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ENG 374 - History and Development of the English Language
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Historical backgrounds of the English language, growth of vocabulary, and development of linguistics standards and usage.
PREREQ: Minimum sophomore standing OR or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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ENG 375 - Theories of Diverse Sexuality
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This course examines the contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual,
transgendered and transexual studies to literature, art, politics
and culture as well as many of the intellectual issues that
surround controversies about non-normative human sexuality.
PREREQ: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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ENG 376 - Science Fiction
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This course examines the science fiction genre from the historical perspective by concentrating on key writers who established the generic purviews before 1950 and as an exercise in social, cultural, political, technical, and epistemological critique.
PREREQ: HIS 100 or HIS 230 or ANT 111 or ANT 112 or ENG 210 or ENG 211
credit: 3
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ENG 380 - Narratives of Identity
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This course uses narratives that define individuals and their
relationships to a larger world. It utilizes approaches from
different disciplines to investigate ways a personality or
individual consciousness can be defined.
PREREQ: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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ENG 381 - Narrative Theory
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This course offers a theoretical examination of narrative and the various literary components and critical values associated with narrative. It concentrates on investigating key theoretical and critical statements that have helped define the way narrative is perceived. It also offers an opportunity to examine different examples of narrative by applying theoretical narrative principles to specific texts.
PREREQ: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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ENG 385 - Children’s Literature
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Study of literature for children from beginning to present. Emphasis on literary merits rather than methodology.
PREREQ: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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ENG 386 - The Cinema
2012-2013 Catalog Year
The history and development of the cinematic art.
PREREQ: Minimum sophomore standing OR ENG 286.
credit: 3
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ENG 387 - Vision and Textuality
2012-2013 Catalog Year
The course is a study of historical, political and theoretical relations of vision and the visual arts to writing, both literary and nonliterary.
PREREQ: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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ENG 388 - Film Genre
2012-2013 Catalog Year
A history and analysis of film genre. The course will examine the
notion of film genre as distinct from other notions of genre, in
particular, literary genre. Special attention will be paid to
horror, melodrama, film noir, musicals, science fiction, and teen
pics.
PREREQ: Minimum sophomore standing OR ENG 286.
credit: 3
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ENG 389 - Documentary Traditions
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Intensive study of documentary traditions in film, video and new
media. The course will examine different approaches to documentary,
including ethnographic film, the social documentary and guerrilla
media. It will also provide historical and geopolitical frames for
examining the politics of documentary.
PREREQ: Minimum sophomore standing OR ENG 286.
credit: 3
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ENG 390 - Images of Native Americans in Film
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This is a course in the cinematic representations of Native Americans. Significant attention will be paid to the relationship between those representations and the construction of America and American identity.
PREREQ: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
EQUIVALENT COURSE: NAS 390
credit: 3
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ENG 395 - Specialized Studies
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Course in specialized literary topics, with emphasis on the development of analytical and interpretive skills.
PREREQ: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
NOTE: May be offered in more than one section with different content, and may be repeated for credit if content is not the same.
credit: 3
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ENG 399 - Independent Study
2012-2013 Catalog Year
PREREQ: Instructor permission.
NOTE: A total of only six hours in independent study may be credited toward the major in English.
credit: 1 to 6
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ENG 426 - Shakespearean Contexts
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This course reads selected works by Shakespeare in relation to changing historical, theatrical, and film contexts.
PREREQ: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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ENG 427 - Shakespeare and Interpretive Theories
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This course studies a selection of Shakespeare’s writings in light of recent theoretical discussions and their applications in literary criticism.
PREREQ: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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ENG 443 - Critical Response/Critical Reputation: William Faulkner
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This course examines issues surrounding the formation of the canon of American literature, using as a primary example the status of William Faulkner in that canon. Students read a selection of Faulkner’s work, the evolving critical responses to that work which ultimately created Faulkner’s reputation as America’s preeminent twentieth-century fiction writer, and the recent variety of critical response to Faulkner, reflecting varied critical stances.
PREREQ: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
NOTE: It is recommended that students enrolling in this course have taken ENG 366 and at least two other 300-level English courses, including one in American literature.
credit: 3
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ENG 465 - Seminar in Advanced Literary Study
2012-2013 Catalog Year
A comprehensive review of the problems confronting the literary scholar, with emphasis on the theory and methodology of literary study.
PREREQ: ENG 304 or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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ENG 467 - Psychoanalytic Interpretive Theories
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This course examines the writings of Freud and Lacan so students can read, use, and critically examine psychoanalytic ideas.
PREREQ: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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ENG 470 - Feminist Theory
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This course explores feminist theory as it centers on women, women’s points of view, the cultural spaces women inhabit, and how they inhabit them. It also discusses feminist theories of value and nature in the context of the global village.
PREREQ: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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ENG 485 - Words in the World
2012-2013 Catalog Year
A hands-on practicum for English majors seeking real-world experience in designing and implementing writing projects outside the classroom. Participants will undertake one or more writing and research projects for local businesses, civic, community or other organizations, in addition to creating a resume, working portfolio and final reflective essay.
PREREQ: Sophomore standing or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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ENG 486 - World Cinema
2012-2013 Catalog Year
A history and examination of, as well as an engagement with, cinema as a global phenomenon. The course will explore the idea, effects and institutions of many different cinemas, growing in different parts of the world, as these constitute both a single, global phenomenon and a set of independent existences and resistances.
PREREQ: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
NOTE: This course is repeatable.
credit: 3
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ENG 488 - Auteur Studies
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Intensive study of the history and theory of “auteurism” from its inception in 1954 to the present. Comparative study of two major film and/or new media “authors”.
PREREQ: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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ENG 489 - Women and Screen Studies
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Intensive study of the relationships between women and visual media, including film, television and new media. The course will introduce students to the major feminist approaches to screen studies, including theories of spectatorship, cultural histories of reception, and feminist analysis of representation.
PREREQ: Minimum sophomore standing or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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ENG 499 - Independent Study
2012-2013 Catalog Year
PREREQ: Instructor permission.
NOTE: A total of only six hours in independent study may be credited
toward the major in English. Writing Arts credit given.
credit: 1 to 6
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ESC 363 - Great Lakes Environmental Issues
2012-2013 Catalog Year
An interdisciplinary course focused on the interactions of biological, geological, hydrological, and environmental components of the Great Lakes ecosystems utilizing specific examples from south eastern Lake Ontario, its tributaries, and adjacent coastal plain. Environmental degradation and its impacts on society and culture will be examined.
PREREQ: Completion of Basic Skills and Knowledge Foundations courses and upper division status, or permission of the instructor.
EQUIVALENT COURSE: BIO 363
NOTE: Course includes field trips, computer activities, and short writing assignments.
credit: 3
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FIN 325 - Corporate Finance
2012-2013 Catalog Year
An introduction to the theory and practice of corporate financial decision making. Topics include financial statement analysis, capital markets, capital budgeting, capital structure and financing decisions and working capital management. The emphasis is on the allocation of corporate resources in the context of corporate strategic policy.
PREREQ: ACC 202, ECO 101, 200, MAT 158, and minimum first semester junior standing OR ACC 321, ECO 120, MAT 158, and minimum first semester junior standing.
credit: 3
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FIN 354 - Investments
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This course uses a basic set of financial and economic principles to describe the theory and practice of investment decision making. Financial market opportunities, market prices, and the preferences of participants, are used to analyze the theory of choice, the efficiency of capital markets, and the valuation and pricing of securities. The emphasis is on the practical application of the modern theory of finance to investment decisions.
PREREQ: FIN 325 and minimum second semester junior standing.
credit: 3
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FIN 425 - Topics in Finance
2012-2013 Catalog Year
An intensive and comprehensive analysis of selected topics in Finance. Topics may include risk and insurance, real estate finance, commercial bank management, and others.
PREREQ: FIN 325 and minimum second semester junior standing.
NOTE: This course may be repeated for credit.
credit: 3
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FIN 426 - Multinational Financial Management
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This course is an examination of the modern concepts and techniques of financial decision making applied by firms engaged in more than one national market. Special emphasis will be given to multinational investment and financing decisions, the management of international risk, working capital management, international trade finance, and international taxation.
PREREQ: FIN 325 and minimum second semester junior standing.
credit: 3
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FIN 427 - Management of Financial Institutions
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This course uses modern finance theory to study the specific management problems facing financial intermediaries such as banks, savings institutions, insurance companies and pension funds. Topics covered include asset and liability management, the pricing of services, the management of risk, funding of assets, capital adequacy and regulation.
PREREQ: FIN 325 and minimum second semester junior standing.
credit: 3
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FIN 428 - Applied Financial Management
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This is an advanced corporate finance course with an emphasis on integrating theory and practice. Topics such as capital budgeting, risk analysis, capital structure, dividend policy and working capital management are discussed using textbooks, journal articles, case studies and computer simulations.
PREREQ: FIN 325 and minimum second semester junior standing.
credit: 3
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FIN 454 - Financial Options and Futures
2012-2013 Catalog Year
In this course, recent financial innovations such as exchange-traded stock options, futures contracts, and other derivative securities will be examined in depth. The course will focus on the uses of these securities, the markets in which they are traded, the strategies employed in trading them, and their valuation.
PREREQ: FIN 354 and minimum second semester junior standing.
credit: 3
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FRE 101 - Elementary French
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Preparation of students without previous knowledge of French in the
fundamentals of conversation, reading, and composition.
credit: 3
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FRE 102 - Continuing Elementary French
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Continuation of French 101. Fundamentals of conversation, reading, and composition.
PREREQ: FRE 101 or three years of transcripted high school French.
credit: 3
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FRE 201 - Intermediate French
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Review of basic grammar and introduction of more advanced structures; intermediate level conversation, reading, and composition.
PREREQ: FRE 102 or four years of transcripted high school French.
credit: 3
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FRE 202 - Continuing Intermediate French
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Continuation of French 201. Review of basic grammar and introduction of more advanced structures; intermediate level conversation, reading, and composition.
PREREQ: FRE 102 or four years of transcripted high school French.
credit: 3
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FRE 301 - Advanced French A
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Advanced-level conversation, reading, and composition, with special
emphasis on more complex grammatical structures.
PREREQ: FRE 201 OR 202, or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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FRE 302 - Advanced French B
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Continuation of French 301. Advanced-level conversation, reading,
and composition, with special emphasis on more complex grammatical
structures.
PREREQ: FRE 201 OR 202, or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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FRE 306 - French Writing and Composition
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This course is an initiation to diverse French styles and techniques in reading and writing. Starting with the analysis of various texts, literary and non-literary, and genres, the students will systematically practice through specific models in order to learn writing in the target language.
PREREQ: FRE 301 or 302, or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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FRE 310 - Business French
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Students will be introduced to the spoken and written language of
business in the French-speaking world in a variety of contexts
through audio and visual as well as print media. The basic
terminology of business and economics will be stressed, and
students will be given “hands-on” experience in simulated business
situations.
PREREQ: FRE 202 or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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FRE 320 - French Phonetics
2012-2013 Catalog Year
French articulatory phonetics from a modern structural point of
view. Thorough presentation and intensive practical drill of all
aspects of French pronunciation. Approximately one-half of
classroom time will be devoted to laboratory drill. Special
attention to individual pronunciation problems.
PREREQ: FRE 201 OR 202, or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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FRE 350 - Survey of French Literature
2012-2013 Catalog Year
General view of literary and cultural aspects of French tradition from its origins to the end of the eighteenth century.
PREREQ: FRE 301 OR 302, or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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FRE 351 - Survey of French Literature
2012-2013 Catalog Year
General view of literary and cultural aspects of French tradition from the nineteenth century through the contemporary period.
PREREQ: FRE 301 OR 302, or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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FRE 355 - French Culture and Civilization I
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This course, conducted in French, is designed to trace the evolution of the civilization of France from its origins to 1789. It addresses such aspects as the growth and culture of the French state, with an emphasis on the formation and development of social, economical and artistic movements and ideas. Special attention is drawn to corresponding developments and parallels in the arts, music, architecture, painting, socio-economic developments, etc.
PREREQ: FRE 301 or 302, or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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FRE 356 - French Culture and Civilization II
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This course conducted in French, is designed to trace the evolution of the civilization of France from 1789 to the present. It addresses such aspects as state and government, society, family, role of man and women, youth, children, religion, education, economics and politics, news media, cultural life, foreign policy. It also follows the development of the arts, as well as ideas in modern and postmodern French society.
PREREQ: FRE 301 or 302, or instructor permission
credit: 3
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FRE 379 - The Francophone World: Literature, Theory & Politics of Diversity
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This course focuses on the main cultural, economic and political aspects of a number of francophone countries. In addition to the study of literary texts, fundamental aspects such as colonialism and post colonialism in the Francophone world, “orientalism,”“negritude” and “créolité,” and other socio- political aspects of these territories will be addressed.
PREREQ: FRE 301 OR 302, or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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FRE 413 - French Literature and Thought in the 18th Century
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Development of French literary and philosophical thought in the Age
of the Enlightenment.
PREREQ: FRE 301 OR 302, or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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FRE 417 - French Novel of 19th Century
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Development of the novel of the nineteenth century, from Romanticism through Realism and Naturalism.
PREREQ: FRE 301 or 302, or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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FRE 425 - 20th Century French Theatre
2012-2013 Catalog Year
A study of the principal aspects of French dramatic literature from
the founding of the Theatre Libre of Antoine to the present day.
PREREQ: FRE 301 OR 302, or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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FRE 448 - French Novel of the 20th Century
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Evolution of French novel from Naturalism through Existentialism and Literature of Sartre, Camus, Robbe-Grillet.
PREREQ: FRE 301 OR 302, or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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FRE 495 - Seminar
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Not intended to be a fixed course, but rather an opportunity to
focus on various limited subjects and to treat them in some depth.
PREREQ: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
credit: 1 to 6
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FRE 499 - Independent Study
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Course for advanced seniors who wish to do independent study on a
particular author, work, or literary period. Students will read and
do research under the direction of a faculty member.
PREREQ: Senior standing and instructor permission.
credit: 1 to 6
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GCH 436 - Geochemistry
2012-2013 Catalog Year
A study of the chemical composition of the earth and how it changes in space and time. Topics include the use of isotopes for dating natural substances, applications of thermodynamics to natural water chemistry, and the chemical processes involved in the formation of minerals and rocks.
PREREQ: GEO 310 or CHE 451.
credit: 4
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GCH 494 - Capstone Research in Geochemistry
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Students perform independent research under the direction of a faculty advisor. The student’s experiences and results will be shared via oral progress reports, a final presentation at Quest or other professional conference and a final written research report. Students must arrange with a faculty member to sponsor and supervise a research project. This course can be repeated for up to six credit hours.
PREREQ: GCH 436.
credit: 1 to 6
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GEG 100 - Introduction to Geography
2012-2013 Catalog Year
An introduction to the basic concepts of physical and human geography. Geographic patterns of human-environment relations are emphasized.
credit: 3
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GEO 100 - Physical Geology
2012-2013 Catalog Year
An introduction to the natural physical processes that operate at
or near the earth’s surface. Topics include: earth materials,
volcanism, weathering, fluvial processes, glaciation, metamorphism,
earthquakes, mountain building, and plate tectonics.
NOTE: Field trip fee required for some sections.
credit: 3
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GEO 101 - Physical Geology Laboratory
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Laboratory to accompany GEO 100.
PREREQ: GEO 100 concurrently OR previously, OR GEO 115 OR OCE 100, or instructor permission.
NOTE: Required of Geology majors and Earth Science concentrators, optional for all other students. Required field trip and fee.
credit: 1
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GEO 115 - Environmental Sustainability
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This course explores topics in environmental science and natural resources, and how they relate to historical and modern human activity in the context of sustaining a healthy natural environment.
credit: 3
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GEO 200 - Historical Geology
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Study of the evolution of the Earth, with special attention to the
geological development of North America. Emphasis on the evolution
of life on the planet. Exercises in the methods and techniques of
geological interpretation.
PREREQ: GEO 101 and one of the following GEO 100 OR GEO 115 OR OCE 100.
NOTE: Field trip; fee required.
credit: 3
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GEO 200L - Historical Geology Laboratory
2012-2013 Catalog Year
A course to accompany GEO 200. Execution of laboratory exercises designed to enable the student to make the types of geological interpretations upon which the physical and biological histories of the earth are based.
NOTE: Field trip; fee required.
credit: 1
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GEO 301 - Environmental Geology for Majors
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Focuses on geologic hazards (including prediction and mitigation),
mineral and energy resources (including the geologic context of
commercial ore and hydrocarbon deposits, their extraction and use),
and environmental issues (including air and water pollution and
remediation, and global climate change).
PREREQ: GEO 101 and CHE 111 and one of the following GEO 100 OR GEO 115 OR OCE 100, or instructor permission.
credit: 4
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GEO 306 - Science, Pseudoscience and Fraud
2012-2013 Catalog Year
A multi-disciplinary course derived in equal parts from
understanding natural phenomena in terms of basic science,
unmasking the profound nature of scientific principles and applying
them to everyday life. The course will focus on uncovering topics
that are ‘messy’ and intellectually complex rather than ones that
have ‘right answers’ or are contrived ‘cook book’ experiments.
Sub-themes in the course will allow students to experience a
scientist’s sense of triumph through rational thinking by exposing
specious arguments (pseudoscience) and charlatans (frauds), such as
Creationism, Dowsing, Pyramid Power, Astrology, and Living
Dinosaurs.
PREREQ: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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GEO 310 - Mineralogy
2012-2013 Catalog Year
A study of minerals as naturally occurring crystalline compounds
whose understanding provides a basis for appreciating geological
processes and the Earth’s development.
PREREQ: CHE 111 and one of the following GEO 100 OR GEO 115 OR OCE 100.
NOTE: Class and laboratory study. Required field trip; fee required.
credit: 4
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GEO 315 - Earth’s Fury
2012-2013 Catalog Year
The study of natural and human-induced geological disasters including earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, floods, and tsunamis, and the social and economic impact of these disasters including how they influence public, environmental and land-use management policy.
PREREQ: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
Advisement Reccommendation: Successful completion of the General Education Basic Skills and Knowledge Foundations courses.
NOTE: A field trip to evaluate a local geological hazard site is required. Required Fee.
credit: 3
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GEO 320 - Sedimentology
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Introduction to the description and interpretation of sedimentary
rocks in the field, physical processes of sedimentation and
depositional environments.
PREREQ: GEO 200 and GEO 200L or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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GEO 330 - Structural Geology
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Analysis of the structure of the lithosphere; study of forces
causing deformation; solution of structural problems.
PREREQ: GEO 200, 200L, and MAT 210.
NOTE: Laboratory work. Required field trip; fee required.
credit: 4
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GEO 335 - Surface Water Hydrology
2012-2013 Catalog Year
A study of the occurrence, movement, and chemistry of surface
water.
PREREQ: MAT 210 and CHE 212.
NOTE: Topics include rainfall-runoff relationships, stream flow,
flooding, droughts, and surface water quality.
credit: 3
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GEO 340 - Geophysics
2012-2013 Catalog Year
The exploration for petroleum and mineral deposits by seismic,
gravity, magnetic, and electrical methods will be investigated.
This will include a study of the various structural and
stratigraphic characteristics of the earth.
PREREQ: GEO 330 and PHY 212.
credit: 3
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GEO 390 - Special Topics in Geology
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Selected topics in Geology. Problems in specified areas vary from
semester to semester.
PREREQ: GEO 100 OR GEO 115 OR OCE 100, and instructor permission.
credit: 1 to 3
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GEO 398 - Geowriting
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Geowriting is designed to educate the student in the area of
scientific writing. The course will address the organization of
ideas for a paper; methods of illustration; rules for names,
scientific notation and citation; abstract preparation;
bibliographic sources and how to use them; editing and proofing a
paper.
PREREQ: Instructor permission.
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GEO 399 - Independent Study
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Requires preparation by a superior student (cumulative GPA at least
3.0) who presents a written plan for a study not available as a
regular course and nine hours in subject area.
PREREQ: Nine hours in Geology and instructor permission.
credit: 1 to 6
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GEO 416 - Igneous and Metamorphic Petrology
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This course deals with the study of igneous and metamorphic rocks
including the origin, occurrences, tectonic setting and
petrogenesis of rocks in these major groups. The course is divided
into two parts: 1) igneous processes, classification of igneous
rocks and petrogenesis; and 2) metamorphic processes,
classification of metamorphic rocks and petrogenesis. Petrography
lab covers techniques for the macroscopic and microscopic study of
rocks.
PREREQ: GEO 310.
NOTE: There are two required field trips.
credit: 4
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GEO 417 - Sedimentary Petrology
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This laboratory course enables students to make detailed descriptions of sedimentary materials and rocks, and to draw inferences about the petrogenesis of sedimentary rocks based on macroscopic and micorscopic features. Lectures focus on the origin, occurrence, mineralogy, chemistry, and texture of the major types of sedimentary rocks. Classwork emphasizes how optical techniques are use to analyze sedimentary rocks to elucidate their paleodepositional environments, diagenetic history, and exploration potential.
PREREQ: GEO 310 and CHE 212.
credit: 3
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GEO 420 - Sedimentation and Stratigraphy
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Introduction to the description and interpretation of sedimentary
rocks in the lab and field, physical processes of sedimentation and
depositional environments, and stratigraphic principles and
techniques.
PREREQ: GEO 200 and 200L.
NOTE: Mandatory field trip; field trip fee.
credit: 4
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GEO 430 - Hydrogeology
2012-2013 Catalog Year
A study of the occurrence, movement, and chemistry of groundwater,
groundwater-surface water interactions, and groundwater
contamination. Course covers aquifer characteristics, groundwater
flow, pumping tests, groundwater-rock interactions, and contaminant
transport. Problem-solving and field experiences supplement lecture
material.
PREREQ: GEO 330 and 420.
credit: 3
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GEO 440 - Invertebrate Paleontology
2012-2013 Catalog Year
A systematic approach to the morphology, ecology, and evolution of
the major taxa preserved in the rock record. Emphasis will be on
invertebrate phyla. The taxonomic groups are used to exemplify the
prevailing themes of paleontological investigations, adaptation and
functional morphology; paleoecology; evolution; biostratigraphy;
paleobiogeography.
PREREQ: GEO 420 or instructor permission.
NOTE: Required field trip; fee required.
credit: 4
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GEO 450 - Geomorphology
2012-2013 Catalog Year
A study of processes that shape earth’s surface, including
weathering, soil formation, fluvial, glacial, aeolian, coastal and
karst processes and resulting landforms. Emphasis is placed on
quantitative analysis of processes, and applications of
geomorphology to hydrology, civil engineering, tectonics, soil
science, and related disciplines. Course includes problem solving
and field experiences.
PREREQ: GEO 420 or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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GEO 475 - Geochemistry
2012-2013 Catalog Year
A study of the chemical composition of the earth and how it changes in space and time. Topics include the use of isotopes for dating natural substances, applications of thermodynamics to natural water chemistry, and the chemical processes involved in the formation of minerals and rocks.
PREREQ: CHE 341 or GEO 310.
EQUIVALENT COURSE: CHE 475
credit: 3
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GEO 475L - Geochemistry Laboratory
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Laboratory to accompany GEO 475.
COREQ: GEO 475.
EQUIVALENT COURSE: CHE 475L
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GEO 480 - Tectonics
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This course deals with the study of modern theories of plate
tectonics including the anatomy of plates, mechanisms of plate
motion, and the evolution of tectonic plates through geologic time.
PREREQ: GEO 416 and 420 or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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GEO 481 - Field Geology
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Field course in geologic mapping and interpretation of regional
geology.
PREREQ: Upper division standing
credit: 6
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GEO 486 - Field Techniques
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Introduction to basic techniques and instruments applied to field mapping in geology. Projects directed toward the solution of geological problems.
PREREQ: GEO 330 and 420, or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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GEO 499 - Independent Study
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Requires preparation by a superior student (cumulative GPA at least
3.2) who presents a written plan for a study not available as a
regular course and fifteen hours in subject area.
PREREQ: Twelve hours in Geology and instructor permission.
credit: 1 to 6
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GER 101 - Elementary German
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Preparation of students without previous knowledge of German in the
fundamentals of conversation, reading, and composition.
credit: 3
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GER 102 - Continuing Elementary German
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Continuation of German 101. Fundamentals of conversation, reading, and composition.
PREREQ: GER 101 or three years of transcripted high school German.
credit: 3
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GER 125 - German for Reading
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Designed for majors in chemistry and natural sciences, pre-med
students, candidates for advanced degrees and any other student
interested in gaining a reading knowledge of German. 125:
presentation of grammar essentials and readings in German
expository prose.
credit: 3
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GER 126 - German For Research
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This course is designed to develop further the skill reading and
translating German with the aid of a dictionary. It also continues
to deepen students’ knowledge and understanding of life in and the
culture of German-speaking countries.
credit: 3
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GER 140 - German Castles, Customs, and Culture
2012-2013 Catalog Year
An introduction to German culture, customs, and civilization. Using
castles, palaces, forts and Stifte as departure points, students
are acquainted with a variety of forces (political, social,
religious, artistic, philosophical, and scientific) that have
shaped the course of German history past and present.
credit: 3
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GER 201 - Intermediate German
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Review of basic grammar and introduction of more advanced structures; intermediate level conversation, reading, and composition.
PREREQ: GER 102 or four years of transcripted high school German.
credit: 3
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GER 202 - Continuing Intermediate German
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Continuation of German 201. Review of basic grammar and introduction of more advanced structures; intermediate level conversation, reading, and composition.
PREREQ: GER 102 or four years of transcripted high school German.
credit: 3
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GER 300 - Landeskunde
2012-2013 Catalog Year
(Civilization and Culture of the German-speaking World) An
intermediate German course that emphasizes both cultural
proficiency and the enhancement of language skills. With its wide
variety of topics taken from German-language publications, the
course offers students an opportunity to acquire an in-depth
understanding of the social, economic, and political realities of
Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.
PREREQ: GER 102 or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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GER 301 - Advanced German A
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Advanced-level conversation, reading, and composition, with special
emphasis on more complex grammatical structures.
PREREQ: GER 202 or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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GER 302 - Advanced German B
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Continuation of Ger 301. Advanced-level conversation, reading, and
composition, with special emphasis on more complex grammatical
structures.
PREREQ: GER 202 or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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GER 310 - Business German
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Students will be introduced to the spoken and written language of
business in the German speaking world in a variety of contexts
through audio and visual as well as print media. The basic
terminology of business and economics will be stressed, and
students will be given “hands-on” experience in simulated business
situations.
PREREQ: GER 202 or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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GER 350 - Survey of German Literature and Culture A
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Introduction to German literature and culture of the medieval
period through Goethe. Readings reflect the social, philosophical,
and aesthetic currents of the period.
PREREQ: GER 302 or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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GER 351 - Survey of German Literature and Culture B
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Introduction to German literature and culture of the romantic
period through the present. Readings reflect the social
philosophical, and aesthetic currents of the period.
PREREQ: GER 302 or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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GER 360 - German Literature of the 20th Century (1900-1945)
2012-2013 Catalog Year
Overview of naturalism, impressionism, expressionism, and other
literary currents before 1945. Textual analysis of representative
works by such authors as Hauptmann, Kafka, Rilke, T. Mann, Hesse,
Brecht.
PREREQ: GER 350 and 351, or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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GER 392 - Berlin in the 20th Century
2012-2013 Catalog Year
This interdisciplinary course studies intellectual and cultural
developments that took place in Berlin from the turn of the 20th
century until the year 2000. Literary as well as non-literary text
will be studied. Particular attention will be paid to the visual
arts (a movie series will accompany the course).
PREREQ: GER 301 or instructor permission.
credit: 3
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GER 399 - Independent Study
2012-2013 Catalog Year
PREREQ: Instructor permission.
NOTE: For qualified juniors and seniors under the direction of a faculty
member.
credit: 1 to 6
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