Apr 19, 2024  
2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog 
    
2018-2019 Undergraduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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Course Lists by Special Designations

 

Performance Groups, Large

  
  • MUSC 1735 - Wind Ensemble


    1 GE:FA

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


    1 GE: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 GE:FA

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

Performance Groups, Small

  
  • MUSC 1605 - Opera Theatre


    1 GE: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 GE: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 GE: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 GE: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 GE: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 GE: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 GE: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 GE: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 GE: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 GE: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 GE:HU or GE: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 GE: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 GE: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 GE: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 GE: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 GE: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 GE: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 GE: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 GE: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 GE: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 GE: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 GE: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 GE: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 3550 - Junior Honors


    3 F,S,SS

    May be repeated for credit. P: Consent of instructor and dept chair.
  
  • PHIL 3580 - Intermediate Logic


    3 GE:MA

    P: PHIL 1500 or MATH major or consent of instructor. Review of propositional logic. Logical notions of validity, consistency, and proof are extended to predicate logic. Emphasis on derivations in this system. Other topics may be included.
  
  • PHIL 4250 - Metaphysics


    3

    P: 6 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. Inquiry concerning philosophical questions about reality, the world, the mind, God, universals, essences, and substances.
  
  • PHIL 4270 - Ethics


    3 WI*: Selected Sections are Writing Intensive

    P: 6 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. Intensive study of particular issue or theory, such as meaning and justification of ethical statements, utilitarianism, responsibility, blame, and punishment.
  
  • PHIL 4276 - Social and Political Philosophy


    3 WI*: Selected Sections are Writing Intensive

    P: 6 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. Analysis of conceptual problems and normative questions that arise in social and political philosophy. Foci may include justice theory, injustice theory, the philosophy of family, or theories of political obligation.
  
  • PHIL 4282 - Mathematical Logic


    3

    P: PHIL 3580  or MATH major or consent of instructor. Focuses on rigorous proof of consistency and completeness of first order of predicate logic. Other topics may include proofs of adequacy of various sets of operators to express all truth functions, theory of identity, discussion of incompleteness of arithmetic, decidability and undecidability results, contrasts between objectual and substitutional quantification, and contrasts between natural deduction and axiomatic systems.
  
  • PHIL 4283 - Philosophy of Language


    3 S

    P: 6 s.h. in PHIL or consent of instructor. Problems of meaning, truth, reference, necessity, naming, concepts, propositions, speech acts, semantic theories, and nature of language.
  
  • PHIL 4550 - Senior Honors


    3 F,S,SS

    May be repeated for credit. P: Consent of instructor and dept chair.
  
  • PHIL 5531 - Directed Readings


    1 F,S,SS

    May be repeated for credit with consent of directing professor and dept chair. P: Consent of directing professor and dept chair.
  
  • PHIL 5532 - Directed Readings


    2 F,S,SS

    May be repeated for credit with consent of directing professor and dept chair. P: Consent of directing professor and dept chair.
  
  • PHIL 5533 - Directed Readings


    3 F,S,SS

    May be repeated for credit with consent of directing professor and dept chair. P: Consent of directing professor and dept chair.

Photography

  
  • ART 2220 - Photography Survey


    3 F,S

    P: Two courses (6 s.h.) from ART 1015 , ART 1025 , ART 1030 . Basic camera techniques, darkroom procedures, and assignments. Full scope of photographic problems.
  
  • ART 2225 - Basic Black and White Photography


    3 F,S

    P: ART 2220 . Fundamentals of black and white wet process photography with emphasis on development of visual concepts and articulation of ideas.
  
  • ART 3250 - Introduction to Digital Photography


    3 F

    2 lecture and 4 studio hours per week. P: ART 2225 ; or consent of instructor. Digital photography and its applications to design and fine art.
  
  • ART 3260 - Intermediate Photography


    3 F,S

    P: ART 2225 . In-depth exploration in camera work, darkroom techniques, and visual literacy.
  
  • ART 3270 - Color Photography


    3

    P: ART 3250 , ART 3260 ; or consent of instructor. Color theory and technique with an emphasis upon the creative use of color in photo-based media.
  
  • ART 3280 - Concepts in Photography


    3

    P: ART 3250 , ART 3260 ; or consent of instructor. Investigation of contemporary practices in photography and development of a concept-based body of artwork.
  
  • ART 4220 - Studio Photography


    3 F,S

    P: ART 3260  or consent of instructor. In-depth exploration of camera, lighting, studio, and darkroom techniques as means of exploring issues in communications and aesthetics.
  
  • ART 4240 - Advanced Digital Photography


    3 S

    2 lecture and 4 studio hours per week. P:  ART 3250  or consent of instructor. Extended study of digital photography as related to image design and communications. Emphasis on collecting raw image data to be processed with other information.
  
  • ART 4250 - Professional Practices in Photography


    3 F,S

    2 lecture and 4 studio hours per week. P: ART 4220 , ART 4240 ; or consent of instructor. Advanced problems in photography. Emphasis on digital and analog solutions to professional projects.
  
  • ART 4260 - Advanced Photography


    3

    P: ART 2220 . Advanced photographic techniques, sequential problems, animation, and film.
  
  • ART 4290 - Alternative Photographic Process: Special Topics


    3

    May be repeated with change of topic for a maximum of 6 s.h. Exploration of alternative photographic and image making processes emphasizing self-directed projects and issues.

Physics

  
  • PHYS 1050 - Physics and the Environment


    3 F,S GE:SC

    Basic principles of physics and their uses and consequences in the world and our lives. Comprises, along with PHYS 1080  and PHYS 1081 , a nonmathematical science sequence designed primarily for non-science majors.
  
  • PHYS 1080 - Physics and the Universe


    3 F,S GE:SC

    3 lecture hours per week. Nonmathematical study of universe from earth to galaxies. Topics include appearance of sky, physical nature of moon and planets, birth and evolution of stars, and galaxies.
  
  • PHYS 1081 - Physics and the Universe Laboratory


    1 F,S GE:SC

    2 lab hours per week. P/C: PHYS 1080 . Nonmathematical study of universe from earth to galaxies. Topics include appearance of sky, physical nature of moon and planets, birth and evolution of stars, and galaxies.
  
  • PHYS 1090 - Physics of Sound


    3 S GE:SC

    Musical sound, including its properties, production, behavior, and reproduction. Topics include basic physical principles, sound reception and the ear, basic acoustics, and sound production by musical instruments.
  
  • PHYS 1091 - Physics of Sound Laboratory


    1 S GE:SC

    2 lab hours per week. C: PHYS 1090 .
  
  
  • PHYS 1251 - General Physics Laboratory I


    1 F,S,SS GE:SC

    2 lab hours per week. P/C: PHYS 1250  or PHYS 2350 . Experiments involving general concepts in mechanics, heat, thermodynamics, and wave motion.
  
  • PHYS 1260 - General Physics II


    3 F,S,SS GE:SC

    P: PHYS 1250 . Basic principles of physics, including electricity, magnetism, light, and modern developments in physics.
  
  • PHYS 1261 - General Physics Laboratory II


    1 F,S,SS GE:SC

    2 lab hours per week. P/C: PHYS 1251  and one of the following P/C: PHYS 1260  or PHYS 2360 . Experiments involving general concepts in electricity, magnetism, light, and modern developments in physics.
  
  • PHYS 2021 - Experimental Physics


    1 F-04

    3 lab hours per week. P: PHYS 1261 , PHYS 2360 . Experiments involving basic electricity and digital electronics concepts.
  
  
  
  • PHYS 3350 - Methods of Teaching College-Level Physics


    2

    1 lecture and 3 lab hours per week. P: PHYS 2350  and permission of instructor. Instruction and supervised experience in methods and practice of teaching physics at the college level.
  
  • PHYS 3360 - Physics Teaching Practicum


    1

    3 lab hours per week. May be repeated for credit.  May count maximum of 4 s.h. toward physics major. P: PHYS 3350  and permission of instructor. Supervised practicum in teaching physics.
  
  • PHYS 3416 - Modern Physics I


    3 F Formerly PHYS 4416

    P: PHYS 2360 . Topics include special relativity, early quantum theory, solution to the Schrödinger equation, and theory of hydrogen atom and complex atoms.
  
  • PHYS 3417 - Modern Physics II


    3 S Formerly PHYS 4417

    P: PHYS 3416 . Topics include nuclear models, elementary particles, quantum statistics, molecular structure, solid-state physics, and astrophysics.
  
  • PHYS 3516 - Problems in Physics


    1

    Equivalent of 1 lecture hour per week. P: Consent of instructor and dept chair. Research under faculty supervision.
  
  • PHYS 3517 - Problems in Physics


    1

    Equivalent of 1 lecture hour per week. P: Consent of instructor and dept chair. Research under faculty supervision.
  
  • PHYS 3518 - Problems in Physics


    1

    Equivalent of 1 lecture hour per week. P: Consent of instructor and dept chair. Research under faculty supervision.
  
  • PHYS 3560 - Mathematical Methods for Physics


    3 S Formerly PHYS 4560

    P: MATH 2173 , PHYS 2360 . Applications of vector calculus, matrix applications, Fourier series, complex variables, and numerical methods in physics.
  
  • PHYS 3716 - Undergraduate Research in Physics


    1

    Equivalent of 2 hours of lab work per week. May be repeated in combination with PHYS 3717 and PHYS 3718 for a maximum of 9 s.h. P: Consent of instructor and chair. Experiments and investigations to supplement any physics course.
  
  • PHYS 3717 - Undergraduate Research in Physics


    2

    Equivalent of 4 hours of lab work per week. May be repeated in combination with PHYS 3716 and PHYS 3718 for a maximum of 9 s.h. P: Consent of instructor and chair. Experiments and investigations to supplement any physics course.
  
  • PHYS 3718 - Undergraduate Research in Physics


    3

    Equivalent of 6 hours of lab work per week. May be repeated in combination with PHYS 3716 and PHYS 3717 for a maximum of 9 s.h. P: Consent of instructor and chair. Experiments and investigations to supplement any physics course.
  
  • PHYS 4080 - Astronomy


    3

    2 lecture hours per week. P: PHYS 2360 . Astronomy as birthplace of great concepts of physics. Nature of solar system, stars, and galaxies.
  
  • PHYS 4081 - Astronomy Laboratory


    0

    2 lab hours per week. P: PHYS 2360 . Astronomy as birthplace of great concepts of physics. Nature of solar system, stars, and galaxies.
  
  • PHYS 4120 - Thermodynamics


    3

    P: PHYS 2360 . Topics include laws of thermodynamics with applications and introduction to kinetic theory and statistical mechanics.
  
  • PHYS 4226 - Mechanics I


    3 F

    P: PHYS 3560  or consent of the chair and P/C: MATH 4331 . Topics include motion of particle and system of particles, linear and nonlinear oscillations, chaos, gravitation, Lagrangian and Hamiltonian dynamics, and central force motion.
  
  • PHYS 4227 - Mechanics II


    3

    P: PHYS 4226 . Topics include noninertial reference frames, rigid body motion, coupled oscillations, mechanics of continuous media, and the special theory of relativity.
 

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