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NAS 350 - Contemporary Native America
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Current issues in Indian country. The course focuses on contemporary social and political trends, and on their implications. Comparisons will be made between United States and Canadian Native communities, issues and policies.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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NAS 360 - American Indian Sovereignty
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course examines the unique political relationships established between North American Indians and European colonial powers, and the effects of those relationships on subsequent sovereignty issues involving the United States. The focus is on the historical, legal, and cultural factors underlying interpretations of sovereignty, past and present.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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NAS 390 - Images of Native Americans in Film
2019-2020 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.
Prerequisite: Six hours of NAS credit OR nine hours of English credit and Upper division standing, or instructor permission.
Equivalent Course: ENG 390
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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NAS 499 - Independent Study
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Individual study in the field of native american studies under the direct supervision of a department faculty member.
Prerequisite: Senior standing, permission of instructor and program director.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 1 to 6
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Oceanography |
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OCE 100 - Oceanography
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Survey of the primary physical, chemical, geological, and biological phenomena of the oceans. Includes study of ocean currents, waves, tides, structure and physiography of the ocean basins, marine sediments and marine ecology, heat budget and thermal processes, and the impact of humans on the ocean environment.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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OCE 399 - Independent Study
2019-2020 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.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 1 to 6
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Peace and Conflict Studies |
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PCS 200 - Peace and Conflict Studies
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course surveys the interdisciplinary field of peace and conflict studies, covering both its theoretical and practical aspects. Topics include understandings of peace, nonviolent action, the causes and prevention of war, conflict resolution, international law and institutions, ethics, human well-being, and social change.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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Philosophy |
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PHL 100 - Introduction to Problems of Philosophy
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
A beginning study of a selected number of problems in philosophy such as the nature of reality, freedom versus determinism, the nature of matter, the nature of mind, the mind-body problem, the nature of space and time, the question of how we can know and by what means, the question of the existence of God, the problem of death and the possibility of immortality.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3
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PHL 111 - Valid Reasoning I
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
An introduction to formal techniques for determining the validity of deductive arguments. Students will learn to complete proofs in symbolic propositional logic, and to complete proofs in symbolic quantified logic with sentences having at least one quantifier.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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PHL 205 - Ethics I: Introduction to Classical Ethics
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
How should human beings lead their lives? How does Right differ from Wrong? Good from Bad? What is Virtue? In this course we introduce and critically evaluate the attempts of several major Western philosophers to answer these and related questions. The goal is to uncover the strengths and weaknesses of their views in order to help the student to understand better the nature of morality, and to develop the skills and background necessary for independent thought on these matters.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3
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PHL 220 - Theory of Knowledge
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course consists of an introductory critical study of the nature and the possibility of knowledge. During the course we will examine differing philosophical views about issues such as: the relationship between opinion, belief and knowledge; the difference between objectivity and subjectivity; and alternative answers to questions such as “Can we know any- thing and, if so, how can we know it?”
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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PHL 235 - History of Ancient Philosophy
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course is designed to provide a student with broad familiarity with the most important figures in Ancient Western philosophy. Some themes which are found throughout the course are: What is the nature of Reality? What is the nature of Human Beings and how do they fit unto the larger scheme of Things? What Things are of genuine value? How should one live? Concentration is greatest on Plato and Aristotle. Some attention is also given to the philosophers before Socrates, to the Neoplatonists, the Roman Stoics and some early Medieval thinkers.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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PHL 236 - History of Modern Philosophy
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course covers major developments in European philosophy from the end of the Middle Ages through the Enlightenment. Attention is given to problems concerning the nature of Knowledge and Reality which had emerged near the end of the Middle Ages, were sharpened by the birth of modern science and the Protestant Reformation, and which posed major challenges to long-standing traditional views. Responses to these challenges were made by such major thinkers as Descartes, Locke, and Kant. These responses are studied in this course.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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PHL 295 - His Western Sci & Tech
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
A study of the central developments in Western science from the earliest written traditions to Copernicus’ theoretical innovations together with an examination of the mutual influence of theory and technology.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHL 300 - Ethics and Policy in the Digital Age
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
In this course, we will explore key ethical theories of Aristotle, Immanuel Kant, and John Stuart Mill, among others, and apply these theories to decisions about individual and social problems confronting electrical engineers, computer engineers, software engineers, and information scientists, thereby satisfying the Humanities and Writing general education requirements.
Prerequisite: ISC 150 or CSC 212; or instructor permission.
Equivalent Course: ISC 300
Offered: Fall and Spring
Credit: 3
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PHL 305 - Ethics II: Contemporary Ethics
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course investigates selected topics in ethics of special interest to contemporary philosophers. For example: How are we to evaluate the morality of abortion, war, reverse discrimination, technological advancement, and our treatment of the environment and future generations? Is moral responsibility possible in a deterministic world? Is universal truth about right and wrong consistent with the observed personal and social relativity of moral belief? How can we improve on the classical accounts of right, wrong and Justice? What, precisely, do “right”, “wrong”, “good”, “bad” and other moral terms mean?
Note: Topics will vary.
Prerequisite: PHL 205 or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHL 306 - Business Ethics
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course investigates moral dilemmas which arise for business persons, and critically evaluates attempts to resolve these dilemmas. The responsibilities of business and persons in business vis a vis such things as: employee health and welfare, profitability, company loyalty, product safety and reliability, marketing techniques, the environment, and self-regulation will be illustrated and investigated through the examination of real cases which have arisen in business contexts. More general ethical issues relevant to the resolution of these dilemmas will also be investigated, for example, the nature of right, wrong and justice, and the moral foundations of capitalism.
Prerequisite: PHL 205 or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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PHL 307 - Philosophy, Public Policy and Public Affairs
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course is devoted to a critical examination of issues and assumptions that are pertinent to the understanding of decision making in the case of public policy and affairs. Among the questions that form the foci of the course are questions such as: How should decisions about public policy or affairs be made? Could public policy be rational but unethical? Could ruthlessness be ethical if it is displayed by a public official? Must one blow the whistle on wrong doing? What is a public interest or public good? To what degree are citizens responsible for the decisions of public officials?
Prerequisite: Three hours of philosophy or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHL 308 - Medical Ethics
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
In this course, we will discuss some of the philosophical questions encountered with respect to medicine and medical technology. We will examine arguments concerning the ethical dimensions of some of the following issues: (e.g.) reproductive technology, abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide, genetic engineering and the use of genetic information, HIV, AIDS, and the physician-patient relationship, research on human subjects, allocation of medical resources, and medical errors.
Prerequisite: PHL 205 or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHL 309 - Logic, Language, and Thought
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This class explores the limits of reason, and what these limits mean for a range of human endeavors. The class brings together material from the philosophy of logic, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of mind, focusing upon the historical quest to formally understand the nature of reason. To achieve this goal, the class explores: the dream of a logically perfect language, the nature of infinity, paradoxes, the limits of computation, and difference between determinism and predictability. Once some of the limits of reason have been identified and clarified, students explore a range of practical problems where such limits may have significant real-world implications. The course should be of interest to majors in philosophy, psychology, cognitive science, or to anyone curious about the nature and limits of knowledge.
Prerequisite: PHL 111 OR MAT 215 OR CSC 221 OR CSC 212 OR COG 166 and upper division standing, or instructor permission.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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PHL 310 - Valid Reasoning II
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Explores quantified logic with sentences having more than one quantifier; additional and alternative applications of logic, such as set theory or modal logic; and metalogic. Students will be introduced to principles such as axioms systems, completeness, models, and mathematical induction.
Prerequisite: PHL 111 or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHL 313 - Philosophy of Language
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
In this course we investigate the nature of natural language and some of its basic concepts. We shall consider questions such as; What is the relation between language and the world it describes? How did that relationship emerge? How is language related to the way we perceive the world? Are humans the only creatures on this planet with language? What criteria could be used to answer these questions?
Prerequisite: Three credits of philosophy or linguistics, or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHL 314 - Existentialism
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course pursues the idea that the existential account of authentic existence may provide the clues needed for an entirely new, individually centered, existential way of rethinking traditional philosophical problems such as of personal knowledge, ethics and value, the body, feeling, the senses and human sexuality, as well as the theory of ultimate reality.
Prerequisite: PHL 220 OR 236, or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHL 317 - Philosophy of Religion
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
An introductory, philosophical examination of the nature of religion and religious belief and such problems as those of religious knowledge, faith versus reason, God, immortality and evil.
Prerequisite: Three hours of philosophy or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHL 321 - Philosophy of Science
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
In a scientifically and technologically based culture can one afford to be ignorant of the structure of science? Do the last three centuries of scientific work suggest that science has a unique grip on the way to gain knowledge? What is the rationality of science? This course addresses the need to understand the claims to knowledge that scientists make and examines the structure and function of scientific laws and theories and the way they are related to experiments.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing and one of the following PHL 111 OR 220 OR 236 OR 296, or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHL 322 - Philosophy of Social Sciences
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course offers a specialized critical study of the concepts, theories, and methodologies of the social sciences. Among the issues to be addressed in the course are the very possibility of a scientific study of human action and the existence of a model of science to which the social sciences have to conform.
Prerequisite: PHL 111 OR 220 OR 236, or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHL 323 - Philosophy of Biology
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Investigates philosophical questions that arise concerning findings and assumptions of modern biology. Topics may include: the nature of life; explaining teleological discourse; implications of different choices for the unit of selection; organism and species identity; and whether evolution has a direction.
Prerequisite: Either PHL 111 and an upper division philosophy course, or PHL 321, or six hours in the biological sciences.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHL 337 - History of Recent Philosophy
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
A critical study of Western philosophical thinkers from the mid-nineteenth century to the first half of the twentieth. Including movements such as Post-Kantian Idealism, Positivism, Pragmatism, Marxism, Existentialism, Phenomenology, Neorealism, Process Philosophy, and Analytic Philosophy.
Prerequisite: PHL 236 or instructor permission.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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PHL 348 - Philosophy and Feminism
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
In this course the philosophical underpinnings of feminist theorizing, specifically as they are revealed in feminist critiques of philosophical positions, issues, concepts and theories or their absence, will be critically examined.
Prerequisite: PHL 100 OR PHL 205 OR WST 200, or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHL 370 - Metaphysics
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course investigates the nature and being of the Self, the Universe and Ultimate Reality. The course will focus on such questions as: What constitutes personal identity? What is the nature of space and time? Is there anything permanent?
Prerequisite: PHL 111 and one of the following: PHL 220 OR 235 OR PHL 236 or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHL 442 - Social and Political Philosophy
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Some conception of society is presupposed by every political philosophy and ethical theory. In this course, basic theories of political philosophy will be examined and alternative conceptions of society and their relations to political philosophy and ethical theory will be critically examined. Special attention will be given to the ideas and theoretical placement of individuality, community, work and family.
Prerequisite: Six hours in philosophy or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHL 443 - Philosophy of Law
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course is a critical philosophical examination of the nature and function of law, legal practices and institutions, and legal reasoning. Some of the following questions will be addressed in the course: What is law? What is its proper function? How are our own legal practices and institutions related to this function? Are there better alternatives? How is legality related to morality? Special attention will be given to the conceptual and moral foundations of alternative accounts of the nature, justification, interpretation, and limits of law.
Prerequisite: Three hours in philosophy or instructor permission.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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PHL 450 - Current Topics in Philosophy Seminar
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
An advanced study of a selected topic in contemporary philosophy. Topics will vary from year to year.
Prerequisite: Six hours in philosophy or instructors permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHL 471 - Philosophy of Mind
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Without thinking much about it, we rely on some sort of contrast between physical things and mental things. What is the basis of this contrast? Are mental things like believing, hoping, perceiving, and feeling just various sorts of physical things? Or is the contrast so strong that mental things are entirely different in nature from any kinds of physical things or physical events? Or is our habit of relying on a contrast between them simply based on confusion or on worn-out, indefensible assumptions? We address these questions and others in this course.
Prerequisite: PHL 220 Or PHL 236 Or COG 166, or instructor permission.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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PHL 496 - Joint Seminar in Philosophy-Psychology
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Conceptual and epistemological problems associated with the nature of psychology, such as the following: the scientific status of certain psychological theories, e.g., the Freudian theory of personality; the issue of mind versus brain; the reduction of psychological concepts to those of physics; parapsychology.
Prerequisite: Twelve hours of philosophy or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHL 497 - Capstone Seminar in Philosophy
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
The capstone is a culminating experience for philosophy majors. One of the seminar’s main components is the completion of a student learning portfolio. The examples of written work in the portfolio will be used as one source of evidence for assessing learning outcomes in the philosophy major. It will provide important indicators of students’ progress toward mastering the main concepts and skills of philosophy.
Prerequisite: Eighteen hours of philosophy or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall.
Credit: 3
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PHL 499 - Independent Study
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Advanced study of selected topics.
Prerequisite: Three hours of philosophy and instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PPE 495 - Philosophy, Politics, and Economics Senior Capstone
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This seminar is the culminating experience for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) majors. The seminar will consider an important issue or important scholarly work from the perspective of each of the constituting disciplines of philosophy, political science, and economics. Students will write an interdisciplinary research paper integrating at least two of the three of the constituting disciplines.
Prerequisite: Senior standing.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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PPE 496 - Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This seminar is the culminating experience for Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) majors. It is to be combined with an existing capstone in Philosophy, Political Science, or Economics. The instructor will be from one of the constituting disciplines other than that of the capstone. The instructor will work with the student and the instructor of the combined capstone to guide the student to further develop an interdisciplinary perspective culminating in an interdisciplinary research paper.
Prerequisite: Senior standing and permission of the program director.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 1
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PED 137 - Basic Self Defense for Women (Rape Aggression Defense)
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
The study of realistic self-defense tactics and techniques for women. Emphasis is placed on awareness, prevention, risk reduction, risk avoidance, and basic hands-on defense training.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 1
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PED 215 - Principles, Philosophy, and Organization of Athletics in Education
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
An analysis of the concepts of athletic coaching including the coach as a professional teacher and educator and of the psychology of coaching most conducive to motivating maximum individual and team performance. Special attention is given to the conditions and techniques essential to successful coaching of competitive sports and to the common problems of coaching in the school and colleges of today.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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PED 225 - Underwater Diving (Scuba)
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Basic and advanced principles and techniques of scuba diving. Designed for the individual with little or no diving experience. Lectures cover physics and physiology, equipment, marine environment, diving safety and first aid.
Note: Course fee required.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 2
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PED 226 - Advanced Open Water Diving
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course introduces the certified diver to various aspects of diving which allows the student to expand their skills and experience. The course focuses on 5 areas including, Underwater Navigation, Deep Diving, Night Diving, Peak Performance Buoyancy and Wreck Diving.
Prerequisite: Permission of instructor.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 2
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PED 290 - Intercollegiate Athletics
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
A study of the individual techniques, team strategies, and sports psychology related to varsity sports participation. Attention will be given to team and individual training techniques. Safety aspects of aerobic and weight machine conditioning will be stressed. Individual self-esteem and successful teamwork in a competitive sports structure will be emphasized.
Prerequisite: Inclusion on the appropriate athletic team in a specific sport.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 1
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PED 295 - Life Skills
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course is based on the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) CHAMPS/Life Skills Program and is designed to assist the student-athlete at Oswego in exploring and developing life skills for success in the classroom, in sports, and in life. Students will assess, analyze and develop skills to enhance personal development.
Prerequisite: Participate in intercollegiate athletics or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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PED 325 - Women in Sport
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Historical reference and cultural implications concerning the woman athlete.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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PED 340 - Health Sciences Applied to Coaching
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
A study of the methods and techniques for prevention and first aid care of athletic injuries. Attention is given to appropriate athletic training procedures and equipment in a sports program.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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PED 350 - Theory and Techniques of Coaching
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
The course introduces basic concepts common to all sports. Topics will include a history of interscholastic athletics in New York State. The objectives, rules, regulations and policies of athletics, as well as performance skills, technical information, and organization and management of practices will also be among the topics covered. A 15-hour observation of approved coaching in the specific sport is required.
Prerequisite: PED 215
Offered: Fall and Spring.
Credit: 3
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PED 399 - Independent Study
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Individual study in the field of physical education 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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PED 440 - Athletic Training
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
In-depth study of athletic conditioning, athletic injury recognition, care and reconditioning. Emphasis is on greater knowledge applied in a realistic situation.
Prerequisite: PED 340
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PED 499 - Independent Study
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Individual study in the field of physical education 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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PHY 101 - Introductory Physics
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
An introductory quantitative survey of the principles of physics. (High school algebra required.) Newtonian mechanics, electricity and magnetism, light, and modern physics.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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PHY 111 - College Physics I
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
A course in mechanics, heat, properties of matter and wave motion. High school algebra and trigonometry required.
Co-requisite: Required laboratory
Offered: Fall
Credit: 4
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PHY 112 - General University Physics I
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
General principles of physics are taught in the areas of Mechanics, Oscillations and Fluids using a calculus-based approach.
Prerequisite: Prerequisite: MAT 210 previously or concurrently.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 4
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PHY 195 - Physics Seminar
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
A one semester seminar course for all students entering the physics program. This seminar is intended to inform the beginning physics student what the different interests that physicists and engineers have working in a modern technological society and the requirements needed to be successful in these fields.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 1
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PHY 204 - Physics of Sound and Music
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
An introductory one semester course covering the fundamentals of acoustics and their application to the sounds we hear and produce through music and musical instruments. The course requires no background in either science(physics) or music. Application will be taken from the fields of physics, engineering, psychology, speech, music, and musical instruments.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHY 205 - Energy and the Environment: A Global View
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course examines the global energy resources, practical uses of energy, usefulness of different energy resources, and impact of energy uses on the environment. This course also covers the principles underlying energy production and utilization.
Prerequisite: Minimum sophomore standing, or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHY 206 - Physics for Elementary Education Majors
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
An introductory survey with laboratory, of the principles of physics, including: mechanics, energy and its transformations, sound, electricity and magnetism, and properties of materials.
Note: Open to elementary education majors only.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 4
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PHY 212 - College Physics II
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
A course in electricity, magnetism, light and nuclear physics.
Prerequisite: PHY 111
Co-requisite: Required laboratory
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 4
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PHY 213 - General University Physics II
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
General principles of physics are taught in the areas of Electricity, Magnetism, Light, and Modern Physics using a calculus-based approach. (3 lectures and 1 lab.)
Prerequisite: PHY 112 and MAT 220 previously or concurrently.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 4
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PHY 303 - Beginnings of Science: World View
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course explores the origins and diffusion of the early scientific ideas and practices that were the necessary foundations of what came to be known as “Modern Science”. Through case studies of several different ancient and medieval cultures and civilizations, we examine the nature of science; the contexts in which it flourished; the cultural exchanges by which it was diffused; the reasons for its occasional decline; and its impact on society.
Prerequisite: Upper division standing
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHY 313 - General University Physics III
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
General principles of physics are taught in the areas of Wave Motion, Light, Optics, Special Relativity, and Elementary Modern Physics using a calculus-based approach.
Prerequisite: PHY 213 and MAT 210 and MAT 220.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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PHY 313 LAB - General University Physics III Laboratory
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
An intermediate physics laboratory in mechanics, electricity, and optics designed to develop the analytical skills of students in order to prepare them for more specialized physics laboratory courses and undergraduate research.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 1
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PHY 314 - Modern Physics
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Elementary quantum mechanics and applications; optical and x-ray spectra, fine structures and Zeeman effects.
Prerequisite: PHY 313 OR CHE 341, and MAT 240 previously or concurrently.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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PHY 314 LAB - Modern Physics Laboratory
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
An intermediate physics laboratory in modern physics designed to demonstrate the quantum nature of matter and prepare students for more advanced physics laboratory courses. Typical experiments carried out by students include x-ray diffraction, excitation and ionization potentials in atoms, optical spectra, and gamma ray scattering.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 1
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PHY 321 - Electronics
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Basic physical principles of electronic devices and circuits.
Prerequisite: PHY 314 and MAT 240.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHY 321 LAB - Electronics Laboratory
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Electronica Laboratory to accompany PHY 321 lecture.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 1
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PHY 322 - Optics
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Fourier transforms and matrix theory in optics. Coherence, diffraction, Kirchoff’s integral, hologram, lasers.
Prerequisite: PHY 314 and MAT 240.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHY 322 LAB - Optics Laboratory
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Optics Laboratory to accompany PHY 322 lecture.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 1
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PHY 340 - Thermodynamics and its Applications
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Laws of thermodynamics; heat engines, steam power plants, internal combustion engines, refrigeration; low temperature physics.
Prerequisite: PHY 314 and MAT 240.
Offered: Spring.
Credit: 3
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PHY 362 - Electrical Circuits and Machines
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
A rigorous treatment of the basic principles of electric circuit theory and applications.
Prerequisite: PHY 314 and MAT 240
Offered: Fall
Credit: 4
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PHY 363 - Materials Science
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
A rigorous treatment of the properties of crystalline and amorphous solids and the effects of impurities and defects on these properties. Metals, ceramics, polymers, and composites will be studied. A good understanding of these materials is needed in modern technology and science.
Prerequisite: PHY 314, MAT 240, CHE 111 and CHE 212.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHY 397 - Teaching Physics
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Course for senior level students who are peer mentoring.
Note: Variable credit one to two with two maximum credits allowed.
Prerequisite: Instructor permission required.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
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PHY 423 - Quantum Physics II
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
An introduction to the main concepts that have evolved in physics during the last half of the 20th century with particular emphasis on discoveries in the fields of nuclear, quantum, condensed matter, and high energy physics.
Prerequisite: PHY 314 and MAT 240
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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PHY 423 LAB - Quantum Physics II Laboratory
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
An advanced physics laboratory in modern physics designed to demonstrate the quantum nature of matter and particles. Typical experiments carried out by students include optical fine structure, magnetic field effects on electronic states in atoms, pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance, and Coulomb scattering of protons.
Co-requisite: PHY 423
Offered: Fall
Credit: 1
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PHY 431 - Advanced Laboratory in Nuclear Physics
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
An advanced laboratory project in low energy nuclear physics.
Prerequisite: PHY 423 with lab, or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHY 435 - Computational Physics
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course provides an introduction to standard numerical techniques for problem solving in physics. Programming languages (such as C++ and JAVA) and computer algebra system software (such as Maple) are used to generate the numerical solutions. Representative problems from dynamics, oscillatory motion, and quantum mechanics are featured.
Prerequisite: PHY 314 and MAT 240.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 4
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PHY 436 - Advanced Mechanics
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
The Lagrangian and Hamiltonian formulation of mechanics; applications to satellite and rigid body motion. Relativistic mechanics.
Prerequisite: PHY 314 and MAT 240.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 3
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PHY 437 - Advanced Quantum Mechanics
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Basic principles of wave mechanics, theory of angular momentum, applications to physical systems.
Prerequisite: MAT 240 and either PHY 314 OR CHE 342.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHY 439 - Advanced Electromagnetic Theory
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Maxwell’s equations and their applications in electrodynamics and plasma physics.
Prerequisite: PHY 213 and MAT 240.
Offered: Fall
Credit: 3
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PHY 467 - Special Topics in Physics
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Provides junior/senior physics students with in depth knowledge of one branch of physics. The course strengthens undergraduate knowledge of one branch of physics, bridges the gap between undergraduate and graduate level physics and leads in to PHY 496. Different topics will be studied each year, for example Astrophysics, Condensed Matter Physics, Nuclear Physics, etc. Students are expected to take this course only once, dealing with one special topic.
Prerequisite: PHY 314 and MAT 240, or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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PHY 496 - Senior Research Project
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
The senior research project provides an opportunity to better understand the role of theoretical and experimental research in physics by carrying out independent research under the close supervision of a faculty member. This research project involves reviewing the physics literature, conferencing with the faculty supervisor, and independent research or laboratory work if the project is experimental.
Prerequisite: PHY 423 with lab, or instructor permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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PHY 499 - Independent Study
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Individual study in the field of physics under the direct supervision of a department faculty member.
Prerequisite: Instructor permission.
Offered: Spring
Credit: 1 to 3
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POL 201 - Global Politics
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course examines approaches to studying global politics and explores a range of contemporary global issues. Specific issues addressed in the course will vary by instructor, but may include conflict, democratization, development, the environment, gender, the global economy, global security, human rights, media/technology, nationalism, religion, and social movements.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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POL 203 - Critical Thinking in Politics
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course teaches critical thinking by engaging students in major controversies over the analysis of key concepts in political science. It develops the student’s basic skills in reading complex texts and in recognizing and analyzing assumptions, structuring and organizing arguments, and understanding and analyzing symbolic discourses. Each section of the course will raise competing perspectives and will focus on critical thinking and argument-making skills. The course will combine theoretical readings with discussions of specific political issues.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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POL 205 - American Government and Politics
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
An introduction to the American federal system. Examines the Constitution, Congress, the presidency, Supreme Court, bureaucracy, political parties, elections, campaigns, interest groups, and the policy process.
Offered: Fall, Spring
Credit: 3
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POL 215 - Law and Courts
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This survey course introduces students to traditional and contemporary theories of law and legal interpretation, and develops their ability to engage in critical and comparative analysis of those theories. It also introduces students to the structure and organization of the state and federal court systems in the United States.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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POL 300 - Topics in Political Science
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Topics will vary with current interest of faculty and students. Specific topics will be announced.
Note: May be repeated for credit.
Prerequisite: 3 credits in Politcal Science or Instuctor Permission.
Offered: Fall, Spring, Summer
Credit: 3
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POL 303 - Ancient and Medieval Political Thought
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course studies selected texts of important political theorists from ancient Greece, Rome, and the European middle ages which continue to be important reference points in contemporary political thought. The course focuses especially on the emergence of the concept of sovereignty, the conditions which make citizenship possible, the relation of religious faith to politics, the gendered nature of political theory, and the controversies over authority and power in the rise of modern state.
Prerequisite: 3 credits in Politcal Science or Instuctor Permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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POL 306 - African American Political Thought
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course explores the African American community’s diverse responses to the predominant challenges it has faced (including, but not limited to, slavery); the economic and political legacies of those challenges; and American political culture more broadly. Coursework will explore and analyze the various strains within Black political thought.
Prerequisite: POL 203 and POL 205; or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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POL 307 - European Politics
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Examines European politics from the Atlantic to the Ural Mountains. It discusses the historical evolution of the modern European democratic nation-state; its organization and political practices; the institutions and politics of the European Union; and the endurance and proliferation of the state in Europe.
Prerequisite: 3 credits in Politcal Science or Instuctor Permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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POL 308 - Global Challenges
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course uses the history and theory of International Relations (IR) as a launching point for understanding a proliferating, confounding array of global challenges. Going beyond IR’s traditional foci (e.g., conflict and cooperation among nation-states), students study phenomena likely to dominate future debates, e.g., race, outer space, and technological revolution.
Prerequisite: Three credits in Political Science or GLS 200 or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
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POL 309 - International Law
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Surveys the rules, procedures, and practices that regulate the various actors in the international arena. Emphasizes the post World War II era and new perspectives such as the control of the use of force, redistribution of world resources, and international protection of human rights.
Prerequisite: 3 credits in Politcal Science or Instuctor Permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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POL 311 - Public Policy Analysis
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Studies the theoretical foundations and alternative models of the policy process. Covers topics such as education, health, welfare, energy, and environmental policy.
Prerequisite: 3 credits in Politcal Science or Instuctor Permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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POL 313 - Modern Political Thought
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course studies selected texts of important political theorists from the Renaissance to the Industrial Revolution. It focuses specifically on the political theory of the enlightenment, the emergence of the modern theory of democracy, rationalizations of the sovereignty of the nation-state, and the development of critical theories of capitalism and modernity in the late nineteenth centuries. Theorists studied will include Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Montwequieu, Burke, Mill, Marx, and Nietzsche.
Prerequisite: 3 credits in Politcal Science or Instuctor Permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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POL 315 - United States Congress
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Examines the role of the Congress in the American political system. Emphasizes the internal formal and informal roles and structures of the Congress and the roles of individual members.
Prerequisite: 3 credits in Politcal Science or Instuctor Permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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POL 316 - American Political Thought
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course focuses on the political philosophies and ideas that underscore American political culture, institutions, and policy-making. Coursework may emphasize long-standing philosophies that influence contemporary politics or the evolution of views of the economy, the role of government, the concept of citizenship and more from the founding to the present.
Prerequisite: POL 203 and POL 205; or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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POL 318 - Global Ethics
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
This course introduces a way of analyzing and understanding global politics that foregrounds ethical evaluations and moral judgment in the complex international realm. The course covers contending ethical traditions and engages students in an exploration of issue areas such as political violence, economics, security, technology, the environment, and human rights.
Prerequisite: Three credits in Political Science or GLS 200 or instructor permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis.
Credit: 3
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POL 319 - International Organization
2019-2020 Catalog Year:
Examines the organization and functioning of such international and regional organizations as the United Nations, the European Community, the Organization of American States, NATO and specialized agencies such as the World Health Organization.
Prerequisite: 3 credits in Politcal Science or Instuctor Permission.
Offered: Not on a regular basis
Credit: 3
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