Mar 29, 2024  
2015-2016 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2015-2016 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Agriculture

  
  • AGRI 4730 - Veterinary Applications

    2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing; AGRI 1310 , 3710 , 3730  
    Description: Exploration of veterinary career options in a transformative learning environment involving lecture and hands-on, veterinarian-guided experiences: focusing on animal handling and safety protocols; animal husbandry techniques; basic diagnostic procedures; analyzing theoretical and actual case studies; as well as, evaluation of challenges facing veterinary medicine professionals.
  
  • AGRI 4800/4801 - Agrometerology (and lab)

    5 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: GEOG 1010  and MATH 1010  or higher Corequisite: AGRI 4801 (lab)
    Description: The meteorological, climatological, and hydrological conditions significant to optimum crop growth and livestock, including regional suitability of crops and livestock, short-term adjustments to minimize losses from adverse weather, and long-range planning based on seasonal forecasts and climate change.  Application of GIS-based software to predict impacts of weather on agriculture.
  
  • AGRI 4910 - Special Problems

    1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
    Description: May be repeated for credit.
  
  • AGRI 4920 - Special Problems

    2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
    Description: May be repeated for credit.
  
  • AGRI 4930 - Special Problems

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
    Description: May be repeated for credit.

Art

  
  • ART 324X - Special Topics in Art History

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2010 2020  or permission of instructor
    Description: An in-depth study of selected topics in the history of art, including specific artists, stylistic movements, methodology, and/or art criticism. Topics to be announced.  This course is reading and writing intensive.  May earn up to a total of six hours of 324x courses.
  
  • ART 410X - Topics in Studio Art

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
    Description: Concentrated study in a studio area. In-depth research on specific artists, movements, periods, current issues, and/or problems in studio art. Topics to be announced. May be repeated but credit is limited to three hours per topic.
  
  • ART 1010 - Two Dimensional Design

    3 Credit Hours
    Description: Fundamental experience in two-dimensional design, with emphasis on the elements and principles of design and creative development, and media skills training.
  
  • ART 1020 - Three Dimensional Design

    3 Credit Hours
    Description: Fundamental experiences in three-dimensional design, with emphasis on the elements and principles of design and creative development, and media skills training.
  
  • ART 1030 - Art Appreciation

    3 Credit Hours
    Description: A study of the principles and elements of design, media and artistic processes; and the relationship and influences of the visual arts on the individual and culture.
  
  • ART 1040 - Drawing I

    3 Credit Hours
    Description: The fundamentals of drawing for visual arts.
  
  • ART 1050 - Drawing II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 1040 
    Description: Drawing the human form and study of anatomy in composition.
  
  • ART 1070 - Electronic Imaging

    3 Credit Hours
    Description: The use of MacIntosh computer hardware and software as a visual arts tool.
  
  • ART 2010 - Art History, Survey I

    3 Credit Hours
    Description: A history of the visual arts, from cultures throughout the world from prehistory to 1300 C.E, that examines works of art within their social, political, economic, religious, technological, and philosophical contexts.
  
  • ART 2020 - Art History, Survey II

    3 Credit Hours
    Description: A history of the visual arts, from cultures throughout the world from the 13th to the 21st centuries, that examines works of art within their social, political, economic, religious, technological, and philosophical contexts.
  
  • ART 2030 - Printmaking I

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 1010 1040 
    Description: The study and practice of relief and intaglio printmaking techniques with an emphasis on the development of hand skills and basic inking and printing methods.
  
  • ART 2040 - Painting I

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 1010 1040 
    Description: The fundamentals of pictorial composition with emphasis on individual creative expression. An investigation of material and techniques in oil and polymer painting.
  
  • ART 2050 - Ceramics

    3 Credit Hours
    Description: Use of slab, coil, pinch, modeling, and introduction to wheel construction methods of forming ceramic vessels. Glazes and surface decoration are included.
  
  • ART 2070 - Sculpture I

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 1010 1040 
    Description: Introduction to sculptural techniques and materials. Included are modeling, carving, construction, and casting.
  
  • ART 2090 - Photography I

    3 Credit Hours
    Description: Introduction to creative black and white photography with small-format camera. Introduction to development of film, camera use, and darkroom procedure. Students must have access to camera.
  
  • ART 2170 - Digital Media I

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 1020 , 1070 
    Description: Introduction to the fundamental technical, aesthetic and theoretical concepts of video and sound.
  
  • ART 2320 - Graphic Design

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 1010 1040 
    Description: Graphic design fundamentals and layout techniques, design of comprehensives, commercial craftsmanship, and image making.
  
  • ART 2520 - Typography I

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 1010 , ART 1040 
    Description: An introduction to basic layout with type, type design, study of styles, and history of typography.
  
  • ART 3080 - Illustration I

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 1010 1040  or permission of instructor;
    Description: Exploring the invention of images related to visual communications and illustration techniques. Emphasis will be placed on research, conceptualization, and visualization processes as they related to graphic design.
  
  • ART 3110 - Prepress Production

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2320 
    Description: An introduction to methods of preparing design for commercial printing, using macintosh systems and software. Topics include document and image preparation, printing presses, separation, etc.
  
  • ART 3140 - Art Education I

    3 Credit Hours
    Description: Concepts of art education in public school programs; laboratory experiments in media and techniques; and child development and learning based on visual experiences. Methods of teaching at elementary grade level.
  
  • ART 3150 - Art Education II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3140 
    Description: Study of the nature and practice of the art specialist in the teaching-learning situation. Planning educational objective, units for learning, methods of evaluation and administration of art programs in public schools. Includes 10 hours of classroom observation.
  
  • ART 3160 - Art Education III

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3150 
    Description: Study of recent research findings in Art Education. Students study the history of art education and complete a comprehensive plan for a course of study in criticism of art objects. Includes 15 hours of classroom observation.
  
  • ART 3170 - Digital Media II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 1070  or permission of instructor
    Description: Specialized course in the use and understanding of advanced digital imaging programs with an emphasis on motion and time. MacIntosh platform programs approached with studio art applications.
  
  • ART 3200 - History of American Art

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2010 2020  or permission of instructor
    Description: A contextual study of the achievements in painting, printmaking, sculpture, and photography in the United States from the Colonial 17th century through the 1930s Great Depression.  This course is reading and writing intensive.
  
  • ART 3220 - History of Modern Art in Europe

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2010 2020  or permission of instructor;
    Description: Study of major developments in European painting, sculpture, photography, and printmaking from the 1850s through WWII.  This course is reading and writing intensive.
  
  • ART 3230 - History of Contemporary Art

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2010 2020  or permission of instructor
    Description: Study of major themes and criticism as a context for painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, performance art, and multi-media work since the 1950s.  This course is reading and writing intensive.
  
  • ART 3240 - Art History of Photography

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2020  or 2090  or permission of instructor
    Description: A study of the invention and development of photographic processes and styles from a socio-historical stance for an understanding of photography’s place in history, art history, and the history of communication.  This course is reading and writing intensive.
  
  • ART 3270 - History of Graphic Design

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2020  or 2320  or 2520  or permission of instructor
    Description: An in-depth study of selected topics in the history of art, including specific artists, stylistic movements, methodology, and/or art criticism. Topics to be announced. This course is reading and writing intensive. Students may earn up to a total of six hours of (324x) courses.
  
  • ART 3340 - Drawing III

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 1050 
    Description: Use of drawing media for creative image making.
  
  • ART 3370 - Web Design

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 1070 
    Description: Focus on the design of internet sites. Emphasis placed on the visual design, navigation development, communication, and authoring websites.
  
  • ART 3430 - Printmaking II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 1010 1040 
    Description: The study and practice of photo-mechanical processes as they relate to printmaking. Techniques will include photo-silkscreen and various print formats using traditional and experimental image-making methods.
  
  • ART 3440 - Painting II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2040 
    Description: A continuation of any painting medium or combination of medium, with emphasis on individual problems and the organization of ideas in creative design.
  
  • ART 3450 - Ceramic Sculpture

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 1020 , 1040 
    Description: Use of clay bodies to construct sculpture forms utilizing slab, modeling, coil, cast, thrown, extruded or experimental forming techniques to make creative statements in sculpture.
  
  • ART 3520 - Typography II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2520 
    Description: Advanced study in typographic design and layout including typeface design, complex systems of type hierarchy, and the application of type to digital and print media.
  
  • ART 3530 - Printmaking III

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2030 , 2320  or permission of instructor
    Description: The study and practice of letterpress printing with a focus on the history and production of broadsides, artists’ books, and/or editioned portfolios of prints.
  
  • ART 3540 - Drawing IV, Thematic Development Drawing

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2010 , 2020 , 3340 
    Description: An advanced drawing course in which students develop and explore self- directed serial imagery, and examine their work in both an historical and contemporary critical context.
  
  • ART 3550 - Glazes and Surface Design

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2050 
    Description: Advanced experimentation in design and creation of surface effects and coatings on fired ceramic objects, especially glaze formulating.
  
  • ART 3560 - Painting, Watercolor I

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 1010 , 1040 
    Description: Explore the concepts and techniques of pictorial composition using watercolor. Intermediate level studio course for students with proven skills in drawing and painting.
  
  • ART 3570 - Sculpture II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2070 
    Description: A continuation of Sculpture I with emphasis on personal artistic development in combining media and techniques in sculptural forms.
  
  • ART 3590 - Photography II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2090 
    Description: A continuation of Photography I. Students work toward improving their darkroom skills and developing a personal direction for their work. Documentary and studio photography are introduced, as well as creative, alternative process
  
  • ART 3650 - Pottery-Ceramics II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 1020 , 2050  or permission of instructor
    Description: Advanced work in design and techniques of creating ceramic vessels.
  
  • ART 3690 - Digital Photography

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 1070 
    Description: Exploration of photography through digital media, to include digital camera, computer hardware, and software.
  
  • ART 4040 - Painting III

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3440 
    Description: Advanced studio experiences for painters, exploring content, techniques, and mediums employed by contemporary artists. Studies in professional portfolio development for painters, and technical preparations and display of works on panel and canvas.
  
  • ART 4050 - Pottery-Ceramics III

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3650  or permission of instructor
    Description: Advanced skills in clay technique, glaze formulation and firing techniques.  Historical and contemporary works will be emphasized.
  
  • ART 4060 - Painting, Watercolor II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3560 
    Description: Advanced studio experience for watercolors; exploring content, techniques, and mediums employed by 19th and 20th century Asian and Western artists. Topics include studies for development of a professional watercolor portfolio and presentation/display of works on paper.
  
  • ART 4070 - Sculpture III

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3570 
    Description: This course will focus on critical thinking, creative problem solving, and development of a personal visual vocabulary. Students will research contemporary issues in sculpture and use those ideas in the development of their personal work.
  
  • ART 4080 - Illustration II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3080 
    Description: Focus on the development of a personal technique, style, posture and vocabulary. Emphasis will be on images that concentrate on book and editorial illustration.
  
  • ART 4085 - Illustration III

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 4080 
    Description: Advanced studio experience for illustrators. Topics will include the relationship of image to text, narrative development, and self-directed imagery.
  
  • ART 4090 - Problems in Art

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor
    Description: A continuation of work in a specific media under the direction of an instructor in a scheduled class. May be repeated for a second three hours but may not be enrolled in for six hours concurrently.
  
  • ART 4120 - Graphic Design II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2320 
    Description: Intermediate study and skill development in the visual elements and media used in layout and design development for comprehensives.
  
  • ART 4125 - Graphic Design III

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2520 , 4120 
    Description: Advanced study and skill development in the visual elements and media used in layout and design development for comprehensives.
  
  • ART 4130 - Design Center

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2520 , 4120 
    Description: This advanced graphic design course provides students with an opportunity to work with clients in the non-profit sector on all aspects of visual communication projects.  As in the design industry, students will have the opportunity to use their technical and conceptual skills within a team format.
  
  • ART 4150 - Senior Thesis I

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Approval/acceptance to the BFA program. Approval of semester contract by instructor. ART 4150 and ART 4160  must be taken during different semesters .
    Description: A lecture/lab course focused on creating and critiquing a substantial body of work (i.e., thesis) for students’ senior exhibitions or final portfolios. Students will select faculty mentors to oversee their studio work. This course may not be taken simultaneously with ART 4160 .
  
  • ART 4160 - Senior Thesis II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 4150 , approval of semester contract by instructor.
    Description: A capstone course for BFA Majors that focuses on the business of art by directing students to define their professional goals, discuss career options, and develop a professional portfolio. Students continue independent work with their faculty mentors. Students will present a final exhibition of work that is representative of their course of study.
  
  • ART 4170 - Digital Media III

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 1020 , 1070 , 1050 
    Description: Students will be introduced to the workflow of animation, scripting to screen, in a digital environment.
  
  • ART 4190 - Photography III

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 2090 3590  
    Description: A continuation of Photography II. Students are expected to be more self-directed in developing the content of their projects. Idea development and issue related work is emphasized. Digital imaging is used as a tool as well as alternative darkroom processes.
  
  • ART 4310 - Art Internship

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor and chair
    Description: On-the-job training for art students who have art-related job opportunities. May be repeated for a second three hours but may not be enrolled in for six hours concurrently.
  
  • ART 4370 - Web Design II

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ART 3370 
    Description:  An advanced study and skill development in the visual elements and media used in web design.
  
  • CECA 3010 - Artists in the Community

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Junior standing and permission of instructor
    Description: An introduction to arts outreach, including its role in and programming for the community.  Students will receive training and experience creating effective outreach programs and will collaborate with students and faculty from other artistic disciplines as they prepare and deliver arts outreach presentations for various off-campus venues.

Allied Health Sciences

  
  • AHS 1010 - Introduction to Healthcare Professions

    3 Credit Hours
    Description: Introduction to the pursuit of health care careers.  This course will provide the student with information on all of the health care related majors available at APSU to include academic requirements, career paths available upon graduation, and requirements for successful completion of these courses of study.

Astronomy

  
  • ASTR 1010/1011 - Planetary Astronomy (and lab)

    4 Credit Hours
    Corequisite: ASTR 1011
    Description: The subjects of planetary astronomy such as the planets and their moons, planetary geology, the sun, the origin of the solar system; the tools and methods of astronomy including celestial observation, light and other types of radiation, telescopes and spectroscopy. Laboratory 1011 is to be taken concurrently.
  
  • ASTR 1020/1021 - Stellar Astronomy (and lab)

    4 Credit Hours
    Corequisite: ASTR 1021
    Description: The subjects of stellar astronomy such as starbirth, starlife, stardeath, pulsars, blackholes, galaxies, quasars and cosmology; the tools and methods of astronomy including locating and naming stars and constellations, light and other radiation, telescopes and spectroscopy. Laboratory 1021 is to be taken concurrently.
  
  • ASTR 2010 - Problems in Planetary Astronomy

    1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of core math course Corequisite: ASTR 1010/1011 
    Description: Problems to accompany ASTR 1010/1011  Planetary Astronomy for students seeking a mathematical foundation to planetary astronomy.
  
  • ASTR 2011 - Introduction to Observational Astronomy

    1 Credit Hours
    Description: An introduction to the basic techniques of observational astronomy.  Setting up, aligning, initializing and using equatorial and alt-az telescope mounts, learning the stars and constellations of the night sky, observing double stars, star clusters, nebulae and galaxies.  This is a three hour one credit laboratory course requiring night observing.
  
  • ASTR 2020 - Problems in Stellar Astronomy

    1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Completion of core math course Corequisite: ASTR 1020/1021 
    Description: Problems to accompany ASTR 1020/1021  Stellar Astronomy for students seeking a mathematical foundation to stellar astronomy.
  
  • ASTR 3005/3006 - Observational Astronomy (and lab)

    2 Credit Hours
    Corequisite: ASTR 3006
    Description: This course will involve a significant number of night time observing hours each week. Students will learn the constellations and stars of the night sky.  They will learn to set up, align, and use several different types of telescopes.
  
  • ASTR 3010 - History of Astronomy

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ASTR 1010/1011 , 1020/1021 
    Description: This course examines the historical development of the science of astronomy. Beginning with the ancient cultures and their religious associations with astronomy through the philosophies of the ancient Greeks and moving into the renaissance era with Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo and finally Newton. The course concludes with the modern era and the development of modern theories in astronomy and astrophysics.
  
  • ASTR 3020 - Cosmology

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: MATH 1110  or higher, ASTR 1010/1011 , 1020/1021 
    Description: This course examines current theories on the origin and evolution of the universe. The subjects of the course will include the Big Bang theory, cosmological inflation, dark matter, dark energy and the final fate of the universe.
  
  • ASTR 3030/3031 - Methods and Instrumentation in Astronomy (and lab)

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: PHYS 2020/2021  or 2020/2021 ; Corequisite: ASTR 3031
    Description: Detailed introduction to the techniques and instrumentation used in modern observational astronomy.  Includes astronomical sources, observational limits, telescopes, atmospheric effects, spectrographs, single-channel detectors and advanced solid-state detectors of all types.
  
  • ASTR 3040 - Astrobiology

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: A core math course. At least one course (but two is recommended) in Astronomy, Biology, Chemistry, Physics or Geology is required.
    Description: Introduction to Astrobiology. Topics include the formation of stars and planets, stellar habitable zones, properties of life, origin and evolution of life on Earth, the search for life elsewhere in the Universe, mass extinctions, extremophiles, space missions, SETI, Drake equation. Designed for non-science, liberal arts majors.
  
  • ASTR 4000/4001 - Astrophotography (and lab)

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ASTR 1010/1011 , 1020/1021 ; Corequisite: ASTR 4001
    Description: This course will involve a significant number of night time observing hours each week. Students will learn the fundamentals of astrophotography using web cams, digital, CCD and video cameras and the techniques of image processing for scientific and esthetic value. A basic knowledge of photography, either 35mm or digital is essential for successful completion of this course.
  
  • ASTR 4010 - Astrophysics I: Introduction to Stellar Structure and Evolution

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ASTR 1020/1021 , 2020 ; PHYS 2120/2121 ; and (MATH 3120  or PHYS 3005 )
    Description: Introduces the physics of the sun and stars. Includes properties of E&M radiation, stellar distances and magnitudes, radioactive transfer, the sun, the ISM and star formation, stellar evolution, stellar endpoints and variable stars.
  
  • ASTR 4020 - Astrophysics II: Galactic Structure and Cosmology

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ASTR 4010 
    Description: Includes galactic coordinates, galactic rotation curves, N-body concepts and the viral theorem, Galactic formation and evolution, external galaxies, galaxy cluster evolution, Hubble’s law and the distance scale, large-scale structure, cosmology and the particle physics connection.
  
  • ASTR 4150 - Special Topics in Astronomy

    1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ASTR 1010/1011 , 1020/1021 , and permission of instructor
    Description: Selected topics of interest in advanced astronomy. Topics to be chosen by the instructor and students. ASTR 4150, ASTR 4160 , ASTR 4170  may be taken for different topics for a total of up to 15 credit hours combined.
  
  • ASTR 4151 - Research Experience in Astronomy

    1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ASTR 1010/1011 , 1020/1021 , and permission of instructor
    Description: Research activities in astronomy agreed on by the students and instructor which may emphasize lab techniques or data acquisition and analysis. Written and oral reports are required. ASTR 4151, ASTR 4161 , ASTR 4171  may be repeated for different research areas for a total of up to 15 credit hours combined.
  
  • ASTR 4160 - Special Topics in Astronomy

    2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ASTR 1010/1011 , 1020/1021  and permission of instructor
    Description: Selected topics of interest in advanced astronomy. Topics to be chosen by the instructor and students. ASTR 4150 , 4160, ASTR 4170  may be taken for different topics for a total of up to 15 credit hours combined.
  
  • ASTR 4161 - Research Experience in Astronomy

    2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ASTR 1010/1011 , 1020/1021 , and permission of instructor
    Description: Research activities in astronomy agreed on by the students and instructor which may emphasize lab techniques or data acquisition and analysis. Written and oral reports are required. ASTR 4151 , 4161, ASTR 4171  may be repeated for different research areas for a total of up to 15 credit hours combined.
  
  • ASTR 4170 - Special Topics in Astronomy

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ASTR 1010/1011 , 1020/1021 , and permission of instructor
    Description: Selected topics of interest in advanced astronomy. Topics to be chosen by the instructor and student. ASTR 4150 , ASTR 4160 , 4170 may be taken for different topics for a total of up to 15 credit hours combined.
  
  • ASTR 4171 - Research Experience in Astronomy

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ASTR 1010/1011 , 1020/1021 , and permission of instructor
    Description: Research activities in astronomy agreed on by the students and instructor which may emphasize lab techniques or data acquisition and analysis. Written and oral reports are required. ASTR 4151 , ASTR 4161 , 4171 may be repeated for different research areas for a total of up to 15 credit hours combined.
  
  • ASTR 4950 - Independent Study in Astronomy

    1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ASTR 1010/1011 , 1020/1021 , and permission of instructor
    Description: Current topics in astronomy. Topics to be chosen by student. Subject to be approved by instructor. May be repeated with permission of instructor.
  
  • ASTR 4960 - Independent Study in Astronomy

    2 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ASTR 1010/1011 , 1020/1021 , and permission of instructor
    Description: Current topics in astronomy. Topics to be chosen by student. Subject to be approved by instructor. May be repeated with permission of instructor.
  
  • ASTR 4970 - Independent Study in Astronomy

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: ASTR 1010/1011  , ASTR 1020/1021  , and permission of instructor
    Description: Current topics in astronomy. Topics to be chosen by student. Subject to be approved by instructor. May be repeated with permission of instructor.

Biology

  
  • BIOL 380A - Medical Technology Internship

    15 Credit Hours
    Description: Two semesters of clinical Practicum Students apply the skills and abilities learned during the previous six semesters of the curriculum. Students are assigned to an accredited hospital laboratory.
  
  • BIOL 380B - Medical Technology Internship

    15 Credit Hours
    Description: Two semesters of clinical Practicum Students apply the skills and abilities learned during the previous six semesters of the curriculum. Students are assigned to an accredited hospital laboratory.
  
  • BIOL 1010/1011 - Principles of Life (and lab)

    4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Developmental reading and writing with a “C” or better Corequisite: BIOL 1011
    Description: A course for non-science majors. Topics covered include scientific methodology, the nature of living organisms, cell structure and function, cell chemistry and division, nature of heredity and gene action, the theory of evolution and principles of ecology. BIOL 1010 will not serve as a prerequisite of upper level biology courses.
  
  • BIOL 1020/1021 - Diversity of Life (and lab)

    4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Developmental reading and writing or ACT score 19 or better Corequisite: BIOL 1021
    Description: A course for non-science majors. The course reviews basic scientific methodology and surveys the kingdoms of life with particular attention to the evolution and ecology of these forms. The portion of the course involving vertebrate animals will include discussions of selected human systems. BIOL 1020 will not serve as a prerequisite of upper level biology courses.
  
  • BIOL 1040/1041 - Human Biology (and lab)

    4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Developmental reading and writing or ACT score 19 or higher Corequisite: BIOL 1041
    Description: A course for non-science majors. A survey of human structure, function, evolution, and ecology. Topics covered include scientific methodology, biological chemistry, cells, tissues, organ systems, genetics and human development, evolution and ecology. BIOL 1040 will not serve as a prerequisite of upper level biology courses.
  
  • BIOL 1110/1111 - Principles of Biology I (and lab)

    4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Developmental or enhanced reading, writing and math with a “C” or higher or ACT score of 19 or higher Corequisite: BIOL 1111
    Description: A principles course for students majoring or minoring in biology or other sciences. Topics include scientific methodology, an overview of the physiological processes of living organisms including metabolism and energy transfer, concepts of inheritance and the nature of genes, and foundational concepts of evolution and ecology. A brief overview of the kingdoms of life and the rudiments of classification will be presented.
  
  • BIOL 1120/1121 - Principles of Biology II (and lab)

    4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BIOL 1110/1111  or equivalent with a grade of “C” or higher Corequisite: BIOL 1121
    Description: Continuation of BIOL 1110/1111.  Topics include an overview of the evolutionary history of biological diversity and an introduction to plant and animal form and function including an overview of plant, animal, protist, and fungus diversity.
  
  • BIOL 1234 - Honors Seminar in Biology

    1 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Admission to University Honors Program or permission of instructor
    Description: This honors course introduces students to topics of current research in Biology.
  
  • BIOL 2010/2011 - Human Anatomy and Physiology (and lab)

    4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite:  Must have completed developmental or enhanced reading, writing and math or acceptable ACT scores; Corequisite: BIOL 2011
    Description: Designed for students in health and human performance, psychology, nursing, and allied health programs.  Structure and function of the human body with emphasis on cellular structure and function, tissues, and the integumentary, skeletal, muscular, nervous, and endocrine systems will be discussed.
  
  • BIOL 2020/2021 - Human Anatomy and Physiology (and lab)

    4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BIOL 2010/2011  with a grade of “C” or higher; Corequisite: BIOL 2021
    Description: Continuation of BIOL 2010.  Treats the cardiovascular, lymphatic, immune, respiratory, digestive, and excretory systems, water and electrolyte balance, human reproduction, growth, and development, and human genetics.
  
  • BIOL 2300/2301 - Principles of Microbiology (and lab)

    4 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: Eight hours of Biology with a grade of “C” or higher Corequisite: BIOL 2301
    Description: An introductory study of bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protozoan with particular emphasis on their relationship to infection and disease.  Asepsis, immunity, sterilization, and special problems related to patients and hospitals.  Completion of BIOL 2300 does not substitute for BIOL 3050 for a Biology major or minor.
  
  • BIOL 3000 - Biological Methods

    3 Credit Hours
    Prerequisite: BIOL 1120/1121  with a grade of “C” or higher
    Description: Introduction to methods for conducting and interpreting biological research. Specific topics include:  the scientific method; critical thinking; logic of hypothesis testing; basic experimental design; basic statistical methods; interpretation of primary scientific literature; acquisition, analysis, and presentation of scientific data.
 

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