May 09, 2024  
2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2016-2017 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Courses


Course Information


Course Lists by Special Designations

 

Operations Management

  
  • OMGT 4863 - Topics in Operations Management


    3

    May be repeated for credit with change of topic and consent of chair. Advanced topics of contemporary interest in operations management.
  
  • OMGT 4893 - Cooperative Education


    0 F,S

    P: Consent of chair. Topics to supplement regular curriculum.

Operations Management Banked Courses

  
  • OMGT 4293 - Statistical Analysis


    3

  
  • OMGT 4393 - Forecasting and Statistics for Operations Analysis


    3 Formerly DSCI 4393


Painting

  
  • ART 2560 - Painting Survey: Materials and Methods


    3 F,S,SS

    P: Two courses (6 s.h.) from ART 1015 ART 1025 , ART 1030 . Extensive experimentation in studio techniques peculiar to traditional and contemporary painting problems. Emphasis on proper use of grounds, supports, and pigment characteristics. Criticism and lectures.
  
  • ART 2561 - Painting: Composition - Design for Painting


    3 F,S,SS

    May count toward art concentration or as art elective Required for painting concentration students. P: ART 2560  Design principles in painting. Emphasis on color structure and fundamental methods of pictorial organization.
  
  • ART 3560 - Painting: Watercolor


    3 F,S

    P: ART 2560  or consent of instructor. Comprehensive analysis and use of watercolor and related liquid media in expressive painting.
  
  • ART 3561 - Painting Studio I


    3 F,S,SS

    P: ART 2560  or consent of instructor. Focus on growth and development of individual concepts in painting. Experimentation and exploration of assigned problems. Emphasis on individual analysis and discussion of work.
  
  • ART 3562 - Figure Painting


    3 F,S

    P: ART 2550; ART 2560  or consent of instructor. Human figure as primary motif in painting. Painting from model.
  
  • ART 3563 - Painting Studio II


    3 F,S,SS

    Continuation of studio I. Emphasis on technical and aesthetic problems of painting Individual and group criticism of work.
  
  • ART 3564 - Advanced Figure Painting


    3 F,S

    P: ART 3562  or consent of instructor. Advanced individual study of the figure as primary motif in painting. Painting from model.
  
  • ART 3566 - Portrait Painting


    3 S

    P: ART 2560  or consent of instructor. Individual study of human head and costumed figure as primary motif in painting. Painting from model.
  
  • ART 4560 - Advanced Painting I


    3 F,S

    P: Acceptable portfolio review. Focus on growth and development of individual concepts in painting. Individual instruction and group criticism.
  
  • ART 4561 - Advanced Painting II


    3 F,S

    P: Acceptable portfolio review. Orientation to student’s individual strengths and interests. Emphasis on independent thinking. Individual instruction and group criticism.
  
  • ART 4562 - Advanced Painting III


    3 F,S

    Continuation of ART 4561 . P: Acceptable portfolio review. Emphasis on individual criticism.
  
  • ART 4563 - Advanced Painting IV


    3 F,S

    P: Acceptable portfolio review. Continuation of individual growth and development Individual and group criticism.
  
  • ART 4564 - Advanced Painting V


    3 F,S

    P: Acceptable portfolio review. Personal directions in painting Individual and group criticism.
  
  • ART 5560 - Advanced Painting VI


    3

    Personal direction in painting Individual and group criticism.
  
  • ART 5561 - Advanced Painting VII


    3

    Personal direction in painting.

Pedagogy

  
  • MUSC 1627 - Italian and English Lyric Diction for Singers


    1 S

    RP: ITAL 1001  or C: ITAL 1001 . Basic understanding of standard Italian and English lyric literature with phonetic analysis.
  
  • MUSC 1637 - French Lyric Diction for Singers


    1 F

    P: MUSC 1627 ; RP: FREN 1001 . C: FREN 1001 . Basic understanding of standard French lyric literature with phonetic analysis.
  
  • MUSC 1647 - German Lyric Diction for Singers


    1 F

    P: MUSC 1627 ; RP: GERM 1001 . C: GERM 1001 . Basic understanding of standard German lyric literature with phonetic analysis.
  
  • MUSC 2125 - Basic Keyboard Skills


    1 F02 Same as MUSC 2125 , (Applied Music, Group).

    2 sessions per week. Instruction in classes of 4 or more students. No fee. May count toward minor applied music requirement. Functional use of piano for music majors and minors whose primary performance medium is keyboard instrument.
  
  • MUSC 2135 - Basic Keyboard Skills


    1 S03 Same as MUSC 2135  (Applied Music, Group).

    2 sessions per week. Instruction in classes of 4 or more students. No fee. May count toward minor applied music requirement. P: MUSC 2125 . Functional use of piano for music majors and minors whose primary performance medium is keyboard instrument.
  
  • MUSC 3637 - Voice Pedagogy


    3

    Materials and techniques for teaching voice students at all levels of advancement.
  
  • MUSC 3697 - Introduction to String Teaching


    3 Same as MUSC 3697  (Music Education).

    P: MUSC 2115 ; MUSC 2305  or MUSC 2315 . Principles of string teaching and their application to individual and group settings. Emphasis on elementary and secondary schools. Critical examination and evaluation of string instruction materials.
  
  • MUSC 3707 - Foundations and Principles of Piano Pedagogy


    2 F02

    Conceptual approach to teaching of piano. Emphasis on development of methodology and standards in piano teaching.
  
  • MUSC 3717 - Elementary Piano Pedagogy


    2 S03

    Piano literature and instruction. Emphasis on development of practical teaching strategies.
  
  • MUSC 4644 - Suzuki Pedagogy I


    3

    C: MUSC 4646 . Philosophy and principles of Suzuki approach to teaching and playing violin. Course scope limited to material presented in volumes I and II of Suzuki Violin School.
  
  • MUSC 4646 - Suzuki Observation I


    1

    Two-semester sequence. C: MUSC 4644 . Field observation of Suzuki approach to teaching and playing violin.
  
  • MUSC 4647 - Suzuki Pedagogy II


    3

    P: MUSC 4644 , MUSC 4646 ; C: MUSC 4648 . Philosophy and principles of Suzuki approach to teaching and playing violin. Course scope limited to material presented in volumes III and IV of Suzuki Violin School.
  
  • MUSC 4648 - Suzuki Observation II


    1

    Two-semester sequence. P: MUSC 4644 , MUSC 4646 ; C: MUSC 4647 . Field observation of Suzuki approach to teaching and playing violin.
  
  • MUSC 4649 - Suzuki Observation III


    1

    2-semester sequence. P: MUSC 4648 ; C: MUSC 4654 . Field observation of Suzuki approach to teaching and playing violin.
  
  • MUSC 4650 - Suzuki Observation IV


    1

    2-semester sequence. P: MUSC 4649 ; C: MUSC 4656 . Field observation of Suzuki approach to teaching and playing violin.
  
  • MUSC 4654 - Suzuki Pedagogy III


    3 F,S

    P: MUSC 4647 , MUSC 4648 ; Philosophy and principles of Suzuki approach to teaching and playing violin as presented in volumes V through VIII of Suzuki Violin School.
  
  • MUSC 4656 - Suzuki Pedagogy IV


    3 F,S

    C: MUSC 4650 . Philosophy and principles of Suzuki approach to teaching and playing violin as presented in volumes V through VIII of Suzuki Violin School.
  
  • MUSC 4657 - Directed Study in Instrumental Pedagogy for Brass, Percussion, Strings, or Woodwinds


    3

    Required of all brass, percussion, string, and woodwind performance majors. Conferences scheduled as needed with minimum of 1 hour per week. P: Acceptance in performance degree program; consent of instructor. Teaching materials and techniques for all levels of instruction in student’s area of specialization.
  
  • MUSC 4660 - Percussion Pedagogy and Literature


    3

    P: Upper division standing in applied music. Study of pedagogical methods and performance materials for percussion instruments of Western art music.
  
  • MUSC 5657 - Organ Pedagogy


    2

    P: Completion of 4 semesters of applied organ. Technical, artistic, and philosophical aspects of teaching organ at all levels of development. Survey of organ methods, appropriate graded repertoire in wide range of styles, and practice teaching.
  
  • MUSC 5707 - Seminar: Topics and Problems of Piano Pedagogy


    2

    C: MUSC 5727 . Emphasis on teaching the intermediate level pre-college student, including psychology of adolescent student, piano technique, keyboard skills, and working with transfer students.
  
  • MUSC 5717 - Advanced Piano Performance Problems


    2

    C: MUSC 5727 . Preschool music, the adult beginner, teaching in group settings, and nonmajor and secondary college piano.
  
  • MUSC 5727 - Piano Pedagogy: Observation and Student Teaching


    2

    4 hours per week. May be repeated for credit. C: MUSC 5707  fall semester; MUSC 5717  spring semester. Supervised teaching and observation in the piano pedagogy program and/or through internship in an independent piano teaching studio.

Performance Groups, Large

  
  • MUSC 1615 - Varsity Choir


    1 FC:FA

    May be repeated for credit.
  
  • MUSC 1625 - Concert Choir


    1 FC:FA

    May be repeated for credit. Open to all students by audition only.
  
  • MUSC 1635 - University Chorale


    1 FC:FA

    May be repeated for credit. Open to all students.
  
  • MUSC 1665 - Women’s Glee Club


    1 FC:FA

    May be repeated for credit. Audition required.
  
  • MUSC 1675 - Chamber Singers


    1 FC:FA

    May be repeated for credit. Open to all students by audition only.
  
  • MUSC 1705 - Marching Band


    2 FC:FA

    May be repeated for credit. Open to all students. May not count toward large ensemble credit for music majors. Music majors taking more than 2 s.h. of MUSC 1706  or 1705 must sign a release form to be made available in the music office and in the SoM Undergraduate Handbook. The form will help clarify that hours above the required 2 s.h. of MUSC 1706  will not count as part of the Music Education degree plan at ECU, and that these extra hours may lead to additional hours on a student’s transcript before graduation.
  
  • MUSC 1706 - Marching Band Field Experience


    1

    May be repeated for credit. Open to all students. Participation in marching band with teaching component emphasizing marching band pedagogy through student leadership positions. Music majors may count only 2 s.h. of Marching Band Field Expereince (MUSC 1706, 1 s.h.) for large ensemble credit. Music majors taking more than 2 s.h. of MUSC 1706 or MUSC 1705  must sign a release form to be made available in the music office and in the SoM Undergraduate Handbook. The form will help clarify that hours above the required 2 s.h. of MUSC 1706 will not count as part of the Music Education degree plan at ECU, and that these extra hours may lead to additional hours on a student’s transcript before graduation.
  
  • MUSC 1715 - Concert Band


    1 FC:FA

    May be repeated for credit. Open to all students. Satisfies large ensemble requirement only with approval of student’s applied professor and ensemble directors.
  
  • MUSC 1735 - Wind Ensemble


    1 FC:FA

    May be repeated for credit. Open to all students by audition only.
  
  • MUSC 1745 - Symphony Orchestra


    1 FC:FA

    May be repeated for credit. Open to all students by audition only.
  
  • MUSC 1765 - Symphonic Band


    1

    May be repeated for credit. Open to all students.
  
  • MUSC 1775 - Jazz Ensemble


    1 FC:FA

    May be repeated for credit. Open to all students by audition or consent of instructor.

Performance Groups, Small

  
  • MUSC 1605 - Opera Theatre


    1 FC:FA

    2 rehearsals per week. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • MUSC 1805 - String Chamber Music


    1

    2 rehearsals per week. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • MUSC 1815 - Woodwind Chamber Music


    1

    2 rehearsals per week. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • MUSC 1825 - Percussion Chamber Music


    1

    2 rehearsals per week. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • MUSC 1835 - Saxophone Chamber Music


    1

    2 rehearsals per week. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • MUSC 1845 - Collegium Musicum


    1

    2 rehearsals per week. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • MUSC 1855 - Jazz Chamber Music


    1

    2 rehearsals per week. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • MUSC 1865 - Brass Chamber Music


    1

    2 rehearsals per week. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • MUSC 1875 - Keyboard Chamber Music


    1

    2 rehearsals per week. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • MUSC 1885 - Contemporary Chamber Music


    1

    2 rehearsals per week. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • MUSC 1895 - Vocal Chamber Music


    1

    2 rehearsals per week. May be repeated for credit.
  
  • MUSC 2455 - Accompanying


    1 F Same as MUSC 2455  (Applied Music, Group).

    1 hour per week and supervised accompanying of singers and instrumentalists. Instruction in classes of 4 or more students. Applied music fee is $31 per semester hour credit. May count toward minor applied music requirement. May be repeated for credit. Skills, sight reading, transposition, and style required of accompanists.
  
  • MUSC 3455 - Accompanying


    1 F Same as MUSC 3455  (Applied Music, Group).

    1 hour per week and supervised accompanying of singers and instrumentalists. Instruction in classes of 4 or more students. Applied music fee is $31 per semester hour credit. May count toward minor applied music requirement. May be repeated for credit. P: MUSC 2455. Skills, sight reading, transposition, and style required of accompanists.
  
  • MUSC 3465 - Accompanying


    1 S Same as MUSC 3465  (Applied Music, Group).

    1 hour per week and supervised accompanying of singers and instrumentalists. Instruction in classes of 4 or more students. Applied music fee is $31 per semester hour credit. May count toward minor applied music requirement. May be repeated for credit. P: MUSC 2455. Skills, sight reading, transposition, and style required of accompanists.
  
  • MUSC 4455 - Accompanying


    1 Same as MUSC 4455  (Applied Music, Group).

    1 hour per week and supervised accompanying of singers and instrumentalists. Instruction in classes of 4 or more students. Applied music fee is $31 per semester hour credit. May count toward minor applied music requirement. May be repeated for credit. P: MUSC 2455. Skills, sight reading, transposition, and style required of accompanists.

Philosophy

  
  • PHIL 1110 - Introduction to Philosophy


    3 WI*: Selected Sections are Writing Intensive F,S,SS FC:HU

    Introduces some of the main philosophical questions about knowledge, existence, and value, e.g. What can we be certain of? Does God exist? What is the difference between right and wrong? Selected readings from major philosophers.
  
  • PHIL 1175 - Introduction to Ethics


    3 WI*: Selected Sections are Writing Intensive F,S,SS FC:HU

    Introduces major ethical theories and to questions such as: What is justice? What is virtue? What are human rights? What is happiness?.
  
  • PHIL 1176 - Introduction to Social and Political Philosophy


    3 WI*: Selected Sections are Writing Intensive F,S FC:HU

    Philosophical basis of main social, political, and economic systems. Classic issues such as civil disobedience, justification of revolution, institution of private property, and redistribution of wealth.
  
  • PHIL 1180 - Introduction to Critical Reasoning


    3 WI*: Selected Sections are Writing Intensive F FC:HU

    Introduces non-symbolic logic. Topics may include how to recognize simple valid arguments, avoid common fallacies, define terms, criticize arguments, and answer objections.
  
  • PHIL 1262 - Introduction to Philosophical Issues in Biology


    3 FC:HU

    Introduces philosophical thinking and writing by study of issues at foundations of contemporary biology. Topics may include philosophical import of evolutionary theory, nature of scientific justification, reductionism versus holism in biological theory, and ethical issues in biological research.
  
  • PHIL 1263 - Introduction to Philosophical Issues in Psychology


    3 FC:HU

    Introduces philosophical thinking and writing by study of issues at foundations of psychology. Topics may include competing models of mind (biological, information processing, holistic), nature of scientific justification, pharmacological versus more traditional methods in psychiatry and clinical psychology, and ethical issues in psychological research.
  
  • PHIL 1275 - Contemporary Moral Problems


    3 WI*: Selected Sections are Writing Intensive FC:HU

    Philosophical consideration of some central moral problems of modern society and civilization, such as abortion, euthanasia, war, sexual morality, government paternalism, reverse discrimination, animal rights, environmental ethics, and capital punishment. Topics vary.
  
  • PHIL 1290 - Introduction to Philosophy of Religion


    3 F FC:HU GD

    Analysis of some main concepts, arguments, and issues in philosophy of religion. Topics include meaning of religious language, arguments for existence of God, problem of evil, miracles, and meaning of religious experience.
  
  • PHIL 1311 - Great Philosophers from Antiquity to the Present


    3 FC:HU

    Focuses on several philosophers, each from different historical periods. Emphasis on selections from their writings and their influence. Historical periods include Ancient, Medieval, and Modern Periods and nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
  
  • PHIL 1500 - Introduction to Logic


    3 F,S,SS FC:HU or MA

    Introduces basic logical notions: statement, argument, validity, consistency, and proof. Various methods for analyzing these notions. Translation of natural language statements into logical system and other topics.
  
  • PHIL 2261 - Introduction to Philosophy of Science


    3 FC:HU

    Investigation into nature of science and scientific method. Topics include nature of scientific theories, existence of theoretical entities, structure of space-time, and causality.
  
  • PHIL 2271 - Introduction to Philosophy of Art


    3 WI*: Selected Sections are Writing Intensive F,S FC:HU

    Introduces classical and current philosophical theories explaining the nature and value of art. Emphasis on general understanding of such theories and their application to the art world. Past and current developments in philosophy linked with work and theories of currently influential artists and historical figures in the arts.
  
  • PHIL 2274 - Business Ethics


    3 WI*: Selected Sections are Writing Intensive F,S,SS FC:HU

    Survey of main theories of normative ethics and their application to moral issues that arise in business, such as employee rights and responsibilities, honesty in advertising, trade secrecy, and corporate social responsibility.
  
  • PHIL 2275 - Professional Ethics


    3 WI*: Selected Sections are Writing Intensive F,S,SS FC:HU

    Concept of a professional and obligations of professionals to their clients and others. Survey of related ethical issues in law, accounting, health care, engineering, education, scientific research, etc.
  
  • PHIL 2280 - Introduction to Philosophy of Sport


    3 FC:HU

    Introduces philosophy of sport through study of philosophical writings relevant to sport and contemporary writings in philosophy of sport.
  
  • PHIL 2282 - Philosophy of Law


    3 WI*: Selected Sections are Writing Intensive S FC:HU

    Explores philosophical topics arising from study and application of legal principles, such as nature of law and obligation, civil liberties, rights, and theories of punishment.
  
  • PHIL 2453 - Existentialism and Phenomenology


    3 FC:HU

    Study of representative writers from late nineteenth and twentieth-century tradition of existentialism and phenomenology, such as Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Husserl, Sartre, and Heidegger.
  
  • PHIL 2455 - Introduction to Africana Philosophy


    3 WI*: Selected Sections are Writing Intensive FC:HU

    Introduces philosophy rooted in the traditions and experience of Africa and the African Diaspora. Topics may include philosophy and slavery, the philosophy of Alain Locke, contemporary African American philosophy, and African metaphysics, epistemology and aesthetics.
  
  • PHIL 3255 - Philosophy of Mind


    3

    P: 3 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. Philosophical problems concerning the mind, such as intentionality and subjectivity of our mental states. Nature of psychology and cognitive sciences and their implications for philosophy.
  
  • PHIL 3260 - Epistemology


    3 F

    P: 3 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. Philosophical examination of issues related to knowledge and acceptable belief. Topics may include role of experience, perception, sensation, and reasoning in generating knowledge or acceptable, true beliefs, and extent to which our various knowledge seeking activities (such as pursuit of scientific methodologies) succeed in producing what is being sought.
  
  • PHIL 3272 - Aesthetics


    3

    P: 3 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. evelopments in art world, whether the concept of art is an evolving concept, and relevance of artist’s intention to nature and value of art.
  
  • PHIL 3281 - Introduction to Philosophical Ethics in the Health Care Professions


    3 WI*: Selected Sections are Writing Intensive FC:HU

    Survey of moral problems pertaining to study and practice of medical sciences and study of philosophical concepts and methods as they pertain to those problems.
  
  • PHIL 3290 - Philosophy of Religion


    3 S

    P: 3 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. Topics discussed in PHIL 1290  pursued thoroughly. Ramifications and implications of opposing positions and arguments.
  
  • PHIL 3313 - Ancient Philosophy


    3 WI*: Selected Sections are Writing Intensive

    P: 3 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. Study of major writings of ancient period, such as those of the Pre-Socratics, Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus.
  
  • PHIL 3321 - Medieval and Renaissance Philosophy


    3

    P: 3 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. Representative writings of significant philosophers in the Medieval and Renaissance periods, such as Augustine, Anselm, Aquinas, and Machiavelli.
  
  • PHIL 3331 - Modern Philosophy


    3

    P: 3 s.h. in philosophy or consent of instructor. Critical examination of the ideas of the great European philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries: such as Descartes, Locke, Berkeley, Leibniz, Spinoza, Hume and Kant.
  
  • PHIL 3340 - Twentieth-Century Analytic Philosophy


    3

    P: 3 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. Major movements, themes, and figures in mainstream of philosophy from 1900 to present, such as Russell, Wittgenstein, Quine, and Austin.
  
  • PHIL 3350 - Great Philosopher


    3 F

    May be repeated for credit with change of topic. P: 3 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. Intensive study of a great philosopher. Selected from such major figures as Plato, Aristotle, Augustine, Aquinas, Descartes, Leibniz, Kierkegaard, Sartre.
  
  • PHIL 3519 - Directed Readings


    1 F,S,SS FC:HU

    May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor and dept chair. P: Consent of directing professor and dept chair. Independent study of particular topic for which general department curriculum does not provide adequate opportunity.
  
  • PHIL 3520 - Directed Readings


    2 F,S,SS FC:HU

    May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor and dept chair. P: Consent of directing professor and dept chair. Independent study of particular topic for which general department curriculum does not provide adequate opportunity.
  
  • PHIL 3521 - Directed Readings


    3 WI*: Selected Sections are Writing Intensive F,S,SS FC:HU

    May be repeated for credit with consent of instructor and dept chair. P: Consent of directing professor and dept chair. Independent study of particular topic for which general department curriculum does not provide adequate opportunity.
 

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