Apr 29, 2024  
2019-2020 Undergraduate Bulletin 
    
2019-2020 Undergraduate Bulletin [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

Course Descriptions


 

Nursing

  
  • NURS 4041 - Maternal Child Nursing Clinical

    Credit Hours 4
    Corequisite: NURS 4040  
    Description: This clinical accompanies NURS 4040 . It must be taken concurrently with NURS 4040 . The same grade will be given in lecture and lab.
  
  • NURS 4050 - Community and Public Health Nursing

    Credit Hours 3
    Corequisite: NURS 4051 ;
    Description: Introduces student to community health nursing by focusing on prevention and health promotion practices.  Provides clinical experiences with individuals, families, and groups in community settings.
  
  • NURS 4051 - Community and Public Health Nursing Clinical

    Credit Hours 3
    Corequisite: NURS 4050 ;
    Description: This clinical accompanie NURS 4050 .  It must be taken concurrently with NURS 4050 .  The same grade will be given in lecture and lab.
  
  • NURS 4060 - Adult Health II Nursing

    Credit Hours 4
    Prerequisite: Completion of junior level nursing courses;
    Corequisite: NURS 4061  
    Description: Continued application of the nursing process in the care of adults with complex health problems in multiple environments.
  
  • NURS 4061 - Adult Health II Nursing Clinical

    Credit Hours 4
    Corequisite: NURS 4060 ;
    Description: This clinical accompanies NURS 4060 . It must be taken concurrently with NURS 4060 . The same grade will be given in lecture and lab.
  
  • NURS 4070 - Nursing Leadership and Management

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: Completion of Junior Nursing courses
    Corequisite: NURS 4071 ;
    Description:  Introduces managerial and leadership and concepts and helps the student apply them to the professional nurse role.
  
  • NURS 4071 - Nursing Leadership and Management Clinical

    Credit Hours 3
    Corequisite: NURS 4070 ;
    Description: This clinical accompanies NURS 4070.  It must be taken concurrently with NURS 4070.  The same grade will be given in lecture and clinical.

     

  
  • NURS 4080 - Trends and Issues of Professional Nursing

    Credit Hours 2
    Prerequisite: Successful completion of Junior Nursing courses
    Description: Promotes sensitivity to the potential for nurse initiated change through evaluation of current trends and issues impacting upon health care delivery and the nursing profession.
  
  • NURS 4090 - Independent Health Care Study

    Credit Hours 1 to 3
    Variable Credit Hours 1 to 3
  
  • NURS 4100 - Clinical Integration

    Credit Hours 1
    Prerequisite: This course must be taken during the semester in which the student is scheduled to graduate from the BSN program
    Description: A clinical synthesis of normal anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, and nursing assessment concepts in patients with selected illnesses. Students are guided through the steps of problem solving, prioritizing needs, determining short term and long term goals, anticipating therapeutic interventions, and initiating appropriate nursing care.
  
  • NURS 4120 - Clinical Integration for the BSN Completion Track

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: Admission to the BSN completion track
    Description: A clinical synthesis of normal anatomy, physiology, pathophysiology, and nursing assessment concepts in patients with selected illnesses. Students are guided through the steps problem solving, prioritizing needs, determining short and long term goals, anticipating therapeutic intervention, and initiating appropriate nursing care.  One hour credit practicum will validate transfer of knowledge from classroom to the clinical.
  
  • NURS 4180 - Trends and Issues of Professional (RN-BSN)

    Credit Hours 2
    Prerequisite: Admission to the RN to BSN completion program and completion of sophomore level courses.
    Description: Promotes sensitivity to the potential nurse initiated change through evaluation of current trends and issues impacting upon health care delivery and the nursing profession.
  
  • NURS 4350 - Community Nursing for RNs

    Credit Hours 3
    Course Changes: Previously NURS 4150
    Prerequisite: Nursing license; NURS 3300  
    Description: Introduces student to community health nursing by focusing on prevention and health promotion practices.
     
  
  • NURS 4351 - Community and Public Health Nursing Clinical

    Credit Hours 3
    Course Changes: Previously NURS 4151
    Prerequisite: Nursing licensure; NURS 3300  
    Description: Provides application of community health nursing with clinical experiences working with individuals, families, and populations in community setting.
  
  • NURS 4370 - Leadership for RNs

    Credit Hours 3
    Course Changes: Previously NURS 4170
    Prerequisite: NURS 3300  and nursing license.
    Description: Introduces managerial and leadership and concepts to the practicing RN.
  
  • NURS 4371 - Leadership for RNs

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: NURS 4370  and nursing license.
    Description: This clinical course allows application of leadership concepts learned in nursing.
  
  • NURS 4380 - Trends and Issues for RNs

    Credit Hours 3
    Course Changes: Previously NURS 4280
    Pre/Corequisite NURS 3300  
    Description: Examines major issues and trends in contemporary nursing and healthcare including the influence of socioeconomic, ethical, legal, and political variables and professional values.

PELP

  
  • PELP 1000 - Freshman Seminar

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: An introduction to university life in general and to leadership in particular.  Students will work toward a definition of leadership, they will study examples of good and bad leadership, and they will work toward uncovering their particular qualities of leadership.

     

  
  • PELP 1020 - Argument and Persuasion

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: A basic introduction to elementary principles of logical thought and the communication of that thought in the context of leadership.
  
  • PELP 2010 - The Ethics of Leadership

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: This course presents a study of ethics in respect to leadership. Readings, activities, and discussions will focus on how to build trust and maintain it through living and leading with integrity.
  
  • PELP 2020 - Leadership Communical Skills

    Credit Hours 1
    Course Changes: Begin Spring 2020
    Description: An introduction to aspects of communicating within an organization.  Understanding the structure of organizations. How to run a meeting according to Roberts Rules of Order. The etiquette of organizational communication.
  
  • PELP 3010 - Problem Solving in Leadership

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: An examination of the various types of problems involving structure, communication, hiring and firing, discipline, gratitude, and other issues that leaders must confront and work through if they are to be effective.
  
  • PELP 3020 - Great Leaders

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: A study of leaders from various parts of the world from various historical eras, and from various disciplines whose activities have shaped world events for better or worse.
  
  • PELP 4010 - Special Topics in Leadership

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: A study of specific aspects of leadership through readings from literature, examination of organizational structures, in-depth study of particular philosophies of leadership and other areas of leadership development.

Philosophy

  
  • PHIL 380A - Comparative World Religions

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: A comparative study of world religions including primal religions, Hinduism, Buddhism, the Jains, Sikhs, Zoroaskrians, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Baha’is.
  
  • PHIL 380B - Islam as a World View

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: A study of Islam that explores its history. The life of Muhammed, the Qur’an and Hadiths, the Fire Pillars, basic beliefs and values, divisions of war and peace, Islamic philosophy and the relationships among Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
  
  • PHIL 380C - The Battle of God

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: An exploration of the Battle for God among the children of Abraham – Jews, Christians and Muslims. The course examines the theologies of war and peace in the Jewish TANAKH, the Christian New Testament and the Muslim Qur’an and concludes by analyzing religious extremism in all three faiths.
  
  • PHIL 490A - Seminar-Independent Study in Philosophy

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: Six hours of Philosophy or permission of instructor
    Description: Advanced seminar or independent study in selected topics in Philosophy.  Course may be repeated for a total of six (6) hours.
  
  • PHIL 490B - Seminar-Independent Study in Philosophy

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: Six hours of Philosophy or permission of instructor.
    Description: Advanced seminar or independent study in selected topics in Philosophy.  Course may be repeated for a total of six (6) hours.
  
  • PHIL 1030 - Introduction to Philosophy

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: The method and content of philosophy as a tool to understand the nature of humankind and the world. Primary aims will be to develop the vocabulary and the issues of the major fields of philosophy: metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of religion, political philosophy, and ethics.
  
  • PHIL 1040 - Introduction to Ethics

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: Examines fundamental issues in ethical theory and metaethics and the application of ethical theory to contemporary moral issues in fields such as business, medicine, criminal justice, education, and environmental studies.
  
  • PHIL 2010 - Independent Study-Philosophy

    Credit Hours 1 to 3
    Variable Credit Hours 1 to 3
    Description: Student will meet the supervising professor and outline a program of study for credit of one hour, two hours or three hours. Evaluation may be oral or written and may include exams and/or papers, depending on the judgment of the supervisor.
  
  • PHIL 2200 - Religion and the World

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: An exploration of the origins, nature and content of religion as a source of human value, meaning and hope. Emphasis given to the beliefs, values, symbols, and rituals of the world’s major religions.
  
  • PHIL 2300 - Medical Ethics

    Credit Hours 3
    Description: Application of moral theory to major issues of biomedical ethics: the patient-professional relationship, abortion, euthanasia, allocation of medical resources, genetic engineering, and research involving human subjects.
  
  • PHIL 3040 - History of Ethics

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: Three hours of Philosophy or permission of instructor
    Description: History of moral philosophy from the ancient to the contemporary periods, including Aristotle, Hobbes, Hume, Kant, and Mill.
  
  • PHIL 3050 - Religious Ethics

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: Three hours of Philosophy or permission of instructor
    Description: A study of the moral theories of the world’s religions, including Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism.
  
  • PHIL 3060 - Applied Ethics

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: Any lower division philosophy course or permission of instructor
    Description: This course provides a critical and analytical examination of all reasonable views on a variety of ethical issues confronting society today, such as capital punishment, economic inequality, climate change, whistle blowing, truth in advertising, and privacy.
  
  • PHIL 3100 - Ancient Philosophy

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: Three hours of Philosophy or permission of instructor
    Description: History of Western philosophy from its pre-Socratic origins through Classical Greek and Hellenic thought. Emphasis is placed on the pre-Socratics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, the Epicureans, and the Stoics.
  
  • PHIL 3110 - The History of Medieval Philosophy

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: Three hours of Philosophy or permission of instructor
    Description: The Medieval world view as a religious transformation of Greek philosophy into three cultures in conflict: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Emphasis is placed on Augustine, Aquinas, Maimonides, and the Muslim Aristotelians.
  
  • PHIL 3120 - Modern 15th-18th Century Philosophy

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: Six hours of Philosophy or permission of instructor
    Description: The history of Western philosophy from Descartes through Kant with emphasis on Continental Rationalism, British Empiricism, and Kant.
  
  • PHIL 3130 - 19th and 20th Century Philosophy

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: Six hours of Philosophy or permission of instructor
    Description: Important philosophers of the 19th century and important philosophical movements of the 20th century.
  
  • PHIL 3200 - Eastern Religions

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: PHIL 2200  or permission of instructor;
    Description: An in-depth study of major Eastern Religions including Hinduism, Buddhism, the Jains, Daoism, the Sikhs and Shinto.
  
  • PHIL 3300 - Western Religions

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: PHIL 2200  or permission of instructor;
    Description: An in-depth study of major Western Religions including Primal Religions, the Zoroastrians, Judaism, Christianity, Islam and the Baha’is.
  
  • PHIL 3800 - The Beatitudes in World Religion

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: PHIL 2200  or one 3000 level class or permission of instructor;
    Description: The world’s great religions affirm a common set of spiritual values such as compassion, mercy, love, hungering for goodness, purity or hear tet al.  This course examines these values in Christianity (The Beatitudes), Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism and the Baha’is.
  
  • PHIL 3900 - Informal, Categorical and Propositional Logic

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: Three hours of PHIL or MATH 1010  or MATH 1420  or permission of instructor
    Description: Analysis of the nature and functions of language, recognition of arguments, and development of the tools of logic and critical reasoning such as deduction, induction, validity, the informal fallacies and categorical and propositional logic.
  
  • PHIL 4000 - Symbolic Logic

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: MATH 1710 , 1720 , PHIL 3900  or permission of instructor
    Description: Development of propositional logic and truth tables, rules of implication, replacement, validity and invalidity, predicate logic, quantification, relation between logic and mathematics.
  
  • PHIL 4015 - War and Ethics

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: Six hours of Philosophy or permission of instructor
    Description: An exploration of the morality of warfare, including the justification of waging war and the ethical limits of its conduct. Proposed principles will be critically discussed and applied to historical cases. Content will include the perspectives of just war theory, pacifism, realism, and international law.
  
  • PHIL 4100 - Social-Political Philosophy

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: Six hours of Philosophy or permission of instructor
    Description: Historical and contemporary issues in social and political philosophy.
  
  • PHIL 4200 - Philosophy of Law

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: Any lower division philosophy course or permission of instructor
    Description: This course addresses philosophical issues regarding the law, including the nature of law, theories of legal interpretation, the relation of morality to law, and the obligation to obey the law.  We will also interrogate issues surrounding concepts including liberty, equality, responsibility, punishment and legal ethics.
  
  • PHIL 4500 - Philosophy of Religion

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: Six hours of Philosophy or permission of instructor
    Description: Basic philosophical issues of religion and the religious life. The nature of religion, the relationship between faith and reason, the existence of God and the problem of evil, and the immortality of the soul will be discussed.
  
  • PHIL 4600 - Literature and Philosophy of Existentialism

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: Three hours of Philosophy or permission of instructor
    Description: The literature and philosophy of existentialism from Kierkegaard to Sartre. Questions to be considered: What does it mean to be human? Is man free? What is absurdity? What is self-deception?
  
  • PHIL 4720 - Ethical Theory

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: Six hours of Philosophy or permission of instructor
    Description: An examination of contemporary problems in ethical theory. Rationality of moral judgments and moral standards, the nature of moral language, moral relativism and skepticism, punishment, blame, free will and thougts.
  
  • PHIL 4910 - Epistemology

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: Six hours of Philosophy or permission of instructor
    Description: Classical and contemporary readings in the theory of knowledge. The nature of knowledge, skepticism, theories of truth, concepts of evidence and rationality, and the justification of induction.

Physical Education Activities

  
  • PHED 1010 - Jogging

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: Provides instruction in knowledge and basic skills for jogging.
  
  • PHED 1015 - Fitness Swim

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: Provides instruction in knowlege and basic skills for Fitness Swim.
  
  • PHED 1050 - Beginning Tennis

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: Provides instruction in knowledge and basic skills for Beginning Tennis
  
  • PHED 1060 - Beginning Golf

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: Provides instruction in knowledge and basic skills for Beginning Golf
  
  • PHED 1130 - Softball

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: Provides instruction in knowledge and basic skills for Softball
  
  • PHED 1190 - Aerobic Dance

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: Provides instruction in knowledge and basic skills for Aerobic Dance
  
  • PHED 1210 - Weight Training

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: Provides instruction in knowledge and basic skills for Weight Training
  
  • PHED 1250 - Advanced Tennis

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: Provides instruction in knowledge and advanced skills for Tennis
  
  • PHED 1310 - Physical Fitness

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: An introductory physical activity course designed to instruct the student in the skills and knowledge of developing and maintaining a program of physical fitness for improving lifestyle and reducing the risk of chronic disease.
  
  • PHED 1410 - Beginning Yoga

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: Provides instruction in knowledge and basic skills for Beginning Yoga.
  
  • PHED 2000 - Beach Volleyball

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: Provides instruction in knowledge and basic skills for Beach Volleyball.
  
  • PHED 2010 - Volleyball

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: Provides instruction in knowledge and basic skills for Volleyball
  
  • PHED 2020 - Basketball

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: Provides instruction in knowledge and basic skills for Basketball
  
  • PHED 2030 - Badminton

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: Provides instruction in knowledge and basic skills for Badminton
  
  • PHED 2040 - Flag Football

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: Provides instruction in knowledge and basic skills for Flag Football
  
  • PHED 2060 - Racquetball

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: Provides instruction in knowledge and basic skills for Racquetball
  
  • PHED 2061 - Intermediate Racquetball

    Credit Hours 1
    Prerequisite: PHED 2060  
    Description: Provides instruction in advanced knowledge and intermediate skills for Racquetball
  
  • PHED 2080 - Soccer

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: Provides instruction in knowledge and basic skills for Soccer

     

  
  • PHED 2090 - Cycling

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: This course is designed to instruct students on the basics of cycling to include riding, conditioning, knowledge of maintenance and repair, and decision-making when purchasing a bike.
  
  • PHED 2100 - Beginning Tap Dance

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: Provides instruction in knowledge and basic skills for Beginning Tap Dance
  
  • PHED 2150 - Introduction to To-Shin Do: Ninja Self-Defense

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: A martial art class that is the beginning level of To Shin Do equivalent of earning a white belt. Also included is discussion of the history and philosophy that brought To Shin Do to life. Fundamental mechanics required to perform the self-defense techniques are the focus of the physical training. Students will emulate and memorize the fundamental katas to build a foundation for their training.
  
  • PHED 2151 - To Shin Do-Earth Intermediate

    Credit Hours 1
    Prerequisite: PHED 2150  
    Description: Shin Do-Earth Intermediate focuses on the mechanics of movement and how to use them. This course builds on the mechanics and concepts of PHED 2150.
  
  • PHED 2152 - To Shin Do-Earth Advanced

    Credit Hours 1
    Prerequisite: PHED 2151  
    Description: Advanced To Shin Do students begin internalizing not just the physical mechanics but also the philosophical concepts that are the true lessons of the kata. Understanding of the mechanics and concepts will be tested in
    their ability to perform the kata against an aggressor without knowing what the aggressor is going to do ahead of time.
  
  • PHED 2200 - Introduction to Rock Climbing

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: Provides instruction in knowledge and basic skills in rock climbing
  
  • PHED 2210 - Intermediate Rock Climbing

    Credit Hours 1
    Prerequisite: PHED 2200 ;
    Description: Provides instruction in knowledge and intermediate skills of rock climbing.
  
  • PHED 2300 - Self Defense for Women

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: An introduction to basic self-defense skills, escape and avoidance strategies, offensive and defensive postures, defensive techniques and simulated attacks. The course includes an exploration of violence prevention and victim abuse community services.
  
  • PHED 2400 - Introduction to Map and Compass

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: Offers a student the knowledge and skills needed to become confident in navigating in the out-of-doors using a map and compass.
  
  • PHED 2410 - Introduction to Flat-water Canoeing

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: This course provices an introduction to the foundational skills and knowledge pertinent to flat-water canoeing.  Students will spend class time developing cognitive, motor and affective skills related to this life-long leisure pursuit.  Field trips required.
  
  • PHED 2420 - Introduction to Backpacking

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: An introduction to skills and knowledge pertinent to safe, comfortable and enjoyable human powered travel in a backcountry environment. Students will backpack overnight.
     
  
  • PHED 2500 - Under Water SCUBA Diving

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: This course provides entry-level recreational SCUBA training in accordance with the Professional Association of Dive Instructors
  
  • PHED 2700 - Physical Activity: Walking

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: A course designed to improve each student’s level of cardiovascular fitness through lower impact fitness walking. A cardiovascular assessment will be utilized in order to design individualized walking programs. Each student will be required to journal weekly walks, assess personal results, and track progress using current technologies.

Physics

  
  • PHYS 1010 - Concepts: Motion, Heat, and Sound

    Credit Hours 3
    Corequisite: PHYS 1011 ;
    Description: Motion, energy, properties of matter, heat, and sound. The approach is conceptual and non-mathematical. The role of physics in the understanding of everyday experiences in our technological society. Laboratory 1011 is to be taken concurrently.
  
  • PHYS 1011 - Concepts Lab: Motion, Heat, and Sound

    Credit Hours 1
    Corequisite: PHYS 1010 ;
    Description: Laboratory component for motion, energy, properties of matter, heat, and sound. The approach is conceptual and non-mathematical. The role of physics in the understanding of everyday experiences in our technological society.
  
  • PHYS 1020 - Concepts: Electromagnetism, Light, and the Quantum World

    Credit Hours 3
    Corequisite: PHYS 1021 ;
    Description: Electricity and magnetism, light, atomic and nuclear physics, and relativity. Physics 1010 is NOT a prerequisite. The approach is conceptual and non-mathematical. The role of physics in the understanding of everyday experiences in our technological society. Laboratory 1021 is to be taken concurrently.
  
  • PHYS 1021 - Concepts Lab: Electromagnetism, Light and the Quantum World

    Credit Hours 1
    Corequisite: PHYS 1020 ;
    Description: Laboratory component for electricity and magnetism, light, atomic and nuclear physics, and relativity. Physics 1010/1011 is NOT a prerequisite. The approach is conceptual and non-mathematical. The role of physics in the understanding of everyday experiences in our technological society.
  
  • PHYS 1234 - Introductory Seminar in Physics

    Credit Hours 1
    Description: Research presentations by students, faculty and visiting scientists. Discussions of major area of physics and intersection of physics with student’s objectives.
  
  • PHYS 1710 - Introduction to Chemistry and Physics

    Credit Hours 4
    Cross Listed:

    CHEM 1710 


    Description: Introductory integrated lab/lecture course in chemistry and physics. Included are hands-on and computer based activities in the scientific method, astronomy, motion, energy, kinetic theory, waves and sound, atomic structure, electricity and magnetism, elements and periodic properties, chemical bonding, electrochemistry, environmental issues, and linkage to NASA via the Internet. (Physics 1710 may not be combined with either CHEM 1010 [Inactive] or PHYS 1010 [Inactive] to satisfy the General Education Core.)
  
  • PHYS 2010 - College Physics I

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: MATH 1720  or MATH 1730  or ENGT 1200 ;
    Corequisite: PHYS 2011 ;
    Description: The elements of mechanics, including physical measurement, linear and circular motion, simple harmonic motion, fluids and heat. Applications of conservation laws to technological and biological systems are considered. Algebra is used extensively. Trigonometry and vectors are developed and used as needed.
  
  • PHYS 2011 - College Physics I Lab

    Credit Hours 1
    Prerequisite: MATH 1720  or MATH 1730  or ENGT 1200 ;
    Corequisite: PHYS 2010 ;
    Description: Laboratory Component for the elements of mechanics, including physical measurement, linear and circular motion, simple harmonic motion, fluids and heat. Applications of conservation laws to technological and biological systems are considered. Algebra is used extensively. Trigonometry and vectors are developed and used as needed.
  
  • PHYS 2020 - College Physics II

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: PHYS 2010 , 2011 ;
    Corequisite: PHYS 2021 ;
    Description: Optics, electricity and magnetism, the atom, and the nucleus.
  
  • PHYS 2021 - College Physics II Lab

    Credit Hours 1
    Prerequisite: PHYS 2010 , 2011 ;
    Corequisite: PHYS 2020 ;
    Description: Laboratory component for optics, electricity and magnetism, the atom, and the nucleus.
  
  • PHYS 2110 - University Physics I

    Credit Hours 3
    Corequisite: PHYS 2111 ;
    Pre/Corequisite MATH 1910  
    Description: The elements of mechanics, including measurement, motion, conservation laws, gravitation, oscillations, fluids and thermodynamics.  Algebra, trigonometry and vectors are used freely and extensively.  Differential calculus is used extensively; the concepts and techniques of integral calculus are developed and used as needed.  Prior completion of or concurrent enrollment in MATH 1910  is required.
  
  • PHYS 2111 - University Physics I Lab

    Credit Hours 1
    Corequisite: PHYS 2110 ;
    Pre/Corequisite MATH 1910  
    Description: Laboratory component for the elements of mechanics, including measurement, motion, conservation laws, gravitation, oscillations, fluids and thermodynamics.  Algebra, trigonometry and vectors are used freely and extensively.  Differential calculus is used extensively; the concepts and techniques of integral calculus are developed and used as needed.  Prior completion of or concurrent enrollment inMATH 1910  is required.
  
  • PHYS 2120 - University Physics II

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: PHYS 2110 /2111 ;
    Corequisite: PHYS 2121 ;
    Pre/Corequisite MATH 1920  
    Description: The elements of electricity and magnetism, circuits, waves, optics, and special relativity. Integral calculus is used extensively. Prior completion of or concurrent enrollment in MATH 1920  is required.
  
  • PHYS 2121 - University Physics II Lab

    Credit Hours 1
    Prerequisite: PHYS 2110 /2111 ;
    Corequisite: PHYS 2120 ;
    Pre/Corequisite MATH 1920  
    Description: Lab component for PHYS 2120. The elements of electricity and magnetism, circuits, waves, optics, and special relativity. Integral calculus is used extensively. Prior completion of or concurrent enrollment in MATH 1920  is required.
  
  • PHYS 2468 - Introductory Research Experience

    Credit Hours 1
    Prerequisite: Permission of instructor;
    Description: Individual research of a level and complexity appropriate to lower level students, mentored by a faculty member. Primarily aimed at helping well qualified students become involved in research early in their careers.
  
  • PHYS 2500 - Introduction to Computational Science & Engineering

    Credit Hours 3
    Prerequisite: Admission to the Governor’s School for Computational Physics;

     
    Corequisite: PHYS 2501  

     
    Description:  An introduction to the application of computational solutions to problems in physics and engineering. Includes an introduction to topics in first-year physics, algorithm development, and basic scientific programming skills.
    Focus is on computational solutions to differential equations (initial and boundary value problems) and their application to physical problems.  Physical models will be developed and experimentally tested.

 

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