see HIST 353 .
    Formerly: HIST-353E
  
  • UHIS 354 - Revolutionary America: 1760-1820


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see HIST 354 .
    Formerly: HIST-354E
  
  • UHIS 356 - America From Civil War


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see HIST 356 .
    Formerly: HIST-356E
  
  • UHIS 357 - American History Wars: 1914-1945


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see HIST 357 .
    Formerly: HIST-357E
  
  • UHIS 358 - Recent America: 1945-Present


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see HIST 358 .
    Formerly: HIST-358E
  
  • UHIS 372 - Studies in American Immigration History


    3 Credit(s)

    For the most up to date course description, please see HIST 372 .
    HIST 372  
  
  • UHUM 310 - American Folklore


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see HUM 310 .
    Formerly: HUM-310E
  
  • UHUM 320 - Religions Of The World


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see HUM 320 .
    Formerly: HUM-320E
  
  • UHUM 322 - Search For Spiritual


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see HUM 322 .
    Formerly: HUM-322E
  
  • UHUM 352 - Science and Religion


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see HUM 352 .
    Formerly: HUM-352E
  
  • UHUM 380 - Religious Seasons and Festivals


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see HUM 380 .
    Formerly: HUM-380E
  
  • UHUM 399 - Special Topics in Humanities


    1 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see HUM 288 .
    Formerly: HUM-399E
  
  • UIS 101 - Introduction to Personal Computers


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see IS 101 .
    Formerly: IS-101E
  
  • UIS 105 - Introduction to Computer-Based Systems


    3 Credit(s)

    An overview of computer information systems and computer science. This survey course introduces computer hardware, software, procedures, systems, algorithms, and human resources and explores their integration and application in business, science, and in other segments of society. The fundamentals of problem solving and programming in a high-level programming language are discussed and applied.
  
  • UIS 110 - Introduction to Data Analytics


    3 Credit(s)

    This course teaches applied job skills in close connection to the concepts and theories that drive the daily decisions relevant to data analysis and business intelligence. Each module focuses on the primary theme. Students start by grappling with real-world cases. Then, they methodically drill down to solve the problems from a technical approach. A few of these topics include applications of statistics, data visualization tools in Excel, linear regression, time-series, classification algorithms, and bias in data.
  
  • UIS 120 - Data Visualization with Tableau


    3 Credit(s)

    This course teaches the skills, concepts, and theories relevant to data visualization and its applications. Students learn theoretical fundamentals and design principles of data-based visualizations, how to spot misleading and untruthful visualizations, and how to use Tableau, a leading data visualization software. Students also learn visualization best practices, how to design usable dashboards, and sharpen their analytical skills. This course is hands-on, enabling students to merge, join, and download data from several sources for their visualizations.
    Prerequisite(s): UIS 110  

  
  • UIS 300 - Introduction to Ecommerce with Shopify


    3 Credit(s)

    A website is the center of any ecommerce company’s universe, and most ecommerce marketing efforts lead back to it. That means it needs to be easy for customers to find and even easier for them to use. Enter the digital marketer! In this course, students learn how to design and build a website for a direct-to-consumer ecommerce brand. Students also learn what makes a website “on-brand,” the hacks marketers use to make websites discoverable on Google, and the ways marketers encourage website visitors to become customers.

     

     

  
  • UIS 301 - Introduction to Web Development


    Coding and web development are some of the most in-demand skills in the world. Coding skills can directly be applied to careers in digital marketing, product management, product design, technical project management, content creation, business, and more. Web development skills open doors to impactful, high-paying careers, and transform web users into web developers, creators, and designers. Students who become familiar with web development are empowered to have greater impact and opportunities in a technology-driven world. In this course, students learn to design and build beautiful websites from scratch by writing HTML and CSS code. Students also learn to leverage modern coding libraries that help supercharge their abilities to create impressive projects quickly. Specifically, students use the Bootstrap framework used by developers across the globe.

     

  
  • UIS 302 - Web Development with JavaScript and APIs


    3 Credit(s)

    Ready to level-up your coding skills? In this course, students learn Javascript, known as “the language of the web.” Through real world use cases and hands-on projects, students develop computational thinking, become familiar with basic programming concepts, and learn the best-practices of professional web development.
    Prerequisite(s): UIS 301  

  
  • UIS 303 - Customer Acquisition


    3 Credit(s)

    We are living through a digital transformation. Every day, more of the way we connect, learn, and do business is going virtual. Meanwhile, brands are striving to connect and convert consumers to customers. How do they do that? Through stories. Companies hire digital marketers to create and amplify stories about how their brands help improve consumers’ lives. In this course, students learn how to craft and share these stories with audiences, which can open the door to impactful, lucrative digital marketing careers. Students with these tech skills can build websites, create content, and run ad campaigns that influence millions of people. They can wield powerful marketing platforms like Shopify, Google, and Instagram. They qualify for in-demand marketing jobs at corporations, agencies, small businesses, and startups.

     
    Prerequisite(s): UIS 300  

  
  • UMAT 101 - Fundamentals of Mathematics


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see MATH 101 .
    Formerly: MATH-101E
  
  • UMAT 111 - Mathematical Ideas I


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see MATH 111 .
    Formerly: MATH-111E
  
  • UMAT 112 - Mathematical Ideas II


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see MATH 112 .
    Formerly: MATH-112E
  
  • UMAT 115 - Conceptual Mathematics


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see MATH 115 .
  
  • UMAT 116 - The Nature of Mathematics


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see MATH 116 .
  
  • UMAT 117 - Elementary Functions


    4 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see MATH 117 .
    Formerly: MATH-117E
  
  • UMAT 120 - Precalculus


    4 Credit(s)

    This course is designed for students who need to take calculus but lack the prerequisite background. Topics include a review of real numbers; algebra (fractions, exponents, roots, equations of degree 1 and 2); elementary functions (polynomials, rational functions, trigonometric functions); and basic concepts from geometry. Solving of word problems is emphasized throughout. Credit will not be granted for both MATH 120 and MATH 117.
    Prerequisite(s): MATH 101   UMAT 101   or at least Level 3 on the Mathematics Assessment.

  
  • UMAT 131 - Calculus with Review I


    4 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see MATH 131 .
    Prerequisite(s): MATH 120  or at least Level 4 on the Mathematics Assessment

  
  • UMAT 132 - Calculus With Review II


    4 Credit(s)

    The course introduces the concept of the Riemann integral and some of its applications. Topics include the mean value theorem, antiderivatives, Riemann sums, the fundamental theorem of calculus, the logarithmic and exponential functions, hyperbolic and inverse trigonometric functions, indeterminate forms, and applications of definite integrals
    Prerequisite(s): MATH 131   MATH 141  or UMAT 141   

  
  • UMAT 133 - Calculus with Review III


    This is the final semester in the three-semester sequence in differential and integral calculus. It covers further techniques of integration, improper integrals, infinite sequences and series, power series, Taylor polynomials, and polar coordinates.
    Prerequisite(s): MATH 132   or UMAT 132  

  
  • UMAT 141 - Calculus I


    4 Credit(s)

    This is the first of a two-semester sequence in differential and integral calculus. It covers limits and continuity, differentiation of algebraic and trigonometric functions, applications of derivatives, the mean value theorem, antiderivatives, Riemann sums, the fundamental theorem of calculus, integration by substitution, and some applications of definite integrals.
    Prerequisite(s): MATH 120   or UMAT 120   with a grade of at least a B or Level 5 on the Mathematics Assessment.

  
  • UMAT 142 - Calculus II


    4 Credit(s)

    This is the final semester in the two-semester sequence in differential and integral calculus. It covers logarithmic and exponential functions, indeterminate forms, inverse trigonometric and hyperbolic functions, techniques of integration, improper integrals, infinite sequences and series, power series, Taylor polynomials, and polar coordinates.
    Prerequisite(s): MATH 132   UMAT 132   MATH 141   or UMAT 141  

  
  • UMGT 335 - Sustainability, Innovation and Entrepreneurship


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see MGT 335 .
    MGT 335  
  
  • UMUS 101 - History and Literature of Music I


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see MUS 101 .
    Formerly: MUS-101E
  
  • UMUS 102 - History and Literature of Music II


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see MUS 102 .
    Formerly: MUS-102E
  
  • UMUS 308 - Music Of 20th Century


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see MUS 308 .
    Formerly: MUS-308E
  
  • UMUS 388 - Special Topics in Music


    1-3 Credit(s)

    Particular topics which have special appeal to instructors and students because of their timely quality or particular qualifi- cations of the instructor.
    Formerly: MUS-388E
  
  • UPHI 110 - Critical Thinking


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see PHIL 110 .
    Formerly: PHIL-110E
  
  • UPHI 120 - Symbolic Logic


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see PHIL 120 .
    Formerly: PHIL-120E
  
  • UPHI 210 - Major Philosophers


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see PHIL 210 .
    Formerly: PHIL-210E
  
  • UPHI 215 - Ethics and Medicine


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see PHIL 215 .
    Formerly: PHIL-215E
  
  • UPHI 350 - Ethics (W)


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see PHIL 350 .
    Formerly: PHIL-350E
  
  • UPHI 352 - Business Ethics


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see PHIL 352 .
    Formerly: PHIL-352E
  
  
  
  
  • UPOL 101 - American Government and Politics


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see POLS 101 .
    Formerly: POLS-101E
  
  • UPOL 204 - Current Issues and World Affair


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see POLS 204 .
    Formerly: POLS-204E
  
  • UPOL 205 - Public Policy


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see POLS 205 .
  
  • UPOL 315 - State And Local Goverment


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see POLS 315 .
    Formerly: POLS-315E
  
  • UPOL 319 - Constitutional Law


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see POLS 319 .
    Formerly: POLS-319E
  
  • UPOL 320 - Constitutional Rights and Liberty


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see POLS 320 .
    Formerly: POLS-320E
  
  • UPSY 105 - Introduction to Psychology


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see PSY 105 .
    Formerly: PSY-105E
  
  • UPSY 200 - Industrial and Organizational Psychology


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see PSY 200 .
    Formerly: PSY-200E
  
  • UPSY 203 - Consumer Behavior


    3 Credit(s)

    An investigation of how psychological processes influence the marketing and consumption of products as well as the marketing and acceptance of ideas. Some of the topics include how advertising attempts to change attitudes and behavior, the influence of motivation theory on advertising content, how persuasion influences the adoption of products and political beliefs, and cultural differences in consumption patterns. Students may not get credit for both PSY 203  and MKT 400 .
    Prerequisite(s): PSY 105  

  
  • UPSY 204 - Social Psychology


    3 Credit(s)

    For most up to date course description, please see PSY 204 .
    Formerly: PSY-204E
 

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