From foods, to medicines, to fibers, to building materials, plants serve a vital role in our lives.  This course emphasizes how basic plant structure and function interfaces with human existence.  Special attention is given to multi-cultural approaches to the use of plant material.  Laboratory exercises are designed to highlight practical applications of botany.  This course cannot be used to fulfill elective credit requirements for the biology major.  Two hours lecture/one laboratory per week. NOTE: This course cannot be used for Biology major credit.

Credits: 3

A composition course emphasizing writing foundations, including the development of a writing process with attention to generating content and addressing concerns of structure, style, syntax, and mechanics. Course assignments emphasize critical reading, writing, and argumentation skills, as well as professional and oral communication. This course is a prerequisite for ENG 102.

Credits: 3

The basic principles of oral communication are stressed as the student delivers a minimum of seven speeches. The use of audio-cassettes and videotaping allows each student to concentrate upon individual needs.

Credits: 3

The fundamentals of French grammar and structure. Seeks to develop language proficiency through communicative methods and culturally oriented materials. 

Credits: 6
Prerequisite: 101, equivalent, or permission of instructor

This course is a descriptive and analytical survey of world cultures from early river valley civilizations to 1450, with an emphasis on non-Western civilizations in Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Among the themes explored are the importance of land and water trade routes as conveyors of civilizations, the influence of nomadic peoples on the spread of ideas and technologies, the reshaping of local cultures as Buddhism and Islam spread to Asia and Africa, and the importance of urban centers such as Baghdad as intellectual and cosmopolitan capitals before the "rise" of the West.

Credits: 3

This course provides a detailed study of topics needed for success in calculus: algebra, trigonometry, analytic geometry, and functions. Intended for students who need to take at least one semester of calculus for their major.

Credits: 3

A continuation of MATH 151 that includes methods of integration, numerical integration, applications of the definite integral, Taylor polynomials and approximations, and infinite sequences and series.

Credits: 4
Prerequisite: MATH 151 or its equivalent

This course seeks to explain American politics as the interaction among political thought, economic, political, and social structures, and the struggle for human rights. Grounded in an understanding of the clash between economic elites and democratic forces during the Constitutional period, the course then traces this dynamic into the basic governmental structure, political parties and elections, media influence, and political struggle for human rights. Finally, the course explores the possibilities for change under the current political/economic/social structures. 

Credits: 3

A composition course emphasizing the development of a writing process, contextual awareness, and knowledge of conventions of academic and professional discourse.  Course assignments foreground advanced communication challenges grounded in research, discipline-specific writing, and multi-model communication, as well as style, syntax and mechanics.

Credits: 3
Prerequisite: ENG 101. Writing I

Analysis of several types of popular literature: the western, the mystery story, science fiction, sports literature, with a consideration of the relationship between popular literature and the literature of high culture. 

Credits: 3

The fundamentals of French grammar and structure. Seeks to develop language proficiency through communicative methods and culturally oriented materials. 

Credits: 6
Prerequisite: 101, equivalent, or permission of instructor

This course surveys world history since 1450 in order to provide with a historical context for understanding current world problems. Using an analytical and comparative approach, it examines the rise of Western global hegemony and how the non-West responded and is still responding. We will look at a wide range of topics and issues including nationalism, imperialism, decolonization and globalization. What role has trade, technology, war and revolution played? How have national and regional interests in the Middle East, Asia and Africa resisted and/or competed with the advance of globalization? What geographic, economic, social, and cultural factors created today's world?

Credits: 3

This non-calculus-based study of statistics, includes descriptive methods, basic probability theory, some design and data-collection issues, and procedures for statistical inference.  Topics on statistical inference include confidence intervals and hypothesis testing for means and proportions along with chi-squared tests.  Emphasis is on set-up and interpretation rather than on computation, with a significant reliance on computer software and/or statistical calculators for the "number crunching" portion of the analysis. Students may not receive credit for both MATH 107 and MATH 117.  MATH 107 includes all content in MATH 117 except ANOVA, and consequently moves at a slower pace than MATH 117. 

Credits: 3

The study of calculus of functions of one variable. The course covers rates of change, limits, the derivative, the definite integral, the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus, area and average value, and exponential growth and decay. All topics are treated with an emphasis on graphical interpretation. 

Credits: 4
Prerequisite: An understanding of algebra and trigonometry at the level of Math 108

Ethics enquires into the fundamental perspectives and principles that bear on the evaluation of human conduct. It examines prominent theories about what constitutes a good life, articulates relevant principles of right action, poses basic questions about the nature of morality and engages with various moral problems that confront the individual and society. This course endeavors to acquaint students with traditions of moral inquiry and to equip them with key concepts

Credits: 3

Law is a common and yet distinct element of daily life in modern societies, simultaneously shaping and being shaped by society.  The creation, interpretation, and enforcement of laws occur in the context of historical changes, societal norms, and the subjective concerns and whims of those charged with their creation.  This course will explore, from an American and comparative perspective, the nature of law as a set of social systems, central actors in the systems, legal reasoning, and the relationship of the legal form and reasoning to social change. 

Credits: 3