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HIS 212 - Women in History
2015-2016 Catalog Year
A study of the position and role of women in different civilizations with emphasis on women and work.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 215 - Introduction to Latin American Civilizations
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course will provide a general introduction to the culture, history, and societies of the immense geographic area collectively known as Latin America. A thematic approach focusing on gender, social upheavals, economic and political crises will serve to facilitate the inclusion of the many countries in the region. The chronology of the course extends from the pre-contact period to the twentieth-century.
Offered: Fall, Spring
credit: 3
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HIS 230 - The Western Heritage I
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Survey of the basic ideas in Western Civilization from the earliest times to the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 231 - The Western Heritage II
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Survey of the basic ideas in Western Civilization from the Scientific Revolution of the seventeenth century to the present.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 248 - Women in American History to 1865
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course will survey the history of women in the United States from the colonial era through the Civil War. Particular attention will be given to the diversity of American women’s experience.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
credit: 3
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HIS 249 - Women in American History, 1865 to Present
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course will survey the history of women in the United States from the end of the Civil War through the present. Particular attention will be given to the diversity of American women’s experience and women’s participation in movements for equality.
Offered: Fall
credit: 3
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HIS 300 - European Intellectual History in the 19th Century
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Romanticism, conservatism; German idealism; liberalism, Utopian socialism; Marxism; evolutionary socialism, nationalism; positivism anarchism; impact of Darwin; collapse of absolutes.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 301 - European Intellectual History in the 20th Century
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Collapse of absolutes; pessimism and optimism; dystopias; Nazism; Fascism; Communism; existentialism; emergent evolution; new liberalism; crisis theology; post-industrial society.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 302 - Historiography: Perspectives on Historians and Histories
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course presents an introduction to the history, method, and practice of writing history (historiography) from the Enlightenment era to the present. Through textual readings, research in primary sources, and oral presentations on aspects of historiography that have sparked controversy, students gain familiarity with the problems and pleasures of historical research and a new appreciation of how our historical knowledge is created.
Prerequisite: Minimum second semester sophomore standing.
Offered: Fall, Spring
credit: 3
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HIS 307 - World War I
2015-2016 Catalog Year
A survey of the causes, course and results of World War I.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 308 - Jews, Christians, and Muslims to 1500
2015-2016 Catalog Year
In this course we will compare the development of the three great religions of western Asia: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. We will examine the evolution of ideas about God, tenets of belief, expressions of faith, and other aspects of religious life, and analyze how the three faith communities influenced each other. We will explore how communities with related but distinct religious beliefs developed in Asia, lived together in Europe, encountered each other, and tolerated or confronted one another during the ancient and medieval periods.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 310 - Religion in African History
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course is concerned with belief systems of African peoples and how spiritually derived values affect their ideas of history. It includes readings, lectures, and discussion on the belief systems (indigenous religious practices) and cosmologies (myths of origin) of selected groups, including oral traditions that reveal both spiritual values and perceptions of the distant past.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 312 - Early Middle Ages
2015-2016 Catalog Year
From the decline of the Roman Empire to the First Crusade; Analysis of religious, social, economic, and technological factors, influencing the development of medieval European Civilization.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 313 - High and Late Middle Ages
2015-2016 Catalog Year
The flowering and decline of the Middle Ages; Emphasis on cultural developments with analysis of social, political, religious, and economic factors affecting medieval European Civilization.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 314 - Ancient Greece
2015-2016 Catalog Year
From origins to conquest by Rome; emphasis upon cultural and political developments.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 315 - Ancient Rome
2015-2016 Catalog Year
From Prehistoric Italy to 565 A.D.; analysis of Rome’s rise and decline.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 317 - Renaissance Europe
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Cultural, social, and economic life of fourteenth and fifteenth century Western Europe with particular emphasis on cultural life in Italy.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 318 - Reformation Europe
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Cultural, social, and economic life of sixteenth century Western Europe with particular emphasis on late humanism, the Protestant and Catholic Reformations.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 322 - Nazi Germany
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 323 - Europe Between the World Wars, 1917-1939
2015-2016 Catalog Year
A comprehensive survey of European history from the Russian Revolution to the outbreak of the Second World War with emphasis on ideological movements (Communism, Fascism and Democracy).
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 324 - Europe Since 1945
2015-2016 Catalog Year
A survey of the major events and issues of European history since 1945.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 325 - Modern Germany
2015-2016 Catalog Year
German history and civilization during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 326 - World War II
2015-2016 Catalog Year
A survey of the major events and issues of World War II. Comparisons will be drawn between the European and Asian war theatres.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 328 - History of Women in Modern Europe
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course is an analysis of the condition of women in Europe from pre-Industrial society to the present, concentrating on the contributions they have made to social and economic history. Students will be introduced to the importance of gender not only in historical development, but also as a tool of analysis as they confront social, economic, and political developments in European history.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 329 - The Cold War
2015-2016 Catalog Year
The course offers an in-depth look at the Cold War, probably the single most important foreign relations factor influencing the US and the Soviet Union during the period 1946-1991.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 330 - History of Russia to 1900
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course will deal with the origins and development of Russian history up to 1900.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 331 - Twentieth Century Russia
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Political, social, economic development from the reign of Nicholas II to the present with particular emphasis on the Russian Revolution and formation of Stalin’s totalitarian regime.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 341 - America’s Vietnam War
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course will deal with the origins, development, and outcome of America’s involvement in Vietnam, 1945—1973
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 342 - United States Diplomacy in the Twentieth Century
2015-2016 Catalog Year
A study of the factors explaining the emergence of the United States as a world power, and an analysis of the relationships between internal developments, dominant personalities, foreign events and specific foreign policies in the twentieth century.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 344 - American Immigration and Ethnic History
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course examines the history of migration to colonial North America and the United States. The course addresses differences in the voluntary immigration experience, forced migration, and “migration” through conquest. The development of ethnic and racial identities in the United States are linked to these immigration/migration patterns and to legal constructions conceived in immigration and naturalization law. Other themes include internal migration, the history of nativism up to present debates regarding “illegal immigration,” and the development of racial/ethnic communities.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 345 - The Early Republic: US 1789-1848
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course covers one of the most complex periods in U.S. history, a time marked by democratic ferment, territorial expansion, increased national- ism and growing sectionalism. Through lectures, group discussions, various readings, papers and essay exams, students will learn about the people, ideas, institutions and events that shaped the new nation.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 346 - History of Organized Crime
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Deals with the nature and problems of organized crime in America—realities, myths and stereotypes.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 348 - Women in Twentieth Century United States
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course examines the role women have played in the United States in the twentieth century. Migration and immigration, politics, labor (in and outside the home), economics, and race will be discussed, with particular attention paid to the construction of gender roles and its effect on the behavior and expectations of both men and women, as well as children. The transformation of the meaning of “feminism” over the course of the twentieth century will frame much of the course.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 350 - Slavery In America to 1865
2015-2016 Catalog Year
A historical analysis of the development of black communities from colonization to the end of Reconstruction. The major theme will be the mutual impact that blacks and whites have had upon each other.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 352 - The Gilded Ages and Progressive Era
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course examines the period between the end of Reconstruction (1877) and 1920. Migration and immigration, politics, labor, social movements, economics, gender and race will be discussed. The transformation of the country from agricultural to industrialized, inhabited from coast to coast, comes at large social, educational and reform costs.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing. Â
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 353 - The Black Power Movement
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course explores and analyzes the origins, development, and legacy of the watershed Black Power movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The course examines how Black Power represented a critical turning point in black-white relations in the United States, as well as in how African Americans viewed themselves.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 354 - The Indian in American History
2015-2016 Catalog Year
The epic conflict of Indians and non-Indians and its impact on more widely known American white history.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Fall
NOTE: Slide lectures.
credit: 3
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HIS 356 - Civil War and Reconstruction
2015-2016 Catalog Year
An in-depth study of the factors that caused the American Civil War, and the efforts to restore the Confederate States, with an emphasis on the varying historical interpretations.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 363 - The American Revolution
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Causes, dramatic events, and consequences of the American Revolution from the Salem witch trials through the Constitution.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
NOTE: Slide lectures.
credit: 3
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HIS 367 - Global Disease
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course will examine global health crises, examining the same disease across temporal and spatial dimensions. The objective of this course are to critically examine the events , ideas, movements and understandings of science, health and illness that have shaped how society responds to disease.
Prerequisites: Upper division standing
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 368 - Issues in American Medicine
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course examines the American medical system, and how the medical care received today is a legacy of the system’s evolution in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Alternative medical treatments and questions about the value of medical technology have long been concerns in our health care system. The notion of who or what is healthy is influenced by geography, race, gender, and ethnic class. Combined, these many factors also affect the care one might receive, in the nineteenth or the twenty-first century.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 369 - The United States Since 1945
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Intermediate level study of the history of the United States since 1945. Focuses on political, diplomatic, economic, social and cultural change.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 370 - Topics in History
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Fall, Spring
NOTE: Credit: 1 to 3. Repeatable for a total of 15 credits.
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HIS 373 - History of Mexico
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Beginning with a brief introduction to the country’s great pre-Hispanic civilizations, the course moves toward the creation of new societies and cultures characteristic of the colonial period. The 19th and 20th centuries will serve to discuss the political struggles over the definition of nation and citizen.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 381 - History of Human Trafficking
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Economic globalization has resulted in increased migration of labor and a new form of slavery called Trafficking. Trafficking is often discussed as a new problem without reference to slavery and other forms of bondage. This course focuses on the history of human Trafficking from ancient times to the present.
Prerequisite: Upper Division Standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 382 - The State and Society in Late Imperial China
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course will take an interdisciplinary approach to examine the Late Imperial Chinese society through analyzing source materials. It also exposes students to intellectual debates such as: the origin of underdevelopment, the nature of the late imperial state, Chinese demographic patterns, gender relations, violence and crime, collective action, and state making.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 383 - Modern China
2015-2016 Catalog Year
A brief sketch of traditional society followed by analysis of China’s reaction to the Western assault, revolution, the role of the Japanese, the Communist Era, and China’s position in the 1970’s.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 384 - Contemporary Chinese History Through Film: 1900 to Present
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course uses visual materials as historical sources to introduce themes in contemporary Chinese history from ca. 1900 to present. The course investigates the following subjects: the injustice of the “feudal” society, imperialism and nationalism, the CCP Revolution, Mao’s Socialist China, Post-reform life in China.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 385 - Modern Japan
2015-2016 Catalog Year
A brief sketch of traditional society followed by analysis of the rise of militarism, war, the Occupation, and Japan’s position in the 1970’s.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 389 - History of the Middle East
2015-2016 Catalog Year
An examination of the development of Islam and history of the Islamic peoples from Muhammed to World War I, with emphasis on the nature of the region, is spread and its impact on institutions.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 391 - Modernization and Development in Africa
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course is a survey of the various theories of Development and Modernization designed to bring about social change in Africa and the history of their application since the end of the Atlantic Slave trade. Prerequisites: Upper division standing
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 392 - History of Islam in Africa
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course focuses on the history of Islam in Africa and African influences on Islamic institutions and practices in and outside Africa. Islam is a major world religion practiced by a quarter of Africa’s population. Islam contributed immensely and still contributes to shaping Africa’s history.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 393 - Women and War in the Twentieth Century
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course will examine women’s experiences in war during the twentieth century on both the battlefront and the homefront. The course will focus predominantly on women in the United States, Europe and Asia. The periods to be covered include World War I and the Russian Revolution, World War II and the Holocaust, the Vietnam War, and the Yugoslav Civil War.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 412 - Seminar in Women’s History
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Intensive study of a particular topic in women’s history, with emphasis on research and writing.
Prerequisite: HIS 302 and upper division standing for majors; Upper division standing for concentrates/minors.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 416 - Seminar in Medieval History
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Independent research and intensive study of selected topics on Medieval Europe between the decline of Rome and the Renaissance.
Prerequisite: HIS 302 and upper division standing for majors; Upper division standing for concentrates/minors.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 424 - Seminar in Modern European History
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Intensive study of limited period with emphasis upon individual research.
Prerequisite: HIS 302 and upper division standing for majors; Upper division standing for concentrates/minors.
Offered: Fall
NOTE: May be repeated for credit with departmental approval.
credit: 3
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HIS 450 - Seminar in American History
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Intensive study of limited period with emphasis on individual research.
Prerequisite: HIS 302 and upper division standing for majors; Upper division standing for concentrates/minors.
Offered: Fall, Spring
NOTE: May be repeated for credit with departmental approval.
credit: 3
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HIS 470 - Reading Seminar in History
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This undergraduate seminar will emphasize readings in secondary sources (scholarly monographs and articles) selected to deepen students’ knowledge of the content and historiography of certain topics and geographical areas. The students will read and criticize the works of others to explore, in particular, how specific perspectives and methods of inquiry help shape our understandings of the past. Prerequisite: HIS 302 for majors, upper division standing for non-majors.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HIS 482 - Seminar in Third World History
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Specific topics will vary depending upon student and faculty interests.
Prerequisite: HIS 302 and upper division standing for majors; Upper division standing for concentrates/minors.
Offered: Fall
NOTE: May be offered in more than one section with different content and may be repeated for credit with departmental approval.
credit: 3
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HIS 491 - History Honors II
2015-2016 Catalog Year
(Research)
Prerequisite: Upper division standing and permission of History Chair.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
NOTE: May be repeated up to six hours.
credit: 3
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HIS 498 - Internship in History
2015-2016 Catalog Year
A course designed for students who wish to take part in a job placement and work experience that is related to their academic program. Students will work in a part-time or full-time position in industry, business, government or an agency setting for the purpose of testing academic learning in a work situation. Available for 0 to 12 credits.
Prerequisite: Acceptance in the Experiential Learning Program, upper division standing, and permission of faculty sponsor.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
NOTE: This course may be taken in conjunction with an internship arranged by the Experiential Learning Program on campus or it may be taken as an internship arranged by the History Department. In either case up to six hours may be accepted as history credit.
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HIS 499 - Independent Study
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Individual study in the field of history under the direct supervision of a department faculty member.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing and instructor permission.
Offered: Spring
credit: 1 to 3
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HON 140 - Western Intellectual Heritage
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course will provide students with a basic knowledge of the dominant intellectual, social, economic, and institutional forces that have shaped Western civilization from its earliest roots in the ancient Near East to the start of the Industrial Revolution in the 17th century to the present. It will examine the development of Judaism, the Greek and Roman worlds, the rise of Christianity, medieval society, the Renaissance, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, industrialization, European colonialism, the two World Wars, and post-World War II society. Special attention will be paid to the impact of these movements, as well as of non-Western influences, on our modern experience.
Offered: Fall, Spring
credit: 3
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HON 141 - American Intellectual Heritage
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Using a topic or theme selected by the instructor, this course provides students with an overview of intellectual currents in American history. Students will be asked to consider—and reconsider—some of the conventional and dominant narratives of American culture.
Offered: Fall, Spring
credit: 3
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HON 150 - Introduction to Honors
2015-2016 Catalog Year
HON 150 is a freshman seminar that introduces Honors Program students to interdisciplinary thinking, to critical thinking, to different ways of knowing, and to the Honors Program itself.
Offered: Fall
credit: 1
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HON 200 - Introduction to the Social Sciences
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Beginning with some questions common to all the social sciences, such as the nature of social facts, objectivity vs. neutrality, and the criteria of science, students will explore the Western and non-Western origins of social inquiry, the emergence of the individual social sciences anthropology, economics, history, political science, psychology, and sociology, and the fundamental concepts, methods, assumptions, applications, and perspectives of these fields.
Prerequisite: HON 140 and HON 141; or HON 140 and HON 204; or HON 141 and HON 204 or Honors Program Director permission
Offered: Fall, Spring
credit: 3
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HON 201 - Interpreting the Arts
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course examines the purposes and development of art, music, film, theater dance, and writing within their historical and cultural contexts. Students will consider how the fine and performing arts evoke a sense of, or respond to, the cultures and experiences that give rise to them.
Prerequisite: HON 140 and HON 141; or HON 140 and HON 204, or HON 141 and HON 204 or Honors Program Director permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
NOTE: The course may be organized around a unifying topic.
credit: 3
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HON 204 - Honors Writing about Literature
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This is an Honors course in critical reading of a variety of genres (fiction, non-fiction, drama, poetry, film) with an emphasis in writing analytical, interpretive responses to selected texts.
Offered: Fall, Spring
credit: 3
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HON 300 - Natural Science in the Human Context
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Although we tend to think of the natural sciences—which include astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, and physics—as having an immutable existence of their own, all emerged in response to human needs. Students will consider such issues as how and why science develops, how and why the different scientific disciplines emerged, how they differ from each other, how they are the same, what their common questions are, why the scientific method became a cornerstone of the disciplines and of Western thought, and the role of science in today’s society.
Prerequisite: HON 140 and HON 141; or HON 140 and HON 141; or HON 141 and HON 204 or Honors Program Director permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
credit: 3
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HON 301 - In Search of Meaning
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Students will consider the nature of knowledge, interpretation, belief, and meaning. They will consider questions such as: Is knowledge discovered or constructed: How do we know what we know? Why do we believe what we believe? How are knowledge and belief related? How do they differ? How do we give meaning or significance to the things in our lives? Students will learn to apply concepts related to knowledge, belief, and meaning to their everyday lives.
Prerequisite: HON 200 and HON 201; or HON 200 and HON 300; or HON 201 and HON 300 or Honors Program Director permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
credit: 3
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HON 350 - Beginning the Honors Thesis
2015-2016 Catalog Year
The purpose of this course is to consider the nature of research or creativity in the student’s field of study and to help student begin a quality honors thesis. Students will meet regularly with the Director or Associate Director of the Honors Program to discuss thesis requirements, problems, and possible solutions.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall
credit: 1
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HRM 385 - Organizational Behavior
2015-2016 Catalog Year
An exploration and analysis of the interaction between human beings in and with formal organizations. The in-depth approach to the complex relationships of organizational variables such as, perception, motivation and personality and environmental variables such as organizational leadership, climate, social factors and change.
Prerequisite: MGT 261
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
credit: 3
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HRM 386 - Human Resource Management
2015-2016 Catalog Year
An introduction to personnel management. Focus will be on introducing the student to the theories, practices, and problems encountered in securing, allocating, compensating, developing, and effectively using human resources in organizations.
Prerequisite: MGT 261 and minimum first semester junior standing, or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
credit: 3
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HRM 458 - Human Resource Staffing
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course uses a theoretical and empirical framework for analyzing the major staffing activities of human resource planning, recruitment, selection and orientation. Study of relevant concepts, problems, methods, research, sensitivity to diverse workforce and legislation related to each of these activities will be incorporated in the course. Emphasis is directed to developing comprehensive analysis and decision-making skills.
Prerequisite: HRM 386 and minimum first semester junior standing, or instructor permission.
Offered: Spring
credit: 3
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HRM 459 - Labor Relations
2015-2016 Catalog Year
The study of labor relations resulting in collective bargaining. An examination of the historical development of the labor movement and the structure of union organizations and federal agencies involved in collective bargaining. Union organizing, concerted activities, collective bargaining and contract administration will be addressed.
Prerequisite: Minimum first semester junior standing. Advisement Recommendation: Completion of Basic Skills Requirements and Knowledge Foundation courses.
Offered: Spring
credit: 3
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HRM 462 - Employment Law Employment
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Law examines the relationship between public policy and current human resource management practices. Major emphasis is placed on developing an understanding of the content of personnel law, its enforcement, and its day to day application. Topics investigated will be selected from among the following: employment discrimination law, wage and salary legislation, state unemployment law, workers’ compensation law, privacy issues, employment-at-ill, and common-law employment issues.
Prerequisite: Minimum first semester junior standing.
Offered: Fall, Spring
credit: 3
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HRM 463 - Compensation Management
2015-2016 Catalog Year
The development and maintenance of internally equitable and externally competitive wage and salary programs is studied. Major emphasis is given to the role compensation plays in attracting, retaining, and motivating employees. Topics investigated include compensation as an exchange process, motivation theory, public policy and its effect on compensation, job analysis and evaluation, pay structure determination, performance evaluation, incentives and incentive plans, economic and noneconomic forms of compensation, special issues of managerial compensation, and problems of compensation control.
Prerequisite: HRM 386 and minimum first semester junior standing, or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall
credit: 3
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HRM 464 - Senior Seminar in Human Resource Management
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course helps senior students in the Human Resource Management major integrate knowledge of human resource management acquired from previous HRM courses. Students learn how effective staffing, compensation, performance management, and other human resource functions impact organizational performance. The course provides an integrative experience that enables students to solve human resource management problems using multiple perspectives.
Prerequisite: HRM 385 and 386, minimum first semester senior standing, and a major in human resource management, or instructor permission.
Offered: Spring
credit: 3
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HSC 101 - Introduction to Health Promotion and Wellness
2015-2016 Catalog Year
An introduction to health promotion and wellness as a profession and career. Topics include competencies for health professionals (CHES), history of health promotion and wellness, health determinants, philosophical bases of health, theories of behavioral/organizational change, resources and professional organizations. Particular emphasis on the process and practice of health promotion in society, the organization, and the individual.
Offered: Fall, Spring
credit: 3
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HSC 120 - Human Body Systems
2015-2016 Catalog Year
The interrelationship of the physiological processes and anatomy of the human body with respect to wellness, movement and exercise.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HSC 230 - Health and Technology
2015-2016 Catalog Year
The use of technology and its potential influence on population health both in terms of positive and negative effects. Students learn to create a healthier world by leveraging social influence to engage people in healthy activities. This can be accomplished through gaming, mobile devices, intrinsic and extrinsic rewards via technology and social networks.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HSC 232 - Introduction to Personal Training
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course is designed to give students the knowledge, skills, and dispositions necessary to prepare for the American Council of Exercise (ACE) Personal Trainer Certification Exam (or other related certifications) and become effective personal trainers.
Prerequisite: Minimum second semester freshmen
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HSC 241 - Critical Health Issues
2015-2016 Catalog Year
The course confronts the vital health issues of our time—drug use and abuse, human sexuality, mental health, pollution problems, consumer health and common health problems of students.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
credit: 3
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HSC 243 - Standard First Aid and CPR
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course is designed for individuals who do not expect to meet daily medical emergencies, yet who want to be prepared in the event of accidents or sudden illnesses. This course develops individuals’ knowledge in First Aid and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. Successful completion leads to certification in First Aid and Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HSC 250 - Concepts of Peer Health Education
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course provides an opportunity to explore the history of peer influence on health promotion planning and programming. It will examine the methods and means of applying peer to peer outreach on health related issues and trends from the elementary to post-secondary student populations. Particular emphasis will investigate various relationships between health behavior choices and practices which are shaped by values, norms and society.
Offered: Fall, Spring
credit: 3
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HSC 300 - Emergency Medical Technician-Basic
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course is a study of the methods and techniques involved in emergency assessment, care and transport of the sick and injured. Topics include assessment techniques and principles of treatment for medical and traumatic emergencies. In addition to lecture and lab sessions, internships in both clinical and field settings are required. Successful completion of this course results in certification as an Emergency Medical Technician by the New York State Department of Health.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
Offered: Fall, Spring
NOTE: Lecture and lab.
credit: 6
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HSC 310 - Disease: Lifestyle and Environment
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Principles of environmental health and safety, and disease prevention and control will be examined. Topics include epidemiology, occupational health and safety, and disease prevention. The role of society, the work-place, and the individual in relationship to disease prevention will be explored.
Prerequisite: BIO 101 OR 120 OR 203.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
credit: 3
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HSC 315 - Nutrition Concepts
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course focuses on current nutritional concepts and controversies related to human health and nutritional requirements. The material provides students with the knowledge and skills necessary to maintain and adopt healthy nutritional behaviors, as well as the ability to determine their own dietary needs now and in the future.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
credit: 3
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HSC 325 - Women’s Health Issues
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course is designed to identify and discuss various women’s health issues relevant to our every day lives. This course is designed to help persons develop and maintain a sense of responsibility for their physical, mental, sexual, and social well-being and to make sound decisions based on accurate information of women’s health-related issues.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HSC 332 - Essentials of Exercise Physiology
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Exercise physiology examines the physiological responses and adaptations of the human organism to physical activity.
Prerequisite: BIO 101 or BIO 203 or BIO 120
Offered: Fall, Spring
credit: 3
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HSC 333 - Human Response to Stress
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course focuses on the variables and issues that affect how humans respond to stress on the personal, behavioral, social, and organizational levels; provides practical and theoretical aids for coping with and managing the stress response; and, provides students with the opportunity to assess their own responses to stress, and to apply management techniques to moderate these responses.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
Offered: Fall, Spring
credit: 3
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HSC 334 - Kinesiology
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course will examine these areas of study within Kinesiology from scientific, applied and experiential perspectives. Students will study fundamental/introductory concepts associated within each area of Kinesiology, explore those concepts within research and applied contexts and complete activities in which they experience various dimensions of those concepts (e.g., labs, readings, presentations, guest speakers, interviews).
Prerequisite: Prerequisite: HSC 332
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HSC 343 - Drug Use and Abuse in Society
2015-2016 Catalog Year
The course explores the social, psychological, pharmacological and legal aspects of the use by humans of chemical agents, i.e., drugs and narcotics, alcohol and tobacco, which affect their behavior. The role of education will be stressed.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
credit: 3
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HSC 353 - Wellness and Aging
2015-2016 Catalog Year
An overview of healthy aging and wellness promotion for the older adult. Topics include healthy aging, health perspectives and aging, eight dimensions of wellness, and age-associated diseases and prevention strategies.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HSC 363 - Emotional Wellness
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course will be an examination of emotional, spiritual, social and mental wellness. This course will emphasize primary and secondary prevention strategies. Topics include: Self-Esteem, Self-Efficacy, Empowerment, Happiness, Anger and Anger Management, Relationships, Life Goals, and Self-Actualization.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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HSC 386 - Wellness for Contemporary Living
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course emphasizes wellness as a positive approach to health through improving oneself beyond the absence of disease. The course is designed to develop awareness, self responsibility, strategies and techniques of managing one’s own health. It will explore such topics as caring for the physical self, using the mind constructively, channeling stress energies positively, expressing emotions effectively, becoming creatively involved with others, and staying in touch with the environment.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
Offered: Fall, Spring
credit: 3
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HSC 397 - Exploratory Practicum in Wellness Management
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course provides students an experiential learning opportunity through fieldwork in real-life health promotion/wellness settings. Students observe and participate in day-to-day work assignments under the supervision of one or more practicing professionals.
Prerequisite: Instructor Permission
Offered: Not on a regular basis
NOTE: Students may receive one to three credit hours of academic credit. Forty hours of professional contact hours are required for each credit earned. Students must apply for admission to the course during the semester preceding their practicum.
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HSC 399 - Independent Study
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Individual study in the field of health science under the direct supervision of a department faculty member.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing and instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 1 to 3
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HSC 410 - Women’s Health Issues
2015-2016 Catalog Year
Please contact department for information on this course.
Offered: Spring
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HSC 415 - Nutrition Controversies
2015-2016 Catalog Year
This course focuses on some of the current controversies and research in areas of nutrition, diet, and health. In addition to becoming more aware of these controversies, students in this course will gain experience interpreting scientific literature to determine whether or not there is support for making statements for use by the general public.
Prerequisite: HSC 315.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
credit: 3
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